Spying on a group like Qun, where everyone’s every step is controlled by the Tamassrans, where lying or hiding things is taboo… It’s a simple way to show that nothing is as it seems. But the way it is processed makes Iron Bull’s character very special. Nothing is as it seems, including Iron Bull.
How does a Qunari become a spy?
Is it possible to predict from the day Inquisitor first met him and the Chargers that Iron Bull will be such an important character? I think not. Yes, you know you’re playing a Dragon Age game. Yes, you know that everyone will have a story out from under their heads, but is it possible to tell what kind of character Iron Bull is from his mission-oriented, calm and distant introduction? If you don’t hire him and take him to your party, it may even be possible to end the story thinking that there are any Qun spies.
Iron Bull was born and raised in Par Vollen, the homeland of the Qunari. Although he has been stronger than his peers since he was little, the feature that makes him take his first name is his cunning. Ashkaari, that is, “thinking”.
For some reason, there has always been something about him being led into espionage by the Tamassrans that has made me feel weird. A beautiful way of life who pretends to have finished all his meat so as not to eat his vegetables, and when he is not allowed to go to play without eating two more bites, he looks at a child who reveals the meat he has hidden and says, “Um, he’ll be a better spy than you”: Qun.
From your good manners…
Iron Bull has a life full of forced hypocrisy and losses. His name is Hissrad, or his rank, “illusionist” or “liar,” depending on how you translate it.
He lives among the Qunaris who fled Qun during his spying for Qun. He serves ten years in places where many Ben-Hassrath start to go crazy in two years. Perhaps that’s why his losses have devastated him enough to put himself into Qun’s reprogramming system. What am I fighting for, to whom am I carrying information, whose head am I burning… Is Qun really the right side?
I think this turbulent life is the reason why the decisions you make as a lover, maybe a friend or just a commander have such a role to play in changing or reinforcing his mind. Iron Bull is not the first time we have met Qunari or Qun. But if you ask me, his story is where both concepts are best covered in the Dragon Age corpus. The story of Iron Bull is like a thought experiment based on fairness, freedom and loyalty. If I say that the reason why he is such a beloved character is his complicated nature, I think I would be wrong.
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Dragon love It is this friend who accidentally comes across a dragon in the Hinterlands and causes us to die within 0.6 seconds. Take care of him. Boy, you could have found yourself a less harmful fetish. |
Why are we chasing the Ashes High Dragon?!
Iron Bull’s unlimited dragon-slaying love… Why is this guy like that?
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