#and there's just a lot of american gaze in the way bioware writes it

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cailan wanting to invite orlesian soldiers to ferelden again never stops to baffle me, i'm not sure if it was meant to be an intentional character flaw, or just bioware leads being mostly white canadians not entirely understanding the context. my country was occupied for a long time and while i personally don't remember it, it's still a big part of my culture/history. and while i get that some ppl in next generations might not hate the country that occupied them, or think it's a history and ppl living there now are not responsible for their parents' actions - you would still be aware why other ppl would not want them here, you would still understand why this would be a problem, right?? cailan is a king, he might personally think that celene is fine now (conveniently ignoring gaspard), but he should be aware of most fereldens hating orlais, thats kinda in the job description, he needs to balance what he personally think is right with what his ppl are letting him do. like how ignorant he is to talk about orlesians in front of loghain of all ppl. so i just don't know if he was intentionally meant to be so short-sighted, or the writers just didn't understand what a horribly bad idea it was. same with the alienage situation, is cailan a bad king who just missed the fact that his ppl are violently raiding and abusing the elves, or he is a racist who knows it and did nothing, or just the writers forgot about it being quite a big deal.