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Post by vertigomez on Apr 30, 2020 23:32:08 GMT
This is less of a confession and more of a headcanon, but regardless of what I equip them with, I usually picture Leliana wielding longbows and Sera wielding shortbows. Shortbows are quicker, lighter, you can take potshots and just spam enemies with arrows (to hurt them but also it's a good distraction!). They're a short-range weapon, while longbows are slower, have a longer range, and (potentially) deadlier force behind them.
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Post by phoray on May 1, 2020 3:59:35 GMT
For a very very long time, I didn't know masterworks would let say, Cassandra, cast mage or rogue abilities. So I let a lot of masterwork stuff just sit there.
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on May 1, 2020 6:21:03 GMT
Well no matter what one of them will be alive, and Celene isn’t as bad as Gaspard. The guy is pretty nasty,but can't say he's ever commited genocide. But isn't Gaspard the guy who put Celene in a position where she felt she needed to? I'm not excusing Celene, who was the one to ultimately do it, but Gaspard is the one who made it appear to the other nobles that Celene was "soft on elves" when she tried to find a non-violent way to end the elven rebellion in... I think it was Halamshiral? Point is, Celene was trying not to commit genocide, and Gaspard was the one who put her in a position where she felt she needed to either commit genocide or risk losing control of the nobles. Again, I'm not saying Celene isn't guilty of genocide, or even that this mitigates her crime: just that Gaspard was playing a Game with their lives as well, and that if it wasn't for him, that story could have had an okay ending.
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Post by Iddy on May 1, 2020 12:56:51 GMT
The guy is pretty nasty,but can't say he's ever commited genocide. But isn't Gaspard the guy who put Celene in a position where she felt she needed to? I'm not excusing Celene, who was the one to ultimately do it, but Gaspard is the one who made it appear to the other nobles that Celene was "soft on elves" when she tried to find a non-violent way to end the elven rebellion in... I think it was Halamshiral? Point is, Celene was trying not to commit genocide, and Gaspard was the one who put her in a position where she felt she needed to either commit genocide or risk losing control of the nobles. Again, I'm not saying Celene isn't guilty of genocide, or even that this mitigates her crime: just that Gaspard was playing a Game with their lives as well, and that if it wasn't for him, that story could have had an okay ending. If Celene had principles, she wouldn't care about that. Can you imagine king Maric killing elves to appease racist banns? Would king Alistair do it?
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on May 1, 2020 13:22:21 GMT
But isn't Gaspard the guy who put Celene in a position where she felt she needed to? I'm not excusing Celene, who was the one to ultimately do it, but Gaspard is the one who made it appear to the other nobles that Celene was "soft on elves" when she tried to find a non-violent way to end the elven rebellion in... I think it was Halamshiral? Point is, Celene was trying not to commit genocide, and Gaspard was the one who put her in a position where she felt she needed to either commit genocide or risk losing control of the nobles. Again, I'm not saying Celene isn't guilty of genocide, or even that this mitigates her crime: just that Gaspard was playing a Game with their lives as well, and that if it wasn't for him, that story could have had an okay ending. If Celene had principles, she wouldn't care about that. Can you imagine king Maric killing elves to appease racist banns? Would king Alistair do it? No, but whether or not they did would have no bearing on whether or not the racist banns had tried to get them to kill elves. Again, I'm not saying you're being too hard on Celene with regards to that incident: just that you're not being hard enough on Gaspard.
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Post by pessimistpanda on May 1, 2020 18:49:07 GMT
Look, BioWare can't write politics for shit. Actively committing genocide because someone commissioned a rude play about you is not only reprehensible, but also fucking insane. That BioWare expects me to believe not only that Celene is the better choice but even just a stable person is laughable. But there is no good choice (since killing both Celene and Gaspard is not actually an option), so for my canon playthrough, I forced the three of them to work together. Plus, it's hard for me to invest emotionally when I know that whatever choice I made will have little to no bearing on the development of future plots.
As for the argument of picking Anora because "status quo", that doesn't really hold water. The "status quo" is to have a Theirin heir on the throne (if it were standard practice for a spouse to rule in the event of death, then there wouldn't be a problem in the first place, and Loghain wouldn't have been able to seize power in the vaccuum) and it's already been disrupted beyond repair: Anora's claim to the throne isn't any stronger than Alistair's anyway, and we only have her own word for it that she would rule competently on her own, because we never see her act in even a minor leadership role or even attempt to lead anybody. Plus, I also just do not give a shit about "what's good for the future". There won't be a future if the blight isn't stopped, and I pick Alistair because I know Alistair, and I know that he will make fixing the blight his priority. In fact, if the game didn't force me to do it, I wouldn't even bother to rescue Anora in the first place; it suits my goals for her to be locked up, I have no good reason to trust her, and every reason to not.
Now, as for my actual confessions:
I always offer Anora marriage to Alistair, and then have Alistair duel Loghain and kill him in front of her.
I got the fake wyvern heart for Vivienne, just because I hate her. And instead of watching the scene at the end of her quest, I got up and made myself a sandwich.
Even though I think the Rite of Tranquility is wrong and should never be used, I made Erimond tranquil because I wanted to wipe the smirk off his sleazy face. (This is the only one I feel bad about at all, and not very much tbh).
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Post by Sokemis on May 2, 2020 15:30:09 GMT
No so much a confession as a random thought I had last night:
I've said before that I think there was a servant in Redcliffe (Goldanna's mother) who died in childbirth, along with the babe, right at the time infant Alistair was brought to Redcliffe. King Maric might have visited Redcliffe near enough to the baby's conception (or at least near enough for a child's logic) and Goldanna convinced herself that Maric was the father. But what if Eamon actually was having an affair with the servant, and he was the father of Goldanna's brother? And it was the subsequent rumors of the other servants coupled with Eamon's interest in young Alistair that had Isolde convinced that Alistair was Eamon's. Then Eamon was left to privately mourn a son that no one else is even allowed to know exist, because that kid is supposed to be Alistair.
Do I necessarily think this is true? No, but something to think about.
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Post by warden on May 5, 2020 11:22:20 GMT
For the first time, I sided with the mages and to be honest, makes me feel filthy.
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Post by Iddy on May 5, 2020 12:28:37 GMT
For the first time, I sided with the mages and to be honest, makes me feel filthy. Why is that?
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Post by phoray on May 5, 2020 12:50:11 GMT
For the first time, I sided with the mages and to be honest, makes me feel filthy. DAO and DA2, I would feel that way about siding Templars. But no issue siding Templars in DAI.
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Post by Iddy on May 5, 2020 12:57:42 GMT
Another confession would be that I prefer to leave Blackwall in jail.
When you judge him in Skyhold, he calls the Inquisitor corrupt for using their influence this way and he is absolutely right.
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Post by warden on May 5, 2020 13:56:23 GMT
For the first time, I sided with the mages and to be honest, makes me feel filthy. Why is that? Because I believe in the Templars dogma.
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Post by warden on May 5, 2020 14:08:14 GMT
For the first time, I sided with the mages and to be honest, makes me feel filthy. DAO and DA2, I would feel that way about siding Templars. But no issue siding Templars in DAI. Being honest here, it always goes like this when I play the games, DAO restore the circle of magi, DA2 side with Templars (although if I was given an option I would simply kick both sides out of Kirkwall or grab things up and fly off with my crew), DAI recruit the Templars help.
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Post by bear on May 10, 2020 19:20:58 GMT
For the last three DAO playthroughs, I've let Brother Burkle open the Orz. chantry. Because of what I know happens to him and the rest of the dwarven Maker-followers if the chantry opens.. >:-D
I'm pretty boring apart from that, though. Haven't done an selfish/evil/aggressive playthrough, yet.
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Post by Jarovbees on May 13, 2020 14:40:00 GMT
In Origins I've never:
Not flirted with Tamlen in the Dalish origin/kept Cousland from banging someone in their origin. Took Vaughan Kendall's deal instead of straight-up killing him. (Or didn't kill him later, with another origin.) Not broken the Dalish curse. (I tried to eliminate all the werewolves...once, but I kept dying and gave up.) Let Cullen have his way and picked the Templars. Tainted Andraste's ashes. (A specialization I don't care about vs. losing two companions? Nah.) Not recruited Leliana and Sten. Crowned Harrowmont. (Yet. This might be a first, soon.) Ditched Alistair in favor of Loghain. (Again, that might be a first soon. But I expect that to just be once and done.) Let Caladrius sacrifice the elven slaves for me. Let Flemeth live, because I don't feel like deceiving Morrigan and fighting her mom as a dragon is fun. Kept the Anvil of the Void or sided with Branka. Romanced Morrigan or decided against her Dark Ritual. Let anyone other than the Warden make the killing blow to the Archdemon.
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Post by Sifr on May 14, 2020 8:20:41 GMT
No so much a confession as a random thought I had last night: I've said before that I think there was a servant in Redcliffe (Goldanna's mother) who died in childbirth, along with the babe, right at the time infant Alistair was brought to Redcliffe. King Maric might have visited Redcliffe near enough to the baby's conception (or at least near enough for a child's logic) and Goldanna convinced herself that Maric was the father. But what if Eamon actually was having an affair with the servant, and he was the father of Goldanna's brother? And it was the subsequent rumors of the other servants coupled with Eamon's interest in young Alistair that had Isolde convinced that Alistair was Eamon's. Then Eamon was left to privately mourn a son that no one else is even allowed to know exist, because that kid is supposed to be Alistair. Do I necessarily think this is true? No, but something to think about. I've never put it together until now how much Alistair's story is cribbed from Jon Snow's.
He's a royal bastard and secret heir to the throne, doesn't know who is mother is, his (supposed) mother supposedly died in childbirth, his uncle is mistakenly believed by most people be his father, he joined an secretive order of warriors dedicated to protecting humanity from a hidden threat, a witch with mysterious powers is attempting (reluctantly in Morrigan's case) to bang him for her own purposes, and lastly, he has the "blood of the dragon" in his veins (if you believe Yavana).
I totally deserve that massive "whoosh" that's coming my way.
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on May 17, 2020 0:39:40 GMT
In Origins I've never: Tainted Andraste's ashes. (A specialization I don't care about vs. losing two companions? Nah.) I managed to get the specialization without losing either companion. I didn't even need to use the reload exploit. If you're interested in doing the same thing: - I made my Warden a Mage, so that I could make him a Spirit Healer. (This step is optional, but it did make things easier: if you want to keep Wynne after defiling the Ashes, you can't recruit her until fairly late in the game.)
- I put off the Temple of Sacred Ashes until fairly late in the game, so that I could get three points in Coercion without the extra skill points being a rogue grants you, and because the next step only works if you do Leiliana's personal quest first and harden her. (If you play a rogue instead of a mage, you might be able to do this sooner, but it means the only mage available is Morrigan.)
- I intimidated Leiliana into standing down when she tried to join the Guardian in murdering me. She didn't even leave the party. (She didn't even break off the romance, which makes me feel kind of unclean in retrospect. But that's what the Confessions Thread is for, right?)
- Then I recruited Wynne, and she never confronted me about the Ashes.
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Post by HabitsH on May 28, 2020 9:03:26 GMT
Confessions,eh? I've got plenty.
1) I killed Connor in DAO even though I know it's possible to save him. It is extremely risky to leave Connor, who happens to be possessed, for what would be a minimum two day journey to and from Kinloch Hold. That's assuming if Broken Circle quest is completed. There's very little guarantee that a repeat of what happened with the corpses wouldn't have happened with him around.
2) When I was younger, I really liked Morrigan. However, now that I'm older and hopefully more wiser, I really dislike Morrigan and see that she's genuinely not a good person. For example, she advocates slavery of City Elves. I suppose that means my mental maturity is capable of looking beyond beauty and that's a good thing.
3) I have also lost my fondness for Alistair as well. Both the protagonist and Alistair face tragedy yet he, the senior Warden, spends a significant portion of the game sulking and moping around while offloading all responsibilities of leadership to the protagonist. Ironically, he then confronts us if our decisions is not something that he likes. The worst part was him walking out on the protagonist if the choice to conscript Loghain is made even though Alistair should know that Wardens recruit everyone.
4) I hand over Isabela to the Qunari. She's one of the main culprit for the Qunari arrival to and invasion of Kirkwall. Yet she doesn't tell Hawke any of this until the very last minute. Besides, from a roleplaying perspective, fighting the Arishok is tough and potentially lethal. In fact, many players choose to cheese the battle, so it doesn't make sense to purposely pick a fight with a powerful foe.
5) I prefer Josephine over Cassandra as a love interest in DAI because Cassandra's love interest story arc is very one sided. The protagonist does everything and she just accepts or refuses (in case of marriage proposal in Trespasser). There's no other reciprocation on her part. No going on a date or nothing. It genuinely feels one sided. Josephine's love interest story arc, while not as much as Cassandra's, still has her reciprocating by taking the protagonist out on a date at the theater. So while Cassandra is a well written character, I don't feel that her love interest story arc is written well.
6) If Cullen isn't pretty, he wouldn't have such a strong support amongst the fandom and his flaws such as being stalkerish in DAO, being an incompetent in DA2 and then magically being a Garrus Vakarian in DAI would be more obvious. If players are genuinely interested in a male character who truly feels sorry for what he has done in his past and who genuinely wants to repent, Blackwall is your man and he actually looks ruggedly masculine as opposed to being pretty.
7) In a world with magic, there's realistically only three possible systems that will arise to accommodate magic and mages on a large scale - Tevinter Imperium / Ancient Elvhenan, Templar Order & Circle of Magi, The Qun. The Avvar and the Dalish Elves don't count because they don't have mages in large numbers. Out of the three options, a reformed Circle of Magi & Templar Order is the best one and objectively better than The Qun or Tevinter / Elvhenan.
8) Solas is the Theodosian version of an ivory tower academic with power. He sees that many things are wrong, he condemns many things, he sees people who are not him as lesser beings (Tranquil) but offers no real viable solutions and the solutions that he has implemented has backfired badly or gone horribly wrong. He's someone with theoretical wisdom but is an epic fail at practical living.
9) I don't like the Iron Bull. As a character, he's a Gary Stu. He's somehow simultaneously a skilled spy, an excellent fighter, a cassanova lothario and he managed to survive on the front lines of Tevinter - Qunari war far longer than most. Yet we never really see him train, we only really see him drinking in the tavern and screwing around. He also assumes that all protagonists want to be dommed in a BDSM relationship.
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Post by TabithaTH on May 29, 2020 9:44:41 GMT
6) If Cullen isn't pretty, he wouldn't have such a strong support amongst the fandom and his flaws such as being stalkerish in DAO, being an incompetent in DA2 and then magically being a Garrus Vakarian in DAI would be more obvious. If players are genuinely interested in a male character who truly feels sorry for what he has done in his past and who genuinely wants to repent, Blackwall is your man and he actually looks ruggedly masculine as opposed to being pretty. Have to admit, I've always seen Cullen as Alistair 2.0. Until I played the mage origin, I never understood why people were gushing over him. For me he was just a guy from the Mage circle quest that reappeared in DA2 just because... While his romance is very traditional and romantic in a way I usually like, I feel too much like I've already been there in DAO. I was never really drawn towards it (other than once to try it out) and have no world states in which he is the romanced character.
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Post by Iddy on May 29, 2020 17:19:36 GMT
How is DAO Cullen stalkerish though? Doesn't he avoid women like the plague?
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Post by TabithaTH on May 29, 2020 20:59:33 GMT
How is DAO Cullen stalkerish though? Doesn't he avoid women like the plague? I think it's in regards to the mage origin if you are a female?
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Post by HabitsH on May 30, 2020 11:42:11 GMT
How is DAO Cullen stalkerish though? Doesn't he avoid women like the plague? I think it's in regards to the mage origin if you are a female? Yes, that's what I was thinking about. The funny thing is, my attitude towards Cullen was initially 'meh' but then it turned into dislike after seeing him magically morph into what he is in Inquisition.
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Post by Iddy on Jun 3, 2020 11:48:28 GMT
How is DAO Cullen stalkerish though? Doesn't he avoid women like the plague? I think it's in regards to the mage origin if you are a female? Yes. And he runs way from you. Doesn't sound like a creepy pervert to me.
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Post by Iddy on Jun 3, 2020 11:49:48 GMT
I think it's in regards to the mage origin if you are a female? Yes, that's what I was thinking about. The funny thing is, my attitude towards Cullen was initially 'meh' but then it turned into dislike after seeing him magically morph into what he is in Inquisition. I wouldn't say it came out of nowhere. Cullen did turn against Meredith at the end of DA2. But perhaps they could've put in more work into his development before redeeming him.
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Post by elra on Jun 3, 2020 23:05:43 GMT
okay, confessions!
1) I struggled to form any attachment to DA2. It took me forever to create a Hawke I liked, and I'm still not very attached. Which is funny considering how limited Hawke is, you'd think it'd be easy to come up with a personality.
2) Jumping off what I said above, the DA2 companions are my least favorite. I find all of them save Varric different levels of annoying, and it seemed like they only went to Hawke when they wanted something... which I understand is an issue in DA2's writing and less of characterization. Still, I felt like they weren't very supportive of Hawke. Creating a party is a game of 'who is going to hate me the least today' lol.
3) I really tried to like the Solas. I tried to do his romance. I still do not understand why so many people like him. But hey, I tried and that's all I can do!
4) Liane Merciel needs to return to write more DA books.
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