I want to see new political factions and unlikely military alliances emerging, and Thedas falling into a state of world at war.
Poor example follows,
Dalish forming an alliance of convenience with the advancing Qunari. A military coup is staged in Rivain by the Qunari converts, the deposed Chantry calls for an exalted march on the Rivaini crown, forcing the monarch placed by the convert military to join the fray at the Dalish-Qunari side.
In swift response, Ferelden forms a pact with Orzammar, Kal Sharok, Kirkwall and Tantervale. Seeing that the Lyrium trade is now controlled by Ferelden and Tantervale, merchants guilds from all over Free Marches agree to orchestrate a very costly exodus of traders and supplies to Amaranthine, as well funding the war effort of Orzammar and Tantervale a great deal, in return for a reasonable partnership in the lyrium trade.
In addition, the Chasind are promised the autonomous ownership of Korcari wilds, in return for their full-pledged support should the war spreads to mainland Ferelden.
Left alone, Orlais, Nevarra, Anderfels and Tevinter move as fast as they can to reach an agreement of sorts. Orlais and Nevarra do form an alliance; but during the meeting the grand game swiftly changes in the favor of the First Warden, who takes advantage of the mess and finally succeeds in taking the Anderfels throne.
The Warden throne announces that Anderfels now shares Grey Warden neutrality in all forms of political matters, and shall remain as a Warden monarchy until after a hundred years from the 7th Blight. Orlais and Nevarra, joined by Starkhaven and the rest of the Free Marches, minus Tantervale and Kirkwall, agree to keep Tevinter and northern Free Marches as the only buffer zones during the war with the Qunari and Rivain. Offering as much support as they can, while keeping their own defenses as intact as possible.
However, the Qunari engineers manage to clear out a single path to Orlais outskirts via deep roads. The Antivan Dalish take this path to reconnect with their brethren currently trapped in Ferelden and Orlais. The Dalish try to reach Ferelden first instead; but they are not permitted passage from the House Helmi troops stationed in the reclaimed Kal'Hirol. Elves pretty much massacre the Dwarven troops in the ensuing conflict, to force their way in timely, but the survivors of the clash manage to alert House Helmi; resulting in all out war between Orzammar and the Dalish, later joined by their respective allies.
With all the Dalish and Qunari posts in the Deep Roads destroyed by Dwarves, Sebastian of Starkhaven makes his move by hiring practically the entire surface wing of Dwarven Carta to claim the deep roads connecting Starkhaven and Orlais, as an excellent means of fast, secure supply line. However, even though they were led by the Starkhaven Vanguard to prevent them from committing such an act, the Carta Dwarves ambush and kill a regiment of Fereldan Grey Wardens returning home with treasure. When the word reaches the monarch of Fereldan, who is either an ex-warden himself, married to a Warden, or owes practically everything she has to Fereldan Wardens; the monarch hires the Blackstone Irregulars to investigate the scene, aware of the company's connection and debt of honor to the Fereldan branch.
When the Irregulars do find the Carta, a battle ensues between the two mercenary groups in the heart of the Deep Roads, and emerging as victors, the Irregulars manage to chase the fleeing vanguard to Starkhaven. Seeing that an entire army of armed men coming up from the Deep Roads entrance, the anxious captain of the city guard rains down arrows, bolts and boiled oil to the climbing Irregulars to keep the city from being invaded, effectively massacring an almost full company of Fereldan mercenaries and despite a royal apology from Sebastian, eventually leading Ferelden, joined by her allies, to declare war on Starkhaven, Nevarra and Orlais on the ownership of the now secure paths on the Deep Roads tying the warring countries to each other; considering their immense strategical and logistic importance to pretty much everyone trying to survive or dominate.
There, this is now a World War Thedas.
But before all that, the Inquisitor who set these events in motion stands alone at the end of the third game, and yells "OH GAWD WHAT HAVE WE DONE?".
Modifié par Maddok900, 29 janvier 2014 - 06:04 .
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