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Arlathan, Wasted on Hawke?


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Drasanil

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Ok this isn’t an anti-DA2 rant or anything, although I’ll admit off the bat that I was rather unhappy we’d be forced to play Hawke instead of a character of our own choosing, but the fact that our Warden’s decisions impact the world of DA2 and all the recent talk of learning more about Arlathan and the Thedas’ ancient history has perked up my spirits a bit with regards to the game.
 
However, I do have one concern with all the talk recently that has sprang up on the forum about Arlathan and meeting elves that survived it’s fall and/or their descendants it got me to thinking. While it has the potential to be pretty awesome, it could just as easily be a wasted opportunity. It seems to me that something like that should be more in line with an elf character’s story/origin/whatever and that the significance of Arlathan’s big reveal would in a sense be wasted on a human PC such as Hawke, it just wouldn’t have the same impact as it would have on an elf PC.
 
Hopefully if Bioware decides to do something with Arlathan in this game we’ll receive a suitably awesome companion that reinforces the historic importance/awesomeness of  such an event , i.e. one that a good deal of players aren't tempted to kill out of hand like Zevran or especially Velanna.
 
My personal preference on the subject would be to leave Arlathan alone for now and in the next game or maybe expansion have an origin or pc that comes from Arlathan or a group of its survivors, where we’d get to learn the history on more of a firsthand basis and perhaps play a role in the city’s return to being a major player on the world stage of Thedas.
 
 
So, what does the fan-community (and the good Bioware folk, if they care to grace this thread with their presence) think of all this Arlathan talk and such that has recently cropped up on the forums?

Modifié par Drasanil, 17 juillet 2010 - 10:01 .


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Mike Laidlaw

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Drasanil wrote...
So, what does the fan-community (and the good Bioware folk, if they care to grace this thread with their presence) think of all this Arlathan talk and such that has recently cropped up on the forums?


I think it's awesome that people are speculating and even more amazing that people are so in-tune with the IP that they're able to offer some really compelling thoughts on a culture that, while central to the DA universe, didn't receive a lot of air time in Origins.

Shine on, you crazy diamonds.

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Mike Laidlaw

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LP is doing my job now? Suh-weet! I guess I can finish up the drywall in my basement. Thanks, LP! Enjoy the 7 hours of back to back meetings tomorrow!