Races and romance poll

I've always liked that armor model. I generally hate the massive DAO sets, but that one looks pretty good.



Hm, you raise an interesting point here. I think that Oghren has been the only stereotypical drunken dwarf as a major NPC, so I think for anyone to have that concern would be unfounded.

Gay/bi men in DA are generally pretty confined to romance options, with just a handful of NPCs, all human (Wade and Herren, the Orlesian nobles, the one that flirts with Cullen, Jacen and Corram, and I think that's it), so if you want to see bi dwarves or gay qunari, unless BW is more conscious of that in the future, we'll only see them on the squad.


I think the issue here is that a) Oghren and Varric are the male dwarves that come to mind, and Varric is consistently painted as very un-dwarven and basically a unicorn, and we've had three game...parts that concentrated more on dwarves - Origins, Awakening, and Descent. Oghren dominated the first two (when it comes to male dwarves), and many people didn't play the third.

I wouldn't be surprised, if people associated male dwarves predominantly with Oghren, seeing as they went to great lengths to separate Varric from it. And I played Origins twice, and I cannot recall all that much about Bhelen or Harrowmont.

So what I'm saying is that we need more exposure, and that having the two dwarven outliers be bridge companions didn't help.

Gorim has a decent-sized fanbase among dwarf fans. Amusingly, he and Oghren share the same VA. It would have been so awesome if his flirt lines were open to both genders.

(I'm totally ignorant about dialogue modding, or I'd look into it. However, if his recorded lines have his typical "my lady" lines, I think that might put a damper on it.)

Kardol (Legion of the Dead Cmdr.) is popular as well and is more likely to be remembered than Gorim because all players get to meet him. (To the majority of players, Gorim is the annoying "Dwarven crafts!" guy.)

I think the trouble with a traditional dwarf is their restrictions on going to the surface. The writing doesn't give them much wiggle room. I think unless my lore brain is defunct they can only go to the surface if required to for a blight via the contract with the wardens. anything other than that they lose their status. (hell maybe even then I snoozed through a lot of dwarven lore).

Does anyone know if there's a loophole to work with?

Good writing can fix almost anything. A dwarf character could be given a new position by his king/queen to appear on the surface and perform whatever task the game requires. 

I mean, I get it.  But no.

Also - stop creating memes in Powerpoint.  It's unsettling. 

I don't want to have to ask for a high chair at restaurants.

Wanted to say this reading the first sentence - Gorim is a pretty minor character for most players.

Still, even if they reject it, many of the characters give us a lot of info on their groups. Dorian speaks a lot about Tevinter, Bull gives you details about the Qun before leaving it, Solas tells you stuff about ancient elves. Varric is like Sera, in that they reject everything dwarveny/elfy. But dwarves, unlike elves and qunari, just have too little noteworthy characters to balance someone like Varric out.

But the thing is that he skirts around this topic more than once in his story arc, and he never does say that. In fact, most of what he actually says suggests a great deal of possible variety among spirits as a group, degrees of depth and complexity. He formed such a deep and powerful affection with the wisdom spirit in his story arc, why would a friendship like that taking on a romantic flavor be so improbable?

I don't know why I'm championing this. I'm not gunning hard for a spirit romance or anything. I just don't think it's as hard to imagine as other people do, I guess. 

Definitely, but so far Cole's a bit of a Marty Stu as far as spirits are concerned.

EDIT: Also, not sure we've yet seen whether or not Cole is capable of romantic love.