I wouldn't say that Dorian being gay is incidental, in fact I would argue that it is a vital part of his character. Him refusing to marry a woman because he was gay and his father attempting to use blood magic to for him to continue the bloodline is the defining moment of his character arc.hammerofglass wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 9:21 am The thing is, Taash being non-binary isn't supposed to be important. The game doesn't treat it as important. The other characters don't treat it as important, they just update pronouns and move on. Even Taash in-universe doesn't think it's that important; other than asking people to refer to them differently and resolving some stress it changes nothing about their life. The one time they get accidentally misgendered in the game they wave it off, and then it's Isabella who decides to make a whole production out of it.
Actually the comparison with Dorian is pretty solid. Dorian is the Tevinter companion with daddy issues who incidentally is gay, Taash is the Firebreather with mommy issues who incidentally is non-binary.
Also just to be clear, off-screen Taash is such an asshole I can't imagine this jolly pack of cinnamon roll companions letting them stick around much less having any affection for them. Just a petty bully.
Based on what he tells it's clear that this was the moment when he lost faith in what Tevinter was and wanted to change it, which lead him to seeing Alexius as a surrogate father who shared his values until his own son was infected with the blight which lead him to losing another father to his own grief and again doing something morally wrong.
This lead him to join the Inquisition where we first meet him and that all stems from his father trying to change him for the sake of his legacy and not his son's own happiness.
Taash being non-binary really doesn't affect anything outside of one or two characters and it feels out of character for Isabela to make a big deal about it given how she's one of the most open minded characters in the series and even then it's never really treated as anything that important.
Dorian being gay is a vital part of his character while Taash being non-binary really isn't that important when you get right down to it. Which begs the question if it's not that important why not just have them being openly non-binary from the start?
Characters just use they/them pronouns and we all just move on. Again the fire-breathing is the most important part so why not just focus on that. Most people are open minded and in a world where same sex relationships are treated as normal and has elves, dwarves and Golems it feels weird to mention it and even the character in question isn't making that big a deal out of it.
