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[neonmoth]

Oh my. I listened to about half of that and now I think I'll keep hose two in my party at all times.
I lost it when in my game I got this banter between Cassandra, Vivienne and Varric that revealed that

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one of the reasons she was bringing Varric to the conclave was that the Divine was a fan of Varric's books and wanted him to sign her copy of Hard in Hightown. XD

(It was one of the earlier banters between them)

I loved that one too. My biggest problem with banter was that often it would trigger at the beggining of fights and let me tell you it's hard to enjoy it when you try to avoid getting killed. My party had totally casual attitude towards enemies. I had to finally turn on subtitles and pause every line or so.

[riverbanks]

I was referring more to the idea that his moral stances in DA:I are fanservice (anti-fan service?). However, looking back through, it looks like only one person was actually saying that.

 

As the "one person saying that"... that wasn't what I said at all. Boom and Lola have already explained, but it's not about the destination, it's about the journey. Cullen went from here to ----------------------------> there offscreen, and we don't know how. We don't know if it was Lambert's actions, if it was a growing disillusionment with the Order, if one day he just woke up and said, screw it. And yes, I do think that Cullen completely disassociating himself from the Templars and spending half of the game excusing himself and quoting back BSN posts from anti-Templar threads verbatim, word by word, has an element of appeasing certain vocal groups at the expense of giving Cullen's own long-standing fans, whatever their alignments, better context and background for his decisions. We all deserved better, not just the pro-this or anti-that. (also, if we can please not divide ourselves as pro-this or anti-that - I'm not interested in waving flags for either camp)

 

Personally, his characterization feels inconsistent and incomplete at places to me, like I'm missing a huge part of how he got to where he is. I'm not entirely satisfied with where his journey left him at the beginning of the game, and it would be easier for me to reconcile the things that bother me if they had been better explained. People have different expectations, and not everyone is going to be pleased - I'm sure a lot of people loved that Cullen threw his hands up and gave up on the Order, but his tone of "I don't believe in the Templars anymore" after that's literally one of the last things he said in DA2 -that he believed in what the Templars stood for- doesn't sit well with me at all, or those who never wanted Cullen to leave the Order in the first place. But that's my opinion. Just as your opinion is your own. We don't all have to agree, it's cool. Naked Cullens for everyone.

 

In any case, I don't wanna make this into a whole debate, so I'm dropping this here. It's just different points of view. We all have them.

[morie91]

2. You know what would make a damn good fanart? An illustration of CullyWully carrying Quizzy after she passed out on the mountaintop following Haven's destruction. Please let me know if such a thing exists 

 

i dunno if it exists, but it can be made *wink wonk*

[Iceyone]

i dunno if it exists, but it can be made *wink wonk*

 

Do it!!!! You absolutely must Pretty please with cherries on top

[R2s Muse]

BOTH ADDED

I know I'm late to the celebration but
 

 
Happy 4k!!! Here's my mage quizzy and Cullen
 

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Can I just say how pretty everyone's Inquisitors are! I love seeing how different they all are!

 

 

Well damn, 4000 came and went very quickly, congratulations everybody     Everyones contributions look great and read brilliantly! I'll go back and spam some likes when my internet stops freaking out at the amount of pictures it has to process on the pages lol.
 
I have only a few screenshots, I always seem to capture him mildly annoyed and scunnered looking though He does smile in my game, honest he does!

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[R2s Muse]

I haven't heard anything about Templars being sterile due to Lyrium. In fact, Thrask in DA2 has a Mage daughter, Rhys' father in the books is Greagoir, and even Cullen says Templars are allowed to marry.

Just as a point, Rhys's father is never revealed in the books. Only that he is a templar. To my knowledge, the father being Greagoir is just headcanon.

[riverbanks]

Just as a point, Rhys's father is never revealed in the books. Only that he is a templar. To my knowledge, the father being Greagoir is just headcanon.

It's only headcanon, yeah. A popular one because it was started on one of those "confession" blogs and spread from there, but still just headcanon.

One of the dangers of headcanons is that you can joke once about Cullen being Meredith's and Orsino's secret half-blood bastard, and months later find people on tumblr complaining that BioWare "retconned" Cullen's angsty origin by giving him a happy family in Ferelden...

[R2s Muse]

That's totally fair, although I think the ball was rolling by halfway through DA2 so it might have been hard to pace it such that he landed anywhere other than where he did at the start of DA:I. And I also agree that any part of DA fandom making the Cullen fandom feel bad for liking him pre-DA:I is 100% ******; it's not like anyone on this thread was ever going "yeah, you know what, mages AREN'T people!", at least in the year I've been here. I was referring more to the idea that his moral stances in DA:I are fanservice (anti-fan service?). However, looking back through, it looks like only one person was actually saying that. And while reviving a thread debate 20p later was mildly annoying on my part, picking a fight with one person would have been straight up ****** if I'd known that's what I was doing. So I'll leave this train of thought here, with my apologies.

Um, I'm not seeing anything you're saying as disagreeing with what most of us were saying or even the tenor of general conversation... so agree with the choice not to pick a fight.

The limited word budget simply doesn't explore many of the issues we've dissected ad nauseum here. For some of it, I almost feel a phantom footnote that says, "See the BSN Cullen Thread."

His characterization in DA:I is an easy extrapolation from where he was. It is, however, an extrapolation with little to see about how he got there (and with even some confusing facts regarding his promotion, etc). It does beg the question why they distanced him so utterly from the Order, and they did succeed in winning over many doubters.

The "even HE hated himself" argument will continue to stick in my craw.

[neonmoth]

i dunno if it exists, but it can be made *wink wonk*

  

Do it!!!! You absolutely must Pretty please with cherries on top

I concur! It does make sense since he's definitely the most capable of the four. Headcannon accepted

[Grieving Natashina]

Forgive the minor conversation spoiler, but I wanted to share something with the Cullenites:

 

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If I may be a little personal, choosing the decision to encourage him not to take lyrium struck a chord with me.  As well as the earlier scene, of him staring at his lyrium kit.  It changed much of my views of him and made him someone I could relate to as a person.

 

I've been clean for years, but for awhile back in 1999-2000, I was a junkie.  My drugs of choice were Black tar Opium (about as close to heroin as you can get in smokable forum) and, the Prince of All Bad Ideas, meth.  

 

I remember when I was getting clean and it still remains one of the roughest times in my life.  I had good friends and my family, but I didn't go to rehab.  Ultimately, I didn't need to.  I had an overwhelming desire to be strong, get past this, and live for myself.  Not become a waste.  I remember waking up with the sweats.  The cravings and the rampant emotions.  

 

Thankfully, it's been almost 15 years since I cleaned up.  March 6th is the anniversary, in fact.  Thanks to determination and the love/support of those closest to me, I can proudly say I have not touched meth since then.  I also have not used any opiates save for very very rare occasions and only prescribed by my doctor.  Even then, if I'm asking for any opiates (which has been 5xs in the last 14 years) she knows it's because I'm truly hurting and alieve won't cut it.  Can't take ibuprofen due to being allergic.  

 

Anyway, those scenes with Cullen really clicked with me.  It helps that I enjoyed talking to him prior to that point and I couldn't imagine the military arm of the Inquisition without him.    To be honest, while I can't say I'm too attached to the way he was in Origins or DA2, I adore the person he's become.  As an adult, I get Cullen and a lot of his struggles.  I have no regrets about trying out Bull's romance first, but Cullen's character growth did what I hoped it would do for me.  It got me interested in the character, and it helped me to really like him too.

 

My next character is going to have one helluva time choosing between him and Blackwall, for sure.

[R2s Muse]

Forgive the minor conversation spoiler, but I wanted to share something with the Cullenites:
 

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If I may be a little personal, choosing the decision to encourage him not to take lyrium struck a chord with me.  As well as the earlier scene, of him staring at his lyrium kit.  It changed much of my views of him and made him someone I could relate to as a person.
 
I've been clean for years, but for awhile back in 1999-2000, I was a junkie.  My drugs of choice were Black tar Opium (about as close to heroin as you can get in smokable forum) and the Prince of All Bad Ideas, meth.  
 
I remember when I was getting clean and it still remains one of the roughest times in my life.  I had good friends and my family, but I didn't go to rehab.  Ultimately, I didn't need to.  I had an overwhelming desire to be strong, get past this, and live for myself.  Not become a waste.  I remember waking up with the sweats.  The cravings and the rampant emotions.  
 
The scene with Cullen really clicked with me.  While I can't say I'm too attached to the way he was in Origins or DA2, I love the person he's become.  As an adult, I get Cullen.  I have no regrets about trying out Bull's romance first, but Cullen's character growth did what I hoped it would do for me.  It got me interested in the character.e about him.  If you want to know a bit of what it can be like to kick a serious drug habit, the writers did a fan-freaking-tastic job.
 
I've been clean for years, but for awhile back in 1999-2000, I was a junkie.  My drugs of choice were Black tar Opium (about as close to heroin as you can get in smokable forum) and, the Prince of All Bad Ideas, meth.  
 
I remember when I was getting clean and it still remains one of the roughest times in my life.  I had good friends and my family, but I didn't go to rehab.  Ultimately, I didn't need to.  I had an overwhelming desire to be strong, get past this, and live for myself.  Not become a waste.  I remember waking up with the sweats.  The cravings and the rampant emotions.  
 
Thankfully, it's been almost 15 years since I cleaned up.  March 6th is the anniversary, in fact.  Thanks to determination and the love/support of those closest to me, I can proudly say I have not touched meth since then.  I also have not used any opiates save for very very rare occasions and only prescribed by my doctor.  Even then, if I'm asking for any opiates (which has been 5xs in the last 14 years) she knows it's because I'm truly hurting and alieve won't cut it.  Can't take ibuprofen due to being allergic.  
 
Anyway, those scenes with Cullen really clicked with me.  It helps that I enjoyed talking to him prior to that point and I couldn't imagine the military arm of the Inquisition without him.    To be honest, while I can't say I'm too attached to the way he was in Origins or DA2, I adore the person he's become.  As an adult, I get Cullen and a lot of his struggles.  I have no regrets about trying out Bull's romance first, but Cullen's character growth did what I hoped it would do for me.  It got me interested in the character, and it helped me to really like him too.
 
My next character is going to have one helluva time choosing between him and Blackwall, for sure.

Welcome to the Dark Side! Thanks for sharing. His evolution is something we've always enjoyed as well. Nice to hear it rang true.

[Danariel]

Just as a point, Rhys's father is never revealed in the books. Only that he is a templar. To my knowledge, the father being Greagoir is just headcanon.

 

Sorry, thought it was accepted, since Wynne said his father was a Templar, and Greagoir is one of the people who will appear when Wynne's Amulet of Memories is used.

[neonmoth]

Um, I'm not seeing anything you're saying as disagreeing with what most of us were saying or even the tenor of general conversation... so agree with the choice not to pick a fight.The limited word budget simply doesn't explore many of the issues we've dissected ad nauseum here. For some of it, I almost feel a phantom footnote that says, "See the BSN Cullen Thread." :PHis characterization in DA:I is an easy extrapolation from where he was. It is, however, an extrapolation with little to see about how he got there (and with even some confusing facts regarding his promotion, etc). It does beg the question why they distanced him so utterly from the Order, and they did succeed in winning over many doubters.The "even HE hated himself" argument will continue to stick in my craw.

In my understanding there is no doubt here that Cullen is a great character in dai and his scenes are written beautifully but that this side of him somehow could not exist with him still cherishing templars values, something that was so defining for his character. This and the behind the scenes stuff. It can be considered as catering to haters but i just think it's writers again being awkward with writing about templars in general. But I will shut up now cause I only played through game once and most of his conversations blur in my mind especially with all the mindless drooling when I was around him. Peace love Cullen and so on.

[R2s Muse]

Sorry, thought it was accepted, since Wynne said his father was a Templar, and Greagoir is one of the people who will appear when Wynne's Amulet of Memories is used.

Interesting! I didn't know that.

[neonmoth]

Forgive the minor conversation spoiler, but I wanted to share something with the Cullenites:
 

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If I may be a little personal, choosing the decision to encourage him not to take lyrium struck a chord with me.  As well as the earlier scene, of him staring at his lyrium kit.  It changed much of my views of him and made him someone I could relate to as a person.
 
I've been clean for years, but for awhile back in 1999-2000, I was a junkie.  My drugs of choice were Black tar Opium (about as close to heroin as you can get in smokable forum) and, the Prince of All Bad Ideas, meth.  
 
I remember when I was getting clean and it still remains one of the roughest times in my life.  I had good friends and my family, but I didn't go to rehab.  Ultimately, I didn't need to.  I had an overwhelming desire to be strong, get past this, and live for myself.  Not become a waste.  I remember waking up with the sweats.  The cravings and the rampant emotions.  
 
Thankfully, it's been almost 15 years since I cleaned up.  March 6th is the anniversary, in fact.  Thanks to determination and the love/support of those closest to me, I can proudly say I have not touched meth since then.  I also have not used any opiates save for very very rare occasions and only prescribed by my doctor.  Even then, if I'm asking for any opiates (which has been 5xs in the last 14 years) she knows it's because I'm truly hurting and alieve won't cut it.  Can't take ibuprofen due to being allergic.  
 
Anyway, those scenes with Cullen really clicked with me.  It helps that I enjoyed talking to him prior to that point and I couldn't imagine the military arm of the Inquisition without him.    To be honest, while I can't say I'm too attached to the way he was in Origins or DA2, I adore the person he's become.  As an adult, I get Cullen and a lot of his struggles.  I have no regrets about trying out Bull's romance first, but Cullen's character growth did what I hoped it would do for me.  It got me interested in the character, and it helped me to really like him too.
 
My next character is going to have one helluva time choosing between him and Blackwall, for sure.

I'm out of likes again but thanks for sharing. This definitely puts his character arch in a context and works well with his off camera struggles I imagined him to have. Also with his strong will and determination and supportive environment that help him to combat addiction as it was in your case. Glad he stroke a chord with you :]

[Grieving Natashina]

Welcome to the Dark Side! Thanks for sharing. His evolution is something we've always enjoyed as well. Nice to hear it rang true.

Quite.  May I ask who wrote him for Inquisition?  I want to send them a heartfelt thank you tweet and/or PM.

 

 

I'm out of likes again but thanks for sharing. This definitely puts his character arch in a context and works well with his off camera struggles I imagined him to have. Also with his strong will and determination and supportive environment that help him to combat addiction as it was in your case. Glad he stroke a chord with you :]

He did.  You can ask some of the more veteran posters: I've always been in support of Cullen.  He had the potential to be an interesting and dynamic character and holy crap, did the writers do that and more.

 

I just don't post in here much, but then again, I've been largely avoiding this section of the forums in general.  I've still got to finish the game, but I'm 75 hours in and at What Pride Hath Wrought.  

[R2s Muse]

Quite.  May I ask who wrote him for Inquisition?  I want to send them a heartfelt thank you tweet and/or PM.

Brianne Battye @bbattye

She's awesome.

[Grieving Natashina]

Brianne Battye @bbattye

She's awesome.

She did her homework into drug abuse/drug withdrawl and it shows.  That's an easy subject to screw up, but she balanced it just right.  I'll be tossing her a tweet later.

[neonmoth]

Quite. May I ask who wrote him for Inquisition? I want to send them a heartfelt thank you tweet and/or PM.

He did. You can ask some of the more veteran posters: I've always been in support of Cullen. He had the potential to be an interesting and dynamic character and holy crap, did the writers do that and more.

I just don't post in here much, but then again, I've been largely avoiding this section of the forums in general. I've still got to finish the game, but I'm 75 hours in and at What Pride Hath Wrought.

Oh, i have no doubts in you :] When I first came to this thread I was more or less of a similar mind. Chatting with guys here, reading insightful comments and replaying the game made me love the character, to the point I really cared what was going to happen to him. Boy am I glad he is finally on a straight. You'll definitely have a hard time between him and Blackwall next time Brienne did a great job with him.

[Lilaeth]

Forgive the minor conversation spoiler, but I wanted to share something with the Cullenites:

 

Spoiler

If I may be a little personal, choosing the decision to encourage him not to take lyrium struck a chord with me.  As well as the earlier scene, of him staring at his lyrium kit.  It changed much of my views of him and made him someone I could relate to as a person.

 

I've been clean for years, but for awhile back in 1999-2000, I was a junkie.  My drugs of choice were Black tar Opium (about as close to heroin as you can get in smokable forum) and, the Prince of All Bad Ideas, meth.  

 

I remember when I was getting clean and it still remains one of the roughest times in my life.  I had good friends and my family, but I didn't go to rehab.  Ultimately, I didn't need to.  I had an overwhelming desire to be strong, get past this, and live for myself.  Not become a waste.  I remember waking up with the sweats.  The cravings and the rampant emotions.  

 

Thankfully, it's been almost 15 years since I cleaned up.  March 6th is the anniversary, in fact.  Thanks to determination and the love/support of those closest to me, I can proudly say I have not touched meth since then.  I also have not used any opiates save for very very rare occasions and only prescribed by my doctor.  Even then, if I'm asking for any opiates (which has been 5xs in the last 14 years) she knows it's because I'm truly hurting and alieve won't cut it.  Can't take ibuprofen due to being allergic.  

 

Anyway, those scenes with Cullen really clicked with me.  It helps that I enjoyed talking to him prior to that point and I couldn't imagine the military arm of the Inquisition without him.    To be honest, while I can't say I'm too attached to the way he was in Origins or DA2, I adore the person he's become.  As an adult, I get Cullen and a lot of his struggles.  I have no regrets about trying out Bull's romance first, but Cullen's character growth did what I hoped it would do for me.  It got me interested in the character, and it helped me to really like him too.

 

My next character is going to have one helluva time choosing between him and Blackwall, for sure.

Thank you for sharing that.  I have a couple of medical conditions that mean I have to take a lot of powerful and unpleasant drugs.  One in particular is like my lyrium.  I need to take it to stop my joints developing into the classic rheumatoid arthritis monkey puzzles.  Yet it is seriously toxic and makes me sick for 3 or 4 days after I take it.  One of the main possible side effects on the list is 'death'!  I start injecting it tonight.  That scene of Cullen just looking at the box with his 'works' in it is me every Friday evening.  I'm no stranger to recreational drugs, at least in the past, but taking this one just gripes my soul, for some reason.  I loathe taking it, but I have to.  Hopefully science will come up with something that will let me throw my box against the wall as well.  Ah well, as least I get decent painkillers too!

[Cherity]

Hello everyone, another big Cullen-Fan here 

Love his romance, really well written and my favourite LI for now. Sorry Alistair, he was great too, but Cullen is really awesome

 

Congrats to 4k page everyone Wanna share some screenies with you too:

 

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Btw, sry for my bad english.

[Grieving Natashina]

Oh, i have no doubts in you :] When I first came to this thread I was more or less of a similar mind. Chatting with guys here, reading insightful comments and replaying the game made me love the character even more, to the point I really cared what was going to happen to him. Boy am I glad he is finally on a straight. You'll definitely have a hard time between him and Blackwall next time Brienne did a great job with him.

I don't think I'll ever be a true Cullenite.  What can I say?  Even though it's futile, for the older characters, Varric got there first.      I know that some of the posters have been around for years now, and let's just say that they were certainly treated like the whipping boy for the BSN for a long long long time.  One of my first threads was asking the BSN why Cullen was considered fan service, as I was new and completely confused.  David Gaider stopped by to offer his thoughts.  It was pretty cool.

 

Cullenite or not, I'm now a fan of the character.  Shoot, my dwarf rogue likes him, which says a lot.  She is largely outside of the drama between mage and templar (part of the reason why I picked her with that class,) and thought that Cullen would be another Templar/ex-Templar pain in the arse.  I knew better as a player, but I really try to RP as much as possible, especially the first time around.

 

Instead, he surprised me and my character both. 

 

Thank you for sharing that.  I have a couple of medical conditions that mean I have to take a lot of powerful and unpleasant drugs.  One in particular is like my lyrium.  I need to take it to stop my joints developing into the classic rheumatoid arthritis monkey puzzles.  Yet it is seriously toxic and makes me sick for 3 or 4 days after I take it.  One of the main possible side effects on the list is 'death'!  I start injecting it tonight.  That scene of Cullen just looking at the box with his 'works' in it is me every Friday evening.  I'm no stranger to recreational drugs, at least in the past, but taking this one just gripes my soul, for some reason.  I loathe taking it, but I have to.  Hopefully science will come up with something that will let me throw my box against the wall as well.  Ah well, as least I get decent painkillers too!

I know you don't know me from anyone, but my door is always open.  On my profile, I say that and I mean it.  If you need someone to talk to in the middle of the night (US time,) I'm around.  Toss me a PM anytime and I promise I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

[riverbanks]

Forgive the minor conversation spoiler, but I wanted to share something with the Cullenites:

Spoiler

If I may be a little personal, choosing the decision to encourage him not to take lyrium struck a chord with me. As well as the earlier scene, of him staring at his lyrium kit. It changed much of my views of him and made him someone I could relate to as a person.

I've been clean for years, but for awhile back in 1999-2000, I was a junkie. My drugs of choice were Black tar Opium (about as close to heroin as you can get in smokable forum) and, the Prince of All Bad Ideas, meth.

I remember when I was getting clean and it still remains one of the roughest times in my life. I had good friends and my family, but I didn't go to rehab. Ultimately, I didn't need to. I had an overwhelming desire to be strong, get past this, and live for myself. Not become a waste. I remember waking up with the sweats. The cravings and the rampant emotions.

Thankfully, it's been almost 15 years since I cleaned up. March 6th is the anniversary, in fact. Thanks to determination and the love/support of those closest to me, I can proudly say I have not touched meth since then. I also have not used any opiates save for very very rare occasions and only prescribed by my doctor. Even then, if I'm asking for any opiates (which has been 5xs in the last 14 years) she knows it's because I'm truly hurting and alieve won't cut it. Can't take ibuprofen due to being allergic.

Anyway, those scenes with Cullen really clicked with me. It helps that I enjoyed talking to him prior to that point and I couldn't imagine the military arm of the Inquisition without him. To be honest, while I can't say I'm too attached to the way he was in Origins or DA2, I adore the person he's become. As an adult, I get Cullen and a lot of his struggles. I have no regrets about trying out Bull's romance first, but Cullen's character growth did what I hoped it would do for me. It got me interested in the character, and it helped me to really like him too.

My next character is going to have one helluva time choosing between him and Blackwall, for sure.

This was very touching to read, thank you for sharing it. Cullen's struggle with addiction struck a rather personal chord with me too, I agree that it was handled with tact and maturity where it could have gone into easy clichés. We have Brianne to thank for that, she did a good job within the constrains of time and word count she had to work with.

Wish you the best in the constant process of staying clean.

...oh, and good luck choosing between Cullen and Blackwall. Cullen easily swept my canon Inquisitor off her feet with his charms, but Blackwall had me so thirsty by the end of my first playthrough that I had to make a second character solely to romance him and get that damn bear out of my system.

[R2s Muse]

Hello everyone, another big Cullen-Fan here 
Love his romance, really well written and my favourite LI for now. Sorry Alistair, he was great too, but Cullen is really awesome
 
Congrats to 4k page everyone Wanna share some screenies with you too:
 

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Btw, sry for my bad english.

Awesome, and welcome! Would you like me to post your post on Page 4000?

[Grieving Natashina]

 

This was very touching to read, thank you for sharing it. Cullen's struggle with addiction struck a rather personal chord with me too, I agree that it was handled with tact and maturity where it could have gone into easy clichés. We have Brianne to thank for that, she did a good job within the constrains of time and word count she had to work with.

Wish you the best in the constant process of staying clean. 

...oh, and good luck choosing between Cullen and Blackwall. Cullen easily swept my canon Inquisitor off her feet with his charms, but Blackwall had me so thirsty by the end of my first playthrough that I had to make a second character solely to romance him and get that damn bear out of my system. 

 

 

Staying clean is easy now.  The first few years were rough, but all the smell of meth does is make me sick.  Let me tell you, the first time I smelled meth after cleaning up (at an outdoor concert) and felt like I was about to puke, I was so happy.  Because I was about to get physically ill.  My body no longer craved the crap.  Ozzfest 2004, here in Denver.  I'll never forget it, because that was the day I knew I was finally free from that nasty stuff.  My (now) husband was also celebrating with me.  He's been amazing.

 

When I talk about being a junkie, I'm talking the whole nine.  I never shared needles, but I got it straight to the vein.  Nothing like it in the world and nothing I'd even want my worst enemy to experience.  Hell, the codex descriptions of templars trying the red lyrium for the first time gave me a slight chill.  The difference in intensity really was like the differences between smoking/snorting meth and being a complete moron like I was for a little while.

 

The writers did such an amazing job.  I know the game does have some flaws and issues that are still being worked on, but this is quickly shaping up to be one of my favorite RPGs of all time.  And I've been playing them since 1986, when Dragon Quest was originally released as Dragon Warrior for the NES.  The depth of writing and characterization is astonishing, and so well done.

 

Cullen is just one amazing example of it.  Oh and I like his scar a lot!  It gives his face some real character now, and he doesn't look as much like a generic pretty boy anymore.  He looks like a damned fine warrior that has seen his far share of battle.  However, even outside of the romance, that gentle smirk and the utterly respectful treatment of my Inquisitor really means a lot to me as a player.

 

Sorry for gushing and walls of text, but the last couple of weeks haven't been easy for someone that actually loves Inquisition.  

 

 

Awesome, and welcome! Would you like me to post your post on Page 4000?

Sure, I'd be honored.