Which faction is most immersive

That’s sort of on brand for the LoF actually… 😃

There's a massive, super-cool Dragon skull you can set up above the caretaker upgrade store - that's very LoF.

I'm actually using that myself unfortunately it's the only real one. Would've been cool to at least include Qunari theme if they wasn't gonna do Rivani or Lords themes for the lighthouse.

"Our gods" is just how an elven Rook describes "elven gods" and that description is pretty ambiguous regarding how Rook themselves perceives it. Whether or not you believe in them (Dalish or City), they still *are* your original pantheon.

However, an elf saying "elven gods" is much less ambiguous in Rook's relationship with the pantheon. It's hard to read it as anything other than disbelief.

You can choose to be Christian or non-Christian. You can't choose to be an elf. This is the difference here.

Elven God -> Our God if an elf

It has nothing to do with faith. 

Furthermore, whether or not you believe in them, as an elf they are part of your history. They *were* your gods at some point. It's normal to continue to refer to them in the possessive even if you don't believe in them.... and you shouldn't. In fact the game is pretty clear in telling you that the elves who see what's happening don't believe in them anymore.

I also just found a bowl of precious gems as decor for Rook's room - bought it from a street vendor in Minrathous.

On the topic of immersion and reactivity: am I correct in thinking that this game has no unique human-specific dialogue at all? Inquisition had some because Trevelyan has their own background separate from the other three, but as far as I've heard all the lineage options for Rook are elf, dwarf or Qunari.

(I mean, good news for me if so! I can skip humans - at least until I get around to my Whoops All Humans world state - and play the lineages I find more interesting.)

My main world state is Whoops All Humans...yeah, nothing unique for that. I enjoyed being able to leverage Trevalyan nobility or affirm my religious beliefs in Inquisition, but the only unique dialogue in Veilguard I ever got outside of Mourn Watch options was when I could tell Taash that I liked being a woman. I should redo that Rook as a dwarf sometime.

My Marcantonio was an antivan crow. The first character was still interesting enough for me to like him. It lacked dialogue options to be able to kill some characters in dialogues, simply because the crow is capable of it. Unfortunately, the crow's background is limited to the fact that he knew the people in Treviso. As far as I remember, there were maybe 2 dialogues for the Wardens that could be supplemented with the crow status. But nothing more.
Lucanis talks at the beginning about things getting political and bloody. Not even with my crow did any of this really materialise. Actually, a ‘roleplay game’ shouldn't leave me wondering how my character even managed his life before, let alone could do what is described in the backstory. Veilguard fails at the simple things. Since none of the prequels dealt with the crows, it would have been up to Veilguard to explain what warriors and mages do with the crows, how they can ascend to crows. How did the Circle of Antiva City differ from the other covens? Will the crows need a mage? Certainly, but for what exactly? How do other crows encounter their fellow mages? How did the crows get a mage? What have chantry and templars to say about that? The most interesting thing is the blade mage, which is only used for gameplay.
Not to mention the different races. Human, city elf is explainable. Qunari? They're pretty conspicuous at first.
I like my Marcantonio. A crow doesn't equal socially inept outside of contracts.
The crows are also the only faction that does not blame its member for the situation. The Antaam were already there before. The old elven mages had nothing to do with it. Getting them out of Antiva, Rivain and Tevinter would have been far more politically, culturally and socially interesting than this GodOfWar story.
Because the release of the elven mages was due to Sola waving his ritual dagger around like a madman. Plus his flood of demons.

The Grey Warden can take Julius. Why can't the crow at least kill the mayor before they leave him? Either as a punishment or to free the mayor from his point of view. Different scenes of how Julius is killed depending on the class.
In the banters, a crow Rook sometimes joins in. Otherwise, Rook is completely incompetent and I continue to wonder how he could become a crow and carry out the event in his backstory. Let alone what competence he has as a mage. In Origins Warden Mage could explain Demons to Non-Mage folks! Mages were always the most exciting class in Dragon Age because they were socially and culturally special. This is completely missing without anything changing in the world setting, even the one Bioware chose.

My Rango Thorne is about to start the final and that's where it will stay for a while. I have no motivation to go through the finale again. So far I've only saved Treviso, my shadow dragon will also save Treviso, because I want to know how that goes down. Especially as the crows seem more capable to me than the shadow dragons, even if I'm probably still playing with the old image and reputation of the crows from the predecessors.

Rango as a Warden was pretty well involved in all quests that had to do with the Wardens up to that point, he was able to act more independently without Davrin in the group. I bought his background more. But it wasn't much more expensive either. In comparison, Rango's background had more significance and possibilities than my Marcantonio, who, as I said, I somehow prefer.
I wanted to mention that Veilguard's gameplay completely shits on the background bonuses that every faction should have, but especially the Grey Wardens. The Thornes should have been entitled to 2 or 3 ability points at the beginning. Shadow Dragons, Crows, and probably also a Mourning Guard (not yet played, but his craft also requires competence somewhere) would have needed 1 point at the beginning to somehow explain the background and effect on his ability in combat. But Grey Wardens a few more points, because Veilguard keeps talking about the Wardens still getting their power from Blight and it being their curse at the same time. Not much has changed about them since Inquisition. Rook had also fought his battles as a Warden before he met Varric.

Let's see what my Volkan Mercar has to say. A Tevinter mage (Qunari or human) growing up in a non-magic military family. The game development management must have done something wrong to leave this narrative potential untapped. There is no other explanation. A Tevinter mage, in a military family... And they don't do anything with it...

Crows, Wardens and Shadow Dragons would still be interesting for a Qunari run. Then my curiosity, which doesn't want to be put off by the confusion of Veilguard, will probably be satisfied. After that, however, I'll want to go back to a new Amell to feel completely at ease again.^^

I did read (not just here) that Warden is most immersive. When I do another playthrough eventually I'll play a Warden!

I did like that my Shadow Dragon already knew Tarquin when they first see Tarquin and Viper in Minrathous, and knows about (and basically looks up to) Dorian and Mae.