Hello, don't take this the wrong way. I want to remake the basics of the story, but make it more arbitrary. I've got some good ideas. Just need to read up about the canonical sources about where to locate this in Thedas.
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Modifié par Gisle Aune, 28 septembre 2010 - 10:40 .
You might want to make the PC's leaving Ostagar involuntary. That avoids the problem of them deserting their fellows, and gives them a character arc about not being there when it might (as far as they know) have made a difference.
In the game you hear that the PC and Alistair is the only living Gray Wardens in Forelden, if the departure of the protagonist in this story is something everyone knows, it will conflict with the main story. Maybe I could keep it to that only some high-ranked people know it.
I don't know if you are going to made this an add-on to the OC, but if that is the case, you can have a cutscene in the beginning with the PC passing the joining, having the dream, telling it to Duncan, who will send you to investigate it because he thinks that you may actually have had a vision of the Archdemon and that it will be very resourceful to know his location. Just a quick thought, maybe I didn't understood correctly what you are trying to do in this mod.
If it's a stand-alone, you don't need to place it in the same period the Origins take place. You can place it right before the awakening, in the Vigil's Keep. You are one of the Wardens that were recruited and stationed there before the attack (if I remember correctly Grey Wardens were in the keep), and after your dream you were sent to investigate it by your commander. Then the attack came and none of them that knew about you and your quest survived.
I plan to set the beginning of it on the same day, and have the warden leave hours prior to the first attack, and have the commander that only knew about it die that following night, thus making the warden's departure untold about. To not conflict with that they say that allistair and the PC being the only Wardens surviving Ostagar.
I believe it would fit in without problems at about the same time as Ostagar; doesn't Duncan hint at the possibility of there being a few Grey Wardens that haven't arrived during the cutscene leading into that area? I would have to look at the dialogs for that to be sure.