batty-for-booty reblogged
some non-canon, revised character sidequests for dragon age inquisition:
- in which sera’s red jenny work leads her to a dalish clan that she has to defend from shitty human nobles, and she’s forced to confront that the very people she’s always considered too “elfy” are precisely the kind of “little people” she’s sworn to protect
- in which dorian is contacted by one of his old friends from tevinter – someone he swears is one of the good people from tevinter and not at all corrupted by the bad parts of his home country – to help with an escort mission – except it turns out that the people being escorted are slaves, and his friend did not intend for these slaves to be escorted to freedom
- in which cullen, in an attempt to make it up to the mages of kirkwall that suffered while he was knight captain there, delivers supplies to a small group of former kirkwall circle mages, only to run into some of his former templar colleagues with every intention of striking these mages down – cue a scenario similar to iron bull’s character sidequest, where cullen is forced to choose between his former templar colleagues and the mages he’s trying to help
- in which petrice-like chantry officials attempt to seize control of kirkwall in the absence of a viscount and a functioning templar order, and varric is summoned back there by aveline to quell rising tensions – forcing varric to choose between letting the inquisition formally intervene, thus allowing a different chantry sect to rise to power in kirkwall but still giving power to the chantry nonetheless, and empowering the people of kirkwall to take control of their own city, thus secularizing the city for the first time
- in which solas discovers that an ancient artifact he’d like to study is located in an alienage – and he turns his nose up at this, at first, because he believes that these people have deliberately turned their backs on who they are in order to assimilate with humans – but instead, he’s met with the reality that these people did not choose this life, and that they’ve managed to somehow carve out their own identity despite being beaten down and subjugated for generations through no fault of their own – that it’s not necessarily a bad thing, that modern elves are different from how the ancient elves used to be
- in which a group of mages seeks refuge in skyhold, led by a former apprentice that vivienne used to mentor – an apprentice who was transferred to a different circle years ago, where they were horribly abused by a templar and are still dealing with the resulting trauma in the present day – thus forcing vivienne to consider that her positive experience with the circle is not universal
