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So after watching Chuck's intro on Dragon Age Inquisition really got me thinking.

Many discussions I see about DAI on the internet end up saying the ending was made into Dlc and while that argument has some merit in that Trespasser does resolve a lot of the plot, I personally always thought that the story of Inquisition was about the breach and stopping Corypheus. The reason I think people say the end of the main game was only the end of the second act is because of how lackluster the final fight with Coryboy is. How would you have ended it differently?

How would I do it? Well thank you for asking (my crippling loneliness). Corybutt just randomly attacks Skyhold with his dragon and opens the breach seemingly out of the blue and you have to kill him conveniently right after you obtain a way to beat his dragon. It's just a boss fight, not even a particularly good boss fight compared to fighting him in DA2 to be honest though I admit I kinda suck at video games and have never played on nightmare so your mileage may vary. I personally think the final battle shouldn't be here but at the well of sorrows.

Hear me out. What if instead of taking on his army at the arbor wilds immediately (narratively wise anyway) after the winter palace and the siege of Adamant, he tries assaulting Skyhold the way he assaulted Haven with his relatively still big army and we haven't fully gathered our Orlesian allies and just got our forces back from adamant. Have this be the place where Calpurnia/Samson are dealt with. Even better have it be a mixed victory for the Inquistion where someone instrumental to the forming of the inquisition dies and Corypheus gets something for his trouble, due to having a seemingly unstoppable dragon with him. I would kill Mother Giselle here personally because she doesn't seem to have much to do after Haven anyway and I would have Corypheus get the info on where the well of sorrows is, maybe from the Eluvian and Morrigan. I haven't really thought that out.

Then you have the quests to figure out the dragon deal and then wrap this shit out at the Arbor Wilds Where you finally get to kill him and decide the well's fate. That seems like the more important plot point anyway.

I'm sure there's tons of holes in my idea and my grammar is terrible but there you go. What do you think?

I would have sacrficied a Blight and have Corypheus actually controlling an Archdemon with an army of millions of Darkspawn.

CharlesPhipps wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 3:28 pm I would have sacrficied a Blight and have Corypheus actually controlling an Archdemon with an army of millions of Darkspawn.

Ooh, that's interesting. Would that be like the beginning of a multigame plot or we actually have to defeat this blight in your hypothetical?

Beelzquill wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 7:41 pm

CharlesPhipps wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 3:28 pm I would have sacrficied a Blight and have Corypheus actually controlling an Archdemon with an army of millions of Darkspawn.

Ooh, that's interesting. Would that be like the beginning of a multigame plot or we actually have to defeat this blight in your hypothetical?

It would begin and end with Corypheus. Basically, he has figured out how to control the Darkspawn and thus can literally conquer the world.

So he's shown not to be a complete loser.

I suspect that he was initially supposed to attack Skyhold between the Arbor Wilds and the final confrontation and it got cut late in development. The rebuilding plot gets abandoned halfway through, some areas never get repaired, the sudden jump from "securing your new resources" to "oh wait it's the endgame now" is jarring, and it's narratively really strange to make such a big deal out of building up a fortress only for it to never be remotely challenged.