

Unlike other alien characters made for the game, Liara's face did not have a specific design her face was taken from the original concepts of the asari, who are conceived as "beautiful, blue aliens" to add a familiar science fiction element to the series. Jillian Murray (left) and Ali Hillis (right) are Liara's face model and voice actress respectively.
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In spite of her culturally young age, she is depicted in the series as a child prodigy, possessing the skills and experience of a computer scientist, xenoarchaeologist, philologist, and cryptanalyst that far exceed her developmental age. While she is legally age of majority under Citadel law, her research is not taken seriously by other asari who consider her to be too young to be academically reputable. She later moves on to tend a bar at the Presidium in Mass Effect 3, where she is revealed to have been spying on her all along. Matriarch Aethyta is first encountered in Mass Effect 2 as a bartender in Illium, where Liara was based as an information broker. Mass Effect 3 reveals that Matriarch Aethyta is Liara's other biological parent, making her "one-quarter krogan" on Aethyta's side. If Shepard discusses her parentage in the original Mass Effect, Liara would speculate that her parents were possibly embarrassed by the union as the asari believe that for them to improve themselves, they should mate with other species to gain new genetic properties. As a "pureblood", a term often used as a cruel insult for children born of two asari, Liara grew up being socially stigmatized by asari society. She is 106 years old during her first appearance, which is the equivalent to a young adult and within the Maiden stage of asari life. Liara is the estranged child of Matriarch Benezia, a well-respected and powerful asari biotic. Liara is a possible romantic interest for a male and female Commander Shepard throughout the entire Mass Effect trilogy. However, Liara has on at least one occasion responded to perceived gender bias and denied that she is a "woman", claiming that her species has "one" gender. Most asari choose to use feminine third-person, singular personal pronouns as an efficient means of conversing with gender binary species on terms they could understand. Liara is an asari, a species which is perceived to have a feminine appearance by non-asari standards, and which is sometimes described as "all female". The character was the subject of some controversy in 2007 following the release of the original Mass Effect, with at least one case of government scrutiny over a potentially intimate in-game cutscene between Liara and a female Shepard. Various merchandise for the character, as with other of the series' squadmates, has been released. Liara has been received positively, with placements on several "top character" critic and fan lists. Liara also has cameo appearances in Mass Effect: Andromeda, and in the animated feature film, Mass Effect: Paragon Lost, where she is voiced by Jamie Marchi. Outside of the trilogy, Liara appears as the protagonist in the Mass Effect: Redemption series, and the fourth issue of Mass Effect: Homeworlds, a comic series with individual issues on each of several Mass Effect 3 squad mates prior to the Reaper invasion. Liara is voiced by Ali Hillis in the video games. Within the series, Liara is noted for being the galactic scientific community's foremost expert in the field of Prothean archaeology and technology, specifically evidence concerning the demise of the ancient Protheans, believed by the galactic community to be the pre-eminent civilization in the Milky Way galaxy until their sudden disappearance fifty thousands years before the events of the first Mass Effect. She is an asari, a female-appearing species from the planet Thessia who are naturally inclined towards biotics, the ability to "manipulate dark energy and create mass effect fields through the use of electrical impulses from the brain".

Liara T'Soni is a fictional character in BioWare's Mass Effect franchise, who serves as a party member (or "squadmate") in the original Mass Effect trilogy.

Jamie Marchi ( Mass Effect: Paragon Lost)ĭr.
