David Gaider wrote...
No that was not explicitly stated. You inferred that. At best it was implied, though certainly not intentionally.
"Explicitly stated" would have been "I ate those templars". Perhaps "explicit" means something else where you come from.
In Soviet Russia...
Anyway, typing that I meant to say extremely implicit. Thinking one thing, typing the exact opposite. Not the first time I've done that.
Mea culpa
But certainly this:
And then his sword is level with my chest, and I let it come, because it is only steel and cannot hurt me, for I am not of mortal men. And when it sinks hilt-deep in my flesh with no reaction, that's when he gives up. He turns and runs, and from behind, I tear his head off at the neck, no magic, just me, whatever that is now. His blood splashes into my open mouth and it tastes like honeyed wine and the warmth spreads through me.
along with this...
And suddenly I'm alone, standing in a burning forest, with the bodies of templars and wardens at my feet. So many, and I didn't even know they were there. Didn't even know I had killed them, but the evidence is all around me. Not the aftermath of a battle as I've known it, but a bloody abattoir of rent limbs and torn and eaten flesh.
seems to point to him having... eaten the flesh of Wardens and Templars and having drunk their blood. Not consciously his doing, mind you, but in the sense of people being OM NOM NOMMED upon by his body and Vengeance's anger.
And the whole "let steel come, for I am not a mortal man and cannot be hurt" thing also kinda... boggles the mind as well.
Either way, why does anyone care at this point?
Consistency, for one. Sense, for another. It seems a tad
too over-the-top -- to use a phrase I'm very selective about using. It seems to jive too much with segregating gameplay and story, IMO.
Anders is not like mortal men and cannot be hurt by steel, so he lets it come to him anyway? Seems to differ from how we can kill him in-game -- something you confirmed is indeed true if that route is chosen. Seems to differ from the gameplay where when he's fighting -- in Vengeance mode or not -- he can indeed be hurt by steel.
To the point of complaining about it.
In his Vengeance state of mind, he eats people (or so the story implies)? Doesn't happen in-game. Vengeance is certainly confrontational and more prone to violence, but he never tried to eat Hawke's head -- be it violently so or adorably so.
Now, unless Anders was unconscious for a substantial amount of time, Justice/Vengeance was dormant for the time being, and Wolves came along -- which the short story does not even try to imply -- and gnawed upon the dead bodies, I can't see how else the idea of Anders/Vengeance drinking blood that splashed in his mouth and seeing bodies that have evidence of being eaten is supposed to be taken. Other then Justice/Vengeance eating them and Anders witnessing it through his own eyes.
And to relate to Cullen... well... would Cullen experience something similar? A short story that suggests some... disturbing things? Things that don't happen in-game?
Not that Cullen would actually be possessed by Vengeance, eat people, and so on and so on. But... well... hopefully that's clear enough.
I dunno. I'm rambling again. Cullen probably wouldn't go through anything remotely close... but the Anders short story did make me do a double take. And this is the first time anyone from Bioware has said that what it implies is not what it is.
So to answer "Why does anyone care?", it'd have to amount to "New information about it was brought to light, and I feel like investigating this matter as much as possible".
Whether other people do, I do not know. And I will not try to speak for them.
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Just because it's from a while ago doesn't mean it's uninteresting now.)
