Dragon Age News Thread

Well, and Morrigan is a Celtic goddess, while Fenrir/Fenris is a creature from Norse myths. I'm not sure it tells us anything about these things in DA world, given that - usually - the connection to the element from actual IRL myths they borrowed from is tenuous.

Didn't realize there was so much dwarf/human mixing in the early tribal days. Tyrdda and her dwarf friend had a kid. Luthias is implied to be half dwarven due to his height and lack of parentage mentioned (and name) plus he falls for a dwarven princess. And gets his body taken back to Orzammar after his death, which honestly seems really sketch to me since he caused problems there with Scaea leaving, then betrayed her, and then clearly not all was forgiven cus she conveniently turns up to give him armor that inexplicably fails him in the last moment. Also wouldn't surprise me if she conceived a kid, too, in that final encounter of theirs, cus why not? Just, lotsa dwarven human interaction going on for a people who, you'd think, were voluntarily confined underground. Unless that "no surface visits" thing wasn't a thing yet.

I've never played WoW. Does it have romances?

Close proximity helps. The Avvar live in the Frostback Mountains/Basin and the dwarves live... in it. Things are bound to get frisky.  It does make you wonder what restrictions they had about going topside.

Throw in Morrigan and a dwarf Warden having half-dwarf OGB Kieran and Grandma Elf-Spirit-Human-Abomination waiting in the wings and you've got a tale as twisted as Tyrdda's. 🤔

In two weeks we’ll know what game he is talking about, assuming the reveal will be at E3.

"If I wasn't purple, you'd see I was blushing."

Yeah, you couldn't half tell either. The most powerful threat for thousands of years had been discovered, and defeated in a single game and it's not like you can easily "out epic" that, so what do they do now? Well, why even bother trying? Instead do a small, personal story in the same setti- and now everybody hates them and saying they fucked up. Booo. So how about instead do a Skyrim and Witcher open world game sprinkled with a bit of politics and ancient Gods ...

The story never really recovered after Origins. It's been meandering. Still fun games, but Origins was the complete package.

Meanwhile I think Dragon Age has gotten better with each game, DAI being imo the best Bioware game.

Picking up the thread of Ellis speculation re: Blizzard... they don't typically do E3 stuff, do they? I mean, they have Blizzcon for that every single year; this year's is early November.

Or... well... you know, you may have thought wrong? In an interview from a while ago David Gaider also stated that some plans for the future have been there, but at the time of DAO release they simply didn't know whether the first game would be successful enough to guarantee a sequel, much less full series.

The interview itself mentions that he was sought after basically the instant he left BW and so far he seems to be doing well with his consulting business.