[quote]Vortex13 wrote...
'Pulling a Geth' is more in reference to the ME 3 Geth then the Geth overall, but I will explain why my points of possible Awakened allies will not turn them into 'Fantasy Geth'. [/quote]
Okay.
[quote]On the surface this would appear to be a 'softening up' of the Darkspawns' character, a way to make them appear more friendly. But, every time I have brought up this subject, I never said that magical resistience to the Taint was the complete
removal of it. The Taint could be suppressed so as to not kill everything around the Darkspawn, but it is still there; the corruption is still in the person doing the suppressing, the Darkspawn and the Taint are synonomous. [/quote]
You're wrong. The taint is the disease that sucks the life out of the land, blots out the sky, and drives any non-darkspawn infected with it insane and turns them into ghouls. If you introduce some kind of magical talism that maeks all of that go away - that completely and entirely isolates it to the darkspawn - then you've removed it.
Because then the taint is anything more than some magical life force that allows the darkspawn to be immortal. It's not a "taint" anymore in any way that was relevantly similar to what it was before.
It the darkspawn can mass on the surface without poisoning the land, blotting out the sky, and creating ghouls, then you've turned them into something else.
[quote]Yes. But you know a Mage is a potential threat to Thedas as well as a demon, and the Qun, and Tevinter, ect. [/quote]
That's just a wordgame. The darkspawn aren't just
a danger. They're the danger.
Mages don't reproduce through canibalism and rape. Mages
existing doesn't poison the land or blot out the sun. Mages living in the Anderfells for a centure doesn't turn the place into a wasteland so desolate that nothing will ever grow there again.
Of course, your solution to all of this is a magical talisman that makes all of the effects of the taint go away. The problem is the one I outlined above. But let's say this does happen. So what?
The darkspawn could just switch their taint into "off" mode and poison the land around them. They could destory our entire ability to make food, and they could wage biological warfare on a scale that's imposible to the rest of Thedas.
That doesn't even address the way they can tunnel underground, which has
repeatedly been proven in both D:A and DA:O to render fortifications unseless.
[quote]So the Taint; of a select few Darkspawn is manipultated in a way so as not to be the insta death of those near the individual, that doesn't mean Darkspawn = The Geth. If anything its a way of explaining lore to gameplay inconsitiencies; I mean you and your companions in both games (DA:O/DA:A moreso than DA 2) regularly fought Darkspawn, were completly covered in Darkspawn blood when fighting them, and the vast majority of the player's companions were not Grey Wardens. [/quote]
Oh, so we're limiting it to "select" darkspawn? Then how does that make the problem of the taint go away? They're still raping and diseasing the land through their very existence.
[quote]I know that the World of Thedas says that the Taint is the anthema (sp?) of life itself, but the same company also has lore talking about how non-Wardens would fight the Darkspawn on a regular basis and not suffer any ill effects. For example, 'Emperor Kordillus Drakon I' was a non-Warden ruler who fought the Darkspawn during the Second Blight, and actually had to break the siege of Weisshaupt to help the Grey Wardens; and he died of old age. [/quote]
One person not dying of the taint doesn't change what mass darkspawn do to the land. If the taint automatically infected everyone it was around, then Thedas would have ceased to exist during the 100s of years the First Blight raged before GWs.
You seem to think that I'm objecting to the taint because I think it has some 100% infection rate. You're wrong. I'm objecting to it because a mass of darkspawn will anihilate all life on the surface just by being there.
[quote]An Awakened not interested in reproducing does not make the Darkspawn like the Geth; in fact, if you think about it, the Geth
wanted to increase their numbers for the better proccessing power it provided; but that is getting off topic. [/quote]
Where was the part where more geth mean canibalism and a rape so horrible you'd have people clamour for the death sentence to be reinstated if it happened IRL?
[quote]So a character who doesn't become fruitful and multiply is suddenly a white washed good guy? Lohgain and Saren must be totally cool then, since they didn't want to make babies and only wanted to increase their power. [/quote]
What is this nonsense? The Awakened reproduce through rape. Some inane analogy to Loghain or Saren doesn't change the fact that more darkspawn means forceful rape, cannibalism and death. Own up to that, at least.
You whitewash the darkspawn when you ignore the fact that every single darkspawn with met - aside from the Messenger - has done things that are so vile and evil that they'd be guilty of the worst crimes that exist IRL. [quote]The Taint is increadibly virulent, but it is also incredibly powerful; in fact it is more powerful then Blood Magic (which is even more powerful than standard magic), since it doesn't have the same limitations and/or requirments. Do you know that an imortal being; who isn't dividing it's attention between raping females, and keeping the resulting un-Awakened Darkspawn in line, preventing them from leading heroes to his very lair; could become
very powerful at manipulating said magic? [/quote]
What does this have to do with the cannibalistic rape that the darkspawn engage in? All I see is an explanation of how in a few centuries the Awakened Darkspawn could become such a threat that nothing could contain them.
[quote]True, that is quite possible, but then what about all of those increadibly powerful Mages the player has allied with; and leveled up, making them even more powerful; in the past? [/quote]
First off, gameplay =! reality, unless you're going to suggest every GW can kill about 1500 people alone (based on my average DA:O+DA:A + DLC killcount). Secondly, you just argued above that the taint is even more powerful than BM.
[quote]They have incredible power, power with the potential to destroy Thedas, why would we ever consider allying with people that are gods compared to the mundane folk? Because they can help us, and because most of them (minus the exception of Anders) have no interest in destroying the world or causing destruction. [/quote]
There's no analogy between mages and darkspawn. A kingdom of mages doesn't poison the land. Mages don't multiply through rape.
[quote]Saying that an Awakened Darkspawn who doesn't kill people, or defeneds a city from attackers is whitewashing said Darkspawn is incredibly asinine. [/quote]
No. That's not what I said. What I said was that
you are whitewashing them by suggesting that despite all the evidence we've had in-game that
every single darkspawn expect the Messenger rapes, kills and murders
for fun that they would magically stop doing that as an entire group of people is somehow still lore consistet.
Even the Architect, when defending what happened with the Vigil, blames it on what awakened darkspawn are. And that's ignoring how his own darkspawn also started the trouble with the elves and caravans
for fun!.
[quote]Just because a Darkspawn doesn't want to rape, kill and pilliage everything in sight does not make him the white washed, poor misunderstood monster. We are dealing with an
intelligent Darkspawn after all, its would be obvious (even if the Darkspawn was secretly 'lolzevil') that attacking, and raping the people you are trying to work with (or manipulate) is not the best of ways to get their help.[/quote]
The darkspawn aren't secretly evil. Everything they do is evil! The posterboy for "reasonable" darkspawn doesn't give a **** about consent and hapily manupiulates and abuses the people who are willing to help him. And he's the good one!
The only -
only - darkspawn we've seen with a shred of moral fibre is the Messenger. And you can't judge an entire group of peopl based on one person, whether that person is a saint or Satan himself.
Modifié par In Exile, 05 septembre 2013 - 08:44 .