Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

It's this very reason it made ZERO sense to me for Briala not to inform us of Celene's various betrayals, especially ordering the murder of her parents and still trying to rationalize it. If it were up to me, she would have told us independent of our dialogue choices. More importantly, it would still count as our characters having heard it even it some players who wanted "reconciliation" skipped out of it, and Companions would comment on it as well.

I'm all for dark, ruthless and/or desperate choices, so long as they portrayed as such. If players want to reunite Celene and Briala in what they hope to be some pragmatic greater good, that's their choice, but let us see the consequences. Let the narrative tone show our complicity in further enabling Celene's unrepentant sociopathy and damaging Briala's self worth. Let War Table missions and off hand comments from Leliana and Josephine, not to mention Briala herself in the Arbor Wilds, show that Celene was still all talk about providing any lasting improvements for the elves. In the Epilogue slides, tell us how despite being one of the Empresses' most trusted Advisors, Briala more or less found herself increasingly under house arrest. How when some would see the two of them smiling together, for the briefest of moments Briala had the eyes of a woman screaming inside.