It’s clear, however, the events in Kirkwall changed the way he saw both the order and its treatment of the mages. The Templars were in active conflict with the mages and he did not seem like the type to walk the middle road.
The last person I expected to see commanding the Inquisitor’s forces in Dragon Age: Inquisition was Cullen. When she dissolves the Circle of Magi in Kirkwall (effectively sentencing all mages to death) it is Cullen who orders her to step down.
The red lyrium in her sword has shaped her into a homicidal authoritarian.
As the years pass, he comes to believe that Meredith is leading his order down the wrong path. Unlike his portrayal in the first game, Cullen is idealistic about the Templar Order’s ability to win the hearts and minds of the city and quell rising tensions between the discontent mages and the Chantry. Cullen in captivity – Dragon Age: OriginsĬullen was next sent to the Circle of Magi in Kirkwall, the setting of Dragon Age II, wherein he was promoted to second-in-command to Knight-Commander Meredith. I didn’t expect him to show up again in any future capacity. When you later visit the Circle of Magi’s tower, Cullen can be found trapped by some blood mages and politely asks you to kill all the mages within - in case any were secretly blood mages. His job was to strike you down if you came out of that “test” as an abomination. When we are first introduced to Cullen, he’s a Templar witness to the Harrowing your protagonist survives in Dragon Age: Origins‘s magi origin. I had at one point written off this Templar until I noticed he kept showing up in Dragon Age games, each time being a little more relevant to the plot and underscoring the plights of the Templar Order, most notably substance abuse.ĭragon Age is a fantasy RPG centred on the continent of Thedas’s hostile politics, a recurrent demonic plague known as “The Blight,” and - most notably - the conflict between the mages and their keepers, the Templar Order. Cullen Rutherford is not a traditional NPC. You need them to build out the world and provide stakes to the narrative, but more often than not they won’t bring much outside of side-quests to the table. NPC’s, or non-playable characters, are typically the filler of the RPG sausage.
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