Eine Antwort in diesem Thema

[LobselVith8]

Aside from the dichotomy that exists between the mage and templar perspectives, I wonder if the creators wanted fans to side with the templars at the end of Dragon Age 2. In Dragon Age 2, we don't have a mage point of view as an apostate Hawke, we never really get the opportunity to see the dark side of the Circle of Kirkwall under the Templar Order in the same way we do with the mage antagonists we're forced to deal with, and no one ever mentions the children in the Gallows when the Right of Annulment comes up.

Even "All That Remains" seems geared toward giving having Hawke side with the templars because his mother is killed by a mage, and I notice some fans dismissing the information we get from Anders about life in the Circle as lies because of what happens at the end of the story. We know that the Head Writer has gone on record as stating that it was felt people with mages by default:

David Gaider wrote...

One need only glance at your average templar vs. mage thread (previous to DA2 coming out, in particular) to see that most people fall on the side of the mages almost by default.

As well as addressing the mages of the Circle of Kirkwall in a discussion where it was brought up that the Circle mages are innocent of the specific action that an apostate, Anders, had committed when he destroyed the Kirkwall Chantry with Grand Cleric Elthina inside:

David Gaider wrote...

"Innocent" in this case being the mages of the Circle, yes.

Who are innocent in the manner of, say, a kitten that CAN EXPLODE IN YOUR FACE AND TAKE OUT AN ENTIRE CITY BLOCK IF YOU TOUCH IT... and might also bite your nose just because. But relatively innocent nonetheless.

At any rate, yes. Legally the templars and the Chantry are required to protect the public (who are innocent in the maner of not being the explode-in-your-face sort of kitten) from the Circle's potential dangers... or that is the intention, anyhow.

And we have Ser Thrask killed by the cardboard cutout villain Grace in "Best Served Cold" and Orsino becoming a Harvester even when it makes no sense to the plot, but both quests serve to provide us with mage antagonists.  Did Gaider and the other PTB intend for fans to side with the templars as Hawke in Dragon Age 2?

[David Gaider]

Did Gaider and the other PTB intend for fans to side with the templars as Hawke in Dragon Age 2?

Those quotes were in response to a poster who was determined to paint the templars as evil oppressors-- when my position has always been there are no easy answers to this particular question. It's very easy for us comfortable western folk to take the attitude that anything which isn't democratic and fair is clearly wrong-- which is a pat answer to a complex problem, especially in a world where the situation is simply not the same as in our own.

You may believe we pushed too hard in the other direction, and that's fair, but if we had intended for there to be one solution there would be no argument about it at all, would there? What you see, after all, is there because we chose for it to be there.