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[jamesp81]

I want an origin whose back story is something like....

"Butchers templars and devout followers of the Qun for entertainment, and occasional profit."

[Everwarden]

I want to play an outright maleficar with a serious grudge against templars who actually kills them. 

[Drasanil]

If multiple origins do make a comeback for DA3, which I sincerely hope is the case, I would like Bioware to implement some more exotic choices, perhaps even just single race-class origins with semi-unique abilities like the companion specialisations in DA2, but retaining the ability to pick a generic spec at level 14, to allow them to be better defined.

Tevinter Magister, mage with unique spec, human only.

Ben’Hassarath, rogue with unique spec, Kossith only.

Kal-Sharok Noble, warrior with unique spec, dwarf only.

Arlathan Survivor/Descendant, ‘Arcane Warrior’ but properly balanced, elf only.

Modifié par Drasanil, 17 octobre 2011 - 09:07 .

[Heimdall]

Drasanil wrote...

If multiple origins do make a comeback for DA3, which I sincerely hope is the case, I would like Bioware to implement some more exotic choices, perhaps even just single race-class origins with semi-unique abilities like the companion specialisations in DA2, but retaining the ability to pick a generic spec at level 14, to allow them to be better defined.

Tevinter Magister, mage with unique spec, human only.

Ben’Hassarath, rogue with unique spec, Kossith only.

Kal-Sharok Noble, warrior with unique spec, dwarf only.

Arlathan Survivor/Descendant, ‘Arcane Warrior’ but properly balanced, elf only.

Player character having class specific unique specs?  I like this idea!

I have a hard time figuring out how a Kal-Sharok Noble would get involved in the Mage Templar war though.  That's why I made a Surfacer Origin for Dwarves instead.

[Heimdall]

Everwarden wrote...

I want to play an outright maleficar with a serious grudge against templars who actually kills them. 

I'm actually hoping that, among the mage factions that will inevitably rise in this war, there is a legion of blood magic using demon summoners wrecking havoc.  Someone for your character to side with

I really want to play a Kossith who veiws mages, the chantry, and the Qun with equal disdain.

[Drasanil]

Lord Aesir wrote...
I have a hard time figuring out how a Kal-Sharok Noble would get involved in the Mage Templar war though.  That's why I made a Surfacer Origin for Dwarves instead.

True, but I put it in for the same reason as the Arlathan elf, I want to know more about them. Also the more divorced they are from greater Thedas the more chance there is for flexibility given they'd have no vested interest in the conflict beyond the one you build for them.

[andraip]

First of all I would like to see different races, I really liked that in DAO.

[b}Warriors & Rogues[/b]
Orleasian Chevalier
Chasind Barbarian
Dalish Hunter
Tal'Vashoth
Tevinter Slaver

Mages
Circle Mage
Dalish First
Magister's Apprentice

[Heimdall]

andraip wrote...

First of all I would like to see different races, I really liked that in DAO.

[b}Warriors & Rogues[/b]
Orleasian Chevalier
Chasind Barbarian
Dalish Hunter
Tal'Vashoth
Tevinter Slaver

Mages
Circle Mage
Dalish First
Magister's Apprentice

No Templar?

[ananna21]

Potential Chevalier origin: It would either have you go against one of your crueler comrades abusing their authority on poor Orlesian peasent's. If one was to be more corrupt it would involve you being played into nearly revealing secrets leading you into exile.

[RedWulfi]

Cullen for Knight Commander

[andraip]

@Lord Aesir

I think a Templar Origin would not be so good, because you would automaticly the Templar spec, even if you didn't have taken you vows yet to become a full templar you know enough (Alistair).

However thinking on it, a Templar Recruit Origin would be cool, before you get the chance to get any proper training you base will get under attack by mages and you must flee or something similar.

[KJandrew]

ananna21 wrote...

Potential Chevalier origin: It would either have you go against one of your crueler comrades abusing their authority on poor Orlesian peasent's. If one was to be more corrupt it would involve you being played into nearly revealing secrets leading you into exile.

This, or more the  kind of way this is going. Some of the suggestions seem to be forcing people into specific personalities but ones like this allow for good and bad people

[Fenris_13]

Lord Aesir wrote...
Templar Origin (Races: Human (Elf?) | classes: Warrior Rogue)

You are a novice Templar who was given to the order at a young age, you have yet to become a full Templar or learn the Templar techniques (So you aren't railroaded into the Templar specialization).  Now, the war has forced the Templars to field even those that have yet to achieve knighthood into battle.

I want this one sooo badly!

I love Templars! And the Chantry! And I would actually wanna be a templar, rather than having it as an power.

[Heimdall]

andraip wrote...

@Lord Aesir

I think a Templar Origin would not be so good, because you would automaticly the Templar spec, even if you didn't have taken you vows yet to become a full templar you know enough (Alistair).

However thinking on it, a Templar Recruit Origin would be cool, before you get the chance to get any proper training you base will get under attack by mages and you must flee or something similar.

Well, not necesarily.  Recruit, novice, they wouldn't have to have the Templar spec before taking their vows.  Alistair was just about ready to become a full Templar when he left, right?  I tried to make the Origins as such that the player was born into their circumstances, like the Origins of the first game.  This lets that player have some leeway in considering how their character feels about those circumstances.  So I wanted to have the Templar Origin have a character who had pretty much grown up in the Order as a mage origin would have pretty much grown up in the Tower.

Modifié par Lord Aesir, 18 octobre 2011 - 09:52 .

[ananna21]

Tevinter mage: By not being a ruthless blood mage power seeker your fortune and prestige is taken from you from the worst of the lot. For the equally corrupt is to fail at using someone as stepping stone and as result lose everything and run away from Tevinter.
Slave have one of your comrades betray to become a magister bu you kill them but not before your loved ones are taken from.

[jamesp81]

Everwarden wrote...

I want to play an outright maleficar with a serious grudge against templars who actually kills them. 

This could be fun.  I would even play this origin, as long as we can mix in some Qunari killing too.  They're just as bad as templars when you get down to it, probably worse.

[Heimdall]

jamesp81 wrote...

Everwarden wrote...

I want to play an outright maleficar with a serious grudge against templars who actually kills them. 

This could be fun.  I would even play this origin, as long as we can mix in some Qunari killing too.  They're just as bad as templars when you get down to it, probably worse.

I'm not sure that really qualifies as an origin, in theory you should be able to do that with any mage origin.

[Everwarden]

Lord Aesir wrote...
I'm actually hoping that, among the mage factions that will inevitably rise in this war, there is a legion of blood magic using demon summoners wrecking havoc.  Someone for your character to side with

That would be a lot of fun!

Hell, it'd be nice if the world recognized in -any- way that you're a blood mage. Even Origins dropped the ball hard on this, after establishing what a big deal being a blood mage is. 

[GodWood]

The Ethereal Writer Redux wrote...
4.) Tal-Vashoth -- Once a devout follower of the Qun, you left that life seeking a freedom you never thought possible. Your time as Tal-Vashoth has showed you the flaws of the Qunari as well as the flaws of everyone else. Wandering about, you sell yourself as mercenary to the Chantry. The mages and Templars don't matter to you. The Chantry isn't important. What matters to you is your new freedom. Freedom to live your life the way you choose to.

Females have an added reason for leaving the Qun. They wanted to prove that they could fight. That women can indeed be warriors. If she can't prove it to the Qunari, she'll prove it to herself.

If there was a tal-vashoth origin I wouldn't want it to be 'you abandoned the qun' but instead were born tal-vashoth.

That way you could roleplay a kossith who wants to return to the qun.

jamesp81 wrote...
This could be fun.  I would even play this origin, as long as we can mix in some Qunari killing too.  They're just as bad as templars when you get down to it, probably worse.

We get it, you're an anarchist who hates any type of authority.

Enough already.

[LilyasAvalon]

Dragon Age 2 seems to set up a very specific destination of Orlais for DA3 (Which I personally find to be quite lazy and boring, since we pretty much already know everything about the bloody country without ever seeing it). I'm quite surprised no one has suggested any specific origins for this because of it, e.g. Noble, Bard, etc.

If we are following DA2's route, it'll be class specific with a definite Seeker background/story, similar to Hawke's Champion Story... which is again, boring, if you ask me. I like the OP's ideas better, I want the chance to be able to play a character that has the Qun as part of his/her life with more depth.

Modifié par LilyasAvalon, 19 octobre 2011 - 05:31 .

[Heimdall]

LilyasAvalon wrote...

Dragon Age 2 seems to set up a very specific destination of Orlais for DA3 (Which I personally find to be quite lazy and boring, since we pretty much already know everything about the bloody country without ever seeing it). I'm quite surprised no one has suggested any specific origins for this because of it, e.g. Noble, Bard, etc.

If we are following DA2's route, it'll be class specific with a definite Seeker background/story, similar to Hawke's Champion Story... which is again, boring, if you ask me. I like the OP's ideas better, I want the chance to be able to play a character that has the Qun as part of his/her life with more depth.

Well, my idea has the player, as a Tal Vashoth, having not grown up with the Qun.  So I'm not sure it would really be a part of his/her life save for being hunted by Qunari for being Tal Vashoth.  Of course, one would still be able to express favor for it or otherwise.

[LilyasAvalon]

Lord Aesir wrote...

LilyasAvalon wrote...

Dragon Age 2 seems to set up a very specific destination of Orlais for DA3 (Which I personally find to be quite lazy and boring, since we pretty much already know everything about the bloody country without ever seeing it). I'm quite surprised no one has suggested any specific origins for this because of it, e.g. Noble, Bard, etc.

If we are following DA2's route, it'll be class specific with a definite Seeker background/story, similar to Hawke's Champion Story... which is again, boring, if you ask me. I like the OP's ideas better, I want the chance to be able to play a character that has the Qun as part of his/her life with more depth.

Well, my idea has the player, as a Tal Vashoth, having not grown up with the Qun.  So I'm not sure it would really be a part of his/her life save for being hunted by Qunari for being Tal Vashoth.  Of course, one would still be able to express favor for it or otherwise.

That still sounds really interesting to me though, because although did not grow up with the qun, it has still been an impact on their lives, i.e. being a Tal-Vashoth. We don't really get to experience a character or background so far that the qun has been a present impact their whole lives (If I remember right, all the origins in DA:O never even heard of the Qunari before Sten), hence why I'm fascinated.

[Heimdall]

LilyasAvalon wrote...

Lord Aesir wrote...

LilyasAvalon wrote...

Dragon Age 2 seems to set up a very specific destination of Orlais for DA3 (Which I personally find to be quite lazy and boring, since we pretty much already know everything about the bloody country without ever seeing it). I'm quite surprised no one has suggested any specific origins for this because of it, e.g. Noble, Bard, etc.

If we are following DA2's route, it'll be class specific with a definite Seeker background/story, similar to Hawke's Champion Story... which is again, boring, if you ask me. I like the OP's ideas better, I want the chance to be able to play a character that has the Qun as part of his/her life with more depth.

Well, my idea has the player, as a Tal Vashoth, having not grown up with the Qun.  So I'm not sure it would really be a part of his/her life save for being hunted by Qunari for being Tal Vashoth.  Of course, one would still be able to express favor for it or otherwise.

That still sounds really interesting to me though, because although did not grow up with the qun, it has still been an impact on their lives, i.e. being a Tal-Vashoth. We don't really get to experience a character or background so far that the qun has been a present impact their whole lives (If I remember right, all the origins in DA:O never even heard of the Qunari before Sten), hence why I'm fascinated.

Ah, I understand.  Though I imagine it might be jarring for a new player (Nothing a to-the-point Origin intro voice over wouldn't fix I'd wager).  I also wanted the character to be affiliated with the Qun, but I felt a character growing up within it would be difficult to maneuver into the same situations as the other Origins (Which, we should all realize, is pretty much the only economical to make a game with many Origins)  So I wanted to make one that would still have a connection to Thedas and it's culture, having grown up there, as the others did.  There's also the Saarebas and female fighter issues that can easily avoided by using a Tal Vashoth.

Does anyone else have any Origin ideas?  I'd like to clarify that I define an Origin in this context as a set of circumstances, not character personality.  Being a maleficarum that likes to kill templars and such is a character concept, not an Origin.  Being an assassin is an Origin (Provided the character was raised to the position) being a guilt ridden assassin is not.

I did have an idea for how to include a Kal-Sharok Noble into the options.

Kal-Sharok Origin (Races: Dwarf | classes: Warrior Rogue)

You have been raised in a Noble House in the Dwarven city of Kal-Sharok all your life.  In the wake of the Mage-Templar War, both the Templars and Mages have been clamoring for access to the Lyrium trade.  As a representative of your people, you have been chosen to journey to the surface and treat with one of the prominent Knight Commanders whose army now besieges an ancient Tervinter fortress.

Modifié par Lord Aesir, 20 octobre 2011 - 09:19 .