#return to ostagar

[khmara-blog]

Loghain is right about one thing - there can never be peace with your imperial oppressors. Once you're part of an empire, you'll be 'fighting someone else's enemies in someone else's war for someone else's reasons.'

[videogame-ocs]

So my autism accidentally caused drama in my canon DA playthrough of Origins between Alistair and Zevran 😅😅

(Aka the boys are fighting…over my Cousland)

Poor Alistair didn’t have a very good day. First he joined his girlfriend on a trip to Ostagar with Wynne and Morrigan, where he witnessed his dead half brother’s body string up by darkspawn and later gave Cailan the funeral he deserved.

Then (thanks to my autism l kept misinterpreting the options and kept accidentally making my Cousland flirt with Zevran whilst she is with Alistair because I wanted to be nice) due to his girlfriend spending time with Zevran, Alistair got jealous and was afraid of losing her and turns out Zevran had misread the situation and thought Amelia had feelings for him (she absolutely only saw him as a close friend) and began to fall for her so got his heart broken but they remained friends obviously. (You bet Amelia spent the night trying to make it up to Alistair and Zevran, but don’t worry by inquisition time they all laugh about it)

Never mind that, Amelia actually told Morrigan earlier that day that she loved Alistair.

She also got to experience a giant spider dropping literally on top of her (this actually happened, but I didn’t take a screenshot of it because I’m very arachnophobic so I was yelling in terror) and experienced flashbacks of the battle.

Anyway basically Alistair in my canon Worldstate got jealous of Zev’s relationship with Amelia, thought he was losing his girlfriend on the day they revisited Ostagar, the day that she actually admitted to Morrigan that she loved Alistair. Despite the fact she’s slept (in both the literal and not so literal way) with Alistair in her tent almost every night since they officially got together so wouldn’t have the chance to actually sleep with Zevran even if she wanted. Meanwhile Zevran misread Amelia’s close friendship with him and kind of fell in love with her when she’s never wavered from her feelings for Alistair leaving Zev heartbroken about but content that they’re still good friends even after the misunderstanding.

That whole conversation with the boys 100% confused Amelia as despite being a noble she’s REALLY not used to boys fighting over her because it never happened to her.

And like I said they do all laugh and joke about it years later so it’s not bad.

Also I’m pretty sure thanks to the spider incident, Amelia Cousland is now arachnophobic. And I’m now headcanoning her as autistic due to her inability to read the room with Zevran even though I told myself I wasn’t going to project my autism onto my protagonists.

On a more positive note Morrigan also called Amelia her sister which was cute.

[justyeghost]

Returning to Ostagar

Giving out gifts, talking to my friends, and returning to a place Allhyn left long, long ago.

[duranna-1-700]

return to ostagar

[veshialles]

re: my last reblog: it always used to bother me that no matter how much time passes by the time you do the Return To Ostagar DLC, Cailan's body is perfectly preserved, looks like he could have died moments ago.

I always wrote it off as engine limitations and possibly development time constraints, because DAO doesn't tend to shy away from the nitty gritty details, but I just realized that it's 100% lore friendly, actually, according to this codex entry

"The Anderfels are a land of shocking extremes. It is the most desolate place in all the world, for two Blights have left great expanses of the steppes so completely devoid of life that corpses cannot even decay there—no insect or grub will ever reach them."

A Blight DID sweep through Ostagar, so it's entirely feasible that this is why Cailan's body is so unnaturally pristine when you find it.

[viiisenyas]

i love how alessa is looking at the ogre like “well, i guess this isn’t the worst way to die.”

[dragonagecompanionsreact]

I am showing my partner Dragon Age: Origins, and we are doing the Return to Ostagar DLC, long story short, Alistair fell in battle, and when he came back, he made a comment about how his "bruises were all bruised." And My boyfriend just laughed and just said "oh my God, he's so stupid, I love him."

He's also mad that he can't romance Alistair in the vanilla game.

-Mod Mandy

[the-raven-of-highever]

Return to Ostagar was always a cool dlc to me. It made me feel like Cailan really did inspire and have an impact on the people around him as he just seemed like a naive glory hound the first time I played the game.