Rovert, you just don't listen, do you?
There is *no* accurate way to portray Hawke based on the events on Legacy, because it will always be dependent on who your Hawke was! What part of that are you finding hard to grasp?! Everyone reacts differently to a situation, and interpreting it based on your Hawke and declaring it an accurate portrayal is the worst kind of arrogance ignorance.
The issue over blood magic is again your own opinion, and not one you can just push onto Hawke. Anders hated blood magic for example, but he was responsible for the worst atrocity in the game. Meanwhile, your sibling (or whoever was captured in Best Served Cold) is saved by Alain - a blood mage. Idunna was a blood mage but can turn over a new leaf and join the chantry. Merril is probably the nicest person in all 3 games. Not everyone believes blood mages are irredeemably evil and Not all Hawkes will believe as your does. And your insisttence that they would just shows how you have no idea what this thread is talking about.
If red Lyrium is lyrium corrupted by the blight, then you'd think someone would have seen it, yes? You pass by so many darkspawn, including Broodmothers, in Paragon of her KInd, and in Awakening too. The Dwarven Merchants Guild which Varric is part of, has never seen or heard of this lyrium, and these are Dwarfs for whom Lyrium is their LIFE, and they know everything there is to know about it because that directly transaltes to money in their pocket. The notes by the smugglers in the game also indicate that they too have never seen anything like it. Nor has Bianca who is a master smith. If you don't think retcon when you look at this, then there's no hope for you.
Again, you completely miss the point. I'm not asking for all those plot threads to be developed in this game - I'm pointing out why because Hawke wasn't the main character but the timeline had to move on, that they *couldn't* be developed. Ergo it was a bad idea to put Hawke in this game, because all you were going to do was annoy people who wanted resolution on those issues. All those plot threads left dangling for further development are gathered up and through banter you might not even get, Varric knocks them all off by saying 'Oh that thing? Nothing happened with that. That other thing? Yeah, lot of fuss over nothing in the end - all done now...' Again and again, just chucking away the unresolved plot threads, saying they didn't matter, or nothing came of them. And the reason for this is simple - because they are done with Hawke and don't intend to do anything more with the character. But for those of us who wanted to see what happened next on all this stuff and how her various plotlines developed, being told 'They didn't. The End' was an anticlimax to say the least!
And all in service of resolving the rivarly between Hawke and Corypheus. You know... exactly like it doesn't!
What the hell is your problem understanding all this? Alistair and Loghain *can* show up at the end, so that justifies it?! Even when it doesn't happen for a great many people?! What about them? If you don't do the slibing warden line, you meet Stroud once - once! For 5 minutes in the street! The connection is only a possible one, and certainly not the one that Inquisition presents it as! When are you going to understand that if people can't have *their* Hawke back, then it feels like a different character? That far from being delighted to see them, all they see is some imposter who looks the same but is acting in a completely different way? And where are you pulling the HoF from? Who mentioned them?! Time and again, you try and turn everything into some bizarre attack. So now I'm a HoF fanboy am I? Despite not mentioning them. Okay...
You've proven exactly what you are with all this. If you can't understand why people look at Hawke and don't see their character portrayed, then you are just an ignorant fool. Hawke is not a character who is set in stone. Their personality and opinion on all individual issues were decided by the player - if you can't see why people have a problem having those opinions dictated to them and often completely changed to reflect what Bioware needs of the NPC during this quest, then again you have absolutely no understanding of what this thread is about. You take your version of events, and because it works with yours, the rest of us are just fools who aren't playing it properly, yes? Where do they find people like you...
And if you look, you'll see I'm perfectly aware that this game has to be about the Inquisitor, not Hawke. I said so many times, but I also said that this is the reason why Hawke should not appear. 2 main characters in the same game, is too many cooks. It forces them to take a character who previously has a personality who second by second, moment by moment, scene by scene, dialogue by dialogue was directed by the player and forces a set of current game plot relevant, quest relevant opinions onto them. And you seem to be having a hard time understanding why people would have a problem with that.
DA2 aren't fools and they are aren't blind to the fact that the game was unpopular, making further content difficult. But having the solution be to drag Hawke on screen for this disgraceful mess of retcon and character railroading, whilst having Varric torpedo all the lingering plot threads was like a dagger in the back. The game is filled with railroading and retcon, but given that Hawke was a player character (and the main character who you have the most control over in terms of their personality), it was all the worse here.
Well, you've proven that you aren't willing to listen to reason on this. It works for your Hawke, so the rest of us can just F off, it seems. All people wanted was for a game and character they liked to be respected and for Bioware to understand how misguided it is to try and suddenly make a main character into a supporting character, when said character's personality was entirely player dependant. But that's too much to ask for, it seems. So we just have to bend over and take it, accepting a unrecognizable Hawke in a cameo role on 1 mission, talking and acting in ways that are contrary to our versions, and who has no real relevance even to the quest she *is* in. Because we should just be grateful she's in the game at all, right?
Again I say, it must be wonderful to live in your world, where this kind of logic makes sense. Honest to God...
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