What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Some pics from my DA2 finale. I did Legacy right before The Last Straw.
Hawke was right on the money with this prediction

Malvernis - this fight was a lot easier (still not easy though) with an all-ranged party. Also, Anders' healing spells.

Anders and Nathan in sync

This was only the second time I brought Anders in Legacy, both romances

The Key

Arrow to the face is usually fatal, right? Right? 

Reflecting


BOOM

So long, and thanks for all the fish....er, demons?

That scene and the one with Aveline (Captain's Condolences) always make me get sniffly.

Hey, I thought I saw a post here by Curious Crow earlier.....where did it go?

Got my new nightmare run underway, DD female Trevelyan. Got harassed by Cassandra for a bit, then time for adventuring!

Behind spoiler tag because large image...





Also, is it kind of grim that the elf is the only one without a body bag...?



Still, closed the Breach and am checking out the folks of Haven.  They seem nice.  Adan is a jerk.

What's odd about that dead body, to me, is that multiple people have had to have walked by it to wrap and line up the other ones. So, it seems intentionally missed in a racist way, you know?

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Today, I didn't conscript Vellana. Because my Surana wouldn't be all like, "hey crazy vengeful elf lady who just tried to kill me... I totally want to help you find your sister."

And it was either offer to help find her sister or wish her luck.ah well. Not my fave character anyway.

Then she averted a peasant revolt. My Surana is excellent at all this politics and managing people after doing for for 3 months as she ruled over her Teryn of Gwueryn. I head cannon that Zevran stopped by and happened to see it, and we had a nice time as he complimented me on my skills.

I still don't know about the big decisions of this DLC. Architect and the Amaranthine vs Keep. I've never done the Keep Battle. I've heard it's fun.

Before, I was playing hero types so of course I was after trying to save a lost cause like Amaranthine. But I think I failed Vigil KEep the first time, and managed to save both the city and the keep the second PT but I had to look online for a lot of stuff. This being my 3rd play through, I'm trying to check the internet less and just play . So, I'm not sure if I'll be able to save both this game.  I remember it being something about all the upgrades on ores and the wall repair. I'm also playing a morally grey kind of achingly regretful Surana. Alistair was her jiminy cricket in Origins but now their relationship seems to be irreparable. It hurts. So, turning her back on Amaranthine is logistically, the right thing to do. And the heroic little brother that used to push her to be a better person is no longer around, so I see/feel that her giving up on the city is also letting go of the relationship with Alistair she'll never have again.

On the other hand, Surana has been a Teryn within Fereldan for 6 months to a year, and is more of a Fereldan now then she EVER was in the Circle. Amaranthine is full of citizens, and the nobles, despite their annoying selves, have stated that it is the Jewel of this portion of lands. It could be a huge setback for the area to lose the town, and Denerim is already suffering. It could be bad for all of Fereldan for it's major port city to fall. So, she could seek to save it on those grounds, although there are less feels , there is still growth of the character. And unplanned growth at that; she'd sought that boon because she valued her freedom so heavily, and now she's feeling responsibilities for a country and it's people she really didn't give two figs about at the start of Origins.

This is my 3rd time to play but first time to play after reading the Calling. What I still don't get is why Velanna's sister is there, although I can see why the Architect wanted her. She can commune with animals and call them forth; the battle is with Dragon Thralls, did you notice? So, the Architect recruited her for that reason. Another thing I don't get is why they wanted to kill the Warden... ? Also, the first two times I played, I thought what the Architect was doing was collecting Warden blood so he could make more intelligent Darkspawn. But he was probably using his crazy Blight MAgic to hurry the taint along in our blood while we were unconscious and unable to refuse. Another thing I don't get is all the dead bodies. What the heck, ya know? And also those Elemental creatures that wear our clothes, where does that fit in his plans?

I thought it was confirmed that the Architect is another Blighted Magister who forgot himself? Cory even talks about how "the others don't remember."

It requires charging with the soldiers.  It's just before reaching the battle where Cullen is on the left hand side up a small stairway.  Third time I'd taken this route and the first time I've ever seen it.

Made some good progress. My warden helped take back the castle, only to determine that he must now go get the assistance of the mages to help defeat a demon. After some great times in the fade...my warden successfully saved the Mages and destroyed the demon. Now it's off to find an ancient urn..

Also a certain witch of the wilds gave him his first taste of magic...if ya know what I mean(best oghren voice impression)

The Architect truly deserve that title,what's more beautiful than an Archdemon and a broodmother?

Emma ran around Kirkwall mostly killing bad guys. Sent Feynriel to Tevinter, sent Javaris somewhere far away, and sent Ser Alrik to his judgement.

I want to do Fenris' QB after A Bitter Pill so I've been avoiding his place. I was going to give him the book but QB triggered instead so I had to reload. Stupid quest auto-sequencing.