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.