Round #1 — Match 72 of 104
Saemus Dumar
“i’m obsessed with how everyone calls it a “kidnapping” in act 1 and then it’s like… no, he chose to be there. he chose to listen. he chose to talk to the qunari like they were people. and the city can’t process that, so it turns into scandal and fear and “someone must be manipulating him.” kirkwall can’t stand the idea that he might have agency.”
vs. Viscount Marlowe Dumar
“i have a soft spot for dumar because he’s basically stuck running a city that’s allergic to peace. qunari crisis, chantry politics, templar power grabs, nobility being the nobility… and he’s in the middle like “can everyone stop making me manage their apocalypse”. also his relationship with saemus is messy and human and it makes his scenes hurt more.”
“marlowe dumar is such an underrated tragedy of da2. he’s a politician, sure, but he reads like a guy who genuinely wants kirkwall to be stable and keeps getting outflanked by people with sharper knives and less conscience. the saemus situation alone is brutal: he’s trying to keep his son safe, the city turns it into scandal, and then it ends in the kind of senseless violence that kirkwall specializes in. by the time the qunari finally move, he feels exhausted in that “i’ve been losing control for years and now it’s obvious” way, and then the arishok makes a point out of killing him.”
Who should advance?
Saemus Dumar
Marlowe Dumar
