PERSONALITY

Lyna is an introverted, but warm and hardworking individual who is dedicated to defending and protecting others. She takes her responsibilities seriously and is shown to be a very loyal person. However, she struggles with internalizing her feelings and repressing them due to past events with her parents (and now especially with what has happened with Tamlen.) 

BIOGRAPHY

Lyna's father was a powerful Keeper, and her mother was a gifted hunter and archer. However, her father died before she was born and one night, her mother wandered away in grief, leaving Lyna an orphan to be raised by Ashalle.

Whilst hunting in the woods of the Brecilian Forest with Tamlen, a friend since childhood, Lyna comes across three humans who claim to have discovered ancient elven ruins in a nearby cave. Strangely, the architecture of the elven ruins are human in origin but have elven artifacts scattered amongst them. There is a statue inside the ruins of an elven god that their keeper once described as the "friend of the dead".

After exploring these ruins and overcoming its traps, walking corpses, and a bereskarn, Tamlen finds a strange mirror in which he sees fascinating images of an underground city. The mirror also reacts when Tamlen touches it. However, Tamlen began to see a great blackness in the mirror and some unknown entity that noticed Tamlen's presence. Some kind of domineering influence drew Tamlen's gaze until the eluvian bursted with a flare-up of light that knocks Lyna unconscious.

She is rescued by Duncan, a Grey Warden, and awakens two days later in their clan's camp—barely recovered from a peculiar fever. Lyna's recovery is in large part due to Keeper Marethari's Dalish magic, which has weakened the illness, and Duncan's prompt rescue. Keeper Marethari explains that the village of the humans that Lyna encountered has been roused against the camp and the clan is preparing to leave for the north. However, Marethari wants to look for Tamlen one last time and sends Lyna, Merrill, and possibly Fenarel back to the cave to search for him. Marethari hopes Merrill's knowledge of her magic will help increase Tamlen's chances of survival should he be found in a similar condition as Lyna, and also so Merrill can investigate the ruins and the strange mirror in order to gain some insight of the nature of Lyna's illness.

As they make their way to the ruins, the Dalish party is surprised to find darkspawn during their journey and fends them off. The forest is now pervaded by an eerie, unnatural feeling; Merrill theorizes that the mirror may have unleashed a sickness. Lyna meets Duncan again in the ruins. He explains that the mirror is somehow transmitting the darkspawn taint and shatters it—so that it no longer harms anyone else. Duncan also reveals that Lyna is infected with the taint and that her recovery is temporary. Duncan believes that Tamlen is dead since he would have been infected with the taint as well, but unlike Lyna, he has been exposed for three days untreated. Duncan warns that the cave is unsafe and that everything there has been exposed to the mirror's taint. He advises the Dalish that should they ever return to the ruins, they should cleanse it with fire.

Back at the Dalish camp, Duncan privately explains everything to Keeper Marethari in her aravel. Duncan reveals that the only way Lyna can survive her sickness is to join the Grey Wardens, who gain some immunity to the taint. Furthermore, Duncan needs a new recruit and Keeper Marethari recounts that the Dalish swore oaths to aid the Grey Wardens against Blights long ago. With no other options, Lyna leaves her clan to follow Duncan and become a Grey Warden.

Lyna learns that her primary mission is to gather an army and defeat the Fifth Blight; however, political tensions, disruptions and numerous other distractions (and inspirations) are bound to cross our hero's path. Before the final battle against the Archdemon, she learns that the only way to permanently kill the beast is the sacrifice of a Grey Warden. 

Lyna faces a dilemma: sacrifice their own life or that of their Warden companion, or accept Morrigan's Ritual. Lyna accepted Morrigan's ritual, having Alistair complete the deed. 

After the battle, Alistair is declared King of Ferelden. Lyna's companions went their separate ways. Zevran however, elected to remain at the side of his love -- at least for a time. As the blighted lands began to heal and the Grey Wardens slowly rebuilt the order in Amaranthine, they discovered the fight against the darkspawn was not yet complete. Although the horde was routed and had dissolved upon the archdemon's death, many of the more powerful darkspawn survived to organize roving war bands that preyed both upon the land and upon each other. 

AWAKENING

Six months after the conclusion of the Fifth Blight, Lyna succeeds Duncan by being promoted to Commander of the Grey and Ferelden's new Warden-Commander. 

She has been tasked to rebuild the Grey Warden Order's presence there. The Wardens have been given the fortress of Vigil's Keep, the former seat of Arl Rendon Howe, as a home base as well as rule over the Arling of Amaranthine.

Even though the archdemon is now dead, the darkspawn have not retreated back to the Deep Roads (as was natural following prior Blights) and there are reports of a new, highly intelligent breed of darkspawn. This new darkspawn identify themselves as the Disciples. Through investigation, Lyna discovers that the darkspawn have broken into two warring factions, led by two unique darkspawn: the Mother and the other led by the Architect. Both amass darkspawn armies and their civil war threaten the safety of Amaranthine.

Lyna tries to stem the darkspawns' destructive capabilities until the Mother eventually sends her legions to simultaneously attack both the City of Amaranthine and Vigil's Keep, thus dividing the Commander's forces. Eventually, the Commander chooses to save one of these bases, integral to Amaranthine's survival, and repels the Mother's offensive. The Architect then offers an alliance with the Warden in exchange for allowing him and his followers to continue their work in peace. The Warden-Commander can either accept the alliance or refuse and have their forces kill the Architect. The Mother was slain by the Grey Wardens and peace was restored to Amaranthine but at great cost.