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Krigwin wrote...

You should be able to punch Isolde the very first time you see her, christ she was annoying.

Isolde: Teagan! I need you inside m-, er I mean in the castle where all the undead are coming from. Alone. There's NO way this can be a trap!
Teagan: Yeah okay.
Me: Can't let you do that, Star Fox!
Isolde: Teagan! Who the hell is this wench?
Me: ***** say what?

Should've just knocked her out right then and then carried her loudmouthed arse back to the castle.


/cheer

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I didn't like her character much, especially given that she knew that her son was the source of all this destruction, and still was willing to drag Teagan back to what she could only assume was his death. Mind you, I'm also of the opinion that Connor is not entirely innocent. Demons can't make people do things they have no inclination to do, blahblahblah.

Edit: Reading over some more of the thread, I'm amazed at how many people believe she was wrong in hiring an Apostate to help her son learn to control his talents. Not wanting her child to have to give up his station alone would be a huge motivation to do it let alone the emotional attachment of mother and child. The Chantry and it's gestapo have every reason to be feared, they openly oppress those who they feel have too much power, and have several times in the past lead kingdoms to war against eachother.

Modifié par slackbheep, 05 décembre 2009 - 04:38 .


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Yeah Wife of a Arl not a Teyrn .. There's a difference betweeen the 2.

Arl's inferior to teyrn in nobility.



It's King > Teyrn>Arl/Bann>Freeman>Commoner

Something like that.

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"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" I'm not religious, but this Isolde/Conner situation is nearly a textbook example of this. I think the fact that she was not judged for her own crimes was merely an oversight in the bigger picture. You know, the whole darkspawn are gonna kill everyone and everything thing.



I understand the objection to discrimination of mages, even if it's based solely on principle. BUT, there is no possible way to know which mages will or wont eventually succumb to demonic pressure. This is why i understand the chantry monitoring. They may be in the wrong in one or many places, but like it or not things are better then what they could be if every mage was free to frolic in a meadow unsupervised.

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There is no character in this game I hate more than Isolde. Not Loghain, not Howe, not Morrigan. They are all far worse people, but at least they have a measure of strength. Isolde is just a screeching, hypocritical, spoiled, egotistical little Orlesian wh*re -- totally useless. And the worst thing is that she gets away with her crimes despite the immense suffering her selfish stupidity has caused. I really wish we could hand that woman to the Templar. Or that I could break her jaw to shut her the eff up. Sadly, playing a paladin-type of character meant I "had to" save her and her brat with Irving's help.

I could feel a measure of sympathy for her if she wasn't so totally egotistical, so totally callous about everything and everyone beside Connor. Not a word of apology. Not a word of sorrow for the many dead in Redcliffe -- people her family is duty-bound to protect! Just WAAH WAAH! MY SON! WAAH WAAAH WAAAAAAH!

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th3warr1or wrote...

The Angry One wrote...
On the other hand there's the high probability she was banging Teagan.
Stupid cow, I hate her.


Possibility? She was definitely banging Teagan. Look how much balls he has man.. He tells basically tells Loghain to "F*ck Off" when he says "The Bannorn will not bow to you simply because you demand it!" :pinched:

Why? Do you like Teagan or something?




I really, really like Teagan.  If he had been a romance choice I would have gone there.  Unfortunately, Isolde hangs around him like some foul miasma that can't be dissipated.  And this topic's title made me smile.

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I'm making sure Teagan dies in my next playthrough.

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Korva wrote...

There is no character in this game I hate more than Isolde. Not Loghain, not Howe, not Morrigan. They are all far worse people, but at least they have a measure of strength. Isolde is just a screeching, hypocritical, spoiled, egotistical little Orlesian wh*re -- totally useless. And the worst thing is that she gets away with her crimes despite the immense suffering her selfish stupidity has caused. I really wish we could hand that woman to the Templar. Or that I could break her jaw to shut her the eff up. Sadly, playing a paladin-type of character meant I "had to" save her and her brat with Irving's help.

I could feel a measure of sympathy for her if she wasn't so totally egotistical, so totally callous about everything and everyone beside Connor. Not a word of apology. Not a word of sorrow for the many dead in Redcliffe -- people her family is duty-bound to protect! Just WAAH WAAH! MY SON! WAAH WAAAH WAAAAAAH!

I think you would like my points on the last page then.

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Because I love my fellow Isolde haters...

Teagan: Connor's mom is the one that started that damn undead mess all because she's a big fat stupid ****!

Connor: Don't say it Teagan!

Teagan: WEEEEELLLLL

Connor: Don't do it Teagan!

Teagan: WEEELLLLLL

Connor: I'm warning you!

Teagan: Ok ok

Connor: I'm getting pretty sick of him calling my mom a ****!

Teagan: WEEELL Connor's mom's a **** she's a big fat ****, she's the biggest **** in the whole wide world she's a stupid **** if there ever was a ****, she's a **** to all the boys and girls

Connor: SHUT YOUR ****ING MOUTH TEAGAN!

Teagan: On Monday she's a ****, on Tuesday she's a ****, on Wednesday though Saturday she's a ****, then on Sunday just to be different she's a super Broodmother mega-mega ****!


Teagan: Have you ever met my nephew Connor's mom she's the biggest **** in the whole wide world she's a mean old **** and she has stupid hair she's a **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** she's a stupid ****! Connor's mom's a **** and she's just a dirty ****!

Teagan: Talk to kids around the world and it might go a little bit somethin' like this

(Dalish kids)
(Orlesian kids)
(Quanari kids)
(Dwarven kids)

Teagan: Have you ever met my nephew Connor's mom she's the biggest **** in the whole wide world she's a mean old **** and she has stupid hair, she's a **** **** **** **** **** **** ****

(crowd:gasp)

Teagan: **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** she's stupid ****

Sir Perth: Uhh Teagan

Teagan: Connor's mom's a **** and she's just a dirty ****!
I really mean it Connor's mom
She's a big fat ****ing ****!
Big old fat ****ing ****!
Connor's mom, yeah! chaaa!

Modifié par DeathWyrmNexus, 05 décembre 2009 - 06:13 .


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Krigwin wrote...

You should be able to punch Isolde the very first time you see her, christ she was annoying.

Isolde: Teagan! I need you inside m-, er I mean in the castle where all the undead are coming from. Alone. There's NO way this can be a trap!
Teagan: Yeah okay.
Me: Can't let you do that, Star Fox!
Isolde: Teagan! Who the hell is this wench?
Me: ***** say what?

Should've just knocked her out right then and then carried her loudmouthed arse back to the castle.

Wanna have sex?

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Whoa, this has got to be my most successful discussion thread (that is successful not due to people arguing).



Looks like tons of people share my opinion.

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The Angry One wrote...

Xaila wrote...

I hated her more for her past treatment of Alistair (she even scoffs a little if you have him in your party when you first encounter her) and stupid whiny voice.  She had noooo problem shipping off little Alistair at the age of 10, but when it's ~her~ son it's a different story. 


Welcome to the nobility.
Given the rampant rumors that Alistair was Eamon's bastard, he was a threat to her own legitimacy and that of any child she might have, so she got rid of him. Alistair himself acknowledges that.
Again it's not particularily nice, and of course it's hypocrisy, but that's how that type of person thinks so I don't see any reason to single her out and call her stupid for it.


I actually personally disliked a lot of the nobility in the game.  Except for Teeeeeeegaaan, he was alright.

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th3warr1or wrote...

Whoa, this has got to be my most successful discussion thread (that is successful not due to people arguing).

Looks like tons of people share my opinion.

Teagan was even inspired to song.

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 Teagan was obviously the man.  The only problem I ever had with him was when he wouldn't listen to me and went up into that tower alone and almost got himself killed.  Isolde must be one good lay, buddy, because I just saved your whole goddamn town and probably your own life and I can't even get you to listen to my advice solely meant to protect your life.  Seriously, I wanted the option on the second playthrough: "I know your son is a demon you dumb ****, just let me and Jowan up there so we can sacrifice your miserable life and save his already.  I just got back from the Circle of Magi and killed about 4 dozen abominations.  It's not really that big of a deal."

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I... have to second the "If Tegan had been a romance" thought. He had me at the "Yeah, no way" to Loghain at the beginning.



I would be good with my adventurer saving the world then settling down with Bann Tegan (or being the Arlessa of Redcliffe after Eamon abdicates in favor of his brother, as one ending has him do) until her Gray Warden duties called her off.

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Xaila wrote...

I actually personally disliked a lot of the nobility in the game.  Except for Teeeeeeegaaan, he was alright.


I'm not really a fan of Teagan either.  Okay, he has one moment of glory, standing up to Loghain and even that is tempered by him starting a civil war (Loghain staged a coup, Teagan turned it into a civil war) while a Blight is on.  Maybe he should have waited with that, just a little.

Then you run into him, where he is bravely protecting the, well, protected area.  I mean, there's certainly no people with lighter wounds that could do that, or, say, a commoner rather than a noble who has been trained to fight and has better gear.  No, just a quick word of "hey, incompetent fool, how about you stay in there and 'protect the women, last line of defense' so you don't get your lame *** in our way" and he's happily out of the picture.

Mind you, he could have led the knights into the castle himself before the players even got there, but no, that'd require a willingness to put his people before himself and do his duty.  He doesn't even help set up
the defenses.  Isn't out training the guys practicing.  He isn't helping to build barricades.  He isn't helping to tend the wounded.  He isn't running around town inspiring people, like the barkeep, the elf, and the blacksmith to help.  He isn't out saying "hey, we got some oil in the shop we can use."

And what does he do when the party shows up?  Does he encourage them to go into the castle and end the threat?  Nope, he has them spend the day setting up defenses and hides the fact that he can even get them into the castle.  Basically, if the party is inclined to help, he could have gotten them to agree to delay going in regardless.  And if they weren't, they could have gone in and at least provided a distraction.

So then Isolde, who is more incompetent than Teagan shows up, and say "hey, come to the castle, this cannot possibly turn out badly" and the fool agrees, justifying it because it'll form a distraction so you can sneak into the castle.  This ultimately leads to him leading a bunch of guards to attack you.

The players have restored some semblence of order to the castle.  So he gets to stay home and play wet nurse, not really accomplishing anything.

Finally, the players restore his brother.  Now you can actually get things accomplished.  The brother has a plan.  The brother can inspire people.  At this point, Teagan becomes even less of a factor than he was before.

Basically, Isolde is a stupid cow.  But Teagan is an incompetent fool.

Modifié par Axterix, 05 décembre 2009 - 07:22 .


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I honestly don't know why people hate Isolde that much. Sure, she is stupid. But she is a mother also, and mothers are known to do very stupid things to protect their kids. She didn't do this without reason.



But people always need to hate someone or something in life I guess.

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Original182 wrote..

First, gays don't become abominations and kill people in real life. Comparing mages to gays is a poor comparison.
Second, the point is you spend all your energy condemning the Chantry for it's reasonable treatment of mages. Yet you turn a blind eye on the Qunari who treat mages like animals. Conclusion? You attack the Chantry just because they are the Chantry. It's not ok to discriminate against the mages, but the Chantry are fair game?


My point in that which you seem to have missed is justifying mistreatment by claiming it's worse elsewhere is futile.
The Qunari and their mages are entirely irrelevant to this discussion, just because they're outright brutal to their mages, it doesn't justify the oppression they suffer in Ferelden.

If the Chantry trains people to hate mages, how come that Revered Mother still treats Wynne like a human being? Can you give me an instance where the Chantry openly hates mages? If you can't, then it's all mere speculation on your part.


You appear to dismiss Cullen in the examples made by someone else, but fail to consider that while he was traumatised, he now sees ALL mages as demons waiting to happen thanks to Chantry indoctrination. The tower incident merely served to reaffirm in his mind what he was already taught.
There's also the fact that the Chantry did not like mages being at Ostagar and only Duncan and Cailan's influence overruled them.
Templars hunt down and kill apostates simply for being apostate, not even maleficar. Don't justify it by claiming "it's the law", it's a law born out of paranoid hatred. Look at Niall, a harmless mage who would never deal with demons and wants nothing to do with blood magic, yet in the mage origin he says he'd isolate himself far away from others and live a quiet life.. except he can't because he'd be branded apostate, hunted down and killed.

I already quoted to you the commandment from the Maker. It doesn't teach you to hate mages. But it teaches you that using magic to harm people is bad. Once again, show me proof that the Chantry teaches people to hate mages.
And the masses fear mages because of the maleficar, what happened to Connor, etc. They don't need the Chantry or anybody else to tell them magic can be bad, because they can see it with their own eyes.
Please don't blame the Chantry for reality [in Ferelden].


The thing about the commandment is that it leaves the definition of maleficar conveniently vague. "They who take His gift and turn it against His children" What does that mean? It means anything the Chantry wants it to mean, and in the game we see it means justifying their continued persecution and control of mages, whether you want to see that or not isn't my problem.

The potential for any apostate not sanctioned by the Chantry to become an abomination or cause harm to the population is too great.


So's the potential for an armed group of bandits to terrorize villages.

I was comparing mages to criminals because they are a potential danger to society. Once a mage becomes an abomination, many people will be hurt, as per Connor's case.


A case directly born out of an attempt to bypass chantry paranoia and a non-mages insipid scheming.

All mages have the potential to be overpowered by demons and become abominations. You cannot let mages go hoping that they might not become one.


There's a difference between regulation and outright persecution.
Tevinter for example lets it's mages become leaders and doesn't brand them as terrible beings ripe for possession, and yet they're not overrun by abominations, are they?
And don't go "lolblackcity" on me, that's a myth that most characters in the game doubt. And yeah, slavery is bad. But then, so is what Loghain planned to do with the Alienage elves.
Point is Tevinter regulates it's mages but doesn't treat them like criminals and hasn't imploded.

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Am I the only person who found that their opinion of Isolde was totally clouded by their sheer hate of her accent? The first time I heard her say Teagan Teeegaaaaan I really wished there was a *put hands over ears and reapeat 'lalala I Can't hear you!' in a loud obnoxious voice* dialog option.

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Ah but... Tevinter mages seems perfectly willing to kidnap slaves and use them as components in blood magic. So I don't see how that wins you any points and I am technically for mages having freedom.

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Axterix wrote...

I'm not really a fan of Teagan either.  Okay, he has one moment of glory, standing up to Loghain and even that is tempered by him starting a civil war (Loghain staged a coup, Teagan turned it into a civil war) while a Blight is on.  Maybe he should have waited with that, just a little.


Yeah let's do exactly what Loghain wants and bend knee to his insipid tyranny because of the Blight... that Loghain claims doesn't exist.
Wait what?

Also, do you think it was Teagan alone? He was merely the most vocal, but many of the freeholders weren't about to follow Loghain just because he put a crown on his head and Anora's too damn stupid to stop the throne being usurped from right under her.

Then you run into him, where he is bravely protecting the, well, protected area.  I mean, there's certainly no people with lighter wounds that could do that, or, say, a commoner rather than a noble who has been trained to fight and has better gear.  No, just a quick word of "hey, incompetent fool, how about you stay in there and 'protect the women, last line of defense' so you don't get your lame *** in our way" and he's happily out of the picture.


Did you just miss the whole part where Teagan wants to fight outside, but the others convinced him to stay in the Chantry due to the fact that if everyone in the castle is dead, he must become the new Arl?

Mind you, he could have led the knights into the castle himself before the players even got there, but no, that'd require a willingness to put his people before himself and do his duty.  He doesn't even help set up
the defenses.  Isn't out training the guys practicing.  He isn't helping to build barricades.  He isn't helping to tend the wounded.  He isn't running around town inspiring people, like the barkeep, the elf, and the blacksmith to help.  He isn't out saying "hey, we got some oil in the shop we can use."


Yes clearly Teagan should be omniscient and omnipotent and know the ins and outs of a village and castle he doesn't rule.

And what does he do when the party shows up?  Does he encourage them to go into the castle and end the threat?  Nope, he has them spend the day setting up defenses and hides the fact that he can even get them into the castle.  Basically, if the party is inclined to help, he could have gotten them to agree to delay going in regardless.  And if they weren't, they could have gone in and at least provided a distraction.


Yes and while you're in the castle, the undead run out and slaughter all the villagers.
Apparently Teagan doesn't want that.

So then Isolde, who is more incompetent than Teagan shows up, and say "hey, come to the castle, this cannot possibly turn out badly" and the fool agrees, justifying it because it'll form a distraction so you can sneak into the castle.  This ultimately leads to him leading a bunch of guards to attack you.

The players have restored some semblence of order to the castle.  So he gets to stay home and play wet nurse, not really accomplishing anything.

Finally, the players restore his brother.  Now you can actually get things accomplished.  The brother has a plan.  The brother can inspire people.  At this point, Teagan becomes even less of a factor than he was before.

Basically, Isolde is a stupid cow.  But Teagan is an incompetent fool.


Yeah Teagan's so incompitent, how dare he stand up to a tyrant and be unable to predict the future.

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Tevinter is ruled by mages if I remember correctly, or at least they are an essential part of the regime.

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The Angry One wrote...

There's a difference between regulation and outright persecution.
Tevinter for example lets it's mages become leaders and doesn't brand them as terrible beings ripe for possession, and yet they're not overrun by abominations, are they?
And don't go "lolblackcity" on me, that's a myth that most characters in the game doubt. And yeah, slavery is bad. But then, so is what Loghain planned to do with the Alienage elves.
Point is Tevinter regulates it's mages but doesn't treat them like criminals and hasn't imploded.


A quick comment on this: Tevinter is why the seeds of mage hatred finds such fertile ground.

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DeathWyrmNexus wrote...

Ah but... Tevinter mages seems perfectly willing to kidnap slaves and use them as components in blood magic. So I don't see how that wins you any points and I am technically for mages having freedom.


I never said that was particularily nice. I also said it's not much better elsewhere.
Oh yeah the elves in Ferelden are free. So free in fact that any tin pot tyrant can round them up and sell them off whenever he pleases.

I'm not even sure how much blood magic in this sense present-day Tevinter practices.

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Axterix wrote...

The Angry One wrote...

There's a difference between regulation and outright persecution.
Tevinter for example lets it's mages become leaders and doesn't brand them as terrible beings ripe for possession, and yet they're not overrun by abominations, are they?
And don't go "lolblackcity" on me, that's a myth that most characters in the game doubt. And yeah, slavery is bad. But then, so is what Loghain planned to do with the Alienage elves.
Point is Tevinter regulates it's mages but doesn't treat them like criminals and hasn't imploded.


A quick comment on this: Tevinter is why the seeds of mage hatred finds such fertile ground.


According to.... Chantry dogma.
Though yes the blood magic sacrifice thing would be bad, but then.. is the abuse and murder of slaves a mage-only thing? I think not. They're slaves!