Wrex's Fate (Nexus Uprising spoilers)

I think the unwritten assumption for any novels that Bioware puts out in either the ME or DA universes is that the details regarding the setting that can contradict choices the player makes aren't the kind of canon that overrides player choice so much as "we needed to make this call for the sake of the story of this book but if your world state is different than your choices apply to your world state and are canon for you".

It is a double edged sword in that if Bioware went out of their way to never mention any of these choices, then that means they didn't matter and didn't affect anything important, didn't have any consequences outside of what we may or may not see in game - which has to be limited by the actual physical constraints of the medium. So if they mention it, then your choice doesn't matter if it's contradicted, but if they don't mention it, then no one's choice matters because it affected nothing.

All that being said, I haven't read the book so I don't know how pertinent that call really was to the story or what not, so I may be being overly fair to BW here.

I wondered about that myself, as Wrex never survives Virmire in my playthroughs. I hope it's simply a continuity error that slipped past the editor. That does happen, after all, in books of all kinds.

Edit: I have no problem with Wrex being mentioned as an example-in-passing to compare with other Krogan leaders, but not as if he's the current Urdnot leader.

Okay, feeling slightly embarrassed. Just read the wiki on Wrex and it says he became a clan leader in his youth due to his exceptional battle prowess (also, he was a battlemaster). I guess BioWare can make the comparison without setting canon for the game stories.

I think the Dragon Age team, at least, has said their writings operate off a specific timeline.  it's not "canon" as such, it's simply the series of events they choose to work with when it comes to outside writing.  And for other people's timelines, said events may have happened differently or not at all.

I don't know if Mass Effect works that way.

I don't have a problem with that since the majority of my playthroughs is with femshep

Not even close. They're confirming femshep who is currently in Vancouver having drinks with Samantha while reading a book on  "How to win at chess".

@privateinvestigator: Though I always loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Wonder Woman and the Bionic Woman, I never wanted to be them. If I'm assuming a role, it's BroShep. TBH, I was drawn to the MET specifically because I had heard that I could romance a guy in ME3. That was my main goal in my initial playthrough - first several, actually. I grew to love the entire series but would never have even bothered if I couldn't have my own personal canon. That's why I'm glad that BioWare has left it open.

I just ignore the novels. BioWare addressed this same issue with Dragon Age: Asunder. They have to pick a "canon" in order to write anything, but that doesn't invalidate your decisions in the games, so who cares.

That said, it sounds like a pointless detail that was only inserted for the sake of fan service? It's fine if you enjoy tidbits like that, I guess, but if it was me writing it, I wouldn't have bothered.

But if you play as femshep Captain Anderson doesn't call you 'son' just before he dies.  :sob:

I would buy this

that would just be funny if he did.


But how does Shepard even find out about that prayer from Thane? "Why did he say 'she'?"

That just sounds patronising.