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[Mockingword]

I am not sure there is any part of Asunder that indicates it is desireable to enter into a romantic relationship with individuals who have assaulted them in the past, as you assert. Maybe I missed something.

Having said that, Evangeline was doing her duty. I would call her actions more an attempt to subdue than to assault Rhys. Be that as it may I doubt the relationship would have or could have developed into a romantic relationship without acknowledgement, forgiveness, and understanding of the previous nature of the relationship.

I don't forgive assault, and I don't think anyone else should either. 

 

I still maintain that, if the genders had been reversed, more people would be crying foul. In fact, I know that's true, because half the forum was ready to crucify Cullen for merely admitting to having a crush on a female mage warden. And he didn't knock her on the head or anything.

[Lord Raijin]

I am not sure there is any part of Asunder that indicates it is desireable to enter into a romantic relationship with individuals who have assaulted them in the past, as you assert. Maybe I missed something.

Having said that, Evangeline was doing her duty. I would call her actions more an attempt to subdue than to assault Rhys. Be that as it may I doubt the relationship would have or could have developed into a romantic relationship without acknowledgement, forgiveness, and understanding of the previous nature of the relationship.

 

Cold cocking Rhys by knocking him unconscious with the hilt of her blade was not doing her duty. She showed unnecessary and excessive aggression towards a cooperative prisoner. In today's world we would call it police brutality. From what I can remember Rhys was not resisting but was very cooperative, and even submit to his jailer. Evangeline had no reason to do what she did.

 

Anyone who is down to earth would not forgive nor understand the intentions of violence from another person, and it's not healthy to form a relationship with someone who has a history of inflicting violence against people for no reason. Evangeline is a typical abuser and Rhys is a fool for getting himself romantically involve with this Templar abuser. It will only be matter of time before she does something like that again, especially since shes going to be experiencing withdrawal like symptoms.

 

An abuser is always an abuser. No matter what the gender are. If they done it in the past they can do it again. Fortunately for Rhys Evangeline can not get away with it if she tries pulling her abusive stunt again, especially when the other mages would see it as an act of treason, and will probably have her killed, since shes a Templar after all.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

I really liked Asunder. I'm interested in hopefully seeing some of the characters in Inquisition. Particularly Evangeline, Fiona, Justinia, and Rhys. I'm even interested in seeing Lambert, since he is alive despite the book trying to be sneaky. The only main character I don't want to see is Adrian. 

[NotARealCullenFan]

Asunder was my least favorite of the books but I still loved it

[lobotomy42]

Although I liked the central conceit of Cole - and the twist at the end is pulled off reasonably well - I wasn't crazy about the book as a whole.  It seemed to focus an awful lot on detailing the exact political positions of every major faction in the Mage/Templar conflict to an uneccessary degree.  It sets up characters who hold political viewpoints - and then, lo and behold, the character "growth" is the major characters learning that people who disagree with them are not actually evil.  It wasn't particularly subtle, and frankly it felt a little patronizing.  Perhaps someone who finds that particular conflict more interesting would have a better time with the book.

 

That aside, there is some nice Dragon Age lore in the book, and it certainly wasn't any worse than most paperback genre-fiction.  I'd read another novel with a different focus, perhaps.

[Rahelron]

I've just bought the Masked Empire. It is not from David Gaider, but I'll trust Bioware on its writer choice.

 

If it is as good as Asunder I'm in for a very entertaining read.

[Eivion]

I read Asunder a few months ago and enjoyed it a good as well. I really liked the characterizations and journeys for those involved.

 

Its interesting seeing someone who actually liked Adrian. So much of the board seems to hate her. I didn't particularly like her, but I can't really ever say I hated her either as I thought she was coming from understandable viewpoints. I wish she was a character I could work with in the game to be honest.