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[Gentleman Moogle]

Pinely wrote...

greyman33 wrote...
Don't go noticing the men behind the curtains.

Otherwise you might start asking how, in Origins, your entire party could wander for most of the game, literally covered in darkspawn gore, while being themselves repeatedly wounded, yet despite only 2 of you being Wardens nobody ever thinks twice about becoming tainted/blighted.

Yeah, this always cracked me up.  At the end of Origins the character epilogues should have gone like this.

Morrigan - Died of the blight.
Oghren - Also died of the blight.
Dog - Taken out back and shot, because of the blight.
Sten - Died of the blight.
Leliana - Died of the blight.
Wynne - Technically dead already.  Also blighted.
Zeveren - Died from the blight.  Compounded by numerous STDs.
Shale - . . .

This is why DA2 needs to get away from the "health meter" (random tangent, I know, but what the hoo-hah.) Because we fight things that kill us when we cut them, we can't constantly be saying they hit us with their swords. Maybe a "luck" meter, where every time we might have gotten hit, we narrowly avoid it and we loes some luck, until as soon as we run out we actually TAKE a sword to the gut, and we go down. 

[The Angry One]

PPR223 wrote...

Lukertin wrote...

How do you know Varric wasn't lying about that part of the story? He could have made that part of the story up to justify killing his brother, whom he didn't like. You don't know that what you saw is what actually happened.

I'm expecting to see this excuse when Anders returns in DA3. He wasn't telling the truth....

Expect to see "Varric lied" a lot in DA3.

[greyman33]

While we're at it about the moment they find the idol, you notice that not once do our intrepid band of heroes even try to force the door back open either during, or after the conversation they're having through the door. I mean, how think can that be if they can carry on speaking through it?

Your party has already, by this time, demonstrated the ability to hurl fireballs, bolts of lightning, and even just plain psychic/magic energy, as well as generate enough power in their weapons to cause dragons to literally explode on impact. After realizing all this, not one of you thinks, even once, "It's a four-inch-thick, 5000-year-old stone door, lets see if we can't break it down."

[MajorJoeKickass]

Hah, i laughed at the post, nice one.
And i agree you are a HUMAN (mage for my part might influence a bit more perhaps?) and you just go ahead and grab the damn thing gives it to Varric who just THREW it all the way down the damn stairs! what if he had missed and the damn thing broke, hah that would've been awesome.

[Giltspur]

greyman33 wrote...

LobselVith8 wrote...

Odd that the Idol never seems to corrupt Hawke in the same way it seems to corrupt Bartrand and Varric. You'd think a lyrium idol would have a bigger impact on an apostate Hawke than two dwarves, after all.

Don't go noticing the men behind the curtains.

Otherwise you might start asking how, in Origins, your entire party could wander for most of the game, literally covered in darkspawn gore, while being themselves repeatedly wounded, yet despite only 2 of you being Wardens nobody ever thinks twice about becoming tainted/blighted.

Well, Morrigan has yellow eyes. That means she has dragon's blood and Adonis DNA.  So she has nothing to worry about.  Oghren's blood has such a high alcohol content that it kills the Taint before it can take hold.  The dog gains power by drinking blood and peeing on trees.  Sten just tells the Blight "No".  Leliana can survive a beheading.  Wynne has a fade spirit watching out for her.  Alistair is a Grey Warden.  So they're all safe. 

So that just leaves Zevran, no?  And I'll give the writers a pass on one guy dodging the Taint.

[LightningOkami]

Alexein wrote...

its like superman seeing something that looks like kryptonite and going "This will probably kill me... let me fondle it!"

This made me laugh so hard XD

[Nathan Redgrave]

Come to think of it, were there any traps in the Primeval Thaig? I don't remember any, and logically, if a thaig has been abandoned that long, if there *were* any traps, would they still function?

Not to say that's what was going through their minds. You can handle lyrium ore by hand, you know, so unless there was some sign of a trap around the idol (and let's be real: it didn't look rigged in the slightest), the only real warning bell is Anders's vague "not the good kind" remark. Otherwise, it looks like a valuable treasure, and the only way to determine whether picking it up is a bad thing is to... pick it up. Once Hawke picks it up without incident, they obviously think they're free and clear, so they just toss it to Bartrand.

It's really not that dumb a move, it just looks stupid when you find out what the artifact actually is... years later.