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[schalafi]

ziloe wrote...

Eurypterid wrote...

ziloe wrote...

Chris Priestly wrote...

The qunari. Followers of the Qun. The people of the Qun are, perhaps, the least-understood group in Thedas. Nature has given them fierce horns and strange eyes, and the ignorant look on these formidable warriors and see monsters.

Whether a saarebas,a sten or the mighty Arishok himself, the qunari are a people to be respected. Or feared.

Check out the full QUNARI PAGE for more information, screenshots and concept art.

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Um... if you haven't noticed, you spelt "sea" wrong when you said, "these formidable warriors and see monsters."

No, you're misreading the sentence. The description says people look at the Qunari, but they don't see people, they see monsters.

i.e they're viewed as monsters.

Oh, I see. It's just a very strange sentence. I'd have thought it would be in a new sentence if it were to go outside of talking about the Qun themselves.

I'm sure Chris enjoys having his spelling and grammar corrected...

Modifié par schalafi, 06 mars 2011 - 07:29 .

[schalafi]

The Qunare remind me of the Borg in Star Trek. A collective with one mind and one goal, that is intolerant of any others not like themselves.

[Thy Bleed]

So is the Qunari on a domination campaign of Thedas? Knocking out 1 nation at a time like the Tevinter Imperium before them?

[DW2511]

A race that combines the Ottoman Turks, the Norse Vikings and the Communist ideal?
I'm a fan.

[Travie]

I foresee my first Qunari conversation going something like this:

Hawke: OMG! Are those horns!?
Hawke: I met a Qunari before and he didn't have horns.
Hawke:... Can I touch your horns?

Qunari: ...

[1Nosphorus1]

Capt. Obvious wrote...

schalafi wrote...

The Qunare remind me of the Borg in Star Trek. A collective with one mind and one goal, that is intolerant of any others not like themselves.

The devs even said that their the Dragon Age equivalent of the Borg.

Militant Islamic Borg - This is not in reference to specific religious beliefs, but to qunari
relations with other races and the political structure of Thedas.

Gotta love the way they safety zoned themselves too

Also, noticed that there's quite a bit of sexism in this thread, you'd of thought that in a world where our rules don't apply that things like this wouldn't be taken seriously, but all I see is "Women are the leaders" "No men are the leaders" when discussing a fictional race.

"The military (led by Arishok) is the "body", the "mind" is represented by Arigena (the craftmen) and the "soul" is represented by Ariqun (the priests)" - Quote from the wiki, they're like KOMMIES!

Anyway to add my two cents to the topic on behalf of Sten:

"Women are priests/artisans/shopkeepers or farmers, they don't fight. Why would women ever wish to be men? That makes no sense."

Modifié par 1Nosphorus1, 06 mars 2011 - 11:25 .

[jshadow]

Alathin wrote...

Why do the Qunari have horns? Sten did not have weird horns

read the wiki please, it's getting tiring to repeat onesself all the time with an answer to a question that's half a year old

[KenKenpachi]

I think in Modern Terms or more closely the USSR PRC, it would be...
As the goverment seems like a unified Poltiburo.

Arishok, is the General Staff/Central Commitee. Basically the core of the goverment structured around and kept up with the support of the Armed forces. As in Modern China the Chinese Army maintanes the firm view that it is the same as the party. Part of why a Democratic movement in China is a CIA agents wet dream. Also they serve a police role, another thing we see in Former and Current Communist states with the Use of Military Militia's for law enforcement tasks.


The Arigena, strike me as the Ministry of Industry/Agircutlure. A HIGHLY important post. But its pretty easy to get. Basically a goverment controlled wall street. Money, economics, farming qouta's, weapons making, all would fall under that.

And then the Ariqun sounds more like a Ministry of the Interior, or the Internal Security Division. Relgion seems to be more of a political object than a religious one. And deals with education, propaganda, and what passes for spirituality.

In short they seem very communistic with a long term plan and all orginizations of the goverment work together and herd the people into fallowing the same plan. That plan seems to be to spread the system. In this cause its the Qun and not the Red Banner of Communisim. In fact that they have 3 units of goverment workign together suggest a very Russian word troika (тройка) is three of a kind, a collection of three. Thus the goverment works as one and cuts out un-needed extras. With the Core holding them together is the goals of the Qun.

[Hank_Da_Tank]

Except they are actually successful, and are able to dominate with superior technology, which Communism fails miserably to do

[dilyla]

Will we ever to get to romance a Qunari? I always wanted to get Sten alone......

[schalafi]

dilyla wrote...

Will we ever to get to romance a Qunari? I always wanted to get Sten alone......

Didn't you hear Sten's conversation with Morrigan in Wade's store in Denerem? He went into a pretty detailed description to her about how the Qun made love. He was probably just trying to intimidate her, but it sure shut her up! 

[didymos1120]

schalafi wrote...

dilyla wrote...

Will we ever to get to romance a Qunari? I always wanted to get Sten alone......

Didn't you hear Sten's conversation with Morrigan in Wade's store in Denerem? He went into a pretty detailed description to her about how the Qun made love. He was probably just trying to intimidate her, but it sure shut her up! 

Actually, he was just messing with her.  There's a dev post to that effect around here somewhere.  Think it was Gaider.

[didymos1120]

Hank_Da_Tank wrote...

Except they are actually successful, and are able to dominate with superior technology, which Communism fails miserably to do

Um, actually, they've largely failed to dominate anyone other than themselves.  Their success in Thedas was rather short-lived, as extensive magic use by the opposition negated their technological advanatages and then some.

[Josef bugman3]

Communalism and superior tech generally fail when the enemy can fire lightning from their hands and summon demons to fight you.

If the world of Thedas operated without magic I daresay that the Qunari would probably have had a great deal more success, but even with blasting powder the turks never conquered further than Austria. They may have gotten as far as (say) the anderfels, but gunpowder and an army thats good at fighting mean nothing if the enemy knows the land and can drop rocks on you.

[1Nosphorus1]

Capt. Obvious wrote...
Alright so Arishok doesn't refer to a specific person but more of a division of the Qunari. I get it.

Arishok is a title to a Qunari war leader, there is only one Arishok (apparently confirmed by bioware) and it was also confirmed the Arishok is the one who Hawke fights in the CGI trailer Destiny.

[Eledran]

I really like the Qunari mage look, very alien and threatening!

[Thy Bleed]

How does a Qunari mage look?

[KenKenpachi]

didymos1120 wrote...

Hank_Da_Tank wrote...

Except they are actually successful, and are able to dominate with superior technology, which Communism fails miserably to do

Um, actually, they've largely failed to dominate anyone other than themselves.  Their success in Thedas was rather short-lived, as extensive magic use by the opposition negated their technological advanatages and then some.

So pretty much its just like real life, just replace magic with money. Though it seems the new age round of East vs West in the real world will be held on more even grounds this time irl. Though most left over communist nations are more like tolertarian states, or take the Militant part of Militant Socialism, which is what Communisim is farther than the Socialist part.

But on topic, I wonder if the Qunari have any internal Corruption, which is the greatest bane to any sort of collectivist goverment, that and the Indaviduals ambition. For instance do most people act like Sten and see all sorts of sloganing and buy it. Or does it also mimmic real life situations where though most are not corrupted and generally buy the propaganda (like how many still think China can't feed its self, or has loosend resstrictions on religion) they are given, while at the same time you have some guy behind the back ally way selling weapons, food, etc. I even would be willing to bet you have people having and raising children illegally in the Rural regions, as once more is the case of a real world goverment who is in the middle of doing away with its population control mythod having seen the troubles that result from it and the fact its not fully enforceable. (China)

In fact this posses the question, that Maybe this "World at War" stuff going on at the end is in fact because Hawke may kill the local Qunari commander in the game given all the other crap he/she has a hand in, It seems like a WW1 situation, but with everyman (nation) for himself. I mean the Qunari already stated they see the treaty as just paper and will strike when it time, having an "Ambassador" killed by none other than a ruler of another city state that was party to the treaty signing would be grounds for war.

[isavaldyr]

Josef bugman3 wrote...

Communalism and superior tech generally fail when the enemy can fire lightning from their hands and summon demons to fight you.

As the Soviets learned the hard way during the Cold War.

What?  I'm a product of the American public education system...

[BelgusTradis]

Thy Bleed wrote...

How does a Qunari mage look?

Creepy!

[druplesnubb]

What does the Qunari think of the templars? Do they like the templars because they keep the mages under control (though they're not controlled enough) or do they dislike the templars because they do it using what is technically magic (though it's something they got from lyrium exposure rather than something they're born with and they can only use it to counter other magic)? If it's the latter, how do the Qunari control their mages?

[jshadow]

druplesnubb wrote...

What does the Qunari think of the templars? Do they like the templars because they keep the mages under control (though they're not controlled enough) or do they dislike the templars because they do it using what is technically magic (though it's something they got from lyrium exposure rather than something they're born with and they can only use it to counter other magic)? If it's the latter, how do the Qunari control their mages?

check the official DA2 site, it doesn't look pretty =S