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[Avilia]

The Arishok appreciates your admiration and is coming to thank you in person ;-)



Also, I agree, I love his design.

[jamesp81]

He's an excellent antagonist because he blends the right amount of likeable and dislikeable traits.

I find his philosophy to be profoundly evil as it crushes individuality. Yet he's right on one thing: much of the city is ruled by greed and selfishness. In real life, very few people seem to have purpose, but he has that in spades.

He also makes some pretty epic speeches.

[Eudaemonium]

The Arishok is the reason Act 2 is the highlight of the game.

[Knight of Dane]

Eudaemonium wrote...

The Arishok is the reason Act 2 is the highlight of the game.

Agreed!

[Neminea]

Queen-Of-Stuff wrote...

I find it kind of funny that he keeps his shoulders well protected while being completely bare chested save from paint and two strips of leather. Maybe the Qunari have some sort of strange anatomy where all of their vital organs are squished into their deltoids.

He does look pretty cool, though! I'll give him that!

Maybe the paint is magic?
*flees*

[thats1evildude]

Mad props to the Arishok. Even if he's a gorram closet hipster.

Modifié par thats1evildude, 23 août 2011 - 04:51 .

[Avilia]

Eudaemonium wrote...

The Arishok is the reason Act 2 is the highlight of the game.

Very much so.  I often stop a couple of quests into Act 3 without any regrets - but I can't not finish Act 2.

[Sir Edric]

Arishok is cool when you compare him to Meredith and Orsino, but he left a sour taste in my mouth. especially when his reason of being in Kirkwall was dumb. But I blame BW for it.

[happy_daiz]

Vrex_12 wrote...

Arishok is cool when you compare him to Meredith and Orsino, but he left a sour taste in my mouth. especially when his reason of being in Kirkwall was dumb. But I blame BW for it.

Why do you think it's dumb?

[Sepewrath]

Queen-Of-Stuff wrote...

I find it kind of funny that he keeps his shoulders well protected while being completely bare chested save from paint and two strips of leather. Maybe the Qunari have some sort of strange anatomy where all of their vital organs are squished into their deltoids.

He does look pretty cool, though! I'll give him that!

Well those high shoulder guards would make it hard for someone to take his head off from the sides or behind, attacks to the chest, he would obviously see coming. After his rant at the end of Blackpowder, I wanted to be his friend and subscribe to his newsletter lol.

And I wouldn't say his reason for being in Kirkwall was dumb, its a clear sign of the Qunari culture. While most would say screw it and just go home, a Qunari would never shirk off thier responsibilities, no matter how big or small. Not to mention, that book was very important to them, it would be like someone stealing the Declaration of Independence, there is no way, that would just be allowed to happen. Hell Lincoln's coffin was put in a cage and incased in concrete to keep people from stealing for a dead man. Things of cultural importance, people will go to great lenghts to protect them.

[Bekkael]

Avilia wrote...

Eudaemonium wrote...

The Arishok is the reason Act 2 is the highlight of the game.

Very much so.  I often stop a couple of quests into Act 3 without any regrets - but I can't not finish Act 2.

Same. I go talk to him at every opportunity just to hear THAT VOICE. My stomach was full of nervous butterflies the first time I had to fight him. I really liked his character and didn't want to kill him. In a subsequent playthrough, I let him have Izzy so I didn't have to.

[Ferretinabun]

Part of it has to be he's one of the few antagonists who isn't/doesn't become absolutely dog-licking bonkers.
I hate to say it about Bioware because I know they can do SO much better, but it's plain lazy writing to just have your antagonists turn out to be 'evil 'cos they're bat**** crazy' but they did it a LOT in DA2. The friction with the Arishok arose because he just had different values and motives. THAT'S where well-written plot tension comes from.
Here's hoping for a few more Arishoks, Flemeths and Loghains in DA3. Hell, even a few Castillions are better than the slavering, pantomime I WILL RULE THE WORLD!! BWAHAHAHA villains.

[Neminea]

I kept thinking: why didn't sten look this amazing in origin? Then I might have taken him along more.

[TobiTobsen]

Neminea wrote...

Queen-Of-Stuff wrote...

I find it kind of funny that he keeps his shoulders well protected while being completely bare chested save from paint and two strips of leather. Maybe the Qunari have some sort of strange anatomy where all of their vital organs are squished into their deltoids.

He does look pretty cool, though! I'll give him that!

Maybe the paint is magic?
*flees*

You mean.... the Qunari are using Mabari warpaint?

[Avilia]

Ferretinabun wrote...

Part of it has to be he's one of the few antagonists who isn't/doesn't become absolutely dog-licking bonkers.
I hate to say it about Bioware because I know they can do SO much better, but it's plain lazy writing to just have your antagonists turn out to be 'evil 'cos they're bat**** crazy' but they did it a LOT in DA2. The friction with the Arishok arose because he just had different values and motives. THAT'S where well-written plot tension comes from.
Here's hoping for a few more Arishoks, Flemeths and Loghains in DA3. Hell, even a few Castillions are better than the slavering, pantomime I WILL RULE THE WORLD!! BWAHAHAHA villains.

I couldn't agree more.  I like a villian with a point of view it makes for much more interesting interactions.

(lol dog-licking bonkers - *stores that away to be stolen and used at an appropriate time*)

[Neminea]

TobiTobsen wrote...

Neminea wrote...

Queen-Of-Stuff wrote...

I find it kind of funny that he keeps his shoulders well protected while being completely bare chested save from paint and two strips of leather. Maybe the Qunari have some sort of strange anatomy where all of their vital organs are squished into their deltoids.

He does look pretty cool, though! I'll give him that!

Maybe the paint is magic?
*flees*

You mean.... the Qunari are using Mabari warpaint?

Did you just call them dogs?
Howl to the moon with me awooooooooooooooooooooo *coughs*

[Avilia]

Bekkael wrote...

Avilia wrote...

Eudaemonium wrote...

The Arishok is the reason Act 2 is the highlight of the game.

Very much so.  I often stop a couple of quests into Act 3 without any regrets - but I can't not finish Act 2.

Same. I go talk to him at every opportunity just to hear THAT VOICE. My stomach was full of nervous butterflies the first time I had to fight him. I really liked his character and didn't want to kill him. In a subsequent playthrough, I let him have Izzy so I didn't have to.

I'm shocked.  Shocked! 



One day I'd love to find out what he's thinking there.

[TobiTobsen]

Neminea wrote...

TobiTobsen wrote...

Neminea wrote...

Queen-Of-Stuff wrote...

I find it kind of funny that he keeps his shoulders well protected while being completely bare chested save from paint and two strips of leather. Maybe the Qunari have some sort of strange anatomy where all of their vital organs are squished into their deltoids.

He does look pretty cool, though! I'll give him that!

Maybe the paint is magic?
*flees*

You mean.... the Qunari are using Mabari warpaint?

Did you just call them dogs?
Howl to the moon with me awooooooooooooooooooooo *coughs*

ME?! Na! Wouldn't do that!

Maybe Sten stole some of Barkspawns Kaddis and send it back home, where it became the number one must have for the stylish Kossith warrior! 

[Neminea]

I'd love to see a fashion show of that.

[esoterican]

Bekkael wrote...

Same. I go talk to him at every opportunity just to hear THAT VOICE. My stomach was full of nervous butterflies the first time I had to fight him. I really liked his character and didn't want to kill him. In a subsequent playthrough, I let him have Izzy so I didn't have to.

You too? Glad I wasn't the only one...

[Avilia]

esoterican wrote...

Bekkael wrote...

Same. I go talk to him at every opportunity just to hear THAT VOICE. My stomach was full of nervous butterflies the first time I had to fight him. I really liked his character and didn't want to kill him. In a subsequent playthrough, I let him have Izzy so I didn't have to.

You too? Glad I wasn't the only one...

I paused the game and exclaimed "you've got to be kidding me!!!?"  I did, seriously.  I thought there's no way my char could solo him, his health bar is bigger than my whole party's combined.

Apart from that I was disappointed that such a good character is given such a lame ending - solo him or give him Isabela only to have her run off...seriously?  Makes him look a dill imho.

Modifié par Avilia, 26 août 2011 - 11:11 .

[TobiTobsen]

Avilia wrote...

I paused the game and exclaimed "you've got to be kidding me!!!?"  I did, seriously.  I thought there's no way my char could solo him, his health bar is bigger than my whole party's combined.

Apart from that I was disappointed that such a good character is given such a lame ending - solo him or give him to Isabela only to have her run off...seriously?  Makes him look a dill imho.

Well... you could always reject his offer for a duel and go for an all out bar brawl battle royal with cheese against him and his cronies with your group.

Modifié par TobiTobsen, 26 août 2011 - 11:11 .