May I ask what your guys reason was to play as an elf?
Most people seem to like human PCs better, so what made you roll a Lavellan?
What a wonderful question! 
I always play as elves.
1) Fantasy elves look most like me. I actually am ridiculously thin and angular, with pointed ears. (No, I'm not lying. I do have pointed ears in real life, and it's embarrassing. I got teased for having "elf ears" in middle school, and have hidden it under my hair for years. Even my hair dressers lean toward styles that cover my ears.)
2) Fantasy elves tend to have an affinity toward nature, animals, magic, music, art, poetry, and other beautiful things that I adore.
3) Thedas elves are basically the Jews of Thedas. I mean, they have traits in common with countless real-world minorities (Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Romani, Celts, 19th-century Irish, etc) but I am Jewish in real life, live with anti-Semitism, and study my people's history and try to hold onto our traditions and beliefs in a world that vastly outnumbers and disapproves of us. My great-grandparents also lived in European ghettos before WWII, so I identify with the city elves all the more.
My Warden was a City elf because I found their situation in the world interesting and the origin was good (Shianni & Soris ).
During the game itself, the race kinda grew on me, because of the lore, the dalish legends and the fact that they were just so much more interesting than the usual ("boring") humans. Missed the option in DAII even more than I thought I would, and therefore rolled a Lavellan in Inquisition.
I don't know why darwes don't appeal to me, and I have a qunari PT on stand by, because I do my second Lavellan right now 
Nice. I played a City Elf in DA because the person who told me about Dragon Age in the first place said, "City Elves are basically pre-WWII European Jews living in ghettos, called alienages, while the Dalish are like wandering gypsies." And my eyes lit up and I said, "The elves are like Jews?! I've gotta play!" Then he made this "Oh cr@p!" look, and tried to backpedal by telling me that in the origin my cousin gets raped by a noble, and tried to over-sell the Human Noble Origin, but I remained bored and uninterested in the Human Noble and kept asking questions about Dragon Age elves.
Then I bought the game, played the City Elf Origin first, and was hooked. Loved Cyrion, Shianni, Soris, the stories of Adaia, and the raw, emotional roleplaying experience from beginning to end. (How you start off as an abused minority seen as little more than a servant born to scrub human floors, then rising above them all as the Hero of Ferelden. And Unrest in the Alienage when you save your people, and get revenge on those that tried to hurt your family? Wouldn't trade that for anything!)
I love and identify with Thedas elves so much that I will play them every chance I get. When the devs announced the return of race selection in DAI, I literally did the Carlton happy dance. When they said the Elven Inquisitor would be Dalish, I was a little disappointed since I personally identified more with city elves, but now I'm glad for the experience. Seeing Thedas from the Dalish perspective helped me understand them more, and now I love them almost as much as city elves. I love elves, regardless of their cultural standing.
Learning that only the Female Elven Inquisitor can romance Solas just felt like a special added bonus; almost like a present just for us. 
Retour en haut
)
