I'm thinking that Solas is very much aware of that and that is probably part of how the world is going to be destroyed. Perhaps once elves are returned to their former selves, they will be resistant to the blight.

Can you people stop posting other people's art without linking to them? dixophilia is the only one in the last two pages I've seen do it right. The most disrespectful and frustrating thing a person can do is to not source fan art. I'd like to know who the artists are and I'm sure they'd like people to know who they are too.

About the divine thing, you can talk to the people you want to be divine, but when you're talking throughout the game about mages, templars, and the chantry, and those choices in those events, the options you are picking in those conversations and events decide who becomes divine.

I really wish they put in a way that someone calls the inquisitor out on their conflicting decisions. You can't support templars still controlling mages or you can't support the chantry not changing, and then turn around and want Leliana or Cassandra as divine. Leilana wants to free the mages, Cassandra wants to reform everything, Vivienne wants to keep everything exactly the same.

Got her hair fixed, and I didn't have to go through the pains of recreating her face. I am so friggen happy.

Thought I'd come share this mod in case anyone else has the same issue as me. Love everything but the eye color or hair color and just want to change that little thing. http://daitools.free...2489.html#p2489

It's not like the darker hair was horrible, the lighter hair seems to make her face pop more. The only real downside is that weird clipping where the hair split appears more and she looks like she has a bald spot. I suppose part of the fault is that I brought her forehead more forward, but I hear that even if you leave the forehead alone it still does that to an extent. 

Warrior is wielding a sword and shield. Not enchanted. At one point my Hawke decided to stop using them and just started punching things with her fists. 

If the human women in Dragon Age all come to the average height of 5'7, I'd agree Adaar is probably 7 feet tall.

I like the default voice and playing a duel blade rogue. I feel like the duel blade thing connects nicely with Qunari because the Arishok was a duel wielder. 

Honestly these days, I feel the only difference between the Qun and the rest of Thedas, is that outside the Qun non magical humans have more wiggle room to do what they want compared to everyone else. The richer, the more freedoms they have. But even then, the rich folk arrange marriages to create a solid noble blood line like the tamassran arrange everyone's sex partners.

Except Anders isn't a dog, he's a human being who's fully capable of making his own damned decisions using thoughts and reason instead blindly following his own instincts and feelings.

 

"Hey Templars! Totally your fault that this appostate mage who knew nothing about what was actually happening in the circle and condemned pretty much every other mage that escaped because they were desperate enough to try blood magic blew up that church full of innocent people. I mean, we totally support his actions, even though he started a battle that led to the deaths of hundreds of our people, including those who didn't even want to fight, because he didn't realize that the Templars could take out our shrinking population of mages. Totally supported his actions, despite the fact that there was a chance for peace after all. Totally your fault that the chantry got blown to bits though."

 

I'm pretty sure neither Orsino or Meredith was happy with Anders when that went down.

 

The Chantry has its problems, but it by no means condoned the actions of the Templars. In fact, Anders blew up the Chantry because it was actually going to go and do something that would be helpful. It may have sat on its hands, but it wasn't without just cause.

 

And if you're going to blame the Chantry, then you might as well blame the entirety of Kirkwall; one person alone did not uphold the countless atrocities against the mages, after all. Kirkwall entirely deserved to be thrown to all hell as Templars and Mages started beating the **** out of each other. Everybody in Kirkwall had it coming.

 

Except no. They didn't.

1. How about this for a better comparison. Keep beating your spouse every day. Either they continue to do nothing till you kill them, or they snap and they kill you. Either way, dogs or people, respecting them like living being with rights wins over physically assaulting day in and day out. People can take only so much before they snap and act out. If all they know is violence, that's all they will give. 

2. Anders was a circle mage who passed his Harrowing. He was apart of the circle for a good portion of his life. He communicated with mages in the Kirkwall circle. He knows exactly what happens in the circles. 

3. The Chantry completely condones the actions of the templars. They control the templars, they feed the templars lyrium, and they don't do much of anything to stop them. At the most, they will do a small slap on the wrist to look good to the public if such things are allowed to get to the public's ears. Before Bioware decided to change Cullen, he could murder 3 mages and he got put on the equivalent of a paid leave of absence for a while. Then was transferred to another Circle. He was pretty much a serial killer who got off free. How much you want to bet that kind of thing happens a lot in the circles and everything gets swept under the rug by the Chantry just to protect the way things are.

4. No, you can't blame anyone else in Kirkwall, but the rich nobles. You can only blame the people in power. People who have the power and the wealth to change things and continue to do nothing while the people without power and wealth suffer. You can play around the game as Hawke who is in the position of a noble, and support change and support helping mages, but unless Hawke can get all the other nobles on board, it's not going to happen. Hawke may have saved all their butts from the Qunari, but their butts are now saved and they don't want to change a thing because their butts are comfortable where they are.

You could have a Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi in the Kirkwall circle, they could do all the peaceful protests and starve themselves every day. All that would happen is a massacre of mages. All the public would hear about it is that all the mages turned to blood magic and had to be killed, easy to believe after what happened in the Circle Tower in Fereldan. Which lucky for the Circle Tower, the Warden has the power and influence to potentially save the innocent ones. All the innocent mages who didn't want to fight but wanted to change things peacefully can be quickly silenced, made tranquil and murdered and all evidence of their innocence would very easily erased.

I find him to be at tragic figure because of the fact the world itself has driven him to this. You can't walk two steps around the gallows without hearing about the rape and assault done to mages. You can't walk two steps without hearing about mages being made tranquil for no apparent reason other than they are easier to rape and assault then. You can't take two steps without hearing templars talking about mages not being people. The kirkwall circle was probably the pits worse of the worse, but it simply had everything wrong with the circles in one place.

I don't condone what Anders did, he killed innocent people, but I see what he did as a response to what the world did to him.

The Chantry has the power to change things, but despite many peaceful attempts by the mages for help, the Chantry continues to look the other way and ignore the fact there are innocent lives being murdered, abused, and raped daily in the circles. No instead, the Chantry keeps willfully, purposely feeding the Templars mind altering, addictive, lyrium that is probably the exact reason the Templars are aggressive, paranoid, and out of control drug addicts who easily succumb to the temptation of red lyrium.

There were innocent people killed by what Anders did, but if you ask me between the mages and templars, the Chantry has a hell of a lot more innocent blood on it's hands. Violence creates more violence, the Chantry started the violence.

If you keep beating a dog, some day they will snap and rip into someone's face. Either it's you, your family, or some neighborhood kid that had nothing to do with it. Then who's really at fault, the dog or you for beating that dog every day of their life. 

If the qunari are created by mutation with dragon's blood, one must wonder why their women are not larger, bigger, stronger and more aggressive than the males.

He was a warden in my play through.

If you keep him as a warden, you get way more dialogue with him and interaction with him.

Literally going to always keep him as a Warden because it produces what felt like to me to be the only difficult, story driven choice of the entire game.

They're just trying to figure out a safe way to have a guy revealed to be strictly gay. They can't have a gay guy like the lesbian/Bi Women characters Bioware frequently has. You know making lots of innuendo jokes about genitalia, constantly hitting on everyone the same gender in sight, salivating over the protagonist's shower, and generally seeming to be in a constant state of horniness for the same sex. The straight male folk will start to feel uncomfortable and rage all over the forums. I mean, Anders hits on male Hawke once the entire game, and the forums exploded back in the day.

You can't just hit on a person and say, oh yeah I'm interested, or no, I'm flattered, but not interested. That'd be boring and way too normal. 

Go watch after the credits. You'll learn then. 

I think Pride Demons are adorable. Their laughs are just so cute. They just throw their heads back and hold their bellies and really deep "MWAH HA HA HA"

Orlais took back their mascot helmet and told Cullen to go get a dog one for Ferelden. 

well

when you have to crowbar in multiplayer

 

single player suffers

Actually the reverse happened. DAI started out as multiplayer and they crowbared single player in probably about the time Skyrim was a success.

When DAI was nearly an MMO idea, I wonder if Cory was suppose to be like Darth Malgus in swtor. I've played through 4 characters in that game, on the Empire side and Republic side, and I still have no flippen clue what that guy is doing or what his purpose is or what he has done. All I know is he was advertised all over the place as the big bad guy of the game and when I join the random groups, I've defeated him in an epic final battle hundreds of times while he seems to shout story references to things I haven't experienced yet.

The Templars and Mages, were probably originally set up like a Empire vs Republic. Separate factions the player would get to pick. I wonder if the Inquisition was a planned third faction.

I could relate to him, and I could understand his actions, but I couldn't condone them. He was a good guy who did a terrible thing in the name of a good cause. I try not to let that one action define what was a character that I really considered to be one of Hawke's best friends.

 

I only got two hours into Awakening before getting bored of it. I can't really speak for Awakening Anders.

I'm in the same boat. I saw Anders as a very close friend to Hawke, he saved her sister and probably healed her own injuries more times than she could count. Plus she was very pro-mage and whenever he got going she tended to join in. Though things got a little unstable towards the end with the whole poo collecting thing, it was kind of like a moment of seeing your best friend starting to do sketchy things but having no idea how to help them if it is necessary at all. Trying to help could make things worse if they are in fact not doing anything sketchy, especially after seven years of trust and friendship.

I played DA2 first, then played through DA:O and Awakening. Let's put it this way, Pre-Justice Anders would never in a million years start a clinic to help poor people get free health care. He was a selfish, slimy bastard. He was funny and the cat thing was adorable and he was generally likable, but he was a selfish bastard and roping him into becoming a warden was probably the stupidest thing to do. But hey, how was the HOF/Warden Commander to know Anders true character when he batted those pretty brown eyes.

What Anders did do in Awakening that I felt wasn't new, was be bitter and complain about the plight of mages. Justice just took out the selfish bastard, chipped away at the funny/cute parts that everyone loved, and then super amplified the bitter anger towards Circles and Templars. 

I really think Anders progression as a character is pretty cool and makes a lot of sense. Again, I don't condone his actions, but he is a very tragic and complex character. As long as he's not going angry Justice mode just for dramatic show.

I think you should always take Solas and Cassandra.

 

The third spot I usually reserve for Varric, since Hawke is there and it seems mean to leave him behind. However, he doesn't really say anything special. So, next time I might take someone else.

But the whole

Varric: Hey Hawke, remember when we were in the fade last time?
Hawke: Yeah and all my friends betrayed me.

That was gold. I think it's a glitched piece though, because on my second run through I didn't get it.

I was thinking it was like a ring or amulet. Something with a circle of magi logo. If a mage is a part of a circle and are in the outside world, I would imagine they would need some kind of sign on them that they are not an apostate to avoid problems. That they are a circle mage with a special privileges and trusts.

Solas has never been in a circle, but Anders has. He is just no longer apart of it. If he went around in a Warden uniform, that would be a good mark against trouble for a mage, but he's not wearing that logo either.

I'm not huge into the lore, never been a huge fantasy fan, but I had a comfortable enough knowledge to know what was going on and not feel lost. I didn't read the books or the comics, so the characters from the expanded universe didn't really bug me too much. Except Fiona and the whole cured of the taint thing. What the hell? Has the HOF at least interviewed her to try to analyse what happened and theorize a possible cure? I did see Dawn of the Seeker, didn't like it too much, but it was cool to hear a reference to the movie in the game from Cassandra.

The times I felt actually lost was frequently after spending several hours messing around in the fields, and then trying to get back into the story. Like I've said in many other posts, 80hrs into the game, a random NPC said out in the field that the Inquisitor had stopped the mage-templar war and I was completely confused as to when that had happened. I think that's the thing that hurts everything the most for me.

No, I blame Skyrim's success, MMO's, and everyone that hated DA2 and would not stop complaining on the forums. edit: and ME3.

I love Fenris, my Hawke banged him, but please no. He does not need his own DLC.

I was thinking that they may have a DLC with the Wardens, and if you saved Hawke, there maybe a reunion in Anderfels, considering Varric is going to tell everyone where Hawke is. The whole gang back together for a bit(or whoever is left of the whole DA2 gang). But a whole DLC dedicated to just the romances. No.

That scene where everyone starts singing and bowing to the inquisitor, and you're playing a horned qunari. Qunari or not, that whole scene was pretty scary to me to begin with. But throw the Qunari in there and it's like every devote christian's nightmare. People worshiping a horned beast that can easily represent satan.

Does it? Does it really?

Unless the heroes of Dragon Age are about to have some Star Wars moment. Hand never leaves.