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[TheJediSaint]

My Inquisitor is very good at pretending to know what he's doing.

[EmperorSahlertz]

The ability to close the rifts is more than sufficient reason. I know I am repeating myself, and there is indeed another reason but I think the perspective you're taking here is a bit limited.

The ability to fold your tongue does NOT make you leadership material, even if the task at hand requires someone to be able to. It is the events and actions leading up to the exodus from Haven which posistions our character as the natural leader of the Inquisition.

[ThomasBlaine]

This is such a pointless thread. Wouldn't it have made more sense to just wait a couple of days and play the game, rather than assuming the story is known because of trailers and criticizing it thus?

This is in part why the owner locked forums were so helpful. I hope the new software supports them!

 

I wasn't critizising, I was genuinely asking about something that had been bugging me for months because of what I personally consider a huge flaw in the game's marketing. I was horrified when the trailers made the plot sound so silly and thoughtless, and the comments on this thread were a big relief until I could get the game for myself, and so I do not consider it pointless.

 

Let me be clear, this thread is NOT a critique of the actual game, it's people helpfully reassuring me about a concern I had before getting access to the game myself and a discussion about the logical validity of that concern, regardless of whether or not it's reflected in the game. As for waiting days to do anything about something that worries you when there are people with answers readily on hand, no, that does not make more sense than just asking, at least not to me.

 

Substitute "Warden" for "Inquisitor", and you've summarized my unpopular stance on just how important the Hero of Ferelden really was.

 

The warden proved himself competent long before being named Hero of Ferelden, much less made Warden Commander. He wasn't inexplicably assumed to be leadership material just because he had some fancy power perfect for slaying archdemons. Totally different situation. Substitute "the Hero of Ferelden" with "Hawke", and you've summarized my unpopular stance on that issue, though.

[Dean_the_Young]

A pretty straightforward question for the lucky American bastards who are already playing: What's the in-game rationale for the PC to be Inquisitor when Cassandra is arguably much better qualified? It's been bugging me forever. Not that I think Cas would be better at it, necessarily, but she must seem like the obvious choice, and I don't see why a pious noble, criminal dwarf or a nomadic Dalish, to say nothing of a Qunari, would strike people as a better alternative for leadership even with the ability to close Rifts.

 

Edit: Also, do you actually get to feel like the Inquisitor, or will Cassandra boss everyone around and use you as a figurehead?

 

Why does the PC get to become the leader of the Inquisition?

 

Because your magical hand skills greatly impress and please a number of strong, powerful, and influential women.

[Massa FX]

Because "Andraste" Herald and all...

[Corto81]

I still don't know.

And I finished the game.

Why does Cassandra take your word at the beginning you didn't off the Divine?

Why does she take you with her?

Why does she form an Inquisition before even knowing who or what she's up against?

Why does she want you to lead it?

For that matter, if you're playing a Dragon Age game for the first time, who are all these people that are barely introduced to you at all?

 

The glowy green hand explanation is pretty weak IMO... You could be the weakest, most cowardly, dumbest person on the planet who stumbled into the room when the Divine was being held, and they still want you to lead it?

Pretty. Damn. Weak.

 

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As for the Warden comparison... Laughable comparison IMO.
The Warden had his back story, you watched him developed and made his choices, and watched him grow from a grunt to a leader.

You got to know him/her before anything of importance happened, you got to know people around him etc.
He got his titles or whatever based on what he/she did and how they did it.

And it took time and effort etc.

[Doominike]

She grants you the benefit of doubt, takes you with her because there's a rift to close and Solas told her you might be able to do it, the point of the Inquisition is to find out what's going on, to *inquire* about it, she and the others appoint you as the leader because you've effectively lead them from the start anyway. 

 

If anything that makes more sense than DAO, the Warden was the leader because Alistair didn't want to be and there was no one else besides you two