God, that was annoying. But then discovering you could cheese it with magic missile taking off like four of her stacks at once was a huge relief.
Skill issue. I beat her on my first try with my unmodded, max-level, Oath of Vengeance Dark Urge Paladin. Just knock her down and continuously stun her and she'll go down.
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Every single one of those places uses the same broad solution that the Chantry does - kill or exile every mage they even suspect is losing control. They're just less organized or consistent as to how they go about it. Even the Dalish do that... just ask Merrill.
The Orlesian Chantry in Hawke's lifetime was run by Divine Justinia V, the same woman who sponsored a research project to find a way to cure the Tranquil - a cure research destroyed by extremist templars when they defied Chantry supervision at the start of the mage rebellion post DA2.
The fuck? The Tevinter magocracy was already in full depraved swing before the fall of Arlathan, let alone the founding of Orlais. The Magisters were breaching the Black City and accidentally the Blights over 300 years before there was even an Orlesian nationality. Orlais was founded by anti-Tevinter rebels.
It still tweaks me that the Netherbrain was a willing Subslut for The Original Dark Urge. Like, she would have let him keep her enslaved.
That's why I said "backslid". The post-Andraste Tevinter was reformed, and didn't schism from the rest of the faith until after Orlais attempted to use the Chantry to enslave the ruling class.
You had clans willing to accept a half-elf human just because he was a dreamer, that's how much the Dalish in general valued mages, even having large gatherings where the clans would accept mages from other clans to be trained as leaders.
Notice how I didn't mention Tevinter as part of the pre-Andrastian cultures that can handle mages without devolving into inhumane tyranny in either direction? It wasn't an incident.
The Inquisition & the Seekers predate the Templars, but they are part of the founding of the Chantry. Ameridan was the first Inquisitor, and a personal friend of Kordillus Drakon.
The same Chantry who denied mage assistance in the middle of a Blight, in order to force Ferelden to allow Orlaid to occupy them again, like they did to Nevarra during the previous Blight.
The Chantry uses Circles to suppress the strategic assets of foreign countries known as "mages", keeping the ones they employ directly happier than the ones in foreign countries when the instability is the point, is only normal.
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You already covered this earlier:
What?! What the fuck?! Is it some 'amoral psycho drawn to another amoral psycho' thing?
You already covered this earlier:
Fully undisguised, arms crossed, lip sticking out in a full pout. And all her feathers out of place.
If it happens to her twice now, she's definitely pouting!
So it is! That's just unfortunate.
The post-Andraste Tevinter still had mages held as superior to nonmages, still had widespread slavery, and still had legalized blood magic. The only way in which they were 'reformed' was in their own propaganda.
Okay, at this point its just getting absurd. You started out at 'the Chantry treats mages the worst!' and now its 'okay maybe mages do average better under the Chantry but that's still awful because politics!'
First off, every elf on Thedas not named 'Solas' is actually part human and they just don't acknowledge it, and second off that's the same game where we see the Keeper secretly go abomination and exile Merrill... who also suffers lynch mob attacks from her own clan unless Hawke can seriously diplomacy. The Dalish portrayal is, to put it charitably, mixed.
Just saw this one.
If you play as Durge she tells you that she actually liked the old you & was your willing slave. She only began to rebel after Orin somehow kills you.
To be fair, the Netherbrain tells several different versions of the story depending on whether its Tav or Durge that confronts her, and whether or not Gortash is still alive to give his version of events as well. The basic outline of its scheme is canon, but the fine details are hard to pin down because we know it lies a lot.
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Oh, that would suuuuuck. He'd get the Henpecked Hou treatment forever. >.<
At first, I didn't really like Lae'zel. But as the fic progressed she started growing on me, thanks to your portrayal in this fic. This right here is a wonderful cap to seeing her growth throughout. I can't say how it might compare to the game because I haven't even watched a play-through, but still, nicely done!
"Nooooooo~!"
"Yeeeeesss~!"
)Every time I see this guy's name, I instinctively see it as misspelled. Even back when all I knew about the guy was his name, I though he was a sketchy fuck, purely on instinct. Then later I find out he's an evil fuck.
I love it when that happens!