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Reminder that lore is supposed to serve you. You don't have to serve lore. Write what you want.

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My favorite War Table missions are the ones where Josephine and Leliana are playing 6D chess on some side quest and Cullen’s input is just: “what the fuck? no. i’m not getting involved in this. can we go back to work.”

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some trans anders ,, if u care

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What did he mean by this

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literally nothing will ever be funnier than this oneshot kill from merrill

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So many people told me to skip Dragon Age 2 when I got into this series, and I’m? Absolutely floored by that.

The way the companions are introduced? The COMPANIONS themselves? The beautiful, unending tragedy of Hawke in this atrocious city, mixed with some brilliant banters and poignant monologues?

Like I cannot believe they got away with this game in 2011. Everyone is bisexual and it actually changes dialogue and acknowledges the queerness of it all. Aveline finds love and remarries after her husband dies (not for money or power or security but because she loves this man!!). Anders is literally a conservative’s greatest fear: a queer, demon possessed civil rights activist. The game feels entirely different depending on whether Bethany or Carver survive Lothering. Hawke becomes a nobleman in Kirkwall and their entire manor is run by two dwarves, a dog, and an elven girl.

And the companions and their relationships feel so alive and full, even when Hawke isn’t present. Varric pays off crime bosses to leave Merril alone as she wanders around Darktown. Aveline hosts holiday parties and is incredibly sad that Isabela didn’t come. They all play Wicked Grace at the Hanged Man and Fenris is awful, but Anders is worse. Aveline makes sure the guards don’t bother Fenris in High Town, and steers Templars away from Anders’s clinic. They don’t always agree, they bicker and fight with one another, but they are Friends.

Oh, you wanna know about the gameplay? I don’t play Dragon Age for gameplay, I got nothing. Something something spiders and reused maps but that just means I always know where to go.

I’m here for found family (and romance)

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Found family but in a derogatory sense

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Angelic Attire Mod

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I kinda wish that the Warden presided over the Joining ritual instead of Varel in Awakening. Just thinking about the fear and dread of "oh this really useful and interesting person may not make it"

Thinking thoughts about my own Cousland anointing Ser Gilmore—her childhood best friend, former teenage fling, and close friend and companion throughout the Blight—knowing that she may as well have sentenced him to death.

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still boggles my mind that in the year 2024 most players still ignore anora's character just to reduce her to a lying backstabber, when she only goes against you if:

you reveal her identity to ser cautherine and howe's soldiers, defeating the entire purpose of her disguise and also ignoring what she told you literally one minute before about how they can't know she's escaping with you - thereby betraying her first

you ignore her completely in denerim after she asks you to come talk to her, and only show up to the landsmeet

you bring up loghain's fate, and when she tells you that she would rather him be spared if possible, you tell her to her face that her father has to die

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case in point

i love how every picture i see of savlian matius is him making the worst face possible

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replaying origins and i just maxed out sten's approval so naturally i thought of this tweet and had to make it

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does everyone else have their like one contrarian dragon age plot decision where your hill to die on is that the unpopular choice is better/makes more sense in-world/creates a more interesting narrative. for me it's sacrificing the chargers for sure qunari bull they could never make me hate you

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Me chanting to myself: whitewashed Lucanis mod can't hurt you... whitewashed Lucanis mod can't hurt you... whitewashed Lucanis mod can't hurt you...

Whitewashed Lucanis mod: *jumpscare*

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my favourite thing about the dragon age ttrpg so far is that it’s possible to roll so badly when casting a spell that you turn into an abomination and that’s it for your character.

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DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS (2009)