Nerevar-as wrote...
Allan Schumacher wrote...
Just to nip this sort of response in the bud, don't use my word entirely as absolute gospel ammunition for the idea that "Kirkwall would be fine" is not at all plausible.
If someone wishes to think that Hawke was the catalyst that set all these events in motion, I think that that is fine. However, given what we know from the game lore, I do think that definitively stating that it would not have happened is something we cannot conclude.
Hawke wasn't a small time player, but the Qunari are already a boiling pot. There's no logical reason to definitively state that without Hawke's influence, the Qunari situation would never have escalated. Although I do think, given Hawke is the one that breaks it up, Hawke does prevent it from becoming much, much worse.
Did s/he? Hawke only took control because Orsino and Meredith wouldn´t stop arguing with the city literally burning around them (great clue for their stupididty in the 3rd act). I´d say both were more than powerful enough to deal with Arishok. Hell, Orsino even ignores qunari NM fire immunity <_<. Even then, I find hard to believe they would have kept arguing had Hawke not appeared so they could pass the responsibilty to someone they knew hardly anything about.
And yet, the quanri are either defeated by Hawke, or they leave peacefully with the Tome of Koslun an Isabella in tow.
I kind of see this as a parallel to the events leading up to the American Civil War. Notably one event, known in history as Bleeding Kansas.
Bleeding Kansas was a proxy war over border territories created by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, which had a ton of outbursts of open fighting for five-six years until Kansas was instituted as a free state into the union. The reason for it was of course Slavery, but it claimed 56 lives because gurellia fighters kept murdering people both pro and against slavery rights.
And the worst part is that it was a solution that never resolved. It was small-time skirmishes yes, but it would be a pre-curser to things to come in less than ten years. The only reason it didn't spread was because congress was balanced enough where slavery was a deadlocked issue, literally to the point where states were always admitted in pairs, so that the U.S Senate had even numbers pro and anti-slavery.
Another reason open war didn't happen was due to the death of one man, John Brown. He was responsible for most of the upheval...and he got his cumuppance a few years later when he attempted to capture a union fort to arm slaves and coax them into rebellion. He would be executed for this but it made abolitionists decree him as a martyr, despite him literally chopping people to death because they owned slaves.
My point is, it is easy to see Hawke diffusing a situation for the short term. Long term though he is screwed,and I think we all know that. But he may have bought the Free Marches and the rest of Thedas some more time, especially considering the fact that the Qunari are likely planning some sort of attack, if the numerous hints by Sten and the Arishok are to be believed.
Ce sujet est fermé
Guest_krul2k_*
Retour en haut
