#i have a screenshot of alistair from DAO right after he tells Warden that he's a prince

[celestialmudd]

ahhh steam has screenshots from my favorite game, so now im feeling nostalgic because the game is too old to run on my PC :''''''''''''''( all i can do is tenderly hold these screenshots with my digital hands (and maybe try my hand at redrawing them)

[cilant-lis]

rhian's time in dao pt.2

i can't stop myself from imagining just how gorgeous denerim would look if origins ever got remastered....

wahoo, romance with leli unlocked! i love her so much. kissing her in camp, kissing her in denerim, kissing her on a random battlefield, kissing her in front of the corpse of brother genitivi's assistant

perfect timing for the ghoul tamlen encounter :') on the way to the temple of sacred ashes and right after locking in leliana's romance, just as rhian got a tiny sliver of happiness, wham, gutpunch! (oh how i wish there was more companion reactivity, maybe even a cutscene of tamlen's funeral? i have to do everything myself smh)

respeccing rhian as dex dual wielding warrior because of story reasons (definitely not because i hate playing warriors)

i forgot how creepyy haven is. and how the inquisition decided to settle on top of the said freaky place.

more delicious angst for rhian with the guardian's test, but also some closure at last with the spirit-tamlen somewhat alleviating their survivor's guilt

at the urn of sacred ashes: leliana having a deep religious experience while morrigan, zevran and rhian are like 'wow, a vase....'

ugh eamon. hate that guy

off we go to orzammar and deep roads! first time going there with rhian. they're going to hate all the politics stuff sooo much

choosing the 'give me my troops' option every single conversation. i think rhian would support bhelen not because they care about his politics, but because they found bhelen less annoying than harrowmont

i think the most world-changing decision in the entire game is giving leliana a nug. in this essay i will-

bless the faster moving speed mod, breezed through the deep roads while still getting the lovely, creeping dread atmosphere <3

speaking of creepy, somehow i remember the boobmother broodmother fight being much harder. it took less than five minutes now, even though i'm playing on hard. honestly the stupid road to the anvil of the void took more time

cairdin :( i regret not bringing shale to the quest i gotta look up its dialogue during the quest

wahoo, congrats on the coronation bhelen. NOW GIVE ME MY TROOPS

back to denerim we go, and wouldn't you know it, another crash...

two elves and a mage walk into arl of denerim's estate, somehow no one bats an eye, until the arl is killed and all his prisoners are freed (except for vaughan, rest in piss)

captured! my favourite quest! this time i had rhian break out on their own and it was sooo funny. didn't expect being able to seduce the guard with my 'male' warden, but we honestly the unnamed guard is a bicon

doing the alienage quest and i'm wondering, how long ago did the riots take place? and was it during this uprising that the orphanage was wiped out? idk if i'm conflating the two but it really doesn't add up? the corpses are all bones inside, and the beggar outside of the orphanage is an adult? i guess i need to replay the tabris origin for a refresher

love how blase eamon is about what happened in the alienage. shame we can't kill the guy

i'm a queen anora truther, and nothing will ever change that. i'm tempted to play a cousland just so i can marry her <3

landsmeet cutscene is so great for screenshots, i can't concentrate on what is actually being said lmao. i briefly thought of conscripting loghain, but taking roleplaying into account, i don't think rhian would forgive him for what he did in the alienage. (and by now they no longer see being a warden as a punishment)

rhian entering their absent parent era... such an icon (WHY can't we discuss this with our love interest??? blease let me tell leliana and alistair at least) and in the wonderful version of dragon age that exists in my head, morrigan and rhian perform a blood magic ritual instead of boning

the final goodbyes with the companions ;_;

gods, i hate the final battle drag. just teleport me to the archdemon

rhian is my special little guy and they got the final blow animation on the archdemon AND the cutscene (even though in my worldstate they're not even the one to kill it but oh well)

wish the boon the warden chooses had some sort of an impact in the later games... the dalish getting a chunk of land in ferelden is kind of significant, isn't it

after the game, rhian visits their clan (the half of it which remained in ferelden) with leliana, and finally has a brief moment of respite, even if it's only a week. after that, they travel to weisshaupt to get officially recognised as the warden-commander (and in my canon worldstate report on alvea's 'death') and eventually return to ferelden

[erikacousland]

"We... need to talk." 

… Crap, I made a mistake. Never tell him you care about him if your PC is a woman and just want be friends with him.

"I don't really question why you did what you did. I didn't want to become king, and you knew that, but it had to be." What sorts of questions? "First, there's the fact that both you and I are Grey Wardens. It's not just a question of obligation, but of blood. You know that Grey Wardens don't usually live to become old, right?" What do you mean? "The taint in our blood... the taint we took in at the Joining... it will kill us in the long run. Grey Wardens maybe live to their forties at most, no longer."

Loghain is in his 50s in DAO… And 10 years later in DAI, he still healthy enough to kick most Warden warriors' ass.

"As king, I'll be required to have a child. Even more so because my death is assured. That's assuming that someone with the taint can or even should have a child." Don't Grey Wardens have children? "Not with each other. Even one parent having tainted blood means having children is not recommended. All the Grey Wardens I knew with children had them before they joined the Order."

Well this is a horrible news for a 'duty first' Cousland, when they don't know does Fergus still alive.

"I love you. More than I ever thought possible, but... I have to face what this means. I can't run away from it any more."

You joking, right. You tell me nobody cares about you in the morning, make me feel I mean nothing to you, and now you say you love me? WTF!

"No, I'm sorry. I'm not joking. I wish I were. I could see it becoming very hard to tear myself away from you. Impossible, even. If this is what must be, then... then I have to do it now. I'm sorry."

You'll be a good king. "But I'd gladly trade all of those things for what I really want. I... need to go back to the camp. Be by myself for a while."

OK, that's why my F!Brosca is only one who loved him, and threw herself to the Archdemon and died. And you know what? When the game epilogue slideshow open, I know the only one who heartbreak for her is… Zevran. Even she refused him because she's loyal to Alistair. I just "Whoa… I need loading to before The Landsmeet. Keep Loghain to the Archdemon, and give my Brosca's BFs' pretty ass to his ambitious politician bi**h sister-in-law. So he'll dumped her, then she can hug her true love and Happily Ever After!"

Dragon Age: Origins Screenshots 1920×2160

The Landsmeet, Epilogue: "I can't run away from it any more."

(Erika) Did everyone forgot to invite Alistair? (Morrigan) Tis' a family party, I thought.