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[Russalka]

Something tells me that this will be the rare occasion, where they design an obviously attractive companion and not make him a love interest.

Can you think of any companions like that, throughout the Bioware games, who were obviously designed to be attractive but were not even connected to anything romantic? Even Samara had flirtations. I am probably forgetting someone.

This probably makes it more likely for him to be a romance, but perhaps they are trying something new and different even with that? Maybe his appearance is very-very different in the game, not reflecting the art, or maybe he just turned out to be this good-looking?

Modifié par Russalka, 07 décembre 2010 - 01:31 .

[Lucy Glitter]

God I hope not.



That would be an interesting move, though. Or perhaps he might be like Aribeth or... uh, dreadlocks guy. Aarin? Was that his name? They never joined your party but you could develop different relationships with them.

[Russalka]

I only recently got Aarin Gend's theme out of my mind, you made it come back.

I know how to make this discussion ugly, if someone bothers to take notice of my post: "What is MEG's theme tune?".

Modifié par Russalka, 07 décembre 2010 - 02:36 .

[Saibh]

Russalka wrote...

Can you think of any companions like that, throughout the Bioware games, who were obviously designed to be attractive but were not even connected to anything romantic? Even Samara had flirtations. I am probably forgetting someone.

This probably makes it more likely for him to be a romance, but perhaps they are trying something new and different even with that? Maybe his appearance is very-very different in the game, not reflecting the art, or maybe he just turned out to be this good-looking?

Kasumi. But she's a DLC character. Besides that, no. I can't recall a single one excusing Haer'Dalis, but he was intended to be romancable.

No romances in BG, all three attractive females (Jaheira, Aeris, and Viconia) and Anomen were romancable in BGII. Say what you will about Edwin or Cernd or the other guys, but they were older and wouldn't constitute "LI vibe" the same way Canderous didn't. Nalia, I believe, was very young, right?

I can't remember anything from the first NWN. I remember two female LIs in your party, and Aribeth. I remember Aarin Gend, and I think there was a half-orc you could romance as a woman. Which is the only time I remember a distinctively ugly LI. But there were no pretty companions you couldn't romance. Don't ask me about the expansions, I only remember the very pretty Valen.

KotOR you can romance the only humans on deck, except Canderous who is old.

JE you can romance the only two adult females, both attractive. Sagacious Zu is there as the only other guy that could possibly constitute a LI (Henpecked Hou and the Black Whirlwind are both very not LI-like). But I would argue that he seems pretty old (he is, like, double your age) and pretty scarred. Not young and "handsome", like Sky. Who I think is kinda ugly, but he's charming, so whatever.

ME allows you to romance the only classically attractive companions, though obviously that's not enough for horny BioWare fans, who demanded the aliens next game.

TL;DR:

And then you know the rest. So, no, excusing Haer'Dalis and Kasumi, I can't recall any attractive BioWare companions that weren't also romancable.

Modifié par Saibh, 07 décembre 2010 - 04:03 .

[ErichHartmann]

Russalka wrote...

Something tells me that this will be the rare occasion, where they design an obviously attractive companion and not make him a love interest.

And Varric.

[PoisonTheCity]

Gah. After spending all morning either trying to sleep or staring at the toilet bowl, it's nice to see Meg's thread all filled up past 100 pages with awesome art and theories.

In regards to something mentioned a while back, it's great to know people who haven't been here from page one feel as though they can join in the discussion. Without new people contributing, a thread can get stale very quickly - in a lot of threads, not necessarily on these forums, the regular contributers can forget that new posters are what keep 'their' thread alive.

I like the idea of Meg being a Tevinter assassin. Arlathan survivor is still my number one theory at the moment, but I'm sure the shady Tevinter Circle has use for assassins? Being an assassin to a group of powerful blood mages could explain the glowy tattoos on his body, too. It could be how they keep him under their control, or augment his assassin abilities, or just let people know that he works for them - something along those lines.

Modifié par PoisonTheCity, 07 décembre 2010 - 03:56 .

[MelRedux]

Why can't he be both? An arlathan survivor that became a Tevinter slave (or assassin). That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. *nodnod*

[nightcobra]

Mel_Redux wrote...

Why can't he be both? An arlathan survivor that became a Tevinter slave (or assassin). That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. *nodnod*

interesting concept, an arlathan survivor who's been "brainwashed" throughout the centuries by the tevinter imperium to be one of their best assassins/spies

Modifié par nightcobra8928, 07 décembre 2010 - 04:00 .

[PoisonTheCity]

Mel_Redux wrote...

Why can't he be both? An arlathan survivor that became a Tevinter slave (or assassin). That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. *nodnod*

Actually, yeah, that makes more sense. An Arlathan survivor would have all sorts of magical goodies the Tevinter mages would want to make use of. Then I'm almost certain that his being in the Free Marches has something to do with Flemeth, probably on behalf of the Tevinter Circle. /wild mass guessing.

[MelRedux]

nightcobra8928 wrote...

Mel_Redux wrote...

Why can't he be both? An arlathan survivor that became a Tevinter slave (or assassin). That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. *nodnod*

interesting concept, an arlathan survivor who's been "brainwashed" throughout the centuries by the tevinter imperium to be one of their best assassins/spies

It would certainly make for an interesting backstory, no?

[MelRedux]

Somewhere, Gaider is reading this and crying tears of laughter at how wrong we all are.

[nightcobra]

Mel_Redux wrote...

nightcobra8928 wrote...

Mel_Redux wrote...

Why can't he be both? An arlathan survivor that became a Tevinter slave (or assassin). That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. *nodnod*

interesting concept, an arlathan survivor who's been "brainwashed" throughout the centuries by the tevinter imperium to be one of their best assassins/spies

It would certainly make for an interesting backstory, no?

kinda reminds me of mgs's grey fox actually

Modifié par nightcobra8928, 07 décembre 2010 - 04:11 .

[ErichHartmann]

Mel_Redux wrote...

Somewhere, Gaider is reading this and crying tears of laughter at how wrong we all are.

Or right.  He once said sometimes people's theories are accurate but naturally left unconfirmed. 

[PoisonTheCity]

Mel_Redux wrote...

Somewhere, Gaider is reading this and crying tears of laughter at how wrong we all are.

Oh, yes. Meg could be a shoe-shiner to a Lord who likes dressing his servants exuberantly, for all we know.

[Saibh]

ErichHartmann wrote...

Mel_Redux wrote...

Somewhere, Gaider is reading this and crying tears of laughter at how wrong we all are.

Or right.  He once said sometimes people's theories are accurate but naturally left unconfirmed. 

He was talking about all of my theories, naturally. He just didn't confirm that.

[MelRedux]

So if Meg was an Arlathan survivor, enslaved by the Tevinter, how did he stay alive all this time? *senses plot hole in her theory, panics*

[Pseudo the Mustachioed]

PoisonTheCity wrote...

Mel_Redux wrote...

Somewhere, Gaider is reading this and crying tears of laughter at how wrong we all are.

Oh, yes. Meg could be a shoe-shiner to a Lord who likes dressing his servants exuberantly, for all we know.

Even if it was that simple, I would still be intrigued.
He could be one of those magical elves that comes and finishes the cobbler's shoes in the night.

[Kapsejs]

PoisonTheCity wrote...

Mel_Redux wrote...

Somewhere, Gaider is reading this and crying tears of laughter at how wrong we all are.

Oh, yes. Meg could be a shoe-shiner to a Lord who likes dressing his servants exuberantly, for all we know.

Maybe he could be *your* shoe-shiner.

That explains why he has no shoes on his own!

[nightcobra]

Mel_Redux wrote...

So if Meg was an Arlathan survivor, enslaved by the Tevinter, how did he stay alive all this time? *senses plot hole in her theory, panics*

being "immortal" has it's advantages, even though he can die in a fight he would have been owning his fighting skills throughout the centuries.
and if he's a tevinter slave even if brainwashed i'd recommend having a few tevinter mages "handlers" if i was part of the imperium.

Modifié par nightcobra8928, 07 décembre 2010 - 04:25 .

[MelRedux]

nightcobra8928 wrote...

Mel_Redux wrote...

So if Meg was an Arlathan survivor, enslaved by the Tevinter, how did he stay alive all this time? *senses plot hole in her theory, panics*

being "immortal" has it's advantages, even though he can die in a fight he would have been owning his fighting skills throughout the centuries.
and if he's a tevinter slave even if brainwashed i'd recommend having a few tevinter mages "handlers" if i was part of the imperium.

But I thought that the elves started to age when around humans?  And caught human diseases and therefore started to die of natural causes?

Meg is one lucky SOB if he avoided aging and disease for thousands of years.

[Pseudo the Mustachioed]

Kapsejs wrote...

Maybe he could be *your* shoe-shiner.

That explains why he has no shoes on his own!

There are an awful lot of boots in this game so far. He'll never run out of work just trying to keep Isabela's looking nice. I like this theory. Maybe he's glowing from toxic shoe polish, and looks tired from making sure Varric's boots sparkle to his standards. *lol*

Modifié par Pseudocognition, 07 décembre 2010 - 04:29 .

[nightcobra]

Mel_Redux wrote...

nightcobra8928 wrote...

Mel_Redux wrote...

So if Meg was an Arlathan survivor, enslaved by the Tevinter, how did he stay alive all this time? *senses plot hole in her theory, panics*

being "immortal" has it's advantages, even though he can die in a fight he would have been owning his fighting skills throughout the centuries.
and if he's a tevinter slave even if brainwashed i'd recommend having a few tevinter mages "handlers" if i was part of the imperium.

But I thought that the elves started to age when around humans?  And caught human diseases and therefore started to die of natural causes?

Meg is one lucky SOB if he avoided aging and disease for thousands of years.

i think aging in elves was introduced when elves started having kids with humans but since elvesXhumans only result in humans that can't be the case unless this phenomena was more recent and was in fact the reason the elves secluded themselves from the humans in the first place. 

[Kapsejs]

^ Humans are like kryptonite for elves.

Modifié par Kapsejs, 07 décembre 2010 - 04:35 .

[MelRedux]

I didn't think it had to do with breeding at all, I thought it was just being in their presence...almost like kryptonite!



I could be completely wrong, I'm no expert on the lore.

[PoisonTheCity]

Do we know how long an elf would have to be in contact with humans to lose their immortality? I always got the impression it was something that happened over decades or generations, not like handshake with a human = ten years off your life, hug = crow's feet, etc.