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[maxernst]

I actually think the HN origin, while tragic, isn't a particularly interesting one. From a gameplay perspective, I actually preferred my female elf mage PC, but my HNM was my first PC. He's closer to my heart than my Neria, though I enjoyed playing her for the whole outsider perspective.



A lot of it comes down to personal preferences. The dwarf origins are really interesting and well-written, but...just personally, I don't feel drawn to them psychologically.

[Sarah1281]

Drake_2009 wrote...

Is doing original pieces dead? I'm worried because my fan fic is completely original and just uses the world as a setting and has nothing to do with Alistair, The Warden or anything. The Blight features but only as a back drop for one of the scenes.

I've noticed that stories that deviate from the norm tend to have less of a following at least at first but the longer you write something (and the more frequently you update) the  more people will read it.

okiness wrote...

How fail is that, by the way? All you can ask is that the Dalish elves get land again, and how many Dalish elves would believe in that? Ashalle even shows up but even then you can't choose to go back. Dwarves can be paragons, nobles can help fergus, but the Dalish get shafted. Thanks guys >:|

Well, technically you can go back to your clan and Ashalle even asks about it.

Ashalle: Imagine the look on the keeper's face when she learns of [the land boon]! Will you come with me to tell her?
PC: There's nothing keeping me here.
Ashalle: Wonderful! You will see the joy this will bring... It will be a day to remember for a very long time.

Since the other responses are all variations of not going back or going to visit and then returning, it sounds like it could be permanent. I'm not sure how many DE would want to go back to their clans but if they do there's nothing stopping them. You had to leave as you would die otherwise but now that the Blight's ended you're free to do as you will and nobody (except Awakening) has any expectations that you'll stay with the Wardens if you don't want to.

[okiness]

I don't read anything by choice unless it seems appealing and new. I will however read ANYTHING once people ask me to, so I'm not too tough a cookie to chew.

Really it all is a matter of how you play the game and interpret the characters. I too find the typical suburban life ideal wonderful family SUDDENLY TORN APART BY BETRAYAL!!!! and their (possibly) only child must strike, or maybe even learn that revenge isn't everything! The drama, the agony. Yet, some people can still do it without looking stupid or cliche. I love the idea of creating a non perfect child in a perfect family. I LOVE spoiled brat syndrome/mental quirks in characters. Once you make something different than they might be from their lifestyle growing up you get the interesting chance to go how, why where what how do i fix it and when will it stop? It's interesting. I would pay to see more Human Noble stories where the HN is spoiled and obnoxious and not very heroic and makes stupid mistakes and now I want to write a parody where the HN even agrees to the DR but is so incompetent it fails. Loser in the sack fix, hoy!

But no, seriously, I think I love every origin in the story so it's actually hard for me to say. Okay, except the normal mage story. Love the playthrough, hate the origin- why can't I tell Jowan to screw off and have him lie and cite me as a conspirator and a blood mage? THAT WOULD REQUIRE CONSCRIPTION. No no, I understand why you can't...I just don't like it

edit: Sarah, yeah there's that...but it's one line and it only MIGHT be permanent. It kind of...says it forever on the rest of the endings.

Modifié par okiness, 06 août 2010 - 11:31 .

[Sarah1281]

Most people seem to have a soft spot for their first playthrough - which is often HN - but that was mine and I can safely say that my soft spot ended up being for my SECOND playthrough as my first was far too cliché and ending up Queen Cousland felt really unsatisfying.
 
I can't really see my life paralleling ANY of the origins (the closest would probably be the Couslands but they're far too perfect for my tastes or my family) and so it really came down to what wasn't like my life but interesting and I was least likely to stop caring about once the origin-specific part of the main quest was over.

Modifié par Sarah1281, 06 août 2010 - 11:40 .

[Drake_2009]

I'm interested to see what people think of my idea for my original story, due to my increasing worry.

Recently graduated Templar Knight Cristof is celebrating his success when his friend Cullen, yes the one from the game, enters and claims that there is a Malificar nearby and if they were to kill it they would become heroes. The pair go out hunting the monster and when they get split up Cristof discovers the home of the Malificar and see's something he never would have expected, a young elf and her child playing together.

He runs in to warn them and Cullen arrives, he quickly disenchants the woman and tells Cristof he can have the honour of killing the woman, which, with much pain, he does. Cullen also says they must kill the child but Cristof defends her saying she is too young and must be taken to the chantry. Upon arriving at the Chantry Cristof learns that Bella, the child, is actually a magician and the Chantry demand she be executed. The Templar rescues her and runs away. He soon must learn to overcome his guilt, his addiction to Lyrium and avoid the Templars and the Blight as he attempts to return the child back to her people, The Dalish Elves.

Of course concepts are just that and without the writing skill they can be as awful as cliched ones.

Modifié par Drake_2009, 06 août 2010 - 11:52 .

[Sarah1281]

What do you mean by magician? The child's a mage? Or is she a maleficar? If she's the second I could see why the Chantry would want her executed but if she's not using blood magic why not just take her to the Tower? And if Cullen's this gung-ho about mage-killing I assume it's after the events of the Circle Tower in game?

Modifié par Sarah1281, 06 août 2010 - 11:48 .

[Drake_2009]

Sorry I didn't explain properly, the child turns out to have used "dark elven magic" it is touched on in the game, reason for the exalted march against the Dales. This is back when Cullen was young after his graduation this is my reason that he becomes this evil mage hating guy. (Ignoring the mage origin.) It begins before the fall of Ostagar and ends by the time Alistair is king.

Modifié par Drake_2009, 06 août 2010 - 11:56 .

[okiness]

Nostalgia and first experiences mean alot. I remember first playing Dragon Age, that game has been my game since December when I got my XBOX, oh joy. But I don't know- I enjoyed the human noble because it created the character I'm invested in. I actually did create a goody two shoes perfect princess revenge driven love obsessed human noble for a let's play- it's so...boring. It's utterly boring. I don't think I'd enjoy the HN origin if it hadn't created Odelia. Which might be why I don't enjoy most HN stories, and really intensely enjoy the DN and DC stories.

My life personally is dysfunctional but happy, so I can see some HN in it. However, I don't have a **** load of money and Tim Curry isn't my father's best friend. So, you know.

Drake: That sounds good, really brings out the plight of the templars and kind of makes me sad thinking about it xD
Edit: ..Wait...Cullen ignoring the origin part? And.......blegh. I'm not sure now. Well...link me when you finish. Try to make sure you get the lore correct, and we'll see?

Modifié par okiness, 06 août 2010 - 11:55 .

[Sarah1281]

okiness wrote...

Nostalgia and first experiences mean alot. I remember first playing Dragon Age, that game has been my game since December when I got my XBOX, oh joy. But I don't know- I enjoyed the human noble because it created the character I'm invested in. I actually did create a goody two shoes perfect princess revenge driven love obsessed human noble for a let's play- it's so...boring. It's utterly boring. I don't think I'd enjoy the HN origin if it hadn't created Odelia. Which might be why I don't enjoy most HN stories, and really intensely enjoy the DN and DC stories.

My life personally is dysfunctional but happy, so I can see some HN in it. However, I don't have a **** load of money and Tim Curry isn't my father's best friend. So, you know.

Drake: That sounds good, really brings out the plight of the templars and kind of makes me sad thinking about it xD
Edit: ..Wait...Cullen ignoring the origin part? And.......blegh. I'm not sure now. Well...link me when you finish. Try to make sure you get the lore correct, and we'll see?

I spend most of the time in denial that my first playthrough happened so if I consider my second playthrough to be my first then I can see what you mean.

And yeah, Drake, that does sound interesting.

[Drake_2009]

Right, well then I shall get to work . It is a real pain though having to look up all this Lore just to make the story credible, the temptation just to make it up. EDIT: Actually ignore the, ignoring the mage origin part, I think that would actually give him some depth, he loves a mage yet hates them after what they do to him. (Not gonna spoil what they do.)

Modifié par Drake_2009, 07 août 2010 - 12:03 .

[okiness]

Sarah: Well if we're talking REAL first playthroughs then it was HN as an annoying and slightly evil person who wished she was a mage....I played as my DND character rofl. But let's not count the first, lol!

[Sarah1281]

okiness wrote...

Sarah: Well if we're talking REAL first playthroughs then it was HN as an annoying and slightly evil person who wished she was a mage....I played as my DND character rofl. But let's not count the first, lol!

Nope, those were just practice playthroughs.

[okiness]

Seriously though, do you know how long it took me to come up with a name for Odelia? I'm so detail orientated. Did you find Aunn on a dwarf name generator?

[Drake_2009]

For my names I just looked in my big book of Myths.

[Sarah1281]

okiness wrote...

Seriously though, do you know how long it took me to come up with a name for Odelia? I'm so detail orientated. Did you find Aunn on a dwarf name generator?

I did but I also tried several generators and did it for at least an hour. I have a list of all the names from there that I liked and eventually I narrowed it down to two: Anika and Aunn. I asked my brother and he liked Aunn better. As it turns out, Anika Aeducan was the wife of the Paragon Aeducan himself although I wasn't aware of it when I started that playthrough.

[TanithAeyrs]

I have to confess that Aithne (my DE) was the character I used on my first playthrough and I started my FF because her story was so incomplete after the Archdemon was dead. I do read some OC's but I really prefer a unique story line. I also tend to shy away from the HNF/Alistair stories just because there are so many of them but I have read some real gems in that category.

[okiness]

Sarah: Woah! A whole hour, long time dude O_O But worth it, Aunn really sticks in my head as a character and is an awesome name.



Tanith: DE you say? LINK? Err I mean, first playthrough stuff...in the end I don't see what's bad about relating to it, but it would be nice to see more original work really. But as it stands, the DE section is not exactly in danger of dime a dozen status..

[Sarah1281]

okiness wrote...

Sarah: Woah! A whole hour, long time dude O_O But worth it, Aunn really sticks in my head as a character and is an awesome name.

I knew I was probably going to be using her a lot for fanfiction purposes and I wanted to find the perfect name. It also took me awhle to name my DNM and my CE but once I had to name my elf mage and DE I had a list of elf names I liked to choose from and my human mage name just occured to me right off the bat as it was just so pefect for her.

[Drake_2009]

To Okiness, my first part of the Fan Fic has been completed you can find it here at http://social.biowar.../index/4370403. If you are still interested.

[LupusYondergirl]

The advantage of playing a human is that I named her and my human OCs after historical figures and characters from medieval and Renaissance lit. My main character is named after Margaret Plantaganet. (I have a huge history-crush on her).

I suck with naming elves and dwarves, though. Generators would be awesome.

[Sarah1281]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

The advantage of playing a human is that I named her and my human OCs after historical figures and characters from medieval and Renaissance lit. My main character is named after Margaret Plantaganet. (I have a huge history-crush on her).
I suck with naming elves and dwarves, though. Generators would be awesome.

It's easy to just google elf/dwarf female/male name generator but you may have to do it a few times (although some sites ask you how many to generate). For example, I just generated ten female elf names: Renthar, Rumala, Maravia, Eriatas, Tahlki, Daeim, Arnith, Kaual, Caelavel, Laruil. I would only actually use one of these.

Edit: @ Drake: I recommend putting spaces between the paragraphs for your story. It's kind of hard to read.

Modifié par Sarah1281, 07 août 2010 - 01:30 .

[okiness]

Ironically I was just sitting there brainstorming names I thought were pretty. It was originally Ophelia but everytime I thought of it, I thought of this psychopath from claymore and Odelia seemed really pretty too.

Most of the time though I just use the fantasy technique of a bunch of letters with a nice ring to it, for elves. Dwarves, I generate.

Drake: Cool, I'll check it out

Modifié par okiness, 07 août 2010 - 01:37 .

[Drake_2009]

Sarah I put the spaces there, sorry for that. It didn't format correctly.

[Gilgamesh1138]

I made up my name for my character after giving her the name of a high school friend, Kai. Then I made that the short version of the name I created Kaidana.



@Tanith Aeyrs Thanks for being one of my fans. I have missed you sweet lady *hugs*

[TanithAeyrs]

okiness wrote...

Sarah: Woah! A whole hour, long time dude O_O But worth it, Aunn really sticks in my head as a character and is an awesome name.

Tanith: DE you say? LINK? Err I mean, first playthrough stuff...in the end I don't see what's bad about relating to it, but it would be nice to see more original work really. But as it stands, the DE section is not exactly in danger of dime a dozen status..

Links on my sig.  If you're interested the story takes place roughly 5 years after the end of the blight  - when my excessively honorable (except for one teensy lapse for the DR)  DE has to pull her head out of the sand and get on with her life.  I have a sequel planned that deals with the god child and some original characters I introduce in GW's Honor but I don't know when I'll have time to write it  (GW"s Honor is only 1/2 done and my muse has been churning out ideas for some of my other writing).

I tend to use baby name websites for character names or just  make them up.  Names are hard though, sometimes nothing sounds right.