Davrin - Official Companion Thread [Spoilers]

And I'll be honest, the forced tiefling-or-devil-or-whatever-he-is-now transformation didn't do him any favors. Even the devils looked more human than he did. 

I think the real problem with Wyll was the astonishing lack of content (no spicy scene, less dialogues overall than all the others companions) and his own personal mission ending up... Not being about him in the slightest.

Meanwhile the no spicy scene made him one of my favorite romances.

This reminds me of the whitewashing mods for Isabela. Plain awful, whichever way you look at it. 



Interesting! I didn't see Wyll as particularly boring (I found Gale to be quite insufferable, though), perhaps because his VA is absolutely charming, imo.  

I don't find Wyll boring either. I prefer him to fan favourite Astarion honestly ( which in all honesty has more to do with the sometimes toxic, because bigger, fancrowd of Astarion. His writing is good). He is the classic hero type with a twist and I like it.

As for Davrin: he sounds interesting. So far he, Lace and Emmrich are the companions, I find the most promising. Maybe Neve too.

Heh I could only ever romance Lae’zel with a Dragonborn. It just seemed too perfect an opportunity to pass up, especially if you make them red.

I also prefer a friendship path with Astarion to his romance, so I feel that. And Wyll’s romance is nice in that it’s a lot more stable than anyone else. Agreed though that I vastly preferred the writing for the female romances.

I’m leaning elf spellblade too, but they’re a Lord of Fortune instead. I’m still working out their personality since I don’t really want elf Isabela or anything like that, but I imagine they’ll be more carefree and reckless than Davrin, which will make for a fun contrast.

I'm definitely playing an elf first run but leaving my options open as to who I romance as I think I'll let it develop naturally. I definitely see Davrin as a good friend rather than just a member of the team, even if it doesn't go further than that. Him being an elf obviously is part of that as my elves tend to gravitate towards the other elves out of solidarity due to the common adversity and prejudice all elves seem to face. I am fascinated to discover what made him join the Wardens. Also, I can imagine us bonding over Assan. I am waiting to discover more about how they describe our involvement with the factions and what the specialisms entail before making a final decision on that. I wonder if it will alter whether our backstory is Dalish or City elf. At the moment I am leaning towards a Shadow Dragon Spell Blade but the alternative would be a Veil Jumper.

Not sure if this already mentioned but if anyone want a hint on how Darvin would sound there is a brief cameo of his va and a line in the first DA4 behinds the scenes trailer:
at 3:18

Apart from not wishing to saddle my Rook with a terminal condition in the Joining, I think I would prefer not to play a faction I was part of before because of how they may alter our perception of it. With DAI I played as a Dalish elf, thinking I already knew plenty about them from when I played as a Dalish Warden, plus further information gained in DA2 from Merrill. However, I kept being contradicted with the explanation being that the clans had grown apart over the years to explain the differences. It annoyed me at the time and made it less a case of revisiting my past role than making my experience and knowledge seem null and void.

Now there have been hints in the epilogue to DAI that something of a schism may have developed between the southern Wardens and the HQ at Weishauppt. So, that may account for any differences in practice. Also, there were hints in the lore books that possibly the First Warden is less interested in fighting the Blight than political power, whilst in the Last Flight, where the griffons returned, it seemed the Wardens were engaged in some sort of research into Wardens behaving strangely in the past, intelligent darkspawn and the use of blood magic. All this seems to suggest that if I did decide to play a Grey Warden, I should not expect it to be a reprise of my experience in DAO and Awakening but should approach it as though it was a completely new faction about which I know nothing, as is the case with the majority of the others.

It would be similar if I played a Crow, which would seem weird as they have always been antagonists in the past (Zevran was a defector and turned against them if we let him live), so I would have to forget all the negative associations I have with them. This is why I am more likely to choose one of the other factions since I have never encountered them before or had associations with them either good or bad, so can simply enjoy the learning experience like I did when playing the origin stories in DAO. Then I can let Davrin teach me about the Wardens from his PoV and not worry if it substantially differs from my own previous experience.

www.youtube.com/live/qu09x-GtI10?si=oycVU_aWliytagtc

They start taking about Davrin around 1:18:33

Kara: I'm going to be totally honest and I, maybe this will make people mad, I don't particularly care about the grey Wardens [...] With Davrin though I felt like actually pretty invested, like when he was in the party and when he was talking and stuff. And his voice is very nice, Amadi does a very good job and that's all I'll say on that [...] also Davrin always had his tits out, he's like 'look at my huge muscular tits'

Ghil: On like the EA website where they have like a little blurb about each of the characters and I believe it mentioned that Davrin's a Monster Hunter.[...] And i think that people kind of went past that and like didn't really think about it.. but I think that's actually a major character point for him then it was there for a reason. Um, he loves hunting, that's like his thing. [...] He's kinda sexy about it, I don't know it's like it's the artform of hunting and like learning your beast um, like your opponents weakeness and exploiting that and it's very like intelligent and artform about it. It's almost like when you talk to a- in like media tropes i mean, where you get like the master of their art and there's like all these things you've never thought about and your like 'oh okay'

Kara: you mean he's confident?

Ghil: Yeah!

Kara: he is confident yeah. I think that Davrin's is going to maybe surprise people by how much, maybe bravado, he has. Does that- do you agree with that?

Ghil: yeah i was expecting one thing with his flirts and then another thing happened and i was like 'oh, we're going, oh, f***, I'm... okay'