What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Heh thanks though

I tend to use songs for the title of my world states, for a few years that's been "Legends never die" by Against the Current

I just finished a different game, and recovered from Covid, and decided to reward myself by starting my first official alternate run. I have always preferred a canon-only focus, but in joining some fun discussions on this board, and looking at all the paths not taken, I have been brainstorming a potential alternate world-state for some time now.

Today I started my Surana Jack-of-All-Trades Arcane Warrior warden. He is mostly sarcastic and irreverent, and fairly neutral morally. He likes to take pleasure where he can find it, so the current plan is to dabble with Morrigan, Cammen, Isabela, and ride off to Amaranthine with Zevran. He will parley with demons and cultists, lead a crime wave, and try out for the Crows. He will dual wield axes with daggers, and wear a plate helmet with leather armor pieces, focus on crowd-control spells, and take points in Stealing and Poison-Making. He does have to wait until specialization before he can dual wield, but I hollered in joy when I found out it was viable to have him wield a dagger with a shield as early as exploring the basement during his mage origin. I expect it will be a bit rough until I can acquire the extra points from the Fade, but I will tweak the build as I go to help encourage the fun factor.

I've decided to start a new character today. Dalish is the only origin I have not played through fully yet. I did start one at some point, but didn't get far in that game.

It will also be nice to play through all the rogue quests and not need Leli in the party. I haven't played as an archer yet.

In terms of her behaviour, I often play open minded characters. This game I will try to role play from the mistrustful Dalish perspective. It's going to be tricky to view the world through a narrower lens, knowing so much about it.

That decided, my elf put a few arrows into humans at the forest. I don't trust how they acted all arrogant when they thought Tamlen was alone and then went full grovel mode upon realising he wasn't the only elf targeting them. Tamlen's meh reaction to shooting them was fun.

Lyna was absolutely heartbroken about her childhood friend going missing and kept clinging to the slight slimmer of hope.

I debated how she'd react to Duncan since he's a shemlen, but decided to be respectful. Lyna may have tried putting an arrow in him had they randomly met at the forest, but by the time they meet, when she is coherent, the Keeper has already informed her that he is a Grey Warden. Her clan obviously treats Grey Wardens with great respect. Lyna would also follow this general tradition. She is hesitant to trust him due to him being a sham nonetheless.

Lyna loves her clan and she is heartbroken to leave it, however, she also treats the invitation to join Grey Wardens as an honourable duty that must be performed by her people. She does not keep a grudge or considers it being drafted against her will, but she loves her clan and she is beyond sad that she is torn from it. The fact that Duncan was respectful and let her stay for Tamlen's funeral, though they were in a dire hurry, contributed to bettering their relationship a little bit.

The timing to tell her about her parents is indeed extremely ill. It's like, here is one more reason to hate all the shems out there. Now please step out into the wide open world and mingle with them.

During her trip to Ostagar, she stuck closely to Duncan and tried learning from him how to interact with the world.

At the camp I also debated how to react to Cailan. Since the King is an ally to Grey Wardens and welcomes her without malice, she responds politely to the initial greeting. However, once he mentions her people, Lyna doesn't restrain and uses the snark line about shems thinking of Dalish as vagrants.

At the camp Lyna almost quarters the Quartermaster for his little mistake and is sorely tempted to pick a fight with the Ash Warriors for the same reason. Her curiosity for lore wins over and she listens to their tale instead. She informs Wynne that the best philosophy against Darkspawn is to put arrows in them. She also considers helping animals a noble quest and agrees to search for the flower.

I saw a new DA2 mod on Nexus... "Couslie's Eyeliner for FemHawke"
and thought, time for another go through.
All my Hawkes look similar to the default Hawke, but I'll probably adjust the eyeliner once I get to the black emporium.
i.imgur.com/6mOeFcv.jpg

This made me laugh.
Hawke worked for Athenril for a year and made a name for herself in the underworld, but she has to ask a 15 year old boy who the coterie are.
i.imgur.com/FRPfp8h.jpg

Shit man, RDR2 alone already is pretty time consuming. How are you managing to do them all at once?