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imagine being someone who worked half their life to finally join the elite mourn watch and you get there and there’s this ten year old ingellvar and you’re like what’s with the ten year old and everyone’s like “that’s our crypt baby :)” and you’re like “your what” and they’re like “please be respectful they’re part of our team. also the undead will try to kill you if you’re not. because they’re also their crypt baby”

To say nothing of how the Necropolis will react

ok fine ill say it. i think anthropomorphizing the titans by giving them faces did their story a disservice. and frankly was kind of stupid. the titans in the descent are so otherwordly. they are unlike anything we have ever seen in all of thedas. their tragedy and solas + mythal's cruelty towards them was far more powerful when their sentience and "humanity" was unrecognizable. mythal calls them "monsters" but modern thedas sees spirits the same way. solas spends inquisition arguing for the same humanity and value of spirits lives that he denied the titans and the dwarves when he tranquilized them. we as the players should have been asked to extend our empathy to these beings even if we could not recognize ourselves in them or else find ourselves reflected in solas and mythal's cruelty instead.

"the elves needed a win so we made them a monolith by erasing city elves from the narrative so that only the dalish matter & also had them embrace the Ultimate Truth of their deities being evil mages so that none of them are swayed because certainly nobody would want to follow an evil person" is not the good idea these execs thought it was

Man, my favorite thing about Gideon's narrative voice reappearing in Harrow the Ninth is how aggressively contemporary she is, because everyone else in this necromantic space opera is fully committed to the bit and Gideon's "shut up about your stupid bones and get laid" mentality is a relief. Harrow is out here like "I actively performed a lobotomy on myself and have spent the last nine months bleeding out my facial orifices whenever somebody says your name because I manually removed you from my memory to save your life. this is normal and cool." And then Gideon finally gets to show up and go "hey, you get that's messed up right? you see this right?" and it's so. incredibly validating as a reader because everyone else treats this like normal and expected behavior.