Josielyn wrote...
Is it just me, or did anyone else notice the scarcity of children in DA2? Will some attention be paid to this little detail in DA3? It just seemed very unnerving to me that there weren't more kids running around in Kirkwall in the daytime. There weren't any Dalish children in Sundermount either. And what does a Dwarven child look like nowadays? In DAO they were part of families, or there were some quests related to helping them, but I can only remember 1 or 2 in DA2 (smuggler's quest). Maybe Morrigan's Old God Baby will be the 1 child that we do see in DA3? How about Alistair and Anora having a child?
So let's talk about where we actually did see children in Dragon Age...
DAO: The only
models of children were a human boy and girl, and there were a few varieties of face/hair combos. I know there was at least one elven girl in Lothering, and may have been an additional one or two with the Brecellian Forest Dalish elves or the Circle -- but as we know, DAO elves were basically smaller humans with pointed ears and slighter frames, so these children had the same bodies as the human children, with pointed ears added.
You are right in that the children, clonish though they were, were sprinkled throughout DAO: Lothering, the Circle, and Denerim being the most noted locations. There were also some quests involving them: two in Redcliffe with Connor and Bevin, and in in The Stone Prisoner DLC with Amalia (I can haz girl?) There are also other children that you can talk to in the Human Noble origin, Lothering, and Haven who have extended conversations.
There were no dwarven children in either game. The quest An Unlikely Scholar has you helping a young dwarf,
Dagna. She is presented as young, yes, but not as a child. She has the same model as any female dwarf.
DA2: As I recall, there were a couple of children with the similar DAO models in Darktown as pointed out by Melca
earlier in the thread. For quests involving actual children you have
Loose Ends (dependent on picking Smuggler over Mercenary at the beginning) where you meet a boy you can help, and
On the Loose where you meet two youths (one who is an actual child) that Evelina is caring for.
I think that
Lia can be counted as an elven child. I would say early teens for her, certainly younger than any of the other female elves we meet in DA2.
The two young dwarves you are sent after in
Fool's Gold are likewise not children, only reckless youths.
(If I've forgotten any others, feel free to note them)
The main difference between the games is that there are
not a lot of extraneous children running around in DA2, so I feel that their lack of presence is more noticeable for people who care about such things. I do not. In fact, I would prefer that DAO had half as many children.
As Challseus points out...
Challseus wrote...
As a user of the toolset, let me tell you, only have 2 children models (1 boy, 1 girl), and like 5-6 face morphs is hella annoying. If I could at least change their clothing, I would have been fine with that...
The models for DAO children were really redundant. I would prefer they have fewer children if they are going to go this route in order to save resources on non-essentials, than have more children who look like clones.
In general, I felt that the whole of Kirkwall was underpopulated. From the supposedly bustling trade areas in Lowtown and Hightown, to the crowded refugees in Darktown. The city guards at the beginning talk as though Kirkwall has been flooded by refugees, but we don't really see evidence of that other than two instances where there are relatively small lines of people waiting around.
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