SamaraDraven wrote...
R2s Muse wrote...
LolaLei wrote...
R2s Muse wrote...
Agree with the above. Unless DA3 is set decades in the future, Cullen will only be in his 30s - 40s. And that's all fine by me. Even if the new PC is a 20-something ingenue, I think it's fine. Anders was older than Hawke, and that didn't seem to be a problem for the fandom.
EDIT: I used to have a problem with this, in the sense that as of Act 3 he's like a level 25-ish character. So for DA3, they'd have to reset him somehow. But they also did that with Anders.
How old was Anders supposed to be in DA:O and DA2? They probably won't address his age, they never seem to in Dragon Age games anyway.
I don't know exactly. I don't think they give an age for anyone, except possibly Hawke since Leandra was pregnant with her when they left Kirkwall after all that Legacy stuff (so, what, 25?). But, I always got the impression that he was older than Amell/Warden, and so also likely older than Hawke. This was probably reinforced by all the fic I've read where he's the slightly "older man," so there may be little evidence for that. LOL
But, last time I looked it up, I think in Awakenings Anders is level 30s by the end, but when you meet him Kirkwall he starts at like level 4-6-ish or something (of course, depending on how quickly you pick up that quest, etc.).
Well the codex lists Revka having a child with magic as the first tragedy to strike the Amells. It says "the Amells simply had no luck after that" and then goes on to list the things the family had happen since Revka's child. Leandra running off was listed in that part, giving me the impression that the Amell mage came first. It's unclear if Leandra ran off before the Amell child had their magic manifest or not though the way it's written makes it sound like the mage came into his/her power first. However, if that's true - and most mages come into their power around the age of 12 - that would make Hawke possibly 13 years younger than Amell. If Amell was 18-19 ish when she was Harrowed, Hawke would have been a toddler. If Amell came into her power insanely early - say 5 - and was a little older for her Harrowing - say 21 - then Hawke would be 15-16. But that's too young if Bethany and Carver were 18 so a 12 year age gap between Hawke and Amell makes more sense... just not when it comes to the beginning of DA2. Really making Hawke & Co younger was the only answer and writing the codex to reflect maybe 15 years since Leandra ran off.
If I wash all of this away and choose to assume that Revka's mage child was born shortly before Leandra ran away, it becomes more possible to believe the stated timeline. If Leandra ran off 25 years ago and was pregnant with Hawke, then Hawke is roughly 24 and her siblings we know are 18 when they leave Lothering. If Amell was the age she seems in Origins, her age is more like Carver and Bethany's, making Hawke older - probably around Cullen's age. That also makes the codex entry about the Amells sound wrong. No matter how you look at it, something doesn't add up. More time should have passed between games and less time should have passed in DA2 with perhaps a little more in DAO.
It's rather headache inducing so I just choose to go with Cullen is a year older than his DAO self when he comes to Kirkwall and thus is about 10 years from that (early 30s). Right about now I wish there was a hair pulling smiley. <_<
Hmm, good point about the Amell vs. Hawke ages. I had pretty much assumed Amell would have to be a bit older if Leandra talked about her as the beginning of the Amell probs (like you mentioned). With Hawke being 24-25 in 9:30 during the Blight, then Amell would be Harrowed at that age or older. Indeed, that seems a bit old for a "rite of passage" but who knows. Looking around on the internets, it seems there are no definitive answers for this. But, with Anders, I've seen suggested that since Anders recognizes some Circle mages but isn't necessarily bosom companions with them then he'd be older. Plus, he had run away from the Circle when Uldred did his thing, so presumably was Harrowed some time before that. That all said... there are some serious problems with the timing of Anders in any event!
Anyhoo, back to Cullen, I think his age is a less an issue for our own personal tastes here on the forum... since I'd wager any of us would romance him at almost any age, and we seem to span a range of ages ourselves (I, for example, turn 40 this year). But the question is more whether Bioware would pair an inevitably "young" new PC with someone older. This I have no idea. Given the shrines dedicated to Teagan, who arguably is supposed to be way older than the Warden despite his youthful in-game appearance, it may be less of an issue.
I tend to think that DA3 will focus on the mage-templar war and so will pick up 1-10 yrs after DA2, since I can't imagine the war lasting more than a decade or so. So, if Cullen is about the same age as Hawke, so early thirties in 9:40, then he wouldn't be older than 40s or so. Arguably younger than Teagan, for example, so probably not an issue.
Modifié par R2s Muse, 20 mai 2012 - 11:42 .
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Like I said before, my husband is 18 years older than me. So Cullen can be older, I don't mind. Just not so old that him tossing baddies around is hard to believe. 
If he sounds the same and acts the same, I don't mind a few gray hairs. I just worry that the one commenter was right and the devs do make DA3 far enough into the future that Cullen can't be useful and therefore not be in the game and thus not an LI. 
