#midnightghoul

[ageofdragon]

Since Bioware has a means of determining what choices players made most often, do you think that it is possible that they will utilize this to create the baseline setting for the next Dragon Age game?

In a way perhaps, but not by completely getting rid of the other choice. For example, most people had a Grey Warden alive (Alistair or Loghain) and so you can see they have more dialogue/throwback references, but for those who killed them you had Stroud. Not as in-depth/personal of a character, but still there for the choice.

It would be a very slim chance and a very insignificant choice for Bioware to permanently change it to canon. For instance, with Anders in Awakening. Few people killed or refused to recruit Anders in Awakening and so they actually brought him back in DA2 regardless, but it was such an insignificant and open-ended choice in Awakening (Awakening itself was pretty much this way) anyways.

So maybe, but only the smallest choices. So something like Kieran being born will probably not be a future baseline plot, because so many people don’t have him and it was too big of a choice (a main choice).

[ageofdragon]

I am presently playing through the Blackwall romance in DAI. I've seen a few posts accusing him of trying to usurp the history and identity of being a Warden. Though he did impersonate a Warden, I could argue that he has done everything he can to live up to what he thinks a Warden should be. In fact, he would have been a Warden if his recruiter had not died during a dark spawn attack. In every way, except actuality, Blackwall is a Warden.

This is why I always make him take the actual Warden ritual and oath.

Is what Blackwall did wrong? Void yeah. However, he actually approves of becoming a Warden. He is willing to make that sacrifice and he always was, he simply never got the chance to.

Blackwall, Thom Rainier walks a very thin line (after all what he think a Warden is, lacks the understanding of What a Warden is) and he has made a string of bad decisions, but he will actually give everything to the Wardens and atone for his mistakes. It’s a start to fixing things and his entire concept comes down to second chances and forgiveness, how much are you willing to give someone whose trying.

Also what people think Wardens are, some people hold the Wardens as heroes. So impersonating a hero is always a worst offense, than just impersonating a random person. 

Me, personally? I think the Wardens are just soldiers, who is living on old Legends and trying to do the right thing. However, they are letting the old glories drive them and living in a past that is far different from what they need to be now, in the future. They are stumbling over themselves through a narrow tunnel of one goal, no matter the cost and they need something: reformation, new eye/recruits, something; to bring them back to their duty and how that duty affects others.

In other words, to me? Blackwall belongs with the Wardens, he’s right where he is supposed to be and he can bring to them a lesson they all need to learn. That everything you do has unseen consequences, to think about what they might be before you rush in head first and be ready to deal with whatever it is you bring about.

[ageofdragon]

Leliana and Josephine are tied for my second favorite romance. Leliana has an amazing singing voice in DAO, and is a literal spark of light during the blight. Josephine charmed me during my first play through of DAI, even though I romances Solas. I was put off by Sera initially when said refereed to Leliana and said, "I hear she used to play." It felt as though she was being dismissive of relationships.

Leliana is definitely a good one too, she is so sweet with a deep background and a really nice voice. And honestly, I thought Josephine was too innocent (for my character) the first time through...which I found out was Far from true.

I think Sera might have been referring to Leliana playing The Game or being a bard though, in that instance? Cause Sera says that regardless and she’d have that information from her Jennies, plus the tales of the Heroes of the Fifth Blight she would have heard in Denerim.

[ageofdragon]

Thus far, my favorite Dragon Age romance has been with Morrigan in DAO. Primarily because she makes it clear that she will not be subservient, and is an equal. Of course, I still argue that Morrigan, like her mother, is not really human (though I am not sure of what she actually is).

That’s if Morrigan is even actually Flemeth’s biological daughter. For all we truly know, she might have been stolen as a baby, like how Morrigan hinted in Origins? I think it’d be fascinating and entirely possible for Morrigan to be “second gen elf-blooded” though or whatever she is.

Though I have to say I favor Josephine romance-wise, with Dorian as a close second. Josephine is actually quite commanding and equal to the Inquisitor, not to mention she just meshes well with my canon Inquisitor’s personality. I like Dorian’s, mostly because of the intimacy his provokes and compared to the other romances in Inquisition. Like how he defends the Inquisitor from his father, because Dorian knows what it is like to be “assumed” about. Regardless of who the Inquisitor is, his father doesn’t get to demean another name, another person down to being one quality, like he did to Dorian before.

[ageofdragon]

After my initial play through of DA:I, I made a character with the purpose of romancing Sera. And then I discovered that all or nothing aspect of her romance arc, and the abusive way she went about trying to get what she wanted. I, as the player, walked away from that romance option without completing it. Due to that romance, I learned that Sera was not who I thought she was. I don't even like having her in the party now.

Exactly. I was incredibly hyped for her character and my one friend (who romances nothing but woman and elves) was so in love with finally being able to romance a lesbian elf. However, she cannot even with Sera. Simply because of how abrasive Sera’s romance is.

Because her romance is such a wary thing. When you start it seriously then you are locked into it and every chance you get to back out means Sera puts herself down and makes you out to be the bad person. Even when it comes to her forcing you between your own, long-held beliefs or her.

She has some good moments, moments of great writing, but when offset with the character as a whole and some of her less than shining moments. I cannot blame anyone for not keeping her around.

[theonyxpath]

The only really question I have at this point is when do I get the Mage book from the kickstarter that i helped fund.

All project statuses are updated weekly in the Monday Meeting notes blog.

[huachengapologist]

ok... ask you anything. hm..... In Dragon Age: Origin what is the best romance combination?

Tabris/Zevran

[disallows]

I am sad to see that you are getting so much hate due to posting one picture. It's hypocritical of them. Post what you like, and to heck with the haters. I like your blog.

thankyou :) i plan to keep posting whatever i like!