#da chalking it up to Magic usually works… but in this case my multiethnic brain is imploding

[tahopo]

it's ga/ders creation but ga/der lead wrote da2 and feynriel is very visibly elven, textually excluded by humans, it's really just to make alistair "reveal" stick and it's not even necessary!!!!

From what I’ve understood feynriel was just a design oversight on bioware’s part. I do dig it though. unless they’re gonna add some sort of lore explanation in future releases like datv, and they commit to what phenotypes are so uniquely elven (almost every game this changes. in datv it seeeems ? they’re going back to just humans with pointy ears) ill keep believing it’s more an axiom than a rule. i DO like the recessivity thing and all it brings, I can’t say it’s unnecessary so-to-speak (i think it was important that fiona understood alistair was going to appear human and therefore trusted maric to take care of him under that benefit, from which fiona herself never could. epic fail.). I just believe in addition there’s slim capacity for variance and unpredictability.

The half-elf plot twist isn’t really hitting it any more. and im not interested in another michel de chevin.