Dragon Age News Thread

Note that he didn't rule out the others, most notably the Inquisitor.

Aaaand be in one spot in terms of story - it's not like they're rulers of Ferelden or disappeared somewhere or whatever. I think this may actually be way more tricky to write around with than death in Thedas, because in Thedas many things that are dead oftentimes don't stay that way 

And Stumpy's not likely to be doing much fighting next game.

Whenever I read stuff along the lines of "The Inquisitor lost their arm! They can't fight anymore!!!" I just want to respond with stuff like 

If this was Full Metal Alchemist, the Inquisitor could just get automail. If this was Dungeons and Dragons, they could just get a replacement arm with the Regeneration spell.

But Dragon Age doesn't have inexplicably advanced prosthetics or magic spells to regrow limbs. And I don't think the loss of an arm should be brushed over as a a mild inconvenience. "Oh dear, now I can never wear long-sleeved shirts again!"

You guys are like the Black Knight hopping around on one leg and insisting you're still in the fight. "Come here, Solas! I'll bite your legs off!" 😅

I don't think a crossbow attachment is comparable to automail. And I imagine that thing's a bitch to load.

I'd be more pissed at having my character forced into having some corrective procedure without the chance for any sort of input, to be honest. I'm still pissed that I didn't get to emote AT ALL about losing the arm in the first place, not ONE damn line.

I want my Inquisitor in the next game in some capacity, but you know maybe it's MY headcanon that he learns how to fight with one arm. All you people who want magical arms and mechanical arms designed by Dagna speak only for your own selves and your Inquisitor. I'll have to take what Bioware gives me, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.



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That Red Jenny thing is only for players that chose to join them in the dialogue with Sera. I did not.

Yes, I wasn't saying they have to give you a prosthetic arm, just that in theory it should be possible. I've mentioned before, probably on the old BSN, that there is an ancient Irish legend in which the hero loses an arm and then later is supplied with a magical silver arm that behaves just like his flesh and blood one. In a world of magic it is possible to explain how to achieve this. As I say, we've had time travel, magical ball fusing to our hand and enabling us to do all sorts of weird stuff, Corypheus levitating an entire mountain and in the comics some strange contrivance called the Magellan that was meant to be able to alter people's minds on a Thedas-wide scale, so the small matter of a replacement arm should be child's play.

However, I would equally be happy with just being asked to retrain to fight one handed. The only person who would be severely inconvenienced is the specialist archer. The two handed fighter should be able to transfer most of their skills to fighting one handed, ditto the dual wielder. Sword and shield warrior just does without the shield. As for a mage, they should be able to twirl their staff one handed and it doesn't at all affect their natural ability to do spells.

So it would be possible for the Inquisitor to continue to be effective even without the use of magic to make good their loss. I just do not accept the loss of their arm as a valid excuse for reducing them to a non-combatant role.

Technically you can do a lot less in Mad Max world yet Furiosa was doing great. And DA may not be FMA, but it has enough of magic, enchants and crazy dwarven inventors to cook something up. And as Iron Bull's example shows, DA authors thought so as well - and Bull likely didn't use magic at all, being a Qunari. He may have not ended in the game like that, but survived long enough to get himself a model that is pretty identical with what we know, sans the hand.

If some poor knight or mercenary in world of DA lost a hand, they'd likely be done, but it's Inquisitor we're talking about - a person who, even if Inquisition is disbanded, has enough of connections to top enchanters and inventors to do something about their disability.

Isn't there already a thread about this somewhere?

I chose the gif with Edward from FMA, not because I think we get automail, but because I'm just annoyed of all those comments that always somehow go into the direction of the Inquisitor being useless, just because they lost their arm.
(also his facial expression and the flailing are just great )

I extra included a gif of Shanks who, like the Inquisitor lost his left arm and in the 12 years in which he's now one-armed never got a prostetic arm.