#we love a good ol fashioned religious cult in this house - os trev

[transpathfinder]

@honeybee592 ooh i like this. i’d say they deliberately started to cultivate their worship AFTER seeing their worship? since they didn’t want to be the Herald in the beginning, it can’t be from the start. i’d say prob sometime after Haven is when it hits them that wow there are people who feverishly believe in them as this messianic and divine figure and they start to not deny that because there are benefits to being seen as such. the mindnumbing power they hold starts to trickle in

and especially after the Fade quest, iirc you have the chance to reveal the truth but the propaganda team does not reveal who was the mysterious figure who helped them so everyone outside of the tightest crew thinks Trev is legit blessed by Andraste herself. i’d say another factor is also making contact with the Blades of Hessarian and recruiting them in, whose ranks and fever pitch about the Herald grows and grows. people really REALLY love them and the cult forms and all through it all it is never denied or put a stop to, but actually allowed to florish by Josie and Leliana. it’s an indirect protection too since no one can easily attack them cos they’d face wrathful followers instantly so cultivating their feelings indirectly is the constant Trev mood