City Elf or Dalish Elf for Dragon Age 4

well no dalish in the area, as far as i can tell. likely due to the high rate of slave hunters.

as for "city elves", they are not the same as the ones in the south, there's no alienages, no 'tree of the people', those who aren't slaves are just citizens of the empire.

what i want is either a slave elf or qunari elf, to play as.

A gritty city elf from the mean streets of Denerim...or some such other place. Like a young Duncan perhaps?

I can see them as adversaries in DA4.

Bloodthirsty sadistic adversaries.

Basically as close to the Dark Eldar (oops, it's Drukhari now) as DA will ever get, I think.

I rather like that idea. Explore a culture that we have very little knowledge of and see from their perspective what Thedosian elves today come off as to them.

Wouldn't dwarves have to blind them for them to be Falmer?

Would these elves be so very different from those we have already encountered? We know that the elves of Arlathan Forest were as aggressive towards intruders as those at the Temple of Mythal. Thus the prejudice against other races was clearly there before the period of slavery. Also the attitude towards the Creators and Fen'Harel was their legacy that filtered down to the Dalish. If they were living underground how did they escape the darkspawn? I doubt their attitude towards modern races would be that different to those of the Arbor Wilds.

This is why I feel that the elves of the Tirashan are the only group that have the potential to be markedly different both in their allegiances and their history. Were they a separate enclave of ancient elves that was opposed to both the group in Arlathan Forest and the Arbor Wilds? Or were they a later cult of worshipers of the Forgotten Ones that fled persecution in the Dales? If they are followers of the Forgotten Ones then they are likely to be opposed to both supporters of the Creators and Fen'Harel. Mind you, given encounters with them thus far, it is doubtful the PC would survive long enough to be able to question them.



This is where I very much hope they do involve the dwarves of Kal-Sharok in the next game. Let them explain exactly why they massacred the refugees in Cad'Halash and the dwarves of the thaig who had sheltered them. (Were they aware that the elves enslaved the dwarves in ancient times rather than simply preserving the alliance with Tevinter?) What do they remember of ancient history? How did they manage to survive after being cut off from Orzammar? How is it that no one was aware of their survival? (I actually think it is likely that some group on the surface did know). The revelations about the Titans in both the Descent and Trespasser, plus hints about a hidden history in the Hissing Wastes, make me want to know more about the dwarven history and it is possible that some aspects may have been preserved in Kal-Sharok that have been removed from the records by the Shaperate in Orzammar.