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Junimaia
brainnsoup
Junimaia
Eh? Why is a talking Saarebas weird? Ketojan talks when he's set free from the binding thing in the game. It's not like they're utterly incapable of talking. They're just usually properly "leashed". The Saarebas from Redemption had gone rogue for whatever reason. I seriously doubt he's gonna keep the sewn lips for posterity when he wants to go run amok and magic the hell outa everything.
I thought it lived within the Qun- with Tallis.
If it's Tal Vashoth or a free Saarebas doesn't she have to kill it?
In the Ketojan quest, the Qunari tried to kill me just for being around Ketojan. Aren't they pretty serious about stuff like that?
Except Sten was pretty laid back about the idea of battling alongside people like Morrigan & Wynne by comparison. Mage-leasher guy goes totally apeshit at the mere thought that someone in Hawke's party is a mage. I'm more inclined to think the Qunaris at Kirkwall boarded the fanatical zealot-crazy-train with the rest of the pro-mage & pro-templar psychos in that city.
sweatdrop Sten was really difficult with my mage Wardens. He told them about his views on magic at camp.
I always just assumed that the only reason Sten was so docile was because his promise to follow the Warden was slightly more important than his need to enforce his beliefs.
And all that time he didn't think dangerous-mages-that-could-become-possessed-by-demons-at-a-moment's-notice (hell, we even find out one of those mages IS possessed, technically) would be a threat to the Warden's mission? That's the opinion that qunari mage-leasher had y'know. Every loose mage is tainted by demonosity and should be killed-on-sight if not controlled because we all are damned otherwise. Sten on the other hand has no problem imposing his opinion of mages and their potential dangers to the Warden and even explains how they leash them and cut out tongues to prevent such dangers, but completely fails at communicating this one supposedly integral Qunari survival tip that crazy mage-leasher endorses? In all my playthroughs, I have never heard Sten suggest we should just kill the mages outright "just to be sure". He's always on guard, but unlike mage-leasher, he's also unafraid of them.
On a different note, I just remembered something from Redemption that may shed light on the "Should Tallis have killed the mage outright?" subject. Tallis had a magic silencing leash thing with her to use on the saarebas to prevent him from doing magic once she gets the thing on him. So she wouldn't need to kill him... at least... not until she brought him home for demonic inspection I suppose.
Also, just been playing through DA2 again, and Fenris makes an interesting remark to Isabela in regards to how the Qunari refuse to "waste" people if they can help it. In their homeland, even if a person refuses to conform to their ways, Qunari can turn the objector into mindless laborers called "qameks" to put them to use. Which is probably what they do to all their mages from what we've seen of Ketojan. If they have techniques like this readily available for use in their country, it makes sense that Tallis is more in the business of bringing the rogue Saarebas alive, since Saarebas are obviously useful for battle, and they could just slap the qamek on him when they get back.
