The Inquisition - An International Effort

Nope, hadn't noticed. Other than Cullen, I don't think any of them speak of home with any particular fondness, so they're not exactly great reps of their respective countries

I'm sorry, my post was a downer.

I wish Cass and the rest waxed on about their countries as Zevran and Dorian do. (you hear the love) It feels kinda like it's irrelevant where they're from because Cass is indifferent to her heritage and finds Nevarra creepy. So our first extended with a Nevarran is that she's made herself outcast from disinterest. We already had antivan rep from Zev so I guess Jose gets a pass on being more obsessed with immediate family and fortune.

And Orlais is all Clothes and Death with other things alluded to but never depicted in spite of all the depiction.

I love the game, I just feel like the Rep is disappointing

If we expand the national representation checklist to party members, we also have Nevarra, Tevinter and Seheron (the Qun). And if you include multiplayer characters/Agents, then you can also put Orzammar, the Dalish and the Avvar on the list.

The only countries/tribes not really represented in the Inquisition are Rivain, the Anerfels and the Chasind.

Yet when it comes to deciding its fate, only Ferelden and Orlais get any real input, plus a bit of token representation of Tevinter. Really if we were meant to be an international organisation defending the interests of the citizens of Thedas as a whole then why do the other nations not have a say in whether we continue or not? (I would point out that none of the inner circle are actually official representatives of their country in the main game and the Freemarches is not a country but just a collective term for the individual City States).

That is why the Exalted Council was a bit of a disappointment to me in the way it was handled. I think the outcome should have been dependent on our performance over the course of Inquisition both out in the field and on the war table missions. It would probably have been a nightmare to program but at the very least some sort of link could have been made to certain key decisions seeing as they are later recorded in the Keep. The fact that no distinction was drawn between the behaviour of, say, a diplomatic, caring sort of Inquisitor and an aggressive bastard was for me rather disappointing. Teagan criticised you regardless of whether you had saved Crestwood (thus effectively earning the support of the Freeholders in grand old Ferelden tradition) or totally ignored their fate and left them to be wiped out by the undead. Did you take the trouble to rescue your soldiers from the Fallowmire? Did you save the citizens in the Emprise du Lion? Given the number of people who could now be alive due to our actions when they could have been dead but it was not obligatory to save them to complete the main plot it would have been nice to have our efforts on their behalf acknowledged.

It still makes no sense to me that in the epilogue at the end of the main game we are said to be an all powerful Thedas wide influence with allies across the world and yet two years later just two nations can so easily destroy everything we have built. For example, since the Viscount of Kirkwall seems to approve of us, why not simply move our base of operations to there and give the two fingered salute to the other two?   (To be honest, in my fan fiction this is exactly what my Inquisitor does after "officially" disbanding the organisation.)

Hah! Not really in my case! It's one of those things where I read your post and was like, "Oh yeah!"

Sometimes I feel like the only one who doesn't blame Teagan for being tetchy. We come in, declare ourselves awesome, take some Keeps that aren't ours, and then never leave even after the Breach is sealed and Corypheus is dead. Who do we think we are? 'Saving the world' doesn't give you an eternal pass to set up your gigantic military force in a sovereign nation and not be looked at sideways.

inb4 Bioware's SJW globalist agenda.

But the game also gives us no opportunity to be nice about it. We don't have the option to hand the keeps back over to their original owners and maybe listen to or even alleviate any concerns they might be having about our presence. One could almost believe that the writers wanted to force the drama about the Inquisition being either disbanded or demoted to honor guard... basically, the writers made us act likes asses without having any input on the matter and then had the NPCs accuse us for it.

Also, was I the only one who found it weird how much common ground the supposed archenemies Orlais and Ferelden seemed to have? I would have expected that at least one of them would try to get the Inquisition's military to side with their nation and tip the scales of power in their favor, but oddly nothing like that happened. Could have made for some fun political intrigue.

Rivain is represented in the multiplayer. Or does Isabela not count for some reason?

I’m not entirely certain if Isabela’s cameo in the MP is actually canon, so I left it off the list.

All the other MP Agents are named in War Table operations or appear during the story campaign. She is not. Varric and Hawke may mention her, but only to say she’s off doing her own thing.

Plus I recall them saying that Josephine only dresses in Antivan fashion - implying that she's proud of her heritage or at least thinks fondly of it.