Something I've realized about the elven experience in games.

As a City Elf you only experience the difference after you have been made a Warden. During your origin story you get to experience the contempt and mistreatment that elves suffer on a daily basis. As a female elf you are referred to as a whore and forcibly abducted from your wedding. As a male elf you have to witness your fiancé, cousin and other female members of the wedding party referred to in the same way and their forcible abduction, whilst the Chantry sister officiating at the wedding does nothing to prevent this.    When you reach Ostagar that merchant near the steps starts to order you around until you correct him and take issue with him over his implied treatment of elven servants. 

A Dalish Warden has to put up with being called "rabbit" whilst at the Palace or risk getting themselves thrown out. You always start off at a lower level of approval than a human because of the prejudice against you. Josephine also tells you in the beginning about the negative stories circulating because you are a Dalish elf. They don't treat you as an animal but a monster who might sacrifice their children at any moment because that it is the nature of Chantry propaganda against the Dalish.  So lack of open insults may be initially because they fear you.

On the whole though, you are never in a situation in which people can really show what they feel. You always have non-elves with you who are armed to the teeth and in Cassandra's case has the insignia of the Seekers to back this up. We never enter the backstreets of any city as Inquisitor, certainly not alone, so are unlikely to experience the sort of mistreatment that occurs there.

Plus it is evident how much of the dialogue was written with a human Inquisitor in mind.   They were able to make some additions to account for different races but not enough to really bring out the difference in the way races are treated.   A Vashoth Inquisitor ought to have suffered from prejudice and fear as well from the general populace but this doesn't happen either. 

It is probably why they avoided taking us anywhere near Orzammar. If Bhelen is King then he does bring about a degree of improvement for the casteless, whereas under Harrowmount they get nothing. However, I agree that they are another group that I was concerned about but if you had never played Origins you wouldn't know how badly they were treated.

To be honest in DAI you are in a sort of bubble when it comes to the wider world. You interact with people in certain locations but you don't really get a sense of how different communities live in the countries we visit or travel beneath. Codices and war table missions do not really substitute for actually experiencing conditions first hand.

I hope they make good that omission in the next game.  If we are in Tevinter I want to see the best and worst of it, to see the luxury in which the Magisters live and the elven slums, see the dwarven Ambassadoria and the slave markets.  I'm also hopeful of eventually seeing Qunadar, although that could present them with a bit of a challenge considering it is meant to be so different from the rest of Thedas.   If we only touch on these societies, like we did in Val Royeaux, I shall be very disappointed.