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I thought the comic series was pretty good, personally.
Pros: Pacing was decent considering the brevity of the 6 issues and it gave some nice hints to the future of DA. We also learned some new things about Isabela and dragons which is always cool. Art was mostly good.
Cons: The payoff was terrible. We never find out what Maric's ultimate fate was (so they can milk it out in a new comic series, evidently) and that was a low blow seeing as that was a promised revelation in the beginning. Also all the new characters ended up dying... well maybe not Yavana as you never really now what's up with those witches.
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As for the new lore for the purpose of generating discussion, we discover things like:
- Maric was captured and imprisoned by the Antivan crows. Yavana, a daughter of Flemeth, rescued him to bring him to the Silent Grove where he would fufill his promise to Flemeth made in the novel The Stolen Throne.
- Flemeth's intended "posession" ritual DA:O was most likely misunderstood by Morrigan. Yavana laughs at the notion of Flemeth posessing her daughters, calls Morrigan a confused child, and declares "It is a gift."
- Flemeth has an interest in the survival of dragons. Enough to charge one of her daughters with protecting a haven for them.
- The blood of dragons is the "blood of the world". Their survival is somehow essential for life to exist.
- Dragons survived extinction by being "called" to the Silent Grove and being put to sleep in crystal (lyrium?) cocoons. The Silent Grove was built after the fall of the Tevinter Imperium for that very purpose. Their recent reappearance is due to Yavana awakening them. As a personal observation, the chamber where they sleep was rather small, thus seemingly insufficient to repopulate them to the extent we see in the games, so it's possible other places like the Silent Grove exist (maybe even also under the watch of other daughters of Flemeth). The dragons can only be awakened by "power" and blood magic fits the bill.
- Alistair's bloodline is special and apparently quite potent in blood magic. The bloodline harkens from a time where the Veil did not exist and when dragons ruled the skies of Thedas. Maric's promise was to help Yavana awaken these dragons with his blood. Maric was supposed to revive the "Great Ones" in particular who are likely the most powerful dragons sleeping in the Grove. Maric managed to revive one of them, a seemingly tamed high dragon refered to by Yavana as her "Queen of Dragons", before unforseen circumstances arised.
- Isabela actually did hire Zevran to kill her husband because he wanted her to "entertain" his friends. Her husband's name was Luis.
- A man named Aurelian Titus, probably a magister, kidnapped Maric from Yavana to use his blood for unknown ends. Thus the new comic series coming later this year. He was searching for the Silent Grove using an agent and is interested in the particular high dragon that guards it with Yavana; the "queen" mentioned before.
Modifié par Blacklash93, 07 juin 2012 - 05:09 .
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