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** Humans also get a similar option. When in the Dalish camp (the Dalish being elves that refuse to be subjugated and amount to a FantasyCounterpartCulture to Roma) you can talk to a Dalish storyteller who goes on and on about how \
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** Humans also get a similar option. When in the Dalish camp (the Dalish being elves that refuse to be subjugated and amount to a FantasyCounterpartCulture to Roma) you can talk to a Dalish storyteller who goes on and on about how \\\"evil\\\" mankind is for invading their homeland, with significant bias. While some dialogue options let you play nice, other tell him to stop playing the victim and get off his high horse.
** The second time the elven homeland was destroyed, however, this trope is played dead straight. After the slaves of the Tevinter Imperium fought for their freedom during Andraste\\\'s march, the elves were granted the Dales as a new homeland by her allies. The elves then closed their borders and refused to let humans inside their lands. After nearly two hundred years of this, the second Blight starts and the surface is invaded by darkspawn. The elves then piss everyone off further by having their armies stand by and do absolutely nothing while their neighbors are nearly destroyed by the darkspawn. After almost one hundred years of war, the humans finally manage to end the Blight, and start to rebuild, the elves decide that would be a good time to conquer their neighbors and they invade Orlais. The humans then call for a Holy War against the elves and completely crush them. And even though that was all their fault, they \\\'\\\'still\\\'\\\' have the gall to whine endlessly about losing the Dales.
How exactly are these not examples? The reason given for them being cut is that they\\\'re \\\"irrelevant\\\", so could someone please explain why?
* Because the humans are just as bad if not worse. The humans did the same as the elves of old and worse, and created the entire darkspawn mess to begin with. Either give weight to both sides or just cut the discussion and backstory. I prefer the latter approach - ScrewYouElves is part of the game\\\'s backstory, and is stated as such.
** The second time the elven homeland was destroyed, however, this trope is played dead straight. After the slaves of the Tevinter Imperium fought for their freedom during Andraste\\\'s march, the elves were granted the Dales as a new homeland by her allies. The elves then closed their borders and refused to let humans inside their lands. After nearly two hundred years of this, the second Blight starts and the surface is invaded by darkspawn. The elves then piss everyone off further by having their armies stand by and do absolutely nothing while their neighbors are nearly destroyed by the darkspawn. After almost one hundred years of war, the humans finally manage to end the Blight, and start to rebuild, the elves decide that would be a good time to conquer their neighbors and they invade Orlais. The humans then call for a Holy War against the elves and completely crush them. And even though that was all their fault, they \\\'\\\'still\\\'\\\' have the gall to whine endlessly about losing the Dales.
How exactly are these not examples? The reason given for them being cut is that they\\\'re \\\"irrelevant\\\", so could someone please explain why?
* Because the humans are just as bad if not worse. The humans did the same as the elves of old and worse, and created the entire darkspawn mess to begin with. Either give weight to both sides or just cut the discussion and backstory. I prefer the latter approach - ScrewYouElves is part of the game\\\'s backstory, and is stated as such.
