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[Danny Boy 7]

Nope then again it's pretty late

[Augustei]

Murky Waters. Oh wait...

"Murky waters up your arse, barrels of it!"

Gotta love the witcher

[whogotsalami]

I'm so relieved that the noble is not from Ferelden.

[TK514]

I wouldn't mind Kirkwall.

There's no reason a Kirkwall Noble would have to know Hawke or the Amell/Hawke family personally, and there's certainly no reason a noble would know Varric at all.

It might be interesting to see an outside opinion of the rise and ultimate disappearance of Kirkwall's Champion, and the Inquisitor and Varric would have the city in common, if nothing else.

Plus, I liked Kirkwall and DA2.

[Gwydden]

I still think Tantervale is the most likely. And, admittedly, the one I'd prefer. Wycome sounds fun, but Tantervale sounds much more interesting. Reasons why I think it has a good chance of being the one include the Inquisitor's religious connotations and the fact that the peace conference is called by the Chantry and takes place in the resting place of Andraste's ashes. Considering how present Andrastianism will be in the story, it would make sense for at least one of the possible backgrounds to have a strong connection to it.

[Master Race]

I've changed my mind and wouldn't care if the Noble is from Starkhaven but i still will be very upset if he/she is from Kirkwall. Tantervale definitively sounds interesting and opens up lots of role play opportunities knowing your Inquisitor was raised there (especially if pro-chantry). In the end though i just hope the Noble Inquisitor's family has a cool history like the Couslands as opposed to Amell history.

[The dead fish]

Yeah,Tanterval seems to be the best bet to me. Ostwick is also likely. Close to Ferelden, with a Teryn like in Ferelden. Trevelyan seems also cornish. Ostwick is also one of the biggest cities with Kirkwall and Starkavhen. 

[GDog89]

Kirkwall or Tantervale given by the accent he/she has.

[AresKeith]

Kirkwall or Tantervale given by the accent he/she has.

 

What accents does the others use, minus Starkhaven?

[TheJediSaint]

Kirkwall or Tantervale given by the accent he/she has.

The player character can have an American or British accent, so I'm not sure that would work.

[drake heath]

Tantervale's a dour, puritanical place ruled by a guy called the Lord Chancellor?

 

Sounds like Cromwellian England.

 

I like Wycome, sounds like fun decadent Restoration England.

 

I also like Ansburg, I have a fondness for agricultural centers.

[Das Tentakel]

Wycome sounded familiar, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Then, using the 'Fantasy One Letter Change Name Creation Rule'*, I realised it's probably derived from (High) Wycombe, a town and district in Buckinghamshire, England.

The 'b' is silent by the way: https://www.youtube....h?v=vR_y410iltU

 

High Wycombe is also the location of Hughenden Manor, the old home of Benjamin Disraeli and a secret intelligence base (codename 'Hillside') during World War II.

 

* Change (add/subtract/replace) one letter of an ordinary real-world name and Presto! Fantasy name.

[TheJediSaint]

There's is one question that occurs to me.  If the human player character is a noble, then what is their title?  Count, Duke, Earl, Arl, Bann, or a generic Lord/Lady?  Personaly, I hope we're a knight.   Being called Ser Trevalyan would make me all tingly. 

[The Sauce of Awesome]

There's is one question that occurs to me.  If the human player character is a noble, then what is their title?  Count, Duke, Earl, Arl, Bann, or a generic Lord/Lady?  Personaly, I hope we're a knight.   Being called Ser Trevalyan would make me all tingly. 

I'm guessing it's just going to be the generic Lord/Lady because we don't know what Trevelyan's title actually is. It might be that Trevelyan would have been a Lord/Lady anyway, even if they were the child of a Lord Chancellor/Viscount/Prince/Whatever. Cousland was the child of a Teyrn, and yet Lord/Lady was still their official title.

 

Hell, the Trevelyan family might be an impoverished one like the Amells (PLEASE don't make them like that Bioware! We've already had impoverished, as well as near-extinct with the Couslands!), so technically the Inquisitor might not even have a title.

[Das Tentakel]

I'm guessing it's just going to be the generic Lord/Lady because we don't know what Trevelyan's title actually is. It might be that Trevelyan would have been a Lord/Lady anyway, even if they were the child of a Lord Chancellor/Viscount/Prince/Whatever. Cousland was the child of a Teyrn, and yet Lord/Lady was still their official title.
 
Hell, the Trevelyan family might be an impoverished one like the Amells (PLEASE don't make them like that Bioware! We've already had impoverished, as well as near-extinct with the Couslands!), so technically the Inquisitor might not even have a title.

 
There's a difference between 'lord' and 'lady', which are used (in English at least) as appellations, and actual titles like Count, Arl, Teyrn and Duke. In the British Isles, it's only used (with a few exceptions) for members of the peerage, who are titled and relatively high nobility.
On the continent, equivalent terms (herr, heer, monsieur, pan) are used for commoners and minor untitled nobles as well. 
 
I am not sure if Bio's writers were aware of the difference, particularly when I look at the confused lore concerning Orlesian nobility (on the one hand, Kordilius abolished the titles, but then titles are used again in WoT and DA2).
 
Historically, a lot of European noble families didn't have titles, the so-called 'untitled nobility'; this wasn't the case in England, where titles were a prerequisite. These untitled nobles could mark their status through the use of a nobiliary particle in their family name ('de' or 'von' are examples); sometimes terms developed that might evolve into titles, like Dutch/Flemish Jonkheer (lit. 'Young Lord'), or in parts of Italy just plain 'Patrician' or 'Noble'.

Not having a title does not necessarily mean that the noble in question is poor, powerless or unimportant; family status often took precedence over titles, which could be granted or taken away (and were subject to a kind of 'title inflation' over the centuries). In the 13th century Enguerrand III, mere lord of Coucy, proudly dismissed his lack of a title: Je ne suis roy, ne prince, ne comte aussy. Je suis le sire de Coucy' ('I am neither king, prince or count. I am the lord of Coucy').
In Brandenburg, the region's premier noble family, Gans, proudly refused official noble titles of baron (Freiherr) or Count (Graf) because their family name was enough.
 
If the Trevelyans are 'important', they might be like the Gans or Coucy families: Their name itself is enough, let lesser men and women prance around with fancy titles.

[KC_Prototype]

True, but I imagine it would have been rebuilt between Act 1 and Act 3. I doubt the Templars would have been comfortable with only one Circle for all of the Free Marches. Also, it's possible that the Trevelyan Mage was in or moved to a foreign Circle.

There's 5 Circles in the Free Marches: Starkhaven, Kirkwall, Tantervale, Ostwick and Ansburg. The Free Marches have the most Circles in Thedas.

[TheChris92]

Hopefully not Dirtball -- I can't take more of that brown noise, especially considering the entire city was filled to the brim with Fereldans.

A city that hasn't been elaborate on much would be welcoming in a similar fashion to that of Highever I think.

[Milan92]

Hopefully not Dirtball -- I can't take more of that brown noise, especially considering the entire city was filled to the brim with Fereldans.

A city that hasn't been elaborate on much would be welcoming in a similar fashion to that of Highever I think.

 

I doubt its gonna be Dirtball since the human inquisitor would then probably have more knowledge on the whole mage/templar war, etc, than any of the other races.

 

I personally hope its not gonna be that either. I'd rather my characters don't have connections with each other.

[X Equestris]

There's 5 Circles in the Free Marches: Starkhaven, Kirkwall, Tantervale, Ostwick and Ansburg. The Free Marches have the most Circles in Thedas.

Actually, the Free Marches' Circles are Kirkwall, Starkhaven, Ansburg, Ostwick, and Markham. At the time I wrote the post you quoted, I was under the impression that there were only Kirkwall and Starkhaven. Since Starkhaven's Circle burned down in 9:31, I was working under the assumption that that left only one Circle in the Free Marches.