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[XX55XX]

The mage/templar thing... is getting really old.

In its place, I am finding elven mythology and history to be far more fascinating instead. Merrill may have introduced the subject, but I am finding the mythology quite interesting on its own. Did the elves really achieve immortality? How vibrant was their civilization? The elves do share some parallels with the late Roman Empire (while the Tevinter Imperium is a more direct parallel to Byzantium).

Historians debate whether or not the Roman Empire "fell." In the meanwhile, elven history and traditions are rather shaky, similar to how we lack a lot of information about the late Roman Empire. We know little of how the empire was run, the state of its miliary forces, so on and so forth. It's not a direct parallel (since Byzantium was a descendent of Rome, while Tevinter laid siege to Elvehnan) but it still fits into the narrative nonetheless.

Modifié par XX55XX, 14 mars 2011 - 12:51 .

[Vandicus]

Not really. The only thing I'm still interested relating to elves is the Eluvians, and thats mostly because my Warden went through one and Merril rebuilt one.

The rest of it is dead and done. Its highly implausible that the elves regain their immortality or their lost civilization, unless Bioware does a millenia time skip or some such thing. The Dalish obsession with the past can often be destructive.

[Gavinthelocust]

Every time Elven history is brought up it's more interesting that what's going on, during Witch Hunt I was more invested in the secrets of the eluvian and the connection to the dwarves than Morrigan. In DA2 it's hardly touched upon.

[HarlequinKing]

Agreed. Nice post. I hope DAIII keeps the mage/templar thing a secondary issue at most. And as I said in another thread, I want to see templars do stuff besides just dealing with mages. That's not all they're supposed to do! Even Alistair said as much when you ask him about it in Origins.

I think DA2 threw a lot of bones to the Dalish since in Origins, that origin story seemed like the least relevant one to the main plot.

[Kemor]

So far that's the only real thing I took from DA2.

The entire Dalish/Merril thing was very interesting, lots of interesting lore and the odd yet apparently very deep relation with Flemeth just made it even better.

[XX55XX]

Kemor wrote...

So far that's the only real thing I took from DA2.

The entire Dalish/Merril thing was very interesting, lots of interesting lore and the odd yet apparently very deep relation with Flemeth just made it even better.

Ah yes. Flemeth. That ritual demonstrates that some of the mythology may bear a hint of the truth.

[Darian Tylmare]

Well I think although it has some appeals that it's still the standard elven history. Immortal or nearly immortal people with pointy ears living in the woods building a magnificent culture until some evolved apes come along and destroy everything they ever had. The survivors gather again in the woods and hate all the offspring of the apes ever since.
The only interesting thing for me is that they are only second class citizens now in the realms of man.

[Kemor]

Of course, it's not "new", but as you said it's how this plays out into DA story and land that's very interesting and how, outside of the alienages, there is still a little glimpse of something very ancient, very different.

Modifié par Kemor, 14 mars 2011 - 01:19 .