Risax wrote...
hhh89 wrote...
Aedan_Cousland wrote...
In one way or another, I think Hawke is going to end up unifying various city-states of the Free Marches into a single nation. He's going to be the Calenhad of the Free Marches.
Well, although I'd like the idea, I don't think this would happen. First, to unite the Free Marches you have to conquer the Free Marches (as Calenhad had done with the teyrins); even if he becames the king by saving the Free Marches form the qunari, he have to go to the other cities to save them. The skip time should help in this case, but imho DA2 will based itself in a different plot. Remember that we know that Hawke is the Champion of Kirkwall, but we don't know how and who named him Champion. I believe we are going to have the possibility to side in different factions, whoever they are.... don't think you could rule easily the Free Marches if you side with, for example, the mages in Kirkwall; I'm quite sure the Chantry will try to stop you first.
Isn't that why Cassandra wants Hawke?
Cassandra wants to know about Hawke's actions to stop a war that threatens the entire Thedas....I don't think that in all the decisions we can take we're going to fight against the Chantry, so I believe that Hawke can be named Champion of Kirkwall by some Chantry factions....
Aedan_Cousland wrote...
Hawke wouldn't necessarily
have to conquer other city-states. If the Qunari are invading, as many
speculate, the various city-states may look for a strong man to unify
them and drive out the invader. It has occasionally happened to divided
nations in times of crisis, and when faced with external threats.The
ancient Gauls for example unified under Vercingetorix and acknowledged
him king, in an effort to present a unified front to drive out Caesar
and the Romans. Unfortunately for the Gauls Caesar was a genius and they
were defeated, but if they had succeeded in driving the Romans out,
Caesar may have forced the Gauls to do something they previously had not
been able to do themselves: unify permanently under a single banner.
*If*
Hawke does become monarch though I imagine they'll be several different
endings dealing with whether or not he was a tyrant or a just king, or
something in between. And I'm sure the various decisions you make
regarding all the different factions would effect whether the Chantry
was strengthened or weakened, whether apostate mages have more freedom,
ect.
Or maybe I'm completely wrong and Hawke doesn't unify the Free Marches at all.
Either way I can't wait to play and find out. ../../../images/forum/emoticons/grin.png
Infact I said that Hawke could became the King of the FM by saving them from a qunari invasion, but if that's the case I believe he have to go in other cities to save them. Wht I'm trying to say it's that whatever Hawke do, conquer or save FM, he has to go to ohter cities, so Bioware has to create other cities, or skip the conquer (or save) events. I want to see my Hawke goes to other cities, if the story is about unify the Free Marches, and not knowing after the time skip that I save a city from qunari.