Yeah playing dai was really frustrating despite all the cool new lore because you just. Can't denounce the chantry in any way OR the templars and you cant even support the mages as much as u could in da2. I enjoyed how there were lots of continued threads from the previous games but 😐 and not to mention even when hawke supported anders they still kind of demonish him which is...weird. probably the best part of the game was getting to see the cultures which were previously introduced finally like orlais and then all the new elf/magic lore. but I really couldnt stand how it stuffed you into one box. im sure this has been discussed for ages and im just cautiously hopeful that da4 will have nuance wrt solas and the new crisis but.......i dont have much faith in the writers
yeah i was SO happy to play a dalish again, but then its like.... if you dont play your cards right you can get your clan wiped out.... nobody says a word... and theyre so.... proper?? (every inquisitor has the same personality??) such a huge step backwards from the warden. you cant be proud to be dalish, (or Quanri, or a Dwarf) like you get disapproval from everyone??!!
theres a templar banner outside the quarters, there’s reminders of the people who colonizes your people everywhere, even the damn war table (the tree was torn down after the war between humans and elves and you gotta use it every time you gather to talk to your people about the missions). and like 2 of the advisors are cool but then you got cullen whose like talking about a “dalish queen” or some shit and fetishes your people... and is racist against all other races in thedas. but then again most humans are. (blackwall, my main main, gets his prejudices pointed out and hes like oh shit you right)
and yeah bioware / the game REALLY hate elven mages, which is probably why they created solas in the first place. i mean in da2 we had merrill, who was an angel, OH but blood mage, ohh so EVIL. and she wanted to preserve her people, wanted to save her people, DOUBLE EVIL. make her autistic coded? TRIPLE EVIL. even though they (humans) are obsessed with their own gods, their history, their past, but oh thats okay, but because its elves, its fictional, its “crazy”, its make believe. it doesn’t exist. and they MUST shut it down, kill it, wipe it out (genocide) and thats what they must do again. (which is why theres a part of me that hopes some of solas’ plans works. i want the elves to have their culture, i dont want them to continue to suffer. i don’t want them to die, i dont want thedas to die, but clearly, genocide of a culture is not the answer. This shit has been going on a thousand years, ENOUGH. the chantry, the templars, the circles, should NOT exist)
its just really horrible what the non human inquisitors go through during inquisition. always surrounded by humans, having to listen to human bullshit. even though they have companions that are of their own race, its like theyre disconnected from it too, and they don’t talk about the struggle of it. Varric is like, nah, im cool. i grew up this way. but hes cool with the chantry? even after everything hes been with in Kirkwall????
just imagining what could have been different if they put more nuance into it like they did with origins....... sigh. what i would have given tell the chantry to stfu and gtfo
sorry i didnt mean to type a novel lol nothing about inquisition makes any sense what so ever
