What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Sounds like she's singing for the warden's death, isn't she?

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Varric complained after a fruitless search for quillback intestines.

I don't think I'm ever going to make a Inq mage; I really dislike the light armor for the Inq though funny enough, there's a BM version but the light pauldrons only show up how horribly thin an elf is (despite the arm mod). The warrior pauldrons padded out those arms, make them much thicker. I'm just going to take over Solas now and then because he has really good aoe spells and he's not really using them to better effect.

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Writing wanderings...

Eyes. There were always eyes. Goggling, reverent, pleading, questioning, derisive, hostile. The latter mostly from a single pair that focused on her like a bloodthirsty archer. Chancellor Roderick.

Elrae didn't have to fake the slump of exhaustion in her shoulders as she rode through the gates of Haven. The usual crowd of pilgrims lined the dirt road. Brave hands reached out to touch her greaves, the owners not seeming to mind the encrusted mud and dried blood on them. Most just bow their heads. She was too tired to do more than to touch the few hands that reached up to her. Several weeks before, she would have stood up on the stirrups and told them she was not the Herald of Andraste. No matter what she said, they didn't seem to hear so she had given up. If they thought they would be blessed, she obliged them. If only to assure them their pilgrimage had not been in vain, that they had seen what they had come to see.

The soldiers at the inner gates closed ranks after the party passed them, preventing the pilgrims from going further in. A blessed relief. They stopped at the stables and dismounted. Her knees nearly buckled when she slid off.

"I'll take him," Cassandra said, taking hold of the reins of Elrae's gelding. "Get some food and rest, we'll see you tomorrow."

"Thanks," Elrae muttered as she stiffened her legs with effort. The walk to the house allocated to her seemed to take forever. Laren was already waiting for her when she opened the door. Dropping into a chair with a groan, she eyed the bed longingly. For once she didn't demur when the woman knelt to take off her boots and wiped her feet. With brisk efficiency, the armor was unbuckled and hung on the armor stand. The sword placed on wall hooks. Then a bowl of stew was thrust under her nose.

"I don't want it," Elrae said. She had no appetite and the bed loomed large in her eyes.

"You have to eat. Look, it's mostly vegetables and a bit of meat, just the way you like it. It's not much, " Laren insisted when Elrae shook her head and made to leave the chair. "I'll feed you if you don't...or I'll just kneel outside the house until you do."

"You wouldn't!" Elrae said in horror.

"I would," Laren said firmly. "Even half a bowl is good for you," she said persuasively.

Heaving a heavy sigh, Elrae took the bowl from her. "I'll not forget this," she threatened tiredly.

A faint smile twitched Laren's lips. "Eat," she ordered. After watching for a while to make certain Elrae was eating, she rolled up the dirty socks and put them by the door with the boots. She gave the armor a quick examination, assessing where repairs were needed. Then a wetting of a towel in a basin which she exchanged for the empty bowl from Elrae who silently swiped at her face before staggering from the chair and dropping awkwardly on to the bed, out like a candle flame blown by the wind.

Humming under her breath, Laren straightened the elf before covering her with a blanket. Tossing the towel back into the basin, she turned to the armor and made another assessment before bringing out the repair kit and cleaning cloths. It was her duty to look after the Herald's well being and she would make sure the armor never failed her.

deadlydwarf, dang I got stuff mixed up about the Qunari. I'm getting forgetful. It also doesn't help that the devs twiddled with the Qunari. The horn ones are called the Qunari, people of the Qun. Non horn races who follow the Qun are called Viddathari. I got this dialogue from IB just now and went; ok, I must have heard that dozens of time and mixed it up with something else.

Anyways, qunari, still despised. Give me a TV like IB any time.

Explore Skyhold and you'll find both the prison and the wine cellar where all the bottles of Thedas are kept!  And if you imprison people, that's where they go.  Once I sent Alexius to prison and when I went to see him in the prison, he just stood there silent.  It was kind of sad and I stopped putting people in prison.

Then I heard in a post somewhere that if you had the Tevinters in prison, they'd get into arguments over who screwed up the most or something like that.  I just put all three in prison - Alexius, Erimond, and Servis.  But when I went down to the prison, no prisoner banter.   Alexius and Erimond were recognizable in their cells.  The third prisoner looked nothing like Servis.  He seemed to be just some generic man.  I went back and re-did the judgements.  That said, I just looked it up online and saw the following:

dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Skyhold_prisoner_dialogue

Apparently, certain combos will produce banter.  Erimond doesn't appear to be one of them, though, so perhaps that ruined the chemistry?

Actually, no. 95% of my previous PTs are human female warriors because I have very little interest in playing a mage. I read about certain mats removing class restrictions but they were more of a glance than a read absorbing what the posters were saying. I am using the athletic bod and arms, not the thick arms mod because, as I said, the warrior / rogue BM armor made the arms thicker. On account of the gambeson, no doubt. In the scout armor at Skyhold, they don't look very skinny either. But when I flipped through the mage version while making armor for companions, the arms look like weeds.

Snowfluer and silverite are T3 mats which means an elven mage Inq will be stuck in silly looking armor until she hits 16. *sigh* Honestly, I wish they made better armor designs for mages. If it has to be robes / light armor, make it a nice sharp looking flaring robe or something. I wouldn't mind examples like these :

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Whoever designed the mage robes for DAI need to do better. *wake up* !!!

Regards prisoners. You saw Alexius? I never see anybody in the cells at Skyhold. I remember checking, back then, when it was available. I still make a run through it in this PT and I saw nobody.

So as what will come as a surprise to no one I decided to let Abelas survive this run through and did the rituals. I actually took a few screenshots this time around so:


Blue outfits!

I decided to let Morrigan drink from the well this time since 2/3 companions wished for her to do it, including Cassandra, who still got an approval drop. WTF Cass.


Later on on the battlements Cass asked Varrys what will become of them if she becomes Divine. Varrys said they will always have each other, even though I'm pretty sure their romance cannot really continue. I couldn't bring myself to have him tell her to refuse, such a selfish thing for him to say and Varrys is just not like that.

They shared a moment

As Varrys ran through the main hall on route to the garden he spied Bianca. I decided to do this quest with Varric if only to get the Wicked Grace scene afterwards. Seven playthroughs and I still really dislike her. After the WG scene Varrys chased Morrigan in to the fade and came face to face with one of my most favourite characters in this series:


She's so BADASS

Last but not least, Varrys sat down to judge everyone in one go. As Varrys is Andrastian I had him forgive Ser Ruth, which I had not done before but everybody else's judgments I'd seen before. I OF COURSE recruited Servis as always.

Hi Bioware we need a LI like this character in DA4, k? 

So...this just leaves the end game and Tresspasser to go for this playthrough. I will skip the Frostback Basin - but not sure about Descent. Does anyone know if there are extra surprise scenes or dialog if your Inky is a dwarf?

Mine isn't the GOTY version because I pre-ordered DAI. I got the DA armor all the same; free DLC, I think. I can go with the DA light armor (it's a T2, I checked just now), it looks better than all the others on an elf. I have forgotten about it.

Paradoxically, there will be complaints if the warden / orlesian / avvar / qunari gear aren't available. Despite awareness that these are specifically designed for certain races / establishment. I often end up using the Orlesian helm on Cass because there're very few likable options for her; I consider the Inq helm restricted to the Inq. The moment I got the wreath at EdL, she's the only one to wear it.




Steampunk! I don't think the char is a boy because she looks like Sutherland's squire.

AH! Thank-you for answering! I have played The Descent three or four times before but this is my first time with a dwarf Inquisitor so I won't skip it this time. 

Oh, look, you guys remember better than I do where there was singing :)

I've finished the Act I with my mage character, Blaze, but lost the interest in playing the game further. I resolve the quests in an opposite way than in the first play through, use all the different responses, but it feels all the same, and I am too bored. Also, the amount of flirts is so low, and there is only one way Hawke's flirt, and after the first play-through I just don't feel that's the way I'd like her to court Fenris... anyway. I think I am done for now with the DA series. Just ordered Andromeda finally. Gonna think if I want to take a break altogether, play a bit of ME3MP or chill out in MET or Jade Empire. DA is just not doing it for me...

Have fun playing!

deadlydwarf I'm pretty sure the dwarf in green is Luka (wearing the Crack Alchemist Rigging) from the multiplayer part of dragon age.  Like 99%
It's definitely not Sutherland's Rat, since she hasn't got them cute buck teeth. 

I finally finished my mage playthrough!

Finally!

My God was I taking my sweet ass time with my mage.

Never played the DAI MP so I didn't know this char existed. There're always three of the MP char standing around near the grating on the ramparts.