Still catching up on the thread, but I just felt the need to reply to this real quick:
Miri1984 wrote...
So I was reading an interesting blog about DA2 (which I will link to here) and I was intrigued that they believed Anders was to a certain extent stuck in a "High Fantasy" world of black and white, with the Chantry on one side (or the Templars) and the mages on the other. I disagree, kind of. I mean, isn't the whole point of his act that he's trying to polarise everyone ELSE? He's trying to force the world into BEING a black/white place, even though it isn't...
He acknowledges that Thrask is a decent sort, after all. Even for a templar.
Just food for thought.
It's both, I think. I think he knows on a
logical level that there are different shades of morality depending on each faction's point of view, but his temperament and the possession make it increasingly hard for him to
believe it on an emotional level. As the Acts progress, I think we see the shift in his actions being ruled by his head to having his behaviour ruled by instinct and reflex.
There's also that one Act III banter with Merrill:
Merrill: You really believe don't you?
Anders: What are we talking about?
Merrill: Believing. You do I can tell, in freedom, in mages, in good spirits and bad templars. With more fire than the sun.
Anders: And your point is?
Merrill: I miss it sometimes, things being certain.
Anders: Some things are certain.
Merrill: Not anymore.
The further along the story we go, the hard it seems to be for him to see things in anything but black and white.
He might think that Thrask is all right after meeting him in Act I, but I wonder: If we hadn't met Thrask until Act III, how much harder would he push Hawke to kill the templar who wants to take the mages to the Circle? Even hearing that Thrask just wants us to persuade them to come quietly so as to prevent their wholesale slaughter, I don't know if he would be willing to come to the compromise of lying to prevent deaths on either side.
Modifié par Threeparts, 09 avril 2011 - 01:31 .