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[CoffeeElemental]

Then we have "The One Ring" Plot.

 

Claiming an evil power in the hopes to do good with it but only managing to achieve evil/selfishness with it.

 

Blood Magic, Drinking Dragons Blood (after tainting the urn), Diabolism (Avernuses potion) and Drinking from the well are Dragon Ages ways of seizing power that is seen as Unholy and corrupt. In DA: I it's more about the political game, being morally corrupt and power mongering.

 

Personally I'm glad we got the Political/Miltaristic angle with the Inquisitor, it makes a refreshing change.

 

Edit: If you're big on the RP aspect, you should be able to see your Inquisitor as full of good intentions, "For the Greater Good" or pretty much no better than most of the Orlesian court, a liar.

We don't really have the chance to do any power mongering. In fact, in the Champions of Just quest Envy demon shows how Inquisition would look if you would do that, but you are only given options like "I would never do that" in dialogue.

[Abaddon_86]

And of course I would exactly ****ing do that!

[Giantdeathrobot]

We don't really have the chance to do any power mongering. In fact, in the Champions of Just quest Envy demon shows how Inquisition would look if you would do that, but you are only given options like "I would never do that" in dialogue.

 

Well, one of the consistent options has you taunting the demon, not really refuting that you want to do things like that.

 

And honestly, if you read between the lines, the Inquisition can easily be turned into something quite sinister. For now people overlook it because you fight Corypheus, but you can end up having the widely hated Mages as allies, triggered a war between the Orlais GWs and Weisshaupt, have the leader of a weakened Orlais in your pocket, absorbed the power of an ancient Elven god (including the ability to dominate dragons), you can have a hardened Leliana basically all but delare she will assassinate anyone who threatens the Inquisition, and reading the War Table missions, you aren't exactly solving problems by distributing flowers here, especially if you use the Cullen or Leliana solutions sometimes. The Qunari are your best buds, and the Divine owes you one in every instance too.

 

You can't go full on Gestapo of course, but a fluffly band of Lawful Good heroes the Inquisition isn't if so you choose. And I'm not sure if I don't actually prefer that to KOTOR style ending where the PC just goes '''mwahahahahah I'm so EVIL''. Subtlety is sometimes better. The NWN2 ending was bad, you fought the King of Shadows all game long and at the last second you just decide you want to take his side? That was pretty tacked on if you ask me. Then again, it does beat the ''rocks fall, almost everyone dies'' good ending I suppose.

 

Who knows, with all the talk about how the Inquisition is kinda supposed to step down now that the threat is ended, perhaps future DLCs/expansion will explore the ''what now?'' aspect and delve further into the political side of things.

[Morroian]

Did you read any of the Operation briefings/Reports and comments or blindly click them? There's a lot going on in those that really tell the tale of what path your Inquisitor is walking.

 

You raise some good points but I think such a path needs to be reflected more in the dialogue if its what BW intended. Its leaving to much to head canon. I like the war table approach but it needs a lot more work: power needed to be more scarce and actually have people make strategic choices; the choices of how to handle operations should have been reflected more in how people react to you; heck even dialogue could change depending on how you handle operations.