FOR THESE REASONS, REDCLIFFE IS ACCOUNTED AN ARLING DESPITE THE SMALLNESS OF THE DOMAIN. REDCLIFFE VILLAGE IS WELL SITUATED NEAR THE MOUNTAIN PASS TO ORZAMMAR AND THE ORLESIAN BORDER, AND SO SERVES AS A CENTER OF FOREIGN TRADE.
THE CASTLE, WHICH DESPITE BEING THREE TIMES CAPTURED IS POPULARLY DESCRIBED AS UNASSAILABLE," ALSO GUARDS ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST PROSPEROUS TOWNS IN FERELDEN. KING CALENHAD THEIRIN ONCE FAMOUSLY DECLARED, THE FATE OF REDCLIFFE IS THE FATE OF ALL FERELDEN." CERTAINLY, THE CASTLE IS THE FIRST AND LAST DEFENSE FOR THE SOLE LAND ROUTE INTO FERELDEN, AND THE COUNTRY HAS NEVER FALLEN TO ANY FORCE THAT DID NOT FIRST CAPTURE REDCLIFFE. It’s really quite interesting to see a storytelling device play out that’s rather richer than we are used to in MMO questing.FROM IN PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: THE TRAVELS OF A CHANTRY SCHOLAR BY BROTHER GENITIVI And I can’t really talk about it without spoiling the encounter so I’ll stop there.īut if you are playing through DAO, do check out the thread. The thread is full of spoilers for that part of the game, but I was impressed that different players made spirited defences of all the different options available.Īs a GM, I found the storytelling consequences just a little cheap (it wasn’t as true a moral dilemma as it probably should have been), but the device did work. I was fascinated by an rpg.net thread which asked players to discuss the decision that they made there in game, and to justify it. One of the earlier moral dilemmas faced in the game takes place at the human stronghold of Redcliffe Castle. Being good won’t be punished, but there’s no inbuilt reward for it either. And the game will not punish the player unduly for making the nastier choice sure, some of your companions may disapprove but the game isn’t biased towards one type of morality over another. The vaunted maturity of the title means that players have the option to choose between the lesser evil and the greater evil, and to decide for themselves whether the means justifies the ends. Even where it is clear that evil needs to be fought, the people who fight it are far from good themselves. It is clear from early on in the game that this is a dark fantasy. If that is important to you, you will not enjoy playing Dragon Age.
This isn’t a matter of life or death, it’s more important than that …įor many fantasy fans, it’s a crucial part of the genre that heroes be heroic and that doing good deeds is rewarded in stories.
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