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[Cypher0020]

Ah yes... the dreaded and much debated topic concernng the taint, the meaning of being a Warden, and the end of the PC's and Alistair's life.....

Well..... how would your PC's prepare for it? Who would they invite for the final feast? Would their lover be at their side??

[Emerald Melios]

I don't want to think about that. I always cringe when I have that talk with Alistair......

Modifié par Emerald Melios, 05 avril 2010 - 07:54 .

[Cypher0020]

well...unless a miracle cure happens.... ya both doomed



Least you both know what the other's going through...



and would going to the Deep Roads with Alistair really be that bad....?

[CalJones]

Well, Alistair isn't always alive in my games...ahem.

I don't like the Deep Roads - it's dark, claustrophobic and I think my PCs would rather die under the sky of their homeland (well, aside from the one dwarf I managed to finish with). Were it me I'd be trying to find some other way to die, rather than end up down there.

[Elhanan]

As for myself, after I collected the Ashes for Eamon, I licked my fingers. No Deep Roads angst for me!

[Raiil]

I suspect that I would write a letter to any far away friends. Since I'm with Alistair, we'd probably be going together- if his came first, I'd insist on coming.





I had Shale as my BFF, so maybe I'd ask her to accompany me one last time. I think she'd enjoy it.

[Lethias]

Well I'd try to find any way to avoid it, sice i spent too much time saving Ferelden, i want to enjoy it. But if it comes to this then i guess the deep roads isn't a nice place to find final rest, or a filthy darkspawn as the last thing to look at. I'd rather die in my luxus bed with champagne and caviar and my LI hmmm. Well thats not really grey warden style but hey i saved Ferelden 2 times now, i deserve moooooore.

[soignee]

Brosca is going to get her lover to assassinate her. She'd rather die on the surface on her own terms then in the "hellhole" that is Orzammar. Why yes, bitter duster is bitter. If she's still alive by then, of course. Maybe the Crows would've got to her before then.



Aeducan will probably go with Alistair when he has his, and have some stupid notion of dying with him. She's the only one out of my completed playthroughs who I think will find it an honour to die that way.



Mahariel will probably be dead in the wilds. Poor bastard.

[Sabriana]

If Avernus doesn't come up with something, and the ashes are a dud, my PC will ask her lover to give her a slow acting poison which she will ingest before hitting the Deep Roads. No broodmother, no, no. Not even the remotest possibility is acceptable.

She will have a problem trying to convince her lover to NOT follow her. Zevran isn't the kind to let her go off alone.

[Cypher0020]

Yeah..... running a noble dwarf.... she spent her entire life underground and has seen enough deep roads....



but.... even if you run away.....uhhh...darkspwan will still sense and try to kill you....



Besides the nightmares... are there other signs the taint is rearing itself?

[Sesshomaru47]

Alistair became a Warden 6 months prior to her, I always thought he'd get the "calling" before her and go and she'd tag along with him. Not that she'd up and leave him with no word.

[caradoc2000]

Sabriana wrote...

No broodmother, no, no. Not even the remotest possibility is
acceptable.

Why not? Wouldn't it be fun to be an Elite-Boss for once instead of always fight them. Maybe in DAO2, your DAO PC is one of the bosses.

Cypher0020 wrote...

Besides the nightmares... are there other signs the taint is rearing itself?

Yep. You'll get a letter: "Your medical insurance can no longer be renewed. Have a nice day".

[CalJones]

If you've read the Calling you'll know that it's not pretty. It's not just nightmares - you start to feeling the calling of the old gods, hence the name. After a while, you also start to show signs of corruption - black blotches on the skin and so forth. Hopefully Avernus can come up with something - he seems to have done pretty well himself - but if not, then find another way.

I don't think the female wardens can end up as brood mothers - they'd be too old and infertile by that point.

[Zalbaar]

Would rather not end up like Utha, would rather go down fighting. One last glorious battle before dying.Gonna die sooner or later why not pick your own time and way.

[Sabriana]

CalJones wrote...

If you've read the Calling you'll know that it's not pretty. It's not just nightmares - you start to feeling the calling of the old gods, hence the name. After a while, you also start to show signs of corruption - black blotches on the skin and so forth. Hopefully Avernus can come up with something - he seems to have done pretty well himself - but if not, then find another way.
I don't think the female wardens can end up as brood mothers - they'd be too old and infertile by that point.

That can't be generalized. I have a 50year old friend who just had a baby. Entirely an accident, but it can happen. Even the mere possibility of becoming a broodmother is enough for my PC to make sure that it will never happen.

[sylvanaerie]

Considering the hazards that apparently only the PC can deal with in Ferelden I don't think my Cousland girl will live long enough to see her Calling.



But if Alistair experienced his before her and she were still around, Valora would follow her husband into the Deep Roads for one last glorious battle.



Hmmm that would make a cool fanfic...

[LadyDamodred]

*is currently writing one about this very thing*



Lya would follow Alistair and vice-versa. She doesn't want to die in the Deep Roads, but I don't think she could live with herself if she didn't go out swinging.

[sylvanaerie]

LadyDamodred wrote...

*is currently writing one about this very thing*

Lya would follow Alistair and vice-versa. She doesn't want to die in the Deep Roads, but I don't think she could live with herself if she didn't go out swinging.

I've actually thought of writing one where the timeline seems skewed and the reader reads images of present (the Calling), past (battles in Origins), falling in love (with Alistair) and visions of darkspawn/Archdemon.  I'd call it "I Dreamt of Forever" and its actually my PC experiencing the last moments of her life cut down by Darkspawn in her Calling.  Just a thought in my head so far but becoming more intriguing after this thread...

Maybe also toss in a regret that she had so little time to do all she wanted to do.

Modifié par sylvanaerie, 05 avril 2010 - 11:48 .

[Axekix]

My PC went the Avernus route, so (hopefully) no calling for me!



If he doesn't come through though... well I guess that depends on whether or not my warden ever finds Morrigan again. He definitely wouldn't be going to the deep roads without seeing her and his child, at least once... so I guess he'd wind up wandering the countryside as a ghoul.

[sylvanaerie]

Axekix wrote...

My PC went the Avernus route, so (hopefully) no calling for me!

If he doesn't come through though... well I guess that depends on whether or not my warden ever finds Morrigan again. He definitely wouldn't be going to the deep roads without seeing her and his child, at least once... so I guess he'd wind up wandering the countryside as a ghoul.

LOL 

"BAH!" as Flemeth would say.  My PC would grab your PC by the ear and say "COME along young'un and let's just get it over with!"

Which makes me wonder...is there a Gray Warden police force kind of thing where they make those who refuse the Calling go do their Calling? It seems to me having a wandering tainted ghoul person traipsing about the surface would be a danger to others?  And are the ghouls pretty much mindless by then? 

[Narwen]

Well depends a lot on how I roleplay my characters. My pragmatist blood mage, pictured here, already knows magic can be used to slow down the taints spread like Avernus has done so, perhaps even cured. She will definitely use it to her advantage. If the calling even sets in she could easily be an old woman by then having lived a much longer life than your usual Gray Warden. Probably die like most of us do, from old age. If not then She would go out in a magical blaze of glory blowing up half a mountain in the process!

Out of my other characters my Dwarf will end up in the Deep Roads likely fighting alongside any of the legion of the dead for a short while.

My Dalish elf might decide to find a way to die on the surface among the trees she is so familiar with, perhaps even a form of ritual practice similar to Uthenera. It feels like something she would rather do, than spend her last days in the deep dark places of the world.

(edit stupid copy paste formatting!)

Modifié par Narwen, 05 avril 2010 - 12:05 .

[Axekix]

sylvanaerie wrote...

Axekix wrote...

My PC went the Avernus route, so (hopefully) no calling for me!

If he doesn't come through though... well I guess that depends on whether or not my warden ever finds Morrigan again. He definitely wouldn't be going to the deep roads without seeing her and his child, at least once... so I guess he'd wind up wandering the countryside as a ghoul.

LOL 

"BAH!" as Flemeth would say.  My PC would grab your PC by the ear and say "COME along young'un and let's just get it over with!"

Which makes me wonder...is there a Gray Warden police force kind of thing where they make those who refuse the Calling go do their Calling? It seems to me having a wandering tainted ghoul person traipsing about the surface would be a danger to others?  And are the ghouls pretty much mindless by then? 

Hahaha!  There should be.  I figure they'd probably end up like Ruck... a bit off but still functional.  At least for a while.

[sylvanaerie]

oh yea or Utha...she was a ghoul wasn't she?

Modifié par sylvanaerie, 05 avril 2010 - 12:24 .

[Wozza78]

My main character was romantically involved with Morrigan so the question of his lover being at his side is fairly strait forward. Having played through Awakening too, he would probably find Oghren and Nathaniel as his two closest friends and say goodbye to them before handing Nathaniel leadership of The Grey Wardens until the The First finds a suitable candidate. He would take with him into The Deep Roads Duncan's sword and dagger and as many Grandmaster Silverite runes as her could find; then he and his faithful war nug would head into the dark to make their final sacrifices.

[CalJones]

Sabriana wrote...

CalJones wrote...

If you've read the Calling you'll know that it's not pretty. It's not just nightmares - you start to feeling the calling of the old gods, hence the name. After a while, you also start to show signs of corruption - black blotches on the skin and so forth. Hopefully Avernus can come up with something - he seems to have done pretty well himself - but if not, then find another way.
I don't think the female wardens can end up as brood mothers - they'd be too old and infertile by that point.

That can't be generalized. I have a 50year old friend who just had a baby. Entirely an accident, but it can happen. Even the mere possibility of becoming a broodmother is enough for my PC to make sure that it will never happen.

I'm betting your friend hasn't drunk darkspawn blood, though.