Quick question. What exactly does Blackwall mean when he says: "I just know you could shake this world with it's foundations if you willed it", because I'm really confused 70% of my wartable missions are done via Connections.
I think that is a bug? It's like that for me on every playthrough now after the latest patch (or maybe after patch 5 even? I don't remember when it started). In the epilogue I got the diplomacy slide like I should have though.
I think that is a bug? It's like that for me on every playthrough now after the latest patch (or maybe after patch 5 even? I don't remember when it started). In the epilogue I got the diplomacy slide like I should have though.
Well I guess I'll just continue playing normally and see what happens in the epilogue.
I think I've put my finger on why I have issues with Josephine's romance: Josephine herself seems to be mostly passive, and we don't let her not be.
In all the other romances I've done for Bioware games, the love interest has been an active participant in the romance. Liara and Leliana both flirt with you first, and Merrill comes to seek out Hawke at her house once her attraction has reached a certain height, but Josephine never does anything of the kind. She just eventually gives in to the Inquisitor's attention. Moreover, when she's engaged, Josephine tries to become active for a bit by calling it off (incidentally, that part was one of my favorite scenes because it at least showed how much the romance meant to her), but the Inquisitor completely preempts it by going behind her back for that duel. It feels like... Josephine is a marginalized and underused presence in her own romance.
I understand where you're coming from on Josephine, but I'm not sure I'd agree entirely. She is essentially passive through most of the romance... until the duel. Then, as I see it, she's quite active. She tracks you down to Val Royeaux to stop you from your mostly suicidal plan to duel with her suitor.
The thing is, Josephine's way of being active is really subtle. Look at the first scene we see her in Haven, with the noble. She's ostensibly in the background - but she controls the flow of the conversation to get what she wants out of it. She has three different ways of reigning in the noble depending on what you say, and makes it look like she's really just deferring to everyone around her. But when you watch the scene with all three dialogue options, she's not.
I think it's the same with the romance, once you've kick it off.
I understand where you're coming from on Josephine, but I'm not sure I'd agree entirely. She is essentially passive through most of the romance... until the duel. Then, as I see it, she's quite active. She tracks you down to Val Royeaux to stop you from your mostly suicidal plan to duel with her suitor.
The thing is, Josephine's way of being active is really subtle. Look at the first scene we see her in Haven, with the noble. She's ostensibly in the background - but she controls the flow of the conversation to get what she wants out of it. She has three different ways of reigning in the noble depending on what you say, and makes it look like she's really just deferring to everyone around her. But when you watch the scene with all three dialogue options, she's not.
I think it's the same with the romance, once you've kick it off.
Josie employs the Silk Hiding Steel trope. She's cute and adorable but even Leliana is afraid when she hears that she's disappointed at her for missing her weekly tea party. That and she essentially runs the financial and logistical side of the Inquisition. You might lead the Inquisition, but she's the one running things.
Yep. Sylvia even references that trope in the Josephine character interview.
"Josephine prefers to gently steer people into agreement whenever possible, but she’ll take a stand when needed. There’s occasionally an iron fist beneath that velvet glove."
Woah this one's awesome!
Yeah, I love the level of detail in the feathers and the hair. You can see every strand.
My headcanon is completely ruined now. I used a program that shows plot points and I discovered that my connections points are only getting worse compared to forces (which makes no sense because literally 85% of my wartable missions are done via Josephine). 
My headcanon is completely ruined now. I used a program that shows plot points and I discovered that my connections points are only getting worse compared to forces (which makes no sense because literally 85% of my wartable missions are done via Josephine).
Have you been using Cullen to gather resources? Those still count to his points.
Have you been using Cullen to gather resources? Those still count to his points.
Nope. Not at all. In fact I don't do resource gathering at all except recently I used Leliana a couple of times for some great bear hide..
Nope. Not at all. In fact I don't do resource gathering at all except recently I used Leliana a couple of times for some great bear hide..
Hmm, that's weird then.
I was looking up some tenors to practice off of, and found that John Vickers looks like Joseph's father or a crossplay of her.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! It took some meta-gaming, (plus Blackwall got bugged so he couldn't tell me what kind of Inquisition I really had- there went his only use) but I managed to get the diplomacy ending, and my head-canon is safe. (Apparently the plot program got bugged aswell, and switched the Connections rank with the Forces rank lol). I'm a bit sad because there are a couple of missions I would not have went Diplomacy for, but o wells.
EDIT: I seriously consider reloading an earlier save and redoing those war table missions, I was a bit too paranoid and sorta broke my connection to the game because of something that was never going to happen 
I also got to relive my favorite Josie romance moment:
I'm a little sad that the pages about Josephine in the World of Thedas Volume 2 aren't part of the preview pages Amazon gave.
Well, when we have the book in our hands it will be nice not to have been spoiled.
Well, when we have the book in our hands it will be nice not to have been spoiled.
I can't buy the book.
I can't buy the book.
It's okay.
I'll enjoy it for the both of us
Now I wish I knew how to make doll shoes so my Josephine doll could have knee high Victorian boots.
Weee I got Josie-> http://www.buzzfeed....-soulmate-1goxy
(Allegra got Josie too and I can't stop laughing about it)
I get to ride the bull
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