The recent interview with Patrick Weekes pretty much confirmed that the Viddasala wasn't a rogue agent and that it was a Qunari operation.
Here's the transcript and video
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BF: How did the possibility of Iron Bull's death in Tresspasser come about?
PW: Okay, this one was tough. Because... The bad news on having a character die in the game, as a possibility means that you are inherently limiting how much they can ever appear in the future. You know. It's not a hard limition; we had Ash or Kaidan die in Mass Effect 1, and still have them as full squad mates in Mass Effect 3. So it's not like that's a hard line, but whatever you say 'hey this character can die if this happens in the game', it makes it a lot harder to bring them back in the future. So it was definitely something we thought long and hard about. That said, when we got to the Qunari, we kicked around different ways to do it. We said 'Oh, okay, maybe it's a rogue faction of the Qunari and they aren't really the real Qunari and Bull doesn't believe in them,' and every time... We tried to talk ourselves into that for a while, like, 'Oh Bull wouldn't do this, they're not the real Qunari, they're an offshoot,' and it just got so toothless. It got to a point where we were like 'No, really, who wants to play a game where you are fighting the offshoot of the offshoot of the offshoot.' We own this. The Qunari aren't being used anywhere but in our games. So if we're gonna say the Qunari are gonna start a war, let's have the Qunari start a war, and let's own it. And in that case, the only reasonable outcome was that if you hadn't gotten Iron Bull out of the Qun, it made no sense for him to do anything but turn on you. It's one of those things where, you know, I don't know if we would have done things differently if we had known 'Oh we definitely want to have the Qunari in the Trespasser DLC, and what does that do for Iron Bull?', if we had known that years and years ahead of time, if we would have changed Iron Bull's plot somewhere, had him start as a Tal'Vashoth, or something like that, but I really like that choice. I love that we gave you a choice, and that it didn't immediately have a white hat and a black hat on it. And that it was a choice that had teeth; I love those, because it was really interesting after Trespasser shipped, watching the reaction to those. Because there were many people who were surprised and very unhappy and said 'This shouldn't have happened, even though I made Bull loyal to the Qun, he still should have respected me and not turned on me,' and there were a few people who would say that, but everytime someone said that, everyone else would turn and look at them and go 'What did you think was going to happen? You did a plot and told this guy specifically to be loyal to the Qun, so yeah, when the Qunari come... You did a plot that told him to stay on their side,' so really, there was no other way for us to do that. And it certainly wasn't something I was happy about, it wasn't something Freddie [Prinze Jr] was happy about. You know, it's a wrenching thing, doing something that you know is going to lead to, fortunately at least the possible death of his character, rather than a definitive death of his character, but you know, it's a wrench doing that stuff. But I did that to the actors who played Tali in Mass Effect 3, I did it to the actor who did Mordin in Mass 3, you know, doing that to Freddie Prinze Jr here, it's never happy, but you know... In all these cases the actors looked at it and go 'Oh this is what's happening, this is the plot. Yeah, this is what my character would do,'. And if it makes sense that way, you just have to go with it.
So what are your thoughts now that this is confirmed?
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