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[Liadan]

I think at the very least, Cullen will side-eye Dorian and Solas. Vivienne is (or was) a Circle mage, so they may get along.

Yea, i can see Cullen being wary towards them.

[Fialka]

Let's see.... I had my blood mage romance Alistair, i had my templar warrior romance Anders... So yeah, my first Cullen-romance playthrough will involve a necromancer mage. I have a thing for unlikely romances it seems.

[The Elder King]

MAGES UNITE!!!!!!!!

I'm still currently on the mind of making a dalish elf as my first, but Aimo's work on the dwarf Inquisitor (both male and female) is making me considering the Dwarf background more and more.

[Phate Phoenix]

Morrigan+Cullen banter should be fun. I wonder if she remembers him from the broken circle? What about Dorian, Vivienne and Solas? Do you think Cullen will get along with them?

 

Oh, I bet Cullen and Dorian will fight like cats and dogs. They are theologically opposed--I would be shocked if they were more than coolly polite to one another.

 

Oh my gosh. If one of them is bisexual, you can double-time them. [EYES WIDEN] Think of the catty dialogue they could have. Leliana and Morrigan got mean when the Warden was between them. I see Dorian being the needler, but Cullen would definitely throw a punch.   I'd have to Youtube it, because I have a hard time playing around on my LI's.

 

I think Cullen thinks he'd get along with Vivienne, but Cullen is far too Ferelden and Vivienne too politically powerful. She'd see him as an ant. ...I think Cullen would totally crush on her, though. Another powerful mage woman? Yeah, that's his type. 

 

I think Solas is his best chance at a somewhat positive relationship. Or Scribbles--I'm hoping she's a Lucrosian mage, and I think she and Cullen could get along.

 

 

Am I the only one who will not play mage while romancing Cullen ?

 

I'll definitely get around to it. If Cullen isn't race-gated, my first run will be a stoic rogue qunari. If he is race-gated against qunari, I'll be playing an anti-human mage Dalish. I want to see how Cullen responds to falling for another mage, so I will eventually roll a mage for him.

 

 

Let's see.... I had my blood mage romance Alistair, i had my templar warrior romance Anders... So yeah, my first Cullen-romance playthrough will involve a necromancer mage. I have a thing for unlikely romances it seems.

 

[CACKLES] Yessssss. I am definitely rolling a Necromancer mage, female, and sending her right at Cullen. It will be glorious.

 

I am going to have so many characters. So many.

[Panda]

Let's see.... I had my blood mage romance Alistair, i had my templar warrior romance Anders... So yeah, my first Cullen-romance playthrough will involve a necromancer mage. I have a thing for unlikely romances it seems.

I romanced Fenris with blood mage Hawke and I'm planning to romance Cullen with pro-mage qunari mage.. Opposites attract right?

[ChachiBobinks]

Am I the only one who will not play mage while romancing Cullen ?

 

Nope, human rogue here.

[Fialka]

[CACKLES] Yessssss. I am definitely rolling a Necromancer mage, female, and sending her right at Cullen. It will be glorious.

I am going to have so many characters. So many.

 
 
Me: Rise my zombie minions! RIIIISSSE!!!
 
Cullen: I really need to re-examine my taste in women....

 

(Edited, because apparently things get weird when I try to post replies from my phone...)

[Galagraphia]

Am I the only one who will not play mage while romancing Cullen ?

I can't help playing as a mage. If a game has magic, then I want to have it So I'll have 2 mages: one for Cullen, and one (canon) for Cassandra. And I don't think I will be able to play this game more than 2 times without giving up on my life and family. But if I find time, I'll make one more mage for the 3rd spec, just to try it.

I'm also very curious about the rumors for a special plot twist for mages. And I also think Cullen is mage-sexual   so I wouldn't be able to romance him with any other class   It would feel so wrong. For me.

[Mellora]

Rogue FTW.
Do you think that Cullen has a little part in BW decision to exclude blood magic ?
Honestly -you will throw stones at me I know - but I wouldn't understand if a romance Cullen-Maleficar was made possible.

[MacyNell]

Rogue FTW. ....

I always play as a rogue first. My own temperament naturally lends itself to the rogue style of game play, so I tend to prefer it to everything else. That said, I ended up preferring playing as a mage in DA2, but that was more about keeping Carver alive and breathing than game play.  

 

Have a lovely Cullen: 

 

Artist: http://lorien19.deviantart.com/  

 

  Love the expression on his face!  

[Dirgegun]

Rogue FTW.
Do you think that Cullen has a little part in BW decision to exclude blood magic ?
Honestly -you will throw stones at me I know - but I wouldn't understand if a romance Cullen-Maleficar was made possible.

 

Nah. There's no way they'd take away a player choice just because of one optional romance, especially when they could have just gated it or something.

 

I'm wondering if blood magic is in but it'll just work differently to our normal specs, which is why it's not included there, or whether they thought it would be too much. What with the fade hand, the general reactivity mages will get, the race reactivity, and heaven knows what else. 

[Liadan]

Do you think that Cullen has a little part in BW decision to exclude blood magic ?
Honestly -you will throw stones at me I know - but I wouldn't understand if a romance Cullen-Maleficar was made possible.

I actually agree with you. I want to romance Cullen with a mage, and i think that will be possible (unless they make class restritions) but i would be a bit desapointed if Cullen were able to romance a blood mage (i know we don`t have blood magic as a spec anymore). It just seems out of character for him.

[R2s Muse]

Am I the only one who will not play mage while romancing Cullen ?

TBH I haven't decided yet. I'm not a big fan of playing a Mage, and I usually run a warrior my first PT since it usually takes less finesse when I'm still learning the game. But I must admit I'm intensely curious to see how he reacts to a Mage LI.

[Phate Phoenix]

Rogue FTW.
Do you think that Cullen has a little part in BW decision to exclude blood magic ?
Honestly -you will throw stones at me I know - but I wouldn't understand if a romance Cullen-Maleficar was made possible.

 

Nah. Honestly, I think it was a dual problem: the new health system, and trying to make it work in the narrative. Why would you ever need to do quests when, as a Blood Mage, I should be able to sway minds to side with the Inquisition with my power? Besides, Cullen wouldn't be the only character to be highly adverse to a Maleficar. Cassandra has Blood Magic-related trauma, and the Iron Bull is a member of the Qun. Lots of little problems.

[Galagraphia]

Rogue FTW.
Do you think that Cullen has a little part in BW decision to exclude blood magic ?
Honestly -you will throw stones at me I know - but I wouldn't understand if a romance Cullen-Maleficar was made possible.

I think they just wanted to avoid that problem: when you use blood magic in front of your Chantry-loyal companions, or blood-mage haters, they ignore it. It felt strange. Also, there is Cassandra, they call her a believer, so I guess it means she believes in our Inquisitor no matter what, and maybe she's that one NPC who stays with you no matter what. And her entire family was murdered by blood mages when she was a child, and she grew up hating every mage. It would be strange if she still were on our side if we started using blood magic. Same with the rest of our Chantry team. Leliana and Cullen will apparently play a big part in the Inquisition, and I don't see them silently approving of blood magic. It was done before, the spec was in the game, but role-play-wise it didn't work, and it didn't make sense.

(says the person who wrote Cullen's romance with a blood mage, lol)

[R2s Muse]

Rogue FTW.
Do you think that Cullen has a little part in BW decision to exclude blood magic ?
Honestly -you will throw stones at me I know - but I wouldn't understand if a romance Cullen-Maleficar was made possible.

Sadly I find it hard to believe that Cullen would be that important. I would expect it's because of who they want the Inquisitor to be in the world. Hard to recruit folks to support the Inquisition if they think you're as evil as the baddies, I reckon.

[Dirgegun]

I think they just wanted to avoid that problem: when you use blood magic in front of your Chantry-loyal companions, or blood-mage haters, they ignore it. It felt strange. Also, there is Cassandra, they call her a believer, so I guess it means she believes in our Inquisitor no matter what, and maybe she's that one NPC who stays with you no matter what. And her entire family was murdered by blood mages when she was a child, and she grew up hating every mage. It would be strange if she still were on our side if we started using blood magic. Same with the rest of our Chantry team. Leliana and Cullen will apparently play a big part in the Inquisition, and I don't see them silently approving of blood magic. It was done before, the spec was in the game, but role-play-wise it didn't work, and it didn't make sense.

(says the person who wrote Cullen's romance with a blood mage, lol)

 

Personally I hope Cole's the one that can stay with you no matter what. Just you and your imaginary friend against the world. 

[Hellion Rex]

Unless Vivienne's the Big Bad, I honestly think it's unlikely.

HOLD UP. COULD GC VOICE VIV.????

[Hellion Rex]

Rogue FTW.

I might run my first ever rogue in DAI just because of what we saw in the trailer - what looked like the Tempest spec. It looked freakin amazing.

[SnakeCode]

I'm pretty sure they removed blood magic because it was too difficult to implement it in a way that was meaningful. They couldn't find a way to show the player the consequences of using it without it becoming a chore. Blood magic just working like any other magic (for the player) lead to pro mage posters arguing that it isn't inherently evil, and is just a tool to be used like any other magic, which is the exact opposite message to the one that Bioware has been spreading since day 1.

 

Not to mention everyone in game completely ignores the player using it, even companions/characters who are vehemently against it's use.

[Potato Cat]

HOLD UP. COULD GC VOICE VIV.????

I kind of think she sounds like her from what little we've seen. I think people just struggle to see it because they know her so well as Brienne.

Edit
Plus, Weekes' reaction tweet to GC's confirmation was 'Horns Up'.

[Reaverwind]

I always play as a rogue first. My own temperament naturally lends itself to the rogue style of game play, so I tend to prefer it to everything else. That said, I ended up preferring playing as a mage in DA2, but that was more about keeping Carver alive and breathing than game play.  

 

Yep - a sneaky back-stabbing kleptomaniac has always been one of my favorite roles. 

[Owlfruit Potion]

Shouldn't Vivienne be voiced by a French actress, though? (Disclaimer: I've never been able to track down a clip where she can be heard clearly, so please let me know if there is one and she sounds British.)

 

As for class choice, I normally play warriors in RPGs, but I'll probably always play a mage in DA because I like playing a character that's missing some type of privilege or another and I've never really been able to identify with elves, even DA elves. (Aside from DA2, where I wanted to a. shake it up from my DAO playthrough and b. keep Bethany alive because I heard she was better.) The whole rogue archetype has never been my thing; I'm trying to think of one I've liked in all of fantasy or sci-fi. All the ones I can think of read like The Outrageous Okona from Star Trek to me. Maybe Han Solo, but he was more like a rogue/warrior multiclass, or a warrior who does jobs for rogues. Then again, with the archery thing, DA rogues aren't always what I think of as "rogues", either.

 

But if I were choosing my class just for the Cullen romance, I'd still go with mage because otherwise I might end up with a niggling feeling that deep down, some part of Cullen never let go of a version of the "mages can never be our friends" thing.

[Panda]

I'm pretty sure they removed blood magic because it was too difficult to implement it in a way that was meaningful. They couldn't find a way to show the player the consequences of using it without it becoming a chore. Blood magic just working like any other magic (for the player) lead to pro mage posters arguing that it isn't inherently evil, and is just a tool to be used like any other magic, which is the exact opposite message to the one that Bioware has been spreading since day 1.
 
Not to mention everyone in game completely ignores the player using it, even companions/characters who are vehemently against it's use.

Well the games definitely havent gave me impression that blood magic is absolutely evil. Merrill and Jowan for example are pretty friendly. Blood magic is also used to make phylacteries.

[Brian ofthe Dialogue Wheel]

I'm pretty sure they removed blood magic because it was too difficult to implement it in a way that was meaningful. They couldn't find a way to show the player the consequences of using it without it becoming a chore. Blood magic just working like any other magic (for the player) lead to pro mage posters arguing that it isn't inherently evil, and is just a tool to be used like any other magic, which is the exact opposite message to the one that Bioware has been spreading since day 1.

 

Not to mention everyone in game completely ignores the player using it, even companions/characters who are vehemently against it's use.

They haven't been spreading the message that blood magic is evil, but that it is perceived as such. There have been many evil blood mages, but also positive ones. Blood mages are usually pressured into using blood magic as a last resort by templars. Because blood magic can influence minds and increase a mage's mana pool, it can also make demons coming through the veil an even more real threat. That, combined with the fact that Tevinter used and uses blood magic and were the enemies of Andraste, the Chantry has demonized it, when really it is no less evil than any other form of magic.

I doubt Necromancy will have consequences for speccing into it, and it's equally repugnant if not more so than blood magic. In fact, it probably is in the same school.