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[Mykel54]

For a human mage, the character learned their skills at the circle tower of Ostwick.

For a elf mage, the character learned their skills from the Keeper.

 

Where did the qunari mage get their training from?

 

I have a headcanon idea of my pc being the son of a tal-vashoth qunari, who was captured by tevinters and made the acolyte of one magister, being a sort of mage-slave apprentice, like a minion to use. This minion would eventually manage to free itself (maybe the master was killed) and joined a group of tal-vashoth, so my pc is the son/daughter of this mage. The magical training is explained as what the magister minion learned while working for his Tevinter master, just look at how much Fenris knows and he is no mage.

 

Another question: what do you think fit best for a qunari mage PC, male or female? I ask this because i am heavily disappointed in how Iron Bull looks, and the CC for male qunari seems to be dreadful. I miss the DA2 male qunari model. I also saw one screenshot of a male qunari pc mage, and the guy is just huge! He looks terrible in cloth armour. I was wondering if the female might look and feel better as a mage.

 

Thank you!

 

[Kirikou]

Probably a wandering apostate tutor. Anyway if I made a Qunari mage I'd only ever make a female one.

[Leo]

Yo, the Qunari mage totally learned how to magic from an apostitute he/she met at some Marcher brothel.

 

I'm going with a male mage Qunari just because.

[Gervaise]

Could be self taught like Solas, so effectively a hedge mage.    You don't have to have a tutor as a mage.     Circle mages will tend to look down on such self taught mages because they have not learnt how to use their magic "correctly" but it is perfectly possible to do so.

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

You don't have to have a tutor as a mage.     Circle mages will tend to look down on such self taught mages because they have not learnt how to use their magic "correctly" but it is perfectly possible to do so.

The apparent assumption that self-taught mages really can do well enough isn't entirely accurate. Gaider has implied that mages who aren't taught properly really are shooting themselves in the foot. A saarebas, for instance, is never going to be able to do anything except blast people because his magic hasn't been shaped properly.

[Notshauna]

Female Qunari Mage all the way, it adds so many layers to the character. As for where they were trained, I doubt they'll say you probably learned it by traveling around the world and are largely self taught (like Solas), but there is nothing stopping you from head canoning it to something else, like my mage lived around Tevinter among the Ash Warriors until she grew of age and joined a mercenary company centered in Tevinter.

[Iokastos]

I've been wondering about this myself, apostate apprenticeship seems like the most logical answer, who else would mentor a Qunari mage?
 
And the crafting system seems to be quite flexible, I'm sure you'll find something that suits your Qunari regardless of gender.
 
I just cannot wait to play as a bearded satyr-like male Saarebas 

 

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[Giggles_Manically]

Well there are a few possibilities:

 

Self taught: Learned their magic by themselves.

Mercenary Teacher: Learned from another mage in the group they belonged to

Apostate Teacher: Could have found an apostate to teach them

Parent was a mage: Your family could have had a mage in it who taught you.

 

Those are the main ones I can see.

[Doominike]

I was gonna go with self-taught unless they specify something in-game

[dixophilia]

I'm playing as a female qunari mage and as far as I plan to roleplay her, she will be self-taught and learned to hone her magic predominantly through trial and error.

[ForgottenWarrior]

I think that the merc group PC-qunari belongs to just hired an apostate to train their own mages. Qunari and Tal-Vashoth have a nice reputation about paying their debts so i don't think there was any real problems finding an apostate who will agree for that deal.

[Panda]

I'm headcanoning at the moment that Sareebas that joined Tal-Vashoth group teached my qunari mage.

 

There has been gameplay trailers with female qunari mage. She does look less buff so if you like that in your mages I think female might be better option for you.

[Lord of Mortlan]

Whatever they do, I hope they make something exciting. It is still disapointing, that you cant play the backstory (as far as we know, there could be flashbacks).

[Adaar the Unbound]

Well there are a few possibilities:

 

Self taught: Learned their magic by themselves.

Mercenary Teacher: Learned from another mage in the group they belonged to

Apostate Teacher: Could have found an apostate to teach them

Parent was a mage: Your family could have had a mage in it who taught you.

 

Those are the main ones I can see.

This.

& as for whether the Qunari Mage is better as a female, I think so. I've went back and forth on whether I want my Qunari Mage to be male or female and I'm thinking female. I'm sure there are ways I could customize a male Qunari Mage  that I could be okay with, but I just like the female body type for a mage. 

[Yermogi]

My personal head-canon is that the qunari mage escaped the Qun at a young age when she/he discovered their magic, before they could collar them, sew their mouth shut, etc, etc.. Like, probably before they were 10, and learned how to control their magic from some apostate mage or other mercenary mage. 

[PrinceLionheart]

Off topic but I don't get the fascination with Female Qunari Mage. Did I miss something?

[Notshauna]

My personal head-canon is that the qunari mage escaped the Qun at a young age when she/he discovered their magic, before they could collar them, sew their mouth shut, etc, etc.. Like, probably before they were 10, and learned how to control their magic from some apostate mage or other mercenary mage. 

The Qunari Inquisitors are Vasoth and have never known the Qun, so that's uncanon, nothing against your version but it's technically against what they've said.

 

Off topic but I don't get the fascination with Female Qunari Mage. Did I miss something?

Qunari don't understand the concept of women who fight, and are very anti-mage. Playing a female Qunari mage just adds more layers to the character, a qunari mage is terrifying to a commoner (especially after DA2), a female mage is especially scary to the Qun, and it (much like playing an elf) makes the world a lot more of a challenging place and adds lots of story challenges. I mean I don't think that anyone in the DA universe would want a female qunari mage as the commander of an extremely powerful and rapidly growing army.

[Yermogi]

The Qunari Inquisitors are Vasoth and have never known the Qun, so that's uncanon, nothing against your version but it's technically against what they've said.

No, there was a dev who said that the Qunari chose to leave the Qun, which means that they were born into it but somehow left. I had the link saved somewhere but now I can't find it. 

[DrBlingzle]

No, there was a dev who said that the Qunari chose to leave the Qun, which means that they were born into it but somehow left. I had the link saved somewhere but now I can't find it. 

Really? Because I'm fairly sure I heard the exact opposite, I'll try and find a quote.

[DrBlingzle]

Here we go, from the site:

 

You are Tal-Vashoth, a Qunari who has rejected the Qun and never even lived in Qunari lands.

http://www.dragonage...nari&class=mage

[Notshauna]

No, there was a dev who said that the Qunari chose to leave the Qun, which means that they were born into it but somehow left. I had the link saved somewhere but now I can't find it. 

Hmm I was pretty sure it was the opposite, well if we're getting conflicting statements then either is as accurate as the other, so any head canon could work.

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

Really? Because I'm fairly sure I heard the exact opposite, I'll try and find a quote.

 

Here we go, from the site: *snipped*

 

http://www.ladyinsan...terview-gaymerx

 

Also this. It's also the source for my assertion that you are not self taught.

[DrBlingzle]

 

 

http://www.ladyinsan...terview-gaymerx

 

Also this. It's also the source for my assertion that you are not self taught.

 

Ah, that as well. Direct quote from Gaider: 

 

The Qunari player is someone who did not live in the Qun at all.

[Yermogi]

Ah, okay, the Gaider says the Qunari was never into the Qun. I stand corrected. I apologize. In that case, the Qunari mage was probably taught by a hedge mage or an escaped Saarabas. Maybe the Saarabas was the only survivor of some battle and the Inquisitor was an infant who survived and was brought with the Saarabas.

 

Unfortunately, we just don't know. I would love to know all the details about how the Qunari Inquisitor ended up where they did, because frankly they're an oddity in the world of Thedas, but we won't know until the game comes out.