BlueMagitek wrote...
IanPolaris wrote...
And if you read the wiki entry just above, there is no solid evidence that the High Dragon is anything more than an exceptinally cunning animal. Certainly in the lore and in the game, there is no evidence that the High Dragon has any leadership role, or any role other than willing symbol (if she is even capable of such....i.e. if she is even sentient).
And "Dictator" used to have a completely different meaning during the last days of the Roman Republic? Your piont is? First among equals does NOT mean emperor or empress (or princips) regardless of how the words have since evolved. You are now playing word games to evade my point.
Nope. Keeper can and have been overruled, and indeed the hunters can even kill their own keeper if things get dire. In any event, other elders (like the senior crafter) can defy a Keeper and even leave. These things are rare, but a Keeper's power is not absolute and most of a Keeper's power come from tradition and respect and not because he or she is a mage. In fact Merrill flat out tells you that Keepers almost never perform magic openly even within their own encampments.
-Polaris
Except that Archdemons are also High Dragons. But please, discriminate against Dragons.
Actually we don't know that Archdemons are corrupted High Dragons only that they sure look like them. In fact we know that there is a lot more to it than that. Otherwise the High Dragons we find in the Dragon Wastes in DAA surrounded by Darkspawn would have been Archdemons but they weren't.
An Archdemon is a corrupted old god. Period. You can not claim that all high dragons are old gods.
It legitimately does mean "First Citizen", which IS first among equals. And again, where are the checks and balances to the Dalish System? If the only answer is murder, that is not a system of checks and balances, that is called usurping the position, or revolution.
So what? Dictator and Emperor, and even Kaiser used to mean very different things too. You are playing word games at this point. The Dalish system is a tribal system which means the necessary checks and balances are cultural and probably unwritten for the most part. That doesn't make them any less real. For example we know that the Dalish Warden's father was a keeper, but he couldn't marry the mother of his child because the clan dissapproved. That is a case right there that shows the Keeper's power is not absolute. We also know in Act 3 of DA2, that the Chief Crafter is telling his people to pack up and leave and to hell with the Keeper. That also clearly shows the limations of Keeper power.
Again, because this seems to be a difficult concept to wrap your head around, murder is not a system of checks and balances. Please provide evidence of the Keeper being overruled, and the clan being taken without any sort of murder. And if I recall, the senior crafter left.
Which means the Keeper's power was not absolute.
If a society's system of checks and balances consists of leave or murder, then that is not a system of checks and balances.
Sure it is. If enough people disagree with you, you can't survive alone. The Dalish are painfully well aware of this. The Keeper may be the most important person in a Dalish Tribe, but his or her power is far from absolute.
-Polaris
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