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[Teddie Sage]

I feel less connected to the Inquisitor than I did with the Grey Warden or Hawke, mostly because the Inquisitor is a blank slate with barely any background to give me some depth about their past life. As a returning fan of the franchise, some people like me are already familiar with some terms and know what they should expect by reading the different backgrounds of the Inquisitor, while you make your character… However, I feel like the lack of differences in the game besides the few options that come from your background and racist insults going here and there aren’t enough for me to feel connected to my Inquisitor. I wish there were more NPCs and more stories surrounding our main character that would make the whole background or origin even more personal. Making our origins appear mostly on the war table was a huge disappointment for me. Right now, I don’t see the point of playing anything but a human protagonist as it's how the game was originally designed.

[Fyurian2]

Haven't started a Dwarfquisitor yet, but so far a Tal Vashquisitor seems to be the only one with any real expansion to the backstory that we're given at creation.

An opportunity to expand on their role as a mercenary by choosing what your role within the merc company was.

 

Generally though, every one of the possible Inquisitors had nothing really noteworthy about their lives that wasn't explained at creation.

Aside from Human Noble, Mage and Dwarf Noble Wardens from DA:O, other player Wardens were pretty much like what we get with Inquisition when it comes to backgrounds and "connecting" with them, simply because those three have a larger connection to significant plot points in Origins (Mage technically has two with Jowan & Redcliff and the fate of the Circle).

 

Comparing all three games to date though, character backgrounds are pretty much all equal in backstory information.
If we can connect well with them, good. If not, then it's not necessarily the fault of the character content available to us, but it doesn't help either.

 

Ultimately it's more down to we the players how well we can connect with each character we create and play as. Background info is only a small part as it's typically "detail lite" enough that we can RP/"Head Canon" our backgrounds within the information provided to us.

The rest comes down to how we play the character from the beginning onwards.

[Teddie Sage]

Yeah, I figured it was all about headcanons, but to me an opening like Origins did with each origins added replay value for me as I made new grey wardens with new pasts and I felt more attached to certain NPCs than I did while playing on other files. It felt more personal that way.

[Warden Commander Aeducan]

Speaking of the Inquisitor's origins, it's a real shame we only get a war table mission concerning the background story for each origins instead of an actual quest, real mission in game. Here, I was hoping for something like personal background story mission, like the one for each Shepard's background in ME1. 

[Silverskugga]

Haven't started a Dwarfquisitor yet, but so far a Tal Vashquisitor seems to be the only one with any real expansion to the backstory that we're given at creation.

An opportunity to expand on their role as a mercenary by choosing what your role within the merc company was.

 

Dwarfquisitor has a talk with Josephine where she asks you about your past with the carta. For example, whether you were "just" a lyrium smuggler or have a more bloody past, and if you miss it or not.

[New Kid]

I preferred it to the warden's. With the Warden I feel like you played your Origin, it got referenced a bit during one quest and that was it. But with the Inquisitor it feels nicely spread out.

[New Kid]

Dwarfquisitor has a talk with Josephine where she asks you about your past with the carta. For example, whether you were "just" a lyrium smuggler or have a more bloody past, and if you miss it or not.

Yeah I quite liked that, plus with Cass you can say that hated it and were planning on leaving when you could.

[Naesaki]

There are various conversations throughout the game which expand on your background.

 

Like with Josephine I can state how well my character got on with his family, I can mention that my mage trevelyan had a massive crush on a Templar when he was back in the Ostwick circle but never acted on it, I can state to Cassandra whether I consider the circle my home and would gladly go back to the free marches, even a conversation with Vivienne about what my relationship was with the First Enchanter at the Ostwick Circle, like I stated she was my personal mentor.

 

There's various little touches throughout the game which do expand on your particular Inquisitors backstory, its not all given to you at the start of the game like with the Origins in the first DA, I mean I would have liked those personal introductions before they got to the conclave but oh well. 

[ent1]

Yes, the Quis is a blank slate, but unlike the blank slates in DA:O, you don't have the chance to fill much in. A few questions and answers in dialogues, but that's it.

 

In DA:O you had the whole prologue to learn about and mould your character's backstory. In DA2, Hawke was a person with a mostly pre-written backstory. Either way, you felt like you knew the protagonist. In DA:I it's just some guy or girl who happened to be at the conclave for some reason. It did make it harder to connect than in the previous games.

[Camenae]

There are various conversations throughout the game which expand on your background.

 

Like with Josephine I can state how well my character got on with his family, I can mention that my mage trevelyan had a massive crush on a Templar when he was back in the Ostwick circle but never acted on it, I can state to Cassandra whether I consider the circle my home and would gladly go back to the free marches, even a conversation with Vivienne about what my relationship was with the First Enchanter at the Ostwick Circle, like I stated she was my personal mentor.

 

There's various little touches throughout the game which do expand on your particular Inquisitors backstory, its not all given to you at the start of the game like with the Origins in the first DA, I mean I would have liked those personal introductions before they got to the conclave but oh well. 

 

Also that mage Linnea you can talk to in the Gull and Lantern tavern in Redcliffe Village if you play a Trevelyan mage.  She mentions she was an apprentice at the Ostwick Circle too and you were a couple years ahead of her.  And you didn't even know she existed LOL.  Then she makes some snide comment about you being the First Enchanter's teacher's pet and that's why she had to bring you to the Conclave.  

 

Also during the card-playing scene Varric has for you, you can choose to tell a story of your own from your life before.

 

So, I like the subtle details you can pick up here and there.  : )  Also like that you can pick different conversation options that tell other characters different things about what your pre-Inquisition life was like, depending on what kind of person you want your Inquisitor to be.  The exposition of the PC's origins doesn't have to be the in-my-face, down-my-throat kind.