Originally Posted by The Red Queen
Originally Posted by SoulfulAzrael
I think the best way to describe it is like this. As a Dark Urge you can automatically kick a squirrel. As a Tav you DO NOT get to automatically pet a squirrel. That is the issue. You do not get ANYTHING with Tav, nothing, zero, null. That's a problem. At least every Origin in Dragon Age Origins had their own thing, there was no blank slate that had no content.

What kinds of things would you be hoping for from Tav, given that they are by design a completely flexible character whose story we can shape, unlike the Dark Urge whose future we can influence but has a past we need to discover and, it sounds, isn't entirely under our control?

Personally, I don't want to give up Tav's flexibility so for me anything Larian provided would need to be optional. I can definitely think of ways to do this, and think I've mentioned that on these forums before, but I'd be interested in what you would suggest?

I would suggest something unique tying to the current main story. Like, by picking Tav something happens in say, the tutorial level that kicks off a storyline available only to Tav. Something that doesn't have to do with our past, but is still an experience unique to our custom character. Also, getting the chance to talk more about our past at least in broad strokes, and our feelings about the current situation. We have one or two chances to do that, but not many. Oh, and perhaps we get chances for the game to resct and insert things based on those choices. Like if we say the elfsong tavern was our local, then we get someone who knows us at the tavern when we get there.

I don't want to lose out on the flexibility we have with Tav either, but I also don't like feeling as though I'm playing the version of the game that got the least care and attention and like I'm playing a character that is the lowest priority of the game and game world.