9:46 Dragon ~ The Nature of Conflict (OOC)

So sorry, for some reason I seemed to scroll past the NPCs earlier today. Seeing the picture of Jon it is clear that he does like throwing lavish parties, with lots of courses of food. That is great. Lot's to work with there.

Nice pic!

Welcome! Make yourself at home! the plot hook is on page 2 with the NPCs there as well.

Added Vander as a new NPC!

Question to all you lovely people involved with this, are we using my expanded world state over on my other 9:45 Sins of the Father thread?

If so, it states that the HoF survives and Alistair is King, which means the US wasn't done by either of them. So what is your preference on this? Did HoF agree to Morrigan's deal, which no one will know about and only the Grey Wardens would really think highly suspicious? Or did HoF conscript Loghain to the Wardens and he volunteered/was forced into doing the US in order to spare the HoF?

The reason I ask is that it could affect the way Loghain was ultimately viewed by the population at large and might come up in conversation. So either he died a tyrant corrupted by power (executed) or died a redeemed hero (US). I'm not too keen on the alternative where Loghain did the dark ritual. Will have to check out the epilogue for that scenario if people want to go with that.

Gervaise made a pretty good case for wanting to know more details.

It's reasonable to use the same world state for both threads since one is a prequel.

You can't say beforehand what is or isn't going to come up.

I think gervaise21 had a great world state set up. It was well thought out and very detailed. Is there a reason not to use that?

If a preference is made in a post, it should be added to the World State as canon at that point so people can reference.

I'd prefer a redeemed Loghain though there are lot of people who are disgusted with Jon.

@gervaise

I understand. In my RP, who the Warden is moderately matters, because it affects the Politics of Lothering--- one of the characters playing also professes to be a fan of the Warden, so it helps that she has information as well.

So what Loghain is doing matters to your world, who the Warden is/was matters in mine.

In some ways who the Warden was matters in everyone's world but, as I state above, you can work around by people simply ignoring their race, gender, background in favour of their own hero image. The Blight is a threat to all races and all nations so the person who stops the Blight becomes a sort of everyman figure.

Personally I would rather have the HoF as a city elf because that is my canon world state but I wanted to experiment with trying to carry over from one story to the next and since everyone has their own preferred Warden, I was happy to leave it vague. In some respects though having a human Warden who didn't end up Queen/King Consort or a dwarf actually makes less complications since they are not representing a race of second class citizens in the surface world. I appreciate you could be a castles dwarf but that would be more relevant in Orzammar. Even there though the race of the Warden may not be as significant because Bhelen was trying to open up the dwarf kingdom to the wider world and improving the status of the castles. So it is not the same as an elf Warden where an elf has saved the world from the Blight for the second time in a row (Garahel being the previous one) and they are still treated like second class citizens.

The Inquisitor is another case in point where I feel they were already hinting in game that your real identity was going to be subsumed by the heroic myth. After all, regardless of the truth of the matter that you discover in the Fade, people still insisted on calling you the Herald of Andraste and people, even Hawke, seem to think the myth is more important than the truth. That being the case, it probably wouldn't be long before the Herald of Andraste became a generic hero figure.

phoray gervaise21