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[Rascoth]

Sincere apologies to the 99.9% of non-Amell/Surana shipping posters in this thread who either don't bring up their dislike of it at all, or don't bring up their dislike of it unless provoked by other ship hate. I feel like a broken record but I keep coming back here in the last few weeks and finding more of this.
 
I'll take you at your word that such people exist; I have literally never seen anyone say that, and I actively seek out that pairing whereas you avoid it. Everyone I know in fandom who made fanart / made fanfic / daydreamed of Cullen with their Warden also enjoyed his DA:I romance with the Inquisitor.* All most of us want is to be able to mention liking Cullen x mage!Warden around other Cullen fans without immediately hearing "eww power imbalance" or "I'm so glad she's gone in my continuity so Cullen's heart can belong only to Quizzy", and in my experience, that's not the case in most fan forums. (Even the positivity week had a post that included a discussion of the poster's dislike of it.)

If you don't like it when you feel that people are slighting your ships, a good place to start is avoiding doing the same to them.

Based on how often you bring it up, I get the impression that it really bothers you on some visceral level. All I can offer is that it might help to look for the positive: if Cullen had treated the female mage warden the same way he treats the male mage warden (friendly, but nothing more), he wouldn't have prompted the huge fan response he did, meaning he might not have been so memorable to the writers that they wanted to include him in DA2. And if he hadn't been in DA2, he wouldn't be around for us to romance in DA:I.

And if anyone has ideas for how I can stop being viscerally bothered by other people hating on it, I'm always open to PMs.

* I'd say I like them about equally and I refer to both as OTPs, which is probably misusing the term but whatever. I prefer him with my Inquisitor for a few practical reasons, and I identify more strongly with my Inquisitor, but all of the fanart and fanfic that lured me here to discuss Cullen had him either with the Warden or Hawke. I feel the need to mention that because I'm sincerely not sure whether I'm one of the people whose motives you're misinterpreting in your above post.

I was going to write something clever, but then I understood that you've already written everything that I could add.

 

As I mentioned before, I never paired my Amell with Cullen, but that's because how I roleplayed her - painfully obvious to any flirting and romantic feelings. But I have nothing against this pairing.

If I may add something about DAO. I'm not surprised former pairing got fans. There's something about forbidden crushes and hidden feelings that just makes people (and me) go aaawwww. 

Also, In my opinion Cullen's infatuation with female mage was definitely better handled that Tamlen and Dalish warden situation. But that's just me.

 

If they gave me the option to change one thing about DA:I, I used to think I might pick "implementing an approval system for the advisors", but the more I think about it the more obvious it is that including a short bit with the PCs at or just before the Conclave would be better. It wouldn't even have to be as long as the origins in Origins. I would love to hang out with Adaar's mercenary company or Trevelyan's family. Assuming PC race options are here to stay (which precludes Hawke-level knowledge of your background), I really hope they go back to that in DA4.

I would be happy if we got more dialogue options to 'specify' our background. I think the only instances where you have that chance is dialogue with Josephine in Haven and your feelings about Free Marches during talk with Cassandra. 

Though I would be very happy to have DAO-styled prologue.

[Vanalia]

 I feel the need to mention that because I'm sincerely not sure whether I'm one of the people whose motives you're misinterpreting in your above post.

 

I was not talking about you, don't worry, but about some people I talked to/seen posting (and not especially in this thread or anything), I was not targeting anyone HERE.

 

Last time when I was talking about that Amell obession of some people, it was just because that banter between the messenger and Leliana seemed odd to me (and not only to me), (Cullen sending someone else asking for very private questions), that's all.

 

I really like little flirts and being able to make Cullen blush as a Warden was really cute. Yes, yes, I liked it (even if for ME it was just a little teenager crush, and for others it means absolute neverending mad love) and you shouldn't be so angry to see someone just saying that he/she doesn't like shipping them, everyone is free to like or dislike that, and anyone if free to say it, there's no hate here just personnal tastes. You're free to like it and say it, I'm free to dislike it and say it.

 

I was just saying that I had some conversations with quite narrow-minded/obsessed people (on some forums or deviantart for example) who would deny the IQ romance or try to force their headcannon to me or to others, and that, I don't like it. But it's like everything else, not only about that shipping especially.

 

So, no harm meant

[Tishina]

Sincere apologies to the 99.9% of non-Amell/Surana shipping posters in this thread who either don't bring up their dislike of it at all, or don't bring up their dislike of it unless provoked by other ship hate. I feel like a broken record but I keep coming back here in the last few weeks and finding more of this.
 
I'll take you at your word that such people exist; I have literally never seen anyone say that, and I actively seek out that pairing whereas you avoid it. Everyone I know in fandom who made fanart / made fanfic / daydreamed of Cullen with their Warden also enjoyed his DA:I romance with the Inquisitor.* All most of us want is to be able to mention liking Cullen x mage!Warden around other Cullen fans without immediately hearing "eww power imbalance" or "I'm so glad she's gone in my continuity so Cullen's heart can belong only to Quizzy", and in my experience, that's not the case in most fan forums. (Even the positivity week had a post that included a discussion of the poster's dislike of it.)

If you don't like it when you feel that people are slighting your ships, a good place to start is avoiding doing the same to them.

Based on how often you bring it up, I get the impression that it really bothers you on some visceral level. All I can offer is that it might help to look for the positive: if Cullen had treated the female mage warden the same way he treats the male mage warden (friendly, but nothing more), he wouldn't have prompted the huge fan response he did, meaning he might not have been so memorable to the writers that they wanted to include him in DA2. And if he hadn't been in DA2, he wouldn't be around for us to romance in DA:I.

And if anyone has ideas for how I can stop being viscerally bothered by other people hating on it, I'm always open to PMs.

* I'd say I like them about equally and I refer to both as OTPs, which is probably misusing the term but whatever. I prefer him with my Inquisitor for a few practical reasons, and I identify more strongly with my Inquisitor, but all of the fanart and fanfic that lured me here to discuss Cullen had him either with the Warden or Hawke. I feel the need to mention that because I'm sincerely not sure whether I'm one of the people whose motives you're interpreting that way in your above post.

OK, thanks (and thanks for the clarification that it wasn't this thread, Vanalia,) because I've never seen anyone saying such things about Amell/Surana and Cullen as a pairing either, but I'm not terribly active, if at all, outside the BSN. I have seen the opposite, people who dismiss anyone else's headcannon that he continued to have feelings for a mage in that individual's world based on his mention of a mage warden (which they particularly hate.) Even most of those are not hating, although confused. I don't understand their reaction at all since it's easy enough to avoid triggering those conversations by simply not creating a worldstate with an Amell/Surana Warden - I don't understand why anyone who hates the character would create such a worldstate to play anyway. I don't favor one pairing over the other myself (and have written about both now.) I actually consider Amell and Surana distinctly different even if they were given the same origin story for one - their backgrounds are extremely different if they came to the Circle when they were older - just as I consider the human and Dalish to have very different potentials for the romance (and mages and non-mages.) I admit, although I enjoy the romance BB wrote for Cullen, I just can't seem to connect nearly as strongly with my IQs which may be why I still enjoy a warden as one alternative for stories (I also enjoy Hawke-Cullen pairings, which is funny since I haven't even played DA2.) I could even forgo origin content before the explosion, but something beyond war table mentions of your family, etc. Maybe it's partly that they've left it so vague that it feels like anything you try to headcannon will have the rug yanked out at some point...

[Vanalia]

I think there was confusion because of that discussion we had some pages before with that banter in Leliana's office, the name of Cullen was not mentionned so I wondered if she was really talking about him, as she was saying strange things that seemed a bit OOC for Cullen ("has he been drinking?" etc, and the fact that he sends a total stranger to harass Leliana about some dead person she lost, it was a bit odd and confusing for everyone)

 

I also wondered at the time if it was possible to hear that when you don't use the Dragon age keep, but it seems not (it needs very specific choices in it), so my question was answered ^^ there's nothing more to it.

[skylark]

If they gave me the option to change one thing about DA:I, I used to think I might pick "implementing an approval system for the advisors", but the more I think about it the more obvious it is that including a short bit with the PCs at or just before the Conclave would be better. It wouldn't even have to be as long as the origins in Origins. I would love to hang out with Adaar's mercenary company or Trevelyan's family. Assuming PC race options are here to stay (which precludes Hawke-level knowledge of your background), I really hope they go back to that in DA4.

 

Ooh yea I think even the journey TO the Conclave would've been nice. [Treveylan] talking/arguing with your family about your potential future. The Conclave always befuddled me a bit. Like at what point exactly did IT happen? The cinematic as far as I remember implies that people are still on there way there when everything blows to hell. If whatever conference was already under way, I think it would've been interesting to see the templar/mage discussions going on. And that would have provided better background about the war/each side, and could've helped influence your stance on the matter. Because that whole situation in the game is so....underwhelming.

[R2s Muse]

I finally found out how to do this a few months ago!!! I'll need to come back tonight and edit this with how, unless someone else can do so offhand. But it is possible in the game as released, just not necessarily more convenient than the other ways to get there.

Oooh, share!

 

I honestly have no idea why they're still pushing SWTOR so hard. I used to play up until they made it free to play. I just can't imagine it being all the profitable for them anymore. MEANWHILE they have so many people begging and waiting for DAI DLC. Get on it BW! 

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It's actually really humorous to me because I was playing DAI hardcore for idk how many consecutive months and then I was about 99% through everything on completionist. All I had left was Doom, and I just kind of stopping playing? For a month or so? I knew the gist of what happened end-game, but maybe I just didn't want it to be over I guess? Especially with Cullen lol. Well I actually gathered my wits about me and finished last week. 

 

Spoilers for Vana (end game discussion)

Spoiler

Wow people were not kidding when they complained it ends too abruptly... Anyhow I was pretty satisfied with the ending scenes for Cullen except maybe on the balcony they could've talked more or something? The only thing I just can't wrap my head around is why Cullen doesn't go with you to Cory? I understand they're awaiting the troops from the Wilds- but if the main threat is Cory how can Cullen justify staying at Skyhold to welcome the troops back OVER going to face Cory with his lover? I mean after the battle you see all of your companions there regardless of who you take with you, and you're telling me Cullen isn't there also because...? I mean the journey alone I think is like what, two weeks? It's gotta be at least a week. So you finally get back to Skyhold after (x) weeks and you're telling me Cullen doesn't spend hours waiting at the gate as soon as word was sent that you'd be coming? Or at the very least run to embrace you instead of watching you climb all those steps?

 

Anyhow, needless to say I was an emotional mess at the end of it all. Ugh I'm still a mess. So I started Origins again, after five years. And even so early into the game, I'm already more invested story-wise than in DAI, which didn't make me feel better. I started wondering why this might be the case. (Playing Cousland) I think maybe the reason everyone feels so disconnected from the Inquisitor is because there's no personal history there? You just kind of pop out of nowhere. There's nothing of your family or anything (shown)...

*sigh* yes, agree with the spoilered part. 

 

Spoiler

I really, REALLY wish that they'd taken a more DA:O approach and had all your companions and advisors participate in the final battle somehow. It just really seemed like an All Hands On Deck situation, so my Suspension of Disbelief was broken by Cullen giving me a sword and a pat on the head and pointing me toward Cory with a wave goodbye. 

 

Hopefully the Wolf Hunt DLC will bring fuller closure to those final moments.

[R2s Muse]

<snip>

* I'd say I like them about equally and I refer to both as OTPs, which is probably misusing the term but whatever. I prefer him with my Inquisitor for a few practical reasons, and I identify more strongly with my Inquisitor, but all of the fanart and fanfic that lured me here to discuss Cullen had him either with the Warden or Hawke. I feel the need to mention that because I'm sincerely not sure whether I'm one of the people whose motives you're interpreting that way in your above post.

TwoTP? PolyTP? MultiVerseTP?  

 

I joke, but your general point is well taken. The thread has gone through waves where more or less folk were invested in a different partner for Cullen, and it's good for everyone to be reminded that not everyone headcanons them in the same way. 

 

And as someone who formerly had NO interest whatsoever in the Amell/Surana ship, I've now written some Cullen x Amell that I wickedly love. So you never know where your tastes might end up.  

 

(Altho, Hawke x Cullen 5eva!  )

[Vanalia]

I have to finish the game quickly so I stop bothering you with all these spoiler tags  (not my fault, I like to finish the secondary quests before the end of the story... when I do the quests after it, I feel like I do it for nothing...) I might not have the patience of gathering all the shining stones for Solas, though.

[Ashaantha]

-snip-

 

Spoilers for Vana (end game discussion)

Spoiler

Wow people were not kidding when they complained it ends too abruptly... Anyhow I was pretty satisfied with the ending scenes for Cullen except maybe on the balcony they could've talked more or something? The only thing I just can't wrap my head around is why Cullen doesn't go with you to Cory? I understand they're awaiting the troops from the Wilds- but if the main threat is Cory how can Cullen justify staying at Skyhold to welcome the troops back OVER going to face Cory with his lover? I mean after the battle you see all of your companions there regardless of who you take with you, and you're telling me Cullen isn't there also because...? I mean the journey alone I think is like what, two weeks? It's gotta be at least a week. So you finally get back to Skyhold after (x) weeks and you're telling me Cullen doesn't spend hours waiting at the gate as soon as word was sent that you'd be coming? Or at the very least run to embrace you instead of watching you climb all those steps?

 

 

 

*sigh* yes, agree with the spoilered part. 

 

Spoiler

I really, REALLY wish that they'd taken a more DA:O approach and had all your companions and advisors participate in the final battle somehow. It just really seemed like an All Hands On Deck situation, so my Suspension of Disbelief was broken by Cullen giving me a sword and a pat on the head and pointing me toward Cory with a wave goodbye. 

 

Hopefully the Wolf Hunt DLC will bring fuller closure to those final moments.

Just adding to spoilered discussion..

Spoiler

Forward to a classic case of thinking something completely different, in my case anyway, again.. I always thought it was logical for the General/Commander of the Inquisiton to remain at Skyhold with most of the forces currently there for defense in case everything went belly up in the fight against Cory (Inquisitor fails to slay him etc) so they've got one last, most likely useless, line of defense. That's always been what I thought anyway, I've never had the thoughts you two have stated here cross my mind, reading them both sets of things make sense and it would have been nice if at least leli and Cullen were there a the final fight too (I don't see Josephine attending a battle properly) too.

[Rascoth]

*sigh* yes, agree with the spoilered part. 

 

Spoiler

I really, REALLY wish that they'd taken a more DA:O approach and had all your companions and advisors participate in the final battle somehow. It just really seemed like an All Hands On Deck situation, so my Suspension of Disbelief was broken by Cullen giving me a sword and a pat on the head and pointing me toward Cory with a wave goodbye. 

 

Hopefully the Wolf Hunt DLC will bring fuller closure to those final moments.

 

Just adding to spoilered discussion..

Spoiler

Forward to a classic case of thinking something completely different, in my case anyway, again.. I always thought it was logical for the General/Commander of the Inquisiton to remain at Skyhold with most of the forces currently there for defense in case everything went belly up in the fight against Cory (Inquisitor fails to slay him etc) so they've got one last, most likely useless, line of defense. That's always been what I thought anyway, I've never had the thoughts you two have stated here cross my mind, reading them both sets of things make sense and it would have been nice if at least leli and Cullen were there a the final fight too (I don't see Josephine attending a battle properly) too.

Oh, this...

Spoiler

Lack of companions (not advisors) really bothers me. Maybe, maybe I wouldn't mind (or wouldn't be that bothered) if they didn't appear out of nowhere after Solas left. Where they just standing there, waiting for you to finish big baddy?

It's not only the ending. Adamant, Arbor Wilds, attack at Haven. Those were so... empty, anticlimatic. Not even once I felt that those were big battles.

 

I have to finish the game quickly so I stop bothering you with all these spoiler tags  (not my fault, I like to finish the secondary quests before the end of the story... when I do the quests after it, I feel like I do it for nothing...) I might not have the patience of gathering all the shining stones for Solas, though.

Whenever I play completionist playthroughs (which means all my human and elf playthroughs) I finish up everything (except for JoH) before fight with Corypheus. Including shards. I'm sucker for all collections.

[Vanalia]

These shards really do bring something to the game or is it a bit dissapointing, what you get with that?

[Rascoth]

These shards really do bring something to the game or is it a bit dissapointing, what you get with that?

Bonus elemental resistance for every door opened. A bunch of loot containers, superb elemental resistance belts, skill rings, one of the best daggers and the best Vitaar in base game for last door... and codex entry. 

Nothing plot related, but I like collecting them :shrugs:

[R2s Muse]

These shards really do bring something to the game or is it a bit dissapointing, what you get with that?

It's not much of a spoiler if you want to know

 

Spoiler

You just get some pretty good elemental resistances and some not very good loot. So depends on whether you think those are worth it. I myself can't stop collecting the shards, but it pisses me off everytime I pick one up.

[Ashaantha]

Oh, this...

Spoiler

Lack of companions (not advisors) really bothers me. Maybe, maybe I wouldn't mind (or wouldn't be that bothered) if they didn't appear out of nowhere after Solas left. Where they just standing there, waiting for you to finish big baddy?

It's not only the ending. Adamant, Arbor Wilds, attack at Haven. Those were so... empty, anticlimatic. Not even once I felt that those were big battles.

 

Whenever I play completionist playthroughs (which means all my human and elf playthroughs) I finish up everything (except for JoH) before fight with Corypheus. Including shards. I'm sucker for all collections.

 

That too...

Spoiler

I think because Cory lifts up pieces of rock into the sky the companions chosen are the only ones that end up being stuck on one of the rocks with you. The rest get left behind on the ground. Adamant should have been done so much better, at least all companions chat to you about the fade adventure afterwards sadly they skipped giving the advisors dialogue for it... why?... But yeah, solo fight against big baddy right at the end cutscene then the other 3 show up again too, maybe they were taking a nap (yeah not serious, I joke about discrepancies a lot).

 

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*eyes 203 hour play through* still hunting down shards, arg.. my longest completionist one was almost 400 hours, I'm slow

[R2s Muse]

Just adding to spoilered discussion..

Spoiler

Forward to a classic case of thinking something completely different, in my case anyway, again.. I always thought it was logical for the General/Commander of the Inquisiton to remain at Skyhold with most of the forces currently there for defense in case everything went belly up in the fight against Cory (Inquisitor fails to slay him etc) so they've got one last, most likely useless, line of defense. That's always been what I thought anyway, I've never had the thoughts you two have stated here cross my mind, reading them both sets of things make sense and it would have been nice if at least leli and Cullen were there a the final fight too (I don't see Josephine attending a battle properly) too.

 

Oh, this...

Spoiler

Lack of companions (not advisors) really bothers me. Maybe, maybe I wouldn't mind (or wouldn't be that bothered) if they didn't appear out of nowhere after Solas left. Where they just standing there, waiting for you to finish big baddy?

It's not only the ending. Adamant, Arbor Wilds, attack at Haven. Those were so... empty, anticlimatic. Not even once I felt that those were big battles.

 

Whenever I play completionist playthroughs (which means all my human and elf playthroughs) I finish up everything (except for JoH) before fight with Corypheus. Including shards. I'm sucker for all collections.

I think ... 

Spoiler

the  point on Cullen staying behind as the General is well taken, although he *did* come to Temple of Mythal, so it seemed odd to me that he wouldn't follow suit. But, indeed, an argument can be made for him holding down the fort at Skyhold, even if I'd rather he'd been at least waiting anxiously for me on the ground in Haven, waiting for my rock to touch down.

 

The lack of companions certainly bothered me more, particularly since they all show up at the end and sort of *act* like they were there all along somehow. I mean, you had more folks helping you against Meredith in DA2! LOL 

 

All that being said, I'm still glad you finally see some impact from the travel times, so I did like the cleverness of how they fixed it so that you had to go mano y mano with Corypheus at the end. But overall it still felt anticlimactic.

[Owlfruit Potion]

I was just saying that I had some conversations with quite narrow-minded/obsessed people (on some forums or deviantart for example) who would deny the IQ romance or try to force their headcannon to me or to others, and that, I don't like it. But it's like everything else, not only about that shipping especially.

Got it; I've never been to deviantart at least not since I found out that Through These Pages could also be read at AO3. That sucks.
 

Just adding to spoilered discussion..

Spoiler

Forward to a classic case of thinking something completely different, in my case anyway, again.. I always thought it was logical for the General/Commander of the Inquisiton to remain at Skyhold with most of the forces currently there for defense in case everything went belly up in the fight against Cory (Inquisitor fails to slay him etc) so they've got one last, most likely useless, line of defense. That's always been what I thought anyway, I've never had the thoughts you two have stated here cross my mind, reading them both sets of things make sense and it would have been nice if at least leli and Cullen were there a the final fight too (I don't see Josephine attending a battle properly) too.

 

Spoiler

Yeah... I didn't mind it initially either--it made enough sense to me to send a team of just you and a specially chosen handful of companions in order to mobilize as quickly as possible against Corypheus wrecking your castle by himself. But now that y'all mention it, all 9 of them being there afterwards (and some of them mentioning having been there even if they weren't) does take away from that a bit.
 
Still not sure I'd want Cullen there, though. Being welcomed back to Skyhold by him and hugged in front of everyone is one of my favorite parts of the romance.

 
Marginally on-topic: today's presumably-DLC-teasing blog post is about lyrium. http://www.dragonage...our-lore-lyrium
 
(And pretty much not on topic at all, re: the DLC-teasing discussion earlier: for anyone who doesn't follow the official Twitter accounts, here's a quick summary I've been keeping of all the tease-y posting BioWare has been doing lately:)

Spoiler

F 7/17 ca 1500 EST: Substantial dwarf-related blog post (start of Varric-themed series of DAIMP challenges)

S 7/18 ca 1400 EST: Short dwarf-related post to Twitter (Varric re: hack writers)
(weekend)

T 7/21 ca 1500 EST: Spoils of the Qunari announced
W 7/22 ca 1500 EST: Substantial dwarf-related blog post (Know Your Lore: The Deep Roads)
Th 7/23 ca 1500 EST: Short dwarf-related post to Twitter (Pick your favorite dwarf: a,b,c,d)
F 7/24 ca 1500 EST: Substantial dwarf-related blog post (Know Your Lore: Darkspawn)

(weekend)

M 7/27 ca 1500 EST: Substantial dwarf-related blog post (Know Your Lore: Legion of the Dead) + short dwarf-related post to Twitter (Sigrun)
T 7/28 ca 1600 EST: Short dwarf-related post to Twitter (Varric/IB banter)
W 7/29 1500 EST: Short dwarf-related post to Twitter (Shaperate)
Th 7/30 1500 EST: Short Deep Roads-related post to Twitter (Grey Wardens)
F 7/31 ca. 1320 EST (to blog, not yet on Twitter): Substantial dwarf-related blog post (Know Your Lore: Caste & the Casteless)

(weekend)

M 8/3 ca 1300 EST: Substantial dwarf-related blog post (Know Your Lore: Lyrium)

The Varric-themed DAIMP challenges end this weekend, FWIW.

[Ashaantha]

-snip-

 

Marginally relevant: today's presumably-DLC-teasing blog post is about lyrium. http://www.dragonage...our-lore-lyrium

 

*remembers running around Deep Roads in DAo clicking on lyrium veins with her mage lady warden*

hmmm.. that doesn't sound like it was a good idea now

[R2s Muse]

Got it; I've never been to deviantart at least not since I found out that Through These Pages could also be read at AO3. That sucks.

*cough*cough* shout out to Through These Pages.  

[R2s Muse]

*remembers running around Deep Roads in DAo clicking on lyrium veins with her mage lady warden*

hmmm.. that doesn't sound like it was a good idea now

I first read this as: running around Deep Roads in DAO LICKING lyrium veins. Also not a good idea. 

[Rascoth]

That too...

Spoiler

I think because Cory lifts up pieces of rock into the sky the companions chosen are the only ones that end up being stuck on one of the rocks with you. The rest get left behind on the ground. Adamant should have been done so much better, at least all companions chat to you about the fade adventure afterwards sadly they skipped giving the advisors dialogue for it... why?... But yeah, solo fight against big baddy right at the end cutscene then the other 3 show up again too, maybe they were taking a nap (yeah not serious, I joke about discrepancies a lot).

 

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*eyes 203 hour play through* still hunting down shards, arg.. my longest completionist one was almost 400 hours, I'm slow

Well...

Spoiler

That makes sense... But why they're not geared? They're in their casual Skyhold outfits.

 

Ekhm... I think my next completionist playthrough may be really long one. 2h (still not used to this) Templar (first time playing) nightmare playthrough. It's going to take a while o.O

 

Got it; I've never been to deviantart at least not since I found out that Through These Pages could also be read at AO3. That sucks.
 
 

Spoiler

Yeah... I didn't mind it initially either--it made enough sense to me to send a team of just you and a specially chosen handful of companions in order to mobilize as quickly as possible against Corypheus wrecking your castle by himself. But now that y'all mention it, all 9 of them being there afterwards (and some of them mentioning having been there even if they weren't) does take away from that a bit.
 
Still not sure I'd want Cullen there, though. Being welcomed back to Skyhold by him and hugged in front of everyone is one of my favorite parts of the romance.

 
Marginally on-topic: today's presumably-DLC-teasing blog post is about lyrium. http://www.dragonage...our-lore-lyrium
 
(And pretty much not on topic at all, re: the DLC-teasing discussion earlier: for anyone who doesn't follow the official Twitter accounts, here's a quick summary I've been keeping of all the tease-y posting BioWare has been doing lately:)

Spoiler

F 7/17 ca 1500 EST: Substantial dwarf-related blog post (start of Varric-themed series of DAIMP challenges)

S 7/18 ca 1400 EST: Short dwarf-related post to Twitter (Varric re: hack writers)
(weekend)

T 7/21 ca 1500 EST: Spoils of the Qunari announced
W 7/22 ca 1500 EST: Substantial dwarf-related blog post (Know Your Lore: The Deep Roads)
Th 7/23 ca 1500 EST: Short dwarf-related post to Twitter (Pick your favorite dwarf: a,b,c,d")
F 7/24 ca 1500 EST: Substantial dwarf-related blog post (Know Your Lore: Darkspawn)

(weekend)

M 7/27 ca 1500 EST: Substantial dwarf-related blog post (Know Your Lore: Legion of the Dead) + short dwarf-related post to Twitter (Sigrun)
T 7/28 ca 1600 EST: Short dwarf-related post to Twitter (Varric/IB banter)
W 7/29 1500 EST: Short dwarf-related post to Twitter (Shaperate)
Th 7/30 1500 EST: Short Deep Roads-related post to Twitter (Grey Wardens)
F 7/31 ca. 1320 EST (to blog, not yet on Twitter): Substantial dwarf-related blog post (Know Your Lore: Caste & the Casteless)

(weekend)

M 8/3 ca 1300 EST: Substantial dwarf-related blog post (Know Your Lore: Lyrium)

It's been ages since I visited deviantart. I'm not sure I want to get back there. This forum is actually the only social site I'm hanging around.

 

Speaking of...

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...hug scene. I love how he looks at Inquisitor.

 

Oh, it's working! It wasn't when I saw it in twitter thread.

 

*remembers running around Deep Roads in DAo clicking on lyrium veins with her mage lady warden*

hmmm.. that doesn't sound like it was a good idea now

*DAO flashbacks* No lyrium vein shall be left untouched! 

[R2s Muse]

So Chenria has started a new Cullen series, which so far involves a break up. but still beautiful! Check out the link for the story.

 

 

http://chenria.tumbl...st/125741557145

[Vanalia]

Now I imagine mages skin transformed (full of dark veins like the skin of Sith) after too much use of lyrium  feel the power of the daaark siiiide! it was funny to romance someone in Star Wars KOTOR with a face like this, it looked so evil, even when the character was saying sweet things 

 

I want to do that final main quest, but... after that I won't have any new romance cutscene, that's sad 

[R2s Muse]

And new purple-meow. Pick your team! LOL 
 
http://purplemeow123...st/125772023166
 

[Rascoth]

So Chenria has started a new Cullen series, which so far involves a break up. but still beautiful! Check out the link for the story.

 

-snip-

 

http://chenria.tumbl...st/125741557145

*gasps* It's sad... and beautiful... and sad 

 

I want to do that final main quest, but... after that I won't have any new romance cutscene, that's sad 

Yeah... It's a pity you don't have new romance cutscenes. Acutally it's a pity you can't talk with companions and advisors at all. Only short one-liners. Though I think Cullen's one-liners are quite cute.

 

And new purple-meow. Pick your team! LOL 
 
http://purplemeow123...st/125772023166
 
-snip-

Omg 

[Vanalia]

Nice drawings, hey, where's Team Alistair?  anyway, I take team Cullen and I adopt the lion (and Cullen of course).

 

I guess we would all want more romance cutscenes, and have hopes with that new DLC, even if I think that there won't be any romance cutscene for anyone in any new DLC

 

-Rascoth: yes even his one-liners are cute  (I love the way he says "Give me a minute, and I'm yours...")