I think it was part of Danarius' plot to prove to Fenris that he can trust No One. Not even Family. Danarius wanted Fenris to just... realize he had no one, save for his Master, and to just crawl back to him. But he didn't anticipate how close he and Hawke became, romanced or not. Hawke was the support system Fenris needed to be his own person. And that relationship(Friendship, rivalry or love) was all that Fenris needed to finally free himself from Danarius once and for all.Hekateras wrote...
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You misunderstand me. I don't mean that Hawke will automatically come out on top in any story situation. I mean that any character engaging Hawke in active gameplay combat will lose, via the power of save scumming if nothing else. Characters don't formulate plans that account for the fact that entering combat with Hawke is an automatic death sentence because they don't know they're in a video game. This is why I call it Gameplay and Story Segregation and not, say, Plot Immunity.
Yes - gameplay-wise, if you fight them, then you'll beat them regardless of how good Danarius's guards are. (Although landing in Fort Drakon in Origins was actually a result of a failed gameplay battle, too, come to think of it.) What I'm saying is that from his POV, anything involving a face-on battle should have been dismissed as too risky because Hawke's good at fighting, because it's messy and chaotic and Fenris could get away, and because Fenris has proven to be damned good at that sort of thing, too. Hence, Danarius's approach doesn't make sense.
In any case, the situations you describe are setbacks, not defeats, with the possible exception of Meredith's Big Damn Heroes introduction, which involves a character Hawke has not engaged in gameplay combat.Huh. I hadn't thought about this before, but I had always assumed that Varania's presence in that scene was some sort of sadistic loyalty test for her as much as it was bait for Fenris. That's pure fanon, but it substantially influenced my interpretation of that scene in a way I hadn't considered.
That's an interesting idea... Wouldn't Varania telling him about the letters have been more of a loyalty test, though? After you come to meet her, there is nothing she can do either way - not much of a loyalty test by then...
That is what Danarius underestimated.
Edit: Did...did I kill the thread??
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Three year skips do not make sense (at least to me) in the game but I would guess it must have something to do with the overall story arc (including Origins and future games).
