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[LPPrince]

Meh, don't care. DA2 set a precedent that I wish it hadn't.

What exactly? Death of the family? Having a link to one of the Origins families and not the others?

[Wulfram]

They could easily include a cousin or something as a nice little nod. I wouldn't want too much detail about immediate family though, because that would likely end up retconning people's backgrounds in DA:O

[Kimarous]

If they're going to flesh out families, I'd much rather they do so with the Inquisitor's family, not the Warden's.

 

I would as well. This was just a late-night musing on my part.

 

Honestly, I get the feeling that the various backgrounds will have at least SOMETHING tying back to their family. I mean, why bring up the fact that the Trevelyan family are Freemarcher nobles if we didn't bump into a cousin or have a war table mission involving said relatives with a unique response if you're playing a human?

[jlb524]

My Surana was born in an orphanage so nooooooooo

 

I think they should just leave that background as is.

[fhs33721]

Ugh, don't remind me. DA2 being advertised with stuff like, "Yeah, have a family, get to know them and live with them yadda yadda"

 

True story, everyone dies. :/

 

 

Well to be fair, you do get to know them and you live with them for some time. Also Gamlen, your cousin and (possibly) Bethany/Carver do actually survive. The only ones that outright die in every playthrough are Carver or Bethany and Leandra.

 

Also another fun true story: Everyone eventually dies.( Excpet demons. Those jerks are apparently immortal.)

[ElementalFury106]

A Male Surana Warden was also my canon playthrough. I always found 3 things about his "family" or "life before the circle" odd:

1) Surana can claim that he/she is from either Lothering (which we later learn in DA:2 that the Elves of Lothering usually lived out in the farm stables, away from the village), yet when we return we see no mention or recall of Surana's past in Lothering.

2) We can say we are from the Denerim Alienage, yet when we return there, there isn't any mention of us or our family.

3) In a companion dialogue where Morrigan asks about your mother, you can say "I love her" yet we have zero context on who she is besides our alleged mother.

It doesn't bother me, nor is this a critique, but I found it odd that we were given these dialogue options but with no context or story to them.

Frankly, I'd rather they just kept it a mystery.

[LobselVith8]

When you think about it, pretty much all the families for the various Origins... well, origins were decently fleshed out. We outright meet the Cousland, Tabris, Aeducan, and Brosca families, Mahariel's parentage is revealed through exposition, and the Amell family is expanded upon in Dragon Age 2. Surana, though? Nothing. Nada. Zilch.

 

It's been confirmed that none of the player characters are genetically tied to previous PCs, but what are the chances that we can at least meet someone from Surana's family SOMEWHERE in Inquisition, if only to flesh out some of Surana's canonical background?

 

One of the appealing aspects of the elven mage Warden Origin was that the backstory was up to us to determine - where we were born and how we felt about our family; I'm rather glad that the Surana family was left entirely up to the player to address, like some RPGs that leave the background for the player to determine. I'd rather not see Inquisition contradict that simply to force in a family reference where none is needed.

[Icy Magebane]

I would as well. This was just a late-night musing on my part.

 

Honestly, I get the feeling that the various backgrounds will have at least SOMETHING tying back to their family. I mean, why bring up the fact that the Trevelyan family are Freemarcher nobles if we didn't bump into a cousin or have a war table mission involving said relatives with a unique response if you're playing a human?

It will probably be addressed for all backgrounds in DAI.  Each of them is comes from a unique situation that would be difficult to understand if we had no knowledge of their familes... the dwarf is a surfacer, and so we'll likely be wondering why they are on the surface in the first place, the qunari is Vashoth, but that means very little without knowing whether they were raise by humans or other qunari, and the elf is Dalish, which will seem hollow if we never meet their clan.  Based on the past two games, I think that the devs have accounted for this and come up with some interesting scenarios even if we won't be having full blown origin questlines.

[happy_daiz]

What exactly? Death of the family? Having a link to one of the Origins families and not the others?

 

Maybe the word I should have used was "expectation". Once BW focused on one of the Origin families, it made us expect to see all of them at some point. DA2 proved that it really wasn't worth it, as they were all killed off.