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[Lord Abrasion]

Mage characters stem from either the Amell family or the Surana family, depending on their race. Is there any official lore about those families? It bugs me a bit that I have absolutely no idea what kind of background any of my mage characters have, before ending up in the Circle tower. I had come up with a background story for one of my mages but only minutes ago I came across a bit of information that forces me to make a few changes if I want to keep it in line with the lore

[Darpaek]

Some of the human mage convos insinuate that you don't know your family very well, nor that your family is of any particular reknown.

[Xalena]

I was wondering about that aswell... Would be interesting to meet someone from Amell family or if you play as Surana in the future. Maybe there is some interesting story about your family but buried somewhere deeply. Mostly In all Origins you know clearly your family except the mages one .

[draxynnus]

The impression I had was that the Mage family background was supposed to be a largely blank canvas - and also fairly unimportant. NPC reactions suggest that neither family is high in the social scale, however.

[Xalena]

Ugh, I ll try to avoid spoiler (if that would be considered as a spoiler maybe) here but I was kinda confused which options to use in one of the conversation with one crazy npc in forest. Thought I didn't want to lie to that person during talking, didn't find it necessary. You could really pick anything, but there is more when some party members ask you about your family. I guess that during that convos in some way, you make your own little not important background of your family. But pitty that there is nothing special about your family to be honest like Cousland's one. But ok... nevermind let's kick ass

[Knut281]

Amell family is a noble family from Kirkwall and Hawkes mother is from that family... Now ain't that cool?

[Malchior the Angel of Fear]

Its very interesting... im gonna have to make my human mage again.... YAY! :3

[Erika T]

With Amell and Surana the thing is that their family is the circle. If you pay attention to the lore yu will realise why the real family is not and can not be important - they explain how magic makes you equal - equally privileged and equally disprivileged - and how being able to do magic becomes your main (almost only) attribute and "background".



Check out the elven mage in the tower, or Connors story (I hope this is not a spoiler) and you will understand why family stops being important the moment you realise youre a mage. Its all about the stigma around mages, deserved or undeserved.

[BelgarathMTH]

Erika T wrote...

With Amell and Surana the thing is that their family is the circle. If you pay attention to the lore yu will realise why the real family is not and can not be important - they explain how magic makes you equal - equally privileged and equally disprivileged - and how being able to do magic becomes your main (almost only) attribute and "background".

Check out the elven mage in the tower, or Connors story (I hope this is not a spoiler) and you will understand why family stops being important the moment you realise youre a mage. Its all about the stigma around mages, deserved or undeserved.

Yes, this. Part of the lore of Dragon Age is that, if you are born with the "curse" of magic, your family is forced to disown you and send you to the tower. All family ties, claims, and perquisites are suspended, forever. Even if you had been born a Cousland, as soon as you showed your "curse" and its abilities (which you would have no hope of hiding while a child - you would use it sooner or later, because you have a child's judgment and a child's problems), you would be declared no longer a Cousland, and sent off to the mage tower immediately.

Connor's story drives home the point of why this is so. I would discuss it in more detail, but alas, here we are in "no spoilers".

[Arthur Cousland]

Yes, we would hate to see a child mage summon demons against their parents because they weren't happy with their birthday presents. So, off to the circle it is for them.



Plus, they need to learn how to shield themselves from demonic possession. Unless the mage's parents are mages, themselves, the child could end up an abomination, like a certain high ranking child mage in Redcliffe.

[Erika T]

Belgarath, perhaps you could discuss connor in the "spolier" forum? interested to hear your thoughts.

[BelgarathMTH]

They're having a discussion about how mages get treated in Ferelden over in the spoilers forum under "Are Templars Really That Bad?".

I put in my two cents there, and several people already made some thoughtful counterarguments to my own conservative position.

Modifié par BelgarathMTH, 28 décembre 2010 - 07:32 .

[Macropodmum]

What I would like to know is if we are not meant to know anything about our lives before the tower then why we don't have the option to answer "I don't know" when others ask about our pasts...is a tad frustrating