Post pictures of your inquisitor here! v.2

Clan Lavellan's full of pretty elves it seems.

Yeah all of mine aer PC. I do have the game on XB1 as well but I usually prefer PC because of the mods

It's all  right. It's probably just me playing catch up on the forum as I've not been able to log onto the forum the past couple of days due to myPC being down as my hard drive died otherwise I'd have probably seen that. It's repaired now though as I've got a new one in now just busy trying to rebuild my files from their backups that I've got. Not what I needed when I was attempting a ME/DA marathon but still as Sloane Kelly would say "Shit happens". It's taken all evening so far to restore it but I'm almost done I think. 

Lol. I never realized that hornless Qunari look like mutant elves.

Belavhana Mirwen Lavellan

Belavhana (Given Name, informal) --> One with many questions.
Mirwen (Mother's Name, formal) --> Resolve, or the will to move forward.
Lavellan (Clan Name) --> One who journeys to a hopeul place.
(Decided with the help of FenxShiral's compilation of Elvhen language and naming conventions. Google it, it's really interesting and useful for getting into character as a Dalish elf.)

Groomed for leadership and responsibility since early childhood as the First to the Keeper. Also the first to make contact with any foreign group of shemlen, using her pronounced Vallaslin and dignified air, and magic if necessary, to intimidate them into civility. Recognizes the need for shems to see the Dalish as dangerous and mysterious and deserving of respect, rather than fearful vagrants to be bullied or exploited. 

Obviously prays to Elgar'nan, God of vengeance, fatherhood and the sun.

She's known as a bit of a taskmaster to young Dalish under her command, and walks the human world without showing an iota of fear, even when a pack of resentful drunkards or a mounted guardsman or templar in heavy armor makes her feel small and soft and vulnerable. Once a dangerous animal sees you, you can't run from it. You have to face it down and scare it more than it scares you, or you're either in a fight for your life or already dead.* Besides, they never have any manners.

She uses her mother's name in shemlen lands. No hairy ape is ever going to be allowed to address her by her given one.

*(Disclaimer: Definitely not a suggestion to confront obviously dangerous or unstable individuals without a clear reason, regardless of provocation. The legal ramifications of even being a victim of assault or battery and managing to defend yourself can ruin your life. Always leave and run if you have the option and nobody else you can realistically help are in danger, and alert authorities from a safe distance, preferably with witnesses present, even ones who can only attest that they didn't see you do anything stupid.)

As always, played on PS4 classic. So no mods.

Thanks! I did have a lot of fun playing as her 

*laughs* Funny, the girl you describe is very close to what I imagined this Inquisitor to be (minus the religiousness, plus some mischievous shenanigans). Voices you can choose and most dialogue options don't quite fit the image, but that doesn't stop me from imagining she is like that. 

Also interesting, this was my 36th attempt at playing DAI, and she was the first character that actually got me through, she kept me going through the slower parts of the game.

It's not like religion really informed anything about her. It was just our simplest and most obvious and least personal point of contention. And we both knew we were right, of course. So we debated and teased each other like crazy. 

Ha! You're preaching to the choir there. I know the starting area of every Bioware and Obsidian RPG to date like the back of my own hand, but have only seen most endings once or twice, if at all.

It seems to get better as you gain a stronger sense of what sorts of characters you find actually interesting and relatable though. Characters with values and themes that really intrigue or mean something to you. You want to see those play out and expressed as much as possible, and then you hate it when the games end.

Also helps to deliberately make characters that aren't picture-perfect to look at. Then you don't chafe at how they don't look exactly how you intended every time you see them in-game. Your Lavellan hits the perfect spot. Pretty and full of character, but with cheekbones and chin and jawline quite short of supermodel-hood. One can tell you've been careful about moving the sliders too far from the center. She looks like an actual person and not someone who won the genetic lottery and had to build her life around it.

*is mortally offended that you only enthusiastically agreed with most of what he said, and finds rambling on video game forums to be the greatest sin*

I hear what you're saying about MMOs, that's how I used to feel about them before I gave up completely after SWTOR. Final Fantasy passed me by though, and now I'm just too old and grizzled to take JRPGs seriously. Except for Drakengard. I'll always have a place in my heart for Drakengard after the original PS2 title. Darkest and weirdest game ever to hit international shelves.  

And yeah, I went through my teens jumping from one game to another as I got bored. These days I have so little time though, and finishing what I start is kind of something I had to learn the hard way. Just the thought of ten concurrent half-finished playthroughs of different games sitting in the back of my head gives me shivers. Now I put a lot of thought into starting an RPG with the intention of seeing it through, and making sure the character always has enough meat on it to keep me engaged. Anything else would just end up stressing me out.

Your character creation process makes sense. I usually spend hours idly thinking up ways a particular character would fit into the setting, what sorts of motivations would clinch with the tone and story in interesting and thematic ways relevant to my interests at the time, make sure to think up ten or more cool things that tie the character to everything else in the world on some level, and then when I'm sufficiently psyched up I start the game.

First thing I do is always set every slider to average, and get a character that's as absolutely vanilla to whatever climate and community s/he comes from and what sort of work s/he does for a living as possible. Then I fiddle with it to give the character some... well, character, until I hit upon a look that gives a cool, and different from what I know everyone else is doing, and grounded impression that works with whatever attributes I've already thought up for him/her. Only then, if I can't stop myself and there's a way to do it that makes sense with the story, do I give him/her some larger-than-life feature. Like my Lavellan's rather extreme Vallaslin associated with Elgar'nan above, symbolizing her bone-deep commitment to keeping her clan safe and fed and too deserving of respect to push around.

That sort of thing is normally a turnoff for me, but when it means something powerful and specific within the story and setting I can enjoy it.

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She's back.

Made an Elf. Hello, Cullen.

Thank you. It's an easy recipe. Default 5, mouth and nose left1. I used the same face with a redhead, medium-long hair variant in my T8 dish.