I dont think bioware came up with answer (if he was real, some poeple could get upset, if he wasnt alot of people would get upset), meaning hes real and at the same time hes not.... deep stuff huh?
Is there a Maker?
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#102
Posté 16 avril 2010 - 01:12
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RPGlover732 wrote...
I dont think bioware came up with answer (if he was real, some poeple could get upset, if he wasnt alot of people would get upset), meaning hes real and at the same time hes not.... deep stuff huh?
The answer is 42.
#103
Posté 16 avril 2010 - 01:55
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OneBadAssMother wrote...
Dragon Age's world design seems to allows you to have doubts or to have faith in the created world's religions, it doesn't dictate on 'what is real' or 'what is not' - as a game I reckon they did it nicely. As for the Urn, there was powerful magic all over the whole ruins, who says it needed to be from a "God".
If anyone has gone through the Reaper quest - you'll notice you didn't exactly get struck down for defiling the "Maker's Bride" did you?
Why should the maker care that everyone's parading around the ashes of his ascended lover. He's not done shunning mankind for f***ing up again.
#104
Posté 16 avril 2010 - 04:23
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I think the designers, like many other aspects of the game, offer up an idea and let people draw their own conclusions. Take the Urn of Sacred Ashes. The pinch clearly heals Eamon, so the question isn't if they heal... but how they heal.
One school of thought is that the healing properties are attributed to the ashes being the ashes of a beloved prophet, and something so pure could only be good.
But if you have Oghren in your party during that quest, he spouts out a couple of times about all the lyrium he's sensing in the mountain, implying its huge... so perhaps they are only normal ashes, that have been exposed to high concentrations of lyrium for centuries and that has turned them into something else.
You make the call!
One school of thought is that the healing properties are attributed to the ashes being the ashes of a beloved prophet, and something so pure could only be good.
But if you have Oghren in your party during that quest, he spouts out a couple of times about all the lyrium he's sensing in the mountain, implying its huge... so perhaps they are only normal ashes, that have been exposed to high concentrations of lyrium for centuries and that has turned them into something else.
You make the call!
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#105
Posté 16 avril 2010 - 04:28
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Andraste is so holy and pure lyrium veins sprung up all around her resting place?
#106
Posté 16 avril 2010 - 05:33
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RPGlover732 wrote...
I dont think bioware came up with answer (if he was real, some poeple could get upset, if he wasnt alot of people would get upset), meaning hes real and at the same time hes not.... deep stuff huh?
Look, I remember them discussing this issue in the early phases of the game.
They said one of the things they hated most about D & D is the gods walk around. I mean, you can (at least playing epic/planar campaigns) run into avatars of just about all the gods.
Then what's the point of belief? I mean the truth is there's no room for doubt whatsoever; heck the gods have stats. And while yes I do like playable clerics :innocent:, the flip side is once again where's the room for faith? The clerics are practically guaranteed divine powers by their deities. D & D unlike other game systems doesn't even force them to have some "piety" characteristic (i.e. they don't have to go out of their way to show devotion to their deity to acquire those powers, they just get them "for free".)
The bottom line is all the gods are 'known' to exist, people have bumped into their avatars, really then the only question is which one you'll choose to serve, which sometimes seems to be like throwing a dart at a dartboard. I mean, they all exist, just pick one, whichever suits you best. Plus, BTW, there's no doubt whatsoever about what happens after death -- everyone's guaranteed to be with their deity on his plane.
It's clear they want religion to remain a matter of mystery and uncertainty; basically, it comes down to what some real world theologians have argued: what's the point of faith if it comes so easy?
