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[JeffZero]

No, seriously, what's a Merrilyst?

A play on the word "Catalyst" as used in Mass Effect 3, this time with the word "Merrill" instead.

If you haven't played ME3 you won't get it. And if you don't know me you won't know my bizarre love for puns, so feel free to roll your eyes!

[Al Foley]

A play on the word "Catalyst" as used in Mass Effect 3, this time with the word "Merrill" instead.

If you haven't played ME3 you won't get it. And if you don't know me you won't know my bizarre love for puns, so feel free to roll your eyes!

What does Merril have to do with star brat?

[9TailsFox]

I was wondering... what about the Eluvian stuff in the Masqued Empire?

There we learn that Eluvians are under the control of Briala, if I remember correctly. How is it possible that someone else (Solas for example) can control them? Ok, he's a god, but Briala has the key to all of them...

Please, feel free to correct me. I read the novel some time ago and I don't remember it very well.

Key to Eluvians is Fen'harel blessing. And are you seriously think Solas don't know how to use telephone?

[Robert Cousland]

What does Merril have to do with star brat?

 

Go back a page or two, then you'll have your answer.

[Al Foley]

OK so prediction time:  

 

You get to the Winter Palce, politics, blah blah been two years, blah blah the Inquisition is a threat.  

 

Then companions show up.  You get downtime/ minor diplomatic party with them.  

 

More poliics

 

Assassination attempt

 

Start with the meat of the story. 

[Wahed89]

I predict that the Qunari that attack are not officially part of the Qunari. In that they will be some kind of rebel or revolutionary group. I say this because if the Arishok survives in DA2, then in Inquisition Varric will tell you that he lost the Tome of Koslan, and specifically that it was stolen. In the trailer we see the tome strapped to that Qunari woman's arm. 

 

I know I'm not the first to say this, but I wanted to write it down whilst the thought occurred, as I'm watching some YT videos atm.

[TeaLulu]

I predict that thats really not the Tome of Koslun on the lady Qunari's arm, because why would she have it when she is specifically going into a possible-death situation of hunting down the Inquisitor? 

 

Unless, of course, after the Tome was stolen again, it was given to Orlais...and part of this DLC is the Qunari arriving in the Palace through the Eluvian and stealing the book back?

[Heimdall]

The Qunari we fight in Tresspasser are working as the vanguard of the invasion, hoping to assassinate the Inquisitor and the Divine, along with the nobility present, to send southern Thedas into disarray as they invade the north (They saw how the Chantry fell to pieces after Justinia's death and mean to exploit the same weakness). How we deal with the Qunari will influence whether or not the Inquisition continues to exist.

For fear of another magical catastrophe like the Breach, the Ben-Hassrith is also targeting the Inquisitor specifically to neutralize the Anchor.

My guess is that there will be several missions to this DLC, several narrative focused areas that can be completed in a variable order depending on which eluvian you enter in the Crossroads, hence the use of the Winter Palace as a hub.

[madrar]

Throwing this out there, so I can look back and laugh on Wednesday.

 

As Laidlaw mentioned, the "Trespasser" in the DLC title has multiple layers of meaning:

• The obvious: humans, dwarves, and Qunari trespassing in the realms of the ancient Elvhen.
• Ancient elves (and possibly the Gods/Titans themselves, though that gets into heavy tinfoil territory) are technically trespassers.  The "When Waked We Walked" poem suggests its authors originated elsewhere, journeying by eluvian-wormhole after achieving free will / self-awareness.
• Solas himself is a "trespasser" in the archaic literary sense: one who has committed a 'sin' or transgression against a (deific) ruling power.  As dominions of Order and Chaos cycle, he trespasses against each in his efforts to restore balance.

 

Given the trailer, I'm hoping to confirm/deny:

• Mythal's identity as a spirit fragment of Earth, and previous murder(s?) by Elgar'nan.
• The Executors' possible relationship to Mythal, and the nature of the "powers across the sea".  (Literal reference, or connection to Titans of Chaos trapped in the void beyond the figurative sea of the fade?)
• Hints of an ancient Elvhen exxodus from (what is now) the moon.  
• The nature of the Darkness and possible existence of "Father Time". 

[Katebe94]

My first thought on the DLC title is that the 'Trespasser' is the inquisitor: he/she usurps Corypheus' ritual by being in the wrong place at the wrong time (right place? etc). A consistent theme seems to be the inquisitor 'trespassing' in locked-away places, eg the fade, temple of mythal.

 

I really liked that about the game: we don't necessarily play a big hero destined for greatness from birth, but someone thrust into a pivotal role entirely by accident.

[Wahed89]

I predict that thats really not the Tome of Koslun on the lady Qunari's arm, because why would she have it when she is specifically going into a possible-death situation of hunting down the Inquisitor?

Unless, of course, after the Tome was stolen again, it was given to Orlais...and part of this DLC is the Qunari arriving in the Palace through the Eluvian and stealing the book back?

I guess, but that's not necessarily the case. The Qunari attitude can be quite arrogant I think. She probably hasn't even considered her own possible mortality, and the tome being there could offer her some kind of protection (literally or just psychologically). I just think the time looks so similar and what else would be important enough that you strap it to you arm?

[Uccio]

I have a wonder, how the heck did qunari learn to master the eluvians when the pinnacle of magic in Thedas, Tevinter Imperium did not. And qunari hate magic? Would someone please explain this.

[Drasanil]

I have a wonder, how the heck did qunari learn to master the eluvians when the pinnacle of magic in Thedas, Tevinter Imperium did not. And qunari hate magic? Would someone please explain this.

 

If they're using Briala's eluvian network, they don't need to master them, they just need the password to get in.

[Uccio]

If they're using Briala's eluvian network, they don't need to master them, they just need the password to get in.

 

But why would Briala help qunari? To get herself turned into Qun? That would be rather short sighted.

[Reznore57]

I have a wonder, how the heck did qunari learn to master the eluvians when the pinnacle of magic in Thedas, Tevinter Imperium did not. And qunari hate magic? Would someone please explain this.

 

It's a mystery for the ages.

You even see Qunari in the Crossroads....thing is Qunari view on magic are extreme .They pretend they don't go into the fade and the whole place is taboo , the Crossroads is a magical realm closer to the fade than Thedas , and yeah Eluvians are magical portals , you can even use them to walk the bloody fade.

 

So the whole squad of qunari are going to immolate themselves once the mission is done?

I would understand them destroying the Eluvians , and blowing up the Crossroads but chances are they are going to inflitrate the Winter Palace using Eluvians...mmmm.

 

We're probably going to see another qunari mental gymnastic at work.

[Arakat]

I predict that the Qunari that attack are not officially part of the Qunari. In that they will be some kind of rebel or revolutionary group. I say this because if the Arishok survives in DA2, then in Inquisition Varric will tell you that he lost the Tome of Koslan, and specifically that it was stolen. In the trailer we see the tome strapped to that Qunari woman's arm. 

 

I know I'm not the first to say this, but I wanted to write it down whilst the thought occurred, as I'm watching some YT videos atm.

 

I think he just refers to Isabela escaping the Qunari with the Tome again if you give her to the Arishok. It's still open what happened to the Tome after that, though.

[Jester]

But why would Briala help qunari? To get herself turned into Qun? That would be rather short sighted.

Ben-Hassrath infiltrated her agents probably.

A lot of City Elves get converted to the Qun.

[Jeniva]

sorry if this has already been stated, but does anyone know roughly what to expect playtime wise? JOH was reasonable, the descent took me half the time of JOH and i did all the quests. I'm hoping it will be at LEAST joh length, if not longer.

[EICAS]

With the left hand "removed", the inquisitor will be permanently stepped down (an archer, assassin or even mage cannot fight with just one hand), but remain alive and perhaps even a happy living with the chosen lover...like Cullen (with this the devs will be able to get rid of the inquisitor in DA4)

but this might not be a feasible option if the lover is Solas, insisting on following Solas might require the death of inquisitor (keep the left hand, enter the fade and no return)

 

Solas: I need you (and your hand)

[d1ta]

My wild guess (and horrible nightmare): virmire decision between Ferelden and Orlais.
Help Orlais and Ferelden gets burned, vice versa.
(Idk, the supposed 'Ban Teagan' giving a shocked expression in the trailer makes me think this way. I soooooooo hope that I'm wrong)

[htisscrimbliv]

The next divine(whoever it is). Is killed and everyone is blaming the inquisition cuz they think we're drunk on power. The qunari reveal that tis i who killed the divine. If the divine was leliana then the hero of ferelden sprouts out from the ground and butt rapes the entire army, cuz they can do that. If its cass or viv then the the 2 countries order you as the inquisitor to fight them off while they sit on their fat bloated asses eating popcorn or whatever movie food da people eat. After your done solas jumps from a tree and lands on your shoulders, then bites off your hand. Hawke, who managed to destroy every single demon in the fade, comes out of the now decapitated hand and pushes solas into the fade, where he spends the rest of his immortal life alone speaking only one word...




Preeeeeeccccccciiiiioooouuuuussss.

[Drasanil]

 

But why would Briala help qunari? To get herself turned into Qun? That would be rather short sighted.

 

Ben-Hassrath infiltrated her agents probably.

A lot of City Elves get converted to the Qun.

 

This. Briala has an entire network with at some higher-ups and middle managers who have to know the password for logistical reasons, she can't be everywhere at once. Given this its not entirely hard to imagine Ben-Hassrath would be able to compromise one or two of them or get some of their own elven qun-drones in. 

[SwobyJ]

Hints that Commander Shepard has metaphysically trespassed onto Thedas.

[Al Foley]

I kind of assume that the Eluvian network, in total, is not one solid monolithic network like the Gate network or Relay network but I just theorize that each Elven 'God' not only had their own Eluvians but probably their entirely own networks of them that could be cut off from the others.  Thus The Mythal/ One Morrigan had is one, the one Briala has is another, and I theorize that the Qunari have gained the key to a third network of Eluvian's.  

[SwobyJ]

I have a wonder, how the heck did qunari learn to master the eluvians when the pinnacle of magic in Thedas, Tevinter Imperium did not. And qunari hate magic? Would someone please explain this.

 

I didn't see the Qunari as 'hating' magic, but more thinking that any individual or even smaller (than the Qun) organization trying to deal with magic, is too dangerous.

 

But the Qun as a whole may be seen to welcome magic. But again, only as the whole of the Qun. Magic is the ultimate tool. But emphasis on tool - thus the Qunari distrust of any one person's ability to control their magic (and all its subject matter).

 

This Qunari in Trespasser may be the vanguard, or main force, or splinter faction of the Qun. In any case, the Qunari don't 'hate magic', or even fear it (exactly), as much as they distrust it, before it may/will reliably become part of the Qun.

 

And they IMO intend on magic and the Fade to become part of the Qun, just as the rest of Thedas. Managed.

 

I think I can see at least some element of the Qunari dealing with the eluvians for the idea of their greater good/role.