What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Haha I really cant remember what I did its my first playthrough of DA2 so it isnt like ive experimented
She probably was but I cant remember any dialogue from her... maybe though my memory is awful haha... cant remember who I had in my party at the time to be honest although she probably was there

With Elthina it was pretty random I was checking if there were any quests in the chantry and I talked to her and it appeared as an option on the left rather than asking for her blessing or whatever not sure if it changed anything or not though

I really haven't had any special issues related to Windows 10.  However, the more mods you add, the more risks you take.  I assume that's what caused my recent problems.

Cantina, do you have a separate thread on the Origins section?  Or this the thread you started under Inquisitions?

Most of the time, I get all but one of them on Nightmare.  The problem is always having to choose between Adan or the apprentice mage.  Save one and there's not enough time to save the other.  I've tried sending a different companion to each, but it didn't work.  Of course, if you play in real-time as opposed to tactical mode, more will perish!

Gearing up for my next DA I playthrough by wathching vids galore and all the good trailers from DA Is marketing campaign.

In the first house we came to in the alienage, was the Elf we had freed from Howe's dungeon.
He couldn't tell us much, other than Tevinter mages were there, apparently trying to cure the plague.
He asked if we could talk to his cousin Shianni before she got herself killed, and said we would know her when we saw her.

With the proof needed to sway the Landsmeet, it was now time to make Alister a King.

Doesn't DAI have a black emporium now?
It didn't when I played it and you had to start again from scratch, but I thought they added it later.


Anyway:
When we arrived at the Landsmeet, proceedings had already begun and Eamon was giving a rousing speech.

I started Awakening with my Neria Surana, the only GW to kill an AD and live to tell about it! (And without anyone doing DR with Morrigan no less!) She clears the Keep with the help of GW recruit Mahari and later, Anders, an escaped apostate, and Oghren. She has all three go through the Joining. Needless to say, the one with the best character, Mahari, is the one who dies. She then goes to the dungeon where Nathaniel Howe, the son of the villain Rendon Howe, is being held. He apparently broke into the Vigil's keep, formerly owned by his family, to reclaim some personal belongings. Neria does not believe he should suffer for the sins of his father and lets him go, much to his surprise. He later comes back and asks to join the Wardens voluntarily. After a trip to Amaranthine, Neria finds there is trouble in the Wending Wood threatening supplies to the Keep. She finds the culprit is a Dalish mage, Velanna, who attacks the trade caravans because she believes they kidnapped her sister and killed her group of followers. Neria investigates and finds that the Darkspawn cunningly attacked the Dalish camp and left behind human weapons to make Velanna think that humans were to blame. After beating back an attack by Velanna, Neria opts to talk to Velanna rather than kill her. Neria is impressed that Velanna actually listens and acknowledges that she may have been tricked. They then decide to join forces and pursue the Darkspawn via a Silverite Mine nearby.

Now the glitches occur....

Neria and her team go into the mine and are promptly gased into unconsciousness. When they wake, Neria's comrades no longer have their weapons and gear but are, instead, stuck in pauper clothing. And what of Neria Surana? The HOF is buck naked! (The red flags should've come up at this point...) After getting a key from Velanna's sister, who's acting strangely, they break out of their holding cells and start making their way through the tunnels to find their nemesis. They find strange individuals along the way who are utilizing the gear of Neria's comrades and kill them off one by one. But the individual wearing Neria's gear is never found; so Neria fights the two dragons with lame gear picked up along the way. I think I will have to redo the Silverite mine...

You should install this fix first.
www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/1762/?

That's cute!  They should've thrown in Varric complaining that he had been left out!

The soonest one can do black emporium is post haven, isn't it?

My key to makeup in CC creators is to get it looking perfect-- then click it down 2-4 notches on all makeup parts. I just assume that in brighter light, it'll be way too strong. I'd rather look a bit like my character's makeup was faded from a couple days of unconsiousness then look like they've missed a late night curtain call for their performance on stage.

Many neat ideas and not just on how to save Haven's citizens!  (It's a pity the survivors don't do much beyond thank you once they get to Skyhold.  I kind of liked Minaeve.  I do like Segrit's comment:  "You get a new title and I get the boot!  I see how it is!")

For myself, the problem with Inquisition is how quickly you level up after Skyhold.  By the time you meet Cory for the final showdown, he's barely a boss.  The trials do help though.  I'll have to try "Trial of the Fool" just to see what it's like to be totally overwhelmed!