The Inquisitors come from Free Marches and yet they don't visit their home city Ostwick. What I missed in Inquisition was family and close friends of the main character. The Inquisitor can't just simply break ties with their noble family, carta clan or vashoth mercenary company because they received a magical hand and are forced to lead a newly formed organisation. Iron Bull was still a member of Ben-Hassrath and Cassandra still a Seeker so why can't the Inquisitor still be who they were before the Breach? After events in Kirkwall many players wanted to revisit it. Free Marches are filled with unresolved problems. Others would like to go to Starkhaven to end it's ruling dynasty. We have war table missions in Kirkwall and Starkhaven but it will never be the same as visiting them.Andrzej.lewinski.351 (talk) 09:04, April 2, 2015 (UTC)
I'm still waiting and hoping for an Expansion set in the Free Marches. Getting to re-visit Kirkwall and visiting Starkhaven, Tantervale, and Ostwick for the first time. Not to mention the new areas and places we can go. The Planasene Forest, Vimmark Mountains, Minanter River, Green Dales. Honestly the Free Marches are really untapped potential, in my eyes. And it stands to reason that we won't be visiting them for a couple of games, seeing as how Gaider wanted to travel to Tevinter next and I highly doubt Weekes won't take up that initiative. B.S.S.T. (talk)
- I though Green Dales belong to Antiva. In World of Thedas statutes of Lions were shown. The Inquisition needs new purpose after destruction of the Elder One. In Orlais and Ferelden many Inquisition posts are build. Now it's time to extend it's influence in Free Marches. Don't forget we have also Nevarra to visit and in World of Thedas a civil war was overshadowed. Only one city of the Free Marches was visited and rest were merely mentioned. I want to visit Ostwick mainly because it's home city of the Inquisitor of human and dwarven origin. From the Elder One's all lieutenants the Nightmare is still alive. It's one of the most powerful demons and maybe it still has power to leave the Fade and invadethe world? If players don't want eldritch abomination as main enemy then it can be the last loyal follower of the Elder One so loyal that hungry for retribution.Andrzej.lewinski.351 (talk) 15:13, April 2, 2015 (UTC)
- Was looking at the map of the Free Marches and saw the Green Dales were there. Presumed it belonged to them, my bad. I thought of Nevarra while I wrote that, but two Nations for just an expansion seems like much. If I had to choose whether or not to go to Nevarra or the Free Marches I'd pick the Free Marches. Also all Inquisitor's are from the Free Marches. The Dwarf, Elf, and Qunari Inquisitors traveled a lot, but it was always in the Free Marches they never went farther. Dwarven Inquisitors considered Ostwick their home, as do Humans, but Humans are nobles there, so makes sense. On the Antagonist, I don't know if I'd want another Eldritch Abomination. I'd like a more human rival antagonist, like Loghain. I'd love if The Executors made a debut in an expansion and became the Inquisitions enemies. B.S.S.T. (talk)
- On Kotaku Asks there's an response from Mike Darrah, concerning venturing outside of Orlais and Ferelden, quote "We will head outside of Orlais and Ferelden but likely not in the DLC."
- ... So there's that. The only question that remains now is whether Inquisition will get not 'just' additional DLCs, but full-fledged expansion(s?).
- Also - the Inquisitor is a Free Marcher for a simple, story-related reason: so they could be a more believable audience surrogate. That way it makes the character an 'outsider', who is also as unfamiliar with Ferelden and Orlais as we are. And while family and friends would be nice - so is visiting Free Marches - I actually don't mind not seeing them: it means that I can actually individualize character in my head more fully, instead of being forced to follow more than an outline of what we already have to follow. It would also unnecessarily complicate matters (especially if presented as DLC or expansion), while also it would force the devs to work on a detail of the game that is not really that relevant.... call me crazy, but instead of my character's past I prefer to see what's going to happen next :) The best I can think if is maybe try and introduce a person from Inquisitor's past, but even that would be complicated in terms of implementing it so late in the game. - (MidnightTea7)
We've been to the Free Marches. I want to go somewhere new. Antiva, Neverra, or Tevinter are the most likely, since they're already on the map (or partially on the map in Tevinter's case). Kal-Sharok would be even better. Beyond that there's also the Anderfels, Rivain, Seheron, and Par Vollen, but they're all off the map so that's for DA 4, if ever. Silver Warden (talk) 21:12, April 2, 2015 (UTC)
- Honestly? I really wouldn't mind if we got entire DLC/expansion in which we'd be trapped in the Fade (not necessarily physically, like in Adamant) - maybe that way we could explore some memories or get some answers to more complicated questions :P ANother interesting idea would be places like Crossroads. Morrigan already revealed that some eluvians lead to (what sounds like) pocket dimensions, and I have a sneaking suspicion that one of such pockets is where last ancient elves live. (MidnightTea7)
- so long as that is nothing like through fade was in Origins and more like the fade in Inquisition or Awakening, but a new area an actual area would be far nicer like a Qunari/Tevinter controlled island maybe with Fog warriors too or Navarra or Anitiva would be nice Blitzbear93 (talk)Blitzbear93
Yeah, I do want to visit somewhere new, and they did give us a couple of dialogue options to expand on our "background" (Off the top of my head, I remember one with Cassandra, one with Josephine, one with Iron Bull as a Tal Vashoth, and one with Vivienne re: mages as Tal Vashoth mage, elf rogue and human mage) but I was frankly disappointed with the ways your background was handled with the table missions, ESPECIALLY the Lavellan one. I figuted we'd get more opportunities to expand on our backgrounds (especially if *spoiler* your clan ends up being massacred - no one ever mentions it again beyond that letter, which is weird considering how easy it is to kill off your clan. I'm amazed my clan lived the first time around.) However, due to the multiple backgrounds and other constraints, I'm not going to be super sad that we don't go to the Free Marches or explore that region.
I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to hear more about Rivain. We know almost nothing about Rivain whatsoever compared to every other nation besides "they are barely Andrastian, they like spirits, and they are black", and yet we already met three major people who descend from that nation (Isabela, Vivienne, and Duncan). It sounds like a really neat place, and we have almost no Dragon Age anything (books, comics, etc) that have ever touched on that region at all as a setting Palipride47 (talk)
- Rivian isn't on the map so it's very unlikely we'll go there in a DLC. And as far as I know, none of the northern nations (Tevinter, Anderfels, Rivain, Seheron & Par Vollen) have been used as a setting. In fact haven't all the settings been in Feredlen, the Free Marches, Orlais or Orzammar (or the Fade)? Unless you count the War Table missions. Most of Thedas is unexplored. And it seems the further north you go, the less we know about the place. What do we know about the Anderfels other than "grey warden HQ" or Par Vollen other than "Qunari HQ"? I'd say we know less about those places than anywhere else, including Rivain. Silver Warden (talk) 16:59, April 6, 2015 (UTC)
- Actually, those Dragon Age comics (I don't remember the name of them, but the main characters were Varric, Alistair, and Isabela) actually took place in Antiva, Tevinter and some Qunari occupied lands, so yeah, Antiva, Tevinter and Seheron got cameos in other Dragon Age media. When I was talking about nations as settings for the DA universe, I was talking about Rivain as a place that literally nothing in all the DA stuff they'e made has ever visited. The Anderfels is the only other place where that is the case. But we know slightly more about the Anderfels and Antiva through codices than Rivain. And Chauteau Haine wasn't on the map but we got to go there in DA2. They had war table operations for Antiva on the map too, so I don't see why "it's not on the map" is a prerequisite. I'll concede that the Anderfels would be better DLC for a northern nation, since we could expand on the whole "what happened when we decided the fate of the Wardens?" and "how much did they keep about Corypheus?". But Rivain sounds like a unique place compared to every other Andrastian nation (including Tevinter) and I'd like to actually hear more about it beyond the same codex about Rivain we've gotten since Origins and a few minor references to the country. Hell, their entire Circle (Dairsmund) was annulled but we only heard about the White Spire and Kirkwall.Palipride47 (talk) 19:27, April 6, 2015 (UTC)
- All of the quests in Inquisition take place on the War Table map, so I think it's necessary from a purely mechanical standpoint for any DLC to take place in southern Thedas. Outside of Feredlen & Olrais, that means the Free Marches, Nevarra, Tevinter, & Antiva (or Kal-Sharok or the Fade). The rest of Thedas can't be accessed on the map, so it can't be traveled to. As in, the player would have no way of getting there. It would require Bioware to make a separate map, and they are unlikely to do that. Honestly, we probably won't see anything outside of Orlais or Feredlen (or the Fade), expect maybe Kal-Sharok. But the nations already on the map are certainly much more likely DLC locations than the northern nations.
- There's definitely going to be a DA 4, and probably a DA 5 too, so we'll probably see Rivain at some point, at least briefly. Silver Warden (talk) 03:27, April 7, 2015 (UTC)
- ...That's assuming that they can't just 'glue in' map parts. I don't claim that it will happen, especially knowing that the devs said that we won't be venturing outside of Orlais and Ferelden in DLCs, but from techncial/story standpoint it really is as easy as showing a character laying a smaller map on the corner of war table. There's space there, especially on the right side (if they remove the decorations). For Fade... I don't think we *can* have a map ;) But I think Morrigan's eluvian is still in Skyhold, and technically it can lead both to the Fade as well as other, exotic places (assuming there's anyone there who can open/direct it). (MidnightTea7)