Jaal Ama Darav (Official Thread)

Speaking of when companions become available. Hopefully they handle it more like DA:I and less like ME3. What I mean is you can pretty much pick up the quests to get most of your companions as soon as you get to a certain point in the story. With just a few being gated behind other story missions. Rather than the more railroad approach they had in ME3 

Also, I'm considering on going with my Sara playthrough first if they don't confirm Jaal or another character I think I'll like as an M/M option. Just so I can avoid getting several hours in and not being able to romance Jaal. This way I don't have to worry about it. And I can get Liam if I want to. Maybe we'll get some romance leaks once people get their hands on the game early though. It usually happens, and that stuff tends to make it's way to BSN pretty quickly.

It's tough to compare the companions between the two with a different dev team, plus we have less squadmates in this game. Meaning getting them could be spread out even further. 

Yeah but we were thinking of how it goes in DAI so I was speculating based on that lol if we go by the old ME games, we get everyone right away except for Liara. So Jaal would be like Liara then most likely. 

I would love not having to find them in a certain order though and we get whoever we want when we want.

I'm thinking there's not necessarily an order because some companions are probably optional. So they may become available before others, but that doesn't mean you have to get them in that order. Jaal could fall along the lines of Liara, but I also get the impression that Peebee is going to be "vital" for whatever reason they come up with and take Liara's narrative space. I hope it's not so similar to ME1 in that way, but I'm kind of expecting it.

Then again, you get Liara later and I think Peebee is showing up super early. So I guess it makes more sense for Jaal to show up in the Liara way. I'm also assuming Jaal will be a mandatory squadmate, but who knows.

But thinking about it more, doesn't it seem like Peebee would be a character you met out exploring, considering her personality and MO? Which would suggest you may find her later. It's hard to pin this down!

Aaaanyway, Aaryn Flynn just said they weren't trying to "top" Garrus with Jaal, so I'm not as worried about Jaal being Garrus 2.0. Though that also suggests that they were thinking of him in line with Garrus.

Excellent. The Expanse is great. I'm trying to push it on others since.

Liara could push herself on muh Shep anytime she wanted.



of slipping more innuendo into this thread.

And, aww Solas, why u change ur name tho? Fuck those hack journalists.

I like how he said "his" too. People still think Jaal is a girl! when the wallpaper was revealed someone asked if we'd get male Angara and I was like

Seriously ? If these people paid attention it'd be blatantly obvious that he's male. You can see the females in the trailer, they're right there !

Yeah those who knew he was a male asked if any female Angara existed   and one of them called him a fat turian and I nearly died from laughter!

I know lol the first time I saw it I did think that was him talking, then I watched it again and saw no lips moving and noticed the pretty lady behind him and it made me go "oh bad timing in that clip lol"

Shhh... or else they'll make an article about screwing the journalists. Then he'll have to change his name again.

Alright, copying the news over.

Recap of the last ten pages/ major news updates/ discussions

Vetra's voice actress confirmed as Danielle Rayne
Speculation that we may get a voice release for Jaal soon, hopeful for an info drop on Valentines Day
We will get to see facts about Drack and Jaal 'soon', according to Ian. S Frazier
Speculation on Doctor Lexi (last name unknown) giving health/sex advice to Jaal about Ryder
Kaiden's writer for Mass Effect 3 is writing Jaal - alas, she does not have twitter

So Jaal Ama Darav is Solas...i had no idea

Btw how are y'all pronouncing his full name? I am saying... "jah-LAH-mah-da-RAHV." Probably wrong but we'll see. (I'm sort of slurring his first and middle name together. And the Davas is more like D'rav.)