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[The Ascendant]

You can always tell how powerful a mage is based on their headgear and shoulder pads.

[vertigomez]

You can always tell how powerful a mage is based on their headgear and shoulder pads.

The '80s were a dark time.

[straykat]

What all Tevinters look like in my head:

 

[Lady Artifice]

 

 

Okay. Now it's very important to me that we meet Radonis in the next game. 

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

That definitely isn't the proper outfit to engage on melee combat, aside from the magister robes he's using (which I suspect would restrain movement), he also has a big helmet that seemingly reduces his visual field... and of course, he has a cape.

 

Lol, I highly highly doubt that any of that precludes him from being a Knight Enchanter. Nice mention of the cape though.

 

It'd be awesome if Radonis needs to fight at some point and we get the Tevinter version of this:

 

[Beerfish]

Tangent!

 

I'm always amazed at people that are big mage supporters who also like Tevinter and the Qun.

 

Tangent off.

[raging_monkey]

Why? people aren't there for easy reference like "pro-templars are a ridge fandom that excell in clever remarks"

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

Tangent!

 

I'm always amazed at people that are big mage supporters who also like Tevinter and the Qun.

 

Tangent off.

Wouldn't being "big mage supporters" and liking Tevinter naturally go together? 

[Hellion Rex]

It'd be awesome if Radonis needs to fight at some point and we get the Tevinter version of this:

Fantastic reference.

I too hope we can see a shirtless Radonis. And maybe romance him too. Would love to bed an Archon.
*blushes*

[raging_monkey]

Call me evil but I'd like a "slave romance" noble consently beds his/her side like thing. Y'all know what I mean

[nightscrawl]

Okay. Now it's very important to me that we meet Radonis in the next game.

If you want to see the comic bits with him, just purchase issue 2. (He's only in the first one at the very end and hardly worth it just for that tiny bit.)

He's seems like a forward thinker. Sure, he is interested in maintaining his own power -- what ruler isn't? But he's smart enough to know that the Venatori's (they didn't know about Corypheus yet when we see him) vision of Tevinter isn't going to benefit him, and he also seems like a patriot in his own way. He was also close with Halward Pavus at one point, and that says something too.
 
 

Tangent!
 
I'm always amazed at people that are big mage supporters who also like Tevinter and the Qun.
 
Tangent off.

I'll grant you the Qun, but the Tevinter thing seems like the opposite, actually. Or are you looking at it like "These Vints give all mages a bad name!" kind of thing?

[straykat]

Well, Tevinters aren't a meritocracy, so I could understand mages not liking them either. They keep non-noble mages down.

[raging_monkey]

Well, Tevinters aren't a meritocracy, so I could understand mages not liking them either. They keep non-noble mages down.

well wot says otherwise

[vertigomez]

That definitely isn't the proper outfit to engage on melee combat, aside from the magister robes he's using (which I suspect would restrain movement), he also has a big helmet that seemingly reduces his visual field... and of course, he has a cape.

Tangent!
 
I'm always amazed at people that are big mage supporters who also like Tevinter and the Qun.
 
Tangent off.

I'm always amazed that people think liking one thing precludes liking another thing.

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

I'm always amazed that people think liking one thing precludes liking another thing.

To be fair, if you've defined yourself as "pro-mage" it would be very odd to also be pro-qun. There's some cognitive dissonance there. 

 

Tevinter, while it may or may not be friendly to foreign mages depending on their circumstances, doesn't bind mages for life and sew their mouths shut even when they should?, so I don't think those two things are in opposition, necessarily.

 

Pro-mage doesn't have to mean pro-Tevinter, but the two stances can coexist. Pro-mage and pro-qun? Not so much.

 

 

And I want good capes. Like draping, elegant-yet-practical capes. Clip them in the middle, clip them on one shoulder and make it more assymetrical like that. Its in some concept art and it looks really cool. I want one! (And of course now we'll be in Tevinter, where its generally hot and a cape would be an annoyance. But I don't care! lol)

[raging_monkey]

I id as all the spectrums each have something that appeals to me

[Hellion Rex]

Well, Tevinters aren't a meritocracy, so I could understand mages not liking them either. They keep non-noble mages down.

That's false. All mages can have a chance at rising in the ranks. Whether they can make themselves marketable to the Circles for training is another thing entirely.

[Jedi Master of Orion]

You can be a fan of two things, even if those two things have one or more opposing issues. I'm a fan of the Dalish and the Chantry, for instance. I notice it often seems like there's a large crossover between fans of Loghain and fans of Gaspard.

 

In that sense, if you are a fan of both, you could say you are pro-X and pro-Y, even if they are sometimes or always enemies in universe. So you could theoretically be pro-Tevinter and pro-Qunari. What would be weird is if one were to say "I love Mages! I can't wait for the Qun to conquer them sew all their mouths shut!"

[straykat]

That's false. All mages can have a chance at rising in the ranks. Whether they can make themselves marketable to the Circles for training is another thing entirely.

 

Is there one example of a high ranking mage like this?

 

What does marketable mean btw? Don't they have to learn first, to even be marketable? Sounds like a chicken and the egg thing.

[AlleluiaElizabeth]

You can be a fan of two things, even if those two things have one or more opposing issues. I'm a fan of the Dalish and the Chantry, for instance. I notice it often seems like there's a large crossover between fans of Loghain and fans of Gaspard.

 

In that sense, if you are a fan of both, you could say you are pro-X and pro-Y, even if they are sometimes or always enemies in universe. So you could theoretically be pro-Tevinter and pro-Qunari. What would be weird is if one were to say "I love Mages! I can't wait for the Qun to conquer them sew all their mouths shut!"

True enough, I suppose. Though I'd still say being both pro-mage and pro-qun is not being particularly consistent. Your two examples (Dalish & Chantry, Loghain & Gaspard) don't have to be mutually exclusive, whereas those two things kind of are. But people can be as inconsistent as they wish, I suppose. lol

[straykat]

I think my hatred for the Qun goes beyond the game. I can't have any fun with it. The underlying philosophy, the totalitarian leanings, the kooky doublespeak rationalizations. These things all ****** me off in reality too.

[raging_monkey]

But its good for some

[The Ascendant]

I was watching Game of Thrones, and something disturbing just occurred to me. We know that Targaryens are inbred, and that inbreeding has preserved their special 'dragon gene' which makes them different from other ethnic groups. We know that magic is genetic. Could some Tevinter mages possibly be inbred to preserve important genes? Unlikely I know, but it would be quite shocking. For a Medival fantasy setting, the topic really doesn't come up a lot, which is odd if you consider the history of European monarchs and their notorious inbreeding. Heck Celene almost marries her cousin Gaspard, and no one seems to point out the whole relation issue.

[straykat]

But its good for some

 

Yeah, the ones in charge. Notice how THOSE guys live in palaces and play Xbox games though.

[raging_monkey]

Hmm now there's a thought... Cousin li? Lol

But really its entirely possible but if orlais will exile the emperors cousin who he was banging then vints may be a lot harsher