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

From what I understand of it, the mother could be the reason Taash is so angry about her identity because she told her she "acted like a man".
Only thing is, so far as I can tell, beyond not wearing a dress and being a fighter, there didn't seem to be more to it than that. Now even Sten only said my female Warden was doing a man's job in being in a martial role. I don't recall he had a problem with how I dressed. After all, the Qun are all about practicality and if you are out in the field, much less fighting, then you are going to be dressed like I was.

What I find disappointing is that you couldn't just say to Taash, it seems your mother is still of a Qunari mindset. Look around you, everywhere else in Thedas you will find women he don't wear dresses and are soldiers and in other roles they would not be permitted under the Qun. I don't know why Neve didn't say that instead of sending her off to talk to people who struggle with their identity in Minrathous, likely because of the expectations of the Altus. However, that would have been the appropriate response for Rook, particularly if they are also a female fighter.

Now it is possible that you would get that option if you took an earlier prompt where instead of encouraging embracing multi-culturism, you could pick to point out the drawbacks instead (according to the prompt), although it is entirely possible it wouldn't come out like that. Nevertheless, surely the point of approving of having multiple backgrounds is that you take the best bits from each culture and reject the rest? Having rigid gender roles is one of the negative aspects of the Qun philosophy but there are plenty of others I could point to. The conversation seemed to focus on their "sharing" society that looks out for everyone within it. Hmm, like only the Qun do that.

Still, just as Masked Empire gave a distorted view of the Dalish to anyone not familiar with earlier games, so DAtV gives a distorted view of the Qun, particularly considering I have yet to see a clip with a genuine Qun in it. Taash's mother seems to have defected from the Antaam, which had already broken away from Par Vollen. I have no idea what she was doing with the Antaam in the first place. What use did they have for researchers of lore when they started their war? Researchers would either be part of those individuals under the control of the Ariqun or Arigena. How did she even know Taash was her daughter if she was born under the Qun? As they admit, children are taken away at birth to be raised by the tamassrans. So was her mother really her tamassran?  She calls her "Tama".   No doubt the full game will fill in at least some of the gaps.