TITS MCGEE.

isabelaismyhomegirl:

Only because they skipped 6 years. And in those 6 years NOTHING HAPPENED. Nothing times 80,000, absolutely nothing. Like your Hawke and companions spent those years in isolation, no fights, no friends, no shit.

lmfao no tho

they never skipped 6 years, like where are you getting that? the timeline goes:

year zero: escape from lothering, employ of athenril/meeran, Act I
year one: gathering funds and friends, deep roads expedition, Act I
year four: qunari assail city, hawke defeats arishok, Act II
year seven: anders destroys chantry, champion flees city, Act III
year ten: cassandra interrogates varric, Epilogue

there’s plenty of reference to events during the lapse, too. hawke’s relationships with anders and merrill, aveline marrying donnic, aveline’s satinalia party, hawke teaching fenris to read, fenris and isabela hooking up, the entire progressing of the mage-templar conflict and kirkwall political tensions. and that’s just act 2 to act 3!

and that’s to say nothing of the (kind of silly) assumption that hawke just woke up one day and decided to visit each and every one of their friends and then do every act quest in a day or two’s timespan.

some of the timeskips could have been handled better from a tightness standpoint, like scripting was occasionally very abrupt, but the writers did their best to breathe life into companions and make the time skips mean something