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That's why I'd prefer the Inquisitor to not directly feature and have another character like Dorian or Charter as the Inquisition representative.
Are mages fun to play as in Inquisition? I was kind of feeling like going DW Rogue, just to compare it to my recent 176 hours replay of Origins using that, hahaha.
I do enjoy the idea of a super bland character from the point of view we have in other games being this more fleshed out romance option in this one, it's an interesting move, narratively.
This is actually a positive to me. I can't stand shot-reverse-shot sidequests anymore, getting me to care about the fetching I'm about to do. I respect the game just saying "get me this" in the gameplay camera, and then I decide if I feel like doing it. Guess I can just go around accepting quests and do what I feel like doing.
Knowing Solas he probably has some ability to freeze her or something lol 😂 In saying that, I generally am not sure what Solas would do if Lavellan got directly in his plans way? His whole personality is built around him sacrificing everything to rebuild the world even if it hurts or destroys him and I in DAI he doesn't come across as the person that would kill Fellasan over something as little as not giving him the Eluvian codes (something he was able to get for himself not that much later) and yet he did do that. So far we have only really seen Solas lighter side as we haven't yet been in direct opposition to his plans, in fact we did what he wanted, I don't know what he'd be like when you are against him.
It's so good because I'm so excited and there's so many different ways they could take the story. Wait til you read the Tevinter Nights book, the last story is really going to get you.
You've turned my favorite moment of a movie and gif into something more majestic than I thought possible. Kudos.Don't try to save me, I'm too far gone, I'm a lost cause here.
PS: Beards do nothing for me, I actually don't like them.
I always forgive Blackwall and let him stay in the Inquisition, he's a good man despite his mistakes.
Ok I need to get on it ASAP wew! Just ordered the book now :D
Not my creation though, it was from the Solas thread in the Bioware forum. They were very creative in that regard, and I still have a bunch of them saved on my PC for good measure, you never know when you're gonna need them and make fun of this racist grandpa in order to forget that he preferred to break your heart in thousand pieces in order to... *checks notes*... commit genocide. Fucking hell.
Oh my god, not like this, not you doing my precious baby boy Cole dirty like that, noooo. He's such a wholesome unproblematic cinnamon roll, I love him so much, having him by my side also provided so much insight into Solas. I'll fight for Cole, I have to protecc best boy from the world.
How is it underrated? It won game of the year did it not and other huge awards...
And everyone raved and roared about how undeserving it was and how it was the worst goty ever yadda yadda. The critical reception and the user reception was quite split for a good while
Does he come around, though? Cullen in DA:I honestly reminds me of how Daenerys was handled towards the end of Game of Thrones. A character is presented in a different light and the audience is supposed to just accept it, but there's no real character development. Cullen is an extremist in DA2, right up until the end where Meredith wants to execute every mage in Kirkwall for a crime they didn't commit and he goes along with it. Then in Inquisition suddenly he's a Good Boi™ and you're supposed to love him, but he never actually works to atone for his crimes, gets punished in any way, or even seems to have changed his views that much. In fact, he lowkey defends Meredith, saying that "her methods were harsh, but they kept people safe".
Same. Bioware has gotten this wrong twice now, with Revan and Hawke. I'm sure they'll try again with the Inquisitor because they kind of have to, and it's even possible we'll see Hawke again, I just hope they'll pull it off better this time. And they better leave the Warden alone lol.
This is one of the things I love the most about Dragon Age. The very first spoken words of the franchise are "The Chantry teaches us". Every single codex entry is an in-universe text written by characters with their own biases. There's even less objective information than in Dark Souls.
Hell one of the World of Thedas books begins with a preface by that famous scholar (Genitivi? Something like that) on how everyone is intrinsically biased and that goes for him as well, even though he actively strives to be objective.
Does he come around, though? Cullen in DA:I honestly reminds me of how Daenerys was handled towards the end of Game of Thrones. A character is presented in a different light and the audience is supposed to just accept it, but there's no real character development. Cullen is an extremist in DA2, right up until the end where Meredith wants to execute every mage in Kirkwall for a crime they didn't commit and he goes along with it. Then in Inquisition suddenly he's a Good Boi™ and you're supposed to love him, but he never actually works to atone for his crimes, gets punished in any way, or even seems to have changed his views that much. In fact, he lowkey defends Meredith, saying that "her methods were harsh, but they kept people safe".
I get that canonically he's supposed to be a changed man but it's just really badly written.
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Same. Bioware has gotten this wrong twice now, with Revan and Hawke. I'm sure they'll try again with the Inquisitor because they kind of have to, and it's even possible we'll see Hawke again, I just hope they'll pull it off better this time. And they better leave the Warden alone lol.
This is one of the things I love the most about Dragon Age. The very first spoken words of the franchise are "The Chantry teaches us". Every single codex entry is an in-universe text written by characters with their own biases. There's even less objective information than in Dark Souls.
The underlying problem here is that DA2 refused to pick a side. Mages and Templars were always presented as equal options, and they had to show even the good mages eventually resort to blood magic to justify it.
If I'm not mistaken, Kirkwall was one of the places (the place?) where the ancient magisters entered the fade in person. An unholy amount of blood was spilled there to make it happen and its influence lingers in Kirkwall to this day.
Also Kirkwall was a slave market city back in Ancient Tevinter, there seems to have been a lot of blood sacrifices done there that made the Veil very very thin and there's some lore theory that the ritual to get into the Black City was done there, which would explain the extremely thin veil (and that ritual involved a heck of a lot of Lyrium and tons of blood sacrifices of slaves) so it's pretty much a blood soaked city, which seems to have a large effect on the magic of the inhabitants. I do agree though that after Anders blows up the Chantry , the games narrative is mis handled in that they make the First Enchanter become a monster because they need a boss fight. The ending feels like it could have done with a few drafts to get right. Still love DA2 though
I played DAI as a female elven rogue but didn't romance Solas and I already feel I got a lot of exclusive interactions with the character.
Yeah, a lot of the third acts issues seem to me like they didn't really have time to make changes to adjust to get it right. I also think they seem a bit constrained with doing "traditional" game mechanics of having to have a boss fight and a big decision decided by the player - the blood magic of the First Enchanter feels like it comes out of nowhere and I honestly don't think the player should have been able to pick a side but just have the two factions react to the consequences- they could have maybe left the decision of executing Anders but large theme of DA2 was that Hawkes wasn't a chosen one and the problems of Kirkwall where too big for one person to change alone. Maybe not even find out it was Anders until after the Templar's had declared an annulment and started massacring the circle.
I wish there was a list somewhere of all the blood mages in DA2, because I also remember a lot of them just turned to blood magic in self defense, or were slavers from Tevinter. It's true that Bioware tried to "both sides" the issue pretty hard but I thought it was clear nonetheless that Meredith and Elthina were to blame for the whole mess.
