Today’s Dragon Age Poll: Would you have liked to have had the option of a “non-faction” option for Rook's background in DA-TV?
A - Sounds cool! Yes!
B - Nah... what fun is that?
C - Hmm... interesting. Tell me more.
A - Sounds cool! Yes!
B - Nah... what fun is that?
C - Hmm... interesting. Tell me more.
Comments
Though, personally, I can’t see Varric picking someone to join his team who’s not likely to last more than a week on the hunt for Solas.
Rook is a fairly bottom up character as it is, just with a history of heroism. LoF Rook was a galley slave. That’s a very tough background.
Factionless would be less rewarding IMO because you're never going to run into those 'you're a Crow like us' moments.
While I know a lot of the faction dialogue was kind of just cosmetic, I actually thought it was pretty nice! But I went in skeptical about how much Rook’s faction would matter.
Especially in comparison to DA:I and Lavellan asking who Mythal is 🥲
Bellara doesn’t know anything about a veil jumper Rook even if it’s quite a small faction and she knows Strife quite well for example.
For the factions tied with the main story it should have been a priority to add real origin content, not just a line or two.
Emmrich has been written right after DAI and as the devs said, they didn’t change anything about him through the years. That’s why it feels more natural in the writing.
The factions were basically meaningless anyway, and contradictory or just stupid at times so why not have non-faction Rook?