I said on Twitter, as I played through Dragon Age: Inquisition, that I was developing a theory.
The best representative of the player, I mused, isn't actually the Inquisitor, the player character. The best representative of the player is, in fact, their advisor Cullen.
And now I will try to explain.
The rest of this post contains big fat unmarked spoilers about basically every game BioWare has released since 2007. You have been warned.