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[Noelemahc]

But then Bioware decided to continue the dalish genocide tradition and make the shems destroy your clan.

 

OP is right.
 

You know you can prevent that, right?

[skotie]

The biggest thing I think people are missing, especially when comparing the elves to real-world cultures, is that they are not human. They are a dying species, desperately clinging onto whatever bits of their fallen and decimated existence are left, while they are slowly but surely being out-bred by humans. Elves breed with humans= humans. They aren't American Indians, Aborginals, or anything like that. They are Cro Magnon being out-bred by Humo Sapiens (yes, misspelled on purpose due to filtering). A dying species, killed by their own hand, and will be nothing more than memories in a few more generations. A few isolated pockets of Dalish, eking out a meager existance while the world moves on around them... and then even those will be gone.

Sera is the perfect example of the fate of their species. Raised knowing nothing but humanity, anything distinctive about her species stripped away ages ago by the encroachment of humans, knowing only human culture and origins, following their faith. She is, for all intents and purposes, a human. And as the bias against elves slowly but surely falls away, and what few elves remain begin to interact, and interbreed, with humans, elves will die out, just like the griffons did.

I think it's one of the themes of Dragon Age: the Death of the Fantastic. The dwarves are slowly but surely being erased due to the Darkspawn. The elves destroyed themselves. Magic, while prevalent, is seen as something to be feared and shunned. Anything seen as "not normal" is seen as a negative. The Templars gain their abilities by deliberately making themselves anti-magical, anti-fantastic. Even the realm of dreams, the Fade, is seen as something akin to hell, full of demons and Blight, by the average person.

What elves remain are the last gasp, the walking fossils, of a dying species.

Except I don't remember seeing any evidence that proved human+elf=human baby. I'm pretty sure like in all species which can interbreed, features of both are present in the offspring. I'm sure some of them would perfer only to mate with other elves.The bigger threat to elves is not being bred out it's being killed off because of interactions with humans which result in deaths on both sides yet there are far more humans than elves.

 

Edit: This is why the other day I was asking about a side quests in DA2, supposedly a merchant had a child with his servant if I remember correctly (I'll have to go see if I can find this) and he didn't want anyone to find out it was his because he had elvan features. Maybe I'm mistaken as I didn't play DA2 much but I could have sworn it was in there.

[Evamitchelle]

Except I don't remember seeing any evidence that proved human+elf=human baby. I'm pretty sure like in all species which can interbreed, features of both are present in the offspring. I'm sure some of them would perfer only to mate with other elves.The bigger threat to elves is not being bred out it's being killed off because of interactions with humans which result in deaths on both sides yet there are far more humans than elves.

 

Edit: This is why the other day I was asking about a side quests in DA2, supposedly a merchant had a child with his servant if I remember correctly (I'll have to go see if I can find this) and he didn't want anyone to find out it was his because he had elvan features. Maybe I'm mistaken as I didn't play DA2 much but I could have sworn it was in there.

 

The games aren't consistent about this. In DAO Alistair and Slim Couldry look 100% human, in DA2 Feynriel definitely has elven features. 

[Sully13]

Because SJWs would crucify biowares arse

[Rykoth]

Why are people slinging SJW around so frequently? That term is so mis-used by y'all lately.

[BuddyL0ve]

The games aren't consistent about this. In DAO Alistair and Slim Couldry look 100% human, in DA2 Feynriel definitely has elven features. 

Because DA2 had all the consistency of KY Jelly. From Origins, and also mentioned in Inquisition, interacting with humans stole their immortality, and the children of elves and humans were invariably human. There are no half-elves.

From the wiki...

"The ancient elves grew friendly with humans, but soon discovered that breeding with humans produced only human babies, while exposure to the "quick children" caused the elves to quicken themselves."

""Children between dwarves and humans are extremely rare because of the low fertility rate of dwarves in addition to the small chances of producing offspring with other races. Half-dwarves are shorter than humans but taller than dwarves. Furthermore, it is more often that such mating would happen with surface dwarves as such union would be heavily stigmatized in Orzammar.

Children between dwarves and elves are even more rare. Their offspring would be dwarven to all appearances."

Both from Mr. Gaider. So elves and dwarves are dying off, and elves cannot have more elves except with other elves.

[Abraham_uk]

Why are people slinging SJW around so frequently? That term is so mis-used by y'all lately.

 

Because it's a fourth class that should be introduced to Dragon Age Inquisition.

Imagine a Social Justice Warrior leading this amazing organisation.

 

Sure you won't have much in terms of abilities. You just wear a lot of heavy armour and draw aggro.