The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion)

Are we talking about The Last Court card game?

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I'd have liked to have seen more tie-ins to Serault in DAI as well, between the intrigue and quirky characters from Last Court, they could have gotten a really nice war table chain out of it.

Wasn't Morrigan's new Eluvian either acquired or repaired in Serault? Could have been worthy of a mention in the game proper, as the Inquisitor doesn't bother to ask where she happened to find it, something I definitely would have if I met someone with a magic mirror.

Inquisitor: Morrigan, I was wondering...?
Morrigan: Wherever did I acquired such a strange and rare item?
Inquisitor: Well yes, that too. But mostly I wondered how did you get that giant mirror through such a tiny door?

If they give us a great game with a nice deep and detailed story then I can absolutely wait a few years. Fill in all those long ass holes with empty trekking and no banter. Make one of our companions a hair stylist from Orlais. Who knows? Maybe we'll get lucky and get another survey leak in the mean time.  

If they give us a great game with a nice deep and detailed story then I can absolutely wait a few years. Fill in all those long ass holes with empty trekking and no banter. Make one of our companions a hair stylist from Orlais. Who knows? Maybe we'll get lucky and get another survey leak in the mean time.  

Wait a sec...Vivienne and Dorian did that for us! Oh yeah, you meant the enemies.
Random thought: if Vivienne took it upon herself to change the Inquisitor's wardrobe to look like hers as passive aggressive revenge, I'd have ticked her off every single time just for better looking clothes.

Yes, I can imagine that they probably won't even announce it for another year or two once the Andromeda hooHa dies down. So this is really promising.

Well you know how it is.... the bartenders and hairdressers get all the dirty details on everyone. They would make excellent undercover spies.

Yes, I very carefully said the enemy's

I'd actually kind of like to see a character whose public identity was something like hairdresser, barber, or tailor but was actually a master spy or the master of a thieves' ring (didn't Deep Space 9 sort of use that one with Garak?) People are bored while having their hair done, face shaved, or clothes fitted. And if my childhood memories are right, anyone who wanted to know all the inside gossip on, say, my church would want to be one of the barbers or hairdressers where the members went. Especially if they were also a member of the church or a group of them came in regularly at about the same time (my mother and her friends would make appointments together so they could talk under the hair dryers which used to take half an hour in the days of bouffants... ) It wouldn't work for rich members of the court as well; they'd have their own personal servant who did this, but the less wealthy or lower ranked...

Talking of spies, it always made zero sense to me how the Bards can be so successful in the DA universe, when we've seen from Masked Empire that anyone who knows what to look for can spot them, due to how they've been trained to control their vocal inflections and keep their facial movements passive to not give anything away.

Combine that with how open bards often seem to be about their job in Orlesian society, how they can remain hidden long enough to spy on their targets makes very little sense?

Wouldn't it be far better for spies to instead train themselves to easily adopt false tells and the odd vocal and facial slip that will throw off anyone trying to read them? Thus making the other person think that they've revealed something when in actuality, they're now certain that something meaningless was something important the spy wanted concealed?

I have to admit I don't really understand that comic posted above...? Is it something that only makes sense if you complete Cullen's romance?

I think the point is that when you get to the romance scene, Cullen or whoever, you neither want to be distracted... nor have someone overhear you romancing your pixel boyfriend.