Dragon Age Short Stories from the BioWare Team

that last part about corypheus is 100% true.

I mean, the darkspawn alone are indeed quite boring as an enemy, but if they’re going to be featured prominently I think it’s quite likely that there’ll be something/someone else connected to them, like the Blight. They won’t just add them as a major enemy group without a big plot around them.

I must admit I hadn't thought of that one but it's possible. In which case no way he is a city elf, that guy is just too buff for that. Mind you I don't know how long he was meant to have been living with the Dalish, so he could have beefed up a bit.

I notice in the latest offering the writer only mentions the Morlyn clan without actually saying they are Dalish. I've always felt that Irelin was way too proficient a shapeshifter to be Dalish. I mean I thought shapeshifting was only rarely found among modern mages, even those outside the Circle. So may be it is another group of elves with different traditions to the Dalish, may be having survived down to the present having not been captured by Tevinter. That would also account for them having this strange journal that is said to be an ancient relic.  Strife certainly seemed to know a lot about the Arlathan Forest and had a reverence for Andruil in Three Trees to Midnight, which would suggest a group that did honour the Creators/Evanuris, but I've pointed out before that the Dalish are not said to go that far north.

I wonder if this highlights specific areas we will be seeing in the game. Arlathan Forest, Minrathous, Antiva City and the Deep Roads. Not a bad combination.

there's a vint tarquin in this codex dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_Shriek_(Inquisition)  probs not the same guy but

The Templars in Streets of Minrathous are
Knight Captain Rana Savas
Knight Captain Jahvis
& Brom
I ran a word search on the name Tarquin in my digital copy of Tevinter Nights and it doesn't appear.

Yeah, I guess I misremembered.

I have to admit, I'd much rather have the undead companion be a mage.

I'm not opposed to having a major questline with Lucanis as a central character, but I don't exactly see him as companion material, and Crow Lady is more likely to be the DA4 party's Crow rep.

We already had one faction trying to redeem Tevinter, the Lucerni. So either Dorian/Maevaris had enlarged the scope of this to include Soporati or this is a different group entirely.



I agree it may well have been this group who was sponsoring him, particularly if they are Soporati working against the Venatori and so do not have access to the Siccari, who are linked to the State and thus the Archon/Magisterium. However, we do know from Magekiller that the Archon was using outsiders to do his dirty work for him because he didn't want to use his usual forces in order to distance himself from the enterprise and was doing so out of self preservation rather than any noble sentiments about redeeming Tevinter. So any leading Magister opposed to the Venatori could have been behind Lucanis, including Dorian/Maevaris or even the Archon. What points to a more clandestine underworld sponsor was the elf in red, Athima, who assisted them as part of the deal. The red coat naturally makes you think of the Jennies, who may have extended their operations that far north and whilst not having the money to employ Lucanis, may have been working with those that did.

Bottom line is, given how corrupt the Venatori are, there are several people who could want them out of the way but for different reasons.



Well, of course, technically Lucanis may no longer be a Crow if he has faked his own death to break his ties with them. That might even create complications in the team if the Crow lady recognised him. It is also possible that this time round we may have companion choices that are mutually exclusive through aligning yourself with a particular faction. So opt for a Crow alliance and you get the Crow lady, opt for the Forgotten Tevinter group and you get Tarquin or the Viper, opt for the Freedom Fighters and you get Lucanis. (In TN Illario objects that the Crows are not freedom fighters, which Lucanis knows is true but clearly would seem to have leanings in that direction which could have prompted his decision to leave them)

"We are the Tevinter you forgot" makes me think less of Dorian and Maevaris' campaign to redeem Tevinter and more of like.. well a bit of a slave uprising feel and most of all like a ''Tevinter mundanes seeking to overthrow the magocracy" feel. It's not as simple as that as there are lowborn mages and enslaved mages (Calpernia is an example), but in a society dominated by a magocracy and where power is really important, and where said power is inevitably linked to magical ability, non-mages are 'left behind' or 'forgotten'. It could also be an Old God cultist thing maybe, Old God worship has been left behind/largely forgotten in favor of the Tevinter Chantry, although that kinda faction would be Venatori-adjacent. Questions, questions.