#i cant get into the possession or abomination mechanics of dragon age or ill get a headache though

[stayatsam]

going to gush about my Rook for a moment here

i know im gonna have to play the same Rook twice because i can equally see him going for either Lucanis OR Davrin since he has a lot in common with both.

when i was building Sal Thorne as my Rook, i had his story laid out as having joined the Wardens after darkspawn wiped his village, during which he had temporarily become possessed by a demon linked to his hatred to save himself. while he's not possessed by the time the game starts he's still haunted by hatred in his memories, and it wears his face.

so getting to Lucanis being posessed by a demon of spite that wears HIS face i immediately switched my brain from Warden x Warden to him....

personality-wise though he's definitely most similar to Davrin in that nothing is more important to Sal than 1. Stopping blights so that no one has to experience what he did 2. Kill as many darkspawn as humanly possible before he dies, which hatred whispers to him every night. he's very much of the same mind in that they're both willing to sacrifice their bodies and minds to save people who won't even know they exist, and are straightforward in their approach, and willing to make the hard decisions

Sal's also completely detached himself from the rest of society, devoting himself entirely to the Wardens and his mission to protect the average person from an unending threat that he knows he won't and doesn't even want to be thanked for.

i know the game kind of establishes a warden Rook as your average 'rank-n-file warden' but i really like the idea of him being a Senior Warden, having been with the wardens for 15 years, since he joined at 18 and is roughly 32-33 in Veilguard.

ok that's all i have for now :)