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having ocs is so fucked .... i miss them so bad but im the guy who has to create new content. but im sleepy

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i wanna make an amell love post. da fans please reblog with your amells so i can gush over them

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Big fan of romances that revolve around two very strange individuals weirdo maxxing together

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Posting this one separately bc it got away from me lol

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i mean real talk i think making a game set entirely in rivain (or maybe rivain+incidentally antiva) would be fun. idk if i'd want it to take place some time during the timeline of the 4 Actual games or like. wayyyy back around the exalted marches or the fourth blight???? but. hmmmmm.

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Rivain has some of the most interesting politics how did they fumble it so hard in DATV my gosh.

Like. Sorry. Sorry. But. Here's some things about Rivan that just, are canonical.

In 9:40 the circle in Rivan was annulled because a) they were teaching students there the cultural practices of seers which involve spirit possession and b) they let the circle mages interact freely with friends and family outside of the circle.

Bi-annual festival where all the seers come to the (chantry controlled) capitol to pledge themselves to the queen of Rivain. No information on how that practice has changed since the seekers came and annuled the circle but you bet it has??

Chantry only has real control in one single city despite claiming it as one of the chantry controlled nations of Thedas.

Only place where there's a peaceful Qun city/outpost that lives in harmony with the rest of Rivani society

Plenty of qun converts/families from the time when the Qunari ruled that part of the world; many refused to give up the Qun when Rivan was retaken and while some of those families suffered persecution many didn't.

Seers! Wise women! Matriarchy where the leaders of villages/towns rely on spirits to help guide them

It seems like they've got loads of spirit healers there, which makes me think they may have some of the most advanced medical practices anywhere in Thedas outside of maybe Tevinter?

Largely a trade-based economy outside of the big cities rather than relying on traditional Thedas currencies

And yeah they've got pirates and treasure hunters and that's obviously super fun to explore but they're so much more than the lord's of fortune. So so much more.

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i love that if you dont bring vivienne to the fade she is like "im so jealous tell me everything" but if you do she is having a fucking miserable time

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It kind of sucks that you can't romance old companions in other games like Liliana or morrigan in inquisition? If they haven't been romanced by an alive HOF.

Which Companion would the players have a second chance to romance?

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like, i'm sure i've said it before, but...i don't necessarily have a problem with the evanuris not actually being gods but just powerful mages (though i don't mind toying with having in a fictional universe actual divine figures). if we want to explain gods as being something powerful that ppl simply could not comprehend given their understanding of the world at the time, that's cool!

but i absolutely do noooooooooooot enjoy 'every one of your gods was just evil and super powerful', esp when that means that what you do remember of them and what important cultural/religious rituals you have reflect their enslavement of your ancestors. sucks. don't enjoy it. they're evil and wanted power and there's not a lot else to do with that, really, especially when it presents the descendants as like. stupid and uninformed for believing what they did. (also at a certain point for Me, like, the rituals and practices can evolve over time to mean something different. i dunno.) so the initial evanuris reveal to me is like 1) why should i believe you and 2) as the player, eugh, and now you've lessened my interest in the lore if the answer is just They're All Normal Evil Guys.

and this disappointment+annoyance increased when vg happens and like. yep. the evanuris we do see are sure evil and bent on power (to ghilly's credit i think the ambitious scientisty bit is fun) and we don't know. much else about what the others were really like. but what REALLY annoyed me with it is that the forgotten ones were also just one note evil! i was wondering if there would be something interesting to learn about these groups that were supposedly opposed! even though dalish history in modern day thedas didn't catch the evanuris as evil, the forgotten ones were always presented as nasty. so initially i was hoping that maybe they weren't all focused on obtaining power and ruling over the elves, maybe the evanuris had done such a good job at maligning them in ancient times that they were wrongly portrayed as evil in history (caveat that my hope was Not that the forgotten ones were all secretly GOOD, just that there would be some nuance to their position). and it ends up kinda just being like 'nope the only forgotten ones we know about also sucked ass and wanted power over the other elves for themselves b/c they didn't like the evanuris.

could this be a possible answer? sure. it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility that 2 powerful groups can also be bad. but as presented it all gives me very little to work with in terms of motivation+how that impacts alignment and alliances. it's boring, it's evil for evil's sake, i'm bored.

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this has reignited thoughts i had of toying w a vg rewrite, but i think if i really really wanted to get deep into that i'd need to replay all the games in order+cross-reference the WOT books to really give it a nice throughline. but that doesn't happen w/o little tweaks to the earlier games as well tbh (and perhaps bigger ones for inq lol).

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YEAH i mean. my intro to the series was inq but i think it was very important that my intro to inq was not me experiencing inq myself from start to finish. like i was intrigued to Check Out More but because i wanted to know. what was Happening lol. like 'oh cool characters what's their deal how'd we get here'. i mean plot-wise i don't think that having my first experience w dragon age be the conclave explosion would at All have hooked me. i would not have understood the world or what was happening at all. my literal first dragon age experience was watching somebody wander around doing sidequests and then talking to ppl in skyhold. so like, that worked because that was mostly just hearing about characters+getting a feel for the writing.

also like. regardless of your feelings on vg i think. it certainly Has been some folks' intro to the series but i certainly wouldn't recommend it as the start--i think if we were a few years out from vg and we were expecting new games to come out, sure, maybe, but that's moreso b/c vg ends up kind of being a world reset. but going off the (fairly accurate imo) assumption that DA games are done, i think going from vg to origins is such a tone/vibe shift, and a shift in gameplay. would take some adjusting to that i don't think is necessarily worth it

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Ok maybe some other dragon age fans can help out with this one. I’m trying to get my friend into playing Dragon Age, but I know for a fact that Origins will crash many times for them and will ruin the experience. Should they still try and start with Origins OR which game would you recommend to start with just to get them interested in the series first?

1. Start with Origins anyways

2. Dragon Age 2

3. Inquisition

4. Veilguard

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i keep going back and forth on who’s least equipped to be a stepparent of the da2 love interests

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Josie is the best medicine for a terrible day