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[Sylvianus]

That's very interesting. My head canon for the Trevelyans mainly circles around a traditionalist inflexibility. I picture a stern and uncompromising Patriarch, in particular. 

 

I love that concept.  I imagined Father to be a bit like that. Stern too,  being all about family, tradition and duty and how everyone should sacrifice everything for their family to be successful. Father couldn't stand any insult toward his name and his honor. While, for mother, ambitious, it was about power, appearance, intrigues, she is a very sneaky and fierce woman, similar to a bard, except she has power over people. A lovely woman with her family, but quite frightening for her enemy. 

 

She has consistently sought to marry her son to other daughters of influential families in Ostwick. My Trevelyan got two failed marriages. One of them because a noble family finally gave her daughter to another familly, which was a mistake, because they insulted the Trevelyan, and they did pay the price for that.  My Trevelyan, as proud as his father, and as fierce as his mother fighted in a dual with the " husband " of the woman, and killed him. That's how it ended.   ( it was just a " punishment ", not for love )

 

The other one, his fiance died before they get married, someone he cared about. ( yeah I wanted some tragedy in his life. XD ) 

[Sifr]

That's very interesting. My head canon for the Trevelyans mainly circles around a traditionalist inflexibility. I picture a stern and uncompromising Patriarch, in particular. 

 

That's my headcanon as well, have you been stealing my notes?

 

I picture the elder Lord Trevelyan as being very pious and resentful of having a child who grew up to become a mage, so they never came to see them at the Circle and was conspicuously absent whenever their child was granted permission to visit family.

[veeia]

I loved my Trev conversation because he got to say Orlesians don't understand freedom and I named him Big Tex and he has a mullet and a handlebar. So it fit perfectly, I was so delighted.

[LadyJaneGrey]

It really is nice. I must spend twenty minutes exploring all the options for each character.

[veeia]

Yeah I saw a photo of the Trev war missions where they were fighting over a cow or something and I was like WELL NOW I NEED TO ROLL A HUMAN AND MAKE HIM A DIRTY SOUTHERN JERK.

He's super fun to play so far. Used the American VA, obv. 2H warrior, cocky but fake humble sometimes, ruthless, down for this Herald business and really does not like Solas, lmao.

[Lady Artifice]

That's my headcanon as well, have you been stealing my notes?

 

I picture the elder Lord Trevelyan as being very pious and resentful of having a child who grew up to become a mage, so they never came to see them at the Circle and was conspicuously absent whenever their child was granted permission to visit family.

 

 

I suspect it's more that we share a few brainwaves. 

 

That's so sad...and it's where I veer off. I imagine him visiting on a routine, maybe yearly basis, but it's tense, right? He mainly talks about their education. He cares, but it's buried beneaths layers and layers of cold reserve and dignity. 

 

He totally carries a cane, too. It might not fit the lore, or be possible to implement if he did show up in game, but it's a necessary part of my headcanon. 

[Lady Artifice]

I love that concept.  I imagined Father to be a bit like that. Stern too,  being all about family, tradition and duty and how everyone should sacrifice everything for their family to be successful. Father couldn't stand any insult toward his name and his honor. While, for mother, ambitious, it was about power, appearance, intrigues, she is a very sneaky and fierce woman, similar to a bard, except she has power over people. A lovely woman with her family, but quite frightening for her enemy. 

 

She has consistently sought to marry her son to other daughters of influential families in Ostwick. My Trevelyan got two failed marriages. One of them because a noble family finally gave her daughter to another familly, which was a mistake, because they insulted the Trevelyan, and they did pay the price for that.  My Trevelyan, as proud as his father, and as fierce as his mother fighted in a dual with the " husband " of the woman, and killed him. That's how it ended.   ( it was just a " punishment ", not for love )

 

The other one, his fiance died before they get married, someone he cared about. ( yeah I wanted some tragedy in his life. XD ) 

 

Fascinating. I really like the idea of the mother being that calculating.

 

All I've had for her in my head is that, in the case of my rogue Inquisitor(my default), she's against her joining the chantry because she wants to marry her off. I picture Matriarch and Patriarch having some tension over it. I might have to steal aspects of your head canon to fill in the blanks.  

[kyles3]

I love it. Kind of lets you choose your own origin.

[rpgfan321]

Loved the options given to the Inquisitor, I agree  

Such dialogue options really fleshed out the Inquisitor as a character, not just some PC responding back and forth to NPCs. Really loved the whole Fade thing. It made my little philosopher in me happy. 

[Giggles_Manically]

I liked how my Qunari mage used some simple Wisps to scare some bandits into surrendering.

 

The other options were interesting there to, but I love it for giving me some RP room.

More RP room is just as important as anything in an RPG.

 

Plus hearing Josie going on about how daring it was kinda made my Qunari more interested in her to. So there is that.

[Sifr]

I suspect it's more that we share a few brainwaves. 

 

That's so sad...and it's where I veer off. I imagine him visiting on a routine, maybe yearly basis, but it's tense, right? He mainly talks about their education. He cares, but it's buried beneaths layers and layers of cold reserve and dignity. 

 

He totally carries a cane, too. It might not fit the lore, or be possible to implement if he did show up in game, but it's a necessary part of my headcanon. 

 

I suspect so!

 

Yeah, I seem to have unintentionally given my Mage Trevelyan a rather tragic backstory. I think that part of the rift stems from the fact that Lord Trevelyan genuinely loves his children and had high expectations for them, but often would set the bar a little too high. The only one who came close was his youngest, who shared his love for history and scholarly pursuits, so he was more than a little shattered when they were revealed to have magic and reacted badly to the news, but is too prideful to admit he was wrong. (He did however bequeath his entire library to them in his Will, as a sign he still cares however).

 

And I love the cane idea, I may have to steal it!

 

Why haven't we seen many nobles with canes yet? It totally fits some of the nobles we've seen, especially in Orlais and the Free Marches to have them? Fereldan nobles don't really go for that much pomp and circumstance, so I could see them not being in fashion there, unless they're legitimately needed due to age or injury? As for the lore, Felassan in Masked Empire had a staff that could shrink to a cane, which is a very cool concept that I'd like to see in the games?

 

I recently went through that convo as a Dalish and really enjoyed some of the dialogue in it, especially Alix Wilton Reagan's delivery of some of the more snarkier dialogue options, about the insane rumours about the Dalish like "stealing your breath and turning into Dragons".

 

[AresKeith]

Yup!

 

My mage had a crush on one of the templars, but he was too shy to do anything with it. 

 

Hi reverse Cullen

[StrangeStrategy]

Yup!

 

My mage had a crush on one of the templars, but he was too shy to do anything with it. 

 

Same here.  I wish there were more opportunities in the game to flesh out our own backstory, but I really appreciated this chance at least.

[herkles]

here is a question: what is better, prologue origins as in the first game, or much more content like we got with this conversation with Josie?

[Dave of Canada]

I'm a big fan of this type of system in which you mold your character. Tried to roll a dwarven conman who was going along with the rumor for his own benefit and I liked that the game gave me a few conversations with characters who'd ask me what I really thought, allowing me to play along and not feel like I'm simply headcanoning it all the way.

[Ieldra]

I'll chime in and say that I also love these conversations where you can flesh out your character. The first one with Josephine is great, then the one with Mother Giselle in "In Your Heart Shall Burn", where I got to say "All this happened because of fanatics and arguments about the next world. It's time we start believing in this one". Perfect line. There are several of these, and where they appear, they're always roleplaying highlights of a mission.

 

I could slap myself for missing that thing about a mage PC having a crush on a templar. That was in my written character profile before I started my first game. How do you get it?

[wright1978]

Yeah I liked being able to distance myself from family as trebly an Mage with the doesn't get on with them option.