History Characters / DragonAgeInquisitionDLC

* InsistentTerminology: It addresses anyone to whom it speaks as "patron".

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Viddasala seeks to free the South from uncontrolled magic and their corrupt leaders [[spoiler:by assassinating nearly every noble in Ferelden and Orlais, using magic beyond the usage of Saarebas that would probably get her declared Tal-Vashoth if her superiors learned about it]].

* OriginalPositionFallacy: While not directly acknowledged, Ameridan was fine with his close personal friend Emperor Drakon leading [[TheFundamentalist religiously-motivated]] Imperialist expansionist campaigns against neighboring human kingdoms because Drakon assured him [[spoiler:they would honor elven sovereignty]]. When Ameridan learns that [[spoiler:Drakon's ''own son'' annexed the Dales one short generation later]] he's horrified, as he'd assumed that [[spoiler:Kordillus II would uphold Kordillus I's promise, though there is a generous amount of implication that Ameridan's prescence was a stabilizing influence between Orlais and Halamshiral, and without him, [[ForWantOfANail no one was around to keep Drakon's descendants from diving headfirst into the deep end of the imperialism pool.]]]]

* ForWantOfANail: Without his stabilizing influence in Halamshiral, the elves elected not to stand with Orlais against the Blight, deciding instead to simply focus on their own lands while the darkspawn ravaged Orlais. As a result, relations between the two took a nosedive after the Blight, and eventually led to Orlais declaring war on and defeating the Dales, resulting in the fall of the Elven homeland.]] On the other side of the wall was [[spoiler:Emperor Kordillus Drakon I, whom Ameridan considered a close friend. While Drakon did unify Orlais and bring peace across the region between the many warring factions, he was also the one who set Orlais on becoming an expansionist empire, motivated by his belief that he was "chosen" to spread the Chant of Light across Thedas. To his credit, he did manage to only focus his conquest upon other human factions, due to promising Ameridan not to involve the Dales. Still, it would be his religious beliefs and expansionist rhetoric that his son, Kordillus Drakon II, would carry on after Drakon I's death which would eventually result in Chantry missionaries being sent into elven territory. The inevitable tensions and eventual war this would cause. Drakon I's influence and his opinion on human/elven relations are not mentioned by Ameridan, but the First Inquisitor was probably one of the few if not the only one able to find common ground between the two factions, and his disappearance meant the end of any sort of mediation between elves and humans at a time when it was needed the most.]]

* CrossoverCosmology: A one-man example. [[spoiler:He revered both the Maker ''and'' the Dalish Creators, as first evidenced by the discovery of a shrine he and Telana built together. It depicts Andraste holding a pair of Ghilan'nain's halla. Later, the Inquisitor can find one of his memories, which consists of him praying to the two; Andraste and Ghilan'nain are both [[DeityOfHumanOrigin deities of mortal origin]], and he specifically prayed to them for that reason - he hoped they could guide him to be similarly "uplifted" to do what was best for Thedas.]]
* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:In this case, the nail was ''him''. Without his stabilizing influence in Halamshiral, the elves elected not to stand with Orlais against the Blight, deciding instead to simply focus on their own lands while the darkspawn ravaged Orlais. As a result, relations between the two took a nosedive after the Blight, and eventually led to Orlais declaring war on and defeating the Dales, resulting in the fall of the Elven homeland.]] On the other side of the wall was [[spoiler:Emperor Kordillus Drakon I, whom Ameridan considered a close friend. While Drakon did unify Orlais and bring peace across the region between the many warring factions, he was also the one who set Orlais on becoming an expansionist empire, motivated by his belief that he was "chosen" to spread the Chant of Light across Thedas. To his credit, he did manage to only focus his conquest upon other human factions, due to promising Ameridan not to involve the Dales, but it would be his religious beliefs and expansionist rhetoric that his son, Kordillus Drakon II, would carry on after Drakon I's death which would eventually result in Chantry missionaries being sent into elven territory, and the inevitable tensions and eventual war this would cause. Drakon I's influence and his opinion on human/elven relations are not mentioned by Ameridan, but the First Inquisitor was probably one of the few if not the only one able to find common ground between the two factions, and his disappearance meant the end of any sort of mediation between elves and humans at a time when it was needed the most.]]

* SanitySlippage: His letter to the "Elf-who-is-Tallis" documents this. At first, the letter is fairly regular, with Saarath concisely explaining his philosiphy to the recipient and offerring her advice about the world, but with the next two passages of the letter, his handwriting gets shakier and his thoughts less coherent. By the third and final passage, he is crossing out multiple words and beginning to ramble about the Veil and the changing world, indicating his deteriorating mind state, which likely contributed to his going all-out against the Inquisitor in the final stretch of the mission.

''Characters/DragonAgeInquisition'': [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionTheInquisitor The Inquisitor]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionCompanions The Inner Circle]] ([[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionWarriors Warriors]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionMages Mages]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionRogues Rogues]]) | [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionNonPlayableCharacters Non-Playable Characters]] ([[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionTheInquisition The Inquisition]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionAntagonists Antagonists]] | '''DLC Characters''') \\

[[center:[-[[Characters/DragonAge Main Character Index]] > Dragon Age: Inquisition > [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionTheInquisitor The Inquisitor]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionCompanionsAndAdvisors Companions And Advisors]] ([[Characters/DragonAgeCole Cole]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeTheIronBull The Iron Bull]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeSera Sera]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeSolas Solas]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeVivienne Vivienne]]) | [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionStaff Staff]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionAgents Agents]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionTrainers Trainers]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionMultiplayer Multiplayer]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionAntagonists Antagonists]] | [[Characters/DragonAgeInquisitionNonPlayableCharacters Non-Playable Characters]] | '''DLC Characters''' -]]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Upon entering the Deep Roads and hearing the howl of approaching darkspawn, Renn gripes, "[[TheDreaded Shrieks]]. It ''had'' to be shrieks." He then adds that everyone has their 'favorites' among the darkspawn.

* {{Hypocrite}}: If the Inquisitor decides to kill the high dragon instead of releasing it, she berates them for killing an innocent creature and mocks their honor as well. Quite a talk coming from someone who also holds said creature in captivity, heavily implied to be hurting, gathering its poison to empower gaatlok for her plan to assassinate heads of state across southern Thedas and coming from a culture that reveres dragons. Some of the adherents of the Qun end up deserting her due to her maltreatment against the dragon, making the Inquisitor's act against it as a MercyKill. And even if they treated the dragon right, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they will not hesitate to kill it if they eventually have no use for their plans anymore.]] And if the Inquisition decided to ally themselves with the Qun back in the main campaign, then another hypocrisy points for her when they didn't honor their alliance the very moment they decided to attack southern Thedas.

* {{Hypocrite}}: If the Inquisitor decides to kill the high dragon instead of releasing it, she berates them for killing an innocent creature and mocks their honor as well. Quite a talk coming from someone who also holds said creature in captivity, heavily implied to be hurting, gathering its poison to empower gaatlok for her plan to assassinate heads of state across southern Thedas and coming from a culture that reveres dragons. Some of the adherents of the Qun end up deserting her due to her maltreatment against the dragon, making the Inquisitor's act against it as a MercyKill. And if the Inquisition decided to ally themselves with the Qun back in the main campaign, then another hypocrisy points for her when they didn't honor their alliance the very moment they decided to attack southern Thedas.

* {{Hypocrite}}: If the Inquisitor decides to kill the high dragon instead of releasing it, she berates them for killing an innocent creature and mocks their honor as well. Quite a talk coming from someone who also holds said creature in captivity, heavily implied to be hurting, gathering its poison to empower gaatlok for her plan to assassinate heads of state across southern Thedas and coming from a culture that reveres dragons. Some of the adherents of the Qun end up deserting her due to her maltreatment against the dragon, making the Inquisitor's act against it as a MercyKill. And if the Inquisition decided to ally themselves with the Qun back in the main campaign, then another hypocrisy points for her when they broke theirs first the very moment they decided to attack southern Thedas.

** If Iron Bull [[spoiler:became Tal-Vashoth]] and joins your party [[spoiler:before the fight against the dragon, she will order him to attack the Inquisitor as if he is still part of the Ben-Hassrath. He flat out refuses and joins the Inquisitor instead.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: If the Inquisitor decides to kill the high dragon instead of releasing it, she berates them for killing an innocent creature. Quite a talk coming from someone who also used the same creature for her plan to assassinate heads of state across southern Thedas and coming from a culture that reveres dragons. Even before the Inquisitor comes to kill it, the dragon is already in pain and clearly doesn't want to be there, making their act against it a MercyKill.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Viddasala seeks to free the South from uncontrolled magic and their corrupt leaders [[spoiler:by assassinating nearly every noble in Ferelden and Orlais, using magic that would probably get her declared Tal-Vashoth if her superiors learned about it]].

* GutturalGrowler: As to be expected from the [[Creator/DavidHayter voice]] of [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Solid Snake.]]

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: In a ValuesDissonance way. The official Chantry line is that Ameridan was a valorous human warrior, faithful member of the Chantry, tireless hunter of mages and monsters, and helped form the Templar Order and the Seekers of Truth. The reality is that [[spoiler:Ameridan was an elven mage who revered both the Maker ''and'' the elven gods, preferred hunting dragons and demons to Chantry politics, and was wary of the idea of Templars using lyrium to fuel their abilities. He is also dismayed to learn that the Rite of Tranquility is commonly used, instead of being an absolute last resort behind even execution as he advised, and that the Seekers no longer welcome mages into their ranks.]] Strangely enough, Ameridan was also subjected to a...

* MoralMyopia: Somewhat Downplayed. Ameridan was very close friends with Emperor Kordillus Drakon I, and has nothing but praise towards the man whom would go down in history as the first Emperor of Orlais and founder of the Southern Chantry as the people of Thedas know it. However, Ameridan notably has little to say of the fact that what made Drakon the first Emperor is the fact that, well, he made Orlais into an Empire, and bringing the Chant of Light ''by force'' to his human neighbors. While the Elven nation of the Dales [[spoiler: of which Ameridan was a native,]] was spared [[spoiler:at Ameridan's request]], Drakon's son Kordillus II would forget such promises and promptly lead Orlais on the Exalted March of the Dales, which would result in the Elven nation's downfall. For his part, Ameridan lays the blame for such on the elves for their isolationism causing a cooling of relations between the two countries, [[spoiler:and himself, for not being there to mediate between the two and possibly find common ground,]] with little to nothing said on Orlais' religious fanaticism and imperialism playing a role. However, the "downplayed" part comes in when he is outright ''horrified'' to hear that Kordillus II conquered the Dales [[spoiler:despite the promise made to jim by Kordillus II's father]], heavily implying that he wasn't aware of just how aggressive Orlais' expansionism had become in his absence.

* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:In this case, the nail was ''him''. Without his stabilizing influence in Halamshiral, the elves elected not to stand with Orlais against the Blight, deciding instead to simply focus on their own lands while the darkspawn ravaged Orlais. As a result, relations between the two took a nosedive after the Blight, and eventually led to Orlais declaring war on and defeating the Dales, resulting in the fall of the Elven homeland.]] On the other side of the wall was [[spoiler:Emperor Kordillus Drakon I, whom Ameridan considered a close friend. While Drakon did unify Orlais and bring peace across the region between the many warring factions, he was also the one who set Orlais on becoming an expansionist empire, motivated by his belief that he was "chosen" to spread the Chant of Light across Thedas. To his credit, he did manage to only focus his conquest upon other human factions, likely due to Ameridan's counsel, but it would be his religious beliefs and expansionist rhetoric that his son, Kordillus Drakon II, would carry on after Drakon I's death which would eventually result in Chantry missionaries being sent into elven territory, and the inevitable tensions and eventual war this would cause. Drakon I's influence and his opinion on human/elven relations are not mentioned by Ameridan, but the First Inquisitor was probably one of the few if not the only one able to find common ground between the two factions, and his disappearance meant the end of any sort of mediation between elves and humans at a time when it was needed the most.]]

* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:In this case, the nail was ''him''. Without his stabilizing influence in Halamshiral, the elves elected not to stand with Orlais against the Blight, deciding instead to simply focus on their own lands while the darkspawn ravaged Orlais. As a result, relations between the two took a nosedive after the Blight, and eventually led to Orlais declaring war on and defeating the Dales, resulting in the fall of the Elven homeland.]] On the other side of the wall was [[spoiler:Drakon, whom Ameridan considered a close friend but who also turned Orlais into an Imperial expansionist empire backed by his own Cult of the Maker, the teachings of which Drakon used to justify conquering his human neighbors, long before Orlais sent Chantry missionaries into elven territory. While Drakon's influence and its effects on human/elven relations are not mentioned by Ameridan, the First Inquisitor was probably one of the few if not the only one able to find common ground between the two factions, and his disappearance meant the end of any sort of mediation between elves and humans at a time when it was needed the most.]]

* MoralMyopia: Ameridan's choice of allies is complicated, to say the least. While Ameridan considered Drakon a close friend and comrade, Drakon's expansionalist and religious fundamentalist policies made him...not the most friendly guy on the block to anyone who wasn't a member of his Cult of the Maker and/or Orlesian, ''especially'' not to the neighboring elven nation of Halamshiral, [[spoiler: whom Ameridan shared more than just his race with.]] Ameridan, of course, has nothing but praise for his good friend Drakon with no mention of his more nasty feelings towards elves and non-Maker worshippers, though it is likely it was Ameridan's stabilizing influence which kept the Emperor's...eccentricities in check, ostensibly in hopes that the Emperor may take a more moderate stance as time wore on, possibly encouraged by Drakon's promise to [[spoiler: honor Halamshiral's sovereignty]]. Ameridan's influence on the Cult's/Chantry's expansionist policies can be seen once he disappeared, since [[spoiler: without him, it took only one generation for Drakon's son to set his imperialist sights on the Dales, though Ameridan blames it on the elves for their own isolationist and distrusting of humans, or at the very least believes he could have mediated between the two]].
* OriginalPositionFallacy: While not directly acknowledged, Ameridan was fine with his close personal friend Emperor Drakon leading [[TheFundamentalist religiously-motivated]] Imperialist expansionist campaigns against neighboring human kingdoms because Drakon assured him [[spoiler:they would honor elven sovereignty]]. When Ameridan learns that [[spoiler:Drakon's ''own son'' annexed the Dales one short generation later]] he's horrified, as he'd assumed that [[spoiler:''his own'' people would be exempt, though there is a generous amount of implication that Ameridan's prescence was a stabilizing influence on Drakon himself, and without him, [[ForWantOfANail no one was around to keep Drakon's descendants from diving headfirst into the deep end of the imperialism pool.]]]]

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* BringHelpBack: She was supposed to do this. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it didn't happen - her leg was broken and she couldn't get far without any backup, leaving her to try to reach Ameridan in her dreams one more time.]]

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->''"I am no stranger to catastrophe, but this chaos in the south defies comprehension. Your duty is done, Inquisitor. It is time to end your magic."''
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* AnAxeToGrind: She uses one when attacking the Jaws of Hakkon.

* AnAxeToGrind: Wields a two-handed axe.