Bioware's role playing games get their players to make difficult decisions. Typically, the characters are easy to care about, and that makes the choices you have to make all the more difficult in a dramatic situation that requires sacrifice.
Sometimes though, there are choices that are obviously evil. You go "Who would pick that option?" Other times, we are surprised that the consequences of a choice become so tragic and dire.
With all that mind, here are ten choices you can make in Dragon Age Inquisition that are just plain evil.
10 Harden Leliana
Leliana has been in the series since the first game, and she has changed drastically. If left to her own paranoia in Inquisition, she becomes a merciless assassin. Without you holding her back, she gets really scary and problematic, especially if she wants to rule as the next Divine. Most people do not want a cold assassin as their most holy symbol.
The only way to soften her is to stop her at every chance when she wants to make a huge sacrifice.
9 Exile The Gray Wardens
We may not yet know the full extent of the consequences behind some decisions. One such choice is exiling the Gray Wardens. In their exile, how will the next Blight be prevented? Who knows! That is a question for future games.
In exiling the organization, you leave them to their own devices (which was a reason they got possessed in the first place). In all, their exile will probably hurt later in the series. This also especially gets hard for them if you left their commander in the Fade.
8 Have Celene Assassinated And Briala Executed
There are a ton of choices in the "Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts" questline. You have Briala, Gaspard, and Celene all fighting to be the next ruler of Oralsis. If you read the book, then you know way more about their backstories. Celene is a stable ruler, Briala is an elf who wants to free her people, and Gaspard is a warlord.
Most fans have agreed that killing both Celene and Briala is the worst decision you can make at the Winter Palace because Gaspard is definitely going to go to war with Ferelden.
7 Leave Hawke To Die
Unless you are lucky enough to choose between Hawke and Stroud or Hawke and Lohgain, a lot of players had a very difficult choice to make in the Fade. Choosing between Hawke and Alister may be one of the series' most difficult decisions you have to make.
However, the consequences for leaving Hawke behind are way more fresh than when choosing Alister. Since Varric is with you, you get the brunt of emotion about leaving the protagonist from the second game in the Fade.
6 Give Vivienne A Regular Wvyern Heart
There is little in-between for Vivienne, you either love her or you hate her. Even if you hate her though, a lot of fans do not lie to her with a fake wvyern heart for her lovers' illness.
However, she is rather secretive about what the potion is for, so you could give her the fake out of spite for her not telling you. However, that will just make you feel like a jerk when it it revealed that it is a potion for a sickly man.
5 Punching Your Companions In The Face
It is obviously not a great idea to punch your allies in the face. This can be done to two characters: Solas and Dorian. You do not get the option unless you make them really angry. Solas and Dorian confront you and you can choose to back down or get completely hostile.
If Dorian is punched, he leaves. Solas however gets really spooky and says that you have proven him right about everything. That gets really upsetting once you learn his real goals and identity.
4 Making Anyone Tranquil
Tranquility is one of the most disturbing punishments in the Dragon Age franchise. Mages who are deemed too dangerous become emotionless husks. They are still useful to society, but they basically lost their personalities.
As Inquisitor, you can make some people tranquil as a punishment for their awful deeds. However, who really deserves such a fate? A lot of companions take issue if you use tranquility as a means of punishment. It is tranquility that partly caused the mage and Templar war after all
3 Replace Blackwall In Jail With A Look-A-Like
Blackwall goes to jail because it turns out he is not a Gray Warden, but a war criminal. He decides to stop lying and to face his punishment of execution. As his boss, you have a big choice to make.
Leliana, Cullen, and Josephine all have their own ideas on how to free Blackwall. Leliana has the idea to replace him with a look-a-like. That means an innocent man will die in order for Blackwall to walk free.
If Blackwall learns that you made this decision, he rightly hates you.
2 Encourage Cullen's Lyrium Addiction
Cullen is an ex-Templar, and they were required to take magical drugs called lyrium in order to fight mages. However, it can become an addiction that will ruin their lives.
You get to the whether to support Cullen through detoxing from lyrium or making him keep taking the drug in order to perform better work. It a pretty twisted choice, and it gets really depressing with you read the epilogue.
1 Kill Off The Bull's Chargers
Players who killed off Iron Bull's mercenary band typically did so because they wanted to secure an alliance with the qunari.
This severely backfires in the games' epilogue: Trespasser. Not only do the qunari break the alliance and go to war, but they do it all behind your back. The worst part is that Iron Bull betrays you and tries to kill you, even if you are romancing him.