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[Lee T]

I thought she sounded french

To my french ears she sounds german.

[NotBeouwulf]

Sounds to me like she has something like a weak german accent, not French/Orlesian like Leliana or the people you encounter in Val Roueaux. As for Spain, it's by all accounts represented in Thedas by Antiva, both Zevran and Josephine have spanish accents.

Antivan is inspired by Venice and the Italian Merchant States.

[Dubya75]

Cassandra's accent is as was mentioned a million times already, Nevarran. Sounds very much like the German accent to my ears.

 

As far as facial features and skin tone is concerned, you can't really place someone judging by that alone (unless you're Asian or black). My ex-wife's half-sister (who is incidentally, German) has black hair and strong features, very much like Cassandra.

[Unlucky 13]

To me, the Nevarran accent sounds like a blend of German and Russian.

[Akka le Vil]

Pretty surprised by people mixing her accent with Orlais'. It doesn't sound even remotely french - seems more eastern europe to me (german/slavic ?).

 

Navarra is spanish-themed I think, but maybe they decided that Antiva would be the "mediterranean" culture and Nevarra would be eastern ?

[Wulfram]

Navarra is spanish-themed I think, but maybe they decided that Antiva would be the "mediterranean" culture and Nevarra would be eastern ?

It's not really spanish at all, aside from the name. Culturally, all we really know about it is the whole necropolis thing, which could be seen as vaguely egyptian but not really. In terms of political situation it can be compared to Prussia, since it started out as one of the states of the Free Marches and got big and powerful and started beating up on the French.

[tmp7704]

but i recently watched that dragon age anime, and she looked kinda asian in it, which made me think she might be asian in inquisition.

It's the same deal Western movies are made with caucasian primary cast even if they're supposed to happen outside of the West. They believe the audience wouldn't be as interested if the leads were looking different from them.

[DarkAmaranth1966]

Here's how I see it.

 

Antiva: Latino, Spain, Brazil, Puerto Rico, etc...

Orlais: French and other high brow nations/cities Monte Carlo, Paris, etc...

Nevarra: Medeterainian, Greece and other similar places.

Tevinter: Old South USA, back when we still has slavery and, the gentry all owned huge estates and had their snoots in the air too far.

Par Vollen: Not sure yet but perhaps Africa, Egypt, Pakistan and the rest of the middle east.

Anderfells: Not a clue but might be Nordic, Russian, Swiss or Slovakian.

[Bizantura]

The voice actress for Cassandra stated that she made Cassandra's accent hard to place.  To me she sounds like she's using a Flemish/Brussels accent of some type, which I think is fantastic if for no other reason than it's fun.

Had a good laugh because I doubt anyone would like my flemish english!!

[wepeel_]

Here's how I see it.

 

Tevinter: Old South USA, back when we still has slavery and, the gentry all owned huge estates and had their snoots in the air too far.

 

Pretty sure Tevinter is the analogue of the Roman Empire. Once it ruled most of the world, but now it's well past its prime. People from there have old Roman or -ish names like e.g. Cremisius Aclassi, Calpurnia, Aurelian Titus; not to mention positions like magister, quaestor etc that are directly adopted.

[Akka le Vil]

Here's how I see it.

 

Antiva: Latino, Spain, Brazil, Puerto Rico, etc...

Orlais: French and other high brow nations/cities Monte Carlo, Paris, etc...

Nevarra: Medeterainian, Greece and other similar places.

Tevinter: Old South USA, back when we still has slavery and, the gentry all owned huge estates and had their snoots in the air too far.

Par Vollen: Not sure yet but perhaps Africa, Egypt, Pakistan and the rest of the middle east.

Anderfells: Not a clue but might be Nordic, Russian, Swiss or Slovakian.

 

Weird idea to put New World parallel when the inspiration is definitely massively MEDIEVAL Europe.

 

Tevinter has nothing to do with USA. It's a BLATANT mix of old Roman Empire (for the slavery, the social classes, the latin names and titles) and Byzantine Empire (for the "remnant of the old Empire", the, well, byzantine politics, and the "fighting against Arabic/Arabic-inspired invasion").

How you can manage to link a country with such a massively Roman inspiration to USA is beyond my understanding...

 

It's rather funny to see "Orlais is French, plus other... well French cities". So it's inspired by France, and also France ?

 

I'd add that the Qun seems a twist on the Quran from the time, and the invading Qunari are the Arabic wars of the 7-13th centuries.

 

For the rest, yeah, kinda agree. Though Nevarra looks more and more like a mix of German and completely made-up things (necromancers and necropolis, there isn't really an Old World equivalent).

[Drakul]

I'm a bit confused why we are all talking about her accent XD

[berelinde]

I actually thought that Nevarra was vaguely like spain in the same way that Ferelden is vaguely like England. This reallly shows how little we know about Nevarra, lol

The Nevarran mortalitasi trainer you get for the necromancer spec sounds Spanish.

[Lord Marcus]

She's Nevarran.  An ethnicity to a video game.  She is not real life ethnicity.

 

Nevarra seems like either Dutch or more likely Austria than anything else.

Sounds Austrian. I don't think I have heard or seen a male from Nevarra... Bioware should get Ahhnold as the next Nevarra companion voice actor. Iron Bull 'Hey Mr Nevarra, Grab that wood and hit me. Nevarra man 'IM GOING TO PUMP YOU UP!'

[Drakul]

I'm quite impressed there are no "WHAT DOES RACE MATTER????!!!" comments

[JaegerBane]

It's worth pointing out that the nations in thedas don't necessarily map directly to real world nations, past or present. Ferelden is a rough mixture of England, Wales and Scotland. Antiva and Rivain each depict different aspects of both Spain and Italy. Orlais is mostly French with some elements of Italy. Tevinter is really the only straight analogue, being inspired by the declining Roman Empire.

Nevarra has no direct analogue - it has elements of Germany, Prussia, and ancient Egypt. So in that respect, I can understand why her accent is hard to place.

[Gill Kaiser]

Antiva is a mix of Italy and Spain. Zevran has a Spanish accent, Josephine has an Italian accent.

Cassandra's accent is a made-up accent with no direct analogue.

[AppealToReason]

Its Eastern European person who went to England after the age of 14 and tried French immersion.

[Drakul]

Antiva is a mix of Italy and Spain. Zevran has a Spanish accent, Josephine has an Italian accent.

Cassandra's accent is a made-up accent with no direct analogue.

Josephine sound middle-eastern to me...

All these accents XD

[magicalpoop]

Tevinter as cotton colonial Southern USA? LOL NO.....JUST NO....There are no Cotton Farmer Magisters that sip iced tea spiked with Jack Daniels my friend, none, none at all. It's pretty much blatant roman empire. Sorry, USA really isn't the first for everything - not even slaves 

[Phoe77]

Modern Tevinter seems far more similar to Byzantium than the western Roman empire, in my opinion.  I wouldn't say it was blatantly Roman unless you were combining both incarnations of the empire into one.

[Mugino]

Whatever it is, it's hot!

[Sinophile]

   Ferelden and Orlais are definitely British and French respectively. Notice how the working class peasants in Ferelden such as Sera have a Cockney accent, whereas the Nobles have a much more posh dialect(forgot what you call it and don't feel like googling it). Even the rivalry between the two countries is reminiscent of their real-world medieval counter-parts.

   From what I;ve learned in Western Civilization Class, Ancient Tevinter is very much like Rome in the sense that both were once hubs of Civilization. The Chantry is an obvious nod to the Catholic church. The Mages being disciples of Martin Luther. I am predicting that in Dragon Age IV, Alistair will decouple Ferelden from the Chantry so that he can have a harem.

  

Anyway, back to the original Topic, I've always pegged Cassandra as Germanic due to Neverra's customs around the Undead. in Bram Stoker's Dracula(for those of you who like to read books), Van Helsing is German, which is where many of the Vampire myths came from. Of Course, Dracula himself was Transylvanian.

 

As for the Qun and Qunari- I've always thought of them as either Hindu(which had a caste system), or Confucian. Of course, there are many real world cultures that have had caste systems or something similar.