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Zane posted:mother giselle &c: oh no the chantry. quoted for truth
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Besides, the Thedas has enough humans. Letting him stay a spirit makes the world richer and more interesting.
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John Dyne posted:I played as a dwarf noble in DA:O and I really, really wanted to loving stab Bhelen in the face. I understand it's dwarf society to do that kinda poo poo but holy gently caress he killed his dad and older brother and framed the PC for it. That's some dick moves right there, man. It's pretty in character for a dwarf noble not to be mad that Bhelen did it, but did it first. Orzammar's politics, even the brief amount we see, really put Orlais and ~The Game~ to shame.
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exquisite tea posted:The classic redemption story of repeatedly saving the life of a man who is practically begging for death, over and over again. Loghain Mac Tyr will live forever. But I get to keep hearing Simon Templeman talk, so, worth it
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Ulio posted:I want to play DA:O again, I never played it on pc. Loghain all the way. His camp conversations alone are worth it.
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VostokProgram posted:I am and there was not There was that army of banshees
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Taear posted:While I know that people somehow enjoyed DA2 it still baffles me that people want to save Hawke. I was so glad to get rid of her, like expunging DA2 from the record altogether. I mean, Hawke has more charisma and personality in two voice actors than the Inquisitor does in all four of theirs.
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cheetah7071 posted:I've never played a dwarf in a DA game. Maybe next time They straight up have the best origins in Origins, but get zilch in Inquisition.
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PureRok posted:Everything in this post is why the Qunari should be wiped from the face of Thedas. Kill every one you see. Yeah, after seeing what they do to their mages in DA2, gently caress Qunari.
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Apr 15, 2018 19:09
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Look, I would listen to Simon Templeton read the phone book, so Loghain always gets to live also, he's my warden's father-in-law, don't want to make thanksgiving awkward
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Zane posted:varric has almost the least privilege. he comes from a genteel house but he seems to have made a lot of his own fortune as a sort of proto-bourgeois entrepreneur. and then they make him the viscount at the end of trespasser
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drkeiscool posted:i hate having the largest functioning military apparatus in southern thedas, and not being able to make them take care of all the little errands i accrue through the game while i focus on important things Or being able to do anything that’d a actually improve the world, like topple Orlais or give the elves a kingdom
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babypolis posted:ive replaying origins too and it holds up surprisingly well. Sure the graphics are a bit dated and theres some jankyness but the gameplay and writing are still pretty good Yeah, I never really understood the Deep Roads hate. It's got all kinds of neat stuff down there, despite the admittedly very gross body horror I'd still take it over the Hinterlands or any other DAI zone
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CottonWolf posted:The consequence is that you can't kill all the mages. I would’ve liked the choice to purge the Templars, the clear moral option That and invite Anders to blow up the Winter Palace
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Mar 15, 2020 22:58
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CottonWolf posted:The only moral option in Thedas is clearly the destruction of all magic at the source. The disconnect in power between mages and normals is too high, and either leads to the normals (perhaps justifiably) oppressing the mages because they're too powerful, or the mages taking control like in Tevinter. If Tranquilizing everyone at birth or executing every kid that shows signs of magic appeals to you, that’s the “source” The Templars only ever seem to exacerbate the problems they’re supposed to prevent, imo. Their terror tactics, threats, and prisons only make the Circle mages desperate and vulnerable in a way the societies that have respected places for mages (see Rivain, the Avvar, and the Dalish pre 3-only retcon) don’t. The solution is to train them while treating them like people
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FoolyCharged posted:In DAO the dalish zone is entirely caused by a mage turned abomination. In DA2 you get a blood mage let loose by her dalish clan as a party member. Plus theres the whole remnants of a society ruled by mages presenting as gods thing. Merrill is the sanest, most careful blood mage in the series, and very much succeeds in fixing her eluvian, given encouragement and the chance. Her Keeper’s paranoia and underestimation of her causes the issues with that clan Zathrian and the werewolves are a worse case, yes
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Most of the rivalries just seem more mean-spirited and gaslight-y than anything, especially the rivalry "romances" I always rival Aveline and Sebastian though
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babypolis posted:Althought now that I think about it making the decorum obsessed status quo loving centrist lib the bad guy is surprisingly prescient... don’t worry, by inquisition bioware is back to loving the status quo
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NikkolasKing posted:The only political quest in DAI is Orlais. I never got the impression the game wanted us to pick any of the three candidates in particular. Everything about the Chantry is pretty inherently political, Cassandra and Gisselle rambling about faith aside. The entire game being about protecting and maintaining oppressive power structures with tiny, incremental reforms has really soured me on it.
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Oberndorf posted:Given Orlais is pretty much Bourbon France, I think they wanted to avoid a Revolution. Particularly given that almost everybody important or political wound up losing their head over it. Which would probably include the chief of the militant church organization mucking about in their turf. Good, Elf Revolution now
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chaosapiant posted:I'm not sure what kind of answer you're looking for. Everything that happens in Chapter is explicitly because Hawke is champion. The two most powerful organizations in the city are trying to get you on their side to make the other back down. What else are you looking for? You can be a literal god in an Elder Scrolls game and the gameworld will barely acknowledge it. DA2 at least backs up its claims that it's about the Champion of Kirkwall. They’re more the most desperate organizations in the city. The Circle doesn’t really have any power, which is part of the issue
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Mar 17, 2020 21:31
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If you want to be a warrior in DAO, the only way to not be a tank and have fun is to be a duel wielder- two swords. You mulch everything
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Or for a similar structure to the old games, a space pirate/merc game in the Terminus Systems
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Morrigan might be savvy enough to know that poking and prodding at the murder queen might be a bad choice
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pentyne posted:He's a literal terrorist in every worst way. He doesn't attack the Templars themselves or any hard target he plants a bomb to wipe out the people who try their best to do nice things in a broken system because it's easier. Bioware really hosed themselves trying to make him sympathetic especially since if you do his quest he uses you as a unwitting distraction in his mass murder and then gets all weepy eyed like "I had no choice" like what the gently caress man you are a walking WMD how can you not just wipe out some Templar base instead? I mean, the Chantry hierarchy is probably the group most responsible for how terrible the world is
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Crying Leliana is a theme in Inquisition's concept art
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Kirkwall is a place mages, especially mages in large numbers, just shouldn’t be. Reality is leaking there, and yet the Chantry insists on maintaining the largest Circle in the region there (with the largest Templar garrison). Of course, the Chantry *might* have ulterior motives for maintaining an army in a big important port
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ApplesandOranges posted:Half the party members in Inquisition are kinda insufferable really. Solas, Sera, Vivienne. Dorian is a little better but he also has a bit of a snobbish chip on his shoulder. Kind of thought Bethany was the more boring of the Hawke siblings, and Wynne was the most insufferable mage, honestly I like Solas, Vivienne and Dorian all being catty to each other though
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You get his gear back in a chest if you execute him
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Aveline is a cop in pretty much the worst way possible, yeah. And honestly, I’d take blood magic over blue lives matter any day
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Truecon420 posted:Ohhh thanks for the heads up. Any idea what the quest for the second item is? I’ll check the wiki Just don't do any sidequests in the city zone until you trigger the much better dwarf companion's quest there.
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No, you’ve got to do it so they can bring Simon Templeman back over and over
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Vichan posted:Loghain's biggest problem is that he comes across as a saturday morning cartoon villain until the moment you put him in the party. Yeah, his camp conversations are some of best in the game and probably the series.
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Yeah, Silas always seemed easy to stay friendly with as long as you weren’t going maximum Templar boot-licker
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It's why Vivienne actually ends up being the best Divine for the mage issue, actually- she's actually not as conservative as she likes to pretend to be (the real reactionary in the party is Cassandra). Vivienne's Circle remains a branch of the Chantry, but mostly as a legitimizing force for what looks very much looks like self-government. The Circle ending up looking something like the Colleges of Magic from Warhammer Fantasy is probably the best way for them to go, and that's basically what happens from what I remember from the slides
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Dec 10, 2020 23:08
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Yeah, MurderPope is absolutely the most fun ending and the best one for all other people the Chantry has been loving over
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No wonder Dorian thinks southern Thedas is full of yokels
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She and Elthina also overthrew and murdered the previous Viscount for daring to tax Orlesians
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I like the idea of wiping the slate clean for the Chantry by wiping out all the pre-war Templars though
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