Dragon Age The Veilguard Criticism Thread (formerly Skepticism Thread) [Spoilers]

I'm not trying to create excuses for their retcons but I think what Taash said about the Qun, that you "can leave it", makes sense in the context of her story. Let's say she's 20 (acting like a tween). Her bio mom is also a Tamassaran so could actually raise her own kid when usually they can't. They're also in Rivain. And about 15 years before, her mother just picks her up and walks out of whatever sort of living arrangements the Qunari had there. But we're talking about moderately established Ravaini outpost in a country that mostly tolerates their presence peacefully. Where the rule of thumb for this branch is gentle guidance into the fold. They can't be seen by the general populace as enforcing the Qun like they would in Seharon. There can't re rumors of re-education camps and Qamek. Likely, if someone they did want to keep did something bad enough, maybe they sent them back to Seharon as the worst case scenario.


So in a loosely enforced Qun compound 15-20 years ago in Ravaini, Tama could just walk away from the Qun. And Taash would not have experienced it any differently-- her own mother still seems to carry strong pride for the way of the Qun and has hidden her away from the dark truths of the religion. White washed the Qamek stories as happening to only those causing actual harm (the bad deserving(. And Taash would then look at what the Antaam is doing and find it completely alien to this idealized version she's been raised on and exposed to. Similar to Tallis' version of the qun being all butterflies as well considering she was gently converted of her own free will-- the gaffe of trying to sell it to a mage Hawke not withstanding.