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[Kuravid]

Throughout the game, you are given several options to dismiss belief in The Maker, while you are also offered dialogues involving details, stories and lore about the religions of others who occupy Fereldan or the world (such as the dwarves, the Qun and the Old Gods). What I am curious about, and I profess to know little about the subject because I haven't read a lot of the codex, is it stated anywhere in the lore that the Maker, the Old Gods, whatever, is fact? Or is it possible that Fereldan is simply a realm where magic and monsters exists that can be explained in some Fereldan-ish scientific way? And that the Maker and all the other religions are simply myth? Is it possible that they are going to somehow leave this whole religion thing open ended and never really give some solid answers about it (I know that no one can really answer this last question, I'm just curious about what people think)?

Honestly, I don't know and I'm highly skeptical. With the whole Chantry religion, for example, there seems to be a dogmatic way to approach it (such as the ones suggested by Chantry priests) and then a slightly, though less commonly encountered, kind-of Gnostic, impersonal way to approach it (even Wynne mentions that the Black City could possibly be nothing other than allegory, and Niall offers the explanation "they say we return to the Maker when we die" which to me doesn't remind me of a kind of heaven, but of an impersonal god like that which is more common in eastern religions).

Of course, I don't know the lore very well, so I can't form any detailed opinions about this. So, I'm curious, is it possible that, for example, the dragons are not really old gods but just dragons with magic and people just like to think that they're gods? That the Maker is nothing other than myth, and that Andraste's ashes hold a healing power that is not fanciful but of something else that can be explained? That the taint is really just a kind of poison that turns you into some deformed, violent human-like zombie thing? Does religion in Fereldan solely exist on faith and will it always? Is there anything in the lore that suggests this?

[David Gaider]

Felene wrote...
I find dwarven religion very close to chinese ancestor workshipping.

As for the Qunari, I won't consider it a religion, its a strange but effective philosophy.

Yes, dwarves engage in ancestor worship -- which is still religion, if not religion that we can identify with very readily here in the West. Their relationship with the Stone borders on animism, as well.

As for the qunari, I would agree. Their philosophy is the sort that kicks down your door and invades your house, however. Which is several kinds of awesome, but I digress.

[David Gaider]

Kuravid wrote...
I suspect that the Qunari are based off of Islam.

The qunari inspiration was one part Middle Eastern cultures (at least insofar as how advanced they were compared to much of medieval Europe, certainly qunari philosophy has very little in relation to Islam itself), one part Golden Horde and one part Borg.

Modifié par David Gaider, 04 décembre 2009 - 05:03 .

[David Gaider]

Suprez30 wrote...
Yeah but in dungeons and Dragon god does exist.

I would argue that. In D&D you have powerful beings who claim that they are gods, but they are neither omniscient nor omnipotent -- and even the most powerful of them can be killed. I see no evidence even in D&D lore that they created the world. Ao perhaps comes closest, but even he is an enigmatic figure that sadly gets waved aside since he doesn't "give" his followers anything.

Nobody ever seems to ask who created all these powerful beings. Where did the planes come from? Why do people go to a particular plane when they die -- who decided that? So ultimately these questions get ignored in favor of the pantheons of mortal, fallible beings that clerics worship for the free gift of divine power. Which is convenient, but side-steps the real issues of faith and creation altogether. In short, there is no God in D&D.