I Mean Really Can The Elves Just Catch A Break - Tumblr Posts

Y’know the more I think about it, I really don’t like the twist regarding the elven gods in Inquisition

Solas’s pompous attitude re: the Dalish the whole game is really annoying (esp when playing as a Dalish) and the twist feels like it grants his views some legitimacy, because in a way, he’s right (he’s technically correct that the Dalish have lost their old ways and don’t fully understand their own history, but he’s not morally in the right).

I know the game did a similar thing with the Maker, with Corypheus claiming to have seen the seat of the Maker and finding it empty, but I still don’t like the twist of “the elven gods weren’t real gods, they were just mages and also slavers.” It feels like a “fuck you” to the Dalish, who didn’t need to be taken down a peg.

It also means (as I’ve seen someone else point out) that the two important examples we know about of mage-ruled societies (the ancient elves and Tevinter) were/are also societies that ran on slavery. Mages, like the Dalish, also did not need to be taken down a peg. There didn’t need to be another example of “mages bad.”

I just can’t help but to wonder if we *really* needed the “the Dalish’s beliefs are basically all lies” twist.