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[Beerfish]

All true op but at least it was done in a fashion that lets you walk away into the sunset and ends in a reasonably logical fashion, not perfect but reasonable.  Unlike the big fat fail of ME3 that totally failed to pull of the old 'you have sacrificed much for the common good kind of thing.'

[Shizukai]

 

This is not a category-system classification, it is simply the two extremes. There are infinite variations and possibilities in the middle.

 

The game doesn't allow you to loose everything.

The inquisition is not (can' be) "everything" - especially if you are a weak, confused and with zero-ambitions inquisitor -.

 

I've never said that a leader cannot suffer of depression, of feel lost and consider suicide etc.

I've said that a leader cannot suffer of depression etc for something so trivial and insignificant like:

a) your beloved friends are moving elsewhere (you can still go visiting them...)

 "your" beloved inquisition has been trasformed in something more effective and "flexible", or given to it's rightful owner (after all, it was found by the right and left hand of the divine, fullfilling divine justina will) . It's still there, even if a little changed.

 

You are no longer inquisitor, true... but this can be a hard blow only for an extremely ambitious (like churchill) leader. But this isn't the case of your Lavellan.

The destruction of your clan has nothing to do with Trespasser.

 

IMO only thing that can explain such a deep sadness is the lost/betrayal of your beloved solas.

 

 

I'll not explain what I meant in saying "nothing left at the end" for the 3rd or 4th time.

 

As you said, that is your opinion. And it's a good thing, that you are finally considering that other people, like me for

example,have another one. Your earlier posts left me with the impression that you are trying to tell me (or: us)

that our perception of the story is wrong, our role play is bad and that we are unable to understand what's going

in our very own (!) character's mind.

 

My character is more than her love affair. I did not write a three-word-document-pages-long opening post

in here for a character that is only determinated by her lover. She isn't. She went through a wonderful and epic 

journey and I just happen to follow her for a hundred hours or so. 

 

 

All true op but at least it was done in a fashion that lets you walk away into the sunset and ends in a reasonably logical fashion, not perfect but reasonable.  Unlike the big fat fail of ME3 that totally failed to pull of the old 'you have sacrificed much for the common good kind of thing.'

 

True. It is not a bad end, just a sad one. As you said, it is logical. Authentic.

It was touching and somehow heartbreaking. And that makes it a very good ending for it evokes my feelings.

 

ME3 was....deux ex machina at its finest.

There was no coherence, no logical storyline... and no satisfaction.

[kal_reegar]

 

 

 

 

 

As you said, that is your opinion. And it's a good thing, that you are finally considering that other people, like me for

example,have another one. Your earlier posts left me with the impression that you are trying to tell me (or: us)

that our perception of the story is wrong, our role play is bad and that we are unable to understand what's going

in our very own (!) character's mind.

 

 

 

 

My first post in this discussion was "that's way DA is great, after the ending I feel exactly the opposite" -> diversity is good.

 

I merely find a little unrealistic (not wrong or bad...) an iper-uber-mega sad inquisitor. I can perfeclty conceive a disappointed, embittered and somehow melancholic inquisitor, but more? No, sorry.

Of course I can't conceive a very happy, light-hearted and joyfull inquisitor either... satisfied  for a job well done and optimistic for the future at best, but nothing more.

 

I perfectly understand that if you role-play with deep identification you can be sad... but from the outside, from an "external" prospective, imo a badly derelict and depressed inquisitor is a little exaggeretad.

Trespasser is thought and written to be ambigous, grey... any "extreme" (positive or negative) reaction to this ending is a little too much "headcanon". IMO.

[SwobyJ]

Nice read.  I like it when folks get invested in their stories, and share.

 

I don't disagree with you here, because how you feel is how you feel, but I would offer my own perspective on the loss of an arm and the anchor.

 

I didn't feel like the Inquisitor was diminished or that their time was over.  Being a leader, dealing with the threats that one must, is more than being the best fighter or the one with the special magic.  Disarming the Inquisitor does nothing to take away what (theoretically) made them the leader that commanded the loyalty and love of powerful individuals from every spectrum of society.  Or what let them command armies.

 

All taking the Inquisitor off the battlefield does is give them time to focus on the other aspects of leadership and the greater picture.  It lets them focus on what their companions and advisers have been teaching them all along.  This is an individual who learned about war from Cullen, Cassandra and the Iron Bull, Statesmanship and Spycraft from Josephine, Leliana and even Sera, and Magical theory from Vivienne, Dorian, and Fen'Harel himself.  The Inquisitor may not be as good as they are individually, but he can put the whole picture together in ways they never could.  And without wandering around the countryside wrangling magic cows for people, the Inquisitor has more time to absorb and direct the whole, instead of just reacting personally to parts.

 

In short, I think this gives the Inquisitor the chance to step off of BioWare's usual hero arc and take on a role as someone who truly understands the pieces that direct nations, and how to use them.

 

Of course, I would be remiss if I didn't admit that I'm not sure BioWare knows how to use such a character, or how to make him compelling enough to take on any meaningful role in games that have, at their core, just fantasy hack and slash to collect loot gameplay.

 

Just wanted to note how good I found this post to be.

 

Hypothetically, a NPC Inquisitor formed by our DAI decisions would be great and even far better than DAI's Hawke.

[AlanC9]

I can't help but feel that the OP is making DA:I seem like pure roleplaying awesomeness.

[Shizukai]

I can't help but feel that the OP is making DA:I seem like pure roleplaying awesomeness.

 

I like role playing.

And I like it when a game's universe is compatible to my very own ideas. I'm going in deep then.

 

But "roleplaying awesomeness" is what YOU as a player make out of it. No game can compete

with your very own imaginings. Without them, no good feeling of role playing will occur. In

combination with a nice in-game atmosphere on the other hand, they will be perfectly promoted.

[AlanC9]

I'm not seeing a problem, assuming there actually is one. You made choices, in-character, and they played out. Should a game prevent choices that will make the PC sad?

[Nimlowyn]

I am a Solasmancer who played Trespasser for the first time last Thursday, and it is Sunday afternoon here, and I am STILL processing. I have found this thread cathartic and comforting, so I appreciate it OP. We seem to have a lot in common in how we approach roleplaying.

 

I don't play true self inserts, but I deeply identify with my characters; I experience their emotions, their joy, their wonder, their isolation, their pain. When I am deep in role play, the line between my identity and theirs begins to blur, so I really, really feel things. I don't imagine that this is uncommon or anything, but I really resonate with what you're saying, OP. So when I played a devout Dalish mage who romanced Solas, I, like you, went through the wringer. 

 

My girl was devout. Prayed every day. I wrote (in my head, I REALLY WISH I WROTE THEM DOWN) prayers to each Creator that she would recite each day, and these prayers became more urgent when in crisis (during the attack on Haven, especially). Like Cassandra, she honored tradition, but she wasn't afraid of change. She loved her people but was frustrated, she felt like they were spinning their wheels, not making progress in restoring their culture because they were too stuck in their ways, in the past. So when she met Solas, learned how deeply he knew the Fade, she saw someone who could potentially give her people the knowledge and wisdom they needed. She deeply respected him. Also, she was a fish out of water, and though brave, she was uncomfortable and scared. She was First, so she saw herself as responsible for protecting her clan...she was not prepared to protect all of Thedas. She was terrified and lonely. With Solas' kindness and love, he was the rock she needed to be the leader she became. And then things fall apart, and all the change she wanted ends up destroying her religion. The man she loves and needs leaves her, and by the end of Trespasser, she no longer prays. 

 

Her faith in Solas' essential goodness is all the faith she has left in the world. She won't give up on him. She's scared and uncertain ("We will save our friend from himself...if we can") but this is now her life's entire focus and purpose. Not only does she want to save the man she loves, she wants to save her people, the modern elves, from him. She also wants to protect her friends, the people of the other races who she has grown to love...people like Cassandra, Leliana, Varric, Dorian. I appreciate Ieldra's remark, "Every ending is a beginning, as long as you're not dead" because it perfectly encapsulates where my Lavellan is right now. 

 

I also want to add that this is far from a problem. I now have no interest in making other Inquisitors. I have my canon character, I have my canon story. I will replay DAI again in the run up to DA4, but it will be a replay of Celebrian Lavellan, devout Dalish mage and love of Solas. I love my canon BECAUSE it has elicited such strong and complex emotions in me, far more than any work has ever done, and I have played a few RPGs and am a reasonably well read person. (Solas may, in fact, be the most brilliant character I have ever encountered. He is nuanced, complex, sympathetic and terrifying). I am a writer myself, and there is no better measure of a work's success, in my view, than the strong reaction it elicits. It is just very, very painful, and I need to process it. 

 

Thanks for listening, and thanks again for the thread, OP. 

[Shizukai]

I am a Solasmancer who played Trespasser for the first time last Thursday, and it is Sunday afternoon here, and I am STILL processing. I have found this thread cathartic and comforting, so I appreciate it OP. We seem to have a lot in common in how we approach roleplaying.

 

I don't play true self inserts, but I deeply identify with my characters; I experience their emotions, their joy, their wonder, their isolation, their pain. When I am deep in role play, the line between my identity and theirs begins to blur, so I really, really feel things. I don't imagine that this is uncommon or anything, but I really resonate with what you're saying, OP. So when I played a devout Dalish mage who romanced Solas, I, like you, went through the wringer. 

 

My girl was devout. Prayed every day. I wrote (in my head, I REALLY WISH I WROTE THEM DOWN) prayers to each Creator that she would recite each day, and these prayers became more urgent when in crisis (during the attack on Haven, especially). Like Cassandra, she honored tradition, but she wasn't afraid of change. She loved her people but was frustrated, she felt like they were spinning their wheels, not making progress in restoring their culture because they were too stuck in their ways, in the past. So when she met Solas, learned how deeply he knew the Fade, she saw someone who could potentially give her people the knowledge and wisdom they needed. She deeply respected him. Also, she was a fish out of water, and though brave, she was uncomfortable and scared. She was First, so she saw herself as responsible for protecting her clan...she was not prepared to protect all of Thedas. She was terrified and lonely. With Solas' kindness and love, he was the rock she needed to be the leader she became. And then things fall apart, and all the change she wanted ends up destroying her religion. The man she loves and needs leaves her, and by the end of Trespasser, she no longer prays. 

 

Her faith in Solas' essential goodness is all the faith she has left in the world. She won't give up on him. She's scared and uncertain ("We will save our friend from himself...if we can") but this is now her life's entire focus and purpose. Not only does she want to save the man she loves, she wants to save her people, the modern elves, from him. She also wants to protect her friends, the people of the other races who she has grown to love...people like Cassandra, Leliana, Varric, Dorian. I appreciate Ieldra's remark, "Every ending is a beginning, as long as you're not dead" because it perfectly encapsulates where my Lavellan is right now. 

 

I also want to add that this is far from a problem. I now have no interest in making other Inquisitors. I have my canon character, I have my canon story. I will replay DAI again in the run up to DA4, but it will be a replay of Celebrian Lavellan, devout Dalish mage and love of Solas. I love my canon BECAUSE it has elicited such strong and complex emotions in me, far more than any work has ever done, and I have played a few RPGs and am a reasonably well read person. (Solas may, in fact, be the most brilliant character I have ever encountered. He is nuanced, complex, sympathetic and terrifying). I am a writer myself, and there is no better measure of a work's success, in my view, than the strong reaction it elicits. It is just very, very painful, and I need to process it. 

 

Thanks for listening, and thanks again for the thread, OP. 

 

I have to thank YOU for your great post. I really appreciate that you shared your story with us. Character development is a wonderful thing and you brought your canon character down a long long way. This is what I like about the DA-universe: There’s so much room for development and there are many different directions to go. If not in the game, then at least within its lore.

 

I do not self-insert while roleplaying either, never did it in a game or at the pen&paper’s table. I create very own persons with very own stories, it’s like writing a story. From what you’ve explained here, I get the impression that you’ll know what exactly I’m talking about (for it is not really easy to explain for me).

 

My Lavellan is my "canon character" too I think. I will try out some other constellations later on, but when it’s about to tell my story, it will always go down to my little Dalish. Not for Solas in the first place, but for my general preference of the race/class-combination "elf/mage".

 

I do not see the end as a bad thing, but I have to admit that I felt more than just pity for my Inquisitor. It touched me like a great movie would touched me. And that’s only possible at the end of a story I feel connected too. In my Lavellan, I see a struggling yet strong person. For you cannot be strong if you have no weak points to overcome. It’s like true bravery: It does not exist when there is nothing you need to fight within your very own mind. Being brave when there is nothing you fear is easy. Being brave when you are scared is the true big deal.

 

Again: Thanks for sharing!

[Nimlowyn]

I have to thank YOU for your great post. I really appreciate that you shared your story with us. Character development is a wonderful thing and you brought your canon character down a long long way. This is what I like about the DA-universe: There’s so much room for development and there are many different directions to go. If not in the game, then at least within its lore.

 

I do not self-insert while roleplaying either, never did it in a game or at the pen&paper’s table. I create very own persons with very own stories, it’s like writing a story. From what you’ve explained here, I get the impression that you’ll know what exactly I’m talking about (for it is not really easy to explain for me).

 

My Lavellan is my "canon character" too I think. I will try out some other constellations later on, but when it’s about to tell my story, it will always go down to my little Dalish. Not for Solas in the first place, but for my general preference of the race/class-combination "elf/mage".

 

I do not see the end as a bad thing, but I have to admit that I felt more than just pity for my Inquisitor. It touched me like a great movie would touched me. And that’s only possible at the end of a story I feel connected too. In my Lavellan, I see a struggling yet strong person. For you cannot be strong if you have no weak points to overcome. It’s like true bravery: It does not exist when there is nothing you need to fight within your very own mind. Being brave when there is nothing you fear is easy. Being brave when you are scared is the true big deal.

 

Again: Thanks for sharing!

I understand. My Lavellan has a backstory that made her who she was at the start of Inquisition. Finding her faith was part of it, and losing it in Inquisition was...hard. But she hasn't lost all faith, her faith is just with people now. Like you, I see a strong person who is struggling. It is so, so true what you say about bravery; like loyalty and faith, it means nothing when it is not tested. 

 

I pity her (maybe less pity and more feel for), and I don't know how her story is going to end in DA4, but I have faith in the writers that it can at least be meaningful, if not bittersweet. 

[Lebanese Dude]

I am a Solasmancer who played Trespasser for the first time last Thursday, and it is Sunday afternoon here, and I am STILL processing. I have found this thread cathartic and comforting, so I appreciate it OP. We seem to have a lot in common in how we approach roleplaying.

 

I don't play true self inserts, but I deeply identify with my characters; I experience their emotions, their joy, their wonder, their isolation, their pain. When I am deep in role play, the line between my identity and theirs begins to blur, so I really, really feel things. I don't imagine that this is uncommon or anything, but I really resonate with what you're saying, OP. So when I played a devout Dalish mage who romanced Solas, I, like you, went through the wringer. 

 

My girl was devout. Prayed every day. I wrote (in my head, I REALLY WISH I WROTE THEM DOWN) prayers to each Creator that she would recite each day, and these prayers became more urgent when in crisis (during the attack on Haven, especially). Like Cassandra, she honored tradition, but she wasn't afraid of change. She loved her people but was frustrated, she felt like they were spinning their wheels, not making progress in restoring their culture because they were too stuck in their ways, in the past. So when she met Solas, learned how deeply he knew the Fade, she saw someone who could potentially give her people the knowledge and wisdom they needed. She deeply respected him. Also, she was a fish out of water, and though brave, she was uncomfortable and scared. She was First, so she saw herself as responsible for protecting her clan...she was not prepared to protect all of Thedas. She was terrified and lonely. With Solas' kindness and love, he was the rock she needed to be the leader she became. And then things fall apart, and all the change she wanted ends up destroying her religion. The man she loves and needs leaves her, and by the end of Trespasser, she no longer prays. 

 

Her faith in Solas' essential goodness is all the faith she has left in the world. She won't give up on him. She's scared and uncertain ("We will save our friend from himself...if we can") but this is now her life's entire focus and purpose. Not only does she want to save the man she loves, she wants to save her people, the modern elves, from him. She also wants to protect her friends, the people of the other races who she has grown to love...people like Cassandra, Leliana, Varric, Dorian. I appreciate Ieldra's remark, "Every ending is a beginning, as long as you're not dead" because it perfectly encapsulates where my Lavellan is right now. 

 

I also want to add that this is far from a problem. I now have no interest in making other Inquisitors. I have my canon character, I have my canon story. I will replay DAI again in the run up to DA4, but it will be a replay of Celebrian Lavellan, devout Dalish mage and love of Solas. I love my canon BECAUSE it has elicited such strong and complex emotions in me, far more than any work has ever done, and I have played a few RPGs and am a reasonably well read person. (Solas may, in fact, be the most brilliant character I have ever encountered. He is nuanced, complex, sympathetic and terrifying). I am a writer myself, and there is no better measure of a work's success, in my view, than the strong reaction it elicits. It is just very, very painful, and I need to process it. 

 

Thanks for listening, and thanks again for the thread, OP. 

 

Well ****. You've inspired me to play a female elf Solasmancer.

[Nimlowyn]

Well ****. You've inspired me to play a female elf Solasmancer.

That's awesome! It is definitely intense, you will feel your feelings, especially if you're a Dalish loyal to your people and your religion. I thought my mage Hawke who friendmanced Fenris and sided with the Templars was emotionally complex. I was just getting started. 

[Shizukai]

Well ****. You've inspired me to play a female elf Solasmancer.

 

Haha, great job Nimlowyn!

 

But don't just focus on Solas, try to get into the role of a Dalish and see (and feel) the struggle.

Even though the Bioware-romances (and especially this one) are great, they are only just a

very intense part of a whole gaming experience. They journey itself contains much more

depending on who your character is and where she/he came from. 

 

For me, being a Dalish (especially a mage) felt very intense. Not only for the Dalish are

the last free elves in Thedas, somehow more fleeing than traveling. But also for the concept

of your backround as a mage: Your connection to the fade. The combination of both with

the Solas-romance on top is what brought me to write the opening post to this thread.

 

It is really worth playing.

 

I'm btw. thinking of doing a playthrough as a (male) Dalish hunter, a protector of the clan.

Someone who will probably feel released when the Inquisition is gone at the end of Trespasser.

[Nimlowyn]

Haha, great job Nimlowyn!

 

But don't just focus on Solas, try to get into the role of a Dalish and see (and feel) the struggle.

Even though the Bioware-romances (and especially this one) are great, they are only just a

very intense part of a whole gaming experience. They journey itself contains much more

depending on who your character is and where she/he came from. 

 

For me, being a Dalish (especially a mage) felt very intense. Not only for the Dalish are

the last free elves in Thedas, somehow more fleeing than traveling. But also for the concept

of your backround as a mage: Your connection to the fade. The combination of both with

the Solas-romance on top is what brought me to write the opening post to this thread.

 

It is really worth playing.

 

I'm btw. thinking of doing a playthrough as a (male) Dalish hunter, a protector of the clan.

Someone who will probably feel released when the Inquisition is gone at the end of Trespasser.

I second this. My Lavellan was a reluctant hero (prepared to serve her clan, not all of Thedas), thoughtful, erudite, a compassionate pragmatist, who lost what saved her in her back story (her faith and religiosity). One of her lowest points was at the Temple of Mythal...she felt her ignorance keenly and was ashamed, and was  crushed by Abelas' denial of their kinship. Meshing this character with Solas was soooooooooooo delicious, but of course, you need a fully realized person to make this delicious.   

 

I honestly don't know if I'm going to make another Inquisitor...I think I'll just play her over and over again. Any idea who your boy will romance, or is he going to fly solo?

[Shizukai]

I honestly don't know if I'm going to make another Inquisitor...I think I'll just play her over and over again. Any idea who your boy will romance, or is he going to fly solo?

 

Oh, I feel you. I finished DA:I two times as a female Dalish mage. The second playthrough was way more intense though

(all DLCs included) and I really enjoyed it. I will definitely go for another round with my dear Lavellan for I love her story

despite (or because of) the somehow devastating ending. It is the DA:I-story for me.

But DA:I is more than just one story. It's a million stories. I'm limiting myself in choice of races and classes, I will never be

able to experience the game in all its facets. But I really want to get to know at least some more of them. And I also

love to switch roles, point of views et cetera. I got my main/canon-Inquisitor. But I think there's some space for some

interesting new faces and new stories.

My Dalish hunter could be my first DA-character ever without a romance. There are options but none of them seem to fit.

But I try not to make a plan for I want to give this character the chance to develop on his own. Maybe he finds himself

bound to another soul, maybe not. My idea of him is the idea of a loner. Somehow quiet, somehow deathly resolute. 

[Shizukai]

 

@Shizuaki

Are the comics worth reading?

 

It is not Umberto Eco, but if you can appreciate the value of additional knowledge (I know you can  ) and you have the time - read. As it turns out you never know what might be useful - even as an anecdote. 

 

Thanks again for your recommendation, got this hardcover-beauty for christmas:

 

 

and I'm quite hyped. 

[Gervaise]

It's definitely worth playing it with a male Dalish to give you a different experience.   My hunter was a supreme archer, scout and tracker.   His bow was like an extension of himself.  He volunteered for the task of spying on the Conclave as the best person for the role.  I played him as gay so he had no immediate family to miss him but to him every child in the clan was under his protection, so when he heard Minaeve's story about her clan abandoning her, he was incensed.   He has the vallaslin of Mythal, so whilst the Temple of Mythal was a downer, hearing about her murder, and the rejection by Abelas really humiliated him, then he actually met Mythal and she said he did the people proud.  So that lifted him again.  Essentially his goddess is still around (because he didn't see the epilogue), so his faith in what she represented to him, the great protector, is still strong.  After meeting Solas again, he thinks he begins to understand why she said he didn't know what he was asking for when he asked her to do more.   Unlike my girl he finished the main game on a high.

 

His relationship with Solas was interesting as I was able to explore different dialogue options to when I was in a romance with him.   Initially a bit prickly, by the end they had mutual respect for one another, so although not hit as badly as my girl when he first disappeared, he was puzzled at not getting more of an explanation.   Then came Trespasser and when Solas admitted what he had planned to do and was still planning to do, which really angered him and made him defiant.   He is not going to let Solas destroy the world and his people.   The Thedas of the present is his home and he will defend it.     He disbanded the Inquisition to focus on this and because he is nobody's lackey, least of all the head of the Chantry (which he has no respect for as an organisation),even if he does know her personally.    So a very different reaction and finish to the game for him.

 

Even he has his moments, though.   I've been writing some post Trespasser episodes for him, one of which is attending the Arlathaven to recount his findings to the rest of the Dalish.   I decided that at these gatherings they would have friendly contests of skill between the various clans.   I had him walking past the archery trials, where the previous Arlathaven he defeated all comers, and he feels a wave of sadness that he will never compete with them again and he gets repeated the huge sense of loss that he felt when he first lost the arm and realised he would never use his bow again.  

 

So I have these two contrasting elven characters that have both been very intense experiences and I can take forward in different ways.   I really have come to appreciate the Dalish through playing a Dalish Inquisitor, far more so than when I played a Dalish Warden.

[Shizukai]

It's definitely worth playing it with a male Dalish to give you a different experience.   My hunter was a supreme archer, scout and tracker.   His bow was like an extension of himself.  He volunteered for the task of spying on the Conclave as the best person for the role.  I played him as gay so he had no immediate family to miss him but to him every child in the clan was under his protection, so when he heard Minaeve's story about her clan abandoning her, he was incensed.   He has the vallaslin of Mythal, so whilst the Temple of Mythal was a downer, hearing about her murder, and the rejection by Abelas really humiliated him, then he actually met Mythal and she said he did the people proud.  So that lifted him again.  Essentially his goddess is still around (because he didn't see the epilogue), so his faith in what she represented to him, the great protector, is still strong.  After meeting Solas again, he thinks he begins to understand why she said he didn't know what he was asking for when he asked her to do more.   Unlike my girl he finished the main game on a high.

 

His relationship with Solas was interesting as I was able to explore different dialogue options to when I was in a romance with him.   Initially a bit prickly, by the end they had mutual respect for one another, so although not hit as badly as my girl when he first disappeared, he was puzzled at not getting more of an explanation.   Then came Trespasser and when Solas admitted what he had planned to do and was still planning to do, which really angered him and made him defiant.   He is not going to let Solas destroy the world and his people.   The Thedas of the present is his home and he will defend it.     He disbanded the Inquisition to focus on this and because he is nobody's lackey, least of all the head of the Chantry (which he has no respect for as an organisation),even if he does know her personally.    So a very different reaction and finish to the game for him.

 

Even he has his moments, though.   I've been writing some post Trespasser episodes for him, one of which is attending the Arlathaven to recount his findings to the rest of the Dalish.   I decided that at these gatherings they would have friendly contests of skill between the various clans.   I had him walking past the archery trials, where the previous Arlathaven he defeated all comers, and he feels a wave of sadness that he will never compete with them again and he gets repeated the huge sense of loss that he felt when he first lost the arm and realised he would never use his bow again.  

 

So I have these two contrasting elven characters that have both been very intense experiences and I can take forward in different ways.   I really have come to appreciate the Dalish through playing a Dalish Inquisitor, far more so than when I played a Dalish Warden.

 

Another great post from you, thanks for sharing your experiences.

 

I'm not far in the game with my new Inquisitor but I already got a different feeling. I didn't feel like "I wish I was my main Inquisitor

again." when I met Solas for the first time as an example. A big achievement for me, for I normally cling to one romance option

(and most of the times one group constellation) only. My dalish hunter is another person, he is in a way stronger and not that soft

hearted and friendly as my female Lavellan is. He is resolute, survival is important, and achieving objectives of course. He takes

great pride in being a Dalish. It was an honour for him to be the chosen one, the one sent to the conclave.

 

Playing a Dalish Inquisitor is intense. I loved to play Dalish in DAO too but in DAI... wandering through the Dales,

knowing that that the ground is impregnated with the blood of your ancestors who fought desperately for their

freedom and their home, right before they lost their second big homeland... that gives me the shivers. 

[Karmel]

Thanks again for your recommendation, got this hardcover-beauty for christmas:

 

 

and I'm quite hyped. 

 

 

Oops!!! I'm sooooooooooooooooo sorry!!!

When I wrote about "Dragon Age", I mean this series...

http://dragonage.wik...Age_(IDW_comic)

 

The one that you bought is IMO better. And gives us an insight into DA creator - David Gaider - canon. I really hope that you enjoyed Alistair's trilogy, and despite misunderstanding --- you do not curse me right now. Please do not...

[Shizukai]

 

Oops!!! I'm sooooooooooooooooo sorry!!!

When I wrote about "Dragon Age", I mean this series...

http://dragonage.wik...Age_(IDW_comic)

 

The one that you bought is IMO better. And gives us an insight into DA creator - David Gaider - canon. I really hope that you enjoyed Alistair's trilogy, and despite misunderstanding --- you do not curse me right now. Please do not...

 

 

Oh, haha. I really thought you meant this one, I heard from it before so I was way too sure about it.

But no harm done, Alistair is one of my favorite characters (in the past he has been THE favorite one). Also, I'm

really into Gaiders work, I really enjoy his books so I won't get bored I guess.

 

And the best thing is: I'm really happy to hear that there is even more DA-stuff out there to explore.

No cursing for you!

[thats1evildude]

The IDW comics are pretty bad. I wouldn't bother with them.

[Karmel]

Oh, haha. I really thought you meant this one, I heard from it before so I was way too sure about it.

But no harm done, Alistair is one of my favorite characters (in the past he has been THE favorite one). Also, I'm

really into Gaiders work, I really enjoy his books so I won't get bored I guess.

 

And the best thing is: I'm really happy to hear that there is even more DA-stuff out there to explore.

No cursing for you!

 

It's a relief...   

Have a nice reading!!!

 

I also really like Alistair. What is actually strange, because usually this type bores me. Sometimes I think that in the world of the DA, the female characters have a really good selection of interesting romance options, as  if it were contrary to popular opinion that women rarely play hardcore games.   

[DDJ]

There are some thoughtful opinions here.  As I have noted elsewhere I always play as an elf warrior,k except DA2.  In Trespasser I choose the disband option since I will not permit myself to be the lapdog of the same empire that left the first Inquisitor to rot and ultimately destroyed my people our fault, their fault or no one's fault.  The point I took from this is that it is not really the Inquisition they want to control - it is the inquisitor who has proven a formidable force.  Ferelden, after all that has been done for them, is about as grateful as Alastair always is - not.  See the map in Witch Hunt to see how the alienage fares under good king Alastair.  Now the inquisitor is in a bind.  Regardless of who is Divine, there are elements in the chantry who do not want a Herald of Andraste competing with them.  Ferelden will not want a free and unhindered inquisitor, and Celene in Orlais is going to rapidly understand that without the inquisitor to protect her Orlais will return to chaos.  The Wardens will not want her spreading the secrets she learned about their murder of the Divine or their susceptibility to darkspawn influence.  Eventually someone will send assassin.  They are in far more danger now than they were fighting C.

 

Frankly while the Inquisition might be done, I suspect that the Inquisitor will have no happy ending.  

[diaspora2k5]

I honestly wonder if they're going to pull a Final Fantasy VI with DA4 but with Solas as Kefka.