Leaks about game direction and pre-alpha (combat and design spoilers)

If Rook is the new "Herald/Inquisitor/Pathfinder" term, I think it stand for the chess piece and not the bird or rookie. That means the Dreadwolf red document symbol was Solas and the PC instead of the major arcana Tower symbol which means major sudden upheaval.

Now the question is why your character is called that. The Inquisition/Grey Warden do not use chess metaphors for their members. It's not exactly a name to blend in either. And the only time I have seen chess titles for characters in other settings/series for people has been when there was Solas-like plotters using people like pawns.

I guess I'm winning points on my "we work for Solas" theory. But now I also have another crazier theory to go with it (see below).

Unfortunately, the "it's a damn double Blight" theory is also winning points based on some new things I've been reading on Reddit (another playtester has been making comments, but no way to confirms they really playtested it and they are being very vague). Apparently, the darkspawns are the generic enemy like in DAO (in DAI that was demons). Also wrote that the game use Mass Effect combat wheel with a party of 4, but in his playtest only 2 companions you selected, the last party member was mission locked. Describe the combat as "Andromeda with melee weapons". That person also said that "grey warden" wasn't a class.

And now my crazier theory: The player character is a spirit who took shape and was named Rook by Solas...and Solas does what Solas does best very early: betray you. Ok that might be what he does 2nd best actually. What he does best is screw Thedas over with stupid plans...

I suppose it indeed isn't "Anthem with dragons", then. Still   at that.

Before anyone jumps down my throat, I know this is in no way confirmed outside of possibly NDA breaking leaks, at best, and wild fever dreams of fame seeking redditors, at worst.
Still, my opinion of what I don't want and hope won't actually come to pass are all I have.

Excellent, so we have great mobility and fast evades

I must ask does it really matter if someone prefers story over combat then Dreadwolf is very likely mostly about combat and exploration?
For example lets say the player had finished DAI with exact 100 hours. 60-70 hours are combat & exploration plus crafting and the rest is 30-40 hours story content. I see me more as a storyguy but i can´t say that i don´t care what i have to do most of the time.

I see it took us 3 days to get to the "true fan" strawman. Longer than I expected, honestly, this place is not as toxic as some would have me believe.
Claps all around.

It does seem like Rook must be the new name/title for the protagonist. I feel like that's something interesting BioWare could have told us to keep us excited without needing to do any marketing...but I digress. It might be a way of referring to us without giving up our identity, like something Varric calls us. I guess they must have had that name picked out a long time ago based on the red book (which was from Joplin times). Makes me wonder what else from the original Joplin vision ended up in the game.

You make a good point for elven hero but i am not convinced on a Qunari protagonist. Maybe the Qunari is first to ever get taught such things?

It sounds a bit strange but to be fair Nevarra has to be one of the remaining countries which isn´t that fleshed out. I mean we don´t know what the Nevarrans think about Qunari and if they allow Tal Vashoth in their society. Also am not sure that they think about their elven citizens.

If Rook is the title/name of the protagonist, what a stupid title/name.

Hey don't take my word for it just look at what really gets commented on the most around here and certainly did for DAI. It's about companions, story, quests, etc. I remember the biggest kerfluffle's over DAI were not even remotely over combat but over quest quality or lack thereof.

I did not even bring up pc vs console etc and wouldn't want to go there. I'm a pc player myself but I don't care what people play on at all. There have been ports of tactical rpg's to consoles however so I think even arguing over whether a console limits an rpg is moot these days. I do not think BioWare would commit to a combat style that favors a God of War approach to appease console players. Maybe 15 years ago but not today.