[ SECRET POST #3531 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3531 ⌋

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[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

The game opens with a war in progress between mages and templars (in context, templars are warriors who are trained to hunt, fight and guard mages). The Divine - the pope-analogue of DA's pseudo-Christian religion - called a summit to try end the war, but said summit gets destroyed and a rip in reality is torn open letting demons pour into the physical world from the Fade (spirit world).

The Player Character is the only person who survives the disaster, and gets lauded as the "Herald of Andraste" (Andraste being a cross between Joan of Arc, Jesus Christ and Mother Mary). They get pushed into leading the Inquisition, a religious-military organization that ostensibly belongs to the CHantry (the aforementioned pseudo-Christian religion).

I would also add that it doesn't help that the expert on Elven history that ends up part of the team - Solas - is also critical of Dalish beliefs, but he is critical because the Elven gods were far meaner than the Dalish believe them to be.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, interesting worldbuilding... I have an earlier dragon age game sitting on my computer that I've never gotten around to playing, this thread is making me pretty curious about it.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

If it's Origins you have, I heartily encourage you to go ahead and play it - it's a great game, and you would get a solid grounding in the world-building, especially if you read through some of the codexes you collect along the way.

I have not actually ever got around to playing DA2, but I have heard a lot of people really think it's nowhere near as good, but it does go into establishing a fair bit of why the Mage/Templar War happened, given that one of the big themes in the game is how the templars abuse and mistreat mages. (Mage are dangerous in DA - they are at risk of being possessed by demons.) Also the Big Bad of Inquisition is the Boss battle of a DA2 DLC adventure.

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[(Anonymous)]

As a point of disagreement, Origins is conventionally grimdark in a way Inquisition very much isn't. I hated Origins, so I wasn't interested in Inquisition until I read a rant about how Dragon Age had been "sanitized" and turned into "generic high fantasy" because Inquisition cut out all the rape and added more black people.

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[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I guess the grimdark was new to me because I don't really play a lot of games, and the three significant RPGs in my past prior to DA were not grimdark (well FF7 was a little bit that way, but not much).

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[(Anonymous)]

They really took a lot of inspiration from ASoIaF in Origins so that's one of the main reasons for the grimdark things there.