Ameridan’s voice: I prepare now for my final battle against this dragon of the Avvar. All is in place. I offer thanks to Ghilan’nain, Hall-Mother, and to Andraste, Maker-Brode. As you were raised up from mortal men to stand with our Creators, our Maker, so raise me up now to defend this world. Cassandra: Inquisitor Ameridan, who helped bring the Inquisition into the Chantry, built a shrine for the Maker and the elven gods. Cole: “They’re not so different, Drakon. Just another pair of boots to walk the same road.” He doesn’t see, wants it simple, but I can help him get there. There’s room for both.
Imagine if instead of a Plot Twist™ revealing Ameridan believed in both the Creators and Andrastianism/a callback to Cassandra’s bullshit question asking Lavellan why they can’t just worship both the Elven Pantheon and the Maker, we were told an inspiring story of how Ameridan resisted assimilation, even in the face of Emperor Drakon, the man who spread Andrastianism with vicious military force and made the Chantry the powerful organization it is now? Imagine if instead of presenting assimilation as a groundbreaking solution to bigotry, that instead of Ameridan wanting to prove to Drakon elves deserve to live because they too can be Andrastian, we were told Ameridan stood his ground and wanted Drakon to see he should respect peoples differences in beliefs, rather than killing those who don’t worship the Maker? In fact, imagine instead of presenting Ameridan as best friends with a bloodthirsty zealot conqueror, he told Kordillus Drakon to shove his axe up his ass?
