I finally did it.
It took me two and a half years to bring myself to side with Meredith at the end of DA2. I've played many Hawkes and made many different decisions, including siding with the templars every single time before the end, and could rationalize almost all of them from the perspective of the Hawke I'd been playing. The one thing I never did, because it just felt evil to me, was to follow Meredith when she invoked the Annulment.
This time I did. I had never watched how this played out on YT, so I didn't know how things would go. Guess what? It was every bit as evil as I imagined it would be.
I mean, yes, I tend towards being pro-mage, but while I don't share the templar position, I understand it. Enough that I can roleplay a templar-friendly Hawke until the end of DA2 with no problem. But going along with this genocidal act, killing a whole Circle for the actions of a few, most of them happening outside a Circle, I feel tainted. I understand the desire to kill Orsino, even before he turns into the Harvester, but you only get that scene where he admits to having known Quentin after the decision about the Annulment has already been made. I find myself unable to let that playthrough exist and I'll reload it and change my decision again.
So here, my question: how can anyone who doesn't play an evil Hawke justify siding with Meredith at the end? I do wish to see the consequences of that in DAI, but I guess I'm glad we'll have the DA Keep and I don't have to play it.
Not a single one
let be honest and see simple facts about our hero Hawke what are not changes no matter what, still hawke was whotes as apostage bloodmage by default, but even if we can pick nonmage and other things those things and facts does not changes at all
1)Hawke was raised and was from a family of apostage mages, his father(who run from a circle and templars for a whole life), his sister(who can ends in a circle if Hawke was not a mage and by the lore he protects her for years from templars as angry about her to be with templars) and he was know about that his uncle/aunt(even if they was not become a hero of ferelden they was exist) was mage....and with this we have left with fact that hakwe can understand that his childrens could be mages with a very very high chance
2)Hawke father was a blood mage and Hawke himself use blood magic(always with Coryfeus prison) even if he was not a mage(and yeah rituals of blood magic can be used by nonmages too as summoning deamons)...he did things with Flemeth too as other deals with magic and nonandrastians stuff to much times
3)Hawke and his family was become rich cos of help of apostage mage and apostage mage save his brother/sister from death in the deep roads, as apostage mage flemeth save Hawke family from death
3)Hawke has apostages mages(and can have "magic abomination" fenris) in his friends/companions(even if we as Hawke was not consider them as his friends he was work with them for years) FOR YEARS
4)Hawke is not a andrastian and cannot be fainfull cos of everything what he does in game what is a very huge heresy and nonandrastian things, and we have not a single explanation about hawke templar ability cos he was never a member of templar order and never have a single one templar ally exept templar Thrask who goes against Templars
5)Hawke have not a single relationships with Meredith exept Meredith try to blackmail Hawke to do her job cos of his mage sister(what Hawke was protect for years) or if he was a mage himself, and the whole Kirkwall and his nobles what are made Hawke as their Champion are HATE and try to go agains Meredith and Templars who try to shut them as Hawke too, and Templars have no legal rights to do such
6)Every Hawke relations with Chantry and Templars was a insult, orders, blackmail, backtabbing of Hawke and Kirkwall city, they kill Dumar son(and Elthina does not care a bit), diplomates and they let Qunari start a war for what Kirkwall was not ready, they use Hawke everytime as they kill nobles of Kirkwall who try to oppose them, have their rightfull place to rule Kirkwall and with Meredith Kirkwall becma a slaves of a Orlais Chantry, it was from a beginning when Kirkwall ruler was sick of Oralis and their templars and try to exile them(as Ferelden did with Alisari/Anora after blight) so he was dead by Elthina and her Meredith and they have a puppet like Dumar, and after Dumar they does not care to replace him...Kirkwall peoples never care about mages and pity them as hate templars who opress not only mages but everyone, every single crazy mages thing was related to templars opression of them what are made them mad and wanted to kill themself rather than go back to circle
And we know that Elthina and Templars of Kirkwall does not even listen a Divine and was rid as shut those templars officers who try to oppose Meredith like Trusk did and Meredith supporter Cullen was shut him
7)"Mad mage in the night kills Hawke stupid mother who by herself go gor a walk in to criminal streats what was infested with army of bandits" thing cant be used agains Circle mages cos this mage was a apostage from a Nevarra(and yeah we does not know that it was Orsino and Orsino never know about that mage and just send him books as was pity him and his lost of a wife) as Anders was a grey warden and Hawke are in a huge dept to anders and much of a city(as we see that Kirkwall still have a huge love to him in DAI what was angry templars)
this is at least few of facts about Hawke what are not made sense for hawke to support crazy Templars with Meredith
i am not even talk about that Meredith have no right for rite of annulment and possessed apostage mage Anders was showed himself for all as claim that he was do such(And Hawke was related to anders for years as can help him as said that he was a partner in crime who does not know what anders do but he was help him) as show his demonc possession, and Meredith does know about Anders grey wardens thing as he was not related to Circle
Hawke was do a genocite for innocent peoples who was protect themself as they could from templars and some try to do a blood mage and summon deamon cos they have no choice and say that they should die without try to using blood magic to save their lives thats kinda ridiculous
As we can never blame all mages cos mages are never a unite and part of a some order and Templars are not just some peoples but a members of organisation-order who do what they do with heretics and mages
Retour en haut
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