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Post by Augustei on Dec 24, 2018 10:51:05 GMT
Yeah normally how my characters get along with companions is defined by the core beliefs I end up giving them, and each game my characters are fairly different I think. My Warden was ruthless and pragmatic who based every decision around what would be best for defeating the darkspawn. Didn't really get along with Wynne, Alistair or Leliana since they were too idealistic and they got mad at the decisions he made like preserving the anvil, encouraging Avernus to go full throttle with the research, wiping out the Dalish for Werewolf allies and stuff like that, (Heck my Warden ended up allowing Alistair to be executed since he attempted desertion when i spared Loghain to make him a Warden)
My Hawke despite not being a mage was pretty much all for mage rebellion, didn't like the Chantry or Templars all that much at all, and come to think of it was pretty fine with deals with demons and blood magic, so got along with Anders and Merrill but not Sebastian or Fenris though he ended up executing Anders at the end since despite having no love for the chantry or the templars, thought what Anders did was idiotic since it would have severely harmed the rebellions image and prevented them from acquiring any allies.
My Inquisitor on the other hand is actually quite conservative, sees the value in the Chantry, tries to be as diplomatic as possible and not change the status quo too radically, which I suppose is ironic seeing as he is a Dalish Mage. Got along well with Vivienne and Cassandra, not so much with Solas.
Each of them touch upon my own beliefs, but then go a bit further. If I were playing my characters based on my own opinions I would be diplomatic and cautiously against radical change like my Inquisitor, but still see the need for reform and sympathetic to the mage rebellion, as well as seeing blood magic and demonic deals as nothing but tools so long as done cautiously & properly like my Hawke, and ruthless + pragmatic like my Warden so long as it doesn't cost me too much diplomatically Unlike my Inquisitor I would probably get along well with Solas but not Vivienne, unlike my Hawke I would not get along with Merrill or Anders, Wynne i'd probably be somewhat neutral since she sure is preachy, and would get along with Alistair and Leliana
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Sept 7, 2019 22:56:35 GMT
Not due to a personal dislike, but simply because you don't find it believable that your character would get along with that person. Yeah sometimes my Qunari was a bit suspicious of Solas partly because she didn' t trust magic and partly because she felt he was a littl eshifty what with being an apostate. She knew she was likely going t oneed magical help anywa ys odecided t opu tup with him. Dorian and Vivienne sh eaccepted more though due to the fact they were at least registered mages so were moer likely to behave themselves plus Vivienne statement of Magic i sdangerous just as fier is dangerous which was something she completely agreed with. Alot of my quizzies are normally quite supportive of magic and the good it can d owhen it's under conrtol she just wasn't and didn't rtus tit at all. I get the feelin gshe'd have made a pretty decent templar given the way sh efelt about it. She felt though tha tdespite her feelings the onl yway th ebreach was going t obe sealed was if she added mages t othe Inquistions arsenal whic his why when she went to Redcliffe sh emade the choice t oconscript them. Thankfully it worked out well in the end for her. She wasn't too surprised about what Solas was in the end though as she suspected he was holding something back.
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Post by fylimar on Sept 8, 2019 9:14:13 GMT
Somehow, none of my Hawkes get along with Merrill. Even in playthroughs, where I as a player want my Hawke to befriend Merrill, I end up in the neutral zone at best. For my current playthrough, I cheated a bit and looked up how to gain Merrills friendhip. And despite of the fact, that I, the player, hate Sebastian, most of my Hawkes manage to get high friendship with him. That lasts until I refuse to kill Anders (for reasons stated in other threads - there are the knight commander and the captain of the guard present, so my Hawkes normally don't think, it is their job to do anything to Anders, while the autorities are standing there, doing nothing). Same with Solas: I really don't like him much, I find him racist and close minded in many conversations and he just irritates and annoys me. For me as a player, he is just a tool to get information. But my inquis often get along well with him, even my little dwarf Lia, despite the fact, he just dismisses her race as short sighted and basically stupid, calling her the exception. I was more outraged about that thean Lia, she is a really chilled girl
And I just realized, that I basically answered the question wrong. I told you, why I befreind characters in game, I don't like as a player, when the question was the otehr way around.
So I try to give the right answer. I did not befriend Alistair as a CE in DAO, because she was annoyed with his attitude and then he dropped the ball, that he might be heir to the throne very late in the game and she started to really dislike him. Of course she still killed Loghain for what he did with the alienage, but she made Anora queen, because she didn't think, Alistair had it in him to be a good king (I know as a player that the Anora/Alistair mix is the best outcome, but my elf didn't).
And a Cousland didn't befriend Leliana, because she crept her oit with her talk of visions and the Maker.
A Trevelyan just ignored Sera for being too silly (despite me as a player liking Sera for the most part).
A mage Hawke did sent Anders away, because she was crept out by his connection with a spirit.
I think, that was it. Most of my wardens ignore Morrigan and Oghren, but that is me, the player, actively hating those characters, not for roleplay reasons (although my city elf did get really mad at Morrigan for agreeing with the slavers)
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Post by revelationeffect on Sept 23, 2019 21:07:47 GMT
Oh, absolutely. In DAO I had Warden who killed Zevran outright and then killed Wynne at the Circle Tower, a Warden who killed Shale when she turned on her at the Anvil in favor of Caridin, and one who allowed Sten to die by inaction, seeing no reason to recruit a murderer. I also had a devout Dalish elf who did not get along with Leliana, a City Elf who mutually hated Alistair, and a Brosca who was disgusted by Oghren's antics. I've also had an Aeducan who didn't get along with Morrigan, rejected the dark ritual in favor of just pawning off the duty of killing the Archdemon onto Loghain, and then tracked her down just to stab her. I've been friends with all of them in one worldstate or another.
In DA2 I had a mage Hawke who didn't get along at all with Fenris, a templar-aligned Hawke who gave Merrill lots of shit and had an extremely antagonistic relationship with Anders culminating in his death, one goody-two-shoes who thought little of Isabela, a couple who were extremely exasperated with Sebastian, one absolute bastard who went as far as murdering Bethany, one who pretty much hated Carver, and a highly aggressive Hawke who didn't get along at all with Aveline or Varric.
In Inquisition I've had a couple who ranged from lukewarm on to despising Vivienne, one who found Solas ridiculously irresponsible and let him know it at every opportunity and was also moderately antagonistic with Dorian, a couple who didn't befriend Sera and one who declined to recruit her in the first place, one who didn't trust Bull at all due to his Ben-Hassrath status and refused to even consider the deal with the Qunari in the first place, and one who didn't recruit poor Cole because he was paranoid about spirits. One also found Leliana reprehensible, another didn't trust Cullen, and another found Josephine too uptight. The only characters I haven't had some level of significant antagonism with in some worldstate or another are Cassandra and Varric.
I like playing a diverse range of temperaments and taking different actions to see a majority of the content so I frequently end up having a diverse array of relationships with the companions across various canons.
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Post by nopersdeviv on Sept 24, 2019 4:36:52 GMT
I can't go and "not recruit" a party member, except for back when my warden killed Zevran on our first meeting because I didn't realize he was recruitable, I have always recruited all party members through all three games...I bitch about it, but I do it anyway to complete those missions...now do I bring them all with me at some point during the game? No. The Characters I dislike I basically recruit them and ignore them and with Blackwall I tend to leave him in the Orlesian prison.
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Post by Iddy on Sept 24, 2019 11:24:10 GMT
I can't go and "not recruit" a party member, except for back when my warden killed Zevran on our first meeting because I didn't realize he was recruitable, I have always recruited all party members through all three games...I bitch about it, but I do it anyway to complete those missions...now do I bring them all with me at some point during the game? No. The Characters I dislike I basically recruit them and ignore them and with Blackwall I tend to leave him in the Orlesian prison. I think leaving Blackwall in prison is the right thing to do, since he is guilty. Using your influence to get him out feels like corruption.
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Post by nopersdeviv on Sept 24, 2019 12:15:01 GMT
I can't go and "not recruit" a party member, except for back when my warden killed Zevran on our first meeting because I didn't realize he was recruitable, I have always recruited all party members through all three games...I bitch about it, but I do it anyway to complete those missions...now do I bring them all with me at some point during the game? No. The Characters I dislike I basically recruit them and ignore them and with Blackwall I tend to leave him in the Orlesian prison. I think leaving Blackwall in prison is the right thing to do, since he is guilty. Using your influence to get him out feels like corruption. Yeah, I can't get past what he did to his men...and it wasn't even for some kind of ideology, it was for money. Sure...he didn't mean for an entire family to die, but you gotts figure at some point he knew all of it would come back on the men who loyally served him. The mess he left there kinda transfered to the Inquisition too...knowing all this,I just can't let my Inquisitor strike up a friendship/romance with him...I've tried, but then he starts with his stories about the knight he turned down and the dog and it all sounds so self pitying...when I get a chance to leave him in jail, I take it.
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Post by Pounce de León on Sept 24, 2019 14:15:30 GMT
Ye, no fraternisation on my ship.
Also Blackwell gets the noose - I dont negotiate Justice.
Zevran got shanked for betrayal.
And the creepy Cerberus snitch Kelly got dissolved in goo for exemplary measures.
I think I also tried to get Morrigan but she stepped through a mirror.
That is the baseline usually. From there I might select some handwaved reason to explore the odd romance.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 24, 2019 14:51:50 GMT
I (and my characters) tend to become sociopaths to try and please everyone, which realistically isn't an option, nor very healthy for me or my characters
the only time I had some different endings was when I didn't even try for it it was one of my previous Wardens, she had kept the Anvil of the Void yet still wanted to keep Shale around so I recruited her relatively late and just did her personal quest which got me roughly above 50 friendship with her before game's end in truth I liked that ending more given the whole book (Asunder) scenario where Shale is still a golem even if she and Wynne went of to find a cure to make Shale a person again
also Wynne's ending during that playthrough also made her Awakening cameo make more sense, at the time she stuck around to become Alistair's court mage
I've also once deliberately made Merrill a rival, but that didn't really make sense and I disliked it, in that same playthrough I also attempted to rival Anders...which also wasn't a success I also believe I once rivaled Sebastian but I don't really remember
as for Inquisition...during my first playthrough I lucked out on a lot of quests because I didn't understand the war table (which for example meant that Dorian immediately returned to Tevinter at game's end and didn't decide to stick around a while longer)
however my second inquisitor Malak Adaar was able to befriend nearly everyone without even trying
as for my canon Inquisitor who I plan on remaking (aside from a class change)...I don't really think she'll score a lot of brownie points with Sera...my Lavellan believes in her own gods (however misguided that is, given recent revelations) so I don't think on that area she and Sera will get along
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