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Post by Absafraginlootly on Jun 23, 2022 7:00:05 GMT
And we’d be outsiders to Tevinter, which lets us ask dumb questions. Unless there’s a Vint background with special dialogue options, which could also be cool. I would personally prefer the later. A native Tevinter character who tells us about Tevinter through show not tell for some things and through explaining things to an npc for others (an inquisition agent for example).
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Post by Absafraginlootly on Jun 23, 2022 7:15:35 GMT
Many moons ago when we were first discussing whether the da4 should be the inquisitor or a new character I said that while I liked making new characters and would love to see a new Tevinter character background with new relationships/companions, I didn't think either were inherently better. Because I could imagine stories that would work better with one, and stories that would work better with the other (and my imagination is more limited than a team of writers). Now that they've made their choice however, and been certain enough about it to release a trailer to that effect, I would be a touch worried if they changed course now. I'd be left wondering whether a) the Inquisitor was shoe horned into a story written for a different character, or whether the plot was dumped/rewritten this far along in the process for the Inquisitor? Both scenarios would make me concerned for the final products quality TBH. But as usual the proof would be in the pudding.
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Post by gervaise21 on Jun 23, 2022 8:27:41 GMT
While I can't say I am exactly thrilled by the idea of Varric having a major role in DA:D IE being a companion again...A. I highly doubt that will happen and B. I can't say I am really too arsed or worried about it either. I'm willing to wait and see what they do with Varric again in DA:D The above lets Varric “have your back” without being a companion or even all that present outside of story beats. There could be any number of variants that allow Varric to be involved from a distance because of his legitimate links to Tevinter and his love/hate relationship with the dwarven merchants' guild in Kirkwall. I think he could definitely be some sort of information hub in the hunt for Fen'Harel, as was suggested to be the case in Tevinter Nights, which is how he comes into contact with the new PC. This could start off as a face to face contact and then progress into simply sending messages about rumours we should investigate. One thing that did occur to me when posting on another thread was that he could actually inform new players about previous events and characters, or allowing our new PC to match our own knowledge, by referencing his book as happened in previous games. In DAI it was assumed that the PC would have read his work on the Champion, so we could ask questions related to that story. You will recall that at the end of Trespasser it was shown that he had written his book about the Inquisition, giving the first copy to Cassandra who then read extracts from it over the credits. So Varric can now be the fountain of knowledge not only about Hawke and their companions but the Inquisitor and their companions too. Depending on whether you think he would have included that final confrontation between the Inquisitor and Solas, which the other companions were not party to, he can even answer questions about Solas. Thus I do suspect that Varric will be fulfilling a similar role to Inquisition, except not as an actual companion, or possibly only a temporary one at the very beginning. If the Inquisitor is going to be brought back at all, it is likely to be through Varric, just as it was with Hawke. However, I doubt this will be as anything more than a cameo role but possibly as a controllable character rather than the way Hawke was realised.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Jun 23, 2022 8:42:37 GMT
Many moons ago when we were first discussing whether the da4 should be the inquisitor or a new character I said that while I liked making new characters and would love to see a new Tevinter character background with new relationships/companions, I didn't think either were inherently better. Because I could imagine stories that would work better with one, and stories that would work better with the other (and my imagination is more limited than a team of writers). Now that they've made their choice however, and been certain enough about it to release a trailer to that effect, I would be a touch worried if they changed course now. I'd be left wondering whether a) the Inquisitor was shoe horned into a story written for a different character, or whether the plot was dumped/rewritten this far along in the process for the Inquisitor? Both scenarios would make me concerned for the final products quality TBH. But as usual the proof would be in the pudding. Meanwhile if it is a new PC we already have an answer to that question. And that answer is yes.
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Post by QuizzyBunny on Jun 23, 2022 8:58:07 GMT
I may or may not have also been thinking that exact thought. lol I know it’s a ridiculous long shot at this point but having Inky back (or having an awakening scenario where you can choose old protagonist or new) would make this game for me. But yeah. Tempering expectations. Imagine being able to pick to play either your Warden, your Hawke or your Inky at the start depending on their status (Inky always being guaranteed)... I think people would implode at the chance of being their Warden again. But man, what a nightmare to set up dialogue wise. And voiced protag for the Warden? Jesus, some people would never stop crying about it not matching their headcanon.
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Post by wright1978 on Jun 23, 2022 9:33:37 GMT
If we’re infiltrating the imperium from the outside as part of the Inquisition, I could see Varric being involved in the start of our journey. Viscount of a marcher city that is known to have Tevinter slave suppliers near and in it. Would be easy to insert us into a shipment from Kirkwall(or just orchestrate a fake one), have Dorian buy us on the Tevinter end, and bingo: we’re inside Minrathous, under the radar, with allies. And we can be any race and a lot of traditional backgrounds like Dalish. And we’d be outsiders to Tevinter, which lets us ask dumb questions. Unless there’s a Vint background with special dialogue options, which could also be cool. The above lets Varric “have your back” without being a companion or even all that present outside of story beats. Though, for the record, I’d be fine with him being a companion again. lol I don't want us to be 'part of the inquisition' so i very much hope this scenario is not the case. I'd prefer Varric given he's likely to re-appear to have a similar role to Inquisition's trailer narrator character(Morrigan), a significant NPC rather than a companion. A character we meet once our PC gets drawn into the main plot.
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Post by Absafraginlootly on Jun 23, 2022 9:38:23 GMT
Many moons ago when we were first discussing whether the da4 should be the inquisitor or a new character I said that while I liked making new characters and would love to see a new Tevinter character background with new relationships/companions, I didn't think either were inherently better. Because I could imagine stories that would work better with one, and stories that would work better with the other (and my imagination is more limited than a team of writers). Now that they've made their choice however, and been certain enough about it to release a trailer to that effect, I would be a touch worried if they changed course now. I'd be left wondering whether a) the Inquisitor was shoe horned into a story written for a different character, or whether the plot was dumped/rewritten this far along in the process for the Inquisitor? Both scenarios would make me concerned for the final products quality TBH. But as usual the proof would be in the pudding. Meanwhile if it is a new PC we already have an answer to that question. And that answer is yes. You might have your answer but I do not. Neither of our experiences are universal.
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Post by Sartoz on Jun 23, 2022 9:45:12 GMT
If we’re infiltrating the imperium from the outside as part of the Inquisition Snip
Infiltration.... Back in the old days cities and towns, where no mass communication exists, would develop their own dialect. More often than not, citizens of two nearby towns had difficulty understanding each other. If you travel in Europe, you'd notice this even today (if you listen closely). The Imperium, Orlais , etc. are no different.
Infiltration, then, brings its own difficulties. An out of towner is spotted immediately once they speak. Plus, with no mass transit, traveling between towns/cities was on a need only basis. Imagine traveling across the Imperium with new dialects hitting you every time you drop in to a different location.
But, as this is a game, the devs will erase this sticky problem and move on.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Jun 23, 2022 9:49:53 GMT
If we’re infiltrating the imperium from the outside as part of the Inquisition, I could see Varric being involved in the start of our journey. Viscount of a marcher city that is known to have Tevinter slave suppliers near and in it. Would be easy to insert us into a shipment from Kirkwall(or just orchestrate a fake one), have Dorian buy us on the Tevinter end, and bingo: we’re inside Minrathous, under the radar, with allies. And we can be any race and a lot of traditional backgrounds like Dalish. And we’d be outsiders to Tevinter, which lets us ask dumb questions. Unless there’s a Vint background with special dialogue options, which could also be cool. The above lets Varric “have your back” without being a companion or even all that present outside of story beats. Though, for the record, I’d be fine with him being a companion again. lol I don't want us to be 'part of the inquisition' so i very much hope this scenario is not the case. I'd prefer Varric given he's likely to re-appear to have a similar role to Inquisition's trailer narrator character(Morrigan), a significant NPC rather than a companion. A character we meet once our PC gets drawn into the main plot. I honestly don’t see how we can be in a scenario where Varric has significant contact with us and we’re dealing with Solas and we are NOT related to the shadow Inquisition somehow. I mean who knows what’s changed since that Varric voiceover teaser dropped, but still.
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Post by Sartoz on Jun 23, 2022 10:09:47 GMT
Many moons ago when we were first discussing whether the da4 should be the inquisitor or a new character I said that while I liked making new characters and would love to see a new Tevinter character background with new relationships/companions, I didn't think either were inherently better. Because I could imagine stories that would work better with one, and stories that would work better with the other (and my imagination is more limited than a team of writers). Now that they've made their choice however, and been certain enough about it to release a trailer to that effect, I would be a touch worried if they changed course now. I'd be left wondering whether a) the Inquisitor was shoe horned into a story written for a different character, or whether the plot was dumped/rewritten this far along in the process for the Inquisitor? Both scenarios would make me concerned for the final products quality TBH. But as usual the proof would be in the pudding.
My expectation is new characters with some cameos. It is the Imperium, after all. The game is designed around it.
New chars can be written to fit well in its society, from high born to low. Outsiders would be awkward as they would be strangers and strangers are not easily accepted or trusted. Hell, even today in small USA towns, locals spot you immediately.
Sarah and Vivienne are two best examples of locals knowing the Orlais terrain. I anticipate same in DA:DW, where three+ NPCs will be Imperium citizens. one or two from Ferelden, one from the the dwarf cities (Orzammar maybe), a Qunari + other. One would think this automatically makes the group toxic and that their common goal is the only thread keeping them together.
I wonder if the devs will ignore all of this background tensions in writing the story. Will we need loyaly quests to solidify them team?
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Post by colfoley on Jun 23, 2022 10:15:09 GMT
I don't want us to be 'part of the inquisition' so i very much hope this scenario is not the case. I'd prefer Varric given he's likely to re-appear to have a similar role to Inquisition's trailer narrator character(Morrigan), a significant NPC rather than a companion. A character we meet once our PC gets drawn into the main plot. I honestly don’t see how we can be in a scenario where Varric has significant contact with us and we’re dealing with Solas and we are NOT related to the shadow Inquisition somehow. I mean who knows what’s changed since that Varric voiceover teaser dropped, but still. how significant will that contact be? His speech may be all we get. And I really don't think it would be a given that we would be related to the shadow Inquisition just by his presence. Quite the contrary if we already were then no reason for us to fill us in.
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Post by ClarkKent on Jun 23, 2022 12:49:12 GMT
I'd much rather Dorian be our core link to the past. Varric's alright but he was always the 'Garrus we've got at home' for me. That, and besides being chased around a room by Cassandra, I can't think of a single interesting line or moment he had in Inquisition.
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Post by gervaise21 on Jun 23, 2022 12:50:24 GMT
Infiltration, then, brings its own difficulties. An out of towner is spotted immediately once they speak. Plus, with no mass transit, traveling between towns/cities was on a need only basis. Imagine traveling across the Imperium with new dialects hitting you every time you drop in to a different location. I think they have already covered this at some point; the reason we can understand people from different countries/regions is that there is something known as trade-speak which I believe was originally started by dwarven merchants and then was adopted universally. The games have tried to show different dialects to some extent with the European regional accents used around different parts of the south, even if the vocabulary doesn't vary. It would be interesting, depending on the background they decide to give us, if people did spot the fact that we weren't native to the locality on hearing us speak. However, with trade being widespread throughout Thedas, with merchants from different regions arriving all the time, it wouldn't necessarily be an impediment unless we were trying to infiltrate an organisation specific to that area. For example, the Crows originate in Antiva and people from there do have a distinctive accent, so it would be tricky trying to pretend we were one of them unless we likewise had an Antivan accent. I should imagine that Tevinter of all places would be the one where it would be easier to pass yourself off as from another part of the country because it is so large. May be that variation would be less pronounced if you are from the Altus class but not necessarily so; the "Queen's English" only really became associated with the upper classes in England quite late on and back in the medieval time the nobility had similar accents to the rest of the population in their region, unless they were new arrivals from the Continent, in which case they probably didn't speak English much at all. Anyway, whilst I would find it interesting if they made such a distinction an aspect of your character or the plot, I doubt the writers would have done so any more than in previous games. Let's face it, our PC is always able to read common, trade, in this world, despite occasionally coming from a background where you would think it wouldn't be a given (city elf, dwarf casteless, Vashoth mercenary) or more likely confined to their own language (Dalish).
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Post by gervaise21 on Jun 23, 2022 13:00:50 GMT
how significant will that contact be? His speech may be all we get. And I really don't think it would be a given that we would be related to the shadow Inquisition just by his presence. His contact with us could seem purely coincidental and, as I suggest above, any questions we put to him could be linked to his fame as a writer, even if that does assume a literary interest on the part of our PC.
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Post by ladyiolanthe on Jun 23, 2022 13:52:28 GMT
*snip* Depending on whether you think he would have included that final confrontation between the Inquisitor and Solas, which the other companions were not party to, he can even answer questions about Solas. I sure hope he didn't write about the events of Trespasser! Because the way Thedas is, and with human nobles seeing elven servants disappearing from their households, etc. you know that anyone who reads that book would put two and two together and just start mercilessly slaughtering elves, whom they already don't see as beings with an inherent right to life. (Chevaliers have to hunt down and kill an elf in order to earn their feather, for example.) If Solas' plans are widespread knowledge thanks to Varric, it would be open season on City Elves and Dalish.
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Post by SwobyJ on Jun 23, 2022 13:58:47 GMT
I tend to think there will be at least several of the bigger DAI characters involved, though I only expect one of them to be a companion (to keep up tradition if nothing else). We can have several contacts with the rest of Thedas, or at least southern Thedas, and its story will continue to be told through them.
Otherwise I expect it to be largely new, more new than ever. No trip to Ferelden, no essential involvement of Orlais (though I'm sure lots of periphery), and I barely consider a 'return' to Kirkwall except maybe in an expansion. Fresh new Bioware is what they're going to go for both Dragon Age and Mass Effect, even if it includes tethers to the past.
I'd be very surprised if Varric is a companion again, but I'd also be curious why he's not around for a final hurrah if he wasn't present. This is still supposed to end the DAI setup, even if at this point (a decade!!) it'll do it in a very new way.
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Post by dadithinkimgay on Jun 23, 2022 14:53:01 GMT
I may or may not have also been thinking that exact thought. lol I know it’s a ridiculous long shot at this point but having Inky back (or having an awakening scenario where you can choose old protagonist or new) would make this game for me. But yeah. Tempering expectations. Imagine being able to pick to play either your Warden, your Hawke or your Inky at the start depending on their status (Inky always being guaranteed)... I think people would implode at the chance of being their Warden again. But man, what a nightmare to set up dialogue wise. And voiced protag for the Warden? Jesus, some people would never stop crying about it not matching their headcanon. I honestly think this may happen… in some form or another. If all the big heroes were up north, plotting against The Dread Wolf, it would act as a distraction for the people you never see coming. Maybe the old heroes also have our new heroes back. Honestly its just wishful thinking and would be pretty hard to pull off right… but would be SO epic!
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Post by wright1978 on Jun 23, 2022 15:20:01 GMT
Personally i think they should bite the bullet and have the Warden having succumbed to the blight.
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Post by Sartoz on Jun 23, 2022 16:30:06 GMT
Personally i think they should bite the bullet and have the Warden having succumbed to the blight.
Had to respond. I burst out laughing after reading your statement.
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Post by smilesja on Jun 23, 2022 17:16:15 GMT
Personally i think they should bite the bullet and have the Warden having succumbed to the blight. That's out of character for my Warden.
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Post by gervaise21 on Jun 23, 2022 17:33:38 GMT
Personally i think they should bite the bullet and have the Warden having succumbed to the blight. If we assume they didn't find a cure on that wild goose chase into the west, then actually this is quite likely, particularly if the action has moved forward to 9:52 as suggested in one of the short stories. That is 22 years after we undertook the Joining and, whilst the 5th Blight only lasted a year, according to Last Flight being involved in an actual Blight does accelerate the progress of the affliction. This might also explain why they suddenly took off looking for a cure, because they could feel the deterioration within them. As Solas observed, you don't see old Grey Wardens. Look at Duncan. When we meet him, he had been a Warden for around 20 years and I'm pretty sure that Riorden said they had been contemporaries of one another. At Redcliife he said he was close to his Calling. So, I imagine by now our Warden would have felt the Calling and headed for the Deep Roads. If they had ignored the early signs and were putting it off until the last minute, they would be in a similar state to Larius and not much of a threat to Solas. Either way, I doubt we'll be seeing them again.
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Post by gervaise21 on Jun 23, 2022 17:47:34 GMT
If Solas' plans are widespread knowledge thanks to Varric, it would be open season on City Elves and Dalish. You would hope the Inquisitor would be discrete about who they told and that Varric would have the good sense not to pass it on. I suppose it depends on how you interpret that epilogue slide about their meeting with Solas which said " those who believed the Inquisitor's story". Now you would assume that anyone from the inner circle would not doubt their word, so that means there had to have been other people who they told who doubted it and yet didn't reconsider when the elven servant started disappearing. On the other hand, even the people who did believe them were questioning what he was planning on doing with all those elves, which suggests they weren't aware of his plan for the imminent destruction of the world. So may be the Inquisitor simply said that Solas was planning on restoring the world of the elves without actually saying how he intended to accomplish this. Naturally, most people would assume he was intending to do this by means of conquest. Even so, such an assumption was still likely to involve some degree of backlash against those elves who hadn't rushed off to join him. I suppose the main indicator that nothing was revealed outside their inner circle is that there is no indication in Tevinter Nights of people targeting elves, at least up in Tevinter. The Dalish who were attacked by Tevinter troops seem to have been unlucky enough to cross paths with them having strayed into their territory, which is why it was previously understood in the games that the Dalish avoided going anywhere near Tevinter because of the risk from Imperial troops and slavers. It did make me wonder if the clans, at least those from the Freemarches, had started heading north in recent years and, if so, why? Were the Keepers generally starting to suffer from strange dreams that suggested they should head that way? Did Solas' agents, pretending to be Dalish, urge them to do so? In which case, what reason did they give? And why, considering the contempt he had for the Dalish as supporters of the Evanuris, would Solas want them up there anyway? Or were the instigators of the migration the agents of some other god?
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Post by Beerfish on Jun 23, 2022 20:39:17 GMT
*snip* Depending on whether you think he would have included that final confrontation between the Inquisitor and Solas, which the other companions were not party to, he can even answer questions about Solas. I sure hope he didn't write about the events of Trespasser! Because the way Thedas is, and with human nobles seeing elven servants disappearing from their households, etc. you know that anyone who reads that book would put two and two together and just start mercilessly slaughtering elves, whom they already don't see as beings with an inherent right to life. (Chevaliers have to hunt down and kill an elf in order to earn their feather, for example.) If Solas' plans are widespread knowledge thanks to Varric, it would be open season on City Elves and Dalish. So Solas in essence just becomes Anders with his own selfish little crusade that actually kills off the ones he bleats about protecting.
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Post by Iakus on Jun 23, 2022 20:54:51 GMT
Personally i think they should bite the bullet and have the Warden having succumbed to the blight. I think the Warden should simply never be mentioned again. Let each player decide what happens.
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Post by Absafraginlootly on Jun 24, 2022 0:45:11 GMT
Personally i think they should bite the bullet and have the Warden having succumbed to the blight. I think the Warden should simply never be mentioned again. Let each player decide what happens. I've been assuming that they would go missing (assumed dead) in the West searching for the Cure. Leaving us to imagine whether they died, or found a cure but never returned, or secretly returned still dying or not. If one day they make a game or dlc set West of Thedas allowing you to discover the mysteries found there, they might allow you to follow the HoF's footsteps. Perhaps discovering what happened by talking to locals, finding evidence of their passing, and maybe through the diary entries of a traveling companion of theirs. But I wouldn't hold by breath, theres plenty of geography and storylines left untouched within Thedas. If we ever travel outside of Thedas it could be so far forward in the games timeline that the HoF could have died of old age.
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