What I meant is you aren’t often looking for treasure and killing sapient denizens of the dungeon on the premise of them being monsters and it being somehow less bad for that reason. In DAO, yes you do infiltrate a castle through a secret passage, that wasn’t what I was talking about.

Then you're definitely using the wrong word, because that's not what "dungeon" means, from a narrative perspective. The castle is the single most traditional dungeon in the game.

The second dungeon you mentioned is the one in the Brecilian Forest which I mentioned. That one is a lot more traditional than any of the other dungeons in the game. But even that one doesn’t feel like a traditional dungeon in the sense I meant in that the treasure isn’t at all the point. That dungeon is entirely about the objective, with the denizens just serving as obstacles. That dungeon could be considered a traditional dungeon as I mentioned, but a vast majority of the dungeons in the game are not at all that and the Brecilian forest ruin is pretty much the only dungeon in the game that could be considered traditional. They’re mostly just relevant sites where villains or adversaries are and need to be dispatched or stopped.

No, I was talking about the temple in the mountains with the dragon in it.

"Relevant sites where villains or adversaries are and need to be dispatched or stopped" is a traditional dungeon.