New Comic, Dragon Age: Deception

True, however the people who do care have a broader amount of reasons for caring not all of them equally reasonable or proportional to the upset. If I break them down what I get is (not directed at anyone in particular):

1. Qunari and Quranis don't sounds the same: true dat. They don't. I don't really have much to add here, phonetically very dissimilar. I guess I might see the source of the confusion when typing.
2. I invest a lot of resources into DA related stuff and now some/all of those are out of date: I kinda get this but I don't like the underlying psychology. You never invest so much that you obviate human fallibility, reasonably you should know this. More reasonable objection: I don't think the stated reason they gave justifies any kind of change.
3. They CHANGED the LORE: this one bothers me the most because no. They did not. If I changed the name of chess to Murderin' Miniatures but change literally nothing else then nothing of substance has changed. This is even less than that because you could make the case that the vernacular/dialect of Murderin's Miniatures impugns on the connotations held by chess, you can't even say that much with changing Quranis to Ventus. As far as changes to lore go this doesn't even get through the dermal layer. 

The way this plays out in my head is that some dev or someone they're in contact with on the reg kept mixing up qunari and Quranis and the writers, in their infinite precious innocence said, "Well, we could just change it. I'm sure no one will notice and if you're having trouble with it the fans probably will too." [queue wild conjecture on the connection between Quranis/Ventus and qunari in DA4]. Cuz frankly fans, especially new fans, have had no exposure to qunari/Quranis juxtaposing to any meaningful degree. Which is also why I dislike the implication that this change is somehow as a result of/the fault of "new fans" (the ungood fans) when, at the most, it can be a change in anticipation of  confusion for new fans which can't be laid at their feet.

This leaves me with the only reasonable motivation of being meaningfully upset about unnecessarily changing a word that really didn't sound that much like another word in the first place which I simply can't be.

I am however quite capable of being upset about why other people are upset. 

It wasn't but ~shrug~

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Does anyone have access to that bit of concept art that had people with crows on it? Was that old or new stuff?

To be honest, as other people have suggested, if it is the appearance of a word even though it sounds different phonetically then surely the answer would have been to spell it phonetically. Change the "Q" for "K" or "Kw".   Then simply explain the change by saying that southerners spell it differently. 



My complaint here was simply based on the explanation for the change rather than the change itself. May be PW got it wrong but he said the lore is going to state this change happened several decades before. So my argument was that it ought then to have appeared in the source material but of course it didn't because at the time of publication no one on the DA team saw a problem with the two words.     However, I suppose you could explain it within the world, if WoT was written  by a southerner, may be they didn't know of the change or had been told not to accept it because it had been done by Tevinter. 



Again, technically they have if characters heralding from Tevinter have repeatedly called it by one name, when they ought to know about the change, and then we find about it subsequently from a comic series.

More importantly Dorian stated quite emphatically how attached his fellow Tevinter, at least the Altus, are to their past. There are places in Minrathous where you will find no buildings from the modern, era, etc. He says they care about everything deeply. So we have a group of people who are passionate about preserving their past, for whom names and places have a greater significance than just somewhere on a map, and we are meant to believe that after thousands of years of calling a place by one name, during which there would have been countless conflicts over it, including its capture by the Qunari in the Age of Steel when after its re-conquest it might have been thought appropriate to rename it, they suddenly up and change the name after some random battle in the modern era that didn't even occur in the actual city itself.

I've had this problem previously with other changes in lore where to me it seemed to fly in the face of the alleged outlook of the group of people concerned. Naturally it does not seem like a problem if you look at it from our perspective but if you are trying to look at it from the viewpoint of people with the sort of mentality alleged by Dorian, then it doesn't ring true. However, I have decided to reconcile myself to this discrepancy with what was previously alleged by Dorian as in fact merely being how he regards the past (and those he associates with) rather than a universal national psyche. In other words, I shall forget everything he said in DAI because it may be subject to change or contradiction.

After seeing the resurrected HoF, Leliana, and Anders, I would not be bothered by such minimal 'retcons' at all.

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Assuming we have 9 companions again even if all the comic characters including Mae and Olivia became companions that would still leave 3 slots for other characters. More of some of them are instead advisor-tier characters.

Ifonly one can be a companion, I hope it is Vaea. Also hopefully she is a nonsexual LI.

You are right about destroying an existing relationship but if they can rename a city for a trivial reason... They might write off Tessa and/or their relationship... heavy flirting ensues by the player character etc. That was kind of where my hope came from.

Charter used to be a freelancer of sorts until Leliana reached out to her. As one of Leliana's top agents and possible successor she is a prime candidate for subtle subversion by Solas. He only needed to have planted some seeds of doubt. She might even be a double agent now or triple agent ( yes far fetched I know ). We might possibly see in DA4.

Not necessarily. It's important to remember that in Tevinter, you may be deemed as expendable as the common citizen if you cannot claim descent from a notable bloodline or a family of some clout. I imagine apprentices in the Tevinter Imperium are usually ones with potential, connections or such. Sort of how like how a noble house in A Song of Ice and Fire may take on the son of another noble as a squire to help foster connections and good relations. If Varania does not have anything to offer as an apprentice then she'd be in a tough position if the choice comes down to her and someone else who do. 

There's also the kind of life that Varania wants for herself and that may not necessarily be the life of an apprentice. Basically, an apprenticeship may have been the best option but not necessarily the one she desired. It's just the one that meant she didn't have to worry about slavery, poverty, unemployment or starvation. 

She might deem a life in a Circles preferable to life in Tevinter. Depending on the Circle, it can be a secure and comfortable life with a prospect for social advancement.  

To be honest, Varania never did strike me as ruthlessly ambitious. She always seemed more desperate and emotionally worn down, in my opinion. I do agree that Danarius would probably have gotten rid of her or at the least, discarded her if he found someone of greater interest or talent. 

Note: I actually don't think Varania can return to the Tevinter Imperium because it's quite the journey and I doubt she has the money to make it back. I wouldn't be surprised if she hid her magic and found some ordinary job that helped her make ends meet.