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[BubbleDncr]

I finished reading Asunder last night, and my one gripe with it is that it kind of made me feel like DA2 didn't really matter. 

I mean, everyone kept mentioning "what that mage Anders did in Kirkwall," but here it was, a year later, and all the circles still hadn't rebelled. Things were just "more tense" than they otherwise would have been, though that could be argueable in itself, since everything in Kirkwall still probably would have eventually gotten out of control without Anders. Afterall, their Knight Commander was going insane and their First Enchanter was helping research blood magic. 

I guess after DA2 ended, I felt like all the circle towers would revolt when they heard the news, the mage templar war would begin, and Cassandra was looking for Hawke because she was there at the event that started it all - the annulment of the Kirkwall Circle. 

But instead, it seems like the Conclave in Asunder is what caused the mages to revolt and start the mage/templar war. So it seems more logical, to me, that if Cassandra were looking for someone who was there at a piviotal moment, she would look for Rhys. He clearly played a much larger role in the beginnings of the war than Hawke, who frankly, just had to stand by and react to everything going on around her. 

Anyone else get similar feelings, or am I misinterpretting things?

[David Gaider]

Sylvianus wrote...
That's weird. Didn't they say, that books, comics have got their own canon story like Mass effect's novels ? Why couldn't they choose a side for Hawke in this case ?

Because creating canon for events and creating canon for player characters are two quite different things. The people at Tor, who have published numerous tie-ins, said as much-- fans tend to be okay with the former and far less okay with the latter-- and I can see their point. Since there's no way to avoid mentioning Hawke in the context of the book's conflict without also mentioning which side of the conflict Hawke came down on, I had to avoid mentioning Hawke at all.

Which doesn't bother me, since the references are minor at best anyhow. The point was not to pat a player on the hand and reassure them how very important their Hawke is. They'll have the games for that.