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Wild Mass Guessing about ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' includes:
 
== Archdemons, Darkspawn, etc ==
=== The Archdemons are holding back the mother of all Blights ===
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=== Maric is alive ===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100906013813/http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/47/index/174084/2 His fate is described as being lost at sea], a classic literary technique to keep a character out of the way until the writer wants to being him back in the action.
** [http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Maric#Death According to the Dragon Age Wiki,] rumor has it that Maric is alive and being held in an Orlesian prison. Many signs point to Orlais being the setting of Dragon Age III . . .
** {{spoiler|Hinted at in The Silent Grove! He was actually in an Antivan prison but was broken out by a Witch of the Wilds.}}
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Hows that for a WMG?
 
=== Thedas is a part of [[The Lord of the Rings|Arda.]] ===
Albeit the southern hemisphere of Arda. The continent of Middle-earth resides in the western part of that world. Dragon Age takes place around the same time as The Lord of the Rings.
 
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I should probably rephrase that they * might* , but a lot of your personal decisions won't make a difference. I'm ''really really really'' hoping I'm wrong, but everything seems to indicate that. Besides the incredibly short amount of time in between this game, and the new game (February 2011), Awakening ignored an obvious decision: whether your character sacrificed themselves. Besides that, the obvious [[Sequel Hook]] of the God Baby...if they choose to be faithful to your decision, you'd think a ''gigantic'' plot element would be missing. Then there's Eamon's foreshadowing of Connor, if you didn't kill him: that's another plot point they'd have to ignore if they allowed your decisions to carry through. I know they did this for ME, but the decisions of [[Mass Effect]] 1 aren't as phenomenally important as they are in [[Dragon Age]]. Perhaps this can be avoided by the game occuring in a different country (who cares who's king of Orzammar when you have Kal-Sharok! Who cares about the Ferelden Circle when you can visit Orlais' Circle! Who cares if you're Queen of Ferelden, when you can be the Empress's kid! I have a strong feeling the next game will occur in Orlais.), but that's just a different way of ignoring your decisions: by making them unimportant.
* This troper is inclined to believe that the game will allow a partial transfer, the same as the Awakening, with a few most major choices pre-written, but a few others still free to change, along with your stats and appearance, ofcourse.
* This has been Jossed by [[Word of God]]; [http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/3153797/1#3154321 you ''will'' be able to trasnfer your Origins and Awakening saves to Dragon Age 2]{{Dead link}}, although who knows what choices you made will truly have any effect...
 
=== Hawke will have a grudge against the Gray Wardens ===
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* Some of her dialogues with Zevran are also kind of flirtatious, such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZVgRgwQCkg&feature=related one] where Hardened Leliana dares him to remove his pants in front of her to "disprove some myths about elven men" before she'll "consider a tumble." In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX_hCSEfLEk another] a Warden of either gender who is romancing Zevran can ask her if she's been watching him, which nets a flustered response. The Warden can then tell her, "He's been claimed. My apologies."
* Some of her dialogue indicates that Leliana does not believe [[If It's You It's Okay]] is a valid foundation for a long-term emotional and physical relationship. (The only kind that she's interested in.) If a male Warden cheats on her with Zevran and then chooses certain dialogue options, she'll say, "You don't have to deny it. I always thought there was something missing between us. Now I know what that is," and break off the relationship. That indicates to me that she does not think that a heterosexual relationship between herself and a predominantly homosexual man would work, even if they liked each other. She ''might'' have just meant that "it" was that there was "someone else" in the picture, but the context that she said it in raises eyebrows—and she does ''not'' say the same thing to a female Warden who breaks up with her in the same manner by sleeping with Zevran. (Instead she says, "I think I [[Mistaken for Gay|made a mistake]] about you. It's not your fault, I'm sorry. Let's just put this behind us?") I have to wonder why she would think a relationship between herself and a straight male Warden would work if she was entirely homosexual herself.
* Remember that Leliana's primary character trait is ''devotion''. If she's in love with you she's not going to show any attraction to ''anyone'' else, regardless of gender.
 
=== Sten's stoicism has nothing to do with him being Qunari or his natural character, but is a symptom of the cultural alienation resulting from his exile in Ferelden. ===
* Theory upheld! Dragon Age: Inquisition reveals that qunari are often very taciturn around southerners because followers of the Qun feel ashamed to display lack of mastery of a skill before strangers... including language skills. More simply, if they aren't ''very'' fluent in whatever Thedas uses for the common tongue (remember that qunari have their own language) then it will take extraordinary circumstances for them to talk at all. Since Sten is a soldier and not a linguist, he's not going to use a single unnecessary word because he's embarassed by his lack of fluency.
 
=== Leliana is the reincarnation of Andraste. ===
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=== Alistair isn't the last of Maric's kids. ===
 
Think about it: we know that either Alistair was lied to about his parentage, or Maric has another bastard running around out there. And who do we meet, but a guy who's a mage (like the mother of the possible unknown baby), has a similar sense of humor to both Alistair and Maric, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131214184253/http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb21710/common/skins/common/blank.gif looks] suspiciously like [http://journal.wheel-of-games.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cailan_330x280.png Cailan]{{Dead link}} and [https://web.archive.org/web/20131214184253/http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb21710/common/skins/common/blank.gif Alistair]?
 
Hell, for bonus points, check out [http://social.bioware.com/project/2754/ Anderstair], Alistair with Anders' hair.
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Because the Dragonborn and Morrigan's child from the Ritual are essentially the same thing, mortals with the soul of Dragons.
 
** Except that in the Elder Scrolls, Dragons are [[Physical GodsGod|Aedric]] Sons of [[Top God|Akatosh]], literally ''time wrought into flesh''. Not oversized magical animals. Also, being Dragonborn has nothing to do with parentage, but is rather the result of direct intervention from Akatosh. Secondly, we never see any Dragons in DA use the Thu'um, so...
 
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