What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Terrorized the streets of Kirkwall with this swell burglar eating bird. Then summoned an ancient bird goddess and managed to miss the best screenshot because I did not expect that to work. Turned Carver into a Qunari and had him run daintily across the Kirkwall market place. Then tried to turn him into an Ogre, but it failed and I was left with his distorted floating head. It looked painful. Switched out Merrill for Meredith, got Cassandra to wear Aveline's tunic and turned Isabela into Sebastian. So that was fun. 
Also, for educational purposes, the files for the birds that appear in DA2 (and probably DAI) call them buzzards. Which makes me sad because I liked to imagine Kirkwall having a severe crow infestation. But on the other hand. Buzzard and Hawk(e) , partners in crime and suppliers of feathers, gold teeth and other shiny things.  

So tl;dr learned to break the game even more and did so with great glee.

Been reading the Dragon Age novels (after I have finished —at last— the Forgotten Realms sundering novels). Started with the Stolen Throne (that its the first chronologically). Not even the novels can sell Loghain as a hero of the people of Ferelden, though.

I guess I'm going to left Loghain again in the Fade...

Played Lyana, my elven archer, a while. She helped Josephine to find sponsors for the Du Paraquettes and is now on in Crestwood, saving the day and finding the warden. So far she persuaded the elven girl not to join the wardens, captured Caer Bronach, convinced Snowball to move out (or start paying rent and stop eating the other inhabitants) and opened the dam.

Updating, correcting, formatting articles in the wiki regarding the Blight, the darkspawn and the Grey Wardens (just because a friend gave me the RPG Core book)

Well Kirkwall sure doesn't lack for works. Some magistrate asked me to bring back a fugitive, who turns out was his son...an elf serial killer. I killed him, he did ask for that, well the son, not the magistrate. I had to clean up a mine with a dubious name from dragons too. I also encountered a ex-slave with weird tattoos, an ex-pirate queen and an ex-warden mage who I had to ask a map of the deep road from (I had to help him out with something first). I also hang out with an ex-dalish First and Varric doesn't seems to have a job. I think I see a theme here: only Aveline can find and keep her job.

Bertrand must be a lazy ass if he can't raise the money for his expedition. I'm basically rich already. Seems like every street corner has some raiders or bandits in hiding that need killing, some errands to run. Also, slavers, a few darkspawns and lots of spiders.

Why does it always have to be spiders?

A lot of people ask this question. I saw a very cute video this days, where two gamers review spiders in games (well one is reviewing them, the other shows them to her) and there are a lot of comments from arachnophobes, which shows, that spiders are a mixed blessing in those games.

here is the video - it's fun to watch (if you are not an arachnophob, they do show the spiders, they are talking about, but it is funny, so maybe not so bad)




Luckily for pc players, there are 'no spider' mods around

For the record, I'm not arachnophobe...anymore. I learned to deal with it by living in a basement for 10+ years now.

Started playing wicked eyes and wicked hearts, just after meeting celene i paused the game and heard the announcer say "and third talon of the antivan crows" I was like "Wait wut?!?!" I know the last one was the Prince of Antiva that Claudio guy from the comics, guess the new one decided to show up in Orlais. Never heard that before

Talking about Awakening, in the tabletop RPG book they fleshed out the Mother's backstory... and is interesting. Now I understand why she was mad at the Architect awakening her. Her backstory is sad.

There are rules, yes. Lots of rules. But there is also a lot of lore info And some stuff is not covered in other sources (such as the Mother's backstory).

BTW, I've updated her wiki article, if someone is curious about her:
dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/The_Mother

Realized that playing a mage Hawke gets you stuck with a whiny brother.

There's a mod to remove Carver? Link please?

He gets particularly on my Hawke's nerves due to a clash of personality (I went with sarcastic Hawke, something that furthers Carver's rivalry, apparently, as opposed to aggressive Hawke). The line that particularly struck a nerve was at the beginning, when he said "The Templars are after you!" like it's none of his business, despite Hawke being his sister. His whole "woe is me" attitude certainly didn't help.