Modifié par Vit246, 28 décembre 2015 - 02:09 .
I would have to say Elven servants, I don't think there is a single being. maybe madam Snappy Snips, but that was more a jest than the tale of a potentially real person.
Walk away from the eggnog.
(Seriously, though, it is fun to look for literary themes in Dragon Age games. Just maybe the book version, not the Disney version. Shale might not like being cast as a gargoyle.)
Walk away from the eggnog.
(Seriously, though, it is fun to look for literary themes in Dragon Age games. Just maybe the book version, not the Disney version. Shale might not like being cast as a gargoyle.)
Is the Archdeacon a Grand Cleric who chastises the templar Frollo?
^This, I think.
And maybe the hunchback would be a mage? Or Sandal.
Quasimodo loses all of his charm in this setting. They've blown their load with horrors and oddities. And not only that, they casualize things that most normal human beings would consider monstrous.
Or DA loses it's charm in comparison. Either/or. I prefer this, personally.
We already kind of have the Frollo/Esmerelda dynamic with DAO Cullen and the Female Mage Warden. The only real "forbidden" romance in the Chantry seems to be between Templars and Circle mages, and we've already seen our devout holy man (DAO Cullen) trying to repress his (possibly unrequited) taboo lust for a young woman (female Amell or Surana), and being driven partly mad by it (as the demons used his crush on the female mage Warden to try to break him).
Other than that, I don't really see the Hunchback of Notre Dame working because I don't remember seeing any huge Chantry cathedrals in any of the games, so where would they hide a hunchback? A Circle tower? Maybe, but then the Frollo would be a Templar and the Esmerelda would be a mage.
The closest thing to gypsies in Thedas are the Dalish, so I guess I could see a story about a Templar who falls into lust with a Dalish maiden whose clan comes close by (maybe to trade), but is thwarted by the "hunchback" (either a hideous dwarf or a lone Qunari far from home, who's kept in a separate room in the tower) helping her.
- If this is the Disney version, then it's about a Knight Captain who attends a festival, where the "hunchback" wanders in and gets tormented by the crowd. The Dalish maiden helps him, then in the process she's revealed or accused of being a mage. Then she's taken to the Circle, where the Frollo Templar tries to imprison her so he can force himself on her, but she befriends the "hunchback," who helps her escape. Then she's hunted as an apostate, where the Knight Captain leads an increasingly brutal search because he's been driven mad by his repressed lust, and tries to lead a genocide against the Dalish just as Frollo tried to lead a genocide against the gypsies in the movie.
The Archdeacon is a Revered Mother who tries (and fails) to act as his conscience, and the Phoebes is a lesser Templar who serves under him until he quits to stop his tyranny (kind of like how DA2 Cullen turned on Meredith when he FINALLY saw how far she'd gone).
- If it's the original Victor Hugo novel version... it's much darker, and I don't want to go into it.
In Orlais' version, the heroic Frollo stops an evil Dalish temptress, aided by a captain of the guard she has enthralled with wicked sorcery, from burning Val Royeaux to the ground in an heathen ritual.
Hellfire is a song about Frollo using his willpower and faith in the Maker to resist the blood magic spell she cast on him.
It's a bit hit with both the nobility and the common man.
Other than that, I don't really see the Hunchback of Notre Dame working because I don't remember seeing any huge Chantry cathedrals in any of the games, so where would they hide a hunchback? A Circle tower? Maybe, but then the Frollo would be a Templar and the Esmerelda would be a mage.
Given that Thedas has probably not yet developed either the novel as an art form or the socio-cultural environment necessary to produce an author like Victor Hugo, they probably don't have one yet.
Self-correction: Varric has technically invented the novel, in serial form, and good for him. But I still think they're a while away from a Hugo or a Dickens.
Well, the seat of the Divine is literally called the Grand Cathedral. Unfortunately, we never got to see it, or the magnificence of the White Spire... Sigh...
Ah, I stand corrupted.
Well, we can chalk that up to the long list of things in Orlais often mentioned but never seen. 
I still think the "Knight Commander who turns mad with lust for a Dalish maid whom he hunts as an apostate" works slightly better since a good portion of Disney's Hunchback involves a militant fundamentalist losing a battle with his repressed lust and leading a witch hunt against a nomadic young woman, and tries to have her locked in a stone building so she'll be under his control. Since Thedas Templars lead hunts against mages and try to lock them up in Circles (usually stone towers) where they can be under their control (and often hunt Dalish as heathan savages), it seems much more fitting.
I was thinking City Elves might be slightly more appropriate for the hunts.
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