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[Trelow-LMG]

Tekbear wrote...

i am more of a dwarf person so i am really satisfied to finally see these snobby knifeears crawling in the dust i can hardly hold on to myself - harr harr harr.


no but really - it's the first time i have considered playing an elf because it seems to be really interesting and i usually despise elves for being too spotless and boring

This.

[Derengard]

It's just a little bit more realistic and original and stuff. It fits the tone of such a setting to expose their grace as frail, rather than to give them spiritual aloofness.

[zoidable]

i have no problem with the alienage and servant thing...but what i don't like about the elves in da:o is that they aren't visually unique enough...they are just smaller humans with "knive-ears" and without beards...i think they should look a little more exotic.

[Xavier St. Cloud]

Revisiting this topic in light of the remodeled elves of DA2, just to repeat my support of the DA:O elves and hornless Qun for two main reasons...

[1] It helps give the DA universe its own unique, sober appearance compared to other fantasy settings like WoW and Elder Scrolls where you have more fantastic/otherworldly races like lizard, cat, and minotaur people, orcs, and at least three varieties of elves. In comparison, DA:O's humans, elves, dwarves, and Qun look like they came from the same distant progenitor.

[2] The subtle differences strengthened the racial/cultural distinction and tension in the game. Less is more when you can relate it to the real world where distinction doesn't depend on radical features like Brahma bull horns, Na'vi faces, furry or scaly skin, and twiggy physiques. The City Elf Origin seemed more pertinent to me because of the elven and human conformity as opposed to, say, the humans and apes in Planet of the Apes that's a more distant allegory. The Dalish of DA:O were reminiscent of ostracized human peoples like American Indians and gypsies. In DA2, it's like visiting another planet with their inhuman appearance and exotic Welsh accent.

[Gangster No.1]

I haven't played DA2 (yet), but I agree. I'm a big fan of elves and most of my characters in various CRPGs are elven. Thus it's a very cool thing that elves aren't the stereotypical aloof tree-huggers like they are depicted in most games and fantasy literature. I mean, according to DA:O lore they once were that, more or less, but it has changed. And I like that change.

[casedawgz]

Honestly, its realistic. Most fantasy settings have more humans than elves, yet elves are venerated and respected. Humans don't do that. We're mean. When you get a lot of us together we tend to persecute people.

[Jerrybnsn]

Well, we now know that they are not really elves to be venerated in the Dragon Age universe. They're these half-goat/half goblin looking things that I wouldn't mind kicking myself. Yeck!