I won't argue, per se, but for the sake of clarification I'll address a few points that I think perhaps didn't come across right in my original explanation:
The amnesia that you mentioned effectively wipes the slate of the backstory clean, including any evidence or constraints of personality.
Actually, the amnesia merely wipes clean anything that I would have had to make up from scratch about when he was living, effectively making him a Death Knight first and foremost who's entire personality and history is made up of the information provided by the game, including the origin story (which is played out). He remembers everything after being reanimated from death; he just doesn't remember anything of who he was when he was alive before that.
If anything, this makes him even less of an OC. And if I'd taken him from just after Light's Hope Chapel as I offered, for example, there is literally less choice in what he did in-game than there is for Hawke or Shepard. The Death Knight starter area, ending with Light's Hope Chapel, is 100% linear.
Also, those raids are the plot of the game, especially for a Death Knight in Wrath. They're the missions to take down Arthas, who once owned your character's very mind and soul. This isn't something I made up, it's the entire plot of the expansion, and a character who does nothing but those raids and the quests related to them is completely rail-roaded and has no choice in anything.
Again, I've seen far more variation in Hawkes and Wardens, even with their limited dialogue choices. I'm actually very active in that fandom and could point out five different Suranas with highly different personalities (that still match what they're given in game), and five different Hawkes as well.
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I won't argue, per se, but for the sake of clarification I'll address a few points that I think perhaps didn't come across right in my original explanation:
The amnesia that you mentioned effectively wipes the slate of the backstory clean, including any evidence or constraints of personality.
Actually, the amnesia merely wipes clean anything that I would have had to make up from scratch about when he was living, effectively making him a Death Knight first and foremost who's entire personality and history is made up of the information provided by the game, including the origin story (which is played out). He remembers everything after being reanimated from death; he just doesn't remember anything of who he was when he was alive before that.
If anything, this makes him even less of an OC. And if I'd taken him from just after Light's Hope Chapel as I offered, for example, there is literally less choice in what he did in-game than there is for Hawke or Shepard. The Death Knight starter area, ending with Light's Hope Chapel, is 100% linear.
Also, those raids are the plot of the game, especially for a Death Knight in Wrath. They're the missions to take down Arthas, who once owned your character's very mind and soul. This isn't something I made up, it's the entire plot of the expansion, and a character who does nothing but those raids and the quests related to them is completely rail-roaded and has no choice in anything.
Again, I've seen far more variation in Hawkes and Wardens, even with their limited dialogue choices. I'm actually very active in that fandom and could point out five different Suranas with highly different personalities (that still match what they're given in game), and five different Hawkes as well.