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  • I always enjoyed the story of 2. Origins and 3 both fall for the same story beats aka “You are the Chosen One. Only you can save the World.”

    Origins, you are the last of the Grey Wardens in Felderen. Only you can reunite everyone to stop the Blight.

    3, only you can close the rifts, reunite everyone, and stop the Big Bad guy.

    In 2n Varic actively mocks that in the beginning. Hawke is portrayed as the Chosen One. When challenged, Varic admits that he made it up. Hawke is a nobody in beginning, only kicks start the mage and templar war because of the people that they associated started everything. Cough Anders Cough Hawke really just stumbles from adventure to adventure because of their companions.

    It’s a story about unintended consequences and how small events can lead into big events.

    2’s biggest failure was the over use of the same assets. The is cave/house/ruin is the same layout all the other cave/house/ruin. It was fine when it made narrative sense however that it is only for a minority of the time.