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[Olorin_85]

Hello everyone. I hope the pure speculative nature of this topic won't seal its fate to a premature block but, since the subforum's up, I thought I might as well expose a doubt that's been in my mind for quite some time.

So, same as many of you I have been tackling every bit of news about this game for a while now. Yesterday's open letter from Mark Darrah was quite a surprise and an exciting reading too. 

However, I find myself wondering how the distinctive "3 classes" pattern of the DA franchise will fit in a title which, by its title, will mainly be concerned with the whereabouts of the Inquisition or even, judging by some of the early rumours, with he whereabouts of its Commander. A Warrior-Rogue PC doesn't pose much of a challenge in explain how he/she enlisted in the Inquisition ranks, I suppose, though I'm eager to know what the team has in store for them in terms of background story (here's hoping we get some sort of playable prologue a la Origins).

However, I think Mages are much more difficult, in this respect. I mean, with all we've been told about magic being something dangerous, difficult to controll, strictly regulated, ill-viewed by both people and governments (aside from Tevinter, of course) and openly harrassed by, well, almost everyone, it makes me wonder how exactly a Mage could end up being the Inquisition commander, or even part of it.
Shouldn't the Inquisition be something like even more "mage-phobic" than the Templars are? Or are they that secret branch that every security organization has, dedicated to "fight fire with fire"? And if so, how exactly is a mage selected to enter it?

So, I'd like to hear if someone else has this same doubt and if he/she has come up with a possible explanation for it, or if we're just going to live with this doubt until "late 2013" comes

[Allan Schumacher]

I'd encourage people to not jump to too many conclusions about who or what the PC's affiliations will be or were prior to the game.

[Allan Schumacher]

esper wrote...

Allan Schumacher wrote...

I'd encourage people to not jump to too many conclusions about who or what the PC's affiliations will be or were prior to the game.

That is damn hard to do when the name carrys strong both in world and real word associations, surely bioware was aware of that when choosing that name.

Untill we get something concrete we can only guess based on what the name have meant for Thedas and what it means in the real world.

That's fair, and yes we did know it would strike a chord (in some ways bad) with some people because of it.  We had considered not using the title because people may relate it TOO strongly, but ultimately we all agreed it was a great title for the game based on the ideas for the game.  We decided to take the risk and not change out of what we wanted to do just to make sure the name was safe.

Hopefully more details will come sooner rather than later (I have no idea the timeline), to help calm your fears.