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Post by bshep on Dec 13, 2018 1:52:43 GMT
I don't think Bioware would do this. They didn't do it on Trespasser.
Maybe he will have proxy villains like Corypheus who like to rage and destroy things when denied but i still see Solas being the same charming and manipulative elven god that he was on Dragon Age Inquisition in the next game.
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Post by phoray on Dec 13, 2018 1:56:24 GMT
I don't think Bioware would do this. They didn't do it on Trespasser. Maybe he will have proxy villains like Corypheus who like to rage and destroy things when denied but i still see Solas being the same charming and manipulative elven god that he was on Dragon Age Inquisition in the next game. But he shouldn't be dumb OR desperate enough to pick up idiot underlings. And he JUST had the Orb Mistake occur he should have learned frkm He's "human", he held the idiot ball a few times in his day. I don't want him holding the idiot ball when we beat him. I want to win because we actually out smarted him and he was ALSO smart, we were just -smarter-.
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Post by Blaze on Dec 13, 2018 1:57:05 GMT
Couple of responses: On Calix: Yep, he's an idiot. And yep, this is his origin story. We wrote this as his story hidden as his mentor's story (which is why we opened Issue 1 with a flash forward to her final moments, and why after Issue 1, Olivia's voiceover style captions drop out). Olivia's death will change him going forward.
On Gaius (the fake Magister Qintara): He has been reporting to Fen'Harel. But that doesn't mean he's ever met him, nor that Solas has the slightest idea of how Gaius or other of his agents refer to him. Just as Vaea works for the Inquisition but has never met the Inquisitor, Gaius was recruited by an agent who was themselves likely recruited by an agent. He was a slave his whole life, and while he is thrilled to be working for an ancient god reawakened, he doesn't have training in exactly what that entails - he's just been giving information to his fellow agents. I can say with absolute certainty... Fen'Harel would not even have approved of the trading of the weapon for information. But Gaius' mandate was information, so when the weapon was in his hands, he saw it as just another tool to get that information.
As to the weapon... you'll have to wait and see what it is. But we've been setting this particular MacGuffin in motion since the first issue of Knight Errant.
Lastly, Slim... Ser Aaron is not a noble. He's landless and doesn't even have a coat of arms or crest that'd be recognizable. The pendant Olivia stole from Ser Aaron has an image of a Mabari on it. In Ferelden, that's hardly a unique symbol. So what Slim bought was a pendant given by the King to someone, with no real indication which of dozens of minor nobles it could have been. So he bought it. But only afterwards did he realize that Alistair had given a pendant like that to Ser Aaron, and that Olivia had been seen with Ser Aaron.
And stealing from a landless Knight who stands up for the common people at every turn goes against everything Slim Couldry stands for.
And yeah, Olivia knew he'd eventually realize this, so she chose to steal from Couldry instead of Aaron.
oh my god, it didn't register for me at first, you are one of the people who wrote the comics xD anyway, really good job, both on deception and knight errant. great stories, great characters. as of calix, i usually have low tolorance for idiots (even fictional ones ), but he clearly a very complex character, and while smart he is not, he is very emotional and sentimental and i would love to see more of him. now i know you probably can't answer that but i'm gonna ask anyway: are you and christina going to write/currently writing more dragon age comics?
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Post by vertigomez on Dec 13, 2018 1:58:37 GMT
Am I the only one who's excited about the Crows?
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Post by bshep on Dec 13, 2018 2:02:18 GMT
I don't think Bioware would do this. They didn't do it on Trespasser. Maybe he will have proxy villains like Corypheus who like to rage and destroy things when denied but i still see Solas being the same charming and manipulative elven god that he was on Dragon Age Inquisition in the next game. But he shouldn't be dumb OR desperate enough to pick up idiot underlings. And he JUST had the Orb Mistake occur he should have learned frkm He's "human", he held the idiot ball a few times in his day. I don't want him holding the idiot ball when we beat him. I want to win because we actually out smarted him and he was ALSO smart, we were just -smarter-. I think the problem was the contrary, that Corypheus wasn't stupid enough to release the Orb energy without a way of not dying in the process.
But i agree about not dumbing down Solas. P.Weeks is writting him again so i will choose to have faith on their abilities.
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Post by OhDaniGirl on Dec 13, 2018 2:04:50 GMT
Am I the only one who's excited about the Crows? I want to know why they wanted that ledger so badly. What was in it? Who was it for?
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Post by Blaze on Dec 13, 2018 2:04:51 GMT
Am I the only one who's excited about the Crows? they were great, i was laughing at the silly mage thinking he have a chance, but can't say i was excited. it was nice to have competent crows though.
in the game they talk about how scary the crows are, but we never see it cause we always play a character that is out of this world in term of combat skills.
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Post by bshep on Dec 13, 2018 2:11:32 GMT
Am I the only one who's excited about the Crows? they were great, i was laughing at the silly mage thinking he have a chance, but can't say i was excited. it was nice to have competent crows though.
in the game they talk about how scary the crows are, but we never see it cause we always play a character that is out of this world in term of combat skills. Crows were getting their asses handed to them left and right by my mage Hawke.
But yeah i wonder if there was any major significance on what they stole.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 13, 2018 2:11:43 GMT
Am I the only one who's excited about the Crows? Well, they did get Francesca involved so I guess in that way I’m thankful to them.
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Post by nunziodefilippis on Dec 13, 2018 3:52:41 GMT
Well, I enjoyed that and am definitely looking forward to wherever this goes next! I like that the remaining characters have accidentally formed a proper Dragon Age party with a tank, a mage and a couple of rogues. And a dog!
Really looking forward to House Danarius. (Whatever medium that gets followed up in.) Glad you enjoyed it. And that party composition was not an accident. Christina and I are building a bit by design. Though right now, this group also includes Tessa and Marius. Mr nunziodefilippis , if I may ask, why are Gaius' eyes red/reddish in some panels? is it just their natural color in some lightings, an art choice? I ask because red lyrium .. It was an artists' choice. However, I'm not opposed to the idea that he had a little of the Red Lyrium's influence still affecting him (not Bartrand level, but still). Something to think about, I suppose... Solas plan usually work better when he involves himself on the execution of them. That's true of most people's plans, sadly. The larger the number of people involved, the more likely someone will screw it up. Thank you for the response. I have some questions too and I hope you can answer them: What happened to Dorian? Is he safe? Did he managed to escape? As mentioned below, we'd never kill Dorian. His fate after our mini, however, is out of our hands. Thank you for the response. I have some questions too and I hope you can answer them: He already answered this question. See Page 15 of this thread.
"Not to worry - Bioware wouldn't let us kill Dorian. Not sure what his fate is beyond our story, though..." But i have one. Why isn´t Deception included in the Dragon Age Libary Edition Volume 2?
And just out of curiosity how many pages have Deception in total?
I don´t expect that this enough to justify Dragon Age Libery Edition Volume 3 alone. Then we'd need other stuff to fill out Library Edition Volume 3. Can't say for sure that will happen, but that is certainly our hope. I know that Olivia is dead or is she still alive? Definitely dead
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 13, 2018 4:05:17 GMT
Well, I enjoyed that and am definitely looking forward to wherever this goes next! I like that the remaining characters have accidentally formed a proper Dragon Age party with a tank, a mage and a couple of rogues. And a dog!
Really looking forward to House Danarius. (Whatever medium that gets followed up in.) Glad you enjoyed it. And that party composition was not an accident. Christina and I are building a bit by design. Though right now, this group also includes Tessa and Marius. So Francesca and Calix will be joining the others on future adventures? That's good to hear since elsewhere that was being wondered about, and I'm glad that we'll see more of them. Despite not being one of the major characters, I really liked what we saw with Francesca so look forward to seeing more with her interacting with the others.
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Post by thats1evildude on Dec 13, 2018 4:15:41 GMT
Hrrrnh ... hrrnnh ... blergh ...
Sorry, I just get a little vomit in my throat when Blandman and Tessandra are mentioned.
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Post by phoray on Dec 13, 2018 4:16:20 GMT
Am I the only one who's excited about the Crows? NOPE. I'm totally up for some questionable morals and professional murder on our side of the Fighting lines again (Rainer doesn't count, he feels guilty)
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 13, 2018 4:27:03 GMT
Hrrrnh ... hrrnnh ... blergh ... Sorry, I just get a little vomit in my throat when Blandman and Tessandra are mentioned. I think I'm one of the few people here who actually didn't mind their characters. Sure Vaea blew them out of the water, but I still liked them.
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Post by thats1evildude on Dec 13, 2018 4:51:11 GMT
I had no issue with them right up until Issue 4 of Magekiller, when that nagging voice of doubt at the back of my mind grew into a deafening roar. That’s when I noticed the bland characterization of Marius and Tessa’s blatant copy pasting of traits from Cassandra.
Their motivations were nonsensical, their romantic side plots were forced, their specialization was poorly-explained and the narrative had been trying hard to sell them as the biggest badasses in Thedas while doing little to justify it, something I absolutely despise.
The comic stunk, and I’ve been very vocal about it because I wanted any passing BioWare dev to take notice before they began mapping out Dragon Age 4: The Continuing Adventures of Thedas’ Most Tedious Mercenaries.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 13, 2018 4:58:36 GMT
I had no issue with them right up until Issue 4 of Magekiller, when that nagging voice of doubt at the back of my mind grew into a deafening roar. That’s when I noticed the bland characterization of Marius and Tessa’s blatant copy pasting of traits from Cassandra. Their specialization was nonsensical, their motivations were silly, their romantic side plots were forced and the narrative had been trying hard to sell them as the biggest bad assets in Thedas while doing little to justify it, something I absolutely despise. The comic stunk, and I’ve been very vocal about it because I wanted any passing BioWare dev to take notice before they began mapping out Dragon Age 4: The Continuing Adventures of Thedas’ Most Tedious Mercenary Couple. Well, they are being handled by different writers now so maybe you'll enjoy them more in the future.
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Post by thats1evildude on Dec 13, 2018 5:00:55 GMT
Yes, I’ll admit they were palatable in Knight Errant, so I’m not as worried.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Dec 13, 2018 6:13:04 GMT
Couple of responses: On Gaius (the fake Magister Qintara): He has been reporting to Fen'Harel. But that doesn't mean he's ever met him, nor that Solas has the slightest idea of how Gaius or other of his agents refer to him. Just as Vaea works for the Inquisition but has never met the Inquisitor, Gaius was recruited by an agent who was themselves likely recruited by an agent. He was a slave his whole life, and while he is thrilled to be working for an ancient god reawakened, he doesn't have training in exactly what that entails - he's just been giving information to his fellow agents. I can say with absolute certainty... Fen'Harel would not even have approved of the trading of the weapon for information. But Gaius' mandate was information, so when the weapon was in his hands, he saw it as just another tool to get that information.
I can see this becoming a thing in DA4 now. We're gonna run into "agents of Fen'Harel" doing some possibly really stupid and/or despicable stuff, without Solas's direction or knowledge, and it'll be up to the player how responsible you consider Solas to be for it. He did say falling to corruption was the fate of every grand organization. Of course, him compartmentalizing and breaking everyone into cells doesn't do anything but make it worse. Same problem the Red Jennys could potentially have. Its stealthy, but you have a way higher chance of it getting away from you. You know Solas' plans really don't go well do they? He is really unlucky with his agents.
Felassan was meant to recover control of the eluvians. Instead he gives them to Briala.
Un-named agent was meant to give orb to some chump who could unlock it and get blasted. Instead Corypheus survives and ultimately the orb gets shattered.
New agent in Tevinter messes up and gives away potentially powerful weapon to get information that Solas probably knew anyway.
"How are you going to deal with the Evanuris Solas?"
"I have plans."
This does not bode well. I've been guffawing at that line of his since he said it. And slight correction, but he said "had plans" as in "did". Which also doesn't bode well, imo. Sure he *could* still have those plans. And I don't doubt he currently has something. But it doesn't fill me with confidence that those plans are still in development and subject to change just b/c the method of ripping down the veil is gonna be different. I mean, they're a problem he's been staring at for literal millenia and he still doesn't have a concrete solution. That either means there isn't one, or that he needs a fresh perspective (which the inquisitor *could* have provided if you'd just been upfront, egghead) to see it through. Solas plan usually work better when he involves himself on the execution of them. Especially when there are so many potential landmines out in the world that he's gonna know to avoid, but his new recruits, who weren't around when the wheel was invented, don't. And he doesn't let everyone know those details. He seems to be running things on a need to know basis, where he decides the need to know, which doesn't really work if he's not accessible to assess it all the time.
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Post by midnight tea on Dec 13, 2018 6:39:38 GMT
Couple of responses: On Gaius (the fake Magister Qintara): He has been reporting to Fen'Harel. But that doesn't mean he's ever met him, nor that Solas has the slightest idea of how Gaius or other of his agents refer to him. Just as Vaea works for the Inquisition but has never met the Inquisitor, Gaius was recruited by an agent who was themselves likely recruited by an agent. He was a slave his whole life, and while he is thrilled to be working for an ancient god reawakened, he doesn't have training in exactly what that entails - he's just been giving information to his fellow agents. I can say with absolute certainty... Fen'Harel would not even have approved of the trading of the weapon for information. But Gaius' mandate was information, so when the weapon was in his hands, he saw it as just another tool to get that information.
I can see this becoming a thing in DA4 now. We're gonna run into "agents of Fen'Harel" doing some possibly really stupid and/or despicable stuff, without Solas's direction or knowledge, and it'll be up to the player how responsible you consider Solas to be for it. He did say falling to corruption was the fate of every grand organization. Of course, him compartmentalizing and breaking everyone into cells doesn't do anything but make it worse. Same problem the Red Jennys could potentially have. Its stealthy, but you have a way higher chance of it getting away from you. You know Solas' plans really don't go well do they? He is really unlucky with his agents.
Felassan was meant to recover control of the eluvians. Instead he gives them to Briala.
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New agent in Tevinter messes up and gives away potentially powerful weapon to get information that Solas probably knew anyway.
"How are you going to deal with the Evanuris Solas?"
"I have plans."
This does not bode well. I've been guffawing at that line of his since he said it. And slight correction, but he said "had plans" as in "did". Which also doesn't bode well, imo. Sure he *could* still have those plans. And I don't doubt he currently has something. But it doesn't fill me with confidence that those plans are still in development and subject to change just b/c the method of ripping down the veil is gonna be different. I mean, they're a problem he's been staring at for literal millenia and he still doesn't have a concrete solution. That either means there isn't one, or that he needs a fresh perspective (which the inquisitor *could* have provided if you'd just been upfront, egghead) to see it through. Solas plan usually work better when he involves himself on the execution of them. Especially when there are so many potential landmines out in the world that he's gonna know to avoid, but his new recruits, who weren't around when the wheel was invented, don't. And he doesn't let everyone know those details. He seems to be running things on a need to know basis, where he decides the need to know, which doesn't really work if he's not accessible to assess it all the time. I don't think us/Inquisition can be taking pot-shots in this area, given how spectacularly they MISSED being infiltrated by at least two enemy factions and Southern leadership nearly being blown up to smithereens because of that. And it's Solas's people who actually stepped in and help Inquisition realize its errors. Let's be fair here - such things are bound to happen in any organization, compartmentalized or not. There are entire, layered and varied quests for Inquisitor in the vanilla game where we mop up after or try and rescue our own people. And in the comic, the current agents of Inquisition have more or less directly allied with Crows who then killed a young Tevinter noble (it wouldn't matter whether the noble attacked them first). If the city didn't fall to the Qun almost right away, I think we can imagine that this might have turned into a BIG political headache. I also have doubts that Solas has no concrete solutions - the debacle with Corypheus showed us that the guy is flexible and can adapt pretty damn quickly, but it shouldn't be forgotten that everything surroundin the opening of the Breach and then losing a very crucial object (his orb) were HUGE game-changers for him. So it's not a matter of having no plans - it's a matter of your carefully constructed plans falling apart at 11:59 and thus everything has to be re-calibrated in a fairly short time. I have my doubts that Solas currently has no plans or just "had" plans - clearly, he does. I just think he's in a position where he is doing his best to not tell what his plans actually are without giving too much away. After all, if Inquisitor is befriended then Solas literally states that he has to watch out what he's saying because he knows Inky has the smarts to add things together and figure this stuff out.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Dec 13, 2018 6:59:13 GMT
I can see this becoming a thing in DA4 now. We're gonna run into "agents of Fen'Harel" doing some possibly really stupid and/or despicable stuff, without Solas's direction or knowledge, and it'll be up to the player how responsible you consider Solas to be for it. He did say falling to corruption was the fate of every grand organization. Of course, him compartmentalizing and breaking everyone into cells doesn't do anything but make it worse. Same problem the Red Jennys could potentially have. Its stealthy, but you have a way higher chance of it getting away from you. I've been guffawing at that line of his since he said it. And slight correction, but he said "had plans" as in "did". Which also doesn't bode well, imo. Sure he *could* still have those plans. And I don't doubt he currently has something. But it doesn't fill me with confidence that those plans are still in development and subject to change just b/c the method of ripping down the veil is gonna be different. I mean, they're a problem he's been staring at for literal millenia and he still doesn't have a concrete solution. That either means there isn't one, or that he needs a fresh perspective (which the inquisitor *could* have provided if you'd just been upfront, egghead) to see it through. Especially when there are so many potential landmines out in the world that he's gonna know to avoid, but his new recruits, who weren't around when the wheel was invented, don't. And he doesn't let everyone know those details. He seems to be running things on a need to know basis, where he decides the need to know, which doesn't really work if he's not accessible to assess it all the time. I don't think us/Inquisition can be taking pot-shots in this area, given how spectacularly they MISSED being infiltrated by at least two enemy factions and Southern leadership nearly being blown up to smithereens because of that. And it's Solas's people who actually stepped in and help Inquisition realize its errors. Did I say we were? Though I still feel Solas using his trusted position to insert/recruit spies into the Inquisition, while we were all working together, is a bigger betrayal than hiding his identity disguising half-truths or not coming out and saying the orb was his. It just feels so... below the belt for him to do that.
And when he hits Inquisitors who had Bull betray them with "Let's ask Iron Bull. Where is he?"... I mean, on the one hand, yeah its in large part the Inquisitor's own fault Bull backstabs them. On the other hand, Solas sounds so *smug* about it and about his certainty that "its the fate of organizations to fall to corruption" when he's responsible for half the infiltration... He acts like he knows better about this stuff, and yet he's apparently making the same dam mistakes. (Well, similar mistakes, since I doubt he's being betrayed and actively undermined by people he trusts. B/c he doesn't actually trust anyone.) He just talks about this stuff like he's so savvy that it could never happen to him. And now apparently, at least on a small scale, it is. Gives me half a mind to watch his network eat itself(or actively encourage it) and just go "Good." And this is from someone who actually *likes* the guy and wants to find a solution for him that works for us all. He just also makes me want to slap him. And this just reminds me why. lol
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Post by midnight tea on Dec 13, 2018 7:10:48 GMT
I don't think us/Inquisition can be taking pot-shots in this area, given how spectacularly they MISSED being infiltrated by at least two enemy factions and Southern leadership nearly being blown up to smithereens because of that. And it's Solas's people who actually stepped in and help Inquisition realize its errors. Did I say we were? Though I still feel Solas using his trusted position to insert/recruit spies into the Inquisition, while we were all working together, is a bigger betrayal than hiding his identity disguising half-truths or not coming out and saying the orb was his. It just feels so... below the belt for him to do that. And when he hits Inquisitors who had Bull betray them with "Let's ask Iron Bull. Where is he?"... I mean, on the one hand, yeah its in large part the Inquisitor's own fault Bull backstabs them. On the other hand, Solas sounds so *smug* about it and about his certainty that "its the fate of organizations to fall to corruption" when he's responsible for half the infiltration... He acts like he knows better about this stuff, and yet he's apparently making the same dam mistakes. (Well, similar mistakes, since I doubt he's being betrayed and actively undermined by people he trusts. B/c he doesn't actually trust anyone.) its the hypocrisy that gets me and gives me half a mind to watch his network eat itself and just go "Good." And this is from someone who actually *likes* the guy. We don't know when exactly his people had infiltrated Inquisition, but personally... I don't mind? I mean, I don't mind as much as you do, clearly. Predominantly because it's thanks to that infiltration that Inky's either still there to save the day, or not bogged down counting bodies after yet another explosion that threatened their lives. He basically kept an eye on us and - if befriended - that feels a bit like Varric keeping an eye on his friends in DAII. In fact, regardless of how he feels about Inquisitor and the rest, that also earns him a right to be pretty smug about it, especially if we get ourselves fooled by Qunari!Bull. Because so far he bounced back and regrouped after his agents f*** ups. I'm not sure it can be said about Inquisition if the Qunari plan panned out.
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Post by thats1evildude on Dec 13, 2018 7:24:09 GMT
I think the reason Solas said he “had” plans to deal with the freed Evanuris is because those plans are now irrelevant. He can’t tear down the Veil without his orb, and thus the Evanuris will remain locked away in the farthest reaches of the Fade.
I do recall while playing through DAI wondering at least once when the open door recruitment process would bite it in the ass. When the mandate of the organization is as simple as “kill rampaging demons,” the likelihood of being infiltrated with a pro-rampaging demon agenda was exceedingly low. The qunari, on the other hand, could arrange to put scads of followers in the ranks, as could Solas.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Dec 13, 2018 7:41:15 GMT
Did I say we were? Though I still feel Solas using his trusted position to insert/recruit spies into the Inquisition, while we were all working together, is a bigger betrayal than hiding his identity disguising half-truths or not coming out and saying the orb was his. It just feels so... below the belt for him to do that. And when he hits Inquisitors who had Bull betray them with "Let's ask Iron Bull. Where is he?"... I mean, on the one hand, yeah its in large part the Inquisitor's own fault Bull backstabs them. On the other hand, Solas sounds so *smug* about it and about his certainty that "its the fate of organizations to fall to corruption" when he's responsible for half the infiltration... He acts like he knows better about this stuff, and yet he's apparently making the same dam mistakes. (Well, similar mistakes, since I doubt he's being betrayed and actively undermined by people he trusts. B/c he doesn't actually trust anyone.) its the hypocrisy that gets me and gives me half a mind to watch his network eat itself and just go "Good." And this is from someone who actually *likes* the guy. We don't know when exactly his people had infiltrated Inquisition, but personally... I don't mind? I mean, I don't mind as much as you do, clearly. Predominantly because it's thanks to that infiltration that Inky either still there to save the day, or not bogged down counting bodies after yet another explosion threatened their lives. He basically kept an eye on us and - if befriended - that feels a bit like Varric keeping an eye on his friends in DAII. In fact, regardless of how he feels about Inquisitor and the rest, that also earns him a right to be pretty smug about it, especially if we get ourselves fooled by Qunari!Bull. Because so far he bounced back and regrouped after his agents f*** ups. I'm not sure it can be said about Inquisition if the Qunari plan panned out. I don't think his infiltration was benign.That seems to be where we differ. I'm not saying I think he wants to hurt us physically or something. But it seems highly unlikely to me that he infiltrated our organization simply to act as a safeguard for us, like Varric does when he has people tailing Daisy through Lowtown. If that was so, he would have dropped a warning about the Qunari spies long before the council. His infiltration, which likely began while he was still in our group b/c that's when he'd have the most freedom for it, is for his own plans' benefit, first and foremost.
As for the right to feel smug about it... mean, yeah, I guess? Its like someone feeling smug about cheating at chess. Its insult to injury. I mean, yeah you managed it, grats. Still gonna never play you again.
As for bouncing back after his agents' screw ups, I think that remains to be seen. To get back on topic about the comic, he's got an agent trading red lyrium weaponry to ppl for information. Clearly he's got some problems with oversight, and I just won't be surprised if that has consequences he doesn't intend that come back to bite him.
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Post by midnight tea on Dec 13, 2018 8:11:06 GMT
We don't know when exactly his people had infiltrated Inquisition, but personally... I don't mind? I mean, I don't mind as much as you do, clearly. Predominantly because it's thanks to that infiltration that Inky either still there to save the day, or not bogged down counting bodies after yet another explosion threatened their lives. He basically kept an eye on us and - if befriended - that feels a bit like Varric keeping an eye on his friends in DAII. In fact, regardless of how he feels about Inquisitor and the rest, that also earns him a right to be pretty smug about it, especially if we get ourselves fooled by Qunari!Bull. Because so far he bounced back and regrouped after his agents f*** ups. I'm not sure it can be said about Inquisition if the Qunari plan panned out. I don't think his infiltration was benign.That seems to be where we differ. I'm not saying I think he wants to hurt us physically or something. But it seems highly unlikely to me that he infiltrated our organization simply to act as a safeguard for us, like Varric does when he has people tailing Daisy through Lowtown. If that was so, he would have dropped a warning about the Qunari spies long before the council. His infiltration, which likely began while he was still in our group b/c that's when he'd have the most freedom for it, is for his own plans' benefit, first and foremost. Hah, I’m not saying that reasons to infiltrate Inquisition are ‘benign’, because that happens regardless what he thinks of Inquisition - however, keep in mind that, apparently, what he thinks works for his benefit is having Inquisition on his tail. What I mean by that is you have to keep in mind that we don’t really know Solas’s endgame, and what seems like f-up may yet be something he either intended or managed to turn as working for his advantage... as was the case in his chess game with Bull. And he didn’t cheat in that one. I don’t think Solas infiltrating Inquisition can be called ‘cheating’ - when you’re part of those who actually have a place at a multidimensional chess table, this is just standard par of the course. We risked trusting Solas just like we risked trusting Bull. Or Vivienne. Or else. The amusing thing is that we may have subverted the whole game just by gaining his respect and then friendship, thus emotionally compromising him, lol. Considering that the issue began with some important weapon being stolen from a city governed by Inquisition’s close ally and spymaster himself, I don’t think it’s just the Dread Wolf has oversight problems. And if you say that Inquisition can’t possibly keep an eye on everything... well, isn’t it the same the other way around? (Especially that we don’t even know the extent of Solas’s actual spy network.) It’ll probably end in a salty letter from Inky - “I’m mopping some of your problems again” and Solas responding that it was our thing to fix anyway, and btw. you’re welcome for that meaty clue
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Dec 13, 2018 8:42:11 GMT
Considering that the issue began with some important weapon being stolen from a city governed by Inquisition’s close ally and spymaster himself, I don’t think it’s just the Dread Wolf has oversight problems. And if you say that Inquisition can’t possibly keep an eye on everything... well, isn’t it the same the other way around? (Especially that we don’t even know the extent of Solas’s actual spy network.) Well, that was my point. lol He can't keep an eye on everything. I never thought he could. And this issue in the comic makes me think its going to be a bigger issue in the game. Maybe a source of some drama.
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