Hey! Hope you don't mind, I was working on something else and thought you would like this bit of Cole dialogue for your templar/dwarf/grey wardens thoughts
Cole: I like traveling with Dwarves.
Varric: Glad to hear it, Kid.
Cole: You're quiet, but the old song still echoes inside, almost like Templars.
Also I missed some lines for a dwarf Inquisitor when asking Cole about templars:
Inquisitor: Can you tell me more about how the templars feel to you?
Cole: They feel older than they look. They've been changed, and their bodies are incomplete now. The lyrium helps, but their bodies always want to connect to... something older. Bigger than they are. That's why they block magic. They reach for that other thing, and magic has no room to come in.
Cole: Varric feels like that. So do you, except your mark pulls you up.
Inquisitor: Can you tell me more about how the red templars are different?
Cole: The red lyrium is different, darker. Daggers under the skin. It eats you inside until you're nothing. They hear a different song. The song behind the door old whispers want opened. They are dead and dark and done.
I think the red templars have a lot closer connection to grey wardens and blue lyrium templars are closer to dwarves which is interesting. Thought these might be something you'd like, hope its not a bother!
I love talking about dragon age and dwarves so this is the opposite of a bother <3 thank youuuuu
But uuuuuhhmmmm that dwarves are more quiet to Cole it's very interesting... does that mean he feels their pain less or it's harder to connect with them? And it's fun to see that he finds that to be more peaceful kinda deal...
Honestly crazy that they do all this and they don't give us a relevant templar dwarf to talk about all this stuff... it's so interesting. I know there is one in some book I think? But I would had liked them in the main game... I don't know if they talk about difference lyrium experiences or something.
That "blue" templars feel the lost connection to the titans is crazy to me aaaaah but yeah I agree the red templars have a closer connection to the wardens/darkspawn and the blue lyrium templars are more to the dwarves/titans and I'm pretty sure probably they all hear the same song for wardens/red templars and a different one for "blue" templars/dwarves affected by lyrium and in general the lyrium song vs the blight song if you get me.