I just preordered my copy for Dragon Age: Inquisition, as a reward for myself after completing my uni papers.
Looking forward to seeing and interacting with Dorian (along with everyone else, but still, Dorian!).
What did I miss? (apart from the whole Dorian's eye colour kerfuffle, because I'm not even going to touch that)
I just preordered my copy for Dragon Age: Inquisition, as a reward for myself after completing my uni papers.
Looking forward to seeing and interacting with Dorian (along with everyone else, but still, Dorian!).
What did I miss? (apart from the whole Dorian's eye colour kerfuffle, because I'm not even going to touch that)
Mmm there's tons of videos and interview/preview ....
In theory people were supposed to only show the CC and the Hinterland.
But of course they didn't , so spoilers all over the place about the start of the game.
If people do not want to be spoiled I think it's time to go on a black out ...IMHO it's only going to get worse ! 
Oh and no Dorian so far.
HOOOOLD ON.
I read somewhere that mages are able to change eye colours depending on the magic they use.
Or something like that.
Would make sense.
HOOOOLD ON.
I read somewhere that mages are able to change eyecolours depending on the magic they use.
Or something like that.
Would make sense.
Wha...? Where'd you read that? Also while eye colour changes would be cool (as would different coloured magical flames) how does it 'make sense?'
^It was either on facebook or youtube (I think)
I mean it would make sense within the meaning of the eye colour changes of Dorian and Vivienne. Because we have seen Vivienne with blue eyes too. Since people wondered why she had blue eyes all of a sudden, it was explained that it was due magic. But alas, I don't have a source to provide you with.
.... that doesn't sound like something they'd ever put into the game, to be honest.
Was it just a fan making something up?
HOOOOLD ON.
I read somewhere that mages are able to change eye colours depending on the magic they use.
Or something like that.
Would make sense.
I could understand maybe a spell briefly changing your eye color, but only in the sense that your eyes may glow a different color for a few seconds in the midst of actively channeling a powerful spell. But definitely not a permanent change based upon what school of magic you favor.
Oh, since I posted in here recently, I thought I'd add that I'm a big fan. I don't usually post in here, but I tend to lurk quite a bit. The current plan is for my second run to be a male character with either Iron Bull or Dorian. But knowing me I'll end up doing that one first, I can never seem to figure out which character I'm gonna go for first, which leads me to restarting over and over. Whatever sticks I suppose.
Books and a very hot guy ... 
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Why not?
Either the fantasy is different to Earth, or it's not. People invoke "it's a fantasy setting" all the time as a reason why Thedas is - for a medieval setting - 'progressive' in terms of women's rights and acceptance of LGBT people; you can't very well turn around and ask for realism in eye colour of all things with the justification that fantasy worlds have to accurately depict real races.
Real races don't exist in Thedas. Dorian is from Tevinter. Nobody knows what a person from Tevinter is supposed to look like, because they're not real.
If Dorian is a brown-skinned man with blue eyes, it's because brown people in Thedas apparently can have blue eyes. There is no vast conspiracy to give him a different eye colour because someone at EA sat down and decided he looked too Indian.
I think this whole argument is extremely silly.
True.
But under the same logic there could be more brown looking people, no?.
But the setting does give us an answer, because apparently everyone who looks white in Thedas comes from any number of the established countries, but all brown characters come from Rivain, the one brown place amongst so many Europe analogues.
So, unfortunately, race amongst humans does exist in Thedas. Don't ask me why.
Also, arguments might seem silly to you that mean a lot to other people. I know that might seem hard to understand, but calling other people silly is rather low of a blow.
True.
But under the same logic there could be more brown looking people, no?.
But the setting does give us an answer, because apparently everyone who looks white in Thedas comes from any number of the established countries, but all brown characters come from Rivain, the one brown place amongst so many Europe analogues.
So, unfortunately, race amongst humans does exist in Thedas. Don't ask me why.
Also, arguments might seem silly to you that mean a lot to other people. I know that might seem hard to understand, but calling other people silly is rather low of a blow.
Very stupid theory Indeed......
So you are implying that in Thedas, there are a beautiful light skin human race , and a dull darker skin human race which will make sense for this impractical Europeon-based medieval fantasy game.
Latinos, asians, dark-skinned "human race" are all from Rivain. While the light-skinned european blonde blue-eyed human race are from Fereldan, Orlais, Free Marche... where else?..
Fun fact.
Not to bring this up again, but I officially prefer him with brown eyes 
. At least these look brown to me. (Note that this was probably screencapped well before the game went gold, despite the fact Leliana is back to having baby blues). I also prefer him with a peekaboo robe ensemble. Very fetching. I now find an inexplicable need to kiss him along his shoulder. Think he'll be into that?
Daaaaaaamn.
Ok, just wow. Very dashing.
Is that his room? Guess who's gonna visit him 3 times a day 
holy HELL that is going in the OP
sweet JESUS
this posting style is WEIRD but i don't CARE
makers breath...he's such a beauty...it will be very very difficult for me to romance Iron Bull on my second playthrough. 
holy HELL that is going in the OP
sweet JESUS
this posting style is WEIRD but i don't CARE
Lol, I think I broke EP. 
He's totally checking out the inquisitor.
Yeah, nope, new plan. Going for Dorian on my first playthrough. So gorgeous.....
That Dorian screenshot....almost makes me want to play as a male inquisitor my first playthrough...
I knew someone would make a gif of this.
True.
But under the same logic there could be more brown looking people, no?.
But the setting does give us an answer, because apparently everyone who looks white in Thedas comes from any number of the established countries, but all brown characters come from Rivain, the one brown place amongst so many Europe analogues.
So, unfortunately, race amongst humans does exist in Thedas. Don't ask me why.
To be clear, I'm not defending the devs' decision to create races in Thedas, just pointing out that in a completely fictional setting, it is ultimately up to them how the characters look. For whatever reason we ended up with white people in Orlais and Ferelden and most of the other nations, and you're totally right that it didn't need to be this way.
What is a positive sign is that I think to some extent they are trying to change this. Dorian was white in his initial concept art, and now he's brown. It seems that Tevinter's eastern regions are (as of Inquisition) home to people who look like Dorian instead of, say, Danarius, and I have a vague memory that this is going to come up somewhere in Dorian's conversations.
It is possible to "clarify" the lore to make non-white characters more common than they were in DAO and DA2, and I think Inquisition is probably going to do this. It's not a totally elegant way to make up for what people were concerned about in the last two games, but it seems like a good step moving forward.
(What it might mean, for example, is that if we ever went to Tevinter in the future a great majority of its people might not be white, depending on the region.)
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