Seriously? A military organization 'able to rival nations' with no oversight or loyalty to anyone but the individual leading them?
An organization occupying strategic points within their sovereign territory without so much as a 'please and thank you'? This includes castles, trade routes, and a freaking gold mine. No sovereign nation would ever be able to overlook something like that.
An individual with vast personal power, both in terms of loyalty and simple raw power, capable of tearing holes in reality like the one the world was just saved from, at whim, and who, in the process of saving the world, pissed in some pretty powerful people's cheerios (hey look, the Qunari took offense. Shocking).
The Qunari situation in the main game alone should have been enough. Either the Inquisitor makes an alliance with the sworn mortal foe of every nation on mainland Thedas, thus rightly angering said nations, or the Inquisitor sets themselves up to be blamed by every possible detractor for angering the sworn mortal foe of every nation on Southern Thedas, potentially hastening the next war. Which would anger said nations.
And I haven't even gone into the whole 'may/not be the Herald of Andraste and a walking blasphemy' angle.
The Inquisition is a sucking parasite in the heart of Southern Thedas, and the Inquisitor, as the trailer rightly points out, is a focal point for ever escalating conflicts. The Inquisition needed to be, at the very least, stripped of its holdings and political/military power, if not outright disbanded. The Inquisitor themselves should have been thanked with a nice banquet, a few medals, and an all expense paid trip as far away from Orlais and Ferelden as possible while bards all over the region started wispering and singing about implied transgressions, treasons, and terribly unpopular character flaws while downplaying their positive accomplishments.
No sovereign and no sovereign nation would ever allow an extranational organization as big as the Inquisition to go unchallenged and without oversight in the heart of their territory. Nor would they allow an individual enough political and military power to challenge them as equals. We're lucky this DLC isn't just called "A Murder of Crows: One of Them Will Eventually Succeed".
Excellent. I hope they follow through with that.
Exactly. At least with the Wardens, their influence is fairly limited, and largely contingent on the support of their host nation. Even the Wardens ruling Amaranthine was ultimately the result of a royal decree from the crown of Ferelden, and considering how much bloody murder everyone starts screaming the instant they start to take an interest in anything other than darkspawn, it doesn't seem realistic that the Inquisition has given itself the authority to tax, enforce laws and demand allegiance from people, often within the boundaries of existing states, without anyone objecting. Now, whether you think those objections are right or wrong is beside the point, they are going to happen.
Meh , the whole game was a bitter experience and the bland lackluster soulless inquisitor made it more so.
I still have my origins and mighty hof , am happy.
Yeah, the Inquisitor and Inquisition were just too dull for my tastes, and I could never really become invested in either. The voice actors did the best with what they could, but you can't make a cathedral on a head of a pin either.
I don't want the Inquisitor to die, but I don't really want to continue with the Inquisition either, it kind of outlived its usefulness after dealing with the breach. Quizzy retiring and laying low would be a perfect ending for me. Or the Inquisition simply keeping it low key - just cleaning up the remaining rifts without playing politics and whatnot.
That would be cool too, having the Inquisition honourably stand down and retire their proverbial colours until they're needed again.
Also, one thing I hope this DLC does is bring back the menace and exotic nature to the Qunari again. In DA2, you got the sense that not only were the Qunari a force to be reckoned with, but they were fundamentally alien from the rest of Thedas in a lot of respects. They weren't just 21st century humans with crazy ox horns on their heads, they were profoundly different from the world around them, and held values that were both dogmatic and terrifying. Inquisition really defanged a lot of the setting and took away the rough edges ,so I'm really hoping the Qunari get their teeth back in this one.
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