Urgent question about Dragon Keep

Of course, you can just use the "Default" world state, if you want to. But if you want the game to reflect the things you did in Origins and 2, then you need to use the Keep.

That's right. 

In the Keep, you make your choices for DAO and DA2, then save and Export it <-- this is important, without being Exported, Inquisition won't be able to find and use your World State.

When you select New Game in DAI, you'll be given the option to Import a World State or use the Default.  The Import option gets you to sign in to your Keep and your Exported World State choices are loaded in to the game.  That choice is then fixed for all new games of Inquisition until a new one is selected in The Keep.

With the Save Import from Origins to 2, it worked for the major stuff, as I recall (although it has been a really, really long time since I started a new DA2 game) but some of the smaller things could get really screwed up.  While not perfect, the Keep is - in my opinion - a far better tool.

This is not accurate. Neither DA2 or DAO upload decisions. Both of those games only upload character information: race, gender, class, origin, portrait. You could have experienced an "imperfect" import because some of your DA2 choices matched the default.



This isn't necessary. If you play offline, you can just wait until some later time in post-game to connect and upload all of the DAI decisions.

If you still have your save files, you can just read through the log of completed quests to find the micro-decisions. That's what I did, so I can tell you from personal experience that that's going to take a while, especially if you want to make more than one World State.

But I think it's either that or guesswork. (And if you don't still have your saves, you're stuck with guesswork.)

I haven't found it that bad. I do usually tweak but I forgot in my just-started-the-other-day playthrough. I get standard Male Hawke. Carson surved but don't know if he's a Warden or mage. No romance mentioned. I don't recall what any other Hawke choice that's mentioned. Then there's Alistair married to Anora. I'm curious how it would play out if the Warden becomes king. Not sure I ever want to play that route and now want to restart to find out. Does the Warden still vanish or does he (gotta be a "he" to rule, right?) show up In Hushed Whispers?

What else is there? Well, Leliana, but I don't think that has an impact on the game. Or does it?

Hmm...need to go to the Keep and choose some options I rarely make just to see how it impacts things.

Warden still left, so Anora shows up by herself and talks instead of Alistair: