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[Former_Fiend]

So we know that the Breach opens at a peace summit and kills everyone there with the sole exception of the Inquisitor. We know that the summit is a major event, with thousands being in attendance.

 

Has it been definitively stated which conflict this peace summit is for, though? Is this primarily to resolve the mage/templar war or the Orlesian civil war?

 

This is an important thing, because either way there is a strong possibility that we are going to suffer the loss of several major characters from the novels in the game's opening sequence.

[EmissaryofLies]

Why would you entertain such a thought? I've already learned 'bout loss, Deniro! 

 

We do not need anymore right off the bat. 

[Master Warder Z_]

It could be for both.

[Former_Fiend]

Logical deduction. 

 

Say it's for the mage/templar war.

 

Thousands being in attendance, it would make sense for Rhys, Evangeline, Adrian, maybe even Fiona to be there to represent their cause. 

 

Maybe even Justinia would be there to oversee it. 

[Althix]

let them rot.

 

easier to deal with situation if you asked me, when vips are removed.

[Milan92]

Would be hilarious. Setting up big name characters in a book - only to be killed off in the first minute of the game

[ElitePinecone]

It hasn't been stated, but I believe it's the mage/Templar war.

The Chantry leadership seems to bear the brunt of the casualties from the blast (this was also mentioned in the survey plot summaries), and it's very hard to see the Orlesian Civil War continuing if either of its competing leaders were killed.

Then again, with the scale of casualties Cassandra mentions - in the thousands - maybe it's just a general gathering of important people from all over Thedas, trying to solve all its conflicts at once, which is attacked?

[LordofOrzammar]

Who knows? There's a million conflicts going on right now. Cross the fingers and wait is my approach.

[Former_Fiend]

Would be hilarious. Setting up big name characters in a book - only to be killed off in the first minute of the game

 

I'll be more generous, or rather, more cruel, by saying it'll be an hour. I have a feeling that this summit is going to be the new Ostagar; we're going to walk around, talk to people, see NPC's be set up for bigger things, only to watch them all die later.

[The Ascendant]

By God it's a Dragon Age version of the Red Wedding!

[Vit246]

Well, the Mage/Templar War is kinda a international thing, which makes a peace summit for that make sense.

[Althix]

only to watch them all die later.

fun is it not? also clever.

 

you do not start a war with making shots in the field or launching missles across the globe.

 

war begins with sabotage. VIPs. Command Headquarters. Weapons systems. Production centers. Infrastructure. (see Pearl Harbour)

And only after that you fire a missles, deploy armies and fleets.

[azarhal]

Then again, with the scale of casualties Cassandra mentions - in the thousands - maybe it's just a general gathering of important people from all over Thedas, trying to solve all its conflicts at once, which is attacked?

 

The thousands of causalities, by medieval standard, suggest a large town was destroyed or a big army camp (or armies).

[Steelcan]

By God it's a Dragon Age version of the Red Wedding!

Except we'll be cheering on the deaths, not recoiling in horror and anguish

[Merkit91]

Spoiler

The circumstances of the explosion add a religious undertone to some people’s interpretation of what has occurred. With the Chantry a largely human religion, playing as an elf, dwarf, or Qunari will further complicate how you’re received by the masses.

 

From here. We need a new Divine now I guess?

[ElitePinecone]

I think the death (or disappearance) of the Divine is quite possible.

It certainly provides a motivation and a reason for Cass and Leliana, both her Hands, to leave whatever remnants of the Chantry are left and join the Inquisition.

Particularly if whoever took over after Justinia was somehow malicious, or maybe manipulated by the same force that caused the explosion.

[Former_Fiend]

Which adds another layer to it; I'm wondering if Justinia's detractors among the Red Templars might view the event that killed her as divine retribution for her (perceived) incompetence.

[azarhal]

Spoiler

The circumstances of the explosion add a religious undertone to some people’s interpretation of what has occurred. With the Chantry a largely human religion, playing as an elf, dwarf, or Qunari will further complicate how you’re received by the masses.

 

From here. We need a new Divine now I guess?

 

This passage goes with the paragraph before it. It just mean to say that some people will see your as some divine agent (i.e. Maker related agent) and being a none-human just make it harder to accept. Not that the Chantry was destroyed.

 

You emerge as the lone survivor of the magical explosion that creates the Breach, the massive hole in the sky at the heart of the trouble. At first, the people of Thedas won’t be sure what to make of you. Are you responsible for the explosion? Are you a chosen one sent to right this wrong? Are you simply lucky?

 

The circumstances of the explosion add a religious undertone to some people’s interpretation of what has occurred. With the Chantry a largely human religion, playing as an elf, dwarf, or Qunari will further complicate how you’re received by the masses.

 

 

Also, people's interpretation can be read as Leliana's, it is totally up her way of thinking. I can already hear Cassandra's bullshit from here too.

[Knight of Dane]

Elven uprisings, rogue circles and templars, Orlesian Civil war, Ferelden, Tevinter and Nevarra lying in wait to sink their teeth into a weakened Orlais.

 

 

There's much to discuss I'm sure.

[ElitePinecone]

Took over* after Justinia, that is.

We've been told the Inquisition is often at odds with the Chantry, which would hardly make sense if Justinia was running it and we had Lel/Cass/Cullen in the Inquisition. So... either they have a massive argument, or the Divine isn't around to lead her own church.

I think it's quite possible that her successor is deluded or manipulated into going after the Inquisition, which is why we exist as an independent organisation.

(Also the Big Bad sounds like a master strategist and manipulator)

[azarhal]

Took over* after Justinia, that is.

We've been told the Inquisition is often at odds with the Chantry, which would hardly make sense if Justinia was running it and we had Lel/Cass/Cullen in the Inquisition. So... either they have a massive argument, or the Divine isn't around to lead her own church.
 

 

I personally think the at odds with the Chantry has more to do with some people thinking the Inquisitor is a divine agent, a sign from the silent Maker. Something the current Chantry will not like one bit, especially if they do not control it.

[ElitePinecone]

That's true. The idea of the Inquisitor literally walking out of a breach in the Veil is... enormously meaningful for Chantry doctrine.

I don't get it though... are we at the peace conference? Did we only emerge after the attack? If the Inquisitor has a nonplayable background per class, did that actually exist in the real world or is it some kind of false memory? Are we alive and did we have a life before the attack, or were we created as a side effect of it?

If the peace conference was a gathering of people from all over Thedas, it becomes easier to imagine that any variation of Inquisitor could've been there to attend before the attack.

[Former_Fiend]

I am working under the assumption that we're not going to turn out to be Cole 2.0, because screw that.

[Jedi Master of Orion]

I did think about the old theory about the twist is the Inquisitor is secretly a spirit, but unless Bioware dropped the idea that the racial/class choices are now backgrounds, I think he or she shouldn't be a tabula rasa that just waltzed out of the Fade with no past.

[Milan92]

I am working under the assumption that we're not going to turn out to be Cole 2.0, because screw that.

 

You really have no love for Cole huh?