I was just wondering what people thought about the Dalish - as they seem to be the one group that doesn't fit in with the rest of the world of Dragon Age - and I wasn't quite sure what to think of them myself, so I was hoping to get a few different perspectives on them.
My first Warden was Dalish - so they already have a special place in my heart - and their unbending pride in their race in spite of the adversity they face gives them a bit of a romantic appeal. Yet, even though I get that they're feared and reviled by just about everyone, I can't help but wonder if they couldn't try to be a little bit more friendly. I was a little bit annoyed with my clan in DA2, as besides Marethari they do not fail to show off the least friendly they can be for ten bloody years. Though I'm willing to forgive this, as there's very clearly something in the water of the Free Marches. I suppose this whole "stick-up-the-bum" attitude towards non-Dalish would come with being a proud, dying, race, but I mean, my Warden may have played the race card on Isolde, but he wasn't unreasonable. Or unfunny. But beyond that, I find it a little sad that right next to the whole "Mage vs. Templar" war, there is a group of people who are forced to live a nomadic life, constantly on the run just for being born different, that apparantly no one bats an eye at. And sorry if the mage thing just gets you so heated that you only want to talk about that, or if I just missed the discussion about the Dalish, I don't mean to call you apathetic so much as I find it interesting that the Elves are in a very similar situation to the Mages - minus the innate, godlike, destructive power- and yet I see very few connections between the two on the forums
That there doesn't seem to be anyone helping the Elves too forces me to root for the Dalish, even though they can be a group of colossal jerks, because at least they have the cajones to live outside the iron fist of humans. And for the record, in the whole "we will never again submit" thing, I'm discounting that bit where Merrill bows to Flemeth. With that thing, anything you can do to prevent being turned into a dragon snack is a good idea.
So, what do you all think? --IndieGinge (talk) 02:28, March 20, 2012 (UTC)