What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

A quick rundown on what my even mage, Iona (the one I tried to make "pixie-like"), has been up to. After defeating the warring mages and templars and routing some "bandits" who were secretly protecting a red lyrium smuggling operation, she went to Redcliffe to recruit the mages. As a mage herself, the mages seemed like logical allies in closing the breach. It was unclear to Iona what, exactly, Templars could do in this situation. To get the mages, however, she had to defeat a plot against her by Tevinter extremists known as the Venatori. In defeating the Venatori at Redcliffe, she found out that the villain behind the conclave explosion was a mysterious figure known as the "Elder One" by Venatori. She also gained insights into the dreadful future that would come if he succeeded.

Iona also went to the Storm Coast where she defeated the leader of a group known as the Blades of Hessarian which was guilty of murdering some Inquistion Scouts. She also went to the Fallow Mire and rescued Inquisition soldiers that had been captured by hostile Avvar. With the help of Fiona's mages, Iona sealed the Breach. Celebrations following this grand accomplishment were short-lived, however, when the Elder One - Corypheus - revealed himself, along with a hostile army of Templars infected by Red Lyrium. After a desperate, but futile defense, Iona facilitated a successful retreat of Inquisition forces while killing many Red Templars in the process by intentionally bringing a massive avalanche down on Haven.

After successfully rejoining Inquisition forces, Iona, at the urging of Solas, leads them all to an ancient abandoned fortress - Skyhold.

Gamer Notes: I'm following the general sequence for DAI that Nightscrawl laid out. After a previous discussion about romance options earlier in this thread, I opted to have Iona romance Cullen since my previous Elven mages had done the Solasmance. I felt I kind of owed Cullen after the way my elven mage Warden had tormented him with flirting in the Circle Origin. (It's a pity he has no memory of this in DAI!)

Since arriving at Skyhold, Iona and companions have gone to the Exalted Plains where the opposing armies of the Orlesian Civil War were themselves being besieged by demons. Iona and companions defeat the Demons and the rebel Freemen of the Dales who drew the demons through a weak veil. They also uncover possible links between the Freeman and the Red Templars.

Varric facilitates a meeting between Iona and Hawke, the Champion of Kirkwall. Hawke reveals some information about the Grey Wardens, who have been mysteriously missing since just before the conclave. Hawke has a friend in the Wardens named Stroud who has more information about what's going on. They agree to meet in the village of Crestwood.

Iona then goes to Crestwood and find numerous obstacles she must contend with before meeting with Stroud. The area is under seige from undead, people who had been killed when half of the area was flooded during the Blight. Now with a massive rift within the lake itself, demons are possessing dead bodies and tormenting the inhabitants of Crestwood. After clearing the local keep of bandits, they are finally able to reach the dam controls and unflood the area. Iona then closes the lake breach and is finally able to reach Hawke and Stroud. Stroud reveals that Corypheus has been creating a false Calling among the Wardens and that the Warden Commander, Clarel, has been manipulated into accepting a bizarre scheme to kill the Old Gods through blood magic. Stroud informs them that the Wardens are massing in the Western Approach. Iona agrees to meet them in the Western Approach.

So far, the Cullen romance seems to be well done and kind of reminds me of the Solasmance. It should be interesting to see how this plays out in Trespasser.

So far, in DA, there have been many countries, cities mentioned that really haven't been visited yet, so you never know what might emerge that corresponds to Asia.  (If nothing else, it would give us access to some interesting armors!)

I and my party have entered the Fallow Mire. Earlier we were gathering Blue Vitriol and Summer Stone whilst lightening intermitently slammed down enormous strikes upon the world.

There are undead here. This is bleak land.

We have been clearing out the marshes encountering stragglers and then battling more fierce contingents by the tall stones lit by veilfire.

This place is nothing like the Hinterlands and far less so Val Royeaux.

I have Cassandra, Solas and Sera alongside. We are all level 7. Cassandra now wears the best piece of heavy armour compatible with her level. My mage has just invested points in Spirit granting defensive capabilities. We are growing more dextrous and able. So far we have handled every conflict without loss. The group of soldiers held hostage that we have come to rescue is still somewhere out ahead of us. We haven't found them yet.

An unstable fool named Widris stalks this place. I hope we encounter him.

1 of 2 Rifts have been neutralized.

We press on.

Finished Trespasser and remembered why I love Dragon Age, BioWare, and RPGs in general. The final ride was sooooooooo emotional. Damn you Solas, you glorious fictional character! And damn you, soundtrack composer, for making such a hauntingly beautiful Solas theme! That was a masterpiece of an ending.

Had a bit of a marathon. Had a bit of a glitch with Solas too because while the party was at EG, the effect of horn of valor suddenly refused to work on him. So he ended up being the most vulnerable. This glitch carried on well into Adamant and most of the Fade. At the last fight, the glitch was probably scared off by the big bad demon because Solas received the HoV benefit again.

I also noticed a funny effect of Solas's Pull of the Abyss. The mobs were hilariously doing a sort of cartoony treadmill as they were dragged into the center of the spell. It's like whac-a-mole when Cass and Inq swiped them all with payback strike and they went down like ninepins, flailing helplessly.

Anything other than European, really. Mezoamericas, NEA, SEA, Arabia, Africa, Mediterranean, Egypt, totally fantastical, I am game for anything different. They did a fantastic job with Jade Empire, so I keep hoping they'd move on eventually to the other shores.

i wasn't going to but i played The Descent .. the only good thing about that DLC is Darkspawn fire battle ... and the credits of course.

well now, i only have Arbor Wild, Corypheus and Trespasser till MEA . I better go kill some Dragons and kill time with small quests.
that or i reset all my ME3MP char to level 1 .. because that's what it'll feel like in a month.

I did not wached now that; my first time, that Morrigan drank from the well. But would be interesting, and perhaps a bug? 

UPDATE!
Ah, I see, this is the Eluvian's effect, I think.

I don't think I'll ever be able to play Qunari in DA:I. I detest their new design after perfection that was DA2. They look like rough humans with horns.

? A bit confused.
My jest was that in my game, it was Varric who started glowing (and got stuck in the wall), not the Inquisitor. So the Inquisitor doesn't glow every time just most of the time.
I've also had Dorian go into blue glow mode and I was sure Morrigan was the one who got the glow effect in one game (but I'm probably remembering that one wrong).

So the glitch is not that someone glows blue (pretty sure that is supposed to happen), but that the game sometimes picks the wrong person.
I always figured the drinker should glow blue, since they had the knowledge from the well, thus had the key to the Eluvian. But it might be your explanation instead, I don't think there is any definitive answer yet.

The main reason I posted was just that I had a picture of someone else glowing blue and in a funny position.

+1000, I love the way you told the story through pictures!