DA Lore Whore

What are you doing, Solas?

I wish there were more variables in dialogue/quests with Bull so that he would make that decision on his own. In the quest, the Inquisitor tells him to save the chargers or sacrifice them.

Later, in dialogue with Solas, he says "You are a man who made a choice... Possibly the first of your life."

But it still feels like he does it because he's given permission, because he's told to. I just want Bull to make the choice on his own. To take the action for himself and separate himself from the restraints of the Qun -- which is following orders blindly.

Cullen’s addiction gets handled in a really similar way, where you basically tell him to get addicted to lyrium or tell him to get sober and he just does it, regardless of your relationship with him or previous interactions.

Bull is particularly egregious though, and it feels like his whole storyline is underdeveloped, which sucks because he is such a fun character. The first time I played Inquisition I thought that I had missed a quest because Demands of the Qun doesn’t really have consequences if you don’t play Trespasser.

Say what you will about Baldur’s Gate’s companions, but having the likelihood of them listening to you based on your relationship with them does add necessary stakes to their quest lines.

And we know it can be done. It happens for Leliana's soften/harden actions with whether you let her execute the spy, etc and that controls her actions for her personal quest in Valence.

My hc theory on why Leliana is half dwarf.

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1 - Her mom was a servant to an Orlesian noble, and dwarven servants are common in Orlais. Nobles: Don’t be an idiot. How could the Herald of Andraste be a dwarf? Nobles: Maybe it’s just a servant.

The comments Orlesian nobles make towards a dwarf inquisitor in the Winter Palace. 2 - As it's seen in the mission In Hushed Whispers, Leliana has a very strong resistance to the Blight sickness. Dwarves are naturally resistant to the Blight sickness due to their constant proximity to the darkspawn. And in another example, the dwarves of Kal'Sharok have adapted and "become inmune" to the blight disease, similarly to Grey Wardens. So it'd make sense if she had inherited this same resistance from her mom.

For MOST of the game Solas is rather vicious with Rook, and with reason if you take a look at his character:

You can have him warm up to you as you contineau playing the game, or make him stay the same condescending, mocker - with regards in how he racts to Rook. Rook literally did the one thing he hated most; Acted in ignorance and it nearly cost him and the entire world everything. All he sacrificed, all he betrayed and hurt rendered into NOTHING because of Rook interupting what they didnt understand and ignorantly putting themselves into his ritual.

Its why if you zoom in on his face when the Evanuris escaped, you see him cry. Everything he did: made pointless. He's crying cause he just killed Varric, he killed Mythal, he killed Fellassan, he sacrificed a host of spirits, he betrayed and abandonned his only love, and left all the friends he made in INQ behind. Im not suprised Solas was so vicious to Rook.

I just cannot even express how much that gets to me. Knowing what we do about Orzammar and the way the kingdom operates from Origins, the Shaperate aren't so much an archive as they are a tool for the ruling class.

Orzammar changes their history to fit a politically convenient image all the time, and they do so in the blood of the titans, the origin of their entire people.

Entire houses, entire components of history, people and paragons have been struck from the records in an instant, only to have their existence rewritten and reworked to fit the agenda of whoever is on the throne.