Mykel54 wrote...
I am wondering how the dwarf will be a surfacer, because even if Cadash thaig is abandoned and overrun by darkspawn (like many thaigs from other houses), the Cadash house could still be living in Orzammar like many other noble houses.
According to the codex, the
Cadash Thaig got slaughtered and then abandoned when Arlathan elves were still alive and fleeing Tevinter, so that would have been at least 2,000 years ago. (Since the lore establishes that the elves were slaves for about at least a millennia before Andraste, and it's been about 900 years since her.) A lot could have happened in that time.
In order for the whole house to go to the surface, something quite serious would need to happen (like with house Tethras) for the house as whole to be exiled. What do you think could have happened? Or do you think the dwarf PC will be from Orzammar, but on the surface on a personal level instead of the whole house?
? Varric's entire house got moved to the surface in one generation because of one mistake. His dad got caught fixing Provings and they all got banished to the surface in disgrace. There wasn't anything "quite serious" or drastic; they lost face and they moved. It was that simple.
Besides, who said the entire house got moved? We only know that the protagonist bears the surname. If the protagonist is a surface dwarf, it's possible that in the 2,000 years since the Cadash Thaig was abandoned, only one or a few left for the surface, yet kept their surnames and continued to have children. Just because a surface dwarf PC has the name Cadash doesn't mean they were raised as part of the official House Cadash of Orzammar, or that the entire house is still alive and together on the surface.