#and nerith helping anders w his subconscious elven biases

[just1gnome]

I will take any excuse I can get to talk about my sweet boy Nerith :3c

Usually when I play rpgs like dragon age for the first time, my first character is pretty bland- a nice young man for me to get the best ending with- but something about the city elf bg rewired my brain in a very good way

I think a mix of the wide eyed stare of the warden, the "like dogs, shianni" line, and my habits stated above all came together in a nice boy soup with Nerith Tabris. He tends to be very diplomatic, solving his problems by appealing to whoever he's talking to in order to avoid conflict as a sort of survival tactic he's developed over the years, but at the same time he's the kind of guy to start swinging and not stop until he's physically dragged away.

There's an encounter in denerim where you get ambushed and separated from your party and not for one second did he think "oh no I need my guys for this I'm super outnumbered" he just saw red I love that guy

And he's also got a very flowery side too!! Him and Leliana get on super well because of their shared appreciation for beauty in the world!!! His diplomacy started as a survival thing but it developed alongside a genuine interest in art and literature!!!! It's very important to me!!!!!!!

In my first run through he romanced zevran but then I got my hands on mods so he ended up w alistair and leliana as well and theyre all very sweet! Because of his background in the alienage he felt a sense of familiarity being around other elves so he wanted to get to know zevran better obviously, and then they both stumbled around in the dark enough to fall for each other, while alistair was more of a "you're the biggest buffoon I've ever met I can't not kiss you" thing, and leliana was a slow subtle thing like a flower in bloom yeah yeah yeah

ougg he did not take the alistair break up very well man I think about it all the time. Like cause he'd never really been in anything like what he had with them before so he didn't know exactly what to do with himself. He kept saying "we're still friends right? we can still be friends?" but he's the one who started calling alistair by his titles instead of his name- he reverted back to his professional front that he uses with everyone else so he could ignore how he actually felt because he just couldn't make sense of it all

Also there was the whole "lost my only community once so if I'm building a new one I'm going to lose it if they disappear too" thing which. everyone goes off to do their own thing at the end of origins BUT he got it BACK in awakening so he was fine

AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON HIM AND ANDERS I.

It's 2am idk if any of this was good or coherent but um. I care him big. My sweet cheese. My rotten soldier

What got you into dragon age? Tell me about your Hero of Fereldon. I want to hear about your grey warden. I know they all have "set backstories", but I personally like to add small details and add a little spice.

Tell me about their personality. Who did you romance? Or did you make like an OC to be perfect for them? Is there drama? Tell me the drama, I want to hear it. Nobody I know plays Dragon Age, and nobody wants to hear my rants.

Personally, I always play a Dalish elf. Because I'm native, it just kinda feels right for me. Like I can relate to the elves a lot. Even like, the city elves are essentially just put on reservations. I want to try a Dwarven playthrough, but it's really really hard for me to stray from routine. I've been a Dalish rogue main since I was 7, and Dragon age was the first game I was allowed to pick from the family video myself.

I know I usually post bg3 stuff, but the realms of Thedas are and always will be my first love, I can't break from my roots.