#I was talking to my friend laureljupiter too it wasn't supposed to be a wide-net kind of meta

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I got frustrated cause people didn’t like it when I talked about how large details of Inquisition’s characters were molded around the fact that Solas was in that game. Like they didn’t like the merest thought that most characters (even in part) worked as a foil. If you just simply watch the Making Of Inquisition Characters recap video they made, they just openly talk about how they started out with 3 for-sure characters (Varric, Cass, and Solas (and Cass and Varric were there as familiar faces/returning characters from DA2, so Solas was the first New Character they came up with)) and THEN invented the rest of the 6 characters to contrast and suit what they already had, and the larger story they had in mind about the “Old Wolf”. That’s how it happened. They knew what the plot and major movers and shakers were, and the other characters were given certain details to match or contrast for thematic reasons, it’s not a value judgment or me making stuff up to make my fave seem important, it’s just facts about how they wrote it