ALRIGHT FUCKERS time for kt to yell about trespasser, more under the cut obv!
crying bc it was worth every penny tbh
ok firstly it was amazing to be able to talk to everyone after two years and see what they’d done, how they’d been, etc. like Krem getting a gf (!!!), Cullen getting a mabari (we finally got our mabari in a way huh), and at least for me, Blackwall surviving his Joining and becoming an actual Warden under the name Thom Rainier. Oh god and ofc VARRIC becoming VISCOUNT of Kirkwall lmao, amazing, imagine Aveline’s reaction ahaha.
Secondly being able to hang out with everyone?? I’m talking Bull’s birthday ‘surprise’, Josie’s trip to the Orlesian theatre, and Viv’s spa day. NGL here, I’ve never mentioned it but after Solas broke up with my Lavellan I cried like a weenie in the shower and wrote up a story over about three days or so at about 13k words about how she felt after, and a few of her friends all coming together to cheer her up (if there’s any interest in it let me know I could totes put it up, even if it’s not like amaaazing, I wrote it to work the sorrow out of my system after that heartbreak; plus it has some pretty funny moments). Where am I going with this? Well, not to spoil the story (lmao who cares but anyway), basically what two of the characters in the DLC did for their little event (or mentioned doing) are things I put into my story to cheer my character up, and that honestly made me so so happy, like being able to know a character so well and knowing what they would do for the Inquisitor, that’s a sign of quality writing by Bioware right there. I smiled and laughed a lot while playing it, and that made me really happy.
I used Cass, who I made Divine, Varric, and Dorian as my party and the banter was top notch. There’s sosososo much lore, and not just like lore but like mind-blowing, revelation-giving lore, like !!!! the veil not having always been there? I recall Solas saying he longed for what we had lost, and the descriptions of the elven cities really made me feel that too. We lost a lot, certainly, but we gained freedom from false gods, but at the cost of immortality and slavery once more, not at the hands of our people but by humans. I can see why Solas would want to bring back that world, that time in which elves practically breathed magic. And if I didn’t have my non-elven friends, I would follow him and try to work towards this world, even if it meant destroying the current one. My Lavellan chose to try to make him change his mind, and I hope that in the future we can actually do this, or perhaps make a world where not just elves but all peoples can live together in peace with the Fade and each other.
one last thing for now... Remember the trailer, when he turns around “I suppose you have questions” all hard, cold? When I got to that point I was ready for the bite, the hurt from my character being treated like someone not so close, like an acquaintance, like he acted right after he broke up with her. But when he said those words and looked at Lavellan, his face and tone softened, and that made me feel... I don’t know how to convey it really, but it reaffirmed for me what I already knew, that this man, this god isn’t made of ice, he can be made to see, to feel, and to hope, and that in turn gives me hope for the future.
