Trevelyan is supposed to be an important family heritage, right? Perhaps our family had enough coin to keep us out of the circle and be taught privately, like Isolde tried to do for Connor in DA:O?
Trevelyan means homestead on the hill? interesting. at first I thought that might be a refernece to SkyHold and all, but then I thought abt the other names:
from the wiki machine--
"A Lavellan, làbh-allan, la-mhalan or la-bhallan etc. is a mythological/cryptozoological creature from northern Scotland.
It was generally considered to be a kind of rodent, and indeed the name "làbh-allan" is also used for a water shrew or water vole in Scottish Gaelic. It was however, reportedly larger than a rat, very noxious, and lived in deep pools in rivers.[1][2] Its poisonous abilities were legendary, and it was said to be able to injure cattle over a hundred feet away.
Fleming, describing the Ermine, compared the prejudice against the animal to Sibbald's account of the country people's dislike of the Lavellan; Sibbald writing that the Lavellan was common in Caithness.[3]Thomas Pennant made enquiries about the animal while in Ausdale in the county, and it is also mentioned in the work of Rob Donn, the Scottish Gaelic poet from Sutherland.
Pennant claims the locals preserved the skin, and, as a cure for their sick beasts, gave them the water in which it had been dipped." 
Adaar from baby names:
"1: Adar is used chiefly in the Hebrew language and its origin is Syrian. The name's meaning is ruler, prince.
2: Adar's origin is Hebrew. The meaning here is fire."
cadash.......?
I'm more curious about the mage elf background, since we're Dalish. Are we a Dalish apostate, or are we being protected by our clan? Will we get special Dalish magic? (probably not) I'm also curious as to how much impact your backstory will actually have in-game
Also yay Cullen! :3
I'm more curious about the mage elf background, since we're Dalish. Are we a Dalish apostate, or are we being protected by our clan? Will we get special Dalish magic? (probably not) I'm also curious as to how much impact your backstory will actually have in-game
Also yay Cullen! :3
The name Adaar makes me think of Hodor :3
We're probably the keepers first or we may even be the keeper.
I hope we're not the keeper....I'd prefer not to be old and wise 
I do like the idea of being the keeper's first though
cadash.......?
With so many leaders and important ppl--one way or another--in Inquisition, I don't think they're gonna really trust that n00b inquisitor knows what their doing. We might have to establish our authority even w/our followers.
I mean, sometimes I get the feeling that Cass, et al, are gonna try and just use us to trot out every now and again when a Tear needs sealing, but leave the strategy to the big kids kinda thing.
Yes, I also thought they were talking about details. For example all Trevelyans were some noble offsprings, but the mage Trevelyan was taken to the Circle. So it implies they were brought up in different places, and kind of had different origins.
This is what I thought in the first place,although I don't expect our background to be as detailed as the one we had in origins,they may simply explain to us the reason why we were at the peace gathering and give us some basic information about who we were before becoming the inquisitor.
A Keeper doesn't have to be old. A clan might've lost their Keeper and the First would've been forced to become the new Keeper.I hope we're not the keeper....I'd prefer not to be old and wise
I hope we're not the keeper....I'd prefer not to be old and wise
Shale's house, back when she was a flesh bag. It was Warrior caste, but I have a feeling we'll be linked more with the Merchant Guild nowadays.
oh, yeah. I meant more like irl kinda meaning for the name. but can't find any. admittedly i only briefly looked. 
i was hoping to get a bit of insight into the possible backgrounds.
you know, I've never gotten the Shale dlc. I got the Soldiers Peak one--but that was a lil lame so i wasn't too thrilled abt getting the shale one.
This is what I thought in the first place,although I don't expect our background to be as detailed as the one we had in origins,they may simply explain to us the reason why we were at the peace gathering and give us some basic information about who we were before becoming the inquisitor.
With so many leaders and important ppl--one way or another--in Inquisition, I don't think they're gonna really trust that n00b inquisitor knows what their doing. We might have to establish our authority even w/our followers.
I mean, sometimes I get the feeling that Cass, et al, are gonna try and just use us to trot out every now and again when a Tear needs sealing, but leave the strategy to the big kids kinda thing.
If Cassandra doesn't respect my authoritah, that's fine. She can wait at Skyhold while Dorian and I are out frolicking :3
Isn't it canon?
I thought Greagoir sent him there after the Blight, when mages started returning from the war, and Cullen grew super-paranoid (what if they learnt blood magic from the darkspawn???), and Greagoir decided to send him to a quiet village to guard the local Revered Mother, and Cullen spent there a couple of months. I was going to make something about his time there, and what happened, and how it helped him, but I don't have time for that anymore.
I also headcanon that Cullen requested to transfer him to Kirkwall. It doesn't really contradict the codex, because codex probably means an official paper from Greagoir, and I imagine Cullen just sent him a letter, "It's too quiet here, and I feel better when I'm busy. Please sent me somewhere where I can be too busy to think about what happened." And Greagoir said, "Ok, you go to Kirkwall, it's always busy there." And wrote to Meredith, "Hey, keep that guy as busy as you can!" And she thought, "Awesome, I have a ton of paperwork nobody wants to do! I hope that new guy has decent handwriting!"
Mages in Kinloch Hold didn't know Cullen went to Kirkwall after Greenfell, because why would anyone tell them? They probably overheard him talking about Greenfell when he was leaving, that's all. So when we hear them chatting about it a year later, it's because they think Cullen still serves there.
It's canon that the mages said he went there. 
I don't know that it's canon that he actually went - what is canon for him during the period of time between Broken Circle and meeting him in Kirkwall seems pretty vague.
That said, I think it makes most sense to assume he went. He was at the very least not at Kinloch Hold during Witch Hunt, and given how much more stable he appears when we meet him in Kirkwall, I think the best explanation for where he was is that he was in Greenfell receiving... maybe not what we in the modern world would call therapy exactly, but surely templars being traumatized wouldn't be an unusual thing, and the chantry would have developed methods of helping them recover.
It explains the time gap, and why anyone thought Cullen might be in a state to be successful at a new assignment, and why Cullen appears have experienced some recovery (although of course still suffering trauma after-effects) by DA2.
It also explains why there was a rumor about him killing apprentices, as people have said, at least to the extent that it needs an explanation; it's really not that hard for a rumor to get started.
I discovered that about rumors yet again this week when my residents seemed disproportionately upset that I was going out of town for the day to attend a seminar. I had let them know I was going (they tend to get upset if the expected people aren't there, so I wanted to give them some warning) and they had somehow interpreted that as I was being transferred to Syracuse forever and they were never going to see me again. I had to reassure them that no, I would only be gone for the day. So yeah, rumors - especially in a fairly enclosed system with only so many people to gossip about - can get really wild really fast.
I hope we're not the keeper....I'd prefer not to be old and wise
Keeper's can be young as well,for example in origins if Zathrian sacrifices himself to lift the curse from the werewolves his first Lanaya becomes the keeper instead and she's pretty young.Although I wouldn't like my pc to be the keeper either,because we'll have to leave our clan(provided that they won't die in the explosion or something.)and the keeper's first can be replaced more easily than the keeper him/herself.
They said that the human mage background is different from the human warrior/rogue howewer.
Not just humans, though, all mages.
Speaking of elves and stuff, I never could make a decent looking one without mods. I was originally gonna go for human in DAI since in DA2 all the elves were super skinny and since my Inquisitor is me a female Elf would be the wrong shape since I have a fair amount of T&A going on, but then I saw "Sera" the female Elf in the War room picture and she seems waaay more curvy than the Elves in DA2, if that's the case then I could probably feasibly make an me-Elf Inquisitor that would actually look more like me since I'm roughly Elven height anyway.
Yeah I'm super pumped to see what kind of elf I can make in the CC. Even if I don't like Solas's face I do like his body; it's pretty svelte... slender but still strong. Perfect for an elf. Now for the face, hopefully they'll give us lots of options; even though I hate the hair options in the DA:O CC I will say that I was always able to make a face with pretty cute features. Even a default elven dude like Tamlen was pretty cute.
Keeper's can be young as well,for example in origins if Zathrian sacrifices himself to lift the curse from the werewolves his first Lanaya becomes the keeper instead and she's pretty young.Although I wouldn't like my pc to be the keeper either,because we'll have to leave our clan(provided that they won't die in the explosion or something.)and the keeper's first can be replaced more easily than the keeper him/herself.
Technically if all our clan dies in the explosion, we wouldn't be leaving them :3
Not just humans, though, all mages.
I hope we're not the keeper....I'd prefer not to be old and wise
I'm hoping we get to be First, too!! That allows for a lot of flexibility in age, from 20-something to 40-something.
This is what I thought in the first place,although I don't expect our background to be as detailed as the one we had in origins,they may simply explain to us the reason why we were at the peace gathering and give us some basic information about who we were before becoming the inquisitor.
They said there would be no playable origins, meaning everyone starts the game in the exact same spot. But our backgrounds will become evident through dialogue.
you know, I've never gotten the Shale dlc. I got the Soldiers Peak one--but that was a lil lame so i wasn't too thrilled abt getting the shale one.
I would say you didn't miss much, but then again I'm not a big Shale fan. The quest is not that great; just some dumb puzzle to solve at the end. Shale is kind of amusing at first, but the "I want to squash things" jokes get old pretty fast. Supposedly if you bring her to the Deep Roads you get lots of dialogue, but I honestly never brought her anywhere.
They said there would be no playable origins, meaning everyone starts the game in the exact same spot. But our backgrounds will become evident through dialogue.
They said there would be no playable origins, meaning everyone starts the game in the exact same spot. But our backgrounds will become evident through dialogue.
I don't think I'll do elf in Inquisition. I love elves in general but I find hard to make intresting character who is Dalish. Only one I can think of is outgoing and proud dalish who is akward with human customs. I already have Warden like that and I can't just get out of that mindset XD Also I don't find playing dwarf intresting either, not just my thing. I guess Qunari will be my fav race in Inquisition, I want make so many qunari characters already! I just hope Bioware makes qunari ladys big and bulk, not looking like humans with grey skin and horns.
Retour en haut