Guest_Faerunner_*
Okay BioWare, you made your point.
You hate elves. You hate elves that like other elves. You hate elves that like being elves. You hate the Dalish!
You've done everything in your power to punish the Dalish every chance you get. You've done everything in your power to try to shame and punish a Dalish PC for being Dalish. You make it absurdly easy to get our clan wiped out in the war table missions. You retconned Dalish culture to having a strict "3 mages per Clan" rule in which most clans abandon excess mage children to die--despite how the previous game stating that magic is dying among them and they're trying to encourage magic as part of their elven heritage. Something which most characters (and the narrative) jump to condemn the entire culture for. You present a people desperate to hold onto their dying culture as backwards and pretentious (unless they say "It's all p!ss! Let's sh!t on it and walk away" like Sera), and you reveal many horrible "truths" about ancient elven religion and history and present it as a poor reflection on the Dalish for not knowing instead of an honest mistake that anyone could have made in their position.
And, of course, our two and only elven companions hate the Dalish and pull no punches telling the Dalish PC why. Not only that, but they aren't fond of other elves in general. They try to distance themselves from other elves, put down an Elven PC that tries to claim kin, and jump at the chance to say why modern elves suck any time the topic gets brought up. Sera hates any elf she considers "too elfy" (which is anyone that doesn't actively look down on other elves like her), and Solas makes it clear he doesn't think well of modern city or Dalish elven culture. Both of them don't want to be judged as "just another elf," but each of them freely judges every other elf they come across, and the game doesn't let us call them out on this hypocrisy. Instead, we're made to look like the racists for noticing that they are, in fact, by all appearances, elves.
Despite my complaints, I still want race selection to come back next game. I still want to play as an elf (and dwarf and Qunari) despite the lengths you go to try to make all non-human cultures look detestable in the audience's eyes. (Unless they act like Andrastian humans who happened to be born with different racial features, like Varric or Sera. Then they're "likable" to you.)
However, next game, could we please get at least one elven companion that doesn't hate other elves?? One who doesn't do everything in his or her power to distance his/herself from other elves, or jump on the flaws of the PC's heritage every chance they get? That'd be lovely, kthnxbai.
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