To all of you awesome folks at Bioware-
Thank you for Dragon Age. I started with Origins on the 360, recommended by a friend who swore up and down that if I loved Mass Effect (which I did) that I'd love Dragon Age (which I do.) And while I love Origins, DA2 really brought the franchise to life for me.
Thank you for Oghren, Morrigan, Alistair, Wynne, Dog, Leliana, Wardens, shops like the Wonders of Thedas, cultists in Haven, Flemeth, darkspawn, Duncan, epic cut scenes, engaging gameplay, banter, romance, fantastic music that I still listen to and enjoy immensely. Thank you especially for Zevran and Sten
Thank you for characters and a world that started me writing creatively for the first time in nearly two decades. Thank you for making me wonder "what if?" and for characters that made me laugh, cry, and fall in love. Thank you for making a wonderful fantasy game that feels gritty and real in ways that other franchises like Final Fantasy never did, for me.Thank you for Sigrun, Nathaniel, and Justice. Velanna and her clown ears, well, I won't look a gift elf in the mouth. She might turn me into a tree XD
Thank you for Fenris, Isabela, Merrill, Varric, Aveline, Carver, Bethany, even Sebastian, and a host of beloved NPCs. Thank you especially for Anders, one of the most amazing, broken, polarizing, maddening, loveable characters I've encountered in any game or book, ever. Thank you for Jethann, and Serendipity, and dwarves that cower and exclaim "Sweet mother of partha!"
Thank you for Carta and Coterie and Dusters and Paragons, for Dalish elves, city elves, elven slaves, keepers, crafters, and surly guards. Thank for for vhenadahl trees that serve double duty as public urinals for drunk elves. XD Thank you for templars, mages, merchants, ****s, scores of people with only a line or two that nevertheless tug at my imagination. Thank you for Bodahn and Sandal, for Leandra and Gamlen, for family that you love, and family that you love to hate. Thank you for Meredith, Orsino, and Cullen. Thank you for characters that my friends and I have spent hours drawing, writing about, thinking about, daydreaming about, debating and loving as surely as many of us ever did about characters from books in school. Thank you for a world map that tantalizes in its incompleteness, for hints of a mysterious Qunari/kossith homeland which we have yet to see, of other continents, countries, for Tevinter and Rivain and Nevarra and Antiva, places that we've only heard about but for which we wait to visit with bated breath.
Thank you for plots that made me laugh, or smack my forehead in consternation, or weep. Sometimes all of the above, at the same time. Thank you for a combat system and beautiful graphics that improve with each installment in the series. Thank you for books that fill in the amazing world of Thedas, for comics, for the upcoming movie, for DLC and codex entries. Thank you for making a game that I can play for the eighth or ninth time and still find things that I've never seen or heard before. Thank you for taking the time to do the little things, like the codex entry for the completed quest "Grimoire of the Apprentice," which reads "Bonwald has his shopping list. Tremble, oh Thedas." It may be a silly little quest but I laugh every time I finish it, always checking the codex to grin over that line.
Thank you for creating a game where one person can say "Sarcastic!Hawke's lines are so ridiculous! And Anders' romance dialogue is so cheesy!" and then someone else chimes in "Well, Varric is telling the story, right? So maybe it didn't happen that way at all and he's just making up something he thinks will sound good!" And then I get a bit of banter when running around town where Varric asks how it really went down, and is met with a "I don't think that's any of your business." To which our oh-so-reliable narrator snarkily replies, "Well, I'll just have to make it all up then." And I /facepalm and laugh and love every moment of cheesy dialogue, never knowing if Anders is really that dramatic, or whether it's simply Varric's retelling. XD
I love this universe- I love the games, the books, the comics, the amazing people that I meet who love it as much as I do. You have put so much into these games- the lore, the codices, the characters, the voice acting, the art, the dialogue wheel that people love and/or love to hate, the radial menu, the tactics system. I love the fact that I can play some very, very different games depending on what stance I choose for my Hawke. I love that I met Lia in Act III for the first time in the 10 months I've been playing this game, simply because I went to the right place at the right time and took Aveline with me.
You guys do an amazing job, and no matter how vocal the haters are, there are a great many people out there who love DA:O, DA:A, and DA2. Keep up the great work, and I promise to keep shelling out my money as fast as I can.
Thanks again for being awesome, and keep up the good work.
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