Excuse me? They were first subjugated during an Exalted March, a war declared by the chantry on a "heathen nation." The entire reason why the Dalish are even migratory is because the Chantry riled public opinion against them, got a bunch of countries together, and sacked Halamshiral. Their fight is with the Chantry, just as much as with individual nations. In fact, it is precisely because the nations of Thedas and the Chantry are at war that it would be the perfect opportunity to reclaim some of their lost territory. The Dalish are scattered, but we know they have a meeting every ten years. It's entirely possible that, given the climate of the war, they could decide to exploit the situation, under a particularly charismatic leader, and start attacking Orlesian settlements in the Dales.
And to the above, a Scipio Africanus-like Tevinter against a Qunari Hannibal would be so sweet.
[/quote]
Precisely, once there is a world war taken place in the human world. The Elves would be very stupid if they just sit around and do nothing. This Mage-Templar conflict is not as simple as it looks, the writer has layed down some really good background for the progress of the DA story. (Despite DA2's story is not really interesting)
My guess is that, also, the Qun would not be sitting around while the chantry has lost its most powerful weapon -- the circle mages. There will be no counter methods to fight against the Qunari cannons...
[/quote]
They've done it once before. It was the very reason they had the second exalted march ran on them, the fact that they wanted to be left alone rather than aiding the world with a Blight. They sat there while the world was ravaged by darkspawn, and I expect them to sit there while the world is ravaged by Templars and Mages, as by every evidence we have seen with the Dalish, they want to be left alone. This so called stupidity, as you call it is the general response the Dalish take with "human" conflicts, as the Dalish simply want to be left alone and have no reason to enter it, or concern themselves with the conflicts of humans. It would literally, come out of nowhere, and this is likely a conflict that should occur later on, rather than jumbling up this current conflict. The Dalish have no reason to trust either the Mages or the Templars in this struggle, and based on their attitudes in both games would not. Templars generally don't even mess with the dalish, and the mages haven't helped the dalish in the past.
And I don't expect the Qunari to sit around, but I contend that entering the conflict before it's close to it's conclusion is not a sound military strategy. I wholeheartedly expect the mage/templar war to be averted by this cop out, though, it's what Bioware does.
Modifié par Harid, 18 juillet 2011 - 07:51 .
Retour en haut
