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Incidentally, planning on rolling a Female Mage in Origins for the Cullen subplot, which I've not done yet. Should she be elf or human, and who should her rebound romance from Cullen be?
When I ran a human mage, I'd intended her to have a bit of a thing for Templars. The idea was, she would crush on Cullen, and then end up with Alistair as her One True Love. Except, the Cullen mini-romance was so freaking adorable, we both wound up falling hard for him, lol! Also, Alistair had the world's worst timing (which, you know, he totally would) and he wound up trying to gift my mage with the rose right after we finished the Broken Circle quest. And I do mean right after; it was the very first thing that happened after we left the Circle. Honest to dog, I could not have scripted it to be more perfectly angsty. That was when I decided that Cullen was my mage's One True Love, so I had her turn Alistair down and didn't romance anyone for the rest of the game.