Hmmm…the darkspawn to me are more like Goblins or Orks than Chaos. Yeah the Taint thingy is true but still Darkspawn die in huge numbers.

To me they are skavens without the cool technology and skavenish features. The Skaven even have Broodmothers.

Ferelden didn’t seem too German to me. It’s Medieval England with Wales being the City Elves and the Dalish being Irish. Landsmeet like stuff were fairly common in European Monarchies during the Middle Ages (remember the power didn’t actually resided in the king, but in his vassals aka the nobles. If a noble became powerful enough and have a rightful claim to a throne he could overthrow the king, as long as other powerful nobles supported his claim)

The Warhammer Empire is most definatively NOT British in any single bit. It is the Holy Roman Empire in it’s pure essence brought to a Fantasy World. Britain is better represented by Albion (Celtic Britain) and the High Elves (Imperial Britain) to some extent…even Bretonnia to some extent with the Arturian Legends surrounding it represents way more british stuff than the Empire.

The Circle of Maegi is controlled by the Chantry directly. I may be wrong but it always seemed to me the King of Ferelden has little to do if the Leader of the Templars decide not togive a hand and mages do not hold power positions outside the circle or help the nobles in their in fighting. If Ferelden fights a Civil War it is unlikely that the nobles will use mages in each side as the Circle is independent from them.

The schools of Magic are likely to answer the call quite often, even in both sides of a war as long as both of them are Electors who have money to spend on the mages. The Schools of Magic are deeply dependant on the Imperial Counties and it isn’t unusual for an Imperial citizen to see a mage, at least not as unusual as it is for a Fereldean.

That said, the devs mentioned Warhammer along with A Song of Ice and Fire as inspiration so it is official.

I was thinking the same thing! I’ve been trying to tell my friends how Warhammer was first :) The desire demons vs. the Slaanesh demons are the clearest example, I think, along with the whole social situation concerning magic