I love how Howe is like. Just some guy who works for Loghain if you play most routes.
Like if you're a Cousland, absolutely fuck that guy he killed your family, etc etc. But if you're an Amell or a Surana in particular (who are more isolated from regular Fereldan politics in my brain, but I suppose that depends on how you imagine the Circle and how interested in politics your character is) you might have zero idea about who this tool is other than "he's the acting arl of Denerim and he works for the dude who's tried to kill us a few times". Which admittedly is a perfectly valid reason to dislike him, and that is added to once you see the torture stuff while rescuing Anora, but like. At this point you've fought so many people and dealt with so many nobles and you've got the landsmeet looming over your head quite imminently, not to mention the Archdemon. So it's very plausible that your non-Cousland Warden can just kinda forget about him in all but the vaguest sense.
And then Nathaniel breaks into your new castle (his old castle so it stings more for him) to kill you but you barely remember killing his dad in the first place so you're just like oh. Sorry bout that. Wanna join my blood club?
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having heard the spoilers regarding the history of the Blight made me think back to a conversation in INQUSITION. Spoilers and spoiler-talk below the cut.
Specifically thinking of a convo between the egg and Blackwall in Inquisition. One of those "Solas knows something but the truth's so bad he's going to play dumb" conversations.
Solas: The Wardens see themselves as the world's defense against the Blight, do they not?
Blackwall: Yes...why do you sound so skeptical? Doesn't everyone know this?
Solas: When an Archdemon rises, they slay it. What will they do when all the Archdemons are slain?
Blackwall: Retire?
Solas: Without Archdemons, there can be no Blights. Is that the reasoning?
Blackwall: Right. Where are you going with this?
Solas: Nowhere. I hope they are correct.
Solas knows good and damned well that the blight precedes the "Old Gods" whispering to the seven Tevinter magisters. Solas KNOWS that the Blight preceded the archdemons. Meanwhile Blackwall is just on the back foot desperately trying not to get found out as a fraud (especially in front of the Inquisitor <3) having NO idea what Solas is talking about.
The egg was out here TEN-PLUS YEARS AGO warning us that no, killing the seventh Archdemon isn't going to stop the Blight. Because that's not how it started.
Then, later, he's apoplectic about the idea of Wardens preemptively seeking out the Archdemons and killing them first.
Solas: To seek out these Old Gods deliberately in some bizarre attempt to pre-empt the blight..."
The Inquisitor will make a joke about the army of demons, but Solas is steamed.
Solas: Even if they could succeed, the entire idea is wrong. The blight is not something one smugly outsmarts.
Because he knows good and damn well what the Blight is, and he knows good and damn well who started it. We see Ghilan'nain wielding the blight as part of her planned ascencion towards Godhood.
But he can't tell anyone lest he tip his hand.
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Last night I got tipsy and had this beautiful delusion that we’ll be playing Veilguard, Davrin tells you he knows a guy that can help us with the Blight and then suddenly another character creator pops up and we get to see the Hero of Ferelden. Again, a beautiful delusion but can you imagine how longtime fans would combust
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I love the WoT fandom collectively apologizing for taking a break from WoT content to post the WoT Plagiarism Video Game content
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