What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

That was the main reason for going there I believe yes. As for the Jaws they aren' texactl ylocals either. The Stone Bear group are the only locals in the area. THe Jaws are just a group of angry Avvar that wanted to hit back because of wha thappened during the Blight back when they lived in Ferelden. Which the Inquisition had nothing t odo with but they don't care about that. That was down to the crappy leadership Ferelden was under at that time which unfotunately is another mess our Inquisitor is forced to clean up while looking for Ameridan. Also tempers could have also been amplified due to the rifts and such in the area. We do know a lot of the groups were on edge because of that as they were fighting each other whic hwas why the Inquisition was called in the first place as a means to try to restore order.

Continuing my sort of re-play. Glitches bring me joy. The Inquisitor did not let this bother him and actually became a Reaver.

I got really into the game again, as usual. And since I'm doing everything for the platinum, I might as well take it slowly. trying to see just how high I can get my influence level before doing In Hushed Whispers. 6 is my goal, already at level 5 and picked up all the knowledge perks for dialogue and extra experience for codex entries. Of which there will be a lot in the remainder of stupidly large game.

Have been keeping my intentions pretty vague in game, because fair-weathered Cassandra will DISAPPROVE all the time, and I can't have that lol

edit: I slept on it and decided against trying to get to influence level 6 before moving the story forward. Mostly because I predict that will leave me with nothing to do while I wait for war table stuff to get done after In Hushed Whispers

I hit the first of the three remaining achievements, the one that requires you to close 75 rifts.

I'll probably just go for the platinium ASAP and then decide if I'll restart for somekind of canon run, or not. I only need to upgrade 30 tonics/grenades/potions and get all the shards and I have it.

Finished the Hissing Wastes. Only Emprise du Lion is left for the platinum.

Deyrahel

Searched the internet for elves names and it was the first one I liked.

These were others


Zevvel

Thelwen

Yevven

Arrith

Yedor

Atlhen

Thelhon

Zathnarel

Varalhen

Alariel

So I finally sat down and did this with a Cousland Warden who married Anora, allowed the Ferelden Circle to be annulled, killed the Architect, and romanced Morrigan and followed her through the Eluvian, and a Warrior Hawke who ordered Merrill to stop her experiments, executed Anders, and sided with the Templars. While I didn't try to make either of them an outright "bad guy," my thought was to have them be more suspicious of magic and less inclined to challenge the existing religious and political establishment.

My Inquisitor is a human Noble and a devout Andrastian who truly believes he was chosen for this role (though he'll probably change his mind after his trip through the Fade), and he did ally with the templars - I just finished "In Your Heart Shall Burn" yesterday. The thing is, as I often find when I set out to play a character very different from my own views, I find myself hesitating to go through with some of this. My intent when I started this playthrough was to have him choose Vivienne as the new divine, but now I'm considering having him choose Cassandra because she arguably has the purest faith and devotion to the religion and wants to move away from some of the pomp, while he might see Vivienne as too political. He'll still be more pro-establishment than my previous Inquisitors, but now I kind of want to make him an honest reformer rather than someone who just wants to put everything back the way it was. If I *do* go through with choosing Vivienne, I suspect I'll disband the Inquisition rather than give her control over it.

Though, this brings up something I've wondered about for a while - does the Chantry have any moral teachings other than the whole "magic is meant to serve man" thing? Leliana is an Andrastian and yet typically has the more ruthless and violent solutions at the war table, and I'm assuming at least some of the Orlesian nobles who consider deceit and murder to be endlessly amusing are also believers. Hawke is implied to be Andrastian at least once and can certainly make morally problematic decisions if you choose to play him/her that way. Yes, I know, plenty of religious people in human history have ignored certain moral teachings and done some really bad things, but you'd think we would occasionally run into somebody who's at least conflicted about some of this.

I would say that, while the vision of an impostor taking the Inquisitor's place during the templar recruitment quest was somewhat unsettling, it doesn't pack the same punch as the trip to the future with Dorian on the mage path, where everyone seems desperate and defeated and there's a sense that life in Thedas has turned into a waking nightmare. Also, are Red Templars still one of the main combat enemies even if you choose the templars? I assumed that corrupted mages would take their places, but the Inquisitor's still talking about them as a threat when he meets with Varric and Hawke.

So, this is the first time I have Alistair as Hawke's Grey Warden contact - he was either dead from killing the archdemon or King of Ferelden in my three previous playthroughs. I just caught up with him in Crestwood yesterday, and he had an interesting line where he looks uncomfortable talking about the Hero of Ferelden and says that he "walked a dark path." In the Tapestry settings for this playthrough, I had the HoF allowing the Circle to be annulled and doing Morrigan's ritual, but I'm pretty sure I also had him saving everyone in the elves/werewolves conflict, refusing to defile the ashes, and exposing Loghain's deal with the slavers. Does Alistair always say this, or is it based on specific choices (or some overall count of morally problematic choices)?

Alistair as a GW in DAI always says such lines about our GW (our GW walked the dark path + he even says he would not count on our GW) though only if he is not in romantic relationship with our GW.

Even if we were friends, did things Alistair approved, even made him a GW as Alistair hated the idea itself to be a king. We were true friends.

Though Alistair and our GW are alive only thanks to the ritual with Morrigan to which Alistair himself agreed.


And here is where Alistair's hypocrisy shows up again (like in DAO in several situations):

1) if Alistair is in romance with our GW: there are NO such lines, only the good ones;

2) if there is no romance (e.g if take situation we were really friend with him in DAO) Alistair says those stupid lines for no reason at all.