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mabaris · 6 months ago

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alright so now that we’ve gotten some actual crumbs, it feels like it’s a good time to lay out my prediction for what da4 is going to look like. writing this in a letter and mailing it to myself

we are part of an underground organization formed from the ruins of the inquisition to stop solas from ending the world

meanwhile the wardens have been researching the blight/the location of the archdemons and discover some secret about the location of the black city/what is actually contained in it

we’re supposed to be shocked at the reveal that the evanuris are trapped in the black city and the maker doesn’t exist

the ancient elves were in control of some crazy mutating technology (like in hormak) and that was the original source of the darkspawn. the whole thing about them being from the deep roads and a dwarf concern was actually just a red herring, they’re just underground because they’re powered by lyrium and this has ALSO been an elf thing the whole time :)

anyway, now we need to Double Make Sure the veil stays up because the evanuris have something even worse cooking up in the black city and we need to prevent them from unleashing a super blight and destroying all life, and our job is to convince solas to give up, not because we disagree with his plan but because his actions will have unintended consequences. even if he doesn’t care about everyone else and wants to rebuild the world, he won’t even be able to do THAT because the super blight will kill elves too. so although we WERE enemies we will have to band together to defeat the greater threat etc. it will be optional to recruit him as an ally/advisor, or you can just fight him directly and take control of his forces

we will have to cross into the fade AGAIN and storm the black city directly to put a stop to whatever’s going on in there

#i feel fairly confident about this but i hope i’m wrong honestly.#i’m a little disappointed that it’s probably going to turn out to be ‘elves are the most important people and also the cause of everything #and their lore is the Correct one’#i hope to god that they give you the option to fight him and don’t just force you to make nice for no reason lol #ESPECIALLY if this is a new protagonist with no history with him #it’s pretty much the same formula as inquisition and origins. two-step problem where the thing we initially set out to fix turns out to be #the least of our problems and we’ll need to put aside our differences for the greater good #it will probably also come out that the tevinter gods are also an elf thing. like how flemythal can turn into a dragon #and then the archdemons were the original hormak style experiment. or something #and we won’t have an explanation for the maker bc that’s just humans being silly. but see everything has a neat scientific explanation :)#or maybe the maker is like. elgarnan in disguise lmal #i am perhaps being a little ungenerous but also. i feeel in my gut that this is what they’re planning #mine #dragon age #da4 #ghilannain feels like a possible candidate bc of the lore abt how she created halla. but there was that trailer with a mans voice #so it will probably be elgarnan because he’s the head of the pantheon especially now that mythal is gone #GOD i hope that comes up #they’re pulling so much from trespasser. a dlc that wasn’t even the main game and lots of people may not have played #they’d better reference the stinger ending of the actual game and give some resolution to that #maybe it’s going to be like. solas’s plan to take care of the evanuris when the veil comes down is to just absorb them #but we need to convince him that they’ve had time to set other contingencies up so even that won’t stop whatever they’ve started

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