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[Zered]

So many people took the bait.

[thepringle]

The main storyline of the game has your character being seen as a religious figure, the "Herald of Andraste." However, it's up to you to interpret the "mark" that has been placed on the Herald, and what your character's religious views are. You can decide to actively oppose anything involving the Chantry/The Maker/Your rep as the Herald, or just sort of roll with it.

[Doominike]

Sorta, you can oppose the "holy chosen one" thing pretty strongly. You can call Dorian a fool for believing you're holy. So far I have 3 characters and they all deny being andraste's chosen in 3 different ways and it works out

 

Skald Adaar is like "haven't seen a trace of your maker so he's BS imo, old gods I know to exist but they ain't gods cause we can kill them" 

 

Maeve Lavellan is like "I believe in my gods, not yours. Also, I met one of mine so there, shove it shems"

 

Katherine Trevelyan is like "eh I guess there could be a maker, but there's nothing proving there is either so I focus on mortals cause them I know for sure they exist"

[Pierce Miller]

I just pretend I'm the chosen one, For the fun.

[CreepingShadow]

Seems like a troll topic..... But come on The Chantry is definitely inspired by the Catholic Church with the Imperial Chantry being the Orthodox Church, they didn't even try to mask it.

[Tiradox]

So many people took the bait.

It's hard to resist sometimes. 

[SomeoneStoleMyName]

The organized practice of stupidity and ignorance is depicted in this game just as realistically as with real life. So it certainly is believable. The practical application of the Chantry also serves the exact same purpose of real life religion - a social and political tool to control the weak minded and easily influenced masses.

 

So I dont really see this as any sort of problem at all. The game shows how the feeble-minded masses work in unified ignorance to deal with their actual insignificance, and how the strong exploit this weakness to achieve power. 

I am positively surprised at the Chantry / Herald undertone in the story, because it puts focus on the uselessness of such institutions and beliefs. 

[Lianaar]

There are a tonnes of religious people in the game, and some doubtful. There are zealots and some are more open minded.
What sort of character you play is up to you. You can chose to laugh it off or indulge in it. This is a freedome offered, and makes me able to replay the game, for I can examine different aspects of the game as I can change the perspective of my character and express it.

 

(while the thread might have started as a troll thread, the question can be interesting, so it is not necessarily taking the bait, imho)

[frylock23]

It's a very mythological game which necessarily involves the faiths of the various mythologies of the people of Thedas, one of those is based very loosely off of a real-world religion, but it's a really poor parallel even up to the main deities of said religions.

[webbedfeet]

So many people took the bait.

 
You know how delicious baits are!

[Drake0713]

From what I have seen so far?  Yes, yes it is a very religious game.  But that religion is not really chritianity/chatholisism, it is a make believe religion (what religion is not lol)

 

You can deny being the chosen of god, you can deny believing in god, the sheeple will still say everything you do is a miracle sent by their creator >.> annoying

[Br3admax]

The superiority complex is strong in this one. 

 

You can't really tell everyone what to believe, friend. 

[Doominike]

Sure you can, they just don't listen