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Tephlon212

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I'm just curious to see how other roleplay there characters. I know whenever I'm playing BioWare games (especially the DA series) I tend to have my own head canon going on. For instance, my most recent Inquisitor was a female Dalish Elf Mage. She was at the conclave to spy on the proceedings for clan Lavellan. She didn't know how to react when all of this attention and power was just suddenly thrust upon her. Over the course of the game, she went from being a non-believer in the Maker and worshiper of Mythal, to pretty much an Andrastian convert. She still dosen't believe she was ever the Herald of Andraste, but the points of her conversion are there in the conversations she had. I think the one point when she first started to question her beliefs was in a conversation with Varric about all the stuff that had happened to her recently and that was when they were just getting things going in Haven, not to mention all of the conversations with Cullen and Cassandra in the time after that. But I think the real turning point in her relious beliefs came when she talked to the previous Inquisitor Ameridan. What really turned her around was hearing him (a Dalish Elf Mage Inquisitor just like her) say that he was going to Andrastes side. She has converted so far that when Cullen proposed to her, she didn't even want to say Dalish vows. Anyway, that was just a small growth of character that I really didn't even intend when I started that character, and I'm curious to see if anything like that happens to other people here when they play.



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I feel like most of roleplay is going on around table missions, since many choices don't have any other consequences :)

 

I had a feeling from the beginning that the game will be about elves and magic, thus I made a male Elf Mage. He was a sceptic and a troll, just like Morrigan, and never believed in any gods (I love how you can tell Corypheus about that before the final battle). His own clan was too boring for him, thus he welcomed the oppurtunity to join  the Inquisition and learn something new there. He didn't liked how they call him the Herald of Andraste, but he liked the power that this title gave him, thus he accepted it eventually. Cass romance was a bonus, because he wasn't into men or npcs :)

 

He drinked from the Well in hopes to get even more power and knowledge (no new fancy skills? why, Bioware?). I suppose he was pretty close to Tevinter magisters in general, though he couldn't possibly use a blood magic because he was a rift mage, since it weakens rift magic, as Solas mentioned. I wonder if it's true...

 

He was a friend of Sera (yeah, she has especially high approvment), so he became a Red Jenny to have at least some fun after Inquisition lost most of its power. And he didn't threaten Solas because it's a stupid thing to do with their difference in strength. In fact, if they will ever give us an opportunity to control the Inquisitor once more, he'll try to take that power from Solas rather than kill him.



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I'm just curious to see how other roleplay there characters. I know whenever I'm playing BioWare games (especially the DA series) I tend to have my own head canon going on. For instance, my most recent Inquisitor was a female Dalish Elf Mage. She was at the conclave to spy on the proceedings for clan Lavellan. She didn't know how to react when all of this attention and power was just suddenly thrust upon her. Over the course of the game, she went from being a non-believer in the Maker and worshiper of Mythal, to pretty much an Andrastian convert.

 

*hiss*

 

Headcanon-wise, my girl had city elf parents who joined the Dalish when she showed signs of magic at an early age, to keep her out of the Circle. Since Zathrien's clan accepted Lanaya (a city elf) as their First, and Clan Lavellan is shown to be caring toward city elves in the Wycome war table missions (they stayed in a city where they knew they would be hunted to try to save the city elves from getting purged), I think it makes sense that they would accept a city elf as their First, which inspired her to care about all elves, regardless of their cultural upbringing.

 

That said, helping to lead a small clan didn't prepare her for leading a huge organization. I imagine she started off feeling very stressed and harassed from the sudden responsiblies of leading thousands of people who worshiped her for being their god and likely being willing to blame her people if she failed, so early in the game I chose many "snappy/angry" dialogue options. Over time, she made herself easy and got used to the role, and started choosing more light-hearted/snarky lines.

 

She also still didn't start out fully liking or trusting humans that much (due to her clans' history of being attacked by humans more often than not), so while she was never rude to the human characters or anything, she didn't start off feeling particularly close to them. Another part of her character development was learning to put her prejudices aside and learn to like and trust her human allies. The companions/advisers she expected to like least when they first met (Cassandra the devout Andrastian Seeker, Cullen the devout former Templar, and Dorian the Tevinter magister's son) wound up being some of her closest friends and most respected and trusted allies at the end. (I would say Varric, but he never takes you off the pedestal, and Solas flees at the end.  :crying: )

 

She never abandoned her people, her culture, or her mission to recover their lost history or help them rise in the world. Everything she did was for them, and every discovery about ancient elven lore just made her happy to learn that their stories were based on such large grains of truth. Much like Merrill in DA2, she wasn't 100% sold that any one religion was 100% right, but felt that different religions and histories were "stories that people use to explain the world," and wanted to stick to her own people's stories unless or until proven wrong. While the revelations about elves in Inquisition and Trespasser prove they were mistaken, they also prove they were honest mistakes based on missing records and cultural decay and genocide. (Not at all like the Chantry flat-out rewriting history so that all exceptional mages and elves either got re-written into non-magic humans like Ameridan, or stricken from the records entirely like Shartan or the mages that helped Cassandra slay the dragon that saved the previous Divine's life and got her famous.)

 

All in all, it was a very "elfy" adventure, but one that fostered friendship and comradely with Andrastian humans and... dwarves. (Still love you Varric, even though you only see me as "The Herald of Andraste.")



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Seems to depend on race/background for me, it seems to be the basis for whatever tone I'm gonna take. My qunquisitors tend to be the most well meaning, ultimately. They might be jokers or stoic but they generally have a desire to 'fix' things as much as possible. My elves tend to be plucky, well meaning elven god worshipers initially but as revelations continue throughout the game about the history of the elves and they're exposed to more and more **** they become harder/darker/godless characters. Usually the best players of The Game my elves. Haven't played with humans or dwarves too much. The idea I have for dwarves is ruthless yet efficient. Dunno about humans. I usually play mages so I could always go with FREEDOOOOOOM at all costs. That's always fun. Alternatively: a devout Andrastian mage who just wants to put everything back the way it was and return to a circle would be... different.


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I've found Inquisition to be the most difficult of the three to maintain any kind of roleplaying consistency with when the game keeps railroading me.  Yeah, even more so than DA2 if that were possible.  But I've still managed to have immense fun with my various characters and yes I do make up some rather long-winded back stories for them.  What I find interesting though is how they sometimes take off on their own.  I create the character in my head, give them a back story, sit down to play and expect certain decisions will be made at certain key points and then... for some reason I get into the mindset of the character and they just go off in a direction I wasn't expecting.  It's hard to describe but a lot of fun when it happens.  Like when my cynical, back-stabbing Cadash turned into a goody two-shoes Andrastian.  Didn't see that coming and I'm not entirely sure I was happy with the result in the end.  

 

Of course, there are still characters that are pretty much self-inserts that I can't seem to get away from.  My self-inserts tend to look a bit like me, act mostly as I would and tend to have backgrounds that I can relate to.  They're usually the characters I play first.  Being an Irish geek who likes to laugh her way through tragedy in real life, well that translates to a Lavellan mage with a roguish outlook in Thedas I suppose.  Not sure how I always end up playing vampires or werewolves in Skyrim though.  Something Freudian I expect.



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robertmarilyn

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Mine are always generous, kind people, who can't stand Viv.  :P



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the world of Inquisition is so stuck up i tend to go for all the sarcastic or renagade(ish) replies. 

Normally play as a male human. 



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I find the voice tends to shape my role playing. The American female voice is kinda husky. I can't help but make her more domineering, I like to fight with Morrigan in that voice for some reason. The British female voice is softer and I end up playing a more sympathetic, caring inquisitor.