Calpernia: From Corypheus to the DA 4 Party?

I can whistle quite effectively through my tooth gap, so I'm getting a kick

I don´t think that any DAI choice regarding Calpernia would really matter that much. Maybe 1-5 lines are different but at the end is only from importance that she always survived DAI.

They also can't rely on the previous success of the franchise to encourage new people to want to play; particularly after the debacles of MEA and Anthem which will be uppermost in memory. The existing fan base is still there and so guaranteed to buy the game. So long as they receive it favourably, they will then encourage new people to want to play. Ignoring what has gone before, whether it is respecting the lore or raising expectations with regard to certain characters is going to upset people. This does not apply to Calpernia necessarily because it can be argued she died in the last game but if they did choose to bring her back it wouldn't be at such variance with player choice as it was to bring back Leliana, even if they did come up with a reason why this was possible. Calpernia was not decapitated and we never see her dead body, nor did they say she was dead at any point after that confrontation, so it wouldn't be lore breaking to see her return.

I agree with you. There is a thread running through DA that has been there from DAO. Things that didn't seem relevant back then have become more important since but there are a number of threads that they keep pulling at.

I would agree that the world of Thedas itself is the main connector between the games but there has been an ongoing story line from the first game. This is mostly connected with the Blight and many of the plot threads come back to this. Individual PCs aren't considered important but other characters keep coming back and even DLC that don't seem to have a relevance to this over arching narrative may have details on them that you can look back at and realise they did have a significance.

Besides, saying DLC don't provide continuity is not really relevant to the argument. Of course, they may issue stand alone DLC to keep fans happy and generate income. Not everyone buys DLC but are still interested in the main games. In fact some players expect important information to be in the main game and not hidden behind a pay wall or in a DLC they can't even play because it wasn't designed for their console. I think it was awful that they produced Trespasser in a format that many established players couldn't access. However, it would still be possible for them to pick up the story in DA4 and, thanks to the final scene in DAI, have a fairly good idea of the threat that Solas presents. That teaser trailer would not have been a total surprise to them because they already know Solas is the Dread Wolf and, even without Trespasser, they know of his reputation as Fen'Harel. That trailer would have meant nothing to potential new players. To them the Dread Wolf is just some elf who is a likely antagonist. It was only relevant to established players and was assuring us that we haven't been forgotten. If Solas ultimately plays little part in the next game then they would have been inviting our participation on false pretenses.

I don´t think that ME has that problem like the DA series because of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition which isn´t that old.
Maybe DA also can profit from a definitive edition or even port of DAI for newer consoles.

Incidentally, DA:I was the only DA game I played on console (after playing on PC) because it was the only one with a native console version.

I would love it if BW spent 10 minutes (literally just requires two lines in an ini file) to make DA:I Gen9Aware and unlock the resolution and frame rate caps on DA:I when you launch it on Series. I launched the Xbox version of DA:I a couple of weeks ago and the resolution felt rough. More so than the 360 version of ME2 (which I tried after). 

Another great Cobra Kai season so another reason to push this thread.
If you can give Chozen of all people a redemption arc and let him fight against Terry Silver in a badass fight i guess everything is possible.

By the way i am a little surprised that no one have ever mentioned this email from MEA.


Regardless what Bioware do with Calpernia in DAD she had always survived DAI if this was ever out of question.

I disagree Calpernia isn´t a puppet master or long planning "genius" like Terry Silver. She is like Chozen a missguided person with a lot of passion who had made terrible mistakes in the past. By the way i don´t think that after Season 5 Terry can be redempted. No all should be "good" guys at the end. But i liked how they write Mike Barnes in the show. Could be more and his endfight should have been much longer but hey not bad for a supposed bad guy.

I was referring more to Silver being the only one to even come even slightly close to the atrocities she committed. Even then honestly that’s an insult to Silver.
I do agree that they should not redeem Silver. I mean this is the only guy in the franchise to even get a villain theme.