GardenSnake wrote...
I'm getting side-tracked. The fact is that even with my romance with Leliana, I still really want to find out which way the story is going to go with Morrigan. What I'm kind of scared about is something that someone mentioned on another thread. They brought up a good point that Bioware might decide to go with a cannon ending (like you mentioned with BG). Would it automatically assumed that the ritual happened? My second warden had a romance with her but said no to the ritual (pretty tragic to watch IMO). The epilouge then said that the ritual never did end up happening. Would your ending in Awakening mean nothing? Hope not. I just hope that if they do end up doing a cannon ending, they make it satisfying for everyone and don't ****** too many people off. Or just go the Mass Effect route
that way everyone's a winner!
Speaking of BG, I've heard nothing but praise about how it's the best RPG ever (I'd give my vote to KOTOR but that's just me). Do you know anyway I could get either of them? Legal of illegal any suggestions would be helpful. 
I have no clue how Bioware will handle any sort of canon- what I do know is that they've gone on the record as saying we haven't seen the last of Morrigan and that her story is not over. I'd guess alot depends on how closely related the story and characters of DA2 are to DAO- if its set in a different part of Thedas or at a different time. But whether that means we get some direct continuation of her story by meeting back up with Morrigan as the Warden in DA2 or if it means we only get to see her as an old woman or something if they fast forward the timeline 50 years or something for DA2, we'll just have to see.
Thats one of my concerns- I think it would be cool to skip around the timeline in DA games in the future, but I just want them to have DA2 maybe be 2-5 years or so after Origins, nothing too crazy. The thing that makes me worried that they'll skip way far ahead is when you look at what they're doing with The Old Republic.
I know its different but when you look at how Awakening ends with the Warden vanishing and then look at how KOTOR2 ends with Revan and the Exile vanishing ( I know Bioware didn't make KOTOR2 but still...), then look at how The Old Republic is set 300 years after the events of KOTOR. So we'll likely never get a proper resolution to Revan's storyand then they've thrown in descendents of the KOTOR characters in TOR, like Satele Shan, who is supposed to be a descendant of Bastila from KOTOR. So thats my concern with DA, that Bioware skips way ahead and we only get to play as the descendents of the Origins characters, if at all. That might be neat to do eventually, but not in the second game of the series.
As far as getting your hands on BG- personally I never played the original BG, I only played BG2 and Throne of Bhaal, but if you can get past the old graphics and lack of having every line voice acted (theres alot more reading), BG2 is some of the best story based gaming out there. The romances in particular are very well done and its great how they transfer right over to Throne of Bhaal. You might be able to find BG2 on amazon or I'm sure you could find it on certain websites...not that I'm condoning that sort of thing...