Awesome as many of the books and comics are that have released stories spanning the times between games since origins, it does however raise several questions about the actions of both the Warden and the Champion would be taking in these situations.
Simply put, for many of us we often perceive our personal characters would have had a much larger stake in these stories, and what's more would likely have been more directly involved in some fashion.
These are relatively unrelated stories, I understand, something taking place in the "Bioware Dev Thedas" and not necessarily the version of the world that the player has been creating with these games. Likewise it makes sense that these stories would involve familiar and important characters that we as players would have been involved with in game. Not just to tie things into the world better, simply showing more these characters that we know and love is a huge draw for the Dragonage fans.
But for many players, their characters would not have remained mysteriously absent during these events.
My Warden certainly would have liked to have been there with Alistair as he went on his wild adventures all the way to Tevinter, even if she didn't romance him. Perhaps you could argue that she was busy by then focused on her role as Warden-Commander at Vigil's Keep.
But the same could not be said of my Champion. In my game Hawke romanced Isabella, and by siding with the mages for the sake of her sister, she wasn't about to stick around; especially since Isabella had a ship and an open invitation to join her on it. If Isabella was joining Varick of all people to sail around the world on some grand adventure with the King of Ferelden, well Hawke simply would never let that opportunity pass her by.
Without any other information, it actually begins to break immersion. Doubly so if these extended world events is something that we can assume actually happened, and have an effect in the game world we encounter. Where was the Hero of Ferelden during all this? What about the Champion of Kirkwall?
The only possibility suggests that both of these characters were preoccupied with something more dire. What would drive our characters away like this? At least for some of us it would have to be something huge indeed. Perhaps even something preventing them from acting. Both have mysteriously disappeared, and it's been strongly hinted that someone has been working in the background to spread this chaos, actively preventing those that could put a stop to it from acting.
Such things are nothing but wild speculations at this point and part of an entirely different tangent. The main point, however, is that the very absence of both the Warden and the Champion during these separate events are definitely being felt. I would love some form of reconciliation that either explains what they were up to the whole time, or some sort of Keep feature that would allow them some part in these other adventures.
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