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[Morroian]

Mostly people hate her who read the books and disagree with her character. A lot of people feel like she's a mary sue. 

 

Please let these threads die, but anyway she can;t be a mary sue because she is portrayed so pathetically in DAI.

[Ap0crypha]

Because she has a super tragic background to "justify" her bitchy behavior, because all her issues go away as soon as she has sex with Maric, and because she's special enough to magically be cured of the Taint.

 

Needless to say, I found her serving of Humble Pie this game to be very satisfying.

[gottaloveme]

Alistair. Also considering that Al is around 30 at the time of Inq, then why does she not seem ready for the Deep Roads? So she is pretty much at the end of her 30 odd years of life after the joining. I mean she is a grey warden is she not (actual question, not rhetorical).

[arelenriel]

This is why

Spoiler

The Architect who the Warden meets in Dragon Age Awakening got ahold of her and other Wardens including the First Wardenby  by kidnapping the First Warden's brother and  corrupting the First Enchanter who was in charge of the Fereldan Circle before Iriving, and having him give them amulets that sped up the Taint in the Wardens (this is what happend to Utha who is a Grey Warden and Silent Sister invovled in both "The Calling" and Awakening, and Velanna's sister Seranni. A method is developed to stop it but it essentially removes the taint from Fiona's blood meaning she is no longer technically a Grey Warden. Duncan was also on that trip but had not been a Warden long enough to be effected and began the mission after Remaille gave Fiona and Utha the Architects amulets. At any rate this meant she had to return to the Circle and from there she became the Grand Enchanter of the College of Magi. The other issue is that Duncan does say that all Warden's respond to the taint differently and prior to your Warden (if playing an elf) there have only been a few Elven wardens (in spite of the claim that ALL races united) so no one really knows if Elves respond differently to the Taint and have longer periods before going on their Calling.

[Hazegurl]

Going by that definition then every companion in the game is a Mary Sue...

Not really. I haven't seen a super special lore breaking companion yet....Unless you count Leliana's abilities to defy death, and even then she's killed in a magical healing temple.

[keyip]

Heh, ever notice that other influential mages had an air of leadership about them that Fiona lacks? Vivienne and Wynne had a confidence and an assuredness about them and their actions but Fiona doesn't come across that way to me. She doesn't give off a leadership vibe. Combined with my disagreement with how she handled conflicts (with ultra aggression) and also my disdain with how she treated her son means I don't have many well wishes for her.

[Vicious]

I was a Mage and recruited the Templars because they obviously had some pressing issues and Fiona had already volunteered to help out so she could wait and govern herself as Mages really want to do.

 

Then she shows up with the army of Venatori and all the other Mages come to kill us. ummmm ok?

 

 

Then at the battle of the Trebuchet Fiona shows up and nukes my team without a word. By that point Dorian tells you Corypheus killed Alexius himself at Redcliffe, so Fiona threw her lot in with him and had no problem doing so.

[Andres Hendrix]

Because she is a twit, who was willing to side with the Imperium and sign herself (and her charges) into slavery.  Fiona: "Yes let’s trust this glazy eyed majister! We will just be his indentured servants for a tiny bit….Nothing will possibly wrong! " One year later, Fiona: “Oh darn, I’m a piece of red lyrium.”

[Dean_the_Young]

I don't like her because I feel like she's too 'special snowflake'.

 

• She was an elf, slave, and mage who got away with murdering her owner in a world that hates slaves, elves, and mages.
• She gets taken to the Circle where she is considered so awesome, she gets conscripted as a Warden.
• She is considered such a great warden that she gets to go on adventures with a King and his best friend, who is a hero in his own right, AND the HoF's wise Warden Mentor before he was the wise warden mentor.
• She is considered to be the best mage the King, Hero of the Realm, and Wise Mentor have ever seen.
• She encounters and deals with threats (brood mothers, the Architect) that the Player Character discovers, only she does it first and better.
• In spite of having zero in common, in fact she hates everything about him and spends most of their interactions hating him, she and the King 'fall in love' and she gets pregnant with his child.
• She is, unlike any Grey Warden ever, completely cured of the Taint.
• She goes back to the Circle, and in spite of not having been in one for years, is elected to the highest office of the Circle hierarchy.  Never mind there being choices available who have more in common with their fellow Circle mages and more experience with Circle life and politics.
• She attempts to get a vote passed for Circle separation and fails.  In spite of what the Anti-Templar crowd would have you believe the Templars are like, nothing bad happens to her because of it.  She isn't abused, removed from her position, or 'disappeared'.
• She and her cronies manipulate or take advantage of events to force another vote, one that ignores what the main body of the mages want in favor of exploiting an emotionally charged situation involving key votes on an electoral council.  She drags the Mages into a war they knew would happen, regardless of what most of the mages want.
• Oh, and she's the mother of the HoF Warden Companion and (potentially) King of Ferelden.

 

As I've said before, there's enough accomplishments in Fiona's back story for several characters.  She's just too special, and it's irritating.

 

However, as briefly mentioned above, her being a complete idiot in DA:I, accepting Tevinter help and selling herself and the other mages into slavery, somewhat makes up from her out of game characterization.

 

All these are indeed eye-roll worthy exasperations, it's true, but they're not why I dislike her. The real reason is-

 

Well because despite being a mary sue, She pushed for mage freedom (Which predictably would lead to war with the Templars and is essentially a declaration of war in itself). My main problem isn't that she pushed for freedom, but that she did it so moronicly, She made absolutely no plans, no alliances, didn't think it out at all. So inevitably the mages starting loosing the war (Which she herself admits in Inquisition) and then while fighting for mage freedom sold herself and the mages into slavery.

If you intend to drag your people into war, you do it right damnit. You don't just declare it and worry about the rest later

 

-this. Fiona is an awful leader for the mage rebellion she midwifed.

 

She wants to be a rockstar revolutionary, but doesn't have the chops or the skills for it.

 

To start, she doesn't provide a goal or endstate to motivate or unify the mages behind her. Rather than set out a persuasive ambition and narrative that convinces a clear majority of the mages to agree with her  viewpoints, the mage rebellion only kicks off because of a context that made many of those present fear imminent death if they did not declare resistance. From the start a critical mass of her movement was either uninterested or fixated on short-term survival, and not aligned with her vision.

 

Not only could she not define what the movement was for, but she could not unify movement either. Shortly after her leadership, the mages scatter and schism. I'm not doing her much of a favor by believing that she was uninvolved with the renegade mages in the Hinterlands. But that's just it- she was uninvolved, neither preventing or correcting the rise of a nakedly mage-supremacist movement in her own ranks. The Templar atrocities and crimes against the people in the area can at least be understood (but not pardoned) of the crimes of conducting a war and effecitvely a ruthless counter-insurgency campaign, but the mage conduct of setting little people aflame for funny looks doesn't even advance that argument. When one of the greatest political fears of Thedas is that mages outside of the Circles would seek mage supremacy and care only about themselves, Fiona's rebellion did just that. Instead of policing themselves to present themselves as noble revolutionaries deserving of sympathy, Fiona would not and could not reign in her movement to stick to an overarching strategy.

 

Some of this might have been mitigated had Fiona had some plan, had made preparations that might have enabled a mage victory regardless, but she didn't. She doesn't, and never had, the forces to militarily beat the Templars. She wasn't even intending to stage a rebellion for the purposes of subsequent negotiating leverage. Fiona's planning never seems to have extended beyond '**** the Divine,' '???', 'FREEDOM!' planning. There was no stronghold set up for a resistance if they were going to huddle up in a single place (bad idea), nor a pre-existing support network to hide the mages and smuggle them about if the intent was to avoid fighting (which she could have been working on for years). She's bitter that she has no allies... after helping evict a major nobleman of a sympathetic monarch who unnecessarily offers her sanctuary, and failing to set up deals or ties beforehand.

 

After being faced with the consequences of her poor planning that even a modestly aware revolutionary strategist should have seen coming, her poor decisionmaking continues with the Tevinter/Venitori alliance. Or so she likes to describe it as- an alliance is an arrangement against relative equals, and Fiona breaks a major Andrastian taboo (and political kryptonite to the hemoraphaging mage reputation) by selling her own people into slavery in the name of security.

 

Please, let that settle in a bit. The mage rebellion, a revolt against an oppressive security state that trades mage freedom for security, effectively ends itself by trading freedom (including, or rather especially, the freedom to own the consequences of their actions and choices) for the safety of servitude. Being a prisoner never forced to work but who could face illegal abuse or be killed unjustly? Unacceptable. Being a servant with even fewer legal rights, even less recourse to more infamous abuse, and likely forced to serve in the most active military of the world that views even your blood as a tool of value? Well, it's a dangerous world out there!

 

This is a deal so shortsighted that it's staggering. I, for one, am not inclined to blame the mages for selling themselves to the Venatori per-say. I still need a Templar playthrough to see if/when the mages knew what they were getting into, and if they stayed without magical coercion. But not knowing about the Venatori schemes is not a defense, because one of the big risks of mages is what they can inadverdantly get themselves into thanks to trickery (such as the demonic kind), and the Tevinter angle itself is sufficiently suspect that an ulterior motive should have been suspected from the start.

 

Fiona believes that Tevinter will protect her from the renegade Templar armies outside of her gate because... well, it's never clear exactly why she would think that. Because he said so, mostly. Did she really think the Templars forces who defy the Chantry and rampage in the borders of Ferelden will be cowed by the prospect of Tevinter reprisals? That the non-existent Tevinter army will stand between her and them? That uniquely Tevinter magic of a Magister and his retinue will do what dozens or hundreds of mages in the Hinterlands could not? If Redcliffe was going to fall to a Templar assault (an assault, it should be pointed out, that never came), then a Tevinter Magister's intervention is not a credible deterrent or defense. Not from defending against Templars, and certainly not from Ferelden's inevitable retaliation when the Arl is run out of his own castle. Tevinter not only would not fight a war with Ferelden for a city they have no supply lines to and no ability to keep, but they could not. The existence of an ulterior motive is obvious, even if not explicit, and the only obvious objective is the mages themselves. Alexius wants the mages, and wants them for reasons he does not think they would agree to if he told them, and Fiona sells them into servitude to him for a promise he could not keep if he was honest anyway.

 

There's more than a few parallels to the fears non-mages have about how Mages will inevitably resort to magical abuses or demons when desperate. Based on her willingness to throw away principles, break cultural taboos, and push down the surrounding mundanes in favor of the magi, it really does seem like the biggest reason Fiona didn't make deals with demons in Redcliffe was because an even worse devil in disguise approached her first. And considering that the 'disguise' part could just as well apply to the machinations of spirits... well, overall it's a utter failure of the argument that the mages could be trusted to not resort to desperate measures when desperate.

 

 

So, as a revolutionary, Fiona leaves a lot to be desired. She's not a rallying figure who leads by inspiring or convincing others to follow her. She's not a strong leader who can keep her subordinates in line and moving in a single direction. She's not a political visionary who could find common ground or strike bargains or alliances that people would be justified in having faith she would follow through with through thick and thin. She's not a competent military strategist who can recognize losing fights and adopt strategies that identify relative abilities and avoids being drawn into losing battles. She's not a careful conspirator who acts in advance, subtly crafting conditions to favor her efforts and ensure success before a confrontation even emerges. She's not a clever thinker who can identify tricks and traps and set her own while avoiding those laid out by those who would exploit and subvert her crusade for their own ends. She's not even a principled paragon who can inspire and gain ethical credibility by refusing to break her principles.

 

 

Any of those would at least be credible forms of a lead revolutionary. She is supposed to be an agent of independence and self-determination, but at every stage her ambitions rely on the acquiesence and protection of other, more powerfull people who could alter the rebellion's fate as they wished. First the Divine, then Ferelden, then Tevinter, and possibly the Inquisition, and then back to the Divine. All of these people had the ability to stop (and crush) her rebellion if they had wished, and the only reason she wasn't crushed was because they didn't want to (despite numerous deliberate offenses). Even in the most radically pro-mage independence playthrough none of the favorable results are a consequence of policies she has achieved or put into effect by influence or will, but rather a result of other people making policies for their own reasons. And if/when any of them refused to indulge her... she has no recourse, except to turn to yet another patron to do for her and her rebellion what she could not.

 

 

The fact that she's completely unapologetic about it? That she says she has no regrets and would do the same things again? That she doesn't even have the insight and humility to acknowledge her own shortcoming and failures and indicate an effort to improve herself accordingly?

 

Fiona isn't fit for what she tries to be. As a revolutionary, as a leader, as everything the mage movement needed to be a success rather than to just be. Instead she plays a major key role in getting a lot of good people killed for a cause she wasn't capable of carrying out on her own.

 

Can she succeed in getting her goals regardless? Sure- through no power or influence of her own. A recklessly reformist divine, a like-minded Inquisitor, a sympathetic monarch, a host of people who wanted similar things she wanted but couldn't get for herself. Even fools can succeed if other people gives them what they want.

 

Fiona isn't an idiot. She's incompetent.

 

 

 

Please let these threads die, but anyway she can;t be a mary sue because she is portrayed so pathetically in DAI.

 

That wouldn't mean she wasn't a Sue beforehand (and yes, Sue's can have tragic pasts), but I agree that DAI ruthlessly tore down any in-universe pretense or vindication for her.

[ringdrossel]

You dont have to read the books.

 

You just have to follow her actions. She is a weak personality. One that does not merit credit.

[Addai]

You don't know how Tevinter works don't you? Tevinter's society is the place where strong mages rule, and those magisters don't need more rivals especially when they came from the south (Andrastion's nations).

And that is more terrible than the entirety of them being made Tranquil or killed if they stay in the south?

[Tevinter Soldier]

i hate the fact i can't judge her action's. it makes no sense. Fiona madethe **** up and conscripted all on her behalf. yet the choice i get is blame them for her actions or let her escape punishment.

 

Their should be an option to give magi equality but as part of that fiona be brought up on charges.

[Xilizhra]

i hate the fact i can't judge her action's. it makes no sense. Fiona madethe **** up and conscripted all on her behalf. yet the choice i get is blame them for her actions or let her escape punishment.

 

Their should be an option to give magi equality but as part of that fiona be brought up on charges.

It'd be redundant. Alistair and/or Anora already sentenced Fiona for that crime, to exile.

[Yinello]

I haven't read the books but I like Fiona. She came off as sincerely wanting to help the Mages and she would've come to the Inquisition first had Cory not used his massively overpowered time travel magicks. Plus not everyone with the best intentions is born to be a natural leader, nor do leaders always make the best decisions. I don't believe anyone who claim they would've known better in her place, especially without the knowledge we received after we met Alexius' son (I forgot his name, whoops) and Dorian. Let's face it, we'd all be dead as ducks if Dorian hadn't been there to help us.

[Steelcan]

It'd be redundant. Alistair and/or Anora already sentenced Fiona for that crime, to exile.

. Not really,they removed their extension of hospitality but she is not sentenced to anything

[Kulyok]

I guess I've excepted the fact there are multiple Fionas: there's annoying Fiona from Book 2, there's a VERY annoying Fiona from Book 3, and there's a pretty desperate, stressed, bent with responsibility, but not broken Fiona from DAI - that third Fiona I can respect and feel sympathy for. I loved her banter about Loghain, btw(happens if Loghain lives in the end).

[Yinello]

I guess I've excepted the fact there are multiple Fionas: there's annoying Fiona from Book 2, there's a VERY annoying Fiona from Book 3, and there's a pretty desperate, stressed, bent with responsibility, but not broken Fiona from DAI - that third Fiona I can respect and feel sympathy for. I loved her banter about Loghain, btw(happens if Loghain lives in the end).

 

Crap, I've would've liked to see that. You made me regret siding with Templars on my Loghain is Alive run.

[Warden Commander Aeducan]

And that is more terrible than the entirety of them being made Tranquil or killed if they stay in the south?

If you think being enslaved by the Tevinter Magisters, or enthralled then turned into Corypheus's minion against their will is pleasant. You fight for freedom, not to throw yourself to be chained by different master, and you're naive if you think the Magisters would welcome them with open arms. As someone in this thread stated it. Stop trying to justify her actions with such cheap excuse. Fiona is pathetic, and she's a complete moron when she chooses to throw herself, and her people to the Tevinter. Desperation is not an excuse, you don't go into war when you weren't prepared.

[Augustei]

I guess I've excepted the fact there are multiple Fionas: there's annoying Fiona from Book 2, there's a VERY annoying Fiona from Book 3, and there's a pretty desperate, stressed, bent with responsibility, but not broken Fiona from DAI - that third Fiona I can respect and feel sympathy for. I loved her banter about Loghain, btw(happens if Loghain lives in the end).

What does she say about him?

[PrinceLionheart]

I think the term people are looking for to describe Fiona is her "Plot Armor."

 

What I find interesting though is she is really not that far departed from a Renegade Shepard or an *******!Warden. Despite being a complete ******, the story bends to their will.

[Warden Commander Aeducan]

I think the term people are looking for to describe Fiona is her "Plot Armor."

 

What I find interesting though is she is really not that far departed from a Renegade Shepard or an *******!Warden. Despite being a complete ******, the story bends to their will.

Not when you choose to side with the Templars in DAI. 

[Augustei]

Not when you choose to side with the Templars in DAI. 

Even if you don't, they are loosing the war and more of them are dying every day. Fiona says this herself

[Warden Commander Aeducan]

Even if you don't, they are loosing the war and more of them are dying every day. Fiona says this herself

Yeah, but there is no other options beside choosing "Mages or "Templars", and the Inquisition cannot sit on the fence forever since they need either the Mages or Templars to help close the Breach, and if you choose to save the Rebel Mages then Fiona will wear her plot armor once more.

[Lumix19]

If you think being enslaved by the Tevinter Magisters, or enthralled then turned into Corypheus's minion against their will is pleasant. You fight for freedom, not to throw yourself to be chained by different master, and you're naive if you think the Magisters would welcome them with open arms. As someone in this thread stated it. Stop trying to justify her actions with such cheap excuse. Fiona is pathetic, and she's a complete moron when she chooses to throw herself, and her people to the Tevinter. Desperation is not an excuse, you don't go into war when you weren't prepared.

Well it's not like she knew that Alexius was working for Corypheus, she probably wasn't even aware that Alexius was working for the Venatori rather than Tevinter. Plus most Southerners believe that mages rule in Tevinter so it probably came as a shock when she discovered she was more a slave than anything else. And desperation is a valid excuse. You can enter a war fully prepared and still lose and when you start losing you'd be surprised by the choices you make. I remember playing Dom3 and turning my population into Ghouls just to survive. Not that that's relevant or on topic.

[arelenriel]

I pity Fiona, she is a weak person placed in the wrong position under horrible circumstances. Grand Enchanter was a puppet title and  from the impression I have gotten from the books, and from Wynne the College of Magi was essentially a toothless organization focused on mainly academic research and debate.. The mages who were part of it were never meant to lead a rebellion.. they were academics. Fiona may have been entirely different as the leader of a group of academics and having to deal with the real world (which she was also sheltered from to an extent in the Wardens) must have been a shock since she never had to deal with logistics such as how to feed, clothe, and educate the thousands of mages, apprentives, mage family members (for the apostates who said f$%K the Chantry and married anywasy, and Tranquil who had left Circles where they had the financial, educational, and social support systems in place for that amount of people.

 

 

The true leader of the mage rebellion was Anders .. the problem is according to cannon Hawke kills him. Before that he had an organized group that helped to hide the apostates, and to smuggle mages about to be made Tranquil for absolutely no reason other than Meredith is having a bad day out of the Kirkwall Circle.  Had he not allowed Justice to control him, he would have had the support of the circle for his rebellion (Orsino probably would not have been driven to allow himself to become an abomination and would have fully supported a rebellion against the Templars and Chantry after years of abuse from Meredith), as well as Kirkwall's nobility half of whom had ties to Tevinter or mage relatives, the Grey Wardens (who historically supported free mages), and probably the Dwarven Merchants guild (yes them to, after all House Tethras is powerful within this organization, Varric considers Anders and Hawke to be friends, and free mages=more lyrium trade). This would have given him political, social, and financial backing. Fiona other than Alistair really did not have that and she burned those bridges.