This is why I favor the mage redcliffe side over the templar side. You get a stronger sense of what's at stake. It felt rather dark and depressing my first time going through it. That was honestly one of the best segments in the whole series.
Don't get me wrong, I love DA:I, I just wish the stakes for losing were higher. A.K.A. The Venatori were weak and I crushed them between my thighs. The Red Templars felt like people growing rocky candy. Seriously, if you didn't choose the Mages, then you SHOULD have lost the Hinterlands. It should have become a Tevinter port with an invading force you had to deal with. That would have been a badass consequence.
Agreed. I was really disappointed with how little I felt was at stake...well except for my HEART. Anywho - yeah the Templars were pretty vanilla. Rock candy you say - one sweet templar offered to make me a crystal garden. In my own skull of course, but the thought was really sweet. I hope BW ups the ante in the DLC.
I hear Calpernia is great. I can never side with the Templars. Maybe I'll do it on my Dorian playthrough.
I love back to the future starring me and Dorian x100000
As a Stargate fan and quantum leap fan, it's hard to resist tbh...
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Haven't checked the board in a couple days, but I see we're talking about broodmothers, so just thought I'd weigh in. That poem and broodmothers in general creep me out, but I thought it fit with the atmosphere, and it did make the darkspawn seem much more frightening.
She's a GOOD villain. Honestly, I would've prefered her over Ser Cornflakes, Magister Brokeface of Failventer.
It felt a little engineered to me though because "it hasn't happened yet" - what you were seeing was a possibility not an IN THE PRESENT threat. If they had made the consequences more immediate not "in two years Leliana will go FULL crazy not just 3/4 crazy and be tortured beyond recognition" to THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN TOMORROW, I would've been way more invovled. Like, punched Fiona in her blessed taint-free babymaker for signing over the Mages to Tevinter and handed Alexius' ass to him in the damn tavern. Hell, if you pulled that and then the whole of Redcliffe turned out to already be infected with abominations and Tevinter magisters lying in wait to ambush you, and you had to fight your way out of a whole crazy ass village... 10/10 would chose every time. But that wasn't the case. FOR ME, present, in-the-moment, inevitable threats are simply more compelling dramatically.
I chose the Templar side because the struggle with an Envy demon through your own head feels so immediately desperate. The part I dislike is finding the veterans. That's just to slow you down from the boss fight, and gather some extra XP. I'd have cut that section, streamlined it to "find the lyrium next to the bloodied bust to Celine in the crazy room," and moved straight to the boss fight. The only thing I wish they had done was delve into your character's origin more to make that sequence more revealing about the protagonist.
I agree on principle of not having neat little cleaned up segments like that with no real impact on the story, but I still love it simply because it gives something that this game was seriously lacking due to Coryflora being so unimpressive later on, which is motivation. Without that segment, Cornflakes seems even more pathetic tbh.
But even just looking at it on its own merits, the drama there, the pain and all of that like Leliana said and to quote her (I can't believe I'm quoting this airhead, ugh)
"It was real. The pain, the suffering, it was real!"
I love anything that gives me motivation, which is why I loved playing cousland so much.
She's a GOOD villain. Honestly, I would've prefered her over Ser Cornflakes, Magister Brokeface of Failventer.
I hated what they did to Corypheus this game. I was creeped out by him in legacy, so when I saw him pop up again, I was all 'Hooray!' Turns out he was just a terrible cliche villain all along - 'you have thwarted my every plan'. UGH - where was the conversation option of 'Shut up. YOU ARE SO BORING.'
I hated what they did to Corypheus this game. I was creeped out by him in legacy, so when I saw him pop up again, I was all 'Hooray!' Turns out he was just a terrible cliche villain all along - 'you have thwarted my every plan'. UGH - where was the conversation option of 'Shut up. YOU ARE SO BORING.'
He was pretty cool in Haven. But after that, yea. Meh.
I hated what they did to Corypheus this game. I was creeped out by him in legacy, so when I saw him pop up again, I was all 'Hooray!' Turns out he was just a terrible cliche villain all along - 'you have thwarted my every plan'. UGH - where was the conversation option of 'Shut up. YOU ARE SO BORING.'
I agree. I was really disappointed by him. I think it's mostly because it felt like he was so incompetent. Though technically the most powerful DA villain so far, I think, there was nothing intimidating about him. At least in my opinion. I never felt the sense of urgency to stop him that I probably should have. I guess being able to screw around in the Hinterlands for hours created that effect. 
You know who would make an awesome villain (even if I don't want it to happen)? Solas.
I agree. I was really disappointed by him.
You know who would make an awesome villain (even if I don't want it to happen)? Solas.
I wish they kept him more human, like he was in Legacy. You could still see moments of humanity in Cory in that DLC, but sadly he was just a monster in this game.
Considering Solas is a morally grey character like Flemeth, or even Morrigan...well I don't think he will ever be a villain but more like the aid to the hero; much like Flemeth was to Hawke, The Warden, and IQ.
Hahhaha, that gif.Hey hey hey... hop off of my girl Fiona's ******, lol.
I agree. I was really disappointed by him. I think it's mostly because it felt like he was so incompetent. Though technically the most powerful DA villain so far, I think, there was nothing intimidating about him. At least in my opinion. I never felt the sense of urgency to stop him that I probably should have. I guess being able to screw around in the Hinterlands for hours created that effect.
You know who would make an awesome villain (even if I don't want it to happen)? Solas.
No... Arishok Sten, invader and conquerer of human lands. He should lead the Qunari invason that a lot of people want.
Hell, why not both in one game? Badass overload. There's always a "natural" and magical threat to thedas in these games.
No Solas for too long is sad.
here's a Chibi Solas from Felya87
Hahhaha, that gif.
1. I expected Fiona to be a....I don't know...grander character. I mean this is a pretty important person in these stories. I just felt she was totally meh. She wasn't written as someone who seemed capable of commanding or leading anything.
2. She seemed different than the books, which happens , but still.
3. Her outfit was stupid.
4. She is a terrible mother and a terrible leader to sell the mages into slavery. TEVINTER SLAVERY.
I just wanted to be like listen. I run the mages now, go away.
I honestly never got that impression from her, tbh. Honestly, I have a lot of issues with her, but I sympathize with her because the mages are a ragtag bunch of people, and they can't really be choosy about who leads them. Their pool is limited, so someone has to stand up and do what they think must be done, and she did, against a bunch of grown ass men in white armor with sexual frustrations grand enough to ****** off a peacock.
She failed as a leader, and normally I have no sympathy for incompetence, though I'm not really defending her in that aspect. Just showing appreciation for the character. Not everyone can be a Arminius. Sometimes you're stuck with Publius Quinctillius Varus. At least she had the balls to stand against them.
Also, I think her outfit is cute 
No Solas for too long is sad.
here's a Chibi Solas from Felya87
LOOOL I especially like the buckle there....
Still catching up. 
Art time...I'll link them so not to kill people's computers..lol..
Post DA:I Solavellan. She decides to visit Fen’harel shrine to give the Trickster God offerings to never go after Solas.
http://drathe.devian...hrine-510662326
This one makes me a sad panda.
Ah... both these artworks are so saaaad!
I especially love the comic. Would be nice to see something like that happening in-game for the feels.
I 100% feel your pain. The same idea popped into my head after reading Empress (which is very NSFW and glorious), and now I can't shake it.
I...may have 50+ pages of disjointed Google doc drabbles based on more-or-less this idea, though Lavellan's not a god in mine, she's just Solas's queen. And my Lavellan's rather forgiving all things considered.
EMPRESSSS. It's so dirty. And so right.
EDIT: But those two chapters of Apotheosis in the stairwell ... Those take the frilly Orlesian cakes and lather me with frosting. Elven. Freaking. Glory.
UNF! "Empress" has got to be my favorite smut fanfic from Maleficar. I actually read that way too many times. It definitely fulfills my dom!Solas needs. 
Also, reiterating that I DO love this game. I really do. Cornyflora was just about as intimidating as a bejeweled traffic cone.
Now I'm imagining Corfey-cheeks as a bejeweled traffic cone that squeaks out an angry "DUMAT!" every so often.
Also, reiterating that I DO love this game. I really do. Cornyflora was just about as intimidating as a bejeweled traffic cone.
I want a villain who actually makes me feel like I am going to LOSE. Not lose at Ostagar, or lose my mother, or lose Haven. No kidding, this guy is going to just win in the end because he is so many steps ahead of me, and I am so f***ing screwed. I never got that feeling from any of Dragon Age's villains, and the less said about the villain degeneration in Mass Effect, the better.
I like Dragon Age's antagonists: even when lightly drawn and rushed (like Meredith), they're usually interesting people. But none of them ever scared the everloving s*** out of me the way Irenicus could. Corypheus did in Legacy. Then in DA:I, not so much.
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