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[sandalisthemaker]

I'm good with the Free Marches in general. They are close enough to Antiva and Rivain for me to RP an Inquisitor whose family tree encompasses people from those two countries as well as from Ostwick. 

[Potato Cat]

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Jeezus, Luvy, you are far too fluent in Qunlat!  
 
*Readies daggers*  
 
LOOOOL

To be fair, that is pretty much the motto of the Qun right there. And the sea imagery is great in that quote.

[Potato Cat]

I'm good with the Free Marches in general. They are close enough to Antiva and Rivain for me to RP an Inquisitor whose family tree encompasses people from those two countries as well as from Ostwick.

Oh yeah, I'm so headcanoning that my Trevelyan's mother is an Antivan noblewoman.

[sandalisthemaker]

But...umm.. the Trevelyan is a pretty well known family with a history. 

 

Not trying to knock your head canon. Just saying.. be prepared, it could get fairly specific. Who knows.

 

Oh, I'm fine with that.

 

Even if I have to jump through flaming hoops, I will find a way to headcannon that my Inquisitor has enough Antivan and Rivaini blood to make him look the way I want him to in the CC.  

[heretica]

Probably not enough to care, since the description says the Templars tried to execute them during the uprising.

As I see it, the Trevelyan was a circle mage before the uprising happened. The description makes it sound as if she/he had reasons to dislike being there in the circle (taking away an easy luxurious life and all...) I'd imagine her/his parents want to watch over their kid and use their influence so she/he might not get a rough treatment by the templars. I feel we don't know much about the circle yet so it might be too early to make up theories... 

[Potato Cat]

Oh crap, just realised that an Antivan noblewoman mother might make her Josephine romance a tad dodgy... Ah well, it is CerseiQuisitor we're talking about here!!!

[Icy Magebane]

But...umm.. the Trevelyan is a pretty well known family with a history. 

 

Not trying to knock your head canon. Just saying.. be prepared, it could get fairly specific. Who knows.

People move around and I doubt it's that uncommon for noble immigrants to marry into noble Marcher families... as long as the game doesn't give us a person by person genealogy of the Trevelyans, I think there is more than enough room to imagine the bloodline took a few twists and turns across the centuries...

[Will-o'-wisp]

I don't really like the fact that they have a Teyrn in Ostwick and that it's so close to Ferelden, but it's definitely better than coming from there again. Even if Ostwick is heavily influenced by Fereldan culture, I guess I'll still be able to roleplay the Trevelyans as suckers for all Orlesian stuff since they're very devout and Orlais is the Center of Andrastianism. And Fashion and other stuff.

I simply had hoped to beable to play an orlesian noble in DA:I, but I'm actually really happy with the Free Marches as well. Wonder how much we'll actually get to know about the City and our family there.

[Johun]

Do you think Brandel's Reach is inhabited? Either by Ferelden or some other party.

 

 

Where did the island get its name? Maric's grandfather?

[Aolbain]

Do you think Brandel's Reach is inhabited? Either by Ferelden or some other party.

 

 

 

Where did the island get its name? Maric's grandfather?

 

Wiki says Ferelden, but I don't think the central authority is that well established.

[Aolbain]

It says Brandel's Reach is overrun with rocks and occupied by raiders.. so it's not really run by anyone I guess?

 

If anyone asks Ferelden properly claims ownership but otherwise? Yeah pretty much.

[Johun]

Wiki says Ferelden, but I don't think the central authority is that well established.

Ah, thank you. The source on that wiki page lead to a quote by the man himself.

 

http://forum.bioware...rches/?p=372858

[Hydwn]

The scope of DAI doesn't cover any of the Free Marches, does it? I guess we won't be able to pay a visit back home.

 

The most recent gameplay video - the one that showed the Advisors - showed a "character backstory" quest that for elves that looked to be deep into the Marches.  That was an Advisor mission, though.  I don't know about physically for the Inquisitor, but Ostwick looks to be on the larger map, on the Ferelden side.

[YourFunnyUncle]

The most recent gameplay video - the one that showed the Advisors - showed a "character backstory" quest that for elves that looked to be deep into the Marches.  That was an Advisor mission, though.  I don't know about physically for the Inquisitor, but Ostwick looks to be on the larger map, on the Ferelden side.

Indeed. There was also an advisor quest for Varric in Kirkwall.

[The Ascendant]

While we might not visit the city, I imagine we'll send an advisor of our choice to send there and deal with our family. I'll try to be diplomatic, but they did send me to the Circle, and I did have a comfortable if isolated life we'll see I suppose.

[lil yonce]

Oh, I'm fine with that.

 

Even if I have to jump through flaming hoops, I will find a way to headcannon that my Inquisitor has enough Antivan and Rivaini blood to make him look the way I want him to in the CC.  

Fergus' wife in the human noble origin of DA:O was supposed to be Antivan, I think. The wiki says that in certain non-english versions of the game, she mentions "Calabria" - now Antiva - as her birthplace. So the youngest child in a high noble Ferelden family, Oren, has Antivan roots. There is also the Queen Mother of Thedas codex entry in WoT that suggests that most of the royal bloodlines in Thedas have some Antivan blood. So, roleplay away your Antivan/Rivaini ancestry, I say. It sounds very plausible to me. I'm going with Nevarran roots for my inquisitor.

[acid_rain82]

The dual walled Free Marcher city of Ostwick.

[RobRam10]

Teyrn of Ostwick... It seems its impossible to be free from the stentch of Ferelden.

[Magdalena11]

Ostwick is a port.  Isabela was on her way there.  Ostwick was also an evacuation point during the 4th blight.  I think one of the reasons Ostwick was chosen as the Trevelyan home was that not much was said about it.  Maybe that makes it a good place to go on your way to somewhere else.  It's not as tied to slavery and oppression (not to mention recent events) as Kirkwall, nor connected with Starkhaven.  It's not sin city like Wycolmbe (I've probably spelled it wrong, but so would the residents) or perceived as puritanical like Tantervale.  Sounds perfect.

[mlgumm]

Yeah, pretty much all we've heard is that it's somewhat paranoid about invaders (meaning there's probably really good fighting training) and that they have a Circle. This game will probably expand on it more since we're from there.

[riverbanks]

But...umm.. the Trevelyan is a pretty well known family with a history. 

 

Not trying to knock your head canon. Just saying.. be prepared, it could get fairly specific. Who knows.

 

Only one of your parents needs to be of the traditional Trevelyan family. I established my Inquisitor was the daughter of an Antivan Crow way before we even got the character backgrounds, and fixing that headcanon to comply with the canon origin that came later was as easy as roleplaying that her father was an Antivan "diplomat" ( ) who married a Marcher noblewoman... who happened to be heir to the Trevelyan teyrnir. How totally convenient and not arranged a marriage at all.

 

The good thing about the backgrounds being so vague (and probably not getting any more specific in game, since it was left very open so that everyone could shape their PC to their own liking) is that if you want them to not really identify with Marcher culture, you can just make up a mixed marriage with someone from the country you want your Inquisitor to have their roots on. You keep the high blood and tradition of an old Marcher family from one parent, with whatever other culture you want to inject into your PC from the other.