#its just a macguffin for an ending that isnt even Correct by the games standards

[greywardenmonkey]

so its just me who remembers the marketing for this game completely contradicting its actual narrative. "it takes the wrong sort to make things right" and yet we are ACTUALLY looking for the Right sort. hm.

varric chooses rook because he witnesses One(1) act of altruism and assumes this guy is naturally good and will be the perfect leader to help stop his super powerful mage friend? not the inquisitor who now has an abundance of free time to dedicate to fixing the mess that started with them instead of just saying "whelp. i tried. someone else take over now"? varric being misguided in his choice of hero is possible with hawke(who they have desperately tried to recreate) but its unrealistic for rook?

solas sends his agents away(which he wouldnt do if he did not care for them one would assume, based on solas' character) and then in the AMA epler says solas did not care about his followers. creative director says that. he also says elves go bald from stress and elgarnan wears a wig. we're all listening to a story written by this guy? you gotta be joking.

rook never gets the opportunity to be the type of hero who maybe isnt always nice? i personally like my dragon age protags to be morally grey. even antagonistic sometimes. rook is no protagonist of mine. take away the dialogue wheels and nothing about the game would change in any meaningful way.

i was dissatisfied with how this story was handled. plain and simple. none of the excuses provided in game were enough for me. the characters were boring. the factions were boring. the only somewhat fun endings are the "bad" ones where you bind solas to the fade or get bound with him, and the game explicitly tells you you didnt play the game right if you get those endings. this game sucked, dude. im a dissatisfied customer.

"we need a team solas doesnt know about to defeat him" are you thick. solas is quite literally the most powerful mage on the planet right now with agents in every corner of thedas you think he doesnt know everything about everybody. using the inquisitor would have been the only right move because it would have been full scale emotional warfare