That both concretely extends the Inquisition's power and would probably improve the Inquisition's reputation. While being beloved of the lower classes certainly wouldn't hurt for any of these, the majority of them require the support of commercial guilds, local and imperial aristocracy, and other established power holders to a greater degree.īut to be honest, I'm not talking about things like driving bandits/templars/apostates out of an area, or providing food and security to starving refugees. True, but if you look what power is actually expended on? Gain access, as a declared heretic, to PaRomstonople, get an invitation to the deliberations of the grand nobility about ending the civil war, organize the noble houses in a procession to shame the Templar, organize the mass infiltration of Redcliffe Castle by your agents to seize it by surprise, leada proper army and lay siege to the keep of the Grey Wardens, gather and maintain a grand army to march on the ass-end of nowhere and stop the end of the world, and all the area-opening missions amount to more or less seizing military control of regions on your own authority. The Inquisition helping people by passing out food, blankets, medicie, and doing security work like some sort of 17th century United Nations is more or less unprecedented in the setting's Crapsack World History. Whereas the bulk of the Inquisition's army comes from volunteers. The actual benefits of the Great Houses and nobility in Thedas are somewhat questionable as they're fair weather-friend at best, despite Josie's efforts. Or, in the context of Thedas, it's like a second massive religious figure rose to accompany the Reformation (embodied best by the Leliana ending).Īs for the Influence system, what I'm getting there is it's a recognition of the Inquisition's reputation in the city or, in a bizarre way, their Saints Row 2 "street cred." Every time the Inquisition does something heroic, they get more and more fame across the continent as people talk about what wonderful people they are.
(Rather than the other way around, because Trevelyan's unimportant enough in the lineage that nobody gives a crap if she has kids or not.) But in dialogue (Josie's sister and some Skyhold background chatter), people clearly envision a full-scale wedding with all the trimmings between Stacia and Josie at some point.Ĭlick to expand.In a bizarre way, you actually are Jesus, it's just Andraste isn't Jesus in this respect but Moses. The "traditional" solution would be for Josie to marry some guy and have kids with him, but with Trevelyan being her acknowledged mistress or something. I read a codex entry saying basically "Everybody in Thedas is more or less cool about same-sex relationships," but I dimly recall something in a DA2 codex that specifically mentioned how noble houses reconcile the "same sex relationships are OK" principle with the traditional "we need to continue the bloodline with legitimate babies" principle.
Or reorient the problem as "To win, you'll have to kill him, and that (will be politically disastrous / will make one or both of us sad / will hurt the war effort)."īTW, both Josephine and Stacia Trevelyan are nobles, and Josie is actually the head of her house. And while Sharpe's better than anyone at fighting a war, he kinda sucks at fighting duels.)
(I remember a similar storyline from Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, where Sharpe has to duel a master fencer. One way to do it would be something like "Of course you could take him in a real fight, but this duel will be governed by the Antivan Fencing Code, using weapons you're not familiar with against a master of the art!" So the Inquisitor actually is handicapped enough to put the outcome in doubt, which is more or less how it actually plays, though it's not sold well enough. Yeah, they did sort of need to sell that duel better in some way.