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Post by ryderflynn on May 19, 2017 16:31:20 GMT
This is from another thread, but iddy was right when he said my opinion wasn't exactly an unpopular one, so I don't want to continue derailing that thread. I'll post here instead to share my thoughts on the matter: I'm not gonna lie, I almost always went with the default(no blood smear) face for Hawke. There is something to be said for iconography and the customizable options for Hawke just seemed so generic & boring. I would have preferred the option to tweak and edit Hawke's default face a bit. To be fair, my Hawke would've probably looked nicer if I could edit the default one instead (which looked a lot nicer than that one custom face structure they gave us to work with). When I went for the "Custom" Hawke look, the game churned out a really "different" looking one than the default Hawke, and by "different", I meant a lot bonier and scrawnier. It's hard to describe in text. I don't want to keep using the word, "ugly" because that doesn't explain anything at all, not to mention how subjective that description is. It's like, the bone structure on her face really looked weird. The thing is, what I'm really upset about in terms of Hawke isn't just that she didn't turn out the way I wanted; what I'm really upset is that you can't change Hawke with the Mirror of Transformation or something after you've "locked" her look. I guess I could've just reloaded to the save before I talked to Varric, spent an hour customizing, and spent another 10 minutes of dialogue Hawke. I don't know. I guess I was fed up with the game at that point when I saw Hawke's face. Anyway, it doesn't matter anymore. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I'm uninstalling DA:I, GotY Edition, despite spending USD$34 on it. This is the first time since DA2 that I failed to complete a Bioware game in its entirety (this is before my recent replay of DA2, of course), and even with DA2, I had at least completed the campaign, just not the DLCs. I think this wouldn't have happened if the game didn't force me to earn Power Points to continue the campaign. At least with Andromeda, I had the choice of ignoring side quests and moving on with the main plot. It's that freedom that didn't make me feel like my hands were tied, which allowed me to have a breathing space that also allowed me to eventually complete the side quests and earned 100% Viability in the end because I wasn't burnt out as quickly. I don't know what Bioware's doing with their games, but if this is the way it's spiraling down, I don't think I'm up for DA4. To be honest, I probably should've seen it coming since ME3. You could already detect a hint of these "meaningless side quests" BS with ME3's War Assets system. I think Shepard tried to refrain from choosing any of the options given because he saw how shitty Bioware's future looked like, so EA instead went, "SO BE IT." :lmfao:
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Post by fylimar on May 19, 2017 19:39:05 GMT
This is from another thread, but iddy was right when he said my opinion wasn't exactly an unpopular one, so I don't want to continue derailing that thread. I'll post here instead to share my thoughts on the matter: I'm not gonna lie, I almost always went with the default(no blood smear) face for Hawke. There is something to be said for iconography and the customizable options for Hawke just seemed so generic & boring. I would have preferred the option to tweak and edit Hawke's default face a bit. To be fair, my Hawke would've probably looked nicer if I could edit the default one instead (which looked a lot nicer than that one custom face structure they gave us to work with). When I went for the "Custom" Hawke look, the game churned out a really "different" looking one than the default Hawke, and by "different", I meant a lot bonier and scrawnier. It's hard to describe in text. I don't want to keep using the word, "ugly" because that doesn't explain anything at all, not to mention how subjective that description is. It's like, the bone structure on her face really looked weird. The thing is, what I'm really upset about in terms of Hawke isn't just that she didn't turn out the way I wanted; what I'm really upset is that you can't change Hawke with the Mirror of Transformation or something after you've "locked" her look. I guess I could've just reloaded to the save before I talked to Varric, spent an hour customizing, and spent another 10 minutes of dialogue Hawke. I don't know. I guess I was fed up with the game at that point when I saw Hawke's face. Anyway, it doesn't matter anymore. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I'm uninstalling DA:I, GotY Edition, despite spending USD$34 on it. This is the first time since DA2 that I failed to complete a Bioware game in its entirety (this is before my recent replay of DA2, of course), and even with DA2, I had at least completed the campaign, just not the DLCs. I think this wouldn't have happened if the game didn't force me to earn Power Points to continue the campaign. At least with Andromeda, I had the choice of ignoring side quests and moving on with the main plot. It's that freedom that didn't make me feel like my hands were tied, which allowed me to have a breathing space that also allowed me to eventually complete the side quests and earned 100% Viability in the end because I wasn't burnt out as quickly. I don't know what Bioware's doing with their games, but if this is the way it's spiraling down, I don't think I'm up for DA4. To be honest, I probably should've seen it coming since ME3. You could already detect a hint of these "meaningless side quests" BS with ME3's War Assets system. I think Shepard tried to refrain from choosing any of the options given because he saw how shitty Bioware's future looked like, so EA instead went, "SO BE IT." :lmfao: Maybe give it a rest and try later? That worked with ME for me. I got bored and annoyed with ME 1 halfway through playthrough and left it for nearly a year and then I finished it in two weeks. I can understand that one can get annoyed with Hawke in DAI. I had the advantage, that I played DA2 a year ago before starting DAI and I had lost my savegames and recreated my first Hawke mostly from memory and ended up with a Hawke I like. But you just finished your DA2 playthrough and your Hawke is still fresh in your mind ( it was the asian Hawke, wasn't it?), so I can relate. I used a more recent playthrough in the last world stat and was a bit annoyed too, that I couldn't recreate 'my' Hawke. She looked decent in the end, but different from DA2 Hawke. About the power: you normally get enough power by doing the main quests and some of the more important (story related) side quests. You can even leave out areas (the ones, that are not necessary for the main quest)
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Post by themikefest on May 19, 2017 20:20:56 GMT
That's a Grey Warden? But he's white. Shouldn't he be called a White Warden? I need to talk with Varric. Somebody is feeding him some bad information. So Flanders the Warden thought it would be a good idea to merge with a spirit, a spirit of justice no less. That explains the glowy-eyed-deep-voice stuff. Alright pal. Just give me the maps. I will make an effort to avoid that Warden in the future.
Back at the Hangman. HAWKE. Hmm. So I yell NORM. What? Does nobody know Norm? I see a woman beating up a few guys. Not bad. I talked with. Before I knew it, I said I watch her back. She laughed and said, I bet. Oh crap. Is it me or did it get a little warm in here? Did you see that? The Isabela pirate girl threw a dagger right into one of the mercs. Nice. I think I will get along just nicely with the pirate.
We've been setup. What the---. Now that's awesome. The elf stuck his hand in that guy. I need to learn that trick. So he's the one that arrange this trap. You will pay. He says he will. I help fight the demons in the house. Kept all the goodies for myself. So Fenris joins my circus.
Meet an elf girl calling herself Merrill. Ok. Lets get the show on the road. So. You use blood magic. You know what you're doing? Yeah. Keep telling yourself that. Hey look. Its the dragon witch. She flies away. Now to take the blood mage to the alienage. Have a nice day. Don't call me. I won't call you.
Its Aveline. I think she's still mad that I killed her husband. I help her deal with some bandits. Doing that made her Captain. Just as long as she doesn't call me mate, we're good.
I was taking a nice stroll at night when all these people fall out of the sky in front of me. I look up to see if there's a C130 flying over that dropped off the 82nd Airborne unit. I was wrong. Its just a bunch of punks that jumped from the buildings to kill me. Silly little punks. You know better than to mess with a sorceress, I mean mage. Engage fireball. Throw in some haste for the others. Here. Have some cold. That was easy.
Head back to the Hangman for a cold one. HAWKE. NORM. I meet a lady in the back who gives me some goodies for killing the punks. Cool.
Lets head to the deep roads. I'm glad I left my brother in Kirkwall. Mother was happy I did. Fight darkspawn and demons. Varrics brother leaves us trapped in a room. We end up finding a lot of goodies. I'm rich. All mine. MINE. MINE. MINE. Hahaha. Lets head back and get revenge on the brother of the Varric
I can't believe it. My brother is templar. He won't tell anyone I'm a mage. Cool.
I'm going to lie down for a bit and think what I can buy with all my gold. hahahahaha
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Post by MrGDL87 on May 19, 2017 20:27:11 GMT
It seems like ages since I last played Dragon Age and posted in this thread. It was back when it had an 'oops' at the end so it's easily a year or two . I'm going to start a new playthrough from Origins to Inquisition and there's currently no roleplaying plan as I'm just going to go with the flow. Hopefully, the next DA game will be released by the time I finish and it might be possible because my pace is sloth-like. Started Origins and planning to do a nightmare run because I haven't tried it before and it'll be interesting to see how difficult the combat gets. Here's the character set up that I've chosen (and kept the default name because today I'm unimaginative): Race: Dwarf Gender: Female Class: Rogue Background: Commoner Natia didn't choose a life of crime, it was a necessity to survive and put food on the table. Killing and stealing was the daily routine and Natia just became numb to it all with the hope that one day she'll break the cycle. It started like any other day with Beraht barking orders and Natia reluctantly complying. Her mother was a constant reminder that she needed to do better otherwise she may end up in a similar position, a sad life with no hope at the end of every bottle. Natia held a little contempt for her mother because she didn't even try to better her life. Headed towards her first assignment when she encountered her old flame Leske. Leske was as charming as every by saying to Natia: "you want me to yourself, you shameless hussy". Natia has the priceless reply of "When I saw your 'majesty', the sceptre was a little... soft" . The first assignment ended with sparing Oskias's life because Natia's gotten weary of all the killing. She recovered the stolen goods but this wasn't good enough for Beraht or the cow called Jarvia. Jarvia had an undeserved air of confidence around her so Natia took her down a peg by accusing her of sleeping with the head honcho. Later on, it was time for a little match fixing in the Proving and ultimately led to Natia participating in the competition herself. She proved that the casteless can have a nasty bite if push comes to shove. The nobles weren't impressed and so they locked her up. A prison cell was no match for a cunning rogue, she stealthed by all the goons and made it to the final chamber with Beraht. This confrontation lasted about 15 minutes and consisted of playing ring a ring roses to avoid his attacks. Decided to play "Flashdance" in the background to pass the time . Finally, Natia found the opportunity to place a dagger in Beraht's side. As his body crumbled to the floor, Natia felt the weight lift from her shoulders. She's no longer shackled to the underworld and her family's outlook is looking up for a change. What a feeling indeed... Orzammar wasn't grateful for one less criminal on the street as the city was calling for an execution. Therefore, Natia had to join the Grey Wardens in the face of execution and with a heavy heart of leaving her family behind, she left for the surface.
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Post by fylimar on May 20, 2017 7:38:00 GMT
I just read the first part of Knight Errant - I like it so far. Vae is a great character and her storytelling knight is really likeable too. I wonder if the Inquisition agent, Vae met at the end of part 1 is Charter, she looks a bit like her
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Post by Rascoth on May 20, 2017 8:17:08 GMT
I just read the first part of Knight Errant - I like it so far. Vae is a great character and her storytelling knight is really likeable too. I wonder if the Inquisition agent, Vae met at the end of part 1 is Charter, she looks a bit like her It's definitely her. It's even confirmed in summary of next issues.
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Post by fylimar on May 20, 2017 9:25:48 GMT
I just read the first part of Knight Errant - I like it so far. Vae is a great character and her storytelling knight is really likeable too. I wonder if the Inquisition agent, Vae met at the end of part 1 is Charter, she looks a bit like her It's definitely her. It's even confirmed in summary of next issues. AH - thanks to clearing it up. I haven't looked up teh next issue, want to go in unspoiled
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2017 21:09:45 GMT
This is from another thread, but iddy was right when he said my opinion wasn't exactly an unpopular one, so I don't want to continue derailing that thread. I'll post here instead to share my thoughts on the matter: I'm not gonna lie, I almost always went with the default(no blood smear) face for Hawke. There is something to be said for iconography and the customizable options for Hawke just seemed so generic & boring. I would have preferred the option to tweak and edit Hawke's default face a bit. To be fair, my Hawke would've probably looked nicer if I could edit the default one instead (which looked a lot nicer than that one custom face structure they gave us to work with). When I went for the "Custom" Hawke look, the game churned out a really "different" looking one than the default Hawke, and by "different", I meant a lot bonier and scrawnier. It's hard to describe in text. I don't want to keep using the word, "ugly" because that doesn't explain anything at all, not to mention how subjective that description is. It's like, the bone structure on her face really looked weird. The thing is, what I'm really upset about in terms of Hawke isn't just that she didn't turn out the way I wanted; what I'm really upset is that you can't change Hawke with the Mirror of Transformation or something after you've "locked" her look. I guess I could've just reloaded to the save before I talked to Varric, spent an hour customizing, and spent another 10 minutes of dialogue Hawke. I don't know. I guess I was fed up with the game at that point when I saw Hawke's face. Anyway, it doesn't matter anymore. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I'm uninstalling DA:I, GotY Edition, despite spending USD$34 on it. This is the first time since DA2 that I failed to complete a Bioware game in its entirety (this is before my recent replay of DA2, of course), and even with DA2, I had at least completed the campaign, just not the DLCs. I think this wouldn't have happened if the game didn't force me to earn Power Points to continue the campaign. At least with Andromeda, I had the choice of ignoring side quests and moving on with the main plot. It's that freedom that didn't make me feel like my hands were tied, which allowed me to have a breathing space that also allowed me to eventually complete the side quests and earned 100% Viability in the end because I wasn't burnt out as quickly. I don't know what Bioware's doing with their games, but if this is the way it's spiraling down, I don't think I'm up for DA4. To be honest, I probably should've seen it coming since ME3. You could already detect a hint of these "meaningless side quests" BS with ME3's War Assets system. I think Shepard tried to refrain from choosing any of the options given because he saw how shitty Bioware's future looked like, so EA instead went, "SO BE IT." :lmfao: I'd give it a rest. I did manage DA:I eventually, mostly in hopes that DA4 is better. It is certainly not a typical Bio game, but it has Bio moments. Then, again, I did have Dorian to cling to every time I wanted to quit the darn thing.
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Post by shaqfu on May 21, 2017 2:22:56 GMT
Hawke defeated the Arishok in 1v1 combat and became the champion. All party members are still around and mostly full friendship. Merrill moved into the estate yet still seems to wander off alot to go play with her mirror. Gotta go catch up will all party members now, then it looks like I'm off to go visit the Knight Commander.
Nice thing is Injustice 2 isn't taking up as much time as I'd thought, you can set ai to fight for you and still level characters so I have that running while I play this.
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Post by fylimar on May 21, 2017 12:43:45 GMT
I finally managed to get DAO running again, sadly without the DLCs (apart from DAA), but since I've played them a few times already, it's not that bad. The important part is, that it is finally running again. The first thing I did, was recreating my castless dwarf Taena. She was the last playthrough, when I got into trouble with the game (I tested a mod for someone and it crashed the game - I don't blame the modder, I did it on my own risk, so it's totally my fault) Taena never left the Kocari Wilds, so I tried to recreate her and started playing again. And you know what: now I really wish, that Leske could be a companion and would be romanceable. Apart from Tamlen he is my favorite origin story character. Anyway - meet Taena
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Post by Abraxas on May 21, 2017 18:23:29 GMT
I ended up drawing Warden-Commander Neria Surana from my tabletop campaign (I'm also playing Origins as a mage, making her world state :V unsure about what romance I'm going to pick, but Alistair is ninja-mancing her already)... well, at least the lineart... I'm slow with details and colors... I used Vaea as an inspiration I was about to change her name, but realized that the heroine of the Second Blight was an elven mage named Neriah. So, I ended up leaving the default name just for that. She is (will be) an Arcane Warrior (hence, the heavy armor), and I'm still unsure about her second spec. (I headcanoned that she became fluent in Elvish—to the level of a Keeper, at least— when got the memories of the Arcane Warrior spirit). Also, headcanoned that she (will) lost her eye in the fight against the Archdemon.
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Post by themikefest on May 21, 2017 21:47:50 GMT
Completed Act 2. No matter how many times I play DA2, I will never get why mother had to be killed. My fight with the hornhead went something like this
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Post by Abraxas on May 21, 2017 22:35:19 GMT
I believe that is the canonical fight, in fact. The epic one is Varric's exaggeration.
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Post by Iddy on May 22, 2017 11:43:25 GMT
I continue to be cursed with the inability to make any progress in this game.
First, I reloaded a past save file while doing Broken Circle because it didn't sound like my Warden actually figured out the fake Duncan was fake. Three hours later I got to that point again, but now I realized that sparing the blood mage woman is stupid because if she becomes an abomination she may threaten the surviving mages in the first floor.
It's official. I'll never finish Broken Circle. I'll never finish DAO.
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Post by Catilina on May 22, 2017 13:45:15 GMT
I continue to be cursed with the inability to make any progress in this game. First, I reloaded a past save file while doing Broken Circle because it didn't sound like my Warden actually figured out the fake Duncan was fake. Three hours later I got to that point again, but now I realized that sparing the blood mage woman is stupid because if she becomes an abomination she may threaten the surviving mages in the first floor. It's official. I'll never finish Broken Circle. I'll never finish DAO. IF she becomes abomination... I think, she's a blood mage, not possessed, but if you think, that she is a danger, then kill her, one more kill not matter... the task is: re-secure the Circle. So: to kill her is a pragmatic decision.
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Post by DerekG on May 22, 2017 14:51:22 GMT
Hazel Trevelyan, DW rogue: Finally found some time to do Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts, a quest which makes a lot more sense than it did in my first playthrough, since I've now read The Masked Empire In the end I chose to have Celene, Gaspard, and Briala set aside their differences and work together (having collected dirt on all 3 of them during the quest). I think I might have messed up with the halla statuettes, however, as I wasn't able to open one of the doors and couldn't finish the Red Jenny quest. I remember reading that aren't enough statuettes to do everything, but I wonder if I had passed on some loot if I might have had enough. Maybe I'll check the wiki for a future playthrough. Next up is to meet up with Allistair and Hawke, but I think I'll do some companion side quests first.
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Post by fylimar on May 22, 2017 17:20:21 GMT
Completed Act 2. No matter how many times I play DA2, I will never get why mother had to be killed. My fight with the hornhead went something like this - all my Arishok fights are like this. I might even skill my dual wielding Hawke to archer for that fight in my current playthrough, so I can do the circle run more efficient
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Post by shaqfu on May 23, 2017 0:38:32 GMT
Let's see, hawke accomplished a few things.
-Met with the mysterious Nightingale for Sebastian's quest. -Assisted Isabela on taking care of Castion, though she walked away without a ship. My hawke spares no slavers. -Helped Anders gather some ingredients for what he thought was a potion. Once Anders started to act super shifty and not explain himself and exclaimed he was the plight of all mages...I told him to shove it and he's on his own lol.
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Post by Abraxas on May 23, 2017 7:17:28 GMT
Finished. It took me 3 days to finishing it. 2 of those coloring (well, I was not drawing all hours those days, but, you know... ) I wanted to draw the Grey Warden armor from DA:I (that is really cool), but I don't know what I was thinking while drawing, and the armor don't looks like that . So, I headcanoned that this is the armor Master Wade makes from the Inferno Golem carapace that he doesn't like in the end (hence, the colors). BTW, finally decided the specs: Arcane Warrior + Blood Mage, because Blood Mage is so OP in the RPG that not taking it is a crime. So, poor Connor in DA:O, lol. I guess I'm going to make Neria a little bitchy there (kill Isolde, let the demon posses Connor, then kill Jowan ). Maybe coupling the specs in DA:O-A with battlemage, but that one doesn't exists in the RPG, and in the RPG you can only have 2 specs. Now, the romance... I gearing towards Alistair, but, I don't know... heck, he is usually the romance I follow playing FemWardens... (only once I've played Zev's one, and twice Leli/FemWarden). Its like if he was my gay closeted relationship lol
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Post by Jarovbees on May 23, 2017 18:11:53 GMT
I replayed the end of Trespasser, because I'm a glutton for punishment. This is my nicest Inquisitor, so redeeming Solas had to be a thing, sigh. At least she dodged a bullet and didn't romance him. Disbanded the Inquisition with the angry option, though, that was glorious.
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Post by fylimar on May 23, 2017 18:39:54 GMT
Since work is very stressful at the moment, I don't play much, I was a bit busy with modding DAO (the essentials - dog slot, nice looking armors, Zevran ASAP ). But I played Taena my dwarf a bit more, she and Alistair are about to light the fire in the tower of Ishal. And I recreated my human mage Janei. Her background story is, that she was adopted into the Amell family and is of Chasind origin. She kept a robe from her Chasind mother and wears it sometimes even in the circle. She is adventurous and loyal to her friends. I couldn't finish her playthrough either, before the game crash.
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Post by themikefest on May 24, 2017 7:35:17 GMT
completed Legacy and assassin dlc went to the Hangman. HAWKE. NORM supported Merdith
After completing the game, I wonder how different DAI would have been if Hawke was made Inquisitor? I know the player wouldn't have the option to play as elf, dwarf or qunari.
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Post by Abraxas on May 24, 2017 7:57:40 GMT
Maybe it would have been less disappointing, but who knows. We know Hawke wasn't in their plans to be Inquisitor, however. The Inquisitor was to be originally human, yes, just not Hawke. It was the guy from the trailers (he even is displayed in the alpha demos).
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 8:07:47 GMT
completed Legacy and assassin dlc went to the Hangman. HAWKE. NORM supported Merdith After completing the game, I wonder how different DAI would have been if Hawke was made Inquisitor? I know the player wouldn't have the option to play as elf, dwarf or qunari. DAI feels more natural if you play as human anyway
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2017 11:27:02 GMT
completed Legacy and assassin dlc went to the Hangman. HAWKE. NORM supported Merdith After completing the game, I wonder how different DAI would have been if Hawke was made Inquisitor? I know the player wouldn't have the option to play as elf, dwarf or qunari. Yeah, that. Playing Human in DA world is just defeating the purpose of the franchise, as much as I like Hawke. I was glad I could play a Qunari, was basically the only reason I bought the game. Was not disappointed in that at least. I've wrestled DA:O into submission, because it won't start, it fell back to 0 hours played despite keeping all the saves, it could not handle my new monitor resolution, etc, etc, etc. Finally I have it running in some sort of high res window that does not cut the text off, does not crash and does not stretch everything vertically. What a PITA. I know, old game and all that. Made a Dwarf Noble Female, but that's as far as I went. Gonna finish Ryder first, then I'll see if I have time for DA stuff while I wait on that rumored CC patch for my 3rd run. Figure 1. The Dwarven Rogue Noble, Jorun. I always liked the look & feel of the Dwarves, too bad they are so sidelined by the game.
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