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Post by Solas on Dec 2, 2022 12:46:43 GMT
gervaise21 well, tis better to be open-ended and pose ideas/guesses/theories for discussion I think family wouldn't need to be a parent. miriam could have been born into slavery to parents who were slaves and then for one reason for another not known her birth parents - parents passed away young, the children were sold off young, etc. they were slaves so.. :/ there's another child who was a slave in miriam's flashback who looks like her - suspect a sibling. if she's Siccari, perhaps the sibling was the one held hostage and they had a different role (in the house for example) while miriam's was to be a siccari. that character doesn't look to be around in miriam's present. maybe part of her guilt (guilt mentioned in the tagline) and trauma is in relation to what happened to them? maybe the cost of her escape was consequences for the hostage, or she finally made her escape after something happened to them and has survivor's guilt. or she failed in an assigned siccari task and they were killed? (edit; and if she's ex-siccari that could be why her particular slave marking on her face intimidated the guard so much and why she's so skilled at fighting and spying and stuff, because she was specially trained) about Hira, not a possessed blood mage, but a blood mage, or possessed, or did something bad in the past that miriam would be aghast at. she's keeping some sort of terrible secret right? something which Miriam, who is a former slave of an abusive Magister, would potentially think of as a dealbreaker. maybe she's the one who got the circulum to who they're stealing it from in the first place, and now regrets it? she seems very invested in stealing it.
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Post by gervaise21 on Dec 2, 2022 13:51:03 GMT
(edit; and if she's ex-siccari that could be why her particular slave marking on her face intimidated the guard so much and why she's so skilled at fighting and spying and stuff, because she was specially trained) Now that would make sense. I have wondered about that marking because it clearly isn't Dalish or any group that we know about. Obviously, it would make it harder to blend in if you have a marking on your face that gives you away but maybe that is the point, at least in Tevinter where the Sicarri definitely seem to have a reputation. Of course, there could be different operatives for different tasks, so not all carry the mark.
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Post by cuthbertbeckett on Dec 3, 2022 18:46:31 GMT
So i watched Episode 1 and its okay. I guess without Fairbanks it would very likely have lost me because the others aren´t that interesting and i don´t like main main protagonist Miriam aka Female Fenris so far.
Too bad that Hira is a complete new Inquisition member i would appreciated the show more if the she would an already existing but more fleshed out character like Fairbanks. I therefore hope that they won´t write as the Inquisitors best friend / mage or something like that and just play it down. She should be just a minor unknown mage nobody have noticed in DAI. Nothing more nothing less.
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Post by smilesja on Dec 3, 2022 19:48:35 GMT
So i watched Episode 1 and its okay. I guess without Fairbanks it would very likely have lost me because the others aren´t that interesting and i don´t like main main protagonist Miriam aka Female Fenris so far.
Fenris is better though.
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Post by Iddy on Dec 4, 2022 0:32:46 GMT
So i watched Episode 1 and its okay. I guess without Fairbanks it would very likely have lost me because the others aren´t that interesting and i don´t like main main protagonist Miriam aka Female Fenris so far.
Fenris is better though. Oh, it's not even a competition. She doesn't have that voice.
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Post by smilesja on Dec 4, 2022 0:35:20 GMT
Fenris is better though. Oh, it's not even a competition. She doesn't have that voice. Nor the story but to be fair we're only one episode in. However, of all of the characters, I find her the most grating due to how much she complains about..... well everything.
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Post by Iddy on Dec 4, 2022 0:40:03 GMT
Oh, it's not even a competition. She doesn't have that voice. Nor the story but to be fair we're only one episode in. However, of all of the characters, I find her the most grating due to how much she complains about..... well everything. Fenris complained plenty, though he made it easy to listen to.
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Post by smilesja on Dec 4, 2022 1:16:35 GMT
Nor the story but to be fair we're only one episode in. However, of all of the characters, I find her the most grating due to how much she complains about..... well everything. Fenris complained plenty, though he made it easy to listen to. True, but to me he wasn't as agitating as Miriam at least on multiple playthroughs. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/uYQYVMAupPAfTXFFwWlB.png)
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Post by colfoley on Dec 4, 2022 1:48:42 GMT
Fenris's voice is what got him on my Hawkes A team with just one cutscene.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2022 2:23:08 GMT
Fenris is better though. Oh, it's not even a competition. She doesn't have that voice. Gideon Emery is the one saving grace of Fenris’s character. Everything else about him sucked.
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Post by dadithinkimgay on Dec 4, 2022 3:14:29 GMT
I was surprised how much I liked the first episode. I liked it even better the second time around.
My one major (MAJOR) gripe is the animation. There are moments when you can tell that the animation has a difficult time translating what is written on paper - from character reactions to even smaller, easy to miss moments that really help define the characters (which is why I enjoyed the second watch more because I caught those things.) It’s honestly a travesty because I think the show is written very well. The characters stick out to me, and I can’t wait to learn more about them.
I was also pleasantly surprised how the show is more than just a story set in Thedas - the location and lore being explored is fresh off of Trespasser’s ending. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have some tricks up their sleeves. Hell - maybe we’ll even see Solas. I’m very excited to see where this story will go.
And I couldn’t help but think if DA:D missions will play out the same way. Instead of a 4 party going head on initially, they all split up and exercise what they’re good at (muscle, distractions, etc) before they meet up to complete the mission. This dynamic was pretty much spelled out in the Joplin Kotaku article while also making an appearance in the recent comics.
Overall I am very excited for December 9th. I’m going to binge the whole season lol.
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Post by Beerfish on Dec 4, 2022 3:34:22 GMT
Oh, it's not even a competition. She doesn't have that voice. Gideon Emery is the one saving grace of Fenris’s character. Everything else about him sucked. Fenris was a highly favored character for me because he totally and utterly owned Anders in just about all their banter, just destroyed all of his flimsy arguments.
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Post by colfoley on Dec 4, 2022 3:42:19 GMT
Gideon Emery is the one saving grace of Fenris’s character. Everything else about him sucked. Fenris was a highly favored character for me because he totally and utterly owned Anders in just about all their banter, just destroyed all of his flimsy arguments. Having Anders and Fenris in the same party at the same time, and as two of my favorite DA 2 characters, was certainly an experience.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Dec 4, 2022 6:24:19 GMT
Gideon Emery is the one saving grace of Fenris’s character. Everything else about him sucked. Fenris was a highly favored character for me because he totally and utterly owned Anders in just about all their banter, just destroyed all of his flimsy arguments. That is true. Okay he has two saving graces.
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Post by gervaise21 on Dec 4, 2022 8:05:10 GMT
That is true. Okay he has two saving graces. He also has a dry sense of humour that I appreciated, although it only comes through sparingly. What I chiefly hated about him, which I dare say was true for you as well, is how obnoxious he was to Merrill, particularly after Marethari's death. I tended to avoid having them in the same party if I could, which for the most part was easy as I just took Anders along instead of Merrill, a combination that was far more entertaining. The other aspect that I didn't appreciate is how he treated Hawke in a romance with him. Okay, I know he is psychologically damaged but did he really have to walk out on them straight after sex and then leave them dangling for two years without any real explanation? Mind you, that did start a pattern for my male elf romances as Solas was even worse. I'm hoping for something different in DA:D.
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Post by gervaise21 on Dec 4, 2022 8:09:32 GMT
Overall I am very excited for December 9th. I’m going to binge the whole season lol. I thought it was just an extended trailer on Twitch, which I don't have, so where are you seeing the entire episode one? I'm waiting patiently for December 9th too.
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Post by gervaise21 on Dec 4, 2022 8:16:40 GMT
Too bad that Hira is a complete new Inquisition member i would appreciated the show more if the she would an already existing but more fleshed out character like Fairbanks. That's not so different to Magekiller. After all, Marius and Tessa kept going to places for the Inquisition that we had already visited and dealt with the threats, even teaming up with Dorian and Bull's Chargers, which was odd considering the Dorian and Bull should have been off with the Inquisitor. At least we never went to Tevinter as the Inquisitor but we did have operatives working for us there in War Table missions. As you say, so long as Hira doesn't claim some special relationship with the Inquisitor, it is perfectly reasonable she could be one of our numerous agents in the field. It is quite evident from conversations both in the main game and Trespasser that there are plenty of unnamed operatives working for us that we never meet. Now we can put a name and face to one of them.
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Post by cuthbertbeckett on Dec 4, 2022 14:52:45 GMT
That's not so different to Magekiller. Of course its nothing new for Bioware Games. I mean the Hawke / Amell family was fleeing form Lothering, James Vega had battled also the Collectors, Jacob Taylor was also an Eden Prime Survivor (too be fair not impossible but how are the odds?) or the DAI MP character Luka had a history with the Vimmark Mountains prison.
I have zero problems that Hawkes family was also Lothering. Yes its a small village but Bioware hadn´t connected Hawke or his / her family that much with the Warden and his / her companions. Sure Leliana, Sten, Elder Miriam and Old Barlin were referenced but not in any major way. Leliana had no reason to mention Bethany in a DAO conversation because they barely know each other. I still would respect the show more if Hira wasn´t new. Yeah there are plenty of unnamed Inquisition members but also a ton who also weren´t that fleshed out like Fairbanks. Like i said i would prefer if Hira or someone else like Roland would be one of the DAI MP characters. Why not one of the 16 MP characters (excluding Isabela of course) instead?
But i guess Fairbanks is still better than nothing. Kudos for picking him of all people. It would be so easy to choose someone way more known like Cassandra or even minor like Charter.
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Post by dadithinkimgay on Dec 4, 2022 15:07:48 GMT
Overall I am very excited for December 9th. I’m going to binge the whole season lol. I thought it was just an extended trailer on Twitch, which I don't have, so where are you seeing the entire episode one? I'm waiting patiently for December 9th too. Oh! I think Hrungr posted the link a page back. But it’s Netflix Toon on twitch.tv. You can just go to the site to watch it and search the name of the show and it should pop up. The episode begins I think halfway through the show.
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Post by smilesja on Dec 4, 2022 15:58:25 GMT
Gideon Emery is the one saving grace of Fenris’s character. Everything else about him sucked. Fenris was a highly favored character for me because he totally and utterly owned Anders in just about all their banter, just destroyed all of his flimsy arguments. That and it's pretty funny to tease Fenris as sarcastic Hawke especially when he's being a broody boy again. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/owHrEkYBxiMjyZZrMwOT.png) Fenris: This "freedom" tastes like ash! Hawke: I always thought it tasted like chicken.
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Post by Hrungr on Dec 4, 2022 18:09:26 GMT
Dragon Age @dragonageMiriam and Hira - bound together, by a wounded past. ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjJs5txUYAAgkAM?format=jpg&name=4096x4096) Raise your staves and daggers! ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjJuB_xUAAApOOT?format=jpg&name=4096x4096) Masterful fighters who get the job done. ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjJvO1HUoAAoV-9?format=jpg&name=4096x4096) Tevinter first... no matter the cost. ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FjJvg5OVEAEhCw9?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
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Post by cuthbertbeckett on Dec 4, 2022 18:12:17 GMT
Raise your staves and daggers! Really disappointing to see Fairbanks so much in the background compared to the others.
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Post by smilesja on Dec 4, 2022 18:34:42 GMT
Raise your staves and daggers! Really disappointing to see Fairbanks so much in the background compared to the others. Maybe because he is a background character.
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Post by cuthbertbeckett on Dec 4, 2022 18:44:08 GMT
Maybe because he is a background character. He deserves better. Right now atleast for Episode 1 he is more the "Star" than everyone else besides Miriam of course. But if you want to use for point for DAI and not Absolution i guess you are right.
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Post by phoray on Dec 6, 2022 18:24:55 GMT
I am the grump face for not being able to watch the first episode being streamed. I get why they do this, but there shouldn't be an EIGHT day difference when I'm a paying customer of Netflix. Should have been like, a 2 day difference at most. It's uncomfortable trying to avoid spoilers and I understand why some folks go completely dark for weeks at a time. All that whine aside, totally bingeing it at upon it's release, even if it's like, midnight.
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