Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

While these things may be connected, I personally think that Tranquil cure/mystery has less to do with Blight and more to do with the Veil and the Fade.

More precisely, the Veil's effect on the population after it pushed the magic away from the world and "blocked most people's conscious connection to the Fade", to quote Solas - and why Solas's impression of most modern Thedosians is "like walking through a world of Tranquil".

His current plan likely involves either doing something to the Veil or facilitating some way for the Fade to return to the world (thus the "world of elves", when it was part of the world).

We already more-or-less know what happens to Tranquil who regain their connection with magic. Both Solas and Morrigan say that control of magic (and emotions, seemingly intrinsically connected to magic/Fade) is like a muscle - it deteriorates without use. So what would happen if magic is returned to people whose 'magic muscle' has largely atrophied or is hardly present?

Caring about Blight may mean little if they don't care as much about 'the rest of the world', as Riordan said they aren't. If Wardens from Anderfels are too preoccupied with holding grudges towards the rest of the world, one can easily see scenario where they would falter in ways that matter, or be a kind of a threat to the objective Loghain or Wardens in DAI were - they obviously care, but in such a misguided manner that they eventually become an obstacle.
The Wardens' role isn't to be in charge or get themselves involved with ruling or politics - that's what got Wardens banned from Ferelden. And seeing what happened to Soldier's Peak one can see why.

Riordan is also the most direct source of knowledge so far (WoT books are written from biased, in-world perspective as well, btw.) and he is the only outside Warden that comes to aid the Fereldan Wardens when it actually matters in a primary role Wardens envision for themselves and are empowered by the world to fulfill.
The rumors are all we have so far - I mean, aside from stuff I mentioned or the fact that Orlesian/Fereldan Wardens don't seem to count on Anderfels' help with the Fake Calling, Wardens ensnared by it seem to think that Wardens are over as a faction if they die and Inquisition is provided with no help or guidance, be it about Corypheus or Adamant.

Baby griffons are probably pretty messy.

They missed a chance of making happy Alistair dancing change to frown Alistair dancing when he was paired with Loghain. 

Only if they also allow us to hug him. 

Maybe we should petition Netherrealm Studios to put Solas in the next Kombat Pack for Mortal Kombat 11 as a video game crossover. Then you can perform Fatalities on him.

I never did this, either. However, I just checked it out on YouTube, and Solas stops the Inquisitor from hitting him. Who would really just stand there and let himself be punched, especially if he already was punched once before by the Inquisitor. Maybe an extreme pacifist would, but that is not the way I would describe Solas.

What exactly should they do? Their job is to worry about the Blight, not about the civil unrest in other places, especially on the other side of the continent. Should they get involved in the affairs of other countries that have nothing to do with their jurisdiction just so the rest of the world will like them more? It would take months to get word to them from Ferelden (Alistair already says this), it would take weeks before word within the country got around to all Wardens spread out across all corners of the Anderfels to gather and get ready to march + preparing enough equipment for everyone to fight a Blight + getting enough supplies for the march, and then it would take months yet again until they got to Ferelden (even more than it took for the initial message to get to them because an army travels slower than one single messenger/bird). Freleden would have waited either close to or over a year for the Ander Wardens to arrive. And you think that Loghain would have let them inside just because they're Anders and not Orlesians? Of course not, they'd've been turned away, too.



We also don't know what life is like in the Anderfels. We know it's hard and we know they're a country that sort of gets screwed over even today (the artists we know for certain) but the country is said to have a pretty large population that lives in poverty. Darkspawn are also a lot more frequent here than in any other place on the surface so it's normal for the people to look to the Wardens, especially if the king doesn't seem to care. Also, we've seen the Wardens get involved in politics in Ferelden during the Fifth Blight (whether reluctantly or not) and regardless of the Landsmeet choice, in Awakening they hold titles and rule an arling. What happened at Soldier's Peak is a matter of opinion if the Wardens should have done what they did or not. It was only one moment in history that went poorly but ruling Amaranthine seems to be going well for a time (RP options notwithstanding).

As for the "when it actually matters" bit, see above what I said about the time frame.


Ah yes, the fake Calling, aka the character assassination of the Wardens or hitting them with the idiot stick repeatedly because only one guy has enough brain cells to think that everything is just too convenient and has the conviction to say that maybe the Tevinter mustache twirling weasel is the obvious bad guy and shouldn't be trusted. Just one guy, no one else. And because I was made to believe this is perfectly reasonable (the non-possessed Wardens chose to follow Clarel of their free will), I should now believe there's a Warden civil war? That requires multiple people with strong, differing opinions banding together and supporting each other, not only one. So, which is it? Do Warden's blindly follow their leadership or do hey also have personal principles? Wardens do whatever needs to be done to end Blights, sure, but the Warden storyline in DAI was just nonsensical and everyone was turned into reactionary morons. Save the world from Blights but leave it to deal with a demon army, that's totally smart. Maybe they did contact Weisshaupt to make sure that the fake Calling was heard everywhere, or maybe they didn't, because the plot needed them to do something so absolutely pants on head stupid that the choice to exile them actually made sense from a design perspective.

Why the fuck do they always insist on knowing what parts I have, who I prefer in bed and which politician I like...

This shit's about games.

Thanks for the link. I'm surprised how much I struggled with questions about class/specialization

In VR. I'd buy a PSVR for it