Are we going to talk about how scary being the Inquisitor is for a Lavellan or�
I mean, the more and more I have played this game, the more the Chantry shit is terrifying. Over and over again, you see painful and irrefutable evidence about the shit humans did to elves in the name of the Maker. The Exalted Plains is an obvious example.Ā (I consistently call it Dirthavaren you donāt like it fight me bitch)Ā
Like I think the entire fandom can agree on fuck that bitch sister Amity. The Chantry crusades destroyed what was left of the elves, destroyed them. Culture, body and spirit. Like be honest, there arenāt many Dalish clans left and each time a new game/book comes around, another one bites the dust. Itās so easy to lose your clan in Inquisiton and even easier to accidentally kill off Marethariās. Hell, you can choose to kill Zathrianās.Ā
The Dalish are dying out, any way you slice it.
Then suddenly a hole rips open in the sky and everybody thinks Lavellan did it. It destroys the Conclaveā¦donāt tell me for one second that the humans didnāt immediately start developing an āelves and vengeance and antiMakerā conspiracy theory. The āremain silentā dialogue option in that first interaction isnāt a stoic āI donāt give a fuckā to me, itās more of a āwhatever I say doesnāt matter Iām already deadā for a Dalish Inquisitor.Ā
The true horror is knowing that they wont just kill you, theyāll call for a bloodbath on elves across Thedas.
āFor the elves were guilty of the greatest sin, of turning from the Maker.ā
Youāve damned them all and you canāt even remember how or why. For a First, it must be terrifying to realize even if you try to diplomatically talk your way out of it, theyāll never believe you. As a hunter or warrior, you know itās hopeless. All you can do is throw yourself forward as the villain, claim that whatever happens you acted alone and take as many of these shems out with you as you can.Ā As a mage you know if they take pity on you, youāre condemned to their mage-slavery prisons.
āWhatever you think I did, Iām innocent!ā
But then they believe you (barely, like thank the Creators the Lavellan clan taught you how to talk to humans civilly and not panic) but itās basically a hostage situation. Thereās one other elf with you and even if heās not Dalish thank Mythal because shit you were scared and youāre still scared but at least itās something. His name is āPrideā. You take it as a sign from the Creators that itās not time to give up yet. Suledin, you think.
There is an orb, a weapon that caused this. Solas tells you itās elven and your heart sinks.
āEventually, the humans will find a way to blame elvesā¦ā
You become Inquisitor and things are a little better but the humans call you Herald of Andraste. You donāt believe in their Maker but none of them care. You know your clan would feel betrayed, think youāve given up your gods. You havenāt of course but the terror is thereā¦what if the gods think youāve given up them? You talk to Cassandra and Leliana, trying to understand the human chantry and maybe figure out a way for your two beliefs to coexist.Ā
Ā But no.
You realize it wont help. Cassandra talks about spreading the Makerās word to all corners of Thedasā¦you remember the lonely howls of the wolves across Dirthavaren. You know what āspreading the Makers wordā means. Leliana at least acknowledges what the Chantry did, but she dismisses it with words. All those lives and hopes and dreams dismissed with the words āthat hate wonāt just go away if you dissolve the Chantryā. You understand what she really means, though.Ā
Sheās saying that the hate will never go away, not until the elves are just like humans. The Chantry will never stop.Ā She says she wants elves to be part of the chantry so they survive and you try not to taste bile in the back of your throat when you think of what that means.
āMy father says humans are like weeds that choke out the grassā¦āā
Slowly, slowly, slowlyā¦they consume you.














