He doesn't ask for justification. He accepts that he failed and accepted his punishment quite admirably.
Stens obsession with his sword
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AntiChri5
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#27
Posté 20 décembre 2009 - 11:16
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I know he accepts responsibility for it, I was just replying to the other poster.
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Posté 20 décembre 2009 - 11:40
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This is kind of like how the old Greeks did it, come back with your shield or on it.
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Posté 20 décembre 2009 - 11:41
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Herr Uhl wrote...
This is kind of like how the old Greeks did it, come back with your shield or on it.
Not Greeks Spartans.
#30
Posté 20 décembre 2009 - 11:42
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AntiChri5 wrote...
Herr Uhl wrote...
This is kind of like how the old Greeks did it, come back with your shield or on it.
Not Greeks Spartans.
They are Greeks.
#31
Posté 20 décembre 2009 - 11:43
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Sten to his sword is a Marine to his rifle. Yes, Marines name their rifles.
#32
Posté 20 décembre 2009 - 11:43
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Honestly, it's really not that unheard of for any warrior culture.
#33
Posté 20 décembre 2009 - 11:45
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Rainen89 wrote...
Honestly, it's really not that unheard of for any warrior culture.
To consider it his soul?
#34
Posté 20 décembre 2009 - 11:46
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Herr Uhl wrote...
AntiChri5 wrote...
Herr Uhl wrote...
This is kind of like how the old Greeks did it, come back with your shield or on it.
Not Greeks Spartans.
They are Greeks.
Not back then they werent.
#35
Posté 20 décembre 2009 - 11:48
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I really just interpreted soul as "A part of him" but in some yes, it could easily be their life to lose a weapon. When your entire way of life revolves around surviving a fight, a weapon just holds deep meaning.
#36
Posté 20 décembre 2009 - 11:50
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Rainen89 wrote...
I really just interpreted soul as "A part of him" but in some yes, it could easily be their life to lose a weapon. When your entire way of life revolves around surviving a fight, a weapon just holds deep meaning.
Plenty of weapons around at the end of a fight.
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Posté 20 décembre 2009 - 11:50
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AntiChri5 wrote...
Not back then they werent.
They still call it ancient Greece, even though it was a lot of city-states.
It's like calling renaissance artists like Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael Italian.
#38
Posté 20 décembre 2009 - 11:51
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AntiChri5 wrote...
Rainen89 wrote...
Honestly, it's really not that unheard of for any warrior culture.
To consider it his soul?
Yes. There have been warrior societies here on Earth that considered their weapons to be the physical embodiment of their souls. The most well known of these were the Samurai.
#39
Posté 21 décembre 2009 - 12:25
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Herr Uhl wrote...
AntiChri5 wrote...
Not back then they werent.
They still call it ancient Greece, even though it was a lot of city-states.
It's like calling renaissance artists like Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael Italian.
They didnt consider themselves Greek. Cant you just accept that im a pedant so we can move on?
#40
Posté 21 décembre 2009 - 12:27
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Zachriel wrote...
AntiChri5 wrote...
Rainen89 wrote...
Honestly, it's really not that unheard of for any warrior culture.
To consider it his soul?
Yes. There have been warrior societies here on Earth that considered their weapons to be the physical embodiment of their souls. The most well known of these were the Samurai.
What im interested in is if this is restricted to the Qunari warrior caste (as i am assuming it is with Samauri) or a wider cultural phenomen
#41
Posté 21 décembre 2009 - 12:32
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It can very well be a wider cultural phenomenon. Qunari seem to define themselves after what they do. Though a baker losing their rolling pin or a mason losing his spatula is probably not such a big deal.AntiChri5 wrote...
What im interested in is if this is restricted to the Qunari warrior caste (as i am assuming it is with Samauri) or a wider cultural phenomen
Never! You can't be a pedant.AntiChri5 wrote...
They didnt consider themselves Greek. Cant you just accept that im a pedant so we can move on?
#42
Posté 21 décembre 2009 - 12:37
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To return without his sword is to defy his very existance, for the qunari the loss of his sword is a conciouse choice to subsume his position within his society and the society itself. I wouldn't be surprised if similar ways of thinking were present within other sectors of his society.
Modifié par andyr1986, 21 décembre 2009 - 12:41 .
#43
Posté 21 décembre 2009 - 12:38
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AntiChri5 wrote...
Zachriel wrote...
AntiChri5 wrote...
Rainen89 wrote...
Honestly, it's really not that unheard of for any warrior culture.
To consider it his soul?
Yes. There have been warrior societies here on Earth that considered their weapons to be the physical embodiment of their souls. The most well known of these were the Samurai.
What im interested in is if this is restricted to the Qunari warrior caste (as i am assuming it is with Samauri) or a wider cultural phenomen
From what sten mentions about the qunari their roles are very fixed, but if the other castes have similar ideas we don't know. i suppose a qunari farmer would not be considered a true farmer without his plow but im just speculating.
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Posté 21 décembre 2009 - 12:38
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As I said before, I'm fairly certain this encompasses every member of the Qun. Not just the vanguard.
#45
Posté 21 décembre 2009 - 12:48
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Based on his conversation with Morrigan, the sword certainly isn't compensating for anything.
"You will need armor I think, and a helmet, and something to bite down on."
rapidshare.com/files/323697273/Sten_Morrigan_Sex.mp3
"You will need armor I think, and a helmet, and something to bite down on."
rapidshare.com/files/323697273/Sten_Morrigan_Sex.mp3
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Posté 21 décembre 2009 - 01:02
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It's fantasy for God's sake!! Bioware created a race in which the warriors (may be only the warriors) value their sword extremely high!
If you played Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, then you would know that the Mandalorians also valued their weapons really highly and that it is against their code or something to be without a weapon. Geez... ur trying to equate fantasy into reality.. Yo won't find any reasonable explanation for it by looking at real life.
If you played Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, then you would know that the Mandalorians also valued their weapons really highly and that it is against their code or something to be without a weapon. Geez... ur trying to equate fantasy into reality.. Yo won't find any reasonable explanation for it by looking at real life.
#47
Posté 21 décembre 2009 - 01:06
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amat3rasu wrote...
It's fantasy for God's sake!! Bioware created a race in which the warriors (may be only the warriors) value their sword extremely high!
If you played Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, then you would know that the Mandalorians also valued their weapons really highly and that it is against their code or something to be without a weapon. Geez... ur trying to equate fantasy into reality.. Yo won't find any reasonable explanation for it by looking at real life.
Im not trying to equate it to real life. I mostly just want to talk about Qunari culture. Thought this was the place to do it. must of been mistaken. very sorry.
P.S. IN KotOR 2 Maandalorian culture was explained very well and i had no unexplained questions.
