What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

She had a plan, even in Origins. And she was a dragon, you remember, who didn't really died, when the Warden "killed"... Everyone knew, she's not just a weird old woman without any purpose. Her idea was to save the Old God soul.

There are some really interesting comments - when a Dalish Warden stumbles upon the eluvian with Tamlen, one of you will mention that the ruins are human (iirc specifically Tevinter?) but the writing is elvish. And if you take Sten to the Brecilian Forest, he notes that the Tevinters "were here, too? No wonder." And there's that Fen'Harel statue in the Dalish camp...

I definitely think they always had plans for Flemeth. The story Morrigan tells you about her being a human woman, out for vengeance, possessed by an ancient spirit.

Well, I'm fully inclined to believe that Femeth was always intended to be the vessel for Mythal. I just dont think they ever really had an ultimate plan for her.

Witch Hunt sells a promise of her up to something big, and horrible, and a grand change.

Ultimately all she did was save Hawke, and gently take back the Old Gods soul.

Ooooh! "Elves and humans both screaming and attempting to flee from some terrible presence." That's... significant.

Thanks for these screenies. Might even be something to bring up in one of the lore threads.

I got inspired by the topic vertigomez made here to rethink my approach to "canon". And so, after waffling around on Origins for the last several days, I think I'm going to start a trilogy run, with a whole new canon decided a whole new way: at random! I weighted the odds a bit to sort of fit some of the more "likely" options (like a Qunari guard being the one to catch the Elder One in the act), and then rolled the dice, and the Maker/Stone/Dumat/Elgar'nan chose:
A female Rogue City Elf, a male Warrior Hawke, and a female Circle Mage!

What will become of a world in which I don't decide the story in advance?
(For that matter, will it collapse into nothingness fueled by my altitis? Hopefully not!)

Yeah, I totally lucked out with that one, since it was my first, and still one of my favorites (and the referenced topic even showed me that my preferred romance for it isn't quite as inconsistent as I thought).

Woohoo! As fans it's easy to overthink this stuff, so sometimes the best thing you can do is throw caution to the wind and just see what happens. You never know what kind of world state you could wind up enjoying. Keep us posted if you feel like it, I'm curious to see how this turns out.

Okay, so phase 1, it's time for Kallian Tabris!

Kallian is a proud Elf. The world wants nothing more than to keep her people down, but they live, they love, and in their own small ways, they fight. Of course, sometimes it's the fighters who get hammered back down. Her mother, Adaia was one of such fighters (personal headcanon: Adaia was, in fact, one of the individuals who took the moniker of Red Jenny), and the humans tortured and killed her for it, something Kallian will never forgive. A part of her knows that not all humans are like that. Some of them even struggle as much as the Elves do. However, all she sees are those who look down on her, call her knife-ear, and use her family and friends as they see fit, so the tolerant part finds itself quickly drowned out.

She's also the type to engage with her mouth first and her brain second, which, remarkably, gets her into less trouble than it probably should, since her mouth's pretty clever too. Of course, her sass-first policy maybe kept her from murdering the Arl in the middle of the Alienage streets, though it also maybe didn't stop her from accidentally telling off her betrothed. He didn't really deserve it, but she's got no real interest in men, and an arranged marriage only makes that more awkward. Not being one to just up and abandon her family over it, especially after her father used what little money he had to pay a dowry for the whole thing, though, she'll just have to hope he understands, for now. And also hope he doesn't mind finding daggers in things that have displeased her.

I got so fascinated with that dice idea that I had to try it. Rolled for Origins and got male dwarf noble rogue - my absolutely least favourite setup (aside from the class but I'm still playing as a rogue with my other character). Rolled for 2 - a warrior, my least favourite class in 2. Inquisition - male Qunari which is great, but mage... For a moment I thought about rerolling until I got the setup I could tolerate but then I realized that it would kind of defeat the whole purpose (I'm slow in the mornings). So basically, I dropped the idea. I'm so bad at this lol. I really feel like doing a male Qunari one day though, but I'm having a bad case of DAI fatigue right now. Just a thought of going through Hinterlands and Storm Coast and (ugh) Western Approach again makes me exhausted. And there's no real Harding romance to help me through I guess I'll just drag my boring ass back to Origins and romance Alistair with my female elf for a millionth time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Finished my Baldur`s Gate playthrough and returned to my Maeve Brosca adventures.

Had an encounter with a merchant that gave her a control rod for a golem. The catch was that the golem were in a village overrun by darkspawn. Fought the darkspawn and found the golem only to find out that the phrase to activate it didn`t work. Killed more darkspawn, helped save a girl from a possessed kitty and in the end the casteless dwarve girl managed to activate the golem and recruit her to fight the Blight.

Then it was time to recruit the Dalish. The Dalish had their own problems and the keeper asked Maeve for help in stopping the disease that was turning his people into werewolves. 

Maeve and her companions went to the Brecilian Forest and discovered that the werewolves weren`t the mindless beasts that Zathrian made them believe, she even tried to talk and find a peaceful solution with them but with no sucess.
The center of the forest, lair of the werewolves, was magical protected but Maeve managed to go through with some help from a talking Grand Oak tree. Before entering the Ruins they had a confrontation with some werewolves and Swiftrunner, who was saved by Witherfang. 

They entered the ruins and eventually found a way into the werewolve lair. The werewolves finally wanted to parley and escorted them to meet the Lady of the forest who explained the origin of the curse. They agreed to bring Zathrian to meet the Lady so they may talk. Zathrian agreed with the meeting but refused to break the curse, instead he wanted to attack the werewolves. Maeve sided with the werewolves and defended them against Zathrian`s attack. After being defeated Zathrian finally agreed to end the curse, the werewolves were human again and the Dalish were recruited.


Back in camp Maeve couldn't resist the charming assassin.

I guess the random thing can be fun, but I'm systematically trying all the choices as it is. I think Random would just make my character be bipolar on the dialogue trees... unless it's for "major decisions only" and not dialogue? Lazarillo