Your Inquisitor {Lore - Spoilers All}
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2017
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Welcome, welcome! Having trouble coming up with a backstory for your inquisitor? Are you wondering who these people are in those War Table missions? Perhaps you want to know more about the person you are spending over 40 hours with? Then come and listen to what is known~
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We need Prologue back like in Origins
GodZullaFC yeah, they should make like a dlc or something for DAI
@@mambaramba right? If only
Maybe they’ll bring that in DA4? I’ll take how they did the ending of trespasser but have it be kinda like a choose your own adventure.
Yes for real. I loved my character in origins. He came from the dalish hating humans to becoming warden commander of fereldan plus with the dlcs with your warden commender. Good times
Yep
During The quest “In Hushed Whispers” there is a mage in the tavern named Linnea. She will recognize a human mage inquisitor though your inquisitor won’t recognize them. She’s not surprised by this and says that you were always the “perfect apprentice” while she barely passed her harrowing.
i remember someone saying that to my inquisitor, but i can't remember who it was now. it was awhile ago, the first time i played the game i started out as a human mage and romanced Cassandra. But it was the only time i played as a human, most of the time i play an elf or dwarf depending on my mood lol.
instablaster.
Ah that embittered bitch who is jealous at Mage!Trevelyan for being better than her and is happily siding with Tevinter to hell with consequences?
9:54 All you Lavellans better screenshot this shit.
hell yeah i did
I screwed up the second mission on my first try with my Lavellan. "Oh yeah, by the way, Lady Inquisitor, your entire Clan just died. Welp. Sod."
Luckily I decided to reset that one - actually for other reasons than that - and had a second try. XD
Oh yess
Lol already did
You know what's funny? My Inquisitor was a dalish elf and I had no idea that my choice at the war decided the fate of my clan until I watched this. And guess what, my clan lives! That is crazy luck, especially for me. 😂
Nikita Said I actually don't remember what happened to my clan. My elf wasn't a fan of them, but she wouldn't have wanted them to die. She didn't really care much for her clan by the end of the game since Cullen and the rest, except bull because fuck that traitor, replaced them as her family.
Blake chandler That's so cheesy! I love it! Thanks for replying BTW! 😆
Holycrap you're advisors deserve a raise, that's some amazing luck!
[Stargr☆zer] Oh yeah definitely! I should give them a dabble raise! Thanks for replying BTW! 😆
I saved my clan by dumb luck too didn't even know they could die till I saw a video called "How to save clan Lavellan"
yeah, so I just did the maths and if you choose at random you only have a 5% chance of saving the Lavellan clan. The devs really had it out for them!
Huh?
Helen Hunt well...shit
@@HelenHunt69 Your comment had me laughing way too much xD
@Helen Hunt 👍
@@HelenHunt69 they were a small clan to begin with even in the first game hell they were so small every member could say goodbye to your char in origins within a 2 min cutsecene
You forgot about the part with the rabbit. There should be more rabbits in stories.
Rabbit?
It's a quote by Cole if your inquisitor tells a story in the wicked grace scene.
This is scandalous
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Cole is that you?
10:14 That moment when you take a picture because you know you won't remember and you want to keep your clan safe.
Very annoyed with the Lavellan quest line. Such an important quest relegated to a war table mission which, at the time, I couldn't be bothered to read nor knew could be failed. And no one says a damn thing about it because it's a shitty war table mission. I didn't even know what had happened until days later when a friend warned me about the mission.
iNZANE0ne me too
Totally agree with that. And then we don't even get a chance to see the clan :(
And has no influence at all in the game. I don't even bother doing it.
It was really disappointing picking Cullen thinking that him having the fastest time meant he was best suited for the job, as is the case in other games with similar features, only to find out that choice not only denied me the entire subsequent chain, but even being able to find out anything had happened to my clan at all. Since I tend to think of Dalish elves as likely wanting to return home after their adventure is over, this was a really poor turn of events. I would have liked for it to be a fully fledged quest that the characters all properly interact with and respond to.
Yo thanks for reminding me of this suck ass bad mission that sucked.
The war table stuff was dogshit and bad in general. Looking back, Bioware games always had some unnecessary, tacked on gimmick that had no place in the game. Starting to wonder why I got invested in these games in the first place.
In my headcanon, Varric gave the Valo-Kas the former Qunari Compound as their barracks. It seems like something he'd do.
thanks for adding something to my headcanon
This is canon. That's just obvious.
The human Inquisitor's noble background helped me a lot in dealing with having party members. Usually my RPG characters go it alone for fear of endangering others. But I figured that my Inquisitor, like most Medieval nobility, would've been raised to leadership in war. Therefore he was used to the idea of losing people under his command. Very different than, say, my Dragonborn from Skyrim.
Also helpful was some early dialogue I picked: "I say we charge. Whatever happens, happens now." I didn't learn the family motto until later and I was pleased that my choice went along with that. I also had a habit of picking the nicest possible dialogue choice until it was time to fight. Then the verbal knives would come out along with the sword. (I loved pulling the rug out from Corypheus, after three straight choices of buttering him up, once the flare went up.)
Also helpful was that I was watching the Korean fantasy series "Kingdom" at the time. The principal character in that series, a Prince whose first war proves to be a war against the Undead, would make a great Trevelyan.
Same here with my noble! I also do the same with my Qunari background, a mercenary used to working with an efficient, tight-knit group but new to being the leader of one which leads to a hurdle after reaching haven, and my Elven mage, they were being trained to be the next keeper of a clan so they know a lot about leadership and then finally get to put it to use as the inquisitor, an even bigger station than they were trained for.
Love the backgrounds
to bad the human family cant throw money at you in game....
Yeah boi, throw me Sovereigns. I hungry for money
Well if a Mage obviously they're Black Sheeped/Excommunicated given the family is an adamant Templar and Chantry Supporter. But if Warrior or Rogue you would think they'd fund the Herald of Andraste's War Efforts to restore the Faith to power! Unless you're a known Open Atheist that is...Then once again you're outcasted. Me I'd never get to see a single copper sovereign as an Atheist Mage...Though I'm an Elf.
Yes I'm an Proud Atheist Dalish Elven Spirit Mage who romanced a Seeker of Truth. Don't question it!
Fr fr we’re well-respected nobles.
I think it was mentioned that the trevelyan was also a large clan like penthagasts that in one conversation with josephine after wicked hearts, she mentions that archon radonis and markus penthagast asking assistance for ventaori between the border and as trevelyan you could reason that you have family members also in nevarra and need to help both countries.
It’s so heart warming to think that Shale’s clan never forgot her!
The Lavellan questline is a bit tricky but I find if you read all the letters and advisors carefully you'll be okay. If the letters and your advisors directly advocate against a course of action, don't do it. Cullen is only appropriate for the final mission, protect Clan Lavellan and Wycome. And you can use him to Protect Clan Lavellan in the beginning. Otherwise it's *only* Josephine and Leliana and it's fairly clear which to use, because either the letter writers or one of the advisors themselves will advocate directly *against* a course of action.
I honestly really like the way Bioware handled the backstory in Inquisition. You have a little bit of information. Big enough to understand, where your Characters place is in this world, but big enough as well so you can create your own little backstory for your character around that ground structure :)
It's a shame there isn't a small side quest where Cadash Inquisitors can stumble upon Shale. It wouldn't have to be difficult, just stumble upon her in one of the open worlds and have a short conversation. See what she's done since Asunder.
Werezilla like, "hello my grandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandson, what have you people done after I turned into an immortal soldier?"
"well, we became a carta..."
Jean Henrique "Do you kill birds!?"
"Um, no"
"Then it is not worth my time."
but shale is supposed to be in tevinter
where obviously the next dragon age part will happen maybe its all on purpose
- an unknown bard from tevinter:´´ all the birds are gone... i wonder what happened´´
@@blakechandler167 Killings birds costs extra...I don't get paid enough as it is!
You mentioned for the elf Inquisitor that a elven clan as a home for the first time but if you're Warden is a dalish elf at the end your clan is given ostagar as their home
But as we can see in DA2 they clearly didn't go there.
It's specifically referring to Clan Lavellan finally having a home. The Dalish Warden is an entirely different clan (unless headcanoned otherwise).
And regardless of your actions in DA:O, Fereldan banns betray the elves by refusing to accept the King/Queen's request and the Dalish are still hiding in the forests of Ferelden. And there's no way to overturn the Bannorn's refusal because they actually have absolute power over their lands and even have the power to overthrow the King. So yeah, Elves king of got fucked out of their supposed reward. In a similar vein the Circle of Magi's reward also got a big "nope" by the Chantry and the reward given to the city elves went to shit because Denerim citizens began fighting with the elves and a small conflict erupted, leading to the possible death of the appointed representative of the elves.
In contrast in Inquisition you get an actual followup in Trespasser where Varric confirms that Clan Lavellan are still living in Wycome and Kirkwall are providing them protection so that the other Free Marcher cities don't take advantage of Wycome and the Clan.
@@LeonGun8 unless they're dead, then they don't live anywhere
Well yeah, if they dead, they dead.
Levellans are so damnn unlucky .... no wonder i never got to the end of tat one
All of these diverging origins and yet all were able to find their way to the Divine and Corypheus, -,- I smell a Flemeth. Jokes aside though despite having different backgrounds it's a bit of a shame that all the other races you don't choose for a playthrough simply die in the explosion at the Conclave rather than their ends happening differently like in Origins.
An Duncan one single man went around the entirety of Ferelden and met every possible Warden TWICE in some cases. Me smells some fanfic bs.
What are those endings again? I can only remember the dwarf commoner being dead and the dwarf noble being mentioned briefly, as the one Bhelen had betrayed
@@chipmunck2903 It's never explicitly stated but Cousland presumably dies with their parents at the end of the Origin, as Fergus is the only Cousland left. Mahariel dies of the Blight (Merrill will mention this in DA2). Amell/Surana is the most vague but the events of the Origin definitely still happen since Jowan is in Redcliffe. So Amell/Surana is either arrested if they helped Jowan or dies during Broken Circle is they told on him. Aeducan (and Aeducan is always a dude if not chosen as the PC) is exiled to the Deep Roads and so presumably dies there with Duncan to rescue him. Brosca you can find, and starves to death in prison. Given that you find Soris in the dungeons of the estate in non City Elf playthroughs, it seems that Tabris dies in the assault on the castle (since Duncan is the one who gives the player decent equipment, presumably they weren't well armed enough and died).
Shame Inquisitor's origin wasn't that much part of a story like in Origins
Yeah it kinda sucks but hopefully that’s fixed in the next game. I do love the fact that the ages are so different.
My warden I picture just being of age especially since it’s brought up so much. And then there’s Hawke who’s in like their mid 20s in the beginning of DA2.
Honestly I kind of like that the Inquisitor’s backstory is left ambiguous. I really enjoyed coming up with my own backstory and motivations that wasn’t just “Human noble from Ostwick”. Can definitely see where you’re coming from tho
@@coolkid-wk3kh the problem is that I don't know my character's past. I played an elven rouge and I didn't know I was dalish til it was brought up in conversation.
@@samreddig8819Thats on you, before the character creation there is a resume of your background and your porpoise on being in the conclave.
Seriously? @@samreddig8819
I am still sad we did not get an "Origins" part in DAI. DAOs origin part was fairly long and it would not have needed to be so massive, but idk, 10 minutes or so to get a better connections to Inkys background and family/friends...
i wish there was more difference between rouge/warrior rather than just mage being super different and warrior and rogue being lumped together
If anyone on the Dragon Age team is watching this video, PLEASE FIR THE LOVE OF GOD, LET US PLAY OUT OUR BACKSTORIES IN DRAGON AGE 4 LIKE IN PREVIOUS GAMES! It annoyed me to no end that in Dragon Age Inquisition that im suddenly imprisoned and some explosion happened offscreen that i have no idea about, or that i can't actually see my friggin backstory, like in other games!!
N3XTL3G3ND Even though I played the games out of order with inquisition my first, I appreciated how origins allowed you to pick your origins and I really want that for DA4, if it’s a new MC. Because it could get us more attached.
I think the trevelyan house symbol is a horse with 2 to 3 tails. It's shown if ur a human noble and u look pass the missions words on the maps.
Through some sheer amount of luck I managed to get clan lavellan to survive in my first playthrough, didn’t even look it up.
When I played through as human mage, I chose all religious options, and I don’t think they were there for my Adaar. I think that’s a fun bit of background, especially for someone who is not at all religious irl
It effects some dialogue options during the fight with Cory at Haven and when you take on the role of Inquisitor it'll even effect the Divine Election as botn Cassandra and Vivienne have strong reactions to Inquisitors who are spiritual.
Holly shiet it was so hard to keep those elf's alive i almost give up!
Your videos are so beautifully made and soothing without ever being boring. Thank you for such good content.
I wish these war table missions for the Dalish inquisitor were real missions. It would make up for the lack of a different prologue, at least a bit.
Can you do a video about the hero of ferelden
Or about Dalish Elf Tamlen 😊 if not that okay
Thank you ☺
Glad I found your channel! About to dive back in to Ferelden and was looking for a good lore channel to refresh my addled mom-brain.
Only found you channel yesterday, but i have to say that i love your content!
The image at 10:00 is extremely useful - thank you. It reminds me of how I (still) keep a little slip of paper inside the case for DA:O giving me the proper order for the Fade quests.
So yeah, my clan is very dead considering I recognize up until break venetori in Wycombe. Poor girl, at least my Levellana has Cullen to be her pillow to cry on.
I never heard the bit of Mage Trevelyan being snuck out of the Circle. Can anyone point me to where it's heard?
You mean the part where they were bribed out of the circle? In Haven, Josephine will eventually ask about you and your past. What is said depends on your dialogue choices, so if you went though that line of dialogue and didn't hear it, you may just not have taken the option that triggered it!
I'm in love with your calming and soothing voice :)
good backstory on the inquisitor
I was playing a Fem Qunari Mage Sara Romance on my first playthrough back in 2016. ...only for my PC to **** the bed and need to be repaired and REFORMATTED twice in as many years. Given that I skipped 1 and 2 back then, I'll probably do a Perfect World State run of each before trying a Solas romance. Or just punch him a lot, but probably the romance option. ...nah. An uber-tall Red Jenny with horns is a world state I do NOT want to give up.
You know you could make MULTIPLE world states right?
@@flamesofchaos13 Yeah, but the DQ:I save I was using at the time was lost, and the Worldstate for it was crafted purely in Keep. That said, life got in the way again, so I haven't started my "In game Worldstate building marathon" yet.
I love it when you say "wycom"
I really like Inquisition, but I have a hatred for the Frostbite engine. The Frostbite engine forced my video card to murder my power supply and then commit suicide. Death to Frostite!!!
Human inquisitor is sort of related to Dorian? That's awkward if you romanced him then...
GeisterWolf If I recall, that's actually mentioned if you're a human male and have been flirting/in a romance. 😅
Uh... Yeah. That made things awkward.
Actually even when flirting with him as female he mentions about it but then Inq have text that she hopes this isnt in the way and he agreed
If you take the flirt option after he tells you that, he says "I think we're alright, by about three ages". It's basically like finding out you and your partner are both descendants of the same pilgrim from the Mayflower.
Basically. I mean, we're talking about Tevinter nobles. They have relatives all over the continent. And the Free Marches had a considerably long period of Tevinter influence in comparison to other lands, with many of the nobles who rebelled against Tevinter BEING Tevinter nobility themselves.
It's always funny to romance Dorian and get that "oh, we're distant-cousins and we're also banging!" when you're a Trevelyan haha
If iron bull calls his mercenaries “bulls chargers”
Does that make “iron ass” Tully’s mercs the “ass rammers”
I have a headcanon that the lady mage Trevelyan at one point traveled to Kirkwall and met Cullen before he left. And thus, the secret mage-templar infatuation continues. ;)
And he was wearing his helmet at the time so she didn't know it was Cullen she was crushing on that'd be funny xD
Wow, that's a very good video with nice editing! And your voice is cute :)
I do wish that there were actually prologues for each of the Inquisitor's origins.
Human Noble: We get to explore the City State of Ostwick and get to witness the Mage Templar War on the Temple Point of View.
Human Mage: We get to fully witness what the Mage Templar War is like for the Mages who broke away from the Chantry.
Elven Hunter: We get to explore the wilderness and environment in the rest of the Free Marches.
Elven Keeper: We get to experience the role and responsibilities of the First of Clan Lavellen.
Dwarven Thug: We get to experience life as a member of the Carta.
Qunari Mercenary: We finally get to experience the life of a Tal Vasoth as well as a member of the Tal Vasoth Mercenary crew
Trevelyan!
No Amell family of: old god priests , hero of ferelden & hero of kirkwall ^^
I think i hear similar voice like dagna
I did not know about Lavellan quest on the war table I never read the quests there xD I hope I didnt kill them
Wtf 😂
Just guessing here but the male reference only says the dalish leader. before that however it mentions the dalish hunters. it is possible that it was the leader of the hunters who was being referenced.
Good video, thanks! But I was hoping to hear Kieran's remarks about the Inquisitor (elf and qunari are quite special and different from their race)
i resently started a new playthrough of inquistion as a human mage and i didnt even know that the option for having a crush on a templar was a thing until i picked it and i had a little head cannon of the for me atleast thst this templar was nice and were friends with my inquistior that he ened up having a crush on the templar but was to shy one is that they didnt know how to aproach them per say and because of the stigma around mages and templars
wish i knew about the clan options BEFORE i used josephine's option...
What's the name of the song in the background? Great video btw!
Hey Ghil Dirthalen does Dragon Age have a Encyclopedia in book form I could buy? I really want to read one. I know Resident Evil and Halo have one for examples.
demonblade001 They have World of Thedas with 2 volumes, also there's an RPG book which explains some things. You can find them on Amazon.
My second playthrough I played the elf and I romanced Solas. Not knowing what I was doing, I got her clan killed. Then Solas bailed. Then later we find out he's the dread wolf and is going to destroy the world. My elf had the worst luck.
Why was there random Qunari on those pillars of stone with zero access to them.
Regarding the pronouns used for the leader of Clan Lavellan - it's entirely possible that the Keeper is genderfluid, of course - but also possible that Lieutenant Rozellene Chambreterre knows nothing about Dalish social structures. The Lieutenant is probably human (therefore Andrastian) and clearly is military. The circumstances by which they met Clan Lavellan were rather violent, so I suspect the clan's warleader was involved. If the warleader was male that explains the Lieutenant's report to Cullen. They might not have recognized a mage as being someone who would hold a leadership role and may have mistakenly identified the Lavellan warleader as the de facto leader of the entire clan.
i knew, the elves in DA are Gay, from the start...
I know this is old but where was the part about the mage Trevelyan's harrowing from. I can't find the source in game or on the internet as of yet.
If I'm remembering the correct part, a mage Trevelyan talks about their Harrowing during the card game with Varric and the rest of the party! :D
I have a burning question is orleasian french?
Yeah pretty much
In my first elf inky playthrough, I just send Cullen first in that stupid family mission! In my defense, I just thought going to an elven Clan in stealthy mode would be worse. I wanted to send some kind of official Inquisition diplomacy stuff. Hmmmmm, at least this mission was short...
is it me or is the human Inquisitor has the pettiest Quests ever😂 oh so if a Dorian and I are cousins. Imperial mage and Templar being related by blood must be awkward in family gatherings😅
Love the video my elf had a different name and couldn't math wat u said but I may have just missed something
Well sheesh shokrakar love you to
I think it would’ve been cool if for Human & Elf Inquisitor they’d be mage while Qunari Inquisitor would be called Saarebas rather than mage lol
I hate how the Dwarf heralds have to be from the carta. It just doesn’t feel right to me to have carta dwarves at a human/elven political meeting
I was under the impression that they were spying on the meeting and not actually invited, similar to the elven background.
I feel sorry for my Dalish Elf. After the DLC where’s does she or he go? The truth of the past puts you in a lonely position. Tell the truth who will listen? Don’t say anything and let everyone else live in a lie?
i would like the video if i had understood more than the parts at which you had to take a breathe...
Dorian and the Inquisitor Related after 300 something years... Mmmmhmmm No? That not how relations work.
I believe our Dalish Inquisitor, when she escaped the Fade in the beginning of the game, an ancient spirit entered her body when she awakes in the cell. (Like Cole)That's why she's not able to remember anything before the Fade and she's able to walk in the Fade. And when Morrigan son said " she has an ancient spirit" or something.... don't quote me.
don't diss merill
something else to not on the elven storyline if your warden was elven its the same clan they moved to the marches after the start of origins and if your warden is still alive a letter mentions them coming back to the clan to see what the keeper knows about the blight and find any romours of a cure to it weirdly enough if both of your chars also have a relationship with our spymaster a note at the bottom of that letter is added that states its weird that she has fallen in love with 2 of the same clan and cant explain why but she feels like they are connected and to love one is to love both or (all elves of the clan) only come across this once last time i played through the game and cant recall which letter it was on but its after you find out your warden left to look for the cure
The Dalish Inquisitor's clan and the Dalish Hero of Fereldan's clan are different. The Hero of Fereldan's clan is the same as Merril's, not the inquisitors. Inquisitors clan is Lavellen, Hero of Fereldan's is Sabrae
@@sveipr6516 i was wrong my bad noticed that after replaying the game
What about the fact that If your human you can ally both tiventer and nirvana
my inquisitor and his boyfriend are related 😳😳😳😳
Ummmm correction for the elf mage levellan their clan found other alternatives to the mage issue if you talk to mineave in haven in dai there is dialogue for it or it's with the female mage you find when you go take solas to the one fade elven artifact that you activate in the hinterlands I forget which one it is but I remember it from a recent replay I did
Poor Lavallen. Why do the devs hate the Dalish lol? Oh all your Gods are real, and they are all horrible, wretched slaving assholes except for the Dread Wolf who still doesn't see you as like, a person (and if he does see you as a person your still not one worth saving) and also we're gonna just casually let your whole clan die with basically no recognition and through out the game everyone going to be shitting on you hard core for being Dalish, EPSICALLY your elf friends. Oh and speaking of your Elf friends if you romance either of them they will absolutely both dump you Solas, no matter what and Sera if you don't renounce your Gods for her, which, yikes. =(
I think they wanted to whitewash Tevinter a bit and realized that having Dorian as a companion may not actually suffice.
Wait.....so if my male trevyllian and dorian are sort of related......uhhhh.....
Not to creep you out or anything BUT technically you can go back so far enough that every last human in the world is distantly related to you. A good chunk directly through your ancestors (especially if you're Asian or Greek or Roman).
This is whether you believe in religion or science or not. Both have an Adam and Eve that we as a species decend from.
Also Trees and Rocks yeah we can go so far back every last animal and most non-living things are cousins(by the billonth) too.
Is there acctually a kind of canon, which inquisitor/warden is "the right one"?
Warden - probably either a male human noble who romanced Morrigan or a female Dalish elf who romanced Alistair
Hawke - probably either a female rogue who romanced Anders or a male mage who romanced Isabela
Inquisitor - this is where it gets a little tricky, the game was designed for a human protagonist but their class is a bit hard, I’m willing to say either male warrior who romanced Cassandra or female rogue who romanced Cullen, you can bend the rules a bit to make it a female Dalish elf who romanced Solas though
@@yang6642 Thank you for your response! Is there an acctuall statement from Bioware to that? I can understand that the story wants Morrigan to get that child, but the rest sound rather arbitrary.
Leila Wink Many paragraphs incoming, just so you’re aware lol
BioWare haven’t stated anything about any of them but we can piece together each little detail by playing through each game, seeing which class makes the most sense, which romance seems to make the most sense etc.
For Origins I do believe that the proper canon Warden is the male human noble who romanced Morrigan because of the connection to Arl Howe and Nathaniel Howe in Awakening, Kieran being a human regardless of your Wardens race and the whole Witch Hunt dlc makes the most sense if the Warden was a man who romanced Morrigan.
For the female Dalish elf I thought that it would also work because you have the connection to the Eluvian from Witch Hunt, the romance with Alistair, hardening him, making him rule Fereldan with Anora and breaking up with him, whether it be by sparing Loghain or just putting him on the throne and watching him end the romance, I think it makes a great parallel to the novel ‘The Stolen Throne’ which tells the story of how Loghain met King Maric (Alistair’s father), how their friendship went and the drama that came along with it, near the end (at least I think it’s the end) Loghain actually hardens Maric by making him end his romance with Katriel, Maric’s elven lover, obviously it’s different because Katriel was a spy working for the Orlesian’s and Maric killed her and you know how Origins can go. It also mirrors the novel because in said novel Loghain is romantically involved with Rowan, who would later become Maric’s wife and King Cailan’s mother, Loghain actually breaks their romance off and tells her that she needs to become Maric’s queen for the good of Fereldan, which can mirror the female elf making Alistair marry Anora.
For DA2 the female rogue who romanced Anders works because Anders is the one companion in that game who doesn’t romance another companion, he’s attracted to Hawke right off the bat, after sleeping with him for the first time and asking him to move in he asks “would you tell the knight commander that you love an apostate and will stand beside him?” This question only makes proper sense if Hawke isn’t a mage, I feel like the warrior Hawke is more inclined to side with the Templar’s whereas the mage Hawke is more willing to side with the mages while the rogue Hawke is just stuck in the middle, which sums up Hawke pretty damn well in DA2’s story. The song ‘Mage Pride’ can apparently be seen as Anders’ theme song and it is sung from both Anders and Hawke’s perspectives, the pronouns are apparently female so it’s has Anders questioning why he and other mages are denied many rights and female Hawke is telling him that she loves him either way and that he should feel no shame for being who he is.
Male mage Hawke romancing Isabela can work because the brotherly relationship or rivalry with Carver is pretty good and Carver becomes a much better character if Hawke seeks out his approval and friendship and gives him to the Grey Wardens. Plus the male mage was the one shown the most in the trailers and Isabela’s romance is one of my favourites.
As for DAI, I think male warrior Trevelyan romancing Cassandra works as canon because Cassandra, Cullen and Solas don’t romance anyone else and Cassandra has the most plot significance to Inquisition’s story out of all the companions (the elven stuff isn’t the main focus of the story, sorry Solas).
Female rogue Trevalyan romancing Cullen also works because being the herald of Andraste seems to flow best as a woman imo because Andraste was also a woman and because of the matriarchal nature of the Chantry which the Inquisition is directly tied to.
Female Dalish elf romancing Solas may also work if we’re gonna bend the rules a bit here because of Solas’ major connection to the story and the whole tragedy of it, personally I think Solas’ friendship with a human is better but that’s just me.
@@yang6642 WOW! Thank you for that detailed explanation!! Really impressive how much knowledge has accumulated with you *o*~♫ Guess I have to replay everything get some own impressions on that :D AND influence my firends with that*____* Made my day!
Leila Wink You are very much welcome! Obviously BioWare want us to make our own personal canon’s for the story but certain bits just make much more sense than others, these were just a few conclusions that I came to after playing through each game multiple times and doing additional little bits of research and I think each one makes sense.
Oh I also I missed out another potential canon Warden for Origins: a male warrior Dwarf Noble, this origin gives you the biggest connection to Orzammar, it makes the final choice between who should rule Orzammar that much better and the dwarves are the ones who fight darkspawn the most so why not have one take on the archdemon?
Have fun influencing your friends with any findings you make in future playthrough’s!
I say the keeper is gender fluid.
I'm not a patron stop calling me that. It OFFENDS ME.
Jkjkjk
she is female but is manily just called keeper so a dev most likely stuffed up the gender or maybe she is bi its never stated if she likes males or females but she does seem unique in most talks you have with her in origins and DA2
Wait wAit wait hold up. Shale is a she?!
Yup, it’s brought up multiple times in Origins’ party banter, plus in a conversation between Shale and the Warden.
Jacob Reynolds here I thought he was just a fabulous male golem. Hmm don’t think I ever experience that conversation entry. Well than guess she’s a fabulous lady than, who would’ve thought. :)