Is this still going on? I'm interested! Just to warn you, I'll inevitably end up playing some Elvish archer.
EDIT: I didn't play the Trespasser DLC, but I have played DA:I. I also know exactly what happens in the DLC. (Solas broke my heart.) I hope that doesn't disqualify me.
isn't the archer class...a subclass of the rogue? >.o Warriors are Sword/Shield, or Two-handed, Rogues are Twin Daggers and Archer--then there's just Mage.
Right, but the particular group of Elves that I am speaking of are distinct from modern Elves. They're a group of ancient Elves from the days of Elvhenan, preserved by the magic lingering in the Well of Sorrows. The call that Solas sent out to all Elves wasn't some sort of arcane compulsion. As you said, it was a word-of-mouth revolution responded to by many Elves because it offered the prospect of a better world for their own kind, but they don't know the price they will have to pay. Obviously, it would destroy the modern world, which includes modern elves--Dalish or otherwise. It is reasonable to assume that this ancient group of Elves has a better idea of the destruction that Solas' plan will bring, since they also appear to know the true nature of the Elven gods and Mythal's murder. Furthermore, there is no evidence to indicate that the Sentinel Elves, the group that initially attempted to thwart the Inquisitor's plan, responded to this call in any way. Abelas, when asked where he will go, responds with, "Perhaps there are places the shemlen have not touched." In addition, two years after the defeat of Corypheus and Solas' subsequent departure, Leliana tells the Inquisitor during Exalted Council that she has received reports of this group of Elves has becoming active in the Tirashan.
TL;DR: It is unlikely that the Sentinel Elves responded to Solas' calls, however, it can't be definitively stated whether they did or did not since the game gives so little information on their course of action after the Temple of Mythal. I won't be playing a Dalish Elf in this RP.
I think you might be missing the point of this roleplay, Miss. This is set AFTER the events of DA:I. So new information can have been uncovered. I am using some core thing from DA:I, but the events of the Inquisition are done and over.
We are forging a new story in the fallout of Trespasser with Solas amassing the Elves. This could, in fact, include Arbalas in some form or another, as he IS a Sentinel and Fen'Harel is one the ancient Elvhenan "gods". So he could feel compelled to serve if out of respect--because we know he knows that Mythal was murdered and in the context of how he tells the group in the temple that she was "murdered" so can confer that Solas was not the perpetrator and that Fen'Harel was not the traitor, so there is no ill will. Secondly,your own quote of the game, he would more than like to seek out old Elvhenan ruins which is probably gonna be the exact spot where Fen'Harel is because they tend to resonate with great magic from before the Veil. Lastly, Arbalas would "more than likely" serve Fen'Harel since they both want to see the Elvhenan reborn. He might not agree, wholeheartedly, with the slaughter of the world to do it, per say, but he has the conviction to follow orders even if may disagree with them.
Now, I just want to say this: I may be the GM and ultimately I may have the "final word" on decisions. But this is a GROUP RP. If you have ideas, feel free to share them, just know, that while I WILL consider them, ultimately I must take into consideration everyone's thoughts, opinions, and ideas including my own. I will try to be as unbiased I can be, but if I feel a certain way I will be inclined to move in that direction. Especially if there isn't a consensus about something or that I feel, that as a whole, it would be better to steer it that way. Now here is what I have deliberated so far:
- We will be following the "core class system". This means Rogues can use Twin Daggers or Bows, Warriors can use a single-handed weapon and a shield or a two-handed weapon, and Mages which I've been deliberating to limiting to one Element type (Dibs on electricity!) to give variation and fairness.
- @Arlathina, I will allow you to have a non-dalish elf; if you want a 'sentinel' you and I will have to work something out in a PM. This goes for Legion Dwarves and Ben-Hasrath Qunari as well. Otherwise Its Dwarf, Human, Dalish Elf, and Qunari.
- The story WILL begin in Tevinter. Now, I do have a feeling I would like to take the story to the Arlathan Forests near Antiva; Arlathan was really where it all ended for the elves so it would make sense that's where we would eventually end up.
- My character will be a human male, from Tevinter. Specifically, he will be the Archon's son. The Archon will have just died leaving the Magisterium to him as the Archon is usually inherited through blood relation, but they also have the ability to elect should the need arise. So my character will be overwhelmed with his new position and the death of his grandfather. He elects Dorian as his "advisor" and my character will be a lot like Dorian; snarky comments ( "Yeah...lets go kill a dragon! *Secretly hyperventilates* Qunari are crazy...Qunari are VERY crazy!").
He tells Dorian that the pressure to be greater than one knows how to be, is suffocating him and that he thought about running away from it all. And Dorian says "look, if you are hindered and you can't see the bigger picture; running away isn't such a bad idea. Perspective often comes from being a part of something greater than one's self, and that is how you get to see your true worth." So Tiberius of course absconds and runs into one of the other characters, while the Magisterium is in a frenzy about him missing, while Dorian is showboating by saying he's been "kidnapped". I'm hoping for humorous sequence, where the person he runs into--and is running from the guards with--is charged with his alleged kidnapping, and Tiberius makes it worse by using magic while being confronted by guards, and he makes appear as though he's been taken hostage, and he convinces the guards to back off and go get help when the roof they are on collapses and they fall down. Tibs apologizes, gets thrash, insulted asked why he made them the most wanted criminal in the Imperium to which he responds by shrugging and saying they looked like a shady character--then thanks them for their "support" in his abduction. *Insert facepalm moment here.*
So that's really how I would like to start off. He gets these characters involved in his hijinx, where he somehow manages to get the first person he meets, to involve the second, the first and second then involve the third at son point--and they become a marauding band of criminals for a crime that actually hasn't happened and doesn't actually commit crimes as hire themselves as sell-swords. And it's through these adventures that they grow a repertoire with each other and the grow close so that when they come upon why elves are making a massive exodus to Arlathan and Solas' plot to tear down the Veil and essentially destroy the world--and Tibs come back in force with his group of friends, and he's different now than he was. He's matured, he's gleaned that perspective that Dorian told him about. And his first act as Archon is to stop the annual assaults on Seheron, and to send envoys to the Arishok about what Solas plans to do. And I am sure you can imagine the uproar that causes.
So that is what I have so far. An eventual declaration of an alliance, between the Qunari, The Imperium and they make an army that can fight the elves. Tibs and his friends will have a final showdown with Solas.
This goes for everyone.
@CursedDawn,
@Cerulean,
@Arlathina, @
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