BlueMagitek wrote...
LobselVith8 wrote...
BlueMagitek wrote...
Oh goody, a Merrill discussion.
She's intelligent, but made WIS her dump stat, if you know what I mean.
Some people seem to call Merrill stupid because she makes decisions that they disagree with, which is utterly ridiculous - especially when the protagonist is a human who is completely ignorant about elven culture and the Eluvian.
BlueMagitek wrote...
As for Bethany, she is literally the sanest, kindest mage in DA:2. I'm only sorry I can't have both her and Carver (or at least have more time with both).
That would have been interesting.
Well, Merrill is an exiled member of a band of racist raiders-
Stop right there. Until you can show me an example of the Dalish as a culture going on raids, then they are not raiders. I'm nitpicking here but I have only seen examples of individual dalish going against the word of their keepers on quests for revenge, or the Dalish defend themselves from human bandits and raiders. Neither of which makes the Dalish raiders.
Being Dalish doesn't autimatically make one a raider if the Dalish culture can't be shown as raiders. Scavengers and nomads, most certainly, ostracized by most of society, of course, hunted by templars because of their free mages, obviously. But organizing raids on human settlements regularly to survive or gather supplies? Killing indiscrimintely for the love of it? I don't see that at all.
-who is completely ignorant about human culture and has the brilliant idea of working on an ancient, tainted magical artifact which she has some idea about in the middle of a crowded city.
She cured it of the taint, and had done so before even arriving in Kirkwall. It was only dangerous in that it was misunderstood, but it was broken and powerless.
Ancient Tevinter, when they had the eluvians, and with all their power at their disposal, were only able to create fancy magical telephones.
With blood magic in one of the worst places in Thedas for a mage to be while surrounded by Templar.
Again, she didn't cure it in Kirkwall. She cleansed it of the taint
before she even met Hawke. And she deliberately went to the alienage to blend in with other elves, so she would only be a face in the crowd. She didn't control the arrival at Kirkwall, Merethari went there to meet Hawke as a favor to Flemeth, but once there, Merrill and Merethari had a falling out and Merrill chose of her own volition to leave the clan, and Kirkwall was the only place she could go.
So she deliberately chose the one place she could blend in, and said she never used magic in public, so to everyone, she was only another city-elf. That's pretty clever when given limited options.
Which, no matter how you dice it, is the dullest knife to be found in the kitchen.
Yes, I would have gladly traded out Merrill or Isabella for either of them.
And yet I was able to point out how she was smart about the whole situation. And the fact that she went up until Act 3 without being discovered, and even then it's a little iffy about whether the templars knew if she was a mage or not, as they never came for her.
I say that although she was suffering cultural shock, there is enough in-game evidence to support her intelligence and resourcefulness. Which she has plenty of.
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