This was the first thing I noticed, omg those shadows. Considering I had to install like three different mods on Skyrim to get something that vaguely kinda maybe looks like shadows coming through the windows, this light effect just casually being there in vanilla DA is making me squee with delight.
I love how the effect fills the room, right across the table 'n' everything. Usually when there's environmental shadows in games it's mostly only on the floor.
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I didn't. I think the writers really screwed up on the final act. There was really no point for a mage to side with the Templars to become Viscount. It did not make sense to me from that standpoint. For a non mage Hawke its understandable but not for a mage Hawke.
And the fact there was very little development with Orsino still angers me. His introduction was the most jarring experience of the game for me.
At least we got an idea of who Meredith was in the beginning of Act 1. Orsino should have had a better introduction.
The supposition, then, is that a mage only ever supports the notion the Circle is inherently wrong or bad. And if you play Origins, you know very well mages themselves are all over the map in varied opinions on that particular question, rather. The largest number of Circle mages, in fact, consider themselves Aequitarians, moderates who advocate a reasonable respect for the rules and regulations of magic in Chantry law.
There's a point during Legacy where Malcolm Hawke can be heard admitting his fear that his unborn children might be mage-born. It seemed to me, then, that Malcolm wouldn't be likely to teach his mage children that magic was some awesome gift, or anything they should be glad for. But rather a burden and a challenge they needed to respect.
My own mage Hawke, then, wasn't keen on any notion of Mage freedom. He saw his own situation as one of obligation and responsibility, rather. There were many instances he would've been glad to give himself up to the Circle, except that he was constantly needed -- by his siblings, his mother, his dang dog, his friends, the city of Kirkwall ... He was really tired by the time all was said and done.
And don't forget how many blood mages Hawke encounters. At every turn, he's fighting someone who's turned to blood magic. There's Tarohne, Decimus, Idunna, Grace, Alain, Quentin. He sees people forced to become abominations, demons forced into them, the dead made into shambling skeletons, his own mother ripped apart and stitched back together. And then it's a mage who obliterates the chantry, killing numerous people to score some political goal that he himself doesn't necessarily agree with.
No, my mage Hawke had very good reasons to side with the Templars. From his viewpoint, magic required restraints, and the Templars were those capable of providing controls that magic obviously needed. He respected them, and all that before his own brother wore the shield, too. My Hawke would never choose to fight against his own brother, shrug. He'd already lost too much by then.
I'm looking forward to seeing Hawke in Inquisition, mind you. That was my most favorite playthrough of DA2, and he remains my canon Hawke.
I think I'm finally used to Cullen's new DAI model. It's starting to feel strange seeing his DA2 version... although his DA2 version was ridiculously hot! I can't even see Varric and Cassandra's without it feeling really weird now, they look so cartoony and un-unique in comparison.
FENRIS IS SPECIAL AND NEEDS CUDDLES
Fenris develops. He's not a static character, he improves. As bitter and lonely as he is at the start of the game, he's able to grow through all the angst and damage to have real friends by the end of the game. I enjoyed his story arc immensely.
Wow, we're dangerously close to 3000!
Fenris develops. He's not a static character, he improves. As bitter and lonely as he is at the start of the game, he's able to grow through all the angst and damage to have real friends by the end of the game. I enjoyed his story arc immensely.
Well, at least for me, I only can romance Fenris and Zevran. The former is just that I prefer him out of the two choices infinitely. I am stuck with Zevran and can only romance him because I only had 1 option as a gay guy. I can't play as female so he was all I had.I feel strange. People talking about how they only ever romance X and I chose the romances I'll use for import more or less on a whim.
His romance with a male mage was so well done.Fenris develops. He's not a static character, he improves. As bitter and lonely as he is at the start of the game, he's able to grow through all the angst and damage to have real friends by the end of the game. I enjoyed his story arc immensely.
His romance with a male mage was so well done.
I must admit, I prefer a non-Mage, just on account of all he's suffered at the hands of a male Mage... But that not to say I didn't romance him numerous times with a Mage
In my own opinion, the mage version served as more of a healing relaltionship.
I romanced Anders because Beth was a GW and I felt like I owed him. That didn't end well. Hawke became a whole lot more ruthless than I planned as the relationship fell apart,
I attemped to romance Anders on my second playthrough....but it just got weird at some point. I think that perhaps it was my own knowledge of what he was going to try to do that really, really turned me off to the romance.
I romanced Anders because Beth was a GW and I felt like I owed him. That didn't end well. Hawke became a whole lot more ruthless than I planned as the relationship fell apart,
Relationships based on owing someone doesn't exactly sound like a good one. 
I romanced Anders because Beth was a GW and I felt like I owed him. That didn't end well. Hawke became a whole lot more ruthless than I planned as the relationship fell apart,
XD
My rivalrymance with Anders was a beautiful trainwreck to behold. And to make it worse Hawke had pretty much lost everything two broken people that was never going to end well.
But in DA2 rivalrymanced Fenris with a mage Hawke is my favorite hands down 
I prefer his friendship to the friendshipmance honestly.
And yet I can't think of anything more functional for a pro-templar Hawke. Seb maybe, but I'm scared it'll be retconned/not count.
XD
My rivalrymance with Anders was a beautiful trainwreck to behold. And to make it worse Hawke had pretty much lost everything two broken people that was never going to end well.
But in DA2 rivalrymanced Fenris with a mage Hawke is my favorite hands down
Fenris was a lot of fun lol.
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I romanced only Isabela in DA2 (while I tried every romance in DAO, with both genders for Leliana and Zevran), though I was interested in starting a romance with both Fenris and Anders, for different characters. The one with Anders was interesting because I'd plan a tragic arc. It reminded me when I planned my Colonist/Sole survivor Shep who would lose everyone in the trilogy.
I think that if I'll try another one I'll go with Fenris, due to his positive character development and interactions with other people (kind of opposed to Anders). I'll reserve my tragic playthroughs to DAI
Yes. Izzy was by far one of my favorite characters in DA2. Her interactions with Merrill and Aveline were so well done.
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