Sylvius the Mad wrote...
But he never actually does the thing the paraphrase says he's going to do, which is seek clarification.JrayM16 wrote...
Well, when I first saw the paraphrase + icon, I interpretted it as cautiously sardonic. The paraphrase indicates that the character is skeptical about the thing's intentions due to fighting demons who might be this things minions on the way inside.
The quotes around "without need" show that Hawke is questioning of something the thing just said because the quotess are used to identify that Hawke is quoting the thing in the paraphrase, especially since "without need" were the last words out of the things mouth when that wheel comes up.
And finally, the icon. A smiling mask. It's a call back to ancient Greek theatre. A smiling mask is often coupled with a frowning mask as symbols of theatrics. The smiling mask usually represents comedy and the frowning mask tragedy, the two predominant forms of Greek theatre at the time. The smiling mask icon is comedy, which represents that Hawke will say something mildly witty.
So, to sum up my quick interpretation before I saw the response, the paraphrase overall indicated questioning the thing's previous words based on immediately prior experience and doing so in a mildly witty way. It appeared that the personality assigned to the Demo's Hawke from previous dialogue choices ended up making the witty option more evasive and sarcastic than straight-up funny.
And that's pretty much how the line turned out.
Ah, but he does. He seeks clarification not by questioning, but by challenging(I should have phrased my post more clearly, ironic, isn't it.) It's the difference between two methods of trying to provoke information out of people:
1. I could directly ask for more information on what someone is saying.
2. I could present potentially contradictory evidence or directly question the other person's statement's truth in an attempt to provoke more information.
Hawke applies the latter of these two methods in the demo. He re-introduces the urgency of the situation to the conversation and questions the creature's vague statement that the creature truly intends not to harm him based on the fact that Hawke had just been attacked by demons.
The use of the word "define" and the quotes in the paraphrase imply a challenging nature, especially coupled with the "humor" icon and context of the conversation itself.
Hawke is stuck in the Deep Roads fighting demons, he's probably not going to be slyly humorous, more challengingly sardonic. "Define" indicates a challenge, it's simply a word more often associated with aggression when used on a phrase rather than a word. A word has set meanings, phrases rely on the orininator for meaning. Then the quoted piece of the demon's dialogue is what Hawke is challening with 'Define."
Well, that's how I saw it anyway.
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Hated it all. And a lot of people I spoke to did too. I think the wheel-kind of dialogue suits a certain kind of player - one that rushes through dialogues and prefers combat or dungeon crawling which is perfectly fine. The other kind of player like myself, who likes to explore the lore and properly create a RPG character by giving much consideration to responses, will probably hate it. But as i said fair enough, it does look like the wheel has some support here.
