[ SECRET POST #2974 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2974 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I tend to think a lot of the more problematic aspects of Anders' writing could have been easily mitigated if BW had done three simple things.

1. Made Anders' change from Awakening to DA2 more gradual- the groundwork for DA2 Anders was always there, but they skipped over all of the character development that would have smoothed the transition.
2. Treated Anders' "mental illness" with respect rather than making him and his cause a punchline.
3. Made Kirkwall's bloody past part of the story rather than burying it in the codex. Instead of Anders just being crazy and fanatical ~because~ (and Meredith being crazy and fanatical because ~red lyrium~), the fact of the thin Veil would present a lore-friendly reason for why things are so much more terrible in Kirkwall, and how that extra terribleness forced two borderline individuals past their limits.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree completely!

They could have set up the transition so nicely. Act 1 has Anders a little more snarky. Maybe he could have talked more about his adventures with the Wardens, or his life in the Circle, like in DAA. Act 2 he's the Anders we got in DA2, fully invested in the cause. Act 3 he's clearly going off the rails, seeing conspiracies everywhere and losing time to Justice.

And he really is a punchline in DA2. Varric is always nice to him, but even Varric is constantly blowing him off whenever Anders tries to talk about his work. Fenris is the only companion to actually engage with Anders on his cause, to everyone else it's just a joke. It's implied he's smuggling mages out of the gallows, and that tons of harrowed mages are being made tranquil and some are being raped, but that's all in background NPC dialogue and shit that's never made explicit in the main story.

The Kirkwall blood engine really should have made it into more than a difficult-to-complete set of codex entries, too.