Dragon Age Dreadwolf Development so far.

Yes, they could do it like that. But i was thinking more about hearing something here and there slowly building up. He shows up and go away. Maybe a Darth Vader approach (star war's 4-6)

Do what they did for ME3? It was the best place to start playing a trilogy. I never agreed with that. They could do it for the next DA game. New people might think it would avoid having to spend money on previous DA games when the upcoming one explains everything.

Then it's badly written because it shouldn't be like that.
But you are right in DAO it was difficult in the Origin to say what fit too.

Well with Lavellan that wouldn't be such an odd thing for the clan as a whole when you consider the fact that they were located in the Freemarches, yet somehow heard about the Conclave of the human religion and their Keeper thought it important enough to send someone to spy on it. So, I imagine they were in the habit of trading with humans and listening to their gossip. Perhaps they had also helped elven mages escaping the Circles in the Freemarches who didn't want to join the rebellion and it was their idea to send someone to find out first hand what was going on. What seemed odd is that it would be a clan at such a distance away, rather than one actually in Ferelden or Orlais. That was quite a risky endeavour for a lone member to travel all that way, particularly when their vallaslin would mean they couldn't exactly blend in with the other elves in the human settlements. This might suggest that they already had acquired a degree of knowledge about human customs so they wouldn't be in danger of inadvertently antagonising anyone. So it would make sense your Keeper selected your Ariel character as the best person for the job.

If the casuals cant make anything of the story because it's buried in a myriad of DLC , third party publications they will eventually not buy the products because they just arent fun or impossible to understand. I think the assurance that players are not required to have played previus games by BW speaks for itself

A casual is just a hard core gamer waiting for a game to happen.

      So much this, particularly for Bioware games.

      They may have started (much like D&D, actually) as hardcore fantasy (then SF for Star Wars and Mass Effect) small unit tactical simulators, but Bioware games have grown far too broad for the audience to be pigeonholed solely as D&D nerds and associated geek groups. There are passionate Players on this board who started with Inquisition and like it the best. They aren't any more "Casual" than those of us who started this journey back with Baldur's Gate (or even earlier. I've done Adventure on a mini-computer as well as Bard's Tale and Ultima on C64 myself). The Companions, the Lore, the Romances, the Storytelling, the Exploration (anyone want to add another non-combat draw here, I won't pretend to know them all) have all grown to the point that many of us are Hardcore about some things and Casual about some others when it comes to a Bioware game. I've found that I enjoy games more when I worry less about them being sufficiently doctrinaire to one type or style of play and absorb the beauties I can find in unexpected ways and places. That whole Evolve or Die thing doesn't just apply to games it applies to Players too. You want the kids to stop playing on your (gaming) lawn? You're going to have to start checking out smaller, indie and legacy developers. There's nothing wrong with that at all, I am enjoying Panzercorps 2 right now which is basically the old beer-and-pretzels Panzer General from SSI with upgrades. That is where that type of game wound up because it just didn't appeal to as large an audience. Raging on 'casuals' over that is wasting breath on windmills to me. I enjoy those games and enjoy the Total War games that largely replaced them because they scratch some of the same itches and some different ones too. If this game isn't what you want, look around at the other work being done by other studios or grow a little in your wants. Dissing large groups of Gamers you don't even understand is just an Epic Fail for everyone.