Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

His plan involves genocide. He’s a villain.

People don't hate Anders because he's bi/player-sexual. They hate him because he blew up the friggin' Chantry! At that point, who he's interested in banging is irrelevant.

Same for Solas - he wants to destroy the current world for his fantasy reboot of Elvhen Glory. Who he Fade-tongues in his spare time doesn't really matter.

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
This month marks fourteen years for me at BioWare. Days like today, with this team of compassionate shit-giving geniuses, are why I’m still here. Hope someday it’s something the world gets to see.

I think he means his team, not the game.

David Gaider @davidgaider
Well done, sir! May your best years lie ahead. ❤

Courtney Woods @courtneywoods
Ack! I didn’t realize it was your Bioversary! Congrats!! I’m so honored and lucky to be on your team!

Jo Berry @joanna_Berry
Happy BioBirthday!

John Epler @eplerjc
Congrats, my friend. It's been an absolute pleasure, and I hope to keep it going for many more.

Is there a way to win with this stuff, exactly? I feel like no matter what anyone does, someone always comes out of the woodwork to explain why it's problematic and Bioware is obviously full of bigots.

Surely the stitch up was Solas? We think we've dealt with the problem of someone tampering with the Veil and then discover he was only the patsy of Solas. However, can we be sure that anyone is really dead in the world of Thedas? I'm firmly of the opinion that the wife of Hessarian was aware that people can come back, particularly if co-habiting with a spirit, which is why she insisted on burning Andraste.

As for what happens if you are left in the Fade, according to WoT2 the general opinion is that as Corypheus had lost faith in everything, including himself, the moment before he was banished to the Fade, the self doubt would have meant he would not have survived in his physical form and apparently many mages had sought the Fade for evidence of him without success. Of course it is possible his spirit could have survived and return at a later stage but with no conscious memory of who he was.

This and some other tweets of his makes it sound like he's likely gonna be out after DA4 is finished. 

Cory Baby, won't you please burn down a Chantry,
For me,
I've been an awful good girl.
Cory Baby.
So please tear down the Veil tonight.

(Do do, do do, do do do do)

In fact his writer said that removing the vallaslin was really a ploy to cover the fact that he was meant to be telling Lavellan the truth about himself but at the last minute he changed his mind. It is possible that had he had done so, he would then have offered to remove the vallaslin afterwards, but the fact is he didn't tell her. It was at that point that he made his decision to stick with his original plan, which if you recall was to recover the orb and drop the Veil. It was simply ironic that when his former love defeated Corypheus it resulted in destruction of his orb and thus his plan was no longer possible. However, that still didn't deflect him from his intended course, he just sought another way to achieve it.

As AlleluiaElzabeth also points out, removing the vallaslin was not the ancient sacred rite of the god Fen'Harel, but something he performed on those who joined his cause to signify their rejection of the false gods of the elves. Nor did he ever lose faith in his people, the Elvhen, the ancient ones like Abelas. It is for their sake he wants to restore things to what they were. Modern elves do not matter to him and they will die along with everyone else in the fiery chaos that will result from his actions. If anything you could say that any faith he might have had in them has been rejected by the end of DAI.