The Ethereal Writer Redux wrote...
Actually, no. While he expresses his dissatisfaction with Kirkwall being a chaotic haven for scum and villainy repeatedly, he acknowledges that it is NOT his role to try and convert the populus. He makes this very clear over the course of the game that while he hates being stranded there, his duty lay elsewhere.
Yet converting is exactly what he tries to do at the end of act 2.
And while his duties lay elsewhere, he could not go home without that book and therefore losing that book meant that he was going to set up in Kirkwall for good, which meant conversion. Pretty much, Kirkwall's future with the Qunari all relied upon one single book.
So.... what? While being forthright would've helped, I can't exactly blame him for the lack of trust, considering how people view the Qunari and how people would be willing to sell the artifact to the highest bidder.
And he wasn't hoarding explosives. He was hoarding the recipe for explosives. Big difference.
Let's see, he is the representative of his people in a foreign country.
He lies to the representative of that country for his very reason for being there.
He hordes explosives/recipes whatever.
And everyone is supposed to just play nice and twindle their thumbs? Wars are started for less. Yeah just try going into someone else's country with a loaded gun and claim "Hey, I don't trust you people so let me have my weapons and leave me alone." and see how well that works out. The citizens of Kirkwall had just as much of a reason to not trust the intent of the Qunari within their city.
If he had his book, chances are he would have gone back home. If people had left him alone, he might've indeed done nothing unless new orders came in from Seheron/Par Vollen.
Right, which is why the Arishok chose to stay and convert once he (permanently) lost the book.
As it stood, very few people joined the Qun until **** hit the fan, wherein a large portion of Elves decided they'd help out the Qunari en masse because they had more hope for better treatment under that particular government then any other Thedosian one.
As much as I understand the reasoning of the elves that joined, the fact remains is that you can't just join an organization just so you can get away with murder.
I won't cast any blame on the Qunari other then their lack of upfront honesty about why they were there, and even then the only person I can really see the Arishok as having to have told all that is Hawke.
Hawke isn't the Viscount.
The man landed with 300-500 men and could've easily taken over Kirkwall if he wanted, and then used the people of Kirkwall after converting to search for the relic. He didn't, because for the time being his duty wasn't to convert the people.
Which is why Kirkwall citizens had a reason to be on guard the moment the Qunari showed up.
But the attack on Kirkwall only occurred after several incidents that served to weaken the Qunari's purpose and forced him to go "You view me a monster? You want a monster?! I'll GIVE YOU A MONSTER!!".
That is wrong. The Arishok did not attack because he was called a monster or treated as such. He didn't give two craps about the people in Kirkwall or what they thought about him, the Qun, or anything else for that matter. The Arishok tells Hawke that eventually the Qun would demand that he enlighten the people of Kirkwall, and considering that elves aren't really considered full Qunari according to Tallis, I doubt he cared all that much for those elves anyway. I won't say it didn't help push the tension but it wasn't what caused the Qunari to attack.
The Arishok tells Hawke that he could not ignore the corruption of Kirkwall nor leave without the book.
If he was going to stay than he was going to force Kirkwall to follow the Qun. The way I see it, if the book was confirmed lost for good in Act One he would have attacked then.
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