What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

It's just the tilting angle of the head that created the resemblance. She doesn't look anything like Cassandra.   Her face is longer and her jaw is not so square. 

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Picked up a cute dwarf for the Inquisition before going off of beat down a dragon.

Well, since I skipped Hakkon, Herah's officially done now. Cleaned up against Corypheus, went on to Trespasser, good times were had by all. Well, except by Viddasala and her kith, but who's counting them? Had to finally turn Supply Caches back on for that final sequence, because man oh man were we getting wrecked. And, I learned, Saarath sucks everybody's focus back to zero when his boss fight starts, so I had Cass, Dorian, and Sera all at max for a glorious Thousand Cuts/Haste alpha strike with Rally to run back up, except...nope! Curses.

Overall thoughts, Qunari playthrough didn't feel "right". Outside of a few bits that felt along the lines of "man, she stands out", I don't feel like the game really made me feel Herah's Qunari-ness. Some of that may be the sorta droll portrayal of the Inquisitor regardless, there were too many times where she just felt like a "big human". I'mma still try a dwarf run soon, I think, though (not sure if I'll go straight to that or not, though, especially since I'm not quite sure yet the type I wanna do).

Sera's romance arc...I'm in the middle on. I still prefer Josie's by a country mile, but it's better than the rather bare bones one that Solas got. It does have a lot of really sweet moments, but there's something about the way it plays out that feels a little...stilted. I can't quite put my finger on what, exactly, makes it feel that way, but it is what it is, I guess. Some of it, ironically, might stem from her actually being not so good at putting things into words, too? I will say that the descriptions in her journal, especially in Trespasser, are really endearing regardless, and the romance-related ones even moreso. Occasional sweet spots, but weird as a whole, I guess that's Sera in a nutshell. Like a cookie with surprise raisins.

It was a little weird, as well, that with Herah, some of her companion-related decisions were more along the lines of my early Inquisitors: made Cass Divine, Blackwall atoned but not made a Warden, Cole made more human...and all of them feel sort of wrong to me now (I prefer Vivi Divine, Blackwall as a Warden, Cole more spirit). Blackwall's fate I'll probably do non-Warden if/when I ever run a character that does his romance, but becoming a Warden fits his story better, I think. Of course, part of that's probably the fact that I use a Trespasser-incompatible mod to make him look less sickly in the vanilla game, so he just looks...Tainted, by the time Trespasser comes along. And Cass, Cass just comes off as so...unhappy as Divine, and Vivi is just so much better suited to the politicking that I don't know. Cole on the other hand, was much happier as a person, but his spirit ending ties off things a little nicer, IMO, and I like Krem/Maryden more than Cole/Maryden.

On the Vivi note, too, as a player, my own liking of her shot way up in this playthrough. For a character who frequently acts so very untrustworthy, it was pretty amazing to see how friendly and amiable she was with an Inquisitor who did trust her, and how even when she did have an ulterior motive, it was more tricking the Inquisitor into doing a good thing. While she's still kinda Mary Sue-y to the point that she ranks pretty low among the series' companions for me comparatively, I find I can't quite bare her the same antipathy I did before.

Let's finish with some parting screenshots:

Good job on the Alien looking Qunari. Seems so many folks go to try to humanize them as much as possible and I'm like...nuuuuuuu

I was trying to go for a sorta halfway between Sten and Arishok, and it took a few tries to get her just right, but I'm glad to see approval of her Qunari-ness!


Yeah, abomination Connor is a mouthy little !@#$.

Well I was reciting from my poor memory of the previous evening. The actual conversation goes like this:

And now it's staring at me! What is it, Mother? I can't see it well enough.
This... this is a woman, Connor. Just as I am...
You lie! This woman is nothing at all like you! Why, just look at her! Half your age and pretty, too. I'm surprised you don't order her executed in a fit of jealousy!

Well Morrigan wasn't tempted by the fade demon. (Just as well she went, and not me.)
Now Connor is back to his old self, and Eamon is up and about.

Psychevore IIRC nothing special happens.

If interested, on page 47 of DAI guidebook, QA Aron bend, mentions bringing Bull, Sera and Cole to Adamant and fade for some phenomenal dialogue. They don't like being there.

Someone has embraced the power fantasy.

I was disappointed when I took Vivienne to the Fade. She had only 1 line that I recall during the trip, and nothing to say about it after we got back.

Read a post in the Confessions thread the wrong way (and didn't realize where I was either) so ended up doing a bunch of prologue testing in DAI. And found this in my screenshot folder.
I found it hilarious, but tastes vary. 
But had fun and enjoyed the bounties of good former CC binges. So that was good. Also made a new face as well, because I could. I quite liked her, but it may also just have been the wine. Will find out next time I play her I guess?
May or may not also have circled the Iron Bull a few times making doe eyes. No pictures of that, so no one can prove anything. 

And for a grumbling on Vivienne, does she ever state that she's smart about the demons when they are inside the Fade? I mostly remember her talking the dangers they pose outside the Fade. In the living room. At three in the morning, sipping that bottled Lyrium and the templars are sleeping upstairs. 

alright guys i'm gonna go fight the archdemon with four health potions and a dwarf, wish me luck