Dalish Weapons for the Dalish

Update 8 July 2026: Now includes two other optional downloads: one that changes the Dalish greatswords to match Inquisition's Sulevin Blade and one that gives the Blackpowder Courtesy elf the same courtesy as her fellow Dalish (even if BioWare didn't give her vallaslin).

Don't ask me why she has an entire suit of light Dalish armor on her person; she was like that when I found her. Also optionally, makes The Brothers' End greatsword match the Dalish greatsword our soon-to-be-dead elf carries.

In many ways, DA2 offers an amazing step up when it comes to the Dalish feeling like a distinct nonhuman culture. This is quickly undone for me by the fact that they all have generic human NPC swords, daggers, and a random mace and non-Dalish axe strapped to their backs. Those shields will only carry my suspension of belief so far.

Enter me, extracting all the Dalish uti files I could find, looking at their weapons, and getting to work.

Fun fact about NPCs in Dragon Age 2: none of their weapons have (nor does it seem they are allowed to have) any stats. There are maybe four longswords that get reused for every longsword-wielding background character. So I created new no-stat weapons using the Dalish models and just equipped them appropriately. For good measure, this includes their bows, which I tried to match to the longbow and shortbow models encountered in the Dalish Origin.

Fenarel still keeps his axe, it just now uses the Dal'Thanu model as established in Origins (reused for the not-actually-implemented-in-the-base-game Cammer's Reach). That one apprentice with the mace also gets an axe, because the mace was just a weird choice for a group of hunters and craftspeople.

Optionally, there's also a download that swaps the models of the generic longswords and daggers from Illen's supply to be Dar'Misaan and Dar'Misu, with those terms replacing dagger and sword cos we're on their turf.

To use, just extract from the zipped folder and drop into your override folder.