I must admit I don't go into these books as much else other than a vehicle for imparting lore. I'm not a massive fan of his style, and I think he's far better at writing in-game dialogue and plot than he is at an actual story.
It's just nice to have stuff put down in stone. The part about the phylactery chamber pretty much exploded my mind. No mage in Thedas has a phylactery any more! Also little bits about what mages are capable of doing with spirits, more concrete things about demons, hints at what it actually FEELS like to be tranquil - these are all things that will make my fanfic writing and RP-ing a lot easier.
Sure the story was quite interesting, but I suppose I was mostly interested in it because I wanted to KNOW THINGS and was tired of just guessing them or glossing over them for fic :D.
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I must admit I don't go into these books as much else other than a vehicle for imparting lore. I'm not a massive fan of his style, and I think he's far better at writing in-game dialogue and plot than he is at an actual story.
It's just nice to have stuff put down in stone. The part about the phylactery chamber pretty much exploded my mind. No mage in Thedas has a phylactery any more! Also little bits about what mages are capable of doing with spirits, more concrete things about demons, hints at what it actually FEELS like to be tranquil - these are all things that will make my fanfic writing and RP-ing a lot easier.
Sure the story was quite interesting, but I suppose I was mostly interested in it because I wanted to KNOW THINGS and was tired of just guessing them or glossing over them for fic :D.