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[UmbraMage82]

So we know that the inquisitor will have two voice actors for both genders. Now that's fine by me, however it make me wonder how much effort the four actors will put into how the inquisitor will talk between races. We have already witnessed that the tone will be the same for every race. You'd think that the qunari would sound a bit gruff but whatever. But what about using specific phrases and languages.

I'm not sure if a qunari inquisitor wouldn't speak qunari since they're vashoth and was raised outside of the Qun. And as for dwarves, apparently they have their own language they just don't use it and given that they're surface dwarf they probably talk like humans do. But elves will be the biggest one, especially since he/she will be Dalish. Given that the Dalish elves encourage their kin to use what little elvish they know, I except them to use phrases like "Ma serannas" and "Dareth shiral" instead of human english. And if they didn't then that would be really, really lazy, both in writing and voice acting.

In Origins I could just pretend that the Dalish warden used phrases, after all once you get to Ostagar you're pretty much generic warden who bows to the human lord you just told to go plow himself. But hopefully more effort and thought will be put in the non-human races. Any thoughts on the matter?

[New Kid]

Wow, I never actually considered this. I'm pretty sure Dalish Inquisitors will use the correct phrases, when speaking to their own kind at least. But I doubt the Vashoth and Surface Dwarfs will have extra phrases (Or maybe they will, I don't know!). 

[CapivaRasgor]

There was the occasional derp moment in Origins where the Dalish Warden could praise the Maker or exclaim his name. Most hilarious thing is a Dalish Warden discusssing the Maker with Leliana. The dialogue options kinda made you Andrastian by deefault which was bad.

As for the voice tones, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't the devs trying to modularize the voices so that one could choose the pitch of the voice?

[jlb524]

But elves will be the biggest one, especially since he/she will be Dalish. Given that the Dalish elves encourage their kin to use what little elvish they know, I except them to use phrases like "Ma serannas" and "Dareth shiral" instead of human english. 

 

I hope so too.

 

This should be the case especially when speaking with other Dalish elves and possibly with some companions.  Probably won't use those phrases as much when interacting with humans as you go about the Inquisition's business.

[Maria Caliban]

And as for dwarves, apparently they have their own language they just don't use it...

We've heard conflicting information.

There is a dwarven language and it sounds nothing like English. A dwarven language is also the 'trade tongue' that almost everyone in the setting speaks. It's the reason someone from Orlais can walk up to our Ferelden native and start a conversation.

[Gervaise]

It is the Dalish backstory that holds the greatest curiosity for me, partly for the reasons you give.    In DAO you were sort of yanked away from your clan at an early age and then became part of an organisation where your family is no longer important to your identify - you are a Grey Warden, so naturally it would follow that you would adapt your speech and behaviour accordingly.    In DAI it is not clear yet if the amnesia you suffer only applies to the immediate events surrounding your survival or if it is a complete blank, so other people know who you are when you meet them, but you have no idea and need to reconstruct your memories.   If that was the case, then obviously there would be no problem over the type of speech or language you would use since you would have no prior knowledge to reference.

 

However, if you are aware of your Dalish origins, then I am curious how this will be tackled.   Of course you could be an outcast from your clan, may be even a rebel against their antiquated ways but if you are not, then even if you use common modes of speech with non-elves and city elves, you would certainly use Dalish if you encountered any members of that race.    May be they will have recorded some speech specific to such an encounter.

 

On other thread we were discussing about tattoos, and whether or not the Dalish Inquisitor would have them.  

 

With regard to the other races, well surface dwarfs have pretty much left behind the traditional way of life and would have adopted common speech and customs on the surface.    As for the Vashoth qunari, we know so little about them, I would think that would present the least amount of difficulty since they can be practically anything with regard to culture and like the surface dwarfs would have adopted common speech.    Remember our qunari is a second generation Vashoth, never having lived among the Qun.

[LobselVith8]

I'm hoping the racial options allow their cultural background to be expressed in dialogue. A Vashoth may use some qunari phrases and view the Fade as the "Land of the Dead", while the Dwarven may invoke the Ancestors. A Dalish would likely use much more different terms than either one, as an elven protagonist would use 'the Beyond' instead of 'the Fade', 'spirits' instead of 'Spirits and Demons', 'Eternal City' instead of 'Golden City', 'shemlen' for 'human', and so on.

My hope is that the voiced protagonists use the proper dialogue, and that the story allows them their own cultural view on situations unique to a human protagonist, since it would be a real shame if the racial backgrounds merely provided a re-skinned Andrastian.

[CapivaRasgor]

I'm hoping the racial options allow their cultural background to be expressed in dialogue. A Vashoth may use some qunari phrases and view the Fade as the "Land of the Dead", while the Dwarven may invoke the Ancestors. A Dalish would likely use much more different terms than either one, as an elven protagonist would use 'the Beyond' instead of 'the Fade', 'spirits' instead of 'Spirits and Demons', 'Eternal City' instead of 'Golden City', 'shemlen' for 'human', and so on.

My hope is that the voiced protagonists use the proper dialogue, and that the story allows them their own cultural view on situations unique to a human protagonist, since it would be a real shame if the racial backgrounds merely provided a re-skinned Andrastian.

Yeah, I feel the same way. Most of the pkaythrough outside the background on Origins felt as if you had merely swapped skins with a human.