"No Brothels to be in DA4" as per Mark Darrah Tweet.

I wouldn't call it a sharp turn.

    An organisation that doesn't have computers perhaps? Heck, even with computer systems you still hear in the real world of people taking large sums of money from their companies and getting away with it for years. A large organisation is a behemouth and it's quite frankly impossible to figure out what each of your guys are doing or to have a thorough background check on each of them. Add in the fact that you are a society which largely doesn't keep records (passports, birth certificates), the majority is illiterate and you're having to record everything on paper which can be lost and not everyone in your organisations going to be able to see, it's not at all surprising you are going to get infiltrated. What should Lelianna done, keep all elves out? That wouldn't have worked.

    We can perhaps have a go about Solas and Blackwall but people not leaving a paper trail isn't unusual in this time period. Quite frankly Solas' story of being an apostate loner mage is the perfect cover story, it makes sense why there's no evidence of him because an apostate isn't going to want to attract the authorities notice. What happened to the Inquisition wasn't preventable, there wasn't any system that was going to be the perfect solution - that was the point. And it's the same point as why trying to use a large organisation against Solas wouldn't work either.

     There are benefits to having a large organisations but there are drawbacks as well. This is something that real world comapanies and organisations have to deal with in the real world as well. Usually, the stakes are some employies stealing too many pens rather than your former ally trying to bring back an ancient world while destroying the current one however...

A stupid complaint. The Dragon Age series was created to be dark. It's like complaining that speculative fiction is too speculative. And if you want to go back further people complained about Origins being too light and that it was essentially a heroic fantasy story in disguise (a valid complaint about a series that was meant to be dark, imo)

What is your take on Hegel’s conception of the dialectic duality of well-shaped bosoms?

In all seriousness, here’s my thing with brothels: they never seem to do much of anything beyond being a gimmick. Sure, you can have quests there, but you can have quests anywhere. Dropping some of my hard-earned gold on a prostitute to get a fade to black or janky pixel sex has always seemed a waste. Even if I want to role play a hedonistic character, I figure it’s better to headcanon his escapades rather than doing something so bare and self-contained.

I’m not sure how to address those issues, to be honest. One idea I had was to make the brothel a quest hub, but more like they are in, say, Assassin’s Creed 2 (with an extra RPG sprinkling, of course). You help them keep the business running and protect their workers, and in return they might provide you with services like intelligence gathering and the like. That would give you a more honest look into the city’s underbelly, and allow you to interact with the prostitutes like actual characters. At that point, I might be even willing to drop those gold coins, if only to see if it would unlock more content for the hub.

I would also like companions to have more interactions with this hypothetical brothel. For some, it might mean hanging around there often. For others, it may mean getting extremely judgmental if you try to take advantage of the services. The most fun I’ve had in a video game brothel in a while was in my current BG2 run, when I tried to talk with the madame only for Jaheira to immediately cut her off and say “No, he’s not interested in anything you have to offer.” God, was I laughing.

Do we even know she hid anything? 

And the reason Inquisition stayed wasn't just "because Cory" - at some point in time Inquisition was the only stabilizing force in the region capable of restoring order. And considering that Ferelden STILL recovers from the Blight from a decade ago, it'd be preposterous to think that the land has recovered only 2 years after the defeat of Cory, what with all the rifts and demons and red lyrium or red templars and so on. Inquisition is likely still, by and large, the major stabilizing force - but the world is slowly crawling out of the ditch it swerved into, so naturally they'd start looking an Quizzy and be all "hmmmm... maybe it's time to pass the torch? Or share that pie with others?". 

And we don't know the details of the 'fight' over Caer Bronach. Maybe it was a more complicated issue we know of. Maybe Inquisition got Cease and Desist, only for Ferelden to go "actually, there's a problem, please stay for a while", or maybe local people asked for Inquisition's protection seeing that Fereldan forces care little for them (which is exactly what was presented in the game), or maybe Ferelden has soured on Inquisition after they've found out that the Keep is used predominantly by the organizations' spies, or maybe it was just a moment of realization that "hey... it's been 2 years since Cory got defeated, I think it's time to start asking what exactly Inquisition is doing on our territory". Either way, with Inquisition remaining as powerful as it was when it defeated Cory, a country which only has recently regained its independence would be a bit paranoid about a powerful entity able to fairly easily fit it under its shoe. I know - I live in such country.

Why is explanation even necessary? The crux of the argument of Teagan is clear "It's been 2 years since Corypheus, Inquisitor. What are you planning to do now?"

Considering Ferelden's concern and Inquisition's power, this is a legitimate question dressed as a the complaint of holding some of Ferelden's territory.

Besides - it's not like we start Trespassser and have Teagan yelling at us that we took the keep. Josie and the rest take their time to explain that Ferelden will want Inquisition disbanded and Orlais wants it muzzled and tell us multiple times that we should brace ourselves for aggressive negotiations and each side pushing their agenda, while we parry theirs with ours. Well, this is how this looks like. Heck, even Morrigan warns us in main game that this will happen, and Leliana expresses surprise that it took 2 years for Southern leadership to start pushing back. This isn't about "being in the wrong" - this is about the place of Inquisition in the larger fabric of the world. The Keep simply illustrates the point.

Too bad we never get the opportunity to "parry theirs with ours." We get one line about Caer Bronach and that's it before new shit hits the fan and we are once again *forced* into keeping everything quiet instead of telling them what's going on. Even the friggin' Divine is in on the secret, if it's Leliana, yet no one takes umbrage with her, just the Inquisitor. Easier target, yeah?

I hope no one comes to save them next time things get too hot. They can all die, for all I care. Ungrateful bastards.

They definitely can be. Depends on the story you want to tell imo.

I took this as happening because Sera took an interest in the proceedings while Solas did not.

To quote Solas at Halamshiral: “I do adore the heady blend of power, intrigue, danger, and sex that permeates these events.” I think he's plenty interested, he's just keeping a low profile. Also, makes very clear certain things Solas likes, which imply a very different sort of person than just the scholarly hermit he initially pretends to be.  

And people wonder why I laugh at all of them for such notions..