#also briala is treated by narration better than adrian

[niofo]

actually fun fact, but asunder was one of the last da books i read, it was long after playing inquisition, reading wot and some 150k into a fic, where i had a very different vision of what actually happened there. my bad i guess, i should first get familiar with all the media about my special interest before starting to write, but to my defense, in 2019 it was just supposed to be a short side project without that much depth. anyway, you can imagine my surprise when i read asunder finally and learned how it actually looked like... not just the mage rebellion (not started by anders, but by a vote organized by fiona, and the templars started murdering long before that), but also cassandra's whole personal quest makes no sense, my circle mage inquisitor and also literal first enchanter vivienne should be well aware that tranquility can be reversed thanks to shale.

i'm still not sure how i'm going to handle this in the fic, i think i'll just retcon it so it aligns with how it happens in the games (bcos i have cass' quest already written), but man it's just frustrating. why even publish this additional sources (books, comics etc) if you're going to mess with it/ lie about it anyway? asunder is my least favorite da book not just bcos i hate rhys and evangeline, but it's just overall so frustrating. and i expected to actually like it, bcos i like mage stuff and cole.