tevikolady wrote...
My point is, you 'over-hear' these things, but you don't exactly get to interract with them.
YOu get to encounter Huon (yes, that elf, thank you I couldn't remember his name), and kill him for his hideous use of Blood Magic.
You kill Evellina who turned to Blood Magic
You kill Decimus who turned to Blood Magic
You kill Grace who turned to Blood Magic.
You Quentin, that bastard who killed your mother, for using Blood Magic.
You can kill (or send Idunna to the circle) for turning to Blood Magic
You can kill Gascard for being a blood mage, or let him go.
You kill Taronhe for being a crazy blood mage.
You can kill Denarius who uses Blood Magic
LOTS of incidents of blood magic all over the game. And I never went to the Dalish camp before, but I just recently read that on the wiki, before I read this post.
You kill the tempars harrassing the people supporting apostates. You deal with Ser karras (I killed him) so I never knew baout the Alain incidents. And you kill the death squads that are trying to ferret out Meredith opposers. I get that, but you don't do any quests for them. You *might* overhear it, but you don't really get involved in it, minus two or three occassions.
I think for every mage driven to blood magic, there should ahve been a templar quest that supported some kind of the templars have gone too far bit. That was what I was trying to get at.
Back in Origins, I played the circle tower and came across the apprentice who view her gift as a curse. I almost deleted my character when I came across that because it sickened me that the Chantry had brainwashed even mages into thinking the power they were BORN with was a curse, an evil vile thing.
IT WENT AGAINST EVERYTHING I BELIEVE IN! Me, as in myself, not my character.
In a world where there IS magic, and people are BORN with it, then it is not a CRIME to have this power. If you are born with it, then the Maker blessed you with it. It is not an evil vile thing. Like anything else in the world, your actions determine who you are.
For me, in DA2, it was not me vs the mages vs the Templars. It was the chantry I did not condone. It is the Chantry and how it views mages and Templar alike that I didn't like.
I practically cheered when I saw that Chantry blow up. My eyes teared up and I almost kissed Anders on the spot.
sorry, I digress.
/rant off
It's kind of funny, I always RP my characters in DA as devout Andrastians. Maybe it's because I don't have a reflexive dislike of organized religion IRL. I have to say, though, after Elthina demonstrated her inability or unwillingness, whichever it was, to defuse the situation, I just couldn't get too worked over Ander murder-bombing the place. My only reaction was, "Well, they made this **** inevitable, I guess we all got to suffer the consequences for the things we do or don't do."
Seriously, though, Elthina got to really annoying me. Meredith was presiding over the organized rape and torture of people who had committed no crime, and Elthina didn't do a damned thing to curtail it even when she had the authority to do so. A lot of trouble could've been avoided if she'd simply ordered Meredith, under threat of expulsion from the order, to clean up the templars. Meredith may not have liked it, but she's a soldier which means when she gets orders she shuts the **** up, salutes, shouts 'sir, yes sir' and carries those orders out. Or leaves the templars altogether.
Retour en haut
unfortunately it is just one from the forum itself, not a personalised one.
