Swoo wrote...
I've seen it brought up a few times that the OGB is just a plan for a super-host for possession, but I don't think that can actually happen based on the rules they have shown us for Dragon Age, right? Demons can take over someones power because they do it more as a puppeteer from the Fade, pulling strings from the outside while you are more or less intact. Whereas an actual bodyswap like Flemeth does would be more like pushing the old soul out and replacing it with your own. Seems like what would make the OGB powerful is the fact it has a piece of the Old God and Wardens soul in it, so Flemeth's trick - if possible - would take away that which made it special for the possibility of a possession in the first place.
Thats something I wonder about too. It seems clear that Flemeth is not your typical abomination. If I'm not mistaken when you chat with Morrigan about Flemeth's story she mentions how she called a spirit to aid her first and it was only later that Flemeth met the demon which made her an abomination. So Flemeth isn't your normal abomination but some unique one that we likely haven't dealt with before. Is she really just a demon, like the Baroness in Awakening? I don't think so- maybe she is like a spirit (like Wynne) plus a demon plus Flemeth all merged into one? No clue- I hope some of the Fade lore and Black City stuff is explored more in DA2.
Swoo wrote...
My first inclination - after WTF,mate? - came back to something Zevran said, about having heard of another Witch of the Wild in Antiva. A lot of Morrigan's endings seem to put her in Orlais at the end, and it seems pretty obvious based on Codexes and game interactions that there is some kind of heavy tie to the Old God and Dragon Cults (I need to reload my pre-Reaver choice, I think the snippet you get from her is like the one of the only truly positive remarks towards and orginization/cult/religion when you accept the Dragon Cults offer). It just makes me wonder if creatures like Flemeth - and perhaps Morrigan, those eyes are either from Dragon Blood, or a Dragon Shapeshifting to a Human - have scattered across Thedas working on something major and that's the main reason you couldn't follow. The OGB is made, it's time to report in to home office so to speak, and maybe the fear was a)you'll screw things up or b)they'll screw you up.
Thats partly what I've thought too. Maybe Morrigan doesn't want to tell you anything or want the Warden to tag along because she is going back to her little Dragon Cult buddies. It would possibly explain Morrigan's unique eyes or how Flemeth shapeshifts into a High Dragon. That Zavran banter is interesting too in the notion that maybe there are other daughters of Flemeth out there that have broken free like MOrrigan. Maybe some of Flemeth's daughters have killed Flemeth before? It would be interesting if perhaps once you kill Flemeth, her soul possesses one of her other daughters thats maybe out in Antiva or something...
The other interesting thing is that Morrigan mentions in one of her banters with Shale is that you need to study the
SOUL of something to shapeshift into it.... Yeah, what soul did Morrigan just obtain from the DR? Maybe Morrigan can shapeshift into a High Dragon next game- sure would make shapeshifting a worthwhile specialization, eh?
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A couple notes of stuff while looking through the toolset:
- One notable thing that always bothered me in the DR (among many things) is this sequence you can get:
PC: How do you even know this will work?
Morrigan: I do not "know" it will work. I do, however, have every confidence in my mother's magic. And so should you.
Morrigan: This is what my mother intended when she sent me with you. She was the one who first gave me this ritual and told me of what I was meant to do.
Morrigan: This does not surprise you, does it? Did you not wonder why Flemeth saved your life, why she aided you? This is why.
Morrigan: What is important is that I am offering this to you now.
It will work and it will save your life.
Ok first off, yeah Morrigan I am kind of surprised.... But secondly, MOrrigan starts out saying she doesn't know if it will work but then a couple lines later she does know it will work? Huh? Never mind the fact that if I just learned my mother was trying to steal my body I might be a bit weary of trusting her magic...
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And maybe you guys have already found this sequence, but I just noticed it and its just more in tone with what I'd have liked to hear in the DR. It plays if you are romancing Morrigan and come back after trying to convince Alistair to do it:
Morrigan: Little time remains. I suggest you go to Alistair's room quickly.
PC: Morrigan, I don't want to lose you.
Morrigan: Don't be a fool. I am already lost. This must be done. For your sake, as well as my own. I... I told you that this could not be, did I not?Go. Do what you must.
The delivery of the lines by Claudia Black in that sequence are fantastic- its much more emotional than most of the lines in the DR and at least hints at how broken up and conflicted Morrigan is about the whole thing- she almost sounds like she is going to cry, kind of like how it is after you give her the mirror. Th whole I am already lost makes me wonder if MOrrigan isn't making some sort of sacrifice herself in doing the Ritual? Beyond losing the Warden of course.
Great stuff, its a shame the whole thing wasn't as fleshed out as it could have been...
Modifié par Brockololly, 13 mai 2010 - 07:46 .