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High Approval

Wherever It Takes Us

The PC finds Cassandra in the war room.

PC: Planning troop movements now?

Cassandra: I’m trying to imagine what it will look like when we’re done. All of this once belong to the Tevinter Imperium. Andraste changed that, as did the Blights. As for what will come next… I cannot guess the Maker’s plan.

The PC joins her at the war table.

Dialogue options:

General: We make things better. [1]
General: You can’t guess? [2]
General: There is no plan. [3]

1 - General: We make things better. PC: We make the world a better place. Cassandra: Because everyone agrees on what “better” means. [4]

2 - General: You can’t guess? PC: You don’t have any ideas of your own? [4]

3 - General: There is no plan. PC: Maybe there is no plan. We get the world we make, nothing more. Cassandra: Then how do we determine the right choices to make? [4]

4 - Scene continues.

Cassandra: I know I want a world where people trust the Chantry and that trust is respected. I want to respect tradition but not fear change. I want to right past wrongs but not avenge them. And I have no idea if my wanting these things makes any of them right.

Dialogue options:

General: You’re too idealistic. [5]
General: I don’t want the same things. [6]
General: Those are admirable goals. [7]

5 - General: You’re too idealistic. PC: You don’t think those things are a bit idealistic? Cassandra: Once I might have. Today I live in a time when anything seems possible. PC: Anything doesn’t mean everything—or even something good. Cassandra: That will not stop me from trying. [8]

6 - General: I don’t want the same things. PC: You know I don’t want the same things as you. Cassandra: I would be surprised if you did. Perhaps I will never get what I want. The Maker might have other plans for you and me. That will not stop me from trying to determine the correct path. [8]

7 - General: Those are admirable goals. PC: Even if they’re not right, they’re certainly admirable. Cassandra: Some would disagree. They would call it heresy. PC: That didn’t sound like the ravings of a heretic, Cassandra. Cassandra: Perhaps not, but it takes precious little effort to paint even an act of compassion as damaging. [8]

8 - Scene continues.

She walks over to the window and leans on the bannister.

Cassandra: Tell me, what guides you? You make decisions that shake the world, yet always seem so assured. I wish I had your confidence.

9 - Dialogue options:

Investigate: You admire me? [10]
General: I obey my conscience. [11]
General: I make it up as I go. [12]
General: I do what must be done. [13]
Flirt (male PC): You guide me. [14]

10 - Investigate: You admire me? PC: You almost sound like you admire me. Cassandra: I absolutely do. I may not always agree with your decisions, but how many could do what you have done? You were a prisoner, accused and reviled, yet you’ve emerged from every trial victorious. The Maker’s grace does not make you immortal. You live or die by your own hand. That is worthy of admiration. [back to 9]

11 - General: I obey my conscience. PC: I’m guided by what my conscience tells me. Cassandra: Your conscience must speak more clearly than mine. PC: I doubt it, but I do my best. [15]

12 - General: I make it up as I go. PC: I’m not that assured—I just make it up as I go. Cassandra: (Chuckles.) Let all your followers take heart. PC: What can I say? It’s worked so far. [15]

13 - General: I do what must be done. PC: I do what must be done. What other choice is there? Cassandra: The demands of the moment. PC: Exactly. [15]

14 - Flirt: You guide me. PC: If I’m guided by anything, it’s you. Cassandra: Oh, excellent: the blind leading the blind. PC: I don’t think you’re blind.

Post-The Ideal Romance Cassandra: I… don’t want to be your prophet. PC: What do you want? They kiss. Scene ends.

Romanced, not completed The Ideal Romance Cassandra: You’re persistent. PC: I thought you liked my confidence? [17]

Not-romanced Cassandra: Clearly you haven’t been paying attention. PC: Haven’t I? [17]

15 - Scene continues

The PC joins her at the window.

Choice dependent dialogue:

Female PC [16]
Male PC [17]

16 - Female PC Cassandra: Think of it: like Andraste long ago, once again the fate of Thedas will be determined by a woman. It makes me proud to know you.

Dialogue options:

General: I hope we’re friends. [18]
General: Thank you. [19]
General: I won’t determine anything. [20]
General: Just because I’m a woman? [21]

18 - General: I hope we’re friends. PC: I hope we can call each other friends. Cassandra: I hope so too. [27] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 19 - General: Thank you. PC: I appreciate that. [27] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 20 - General: I won’t determine anything. PC: I’ve no intention of determining anyone’s fate, Cassandra. Cassandra: Nor did Andraste, in the beginning. [27] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 21 - General: Just because I’m a woman? PC: How is my being a woman relevant? Cassandra: Because you will join a small group of formidable women who have changed history. You will inspire others for ages to come. Surely you know this? [27]

17 - Male PC Cassandra: When we first met, it someone told me I would be pleased to have you lead me, I would have throttled them. But I am. The Maker chose well.

Dialogue options:

General: I hope we’re friends. [22]
General: Thank you. [23]
General: I don’t deserve that. [24]
General (PC denied being chosen): The Maker didn’t choose me. [25]
General (non-Andrastian PC): There is no Maker. [26]

22 - General: I hope we’re friends. PC: I hope we can call each other friends. Cassandra: I hope so too. [27] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 23 - General: Thank you. PC: I appreciate that. [27] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 24 - General: I don’t deserve that. PC: I don’t know if I deserve that. Who knows where I could lead us? Cassandra: We’ll have to see, won’t we? [27] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 25 - General: The Maker didn’t choose me. PC: I don’t believe I was chosen, remember? Cassandra: Oh, I’m well aware. [27] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 26 - General: There is no Maker. PC: Why bring the Maker into this? Cassandra: (Chuckles.) Then whatever, or whoever, brought you here. [27]

27 - Scene continues.

Cassandra: We still have a long road to travel, Inquisitor. Wherever it takes us, I’m glad you’re here.

Low Approval

A Toast to You

The PC finds Cassandra lying on the ground with a bottle in hand

Cassandra: Ah. Here comes the hero of our age.

Cassandra (sided mages): Mighty tamer of the dreaded mage rebellion! Cassandra (sided templars): Mighty tamer of the Order of Templars!

If WEWH completed Cassandra (Celene rules/public truce): Savior of Empress Celene! Champion of all Orlais! Cassandra (Gaspard rules alone): Friend to Emperor Gaspard! Champion of all Orlais! Cassandra (Gaspard and Briala rule): Puppetmaster of the new emperor! Champion of all Orlais!

Cassandra: Once lowly prisoner, now the fabled Herald of Andraste! A toast to you, my [lord/lady].

Dialogue options:

Angry: A pathetic display. [1] -Cassandra greatly disapproves
Surprised: You’re drunk! [2]
Confused: You’re angry at me? [3]
Stoic: What’s wrong now? [4] -Cassandra disapproves

1 - Angry: A pathetic display. PC: Sitting in a dark corner. Drinking. Cassandra: Yes! What of it! PC: It’s pathetic.

2 - Surprised: You’re drunk! PC: You’re drunk? That’s a new one. Cassandra: Yes, we’re all changing, aren’t we? Everything’s changing. PC: And that makes you… unhappy?

3 - Confused: You’re angry at me? PC: You’re angry at me? Is that what this is about? Cassandra: Naturally. Isn’t everything about you? PC: What have you got to be angry about?

4 - Stoic: What’s wrong now? PC: Oh, what is it now? Cassandra: It is now what it always is. PC: That makes no sense.

5 - Scene continues.

Cassandra: You!

She stands and points at the PC while staggering.

Cassandra (post-The Ideal Romance): How could I think you loved me? You, of all men? Cassandra (romanced, not completed The Ideal Romance): “I can be that man.” Did you even believe the words as you said them?

Cassandra: Coddling the mages, encouraging them as if they didn’t almost cost us everything. Cassandra: Coddling the templars, as if they weren’t complicit in their own corruption.

Cassandra (completed WEWH with high court approval): You played the damned “Game” Orlesians love so much, mincing around like the rest of them.

Cassandra: I have watched you, even exalted you as you straddled the world. And I am the one who raised you up.

Dialogue options:

General: We don’t need you. [6] -Cassandra greatly disapproves
General (PC did not claim to be chosen): I didn’t ask for this. [7]
General (PC claimed chosen): The Maker chose me, not you. [8] -Cassandra disapproves
General: I’m doing my best. [9] +Cassandra slightly approves
General: Yes, you did. [10]

6 - General: We don’t need you. PC: Then go. The Inquisition doesn’t need you. Cassandra: How clear you make it. [11]

7 - General: I didn’t ask for this. PC: You speak as though I asked for any of this. Cassandra: Clearly you are innocent of all that followed. [11]

8 - General: The Maker chose me, not you. PC: You didn’t raise me up—the Maker did. Cassandra: Praise the Maker and His infinite wisdom. [11] Cassandra (non-Andrastian PC): Says the nonbeliever. [11]

9 - General: I’m doing my best. PC: I’m doing the best I can, Cassandra. “What needs to be done,” remember? Cassandra: I do remember. [11]

10 - General: Yes, you did. PC: “Wherever you lead us,” remember? Cassandra: I do remember. [11]

11 - Scene continues.

She throws the bottle.

Cassandra: I have been such a fool. Cassandra: Corypheus still lives. My work is not yet done.

Cassandra: Leave me be, Inquisitor. Go, do what you must.

Speaking again after, if previously romanced. Cassandra: I trust that we will return to business, Inquisitor? I think that would be best.