aryon69 wrote...
I have not seen anything in their history (stuff I can find in game I should say) that suggests any kind of progress. I also can not agree with you about our own history. While things certainly didn't move as fast as it has in the last 200 years there are quite a few things that showed our curiousity and our ability to learn. Even today we still have a hard time understanding exactly how the ancient egyptian's built the pyramids with the precision they did. The romans did much to advance their society and humanity, we all know about the mayans, and before the crazy leader took control and built the great wall china was way ahead of the curve in many fields. Sure it isn't smooth line through history it does seem to come in chunks but in the history that we know there has never been a 1000 years period were little to no change occurred. I am talking about recorded history which isn't all that long considering how long we have walked on this planet.
The reason I point toward the chantry to place blame is from looking at our own past. Just 400-500 years ago you would be put to death if you questioned what that rainbow was and how it formed. It was the work of a deity and that is all we needed to know. Even if you believed in said deity there was no room to question and I get that vibe from the dragon age world.
ferelden has gone, according to codexes, a group of hunters in the mountains, to a unified country with lots of farming, and cities...that is progress, at least in this stage of Scientific knowledge that is a LOT of progress.
I actually agree with you on history, but what you are forgetting, is that the Romans were FAR more advanced than the Medieval peasants, that Ancient India gained then lost plumbing. Scientific method or at least something similiar was lost and found several times before the Greeks became Philosophers. Ancient Egyptians and exactly how they built it was lost as well. It is a common mistake to say the greeks invented math because other cultures had not spread it to the same extent. The Middle East was far more advanced Scientifically then it was some time afterward.
What I mean to say...Progress often goes backwards. In our own history it has a dozen times and more. it will again, studying history means you see things we know like say atoms, be learned, forgot, improved, ignored and so on. 1,000 years from now I won't be surprised if we have gone back again. Harrapan empire was one of the most advanced in the world...it fell. All empires fall, and with them also many advancements, only difference today is we have a global culture, the whole world will have to fall to deprogress, which will probably happen with time.
I disagree completely about how the Chantry is. You can dislike and be heretical in origins and mostly the Priestesses just get annoyed. They have bad history, but no one has ever been killed or even suggested to be killed on a minor quibble like rainbows. Even the Qunari were only really attacked in DA2 by one fanatic and the people who disliked them. and they were there for years for that to happen. No one mentioned killing the Viscounts son for converting, only that it would make him look weak. I don't think anywhere in the games is it mentioned you will be killed for not believing in the Maker. There have been Exalted Marches against the Qunari who are somewhat warlike although the innocents who died is appalling, and against the Dales although I feel this has more to do with racism but I don't think anyone has done it to the Avaars or the Chasind. If it is death it is in multitudes, but I can't think of a time an individual was killed for their beliefs in the game in any recent history of Thedas.
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