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tearlessrain · 11 days ago

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I mean years ago I really hoped that we might get some coherent dalish lore in this game that actually treated them with some measure of respect, and I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt that maybe people were right and the weird handling of their culture and beliefs thus far was a setup that would pay off when the veil crumbles and shit goes down and we see more of both the dalish and tevinter, and then we'd get some cool deconstruction of both the dalish gods AND the maker/andraste.

but that was years ago and by roughly the third time they re-announced the game I was starting to suspect that development had passed out of the hands of anyone who would give a shit about lore and setting and story payoff long ago.

and based on what people are saying so far it looks like that's true.

#look I know plenty of people would disagree with me on this but the dalish have always gotten shafted in these games #with how their beliefs and gods are presented and treated by the narrative and non-dalish characters #which again would be completely fine if it was going somewhere #but yeah no it looks like the writers just genuinely always felt like the dalish religion was kinda bullshit compared to the andrastians #and weren't actually planning anything #WHICH IS WHAT I SAID YEARS AGO #AND EVERYONE WAS LIKE 'NO THEY'RE TOTALLY PLANNING SOMETHING THIS IS ALL INTENTIONALLY MISLEADING'#'IT'S ALL GONNA LEAD TO A PLOT TWIST WHERE THEY'LL DECONSTRUCT ANDRASTE/THE MAKER THE SAME WAY'#it wasn't #not a great look considering this is now yet another video game series #that completely fumbled its awkwardly indigenous-coded fantasy people and couldn't be bothered to ever fix it #because they were never really important outside of being a foil for the christian-coded main characters/storyline #(yes I know there are many other cultural influences going on with the dalish)#(but my god did they lean hard into that 'naive noble savage' trope when it suited them especially in DAI)

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