Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Qunari lore suposedly "broke disbelief" to some famously in Inquisition with aqun-athlock - then it turned out that some people completely misunderstood Iron Bull explaining to himself a person like Krem with a term present in his culture, and went around screaming that Inquisition "watered down" the Qunari - that they're accepting and friendly now, and sit on Par Vollen and all sing kumbaya... which is incredibly ironic given everything that has been established, across Inquisition, Trespaser or DAVe.

As for me, I can't think of anything that makes the Qun "inconsistent and unbelievable", but I just don't want to open another can of worms in a thread not really dedicated to going in-depth on this topic.
The Dalish are established all across DA to be very varied and have different approaches to humans. We've known this since DAO, and this has been quite literally spelled out to us, e.g. by Solas in Inquisition. It is grating to me that showing another facet of that extremely varied group living ways away from clans we've previously encountered - one that isn't as weary of outsiders and dedicated themselves to scholarly pursuits (VJs are scholars from across different clans who banded together and scholars are usually open-minded) to learn about their past and keep their ancient site safe - is viewed by people as inconsistency, when all they're showing by such an assumption is their lack of knowledge of the lore and story.
Here's the thing - she does actually do that. Bellara in general simply isn't a hostile person, but she talks with Neve about interacting with other Tevenes or has e.g. a whole string of banter with Taash where she's obvious that she's wary about what LoF do with elven relics, etc.
Lucanis didn't spend his entire life killing mages  - at some point prior to "the Wigmaker Job" in Tevinter Nights someone (probably the Black Divine?) began hiring him to eliminate dangerous Venatori, and he turned out to be very good at it, hence he got nicknamed the 'mage-killer' and 'demon of Vyrantium' - which is how Neve herself recommended getting Lucanis to deal with god-like mage-kings.

And Neve has dialogues both with Rook and several dialogues about 'hey, is the mage-killer thing not something we should worry about?', including chats with Lucanis about his previous jobs, or WHOLE SCENES and banters of companions being concerned about the whole demon thing.

See, this is the thing that is very not fun coming back to, once I'm in a mood for a bit of interaction with fandom here: stumbling on confident critique while displaying a lack of even basic knowledge of the very thing one is criticizing.

I have no desire to do this anymore - too many things are happening IRL right now, including way too close to my actual home, and I come here to have a tiny bit of a reprieve. I have no time or headspace for this sort of running around in circles and engaging with criticisms stemming from ignorance or bad faith (or both).