Dragon Age News Thread

I wasn't thrilled with Varric's gift of a title and property there for my Inquisitor. I don't have any attachment to Kirkwall at all on that character. In addition, if my Trevelyan Inquisitor is anywhere near the Free Marches, he's going to go visit his family in Ostwick.

(I realize this doesn't apply to all Inquisitors, it just fell flat for me.)

I think Varric's gift was one thing that might be more appreciated by a non-human Inquisitor because it gave them a status they didn't have before. Lavallen elf had been a stateless wanderer, Cadash dwarf had been part of the Carta and Adaar was a Vashoth mercenary. None of them had any previous standing in society. Once the Inquisition lost its prominence in the world, the title of Lord Inquisitor would gradually lose its impact as well. So Varric's gift was a way of showing that not everyone was ungrateful for their efforts and would give them their own independent base from which to work in the future, particularly if they wanted to disband the Inquisition. I took the view "you don't look a gift horse in the mouth". Besides which my Lavellan only knew about Kirkwall by reputation and had never actually been there, so didn't necessarily appreciate just how bad the place can seem. I agree they do need to get rid of those awful statues - history be damned!

Trevellyan, on the other hand, as with the human origins in previous games, was from nobility. They might be a younger offspring so not automatically going to inherit the family estate (which a mage was precluded from anyway) but, as was demonstrated with Hawke, the fact you stem from nobility immediately allows you to move among the elite of society and gain acceptance, although having estate and money to back your claim does help. Really they gained very little that they did not already have, even if they were not on good terms with their relatives. Plus they may actually have been to Kirkwall so would know full well what they were getting. So it doesn't surprise me that you and your PC wasn't exactly thrilled by Varric's gift. In the same situation I might have thought it was just another one of his jokes at my expense or that he was going to foist off the day to day running of Kirkwall on to me in the future. There had to be a catch to it somewhere.

I'm not even kidding around, nothing would give me greater joy than if this all turned out to be an elaborate segue into 40K. Someone needs to do right by the Warhammer franchise; might as well be Bioware. ;p

To consort with the heretic is to endanger one's purity.
But to lie to an Inquisitor is to forfeit one's soul. 

Considering that the gift is given only to befriended Inquisitors the motive of Varric may simply be wanting to play a round or two of Wicked Grace with his friend. I know that Quizzies will likely never have a bond like Hawke and Varric got, given how long these two know one another and what they've been through AND Varric's confessed feeling of intimidation or inadequacy in presence of near-mythical Herald Of Andraste, but their friendship arc actually ended with Varric getting over that nonsense and accepting that Quizzy - in their own words - "just needs a friend" and I think he's there for befriended Inquisitor to be one.

I hope that they don't do to future games what was done to DAI. Cutting the plot in half and having that epilogue with Trespasser, a CLEAR setup for the next game, only works if there is going to BE a next game. That is never a guarantee. In general, I prefer a more solid ending, tying up most of the plot threads, in case the series is done. I would consider the base ending of DAI to be a solid ending as far as the Inquisitor is concerned, and I was satisfied after that point even with the post-credit Solas bit. But Trespasser threw all that out the window.


Dad Laidlaw strikes again!


Exactly. This is definitely a part of my headcanon for their friendship and romance.

In Trespasser's case, I'm certain they would have known if DAI had sold enough/reception was good enough to have confidence a DA4 would be greenlit. So it kinda makes sense to leave a teaser like that in a DLC, after you had time to guage the success of the base game.

Ooooh!  I would love to see the Anderfels.  Actually - I'm good with any new area that isn't Ferelden.  

Mark Darrah‏ @biomarkdarrah
I've paid my dues
Time after time
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime
And bad mistakes
I've made a few
...

- I'm just gonna assume this about Solas...

Sounds more like something the devs would be singing while tackling something challenging

Are we already to this part of the game development? Where everyone starts going a little bit nuts? Seems a bit early for that...

EDIT: Sorry...*hypothetical* game development.