What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Yeah, I figured as much.  I just have to figure who my little elf would prefer...  Have done two Solasmances in a row.  Perhaps should try one of the other romances.  (Have already done Josephine and Sera on a number of occasions.  Boy does Sera need work and maintenance!)

So Sera is the only one who angrily takes note about rivals?  I guess having "friends" proves useful!  No jealousy among the guys?  (Not realistic at all! lol)

The artist who did your comic strip - Daphne Hutcheson - is really pretty talented!  I looked up her portfolio and saw some DA-theme tarot cards as well:

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The judgement scene is the scene where the break up happens. if you stay together after judgement, the finished horsie scene is modified slightly and then there are two romance scenes in Trespasser- the catch up one and a very brief other one. Blackwall, Cullen, and Sera are the only ones who get "extra" scenes in Trespasser.

Oh... but if you do stay with him, AND keep him a Warden, I've heard something bad happens? But have no personal confirmation. What I read somewhere is that if he's romanced and told to join the Wardens, he dies. I find this odd, because unromanced and in the Wardens he lives.

I thought if a Dwarf romanced Sera it was just as good. I actually have two characters lined up for her. One an atheist Carta Queen Dwarf and the other a Dalish appreciating Qunari mage.

Jose sounds boring but I've got one planned for her as well. 

But I've had him as a Warden three times in Trespasser and he's alive. Is this an epilogue slide?

It's not in the epilogue slides. Someone asked Sheryl Chee why he only dies if romanced (which didn't seem to make a whole lot of sense) and she clarified that non-romanced Warden Rainier dies, too, but the Wardens don't bother to tell the Inquisitor about it.

With the close in camera for dialogues, the nice amber lighting of the tavern at Skyhold, the ambience is really cosy / alive when there is music playing in the background. Unfortunately, the music doesn't play all the time. The minstrel is kicked into singing when certain events happen.

IB is in the party during the trip into the Fade. Boy does he talk alot with Solas. Too bad he doesn't say what frightful fear monsters he saw. I can't keep their chess game in my head (I feel I should have drawn out a chessboard and marked down their moves each time they talk) and it's still not finished. Solas has to think of his next move.

Stolen Throne is great for setting things up in Origins; you understand Ferelden's history, why people think of Loghain as a hero, and why he's totally opposed to the idea of an alliance with Orlais to fight the Blight.  The second Gaider book is The Calling.  It also takes place before the Blight though I would strongly recommend against reading it before a first PT of Origins.  It has some spoilers that would ruin some of the dramatic surprises that are part of a first PT of Origins.  The Calling is especially good before playing the Awakening DLC.  It explains certain characters and concepts you will run into.  Also more insights into Loghain.  There were some things I didn't like in the last third of the book, but still worth a read.

The third book, Asunder, is Gaider's best book.  Read after DA2 but before Inquisition.  It explains the world you encounter at the beginning of Inquisition.  Paul Weekes, the current lead writer, wrote the next book:  The Masked Empire.  It explains Orlais and Orlesian politics and is good for explaining the situation you run into in the second part of Inquisition.  It also introduces some characters you will run into as well.

There are also Dragon Age comics but I'm not sure where those fit in with respect to the chronology of the games.  There's also the anime movie, Dawn of the Seeker, which introduces the character Cassandra Pentaghast.  Good to watch before DA2 and especially before Inquisition.

They really should have a sticky thread for all the Dragon Age books, comics, etc.

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My second time of intended hit it and quit it with Backwall- ended up staying with him BECAUSE of the "Stay Thom and redeem yourself" line. It was really great! Then I followed up with something sassy and grr. To be honest, the whole Val Royeuox and judgement thing was great RP drama, so I played through the scenes up to 6 times each to make sure I picked the perfect lines for my character. The epilogue slides were very good and heartwarming, what my gal was accomplishing WITH Thom, not a Warden. It was my favorite play through so far and Mara is my posting avatar. She even rode the Bull then noped out of that before soft locking on the ramparts with Blackwall. Cullen is my #1, but so far, Blackwall is my #2.


And the comics go after DA2.... Magekiller may as well be read at the last third of the Inquisition game or even after Inquisition. Contains no major Spoilers but does have characters you may not otherwise know. One of them is a certain Tevinter mage that could? Be a spoiler.

WHAT THE SHIT, THERE IS A TABLETOP VERSION? Man being a student sucks sometimes, wish I could've afford all these things

Cullen is very easy too, but phoray had explained that already. I've romanced Blackwall with Lyana (my rogue, whom I finished the game with), I'm romancing Iron Bull with Riya and will probably romance Cullen with another character. I don't know what to do with my dwarf Lia, she is actually the only one that would be perfect for Solas, but alas - wrong race. Maybe she will go for Jospehine. I'm not so keen for Sera, I kind of like her as a character, but am not interested in the romance. Same with Solas. I probably will at one point make a guy for the Dorian romance

I tried with Solas, I really did. I made Riya solely for the Solas romance, but in the Fade it is always 'Hell, no'. So she ended up with Iron Bull, whose romance is surprisingly well written and deep (and I don't even like Qunari that much).
My elfs are very elfy usually in that sense, that they like their lore and culture, but they are usually not single minded and open for new things. So yeah, they would probably all fit the profile, but I don't like all the drama in the end.
Solas and Sera are bit too much for my taste, he with the drama and huge surprise at the end and she being so iffy about everything. I wont say, that I will never do one of those romances... I have two elven archers just before IHW, I could see one of them (the redhead, I posted a few pages before, Lírel) falling for Mr. Bad Surprise. But at the moment, I like my Bull romance and I'm looking forward to Cullen (which surprises me too, because I hated Cullen in DAO and DA2 with a passion, but he changed a lot for the better in DAI)

One of my favorite things about this game: I looooove listening to the mages talk shop. MAGICAL THEORY. MAGICAL ALGORITHMS. AHHHH. Hearing Solas chastise Vivienne for frontloading her barriers, hearing Dorian scandalize Solas with talk of binding spirits, hearing Viv and Dorian debate the merits of Northern and Southern Circles... hnnnng. It's so good.