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Post by Buckeldemon on Oct 26, 2020 13:00:17 GMT
Same for Bull, actually. Eh, you would have to deal with Lavellan's hear being shattered first. And than having a pissed Lavellan. :yas. To be fair, the voices which could carry me away are Leliana's (German), Morrigan (English), Velanna (German), Merrill (both), Cassandra/Varania (English), Dorian (both) and perhaps Josi (English) due to her accent. I really have to put up an EN DAI install for Solas. Snorty sounds wolf. Don't forget Fenris...his English VA , Seb's English VA and Cullen's VA aren't bad either...but honestly, Solas' VA is amazing (you must've heard him during that trailer)
In fact, I don't think I've had a VA yet that I hate hearing... Ahm, yes. I missed Emery. Funny thing is... both are fitting. Emery is more sneery, his German college makes a more angry Fenris. That's as close as it can get. I'll never not prefer Varric's German VA though. The man also voices most of Ron Pearlman's roles around here. And the intro of Fallout3. Eh, accurate.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Oct 26, 2020 15:55:17 GMT
Don't forget Fenris...his English VA , Seb's English VA and Cullen's VA aren't bad either...but honestly, Solas' VA is amazing (you must've heard him during that trailer)
In fact, I don't think I've had a VA yet that I hate hearing... Ahm, yes. I missed Emery. Funny thing is... both are fitting. Emery is more sneery, his German college makes a more angry Fenris. That's as close as it can get. I'll never not prefer Varric's German VA though. The man also voices most of Ron Pearlman's roles around here. And the intro of Fallout3. Dunno, Brian Bloom imo. does an excellent job
also would like to redact some of my former statement...Meredith's VA is quite...err...I find her voice is a bit jarring, every time I play Skyrim and hear her as Elenwen or Meridia (even a similar name) I'm like "shaddup Meredith!"
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Post by azarhal on Oct 26, 2020 16:22:08 GMT
Ahm, yes. I missed Emery. Funny thing is... both are fitting. Emery is more sneery, his German college makes a more angry Fenris. That's as close as it can get. I'll never not prefer Varric's German VA though. The man also voices most of Ron Pearlman's roles around here. And the intro of Fallout3. Dunno, Brian Bloom imo. does an excellent job
also would like to redact some of my former statement...Meredith's VA is quite...err...I find her voice is a bit jarring, every time I play Skyrim and hear her as Elenwen or Meridia (even a similar name) I'm like "shaddup Meredith!" Meredith's english VA does her job, but she's very typecast and she need a good voice director something Bethesda haven't managed to find. Still, hearing Meredith's voice in other games isn't as weird as hearing Leliana announce the Olympics (London 2012).
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Oct 26, 2020 18:11:42 GMT
Dunno, Brian Bloom imo. does an excellent job
also would like to redact some of my former statement...Meredith's VA is quite...err...I find her voice is a bit jarring, every time I play Skyrim and hear her as Elenwen or Meridia (even a similar name) I'm like "shaddup Meredith!" Meredith's english VA does her job, but she's very typecast and she need a good voice director something Bethesda haven't managed to find. Still, hearing Meredith's voice in other games isn't as weird as hearing Leliana announce the Olympics (London 2012). I'm not saying she does a bad job, just that the voice can be a bit...much at times, but that's probably just me
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on Oct 27, 2020 4:33:11 GMT
Modgud Cadash made a new hat for Vivienne out of Dragon Webbing, but the orange color threw her off. So she dyed it various shades of blue... and decided to dye Vivienne's suit of armor in matching and complementary shades.
A whole lot of questing later, Modgud decided to knock out a Fade Rift in the Emprise du Lion... and while she was there, she found a dead elf with a note saying something about the "Cradle of Sulevin." She went to the War Table, spent a few favors, and learned that during the fall of the Dales, some desperate elves had used a legendary weapon to commit a war crime. They used it to slaughter human captives, hoping to use blood magic to increase its power. Only the ritual backfired, and the weapon was shattered and lost. But the current Dalish had learned where the pieces were, and now Modgud knew where to find them too.
She went there and gathered them one by one, picking up a lot of useful schematics along the way. She didn't find any that beat the ones she was using, but they were about as good. She took the pieces to Dagna, and asked her to reforge it... but Dagna said no way, you can't stich metal. What Dagna did instead was reverse engineer what's left to come up with the blueprints for a new sword.
Speaking of blueprints, Modgud fed the ones she'd obtained to the Golden Nug... and then time flowed backwards, and suddenly Modgud hadn't gone to Sulevin Cradle. But she touched the Nug, and it gave her the blueprints she now hadn't obtained there. Then Modgud went back, recovered the sword again, and gave it to Dagna again. Along the way, she got different schematics, and fed them to the Nug. (One of them was a Tier Three mage hat. That made her feel bad about making Vivienne one using a lesser schematic and Dragon Webbing, until she realized the schematic she'd just gotten didn't have a Utility Cloth slot.)
Time reversed itself yet again, and Modgud found herself in front of the Nug and without the blade. She touched the Nug again, and got the second load of schematics from the Sulevin Crade, and then went to the War Table to send Leiliana to gather some leather.
This third instance of Modgud still hasn't been to Sulevin Cradle, but obviously I intend for her to go.
Edit: She sent Cullen to go kick in doors looking for a Tranquil named Maddox before going to do exactly that. She recovered the blade pieces and the schematics, and then time reversed again... except not entirely, because Cullen had still been able to use the time that now hadn't elapsed to find Maddox. Modgud picked up the third set of schematics from the Nug, went to Maddox's hideout with Cullen to look for Samson, and then went back to Sulevin Cradle a fourth time. Then time reversed a fourth time, and she picked up the fourth set of schematics from the Nug too. None of them have really interested me yet, but I figure I might as well keep going anyway.
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Post by Buckeldemon on Oct 27, 2020 14:18:56 GMT
Ahm, yes. I missed Emery. Funny thing is... both are fitting. Emery is more sneery, his German college makes a more angry Fenris. That's as close as it can get. I'll never not prefer Varric's German VA though. The man also voices most of Ron Pearlman's roles around here. And the intro of Fallout3. Dunno, Brian Bloom imo. does an excellent job
also would like to redact some of my former statement...Meredith's VA is quite...err...I find her voice is a bit jarring, every time I play Skyrim and hear her as Elenwen or Meridia (even a similar name) I'm like "shaddup Meredith!" Might warm up to him once doing a full EN PT. The Varric performances are perhaps just too... different? Case in point: when he pins the pickpocket in his intro, he finishes with an "off you go" which sounds rather amused. German version is a rather rough "Verschwinde!", which is both harsher in meaning and pronounciation.
What, you are sick of "the circle's corrrrrruption"? I can see that. Heck, there are quite some people being like "never again" when it comes to Meridia's quest in Skyrim, up to the point that I found a mod which cuts off her "you have found my ball, obey me" monologue after two syllables and replaces the rest with a shotgun sound. Dunno, Brian Bloom imo. does an excellent job
also would like to redact some of my former statement...Meredith's VA is quite...err...I find her voice is a bit jarring, every time I play Skyrim and hear her as Elenwen or Meridia (even a similar name) I'm like "shaddup Meredith!" Meredith's english VA does her job, but she's very typecast and she need a good voice director something Bethesda haven't managed to find. Still, hearing Meredith's voice in other games isn't as weird as hearing Leliana announce the Olympics (London 2012). Funny thing for me is, for me Meredith is pretty consistent regardless of EN or German. Both are harsh, loud and kinda hag-gy. I mostly knew the German VA from her dubbing of Cruella DeVil back in the 90s. Speaking of consistency, at least Corypheus got the same VA in both games orignially. Not so much for German. In DA2, they hired a higher, more scratchy voice not unlike David Sterne's performance, but for DAI, they gave Cory a new VA who sounds more deep and booming than anything else. On the other hand, we got the same Mordin for ME2 and 3.
As of today, I've run a few mod tests early game and took a like of Lora Brovold a.k.a. every other secondary city elf character (though Athenril mostly).
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Oct 27, 2020 16:28:47 GMT
Dunno, Brian Bloom imo. does an excellent job
also would like to redact some of my former statement...Meredith's VA is quite...err...I find her voice is a bit jarring, every time I play Skyrim and hear her as Elenwen or Meridia (even a similar name) I'm like "shaddup Meredith!" 1) Might warm up to him once doing a full EN PT. The Varric performances are perhaps just too... different? Case in point: when he pins the pickpocket in his intro, he finishes with an "off you go" which sounds rather amused. German version is a rather rough "Verschwinde!", which is both harsher in meaning and pronounciation.
2) What, you are sick of "the circle's corrrrrruption"? I can see that. Heck, there are quite some people being like "never again" when it comes to Meridia's quest in Skyrim, up to the point that I found a mod which cuts off her "you have found my ball, obey me" monologue after two syllables and replaces the rest with a shotgun sound. Meredith's english VA does her job, but she's very typecast and she need a good voice director something Bethesda haven't managed to find. Still, hearing Meredith's voice in other games isn't as weird as hearing Leliana announce the Olympics (London 2012). 3) Funny thing for me is, for me Meredith is pretty consistent regardless of EN or German. Both are harsh, loud and kinda hag-gy. I mostly knew the German VA from her dubbing of Cruella DeVil back in the 90s. Speaking of consistency, at least Corypheus got the same VA in both games orignially. Not so much for German. In DA2, they hired a higher, more scratchy voice not unlike David Sterne's performance, but for DAI, they gave Cory a new VA who sounds more deep and booming than anything else. On the other hand, we got the same Mordin for ME2 and 3.
As of today, I've run a few mod tests early game and took a like of Lora Brovold a.k.a. every other secondary city elf character (though Athenril mostly).
1) meh, if you want to hear him...just put your DA Keep on English...Brian Bloom (aka. Varric) narrates the tapestry as well
2)
3) on Corypheus...according to the wiki he is voiced by the same person in Legacy and DAI Though I gotta admit...I liked his voice better in Legacy, then again...I think they went with the more booming performance to make him seem more intimidating which imo...I think a character that speaks like his Legacy appearance is creepier
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Post by Buckeldemon on Oct 27, 2020 17:57:24 GMT
1) Might warm up to him once doing a full EN PT. The Varric performances are perhaps just too... different? Case in point: when he pins the pickpocket in his intro, he finishes with an "off you go" which sounds rather amused. German version is a rather rough "Verschwinde!", which is both harsher in meaning and pronounciation.
2) What, you are sick of "the circle's corrrrrruption"? I can see that. Heck, there are quite some people being like "never again" when it comes to Meridia's quest in Skyrim, up to the point that I found a mod which cuts off her "you have found my ball, obey me" monologue after two syllables and replaces the rest with a shotgun sound. 3) Funny thing for me is, for me Meredith is pretty consistent regardless of EN or German. Both are harsh, loud and kinda hag-gy. I mostly knew the German VA from her dubbing of Cruella DeVil back in the 90s. Speaking of consistency, at least Corypheus got the same VA in both games orignially. Not so much for German. In DA2, they hired a higher, more scratchy voice not unlike David Sterne's performance, but for DAI, they gave Cory a new VA who sounds more deep and booming than anything else. On the other hand, we got the same Mordin for ME2 and 3.
As of today, I've run a few mod tests early game and took a like of Lora Brovold a.k.a. every other secondary city elf character (though Athenril mostly).
1) meh, if you want to hear him...just put your DA Keep on English...Brian Bloom (aka. Varric) narrates the tapestry as well
2)
3) on Corypheus...according to the wiki he is voiced by the same person in Legacy and DAI Though I gotta admit...I liked his voice better in Legacy, then again...I think they went with the more booming performance to make him seem more intimidating which imo...I think a character that speaks like his Legacy appearance is creepier 1) Imma just switch language in DA2. Could you tell if you Dutchies also use some sort of "Verschwinde!" ("Disappear") in the sense of "Get lost!"/"Be gone!"? 3) For the default English, yes. Though after looking up the scenes on YT, I see the booming is intended, though in German it is even stronger. I mean, DAI Corypheus German VA is the same guy who voiced Kyle Katarn, Thrask and Arngeir in the localisations and I did not recognise him at all. Too much boom. Though I also have to say I prefer the boom-less scratchy performances from Legacy for both languages.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Oct 27, 2020 19:43:30 GMT
1) Imma just switch language in DA2. Could you tell if you Dutchies also use some sort of "Verschwinde!" ("Disappear") in the sense of "Get lost!"/"Be gone!"? 3) For the default English, yes. Though after looking up the scenes on YT, I see the booming is intended, though in German it is even stronger. I mean, DAI Corypheus German VA is the same guy who voiced Kyle Katarn, Thrask and Arngeir in the localisations and I did not recognise him at all. Too much boom. Though I also have to say I prefer the boom-less scratchy performances from Legacy for both languages.
1) hmm... 'Ga weg' is the closest translation to 'go away' that we have...which doesn't sound very threatening now that I think about it
3) same for me...as I said, Legacy Cory sounds more threatening imo. especially because he's kinda lucid at that time
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Post by Buckeldemon on Oct 27, 2020 23:20:03 GMT
1) hmm... 'Ga weg' is the closest translation to 'go away' that we have...which doesn't sound very threatening now that I think about it
3) same for me...as I said, Legacy Cory sounds more threatening imo. especially because he's kinda lucid at that time 1) We use somthing similar ("Geh' weg") and it is rather tame.
2) Lucid in the sense of mentally aware? Or lunatic? I'd say lunatic doesn't quite fit it here, but he's also a bit confused after the long nap. "I don't know where and when I am and who you are, but I'm a frickin' magister. Bow to me!"
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on Oct 28, 2020 1:18:12 GMT
Modgud Cadash set her advisors scrounging for crafting materials and gold, and then went to Sulevin Cradle to find the pieces of the Sulevin Blade. The blade was broken beyond repair, but Dagna reverse engineered it to come up with the blueprints for a new sword. And speaking of blueprints, Modgud found the blueprints for a new kind of mage helmet while she was there. Naturally, she fed the blueprints to the Golden Nug statue.
Time kinda reversed itself, and suddenly Modgud had never gone to the Sulevin Cradle... but Leiliana and Josephine had still had enough time to get the resources Modgud sent them chasing. Modgud accepted the resources and sent Leiliana and Josephine out for more, and then went and touched the Golden Nug Statue. She got the Seer Cowl schematic back, and used it to make a new helmet for Vivienne using what little Dragon Webbing she had left. (And obviously she dyed it blue to match the rest of Vivienne's armor.)
Then she went back to Sulevin Cradle, recovered the sword again... and this time, she found much better rogue armor blueprints than the rogue armor blueprints I've been using this whole time. This is finally starting to pay off.
Time reversed itself yet again (though not before Modgud put the schematics she'd found in the Golden Nug) and Modgud accepted the crafting resources and gold that her advisors shouldn't have had time to recover, and then recovered the schematics she retroactively had never found at Sulevin Cradle. (So far I've done this six times. Modgud has done this more times than all four of the other Inquisitors I still have the save files for put together. Actually, she was tied with them for that distinction before I got up this afternoon.)
Edit: And she just went for her seventh. This she only got two schematics: a greatsword and a light armor upgrade. I wonder if I'm getting close to having them all?
Edit2: She's done two more, and gotten one schematic each time.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Oct 28, 2020 8:03:41 GMT
1) hmm... 'Ga weg' is the closest translation to 'go away' that we have...which doesn't sound very threatening now that I think about it
3) same for me...as I said, Legacy Cory sounds more threatening imo. especially because he's kinda lucid at that time 1) We use somthing similar ("Geh' weg") and it is rather tame.
2) Lucid in the sense of mentally aware? Or lunatic? I'd say lunatic doesn't quite fit it here, but he's also a bit confused after the long nap. "I don't know where and when I am and who you are, but I'm a frickin' magister. Bow to me!" 2) yeah, Lucid as in mentally aware...though I guess one could say he was just sleep drunk which made him confused
and yeah, I love how he gets after getting his bearings a bit 'whoever you be, you owe allegiance to any Magister of Tevinter, on your knees!' (considering I tend to have Fenris with me...I imagine him having kill bill sirens going around in his head when he says this )
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Post by bolt on Oct 28, 2020 23:23:13 GMT
I am rolling through Inquisition with a very judgey human rogue. I had a lot of empty chairs at Varric's card game, because:
Didn't recruit Sera since she's an elven criminal. Didn't recruit Cole since he was a demon. Didn't recruit Dorian since he was a Tevinter magister. Didn't recruit Iron Bull since he was a Qunari spy.
I had Josephine, Varric, and Cullen for Wicked Grace.
I had recruited Blackwall, but left him in prison.
This isn't my favorite playthrough since the companions I like best are missing, but it certainly is different.
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on Oct 29, 2020 8:07:07 GMT
I am rolling through Inquisition with a very judgey human rogue. I had a lot of empty chairs at Varric's card game, because: Didn't recruit Sera since she's an elven criminal. Didn't recruit Cole since he was a demon. Didn't recruit Dorian since he was a Tevinter magister. Didn't recruit Iron Bull since he was a Qunari spy. I had Josephine, Varric, and Cullen for Wicked Grace. I had recruited Blackwall, but left him in prison. This isn't my favorite playthrough since the companions I like best are missing, but it certainly is different. I mean, those decisions all make sense, especially from an in-character point of view... but that sounds really boring. Anyway, Modgud Cadash recovered the pieces of the Suledin Blade, and took them to Dagna to have it reforged. Dagna refused to try, since welding a sword together is just asking for it to break again, but she came up with the idea of using the shards to design a new sword. The blueprint Dagna made there was the only one to come out of this: Modgud found absolutely no schematics in the Suledin Cradle. Time didn't reverse itself this time. This time, Modgud Cadash kept her progress and her new sword. From there, she went to the Winter Palace with Varric, Vivienne, and her Bullfriend.
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Post by bolt on Oct 31, 2020 13:42:32 GMT
I am rolling through Inquisition with a very judgey human rogue. I had a lot of empty chairs at Varric's card game, because: Didn't recruit Sera since she's an elven criminal. Didn't recruit Cole since he was a demon. Didn't recruit Dorian since he was a Tevinter magister. Didn't recruit Iron Bull since he was a Qunari spy. I had Josephine, Varric, and Cullen for Wicked Grace. I had recruited Blackwall, but left him in prison. This isn't my favorite playthrough since the companions I like best are missing, but it certainly is different. I mean, those decisions all make sense, especially from an in-character point of view... but that sounds really boring. It is, in fact, really boring. Belle Trevelyan was most likely being "encouraged" to enter the Chantry because she kept putting the family to sleep at the dinner table. Just completed "What Pride Has Wrought". Didn't ally with the Sentinels, of course and let Morrigan drink from the Well.
The idea behind this playthrough was what if the Inquisitor had the beliefs and prejudices common among the nobility of the setting?
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Post by Sonya on Oct 31, 2020 13:52:59 GMT
It is, in fact, really boring. Had two such PTs in DAI and it was indeed really boring. Barely finished those PTs. In DAO did the same PT getting rid of everyone (played CEO), after DAA - the same thing, stabbed Morrigan in DLC. Played DW Warrior and left only Zevran for obvious reasons. In DAO it was not boring at all, but in DAI? What is the reason as it is actually the same. In DA2 want to do the same but still think things through.
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Post by bolt on Oct 31, 2020 14:43:35 GMT
Yeah, DA2 is tough. My head-canon was that Edmund Hawke didn't report the abomination he just met or the blood mage he brought to town due to a mixture of not wanting to draw attention to his family and having a severe case of apathy. That was the mindset for the majority of that playthrough.
Edmund Hawke, Champion of Kirkwall: Taking an interest only when stuff's blowing up in his face.
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Post by azarhal on Oct 31, 2020 15:03:39 GMT
Yeah, DA2 is tough. My head-canon was that Edmund Hawke didn't report the abomination he just met or the blood mage he brought to town due to a mixture of not wanting to draw attention to his family and having a severe case of apathy. That was the mindset for the majority of that playthrough. Edmund Hawke, Champion of Kirkwall: Taking an interest only when stuff's blowing up in his face. Isn't that a normal Hawke playthrought?
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Post by Sonya on Oct 31, 2020 15:07:34 GMT
As continuation of DAO wanted to create a selfish bitch tired of hiding as "mage family", tired of needy Aveline with her rules so destroy her career and life, such things. But still need a team to play the game actually.
Malice Hawke, Champion of Kirkwall: "do not stay in my way. Nobody tells me what to do".
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Post by Catilina on Oct 31, 2020 17:08:51 GMT
As continuation of DAO wanted to create a selfish bitch tired of hiding as "mage family", tired of needy Aveline with her rules so destroy her career and life, such things. But still need a team to play the game actually. Malice Hawke, Champion of Kirkwall: "do not stay in my way. Nobody tells me what to do". MALICE Hawke Good! By the way, rivaling Aveline isn't that malicious thing: Hawke has reason to do it – of course depends on Hawke... And Aveline's rivalry is very good.
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Post by Catilina on Oct 31, 2020 17:11:10 GMT
Yeah, DA2 is tough. My head-canon was that Edmund Hawke didn't report the abomination he just met or the blood mage he brought to town due to a mixture of not wanting to draw attention to his family and having a severe case of apathy. That was the mindset for the majority of that playthrough. Edmund Hawke, Champion of Kirkwall: Taking an interest only when stuff's blowing up in his face. The time still young...
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Post by Catilina on Oct 31, 2020 17:13:41 GMT
Yeah, DA2 is tough. My head-canon was that Edmund Hawke didn't report the abomination he just met or the blood mage he brought to town due to a mixture of not wanting to draw attention to his family and having a severe case of apathy. That was the mindset for the majority of that playthrough. Edmund Hawke, Champion of Kirkwall: Taking an interest only when stuff's blowing up in his face. Isn't that a normal Hawke playthrought? Haha, not for everyone. My red blood mage Hawke was fascinated by the "abomination" – and found the elf blood mage's study and views very interesting!
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Post by Sonya on Oct 31, 2020 17:57:50 GMT
By the way, rivaling Aveline isn't that malicious thing: Hawke has reason to do it – of course depends on Hawke... And Aveline's rivalry is very good. Yeah, I agree. Remember we talked about it with you. And I do like her in rival - she asks for it by her behavior and dialogues. But a bad thing to do with Aveline is destroying her life, not helping with her job, with husband - such things, when potential husband tells her she is a bitch (saw somewhere in the internet). Well, an evil PT. Some things still have not tried anyway.
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Post by bolt on Nov 7, 2020 21:01:46 GMT
I completed my judgemental Inquisitor's playthrough. When the main campaign was over, the only companions left were Varric and Vivienne. Cassandra had become Divine.
I am now rolling a Dalish mage. This morning she tried to jump over a small rock, but ended up picking a spindleweed, instead. This obsession with gardening led her to being blasted with dragon fire. I wonder how Varric's going to spin that one.
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Post by Sokemis on Nov 8, 2020 16:07:31 GMT
I am now rolling a Dalish mage. This morning she tried to jump over a small rock, but ended up picking a spindleweed, instead. This obsession with gardening led her to being blasted with dragon fire. I wonder how Varric's going to spin that one. Don't worry, if he could get people to believe that my Hawke running figure 8s around the pillars while her dog bit the Arishok on the ass was actually some massive heroic battle, I'm sure he can spin your girl's story And that's sounds like something that would happen to my Dalish mage too, lol.
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