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[drkwaters]

I know this isn't necessarily DA:3 specific, and it's possible that this has been covered somewhere in the DA2 or DA:O forums, but I was wondering if BioWare ever considering doing a prequel for the Dragon Age series set in the Tevinter Imperium during the first Blight? 

Possibly going into the origins of the Grey Wardens, the effects of the first dark spawn and hunting down the origin Tevinter Magisters and the fall of the dwarven kingdoms. (Maybe throw a younger Flementh in there somewhere to spicy things up.) 

According to the lore, the first blight nearly annihilated Thedas. I would find a story based on that very interesting, and I think it would open up a lot of lore for the other countries and cultures in the DA world. Perhaps you could actually run across an elven city, town or community pre-enslavement. I know i'm just throwing out ideas at random, but would anyone else be interested in something like this?

[Kerilus]

A book? Probably. A game, however, would be an investment that requires the franchise to be ten times as successful as it is now.

[Nashimura]

I like this, i always thought prequels would be hard to do if you are going to have a lot of choice...but the first blight was a 1000 years before, anything recorded about it could be wrong, 1000 years is a long time..

Going to the Dales when it was ruled by elves or at the height of the Tevinter Imperium would be very interesting to me.

[drkwaters]

Nashimura wrote...

I like this, i always thought prequels would be hard to do if you are going to have a lot of choice...but the first blight was a 1000 years before, anything recorded about it could be wrong, 1000 years is a long time..

Going to the Dales when it was ruled by elves or at the height of the Tevinter Imperium would be very interesting to me.

Me too. I think that it would be awesome to explore more of the lore in Thedas. Think of all of the interesting Blood Magic and forgotten magics (such as Shape changing) that has been forgotten.

I would assume that the Dragon Age team may be pushing toward a general story arc across their games, but by creating a prequel so far in the past, they wouldn't have to worry about pleasing everyone who wants to see every character make an appearance in the next Dragon Age installment. 

Kerilus wrote...

A book? Probably. A game, however, would be an investment that requires the franchise to be ten times as successful as it is now.

That's possible. I'm not saying that it would be easy to accomplish, but I think that it would be worthwhile. There is always the chance that BioWare could look to Kickstarter for more funding, but it's not like EA is hurting for money. 

[Auintus]

Unfortunately, the first Blight was caused by an event disputed in-universe, the arrival of the Magisters at the Black City. Revealing the truth about this event would throw the "modern" game events into a new light. Dis/proving the Chantry, X, Y, and Z.
If they managed to skirt that issue, imagine the chaos of a dozen Corypheus's, added to an archdemon, the founding of the Grey Warden Joining, if not yet the Grey Wardens themselves, it would make a neat mini-series.
Probably a book, though.

Modifié par Auintus, 29 octobre 2012 - 05:09 .

[Nashimura]

Auintus wrote...

Unfortunately, the first Blight was caused by an event disputed in-universe, the arrival of the Magisters at the Black City. Revealing the truth about this event would throw the "modern" game events into a new light. Dis/proving the Chantry, X, Y, and Z.
If they managed to skirt that issue, imagine the chaos of a dozen Corypheus's, added to an archdemon, the founding of the Grey Warden Joining, if not yet the Grey Wardens themselves, it would make a neat mini-series.
Probably a book, though.

This would be the chance to explore that disputed event and get the truth - thats a good thing. I also think Corypheus add a lot of legitimacy to the chantry's story.

[Iakus]

There's also the added problem that the First Blight lasted something like three hundred years and involved multiple archdemon kills before the first Grey Wardens were created.

that's quite a few time skips...

[Solmanian]

Bioware fans have an unnatural aversion to prequels. Which is strange since Bioware never made a prequel of anything, ever.

Now, time travel. That's a whole different matter. Traveling tens of thousands of years into the past to the time that lizards ruled the earth, and convincing a slave to build you a back entrance to use in the future? One of D&D's finest moments. +1000 gamer rep to anyone who knows what I'm talking about.

[Arthur Cousland]

I would be very interested in a game during the first blight, as it seems like it was a very different time, back when so little was known about the blights and darkspawn. It is also hard to imagine a blight that took over 1000 years to defeat, compared to the 5th blight that only took a year to defeat.

I hope that the first blight, if retold, wouldn't be just a book. I hate how Bioware fills in the blanks in their stories with books, as I'd like to take part in these stories as if I was a participant, which can only be done with a videogame and not a book. Not everyone who likes rpgs is a book-worm.

[Nashimura]

Arthur Cousland wrote...

Not everyone who likes rpgs is a book-worm.

Not everyone who can read a book is a book-worm

[Kerilus]

Nashimura wrote...

Arthur Cousland wrote...

Not everyone who likes rpgs is a book-worm.

Not everyone who can read a book is a book-worm

Thank the Maker.

[Terrorize69]

Nashimura wrote...

I like this, i always thought prequels would be hard to do if you are going to have a lot of choice...but the first blight was a 1000 years before, anything recorded about it could be wrong, 1000 years is a long time..

Going to the Dales when it was ruled by elves or at the height of the Tevinter Imperium would be very interesting to me.

I agree with this so much  and  the logic, history is based on the survivors and the winners etc, and is still lost over time. We could learn forbidden truths and plot twists that could shine new light on the events in modern Thedas, maybe we;ll see that it was actually Dwaves who entered the black city etc lol.

[wright1978]

Yes i would love a prequel that dealt with the forming of the warens during the 1st blight. Hopefully that's where they'll go after DA3.

[Sol Downer]

Yeah...yeah, I'd take that any day of the week. It sounds like it has a lot of potential.

[henkez3]

I'd love to see a DA-game set in either the first few years of the First Blight or the last years of it. Given that it took place thousands of years ago it would leave alot of space open for player choice and such as we know very little of it.

Edit: Also, who doesn't love killing hordes of darkspawn?

Modifié par henkez3, 29 octobre 2012 - 12:55 .

[Auintus]

Nashimura wrote...

Auintus wrote...

Unfortunately, the first Blight was caused by an event disputed in-universe, the arrival of the Magisters at the Black City. Revealing the truth about this event would throw the "modern" game events into a new light. Dis/proving the Chantry, X, Y, and Z.
If they managed to skirt that issue, imagine the chaos of a dozen Corypheus's, added to an archdemon, the founding of the Grey Warden Joining, if not yet the Grey Wardens themselves, it would make a neat mini-series.
Probably a book, though.

This would be the chance to explore that disputed event and get the truth - thats a good thing. I also think Corypheus add a lot of legitimacy to the chantry's story.

But even players choose to believe different things on that topic. I, for one, think the Black City was always a constant structure in the Fade. When the Magisters arrived there, they were corrupted by the taint. I do not believe that it was ever golden.
The point is that the games are set up so that one can follow the Chantry or think that it's a crock of bull****. Proving one way or the other removes that, which I consider a realistic factor.