@@lDaniyarl When we first meet Dorian he also uses his staff to directly strike demons, besides casting spells. He doesn't do it during gameplay. But it showed the storytellers do consider it possible that mages know weapon staff skills.
@@smittywerbenjagermanjensen4737 But it wasn't a comprehensive skill ability. I always thought it was strange how the first game allowed us to use different weapons from direct combat to range. But the sequels limited us to the abilities of a class system.
Well you were supposed to be able to fight like that in DAI but removed last minute. You can have blades on your staff to use like they were spears in close quarter combat.
Rezaren was such a trip. Is he another maniacal-laughing Tevinter magister? A hero antagonist our heroes are pit against due to misunderstandings and ideological differences? A well-intentioned extremist who's path puts our heroes in his way? A NUANCED maniacal-laughing Tevinter magister? His character really frames Dorian's deepest fear in a whole different way.
They really did an excellent job showing how privilege can shape a person. Rezaren was so ill-prepared for the power he wielded that he failed even a watered-down Tevinter Harrowing and hadn't improved by much given his summoning and mistreatment of Memory corrupted it into Enmity/Pride. He wasn't even lying about considering Neb and Miriam family, it's just that 'family' to him means they belong to him and he gets to decide if they live or die. Dorian doesn't escape his privilege, he just tries to open his eyes and learn.
@@KaiseaWings True, he should have never been allowed anywhere near that level of power. His parents should have birthed a spare for this reason alone.
@@KaiseaWings No. Tevinter wants mages like his parents, who likely passed their "Harrowings" and went on to disregard all rules. Rezaren was susceptible to possession, which no civilization on Thedas, however broken and twisted, can afford to tolerate. Even the Gray Wardens don't tolerate abominations, as evidenced by Anders' interquel short story.
@@nitzan3782 That's fair I suppose. Although there are definitely societies in Thedas that tolerate possession, just not in the manner we're often familiar with. The Avvar come to mind, I also refuse to believe that some Dalish societies don't have a more relaxed approach. Since we know that relationships between mages and spirits are often tainted by expectation, a society that has a more open minded and accepting approach to magic is going to be more conducive to good teamwork between mages and a spirit. Maybe one day we'll see Anders again. It's a shame they dropped him, because his existence was narratively interesting for what it implied about spirits.
@@josephmangano3261 Right? Unfortunately, right after this scene he just went pure evil. I was totally on his side until the dream sequence he had with Miriam where he wouldn't take no for an answer. Then he just became more and more desperate and evil as the show went on. Even so, Rez was my fav character and it's a shame he died. I absolutely hated Miriam though up until the end where she had some redemption for me.
It's not like everyone has the same Harrowing. Origins mage encounterrd a lazy Sloth demon who was almost harmless, and a relatively weak rage demon. This guy might have walked into the Nightmare Corypheus was allied it, or something similarly bad.
Yeah, let's gooo! Flashy Fourth of July magic for the win! Wizards at their peak are painters/composers who moonlight as chess grandmasters. Like supervillains, the difference between an archmage and an apprentice is PRESENTATION.
I share the same thought. Honestly it would probably be better narrative wise if they stuck to just a simple heist story in the DA setting rather then trying to raise the stakes and bitting more then they could chew in something as short as a single season show with 6 episodes and each is just 20-30 mins long. But hey at least the animation and art style were pleasent enough, which is more then i can say about most cartoons nowadays
I thought this show was pretty good actually but I can see why people think that it needed a couple more episodes tho. I think this show has good potential if they ever make a second season
He started out so nice. Then he just devolved quickly. What was he gonna expect happen if neb was successfully brought back, that Neb would just be okay with him being alive? That he and his sister are basically forced to work for him? That he's OK that his mother basically shoved a demon down his throat?
I don't think he cared about how Neb would feel, it's mostly about how Rezaren himself would feel. Rezaren probably blamed himself for everything that happened to Neb and Mariam, Mariam insulting him and blaming him for her brother's death wasn't helping either when Rezaren was barely at fault and was just a pawn too. Bringing back Neb was probably the only salvation he saw in righting the wrongs in the past regardless of the technicalities that comes with it.
@@perce1veALL Personally, I feel kinda bad for Rezaren and hoped he lived. Dude was groomed to be a mage, his sister killed his mother and brother, then she had to left, then he was left alone to pick up the pieces and had to resort to cling to the ambition he was originally being forced to be just so he can bring his brother back after a couple of years. Feels like during that time, and everything that happened, dude had to had some few screws lose
@@imperialtrooper927 Whether or not he was groomed as he was, he was still a monster. This was a guy who felt such a possessive sense of ownership over his "brother" and "sister" (i.e., people he legally owned) that he felt entitled to keep exploiting Neb even after his fucking death. He was like a guy who regularly commits sexual assaults who convinced himself that he "loved" his victims, and this "love" justified all his actions.
@@Robert-hz9bj "Exploiting" Yeah sure, if let's call it that, if keeping someone just barely there to keep them from rotting to resurrect them later is exploiting that is.
Actually it's normal for DA mages. Games make you feel like different classes are equal, but it's just a game balance necessity. By lore mages are much more dangerous. Especially skilled ones like tevinter nobility.
@@kurokitsune5743 unless it's dragon age origins, mages are just far superior to any other class lol. Especially blood magic, it's very powerfull to immobalize a group of enemies and not risk friendly fire.
@@wasabilover1293 Origin had, by far, the best magic system in DA:Trilogy. You could choose how to play, you could choose your weapons, it was versatile and fun to play. DA2 and DAI made mages looks like whimps. Especially on higher difficulties. They even took the ability to choose your own freaking weapon, instead stuck you with staff, which could only be used at distance. DA:Origins magic might not be perfect, but it gave you option to build mages however you saw fit. DA2 and DAI stripped mage class of any versatility, making it basically archer with light effects. And god forbids that warrior or rogue get to you in DA2 or DAI, that is end. I will take my Arcane Warrior mage Warden over any mage class from subsequent games any day of the week.
You'd think the Templars would be aware Neb was a walking corpse the entire time too. Like none of them were suspicious that he never talked or had any reactions for years?
I had to double check, but Dorian does touch up on this. In Tevinter the Templars can't do what the ones we know can, they're just soldiers-and they're usually used as muscle to enforce the will of the magisters that rule them. Even necromancy isn't frowned upon there, but "blood magic" is up for interpretation and whats "allowed" only gets you so far.
I think necromancy isn't banned in Tevinter. While it's probably creepy as hell to have a reanimated corpse walking around, I don't think it's necessarily illegal
@@lDaniyarl well said. Personally I think the writers didn’t really do a good job if their idea was to justify Miriam being as vitriolic with Rezaren as shown. Sure she can be upset naturally with the whole ordeal, but overall the dude seems to be trying to make amends and does seem to care for both Neb and Miriam. Else why would he go through the trouble of reviving Neb? While trying to bring Miriam back? Why not just buy new slaves? If he honestly just saw them as things?
@@robosoldier11 Personally I don't think the writers intended for the audience to be fully on Miriams side. They gave both her and Rezaren reasons to sympathize with them, and they wanted us to feel a certain dissonance at the end, which makes Rezarens death even worse.
@@Mediados That is possible. Idk since I don't think anything has come out by the writers to suggest that was their intent. Ultimately I tend to take their interpretation in the median as much as I can given the fact well this is decision they went in so far as presentation and story telling. Frankly I think they handled the dynamic between Miriam and Rezaren badly or at the very least in a way that made it seem like Rezaren ultimately was supposed to be framed as the bad guy. When everything suggests he was sympathetic in his endeavors and genuine in his goal. As opposed to people saying there is this "Secret undertone." Where he actually is just putting on a face and is really just that evil and that much of a slave master guy. Frankly I just don't buy it.
@@robosoldier11 Finally, thank you. I completely believe Rezaren loved Neb and Miriam as his family, but it was inconceivable to him why Miriam did not want to return. When she said no, he didn't even consider that his opinion maybe could be wrong, but doubled down on antagonizing her ad the traitor. In his mind, Miriam became the worst villain for refusing to help him resurrect Neb. Most people just ignore that part of goodness and prefer to see him as entirely evil.
Dragon Age is one of those shows that always dabbles in the true Gray area. No one is truly good or evil here. Rezaran truly saw both Neb and Miriam as his siblings and wanted to do anything to fix his family, but he was ultimately blind to the privileges his station carried, he couldn’t truly have the sibling relationship he wanted due to the influence of his mother and expectations society had of him as a prominent Magister. Miriam however only remembers the cruelty inflicted by Rezeran’s mother who always reminded her that she was nothing more than a slave, not a sibling, and I think she wrongly blames Rezeran for her brother’s death. Miriam forgets that Rezeran saved her by telling her to run away, technically, loopholing Tevinter laws just for her. Towards the end he only gets pissed because Miriam constantly thinks of herself as a slave and him as her master (due to the “teachings” of his mother) and as a result he gets pissed and treats her how she envisioned he would treat her. Ultimately, I believe if both parties had sat down and had a rational conversation, things might have ended differently for everyone.
Nah. He's a delusional slave master. He doesn't see them as people. If he really cared about her as a person, then he would simply accept the choice she makes. Instead he undermines and ignores her autonomy and gets pissed off when she disobeys. She doesn't want to be owned, she wants a life outside of the trauma. But he doesn't see her as a person and he doesn't see Neb as a person. He sees them as his possessions that he has nostalgia over from childhood.
@@FlashmanJW I don’t see it that way for several reasons. #1) Miriam wrongly attributes the death of her brother to Rezaran when in reality, she was the one who killed her own brother after Rezaran’s mother put a demon in Neb. She should be blaming his mother rather than him. #2) I don’t believe that he only saw them as objects. When both Neb and his mother died, he didn’t cry or grieve for his mother, the first person he went to and grieve for was Neb. He wasn’t trying to resurrect his mother, he was trying to resurrect a person who he believes was his brother, his family. #3) During the dream sequence, he outlined to Miriam what his plans were. He didn’t just want to revive Neb, he wanted to become Divine and for both Miriam and Neb to be by his side, to rule Tevinter as a family. When he said he wanted to make a “better world” for them, it most likely would have meant he would seek the abolition of the institution of slavery in Tevinter, that is after all the only way Miriam and Neb would be able to stand with Rezaren as the left and right hand of the Divine.
@@Lethal_Giggles 1. That doesn’t have anything to do with her not wanting to be owned and him being delusional. Never said anything about his mom. 2. It is because you sympathize with him that is the reason you don’t see it. He routinely undermines her agency in the present. He may not have liked his mother, but he definitely sees the twins as his possessions. He believes they are family because he IS DELUSIONAL. Which goes into 3. You are ignoring the obvious power imbalance because of your sympathy for the “good slave master.” They are not family. The twins are his family’s property. They literally have brands on their faces. They were made into living weapons meant to serve him. You have this weird notion that they are family when the elves have no autonomy, personhood, and obviously treated as such by the entire country; you attribute him not being outright abusive and toxic as a child to mean family. He doesn’t care about what Miriam wants. You are also ignoring that. It is about what he wants from her. His goal, his dream. She shares none of this and throughout he doesn’t care and forces her into his plan. What kind of “family” is that? He even says to her that she was born to help him achieve his goal…because he doesn’t see her as a person. I have to keep reiterating that. He is entitled to them. He believes that she should be loyal to him. He keeps trying to force Miriam into his plan and has puppeteered Neb’s body with a demon for his own selfish reasons. When Miriam keeps refusing, he treats her like a slave because that is what she is. He doesn’t understand what being a brother is because he never was one, he was the young master who just played with his slaves and out of nostalgia for those times, became delusional enough to think that they are like siblings. Neb and Miriam don’t think this way. You are sympathetic to him and see his view but it is sickening. You can’t deny he does all this because they show it.
@@FlashmanJW 1.) "That doesn’t have anything to do with her not wanting to be owned and him being delusional. Never said anything about his mom." His mother has everything to do with the situation. We know that based on the flashbacks, it wasnt Rezaran abusing or treating them like slaves, it was his mother. And it was her that instilled the trauma into Miriam, trauma which imo she falsely equivocates with Rezaran. 2.) "It is because you sympathize with him that is the reason you don’t see it." I dont like what you are implying about me here. I merely understand the lengths Rezaran would go through to revive a person whom he considered a brother and his goals of also changing Tevinter society to better the lives of the people he cares about. Whether or not you agree they were a family unit at all is irrelevant, we know what his motives are and imo they werent malicious. 3.) "He routinely undermines her agency in the present." I agree that he does, but this is not indicitive of possesiveness. Family and friends fight all the time if they believe the actions of their loved one is wrong. The issue here is, he beleives that his actions are for the greater good. I mean, if you had the ability to change society for the better, like abolish slavery for instance, and all you had to do was take some blood from yourself and another person, would you do it? 4.) "He may not have liked his mother, but he definitely sees the twins as his possessions. He believes they are family because he IS DELUSIONAL" A person who is willing to revive someone they consider a brother, instead of their own biological mother does not see these people as possessions imo. 5.) "You are ignoring the obvious power imbalance because of your sympathy for the “good slave master.” They are not family. The twins are his family’s property. They literally have brands on their faces. They were made into living weapons meant to serve him." I never ignored anything. I have stated before that Rezaran is ignorant of the privileges that being part of a high ranking Magister family affords him. But based on what we saw, it wasnt him that abused the twins, it wasnt him, that branded them, or turned them into weapons or saw them only as property; it was his mother. You are still thinking that he wants a slave master relationship, thats not what he wants. 6.) "You have this weird notion that they are family when the elves have no autonomy, personhood, and obviously treated as such by the entire country; you attribute him not being outright abusive and toxic as a child to mean family" How the rest of Tevinter treats elves is relevant to the conversation, however, all these things you are pointing to is not relevant to how he as an individual treated the twins and based on the flashbacks he has been nothing but kind to them, and in the case of Miriam even protective when he saved her life from being executed. 7.) "He doesn’t care about what Miriam wants. You are also ignoring that. It is about what he wants from her. His goal, his dream." I'm not ignoring that, I merely believe that he feels justified because what he thinks what he is doing is for the greater good. Reviving a brother, becoming Divine, changing Tevinter laws and institutions to allow his family to ascend to power and ending slavery, these are all goals he believes are worth fighting for. 8.) "He keeps trying to force Miriam into his plan and has puppeteered Neb’s body with a demon for his own selfish reasons." He has offered and made propositions to Miriam several times. You forget that Miriam and friends are stealing from him, any other thief would have been executed. And as he told Miriam, he had to turn Neb into an undead in order to preserve his body in order to revive him, that is not selfish. 9.) "When Miriam keeps refusing, he treats her like a slave because that is what she is." And this right here is the crux of the issue. He never treated her like a slave until she insisted that she was, they literally said it, but that mindset was ingrained into her by his mother. He never treated them like that until she forced his hand.
******* SPOILER WARNING ******** . . . . I find it wild, when she says -he- killed her family and that he's a snake, when she is the one that literally -stabbed his mom and her brother- while he was bubbled up/ being separated from a demon, and he rushed her to leave to save her life from the guards possibly going and killing her???? He really is trying to fix -her- mistake and she mad lol.
He was failing his test. Being taken by the demon. Mom stepped in to offer her brother instead. Who would have been killed.That's why she tried to stop it. The fault is the nobles.
@@BeedleTheImmortal You're forgetting the important detail that he was a WEAK CHILD. He couldn't do anything. He never at any point in time tried to kill or blame her. Good guy Rezaren.
@@avggamer86 She stepped in, and killed the mom AND her brother. But, she BLAMES REZAREN for killing them. When he was quite literally TRAPPED IN A BUBBLE by his mom the entire time. He then proceeded to LIE TO THE GUARDs FOR HER about what happened, and DIRECTED HER TO ESCAPE, all so she COULD STAY ALIVE. instead of getting killed in case someone found out.
I just wish that she acknowledge that Rezaren probably wasn't safe from his mothers wrath as well and is likely traumatized. Im not saying he's just this misunderstood saint but he's damaged and he loved them if she add aknowlege that and tried to talk to him even if he still went the irrational route i still wanted her to have some compassion. also why would you not want your brother back smh.
He didn't "love" them. He just wanted to be a "nice" slave master. It was all about him and his ambitions, what they wanted wasn't important to him. What he felt was the same thing some "nice" American slavers felt and they too were upset and disappointed when the slaves were so eager and happy to leave after the civil war
@@missmymama1140 A very "obvious" example? Please. The show showed Rezaren treating them very much like siblings and vice versa. The show also showed him being treated like a pawn, and groomed into a mage, if you have anything that is similar to that among your examples such as American slavers, I'd be happy to see that. Honestly, your way of viewing the show is the one in a vacuum
Something I always liked about Dragon Age Inquisition (not sure to what degree this is the case for the other games) that's carried here is how kinetic spellcasting is. Qwydion gets in on this a bit too, but it's on full display here. He's practically a bender or a DnD monk, compared to Qwydion who in this particular fight behaves more like a more conventional 'Artillery' spellcaster.
One handed inquisitor somewhere in Thedas “i used to wonder why i was required to do everything….now i know why…because apparently. Because im the only emotionally stable person in this world apparently…now i can see why the hero of feraldon decided to run off and possibly die rather then take up the hero mantle again
Got to be frank story wise Rezaren doesn’t seem that bad of a character. His motives seem pretty sympathetic. Maybe delusional in so far as his expectation. But I think he genuinely cared for Neb and Miriam. Even if they didn’t or were bitter toward him due to circumstance, Miriam a bit more then really I think warranted. Ya eventually his means went beyond the scope and he got cold/hard as the story progresses. But really again I can’t say I don’t feel sorry for the guy. Overall an interesting character.
His character is definitely interesting and is a testimony to Dragon Age’s ability to cast a shades of grey in the world. Rezaren genuinely believed that Neb and Miriam were his siblings, however he was blinded to the privileges that came with his station. Miriam on the other hand is the opposite, she ignores the good times with him because the “lessons” that Rezaran’s mother ingrained in her were that powerful. During the flashback scene with the harrowing we actually even see how much Rezaran cared for them both, when Miriam killed both his mother and Neb, he actually chose to grieve over Neb instead of his mother, and even protected her by ordering her to run away, technically creating a loophole with Tevinter’s laws regarding run away slaves. In another world, if Miriam didn’t constantly attack or antagonize him, he may have listened to reason.
@@Lethal_Giggles Miriam more or less was spite driven this entire show. Despite Rezaren again I think being way more genuine and legitimate in his motives. Also Miriam is clearly shallow and selective in her forgiveness hence why I kinda dislike her. She forgave her lesbo friend hira for literally betraying her group twice, killing a colleague and even attempting to rob Miriam’s freedom for own benefit. But Miriam won’t forgive her adoptive brother for trying to make amends and instead blames him for everything? It’s so cringe honestly and I’m supposed to think Rezaren is the bad guy?
@@robosoldier11 Rezaren killed an Innocent guy for Blood magic, still you think that he is not a bad guy, besides it's not a "lebo friend" but her lover thank you very much, and Miriam have evry right to be angry on Rezaren even Neb thought that what Rezaren is doing wrong
@@toamszkozak8822 Don’t get me wrong, I think the act of defying nature and resurrecting an individual is reprehensible, but to be frank he was doing all that for what he believed to be a good cause. During the dream sequence he didn’t just want to revive Neb, he legitimately wanted to change Tevinter culture by becoming Divine and changing the culture in such a way that allowed him to rule together with his family (ie probably ending slavery). Frankly, the betrayal of her lover 2x would in my opinion be far stronger than what Rezaren has done, I mean, even the death of her brother wasn’t his fault, considering it was his mother who put the demon in her brother, hell, he even cared more that Neb died than his own mother.
@@toamszkozak8822 kinda missed that “small” detail that he only did that to restrain the giant fire breathing dragon Miriam and her group released and broke its chains as a “distraction.” Which he even relayed annoyance/sadness that he has to utilize so much magic from peoples blood to “reel in the animal.” Ultimately they made it impossible to reinsert that freeze spell or whatever so that was his only other method available. Sure Rezarens means and methods got colder and harder as he did as the show progressed. But wouldn’t you if your adoptive family your trying to save and bring back together. not only considered you not family but also a piece of garbage…. For what… existing in proxy and circumstance to them? When he literally as far as we know didn’t abuse or do anything malicious to Neb or Miriam? Ya I think rezaren has shown way more characteristics to sympathize with then the shallow, spite filled Miriam.
Does anyone else find it weird in retrospect how much she flipped out when she saw Rez? I mean sure he ended up being pretty evil with the show going on but at this point? I was pretty sure that he has done something horrible to her but in the end all he did was letting her go when she killed his mother. I mean I can see her not liking him and that she never considered him to be family but this exaggered reaction feels kinda like the plot demanded drama.
Well, she was enslaved to him. It’s probably a rough subject for her. While he may not have been cruel himself, he’s still the walking embodiment of her time as a slave.
these shows alwase make me wonder just how strong the actual protagonist are if animated. the warden could take down orgs easily which usualy took platoons to do hawk is noted as being able to just run thru high level worriors and unlike the other two we've seen one of his best fights, thou that was not even close to apex hawk as it was only part 2 level hawk and the inquisitor was a one man army even withought the rifts by the end game as he had just finished a hord based war wich required him to be able to mow down hords of corrupted foes.
I know you can't compare it 1-to-1, but in DnD a level 20 character (which would be the end-level of DA:O aswell) is usually meant to be on godlike level. So you can probably assume that the Warden was a monster in the end, considering you cut through waves after waves of Darkspawn. Don't know if I would put Hawke above the Warden or slightly under, but either way the Champion of Kirkwall is probalby in some ways scarier, since Hawke isn't cursed like the Warden, so Hawke still can grow stronger. And the Inquisitor...I honestly can't tell. DA:I felt so underwhelming I would put the Inquisitor miles below Hawke and the Warden, but that might just be bias
@@ottokarl5427 ya the inquisitor one was biased. not the best game i will give you that but he was definitely stronger then hawk. while for the warden hes smarter (spoiler alert the warden dosnt make a good queen) but not stronger as even by end game he could only barely take down an orge solo. of course every one of them even our companions are 13+ so were getting to that level of just downright madness in power. my guess is post game (inqusition) hawks probably around 15-16 (based off choice), the inquisitor is 17 and the warden (none queen. queen stagnates. shes probably 16 like liliana and morrigan who also stagnated) is 18-19 probably just a hair off from hitting 20 since i mentioned companions strongest is decently stan if you exclude solas and ascended valta whos 20. hes 17-18 no question. dudes active as fuck after origins beats alot of really really strong people. most other companions are in-between 14-16 with some exemptions being lower or around 17. excluding short one off of course those guys are porbably 9-12 and origins who are around 5 even the weak ones are no joke
Hoping that DA Dreadwolf mage combat would somehow look like this... The fact that being a mage, you're completely helpless at close-range, I hope that there will be mage subclass that are literally MELEE oriented just like the Arcane Warrior in DAO and not that fricking joke of a Knight-Enchanter in DAI lol
Mages are this powerful they're the strongest class in the series. A mage can not solo a dragon and take zero damage. A mage can bully an actual god if need be.
i really liked the particularly type of fantasy that origins had. it was super gritty. mages were mostly hopeless in close combat and needed the warriors to get in the way to protect them from physical threats. this fight is super cool, but some part of me will never move past the dissonance that I experience watching mages be anime staff twirling, fade stepping, blasters of multicolored energy. - to be fair, this is how dragon age has been since dragon age 2. they really rewrote a lot of how the world worked for dragon age 2 and they've been running with that ever since. given how much hate dragon age 2 received for not being a sequel the origins story, I wonder if they wouldn't have just done better to have launched a brand new IP when they made dragon age 2. its a cool world they've created, and its cool when everyone is super fast and acrobatic regardless of whether they're a warrior, rogue, or mage, but its not consistent with what I fell in love with in origins.
Eh, not really. Mages had lots of options to protect themselves from melee fighters without needing the warriors to cover them all the time That said, I really liked how mages were mages and non mages were just regular people, not mage-wannabes or anime acrobats.
The only thing i wonder about the dragon age absolution characters is if we can actually end Miriam and her group's lives in the next dragon age. Hated every single one of them.
Miriam is the real villain here. She killed her brother and Rezaren's mother (yes, she is wicked royal, but this is not the point). Rezaren forgave her and helped her to escape. But what Miriam did after? Because of her rage and lust for vengence, she brought chaos and destruction to this realm, she killed dozens of people, she could not understand, how Rezaren's education was corrupted, how he became the victim himself, yet trying to do something good and right. Miriam has no forgiveness in her heart, only blinding hate and arrogance, like she is a hero. But to be honest, she is only portraited as a good person, look at her clearly and you'll see the real monster.
That crow-control entrapping spell (at 1:12) has to be in the next game now. Same with them riding up on those discs of energy. Or are those somehow known only in Tevinter? Which could be the only (barely acceptable) explanation for them not introducing those spells earlier. Oh, it's a dead end, we can't go up that slanting wall of rubble. Nope, that ledge is too high. Sorry! Have to go around. Hm? Remember those moments? Neither does the gang from this movie, I bet. Other than those spells, the movie was disappointing. And instead of some Sten-like, stoical female Qunari, we got another 'atypical' Qunari. We already had that with Bull and as entertaining and as well-acted as he was, it was time for a more serious character, instead of the one in this film and she was just gratingly silly.
It looks like a mix between Crushing Prison and Mass Paralysis. Regardin discs, are you referring to the moment when the human mage girl lifted Qwydion so that she could seal the door?
To be fair, it makes sense that atypical Qunari are the ones we see in part of the protagonist group. They are the ones that don't fit in Qunari society, so they leave. Sten was the exception, weird as it may be, in that he joined the group because it was the best way for him to complete his mission to learn about the Blight, given your group has the last two living Grey Wardens in Fereldan.
@@josephperez2004 It's just... Ever since I saw the character creation concept art for Inquisition, before it came out, I've been itching to have a no-nonsense female Qunari as a companion, who wouldn't even had to have been a romantic interest, she could've just developed some strong, mutual respect with your player character. And while Bull was an entertaining character, he didn't fit. OR I would have even loved to make a female Qunari, as a character (to be able to build those strong features they had in both the concept arts, the comics and based off the Arishok in DA2), but they screwed that up. The whole Qunari character-creation was basically you, the player, being able to paste a face, with clearly human-proportions, onto a head that was meant to have (and should've had) stronger features. EVERY damn Qunari player-character I've seen looks...weird. Just a human face on a body not meant to have it.
@Matthew Bakos That's a fair concern. It can suck to hope to get the feeling of a specific race and culture and just find the option really isn't there. Goodness knows Sten made a serious impact in the first game and really setup the Qunari as this intriguing society, only to have follow up stuff be a little hit or miss.
Way too many random weapon flourishes. So unneeded. Except perhaps the mage staff as you seem to have to spin that somewhat in the games to fire the bolts.
The story and character were serviceable at best, but the animation and fights were great, the artistic style tho did the Qunari dirty, like the chick from the group looks more like a tall woman in a Qunari costume rather than the race, should've have gave her more toned muscles or stronger and more marked facial features.
@@magicrainbowkitties1023 this is the problem of today animation people want to see themselves on the characters they voice act a face egocentrism and selfinserting
Ok…what would you have had him do differently? He literally saw them as his siblings and treated them as such while he was a child and he had NO POWER to stop or prevent their abuse and when a fateful incident of his ‘sister’ killing his mother and the possessed body of his ‘brother’ he tries to save his ‘sisters’ life by convincing her to flee so she wouldn’t be killed for slaying her master and covered for her so there wouldn’t be a hint for her. AND THEN he spent the rest of his life looking for a way to bring his brother back to life and achieve a position where he could assure his ‘brother’ and ‘sister’ could live in safety and comfort like a misguided desire for family…from where I’m sitting his actions are misguided but not coming from any negative mindset except for his willingness to bend rules more and more until his goal is complete. Meanwhile the main character is dumping over a bitch who actively in her own intention sold out the MC her own lover in order to enact a genocide plan…and that’s the character the MC chooses to forgive
He didnt treat them as slaves. It was his mother who did. All he wanted was to resurrect Miriam’s brother after she killed him and Mage dude’s mother. Let us not forget that the Mage dude helpee Miriam escape without penalty after she killed them.
I feel like they tried to do what vox did but the show just seemed really boring even with all the colorful animation putting an edgy rouge as the main character probably didn't help edgy characters are fine but they tend to be 1 dimensional if not done right
@@pedroamaral8988 The show has it's problems but it did pretty well for a 6 episode season that tried to cram as much in as possible, maybe too much. I enjoyed it as well, great animation.
@@josephperez2004 Is like.... a super templar, mainly because they get the benefit of having both templar and their own branch of abilities without the need of consuming lyrium.
They're rightfully op to the point you need a seeker to take out the elites and even then a proper blood mage will usually kill the most skilled seeker.
Honestly he sold me the entire concept of Tevinter 😅 before that with Inquisition I just saw them as Cartoonishly evil Venatori or the special case that was Dorian.
@@pedroamaral8988 How is he not cartoonishly evil? This is a guy who feels such a sense of dehumanizing entitlement over his "siblings" (aka, people he legally owns) that he keeps exploiting one of them (Neb) even after he was fucking DEAD...
@@Robert-hz9bj kinda like how Dorian casually mentioned how slavery still exists in the empire? Up to the time of his Harrowing the man had no control over his own life whatsoever, and from that on he was left with what appears to be his last relatives (real mothers and supposedly adopted brother) dead, the only thing left for him was to enter the system by becoming a powerful mage in hopes to change it from within as the Devine (kinda like the pope of the empire) but failed to notice how it changed him instead. 🤔 but hey, that’s the way I saw things 😅🤷♂️
@@pedroamaral8988 He never specifies what "change from within" actually entails, most notably because I don't think he has any actual plans for it. He is so narcissistic and self-absorbed that, in his mind, once HE gets to sit atop the pyramid (with the two people he owns standing obediently behind him) everything will just sort of work out. Pretty telling how his version of a "better world" is one that is firmly in his grip...
