#i'm typing this on my phone so i'll find and attach screenshots later 😆🙂‍↕️🫶

[wyllzel]

okie i will sum up my worldstate then give my two cents haha 😁

hero of ferelden (the warden):

human noble warrior! 🧍🏻‍♀️🗡️ her name is lady inhye (인혜) cousland and i'm headcanoning that she was adopted by papa cousland lol bc she does not look like anyone in that family haha

sword and board expert 🤓

champion + templar specialties, but mostly focused on champion talents

we were level 20 by the endgame, but i skipped a bunch of sidequests and combats bc they were stressing me out more than being fun lol :'D

worldstate / companion endings:

she was wearing the juggernaut armor set and wielding starfang (☄️✨) and i think branka's shield

also i did the alistair romance lol 🥰

alistair (not "hardened") is king of ferelden and my warden is queen consort 😌👑💅

wynne stayed in court to be alistair's mage advisor!

at the coronation, leliana said she would leave to take care of the urn of sacred ashes... but in the epilogue, the urn "disappeared" so maybe she took it and ran? 😯

morrigan is pregnant with an old god so that's cool LMAO ???

oghren is vibing and drinking his way across the surface 🍻

zevran is on the run from the crows :')

sten said he would go back to the qunari 🫡

shale is off to achieve its goals, whatever those may be haha

loghain is dead 💀 i prompted alistair to execute him lol

i sided w the mages at the circle of magi so i believe they are thriving!

also the dalish elves possibly have more rights now lol? and i uncursed the werewolves ;_; 👍

connor (the redcliffe son) is alive and with the circle! arl eamon said he seems weird tho so uhhh idk that's his problem my job is done 😌

the dwarves unfortunately seem to have resumed their civil war 😭 i put harrowmont in charge and destroyed that awful golem anvil, but it seems like harrowmont lost any control he had fairly quickly.. and the dwarves are still trying to put the anvil back together... ;_; also i tried to help that guy establish a chantry outpost in orzammar but he ended up martyred what the heck 😭

so that was unfortunate LOL

alistair does not seem happy being king (sorry my guy 😭) and is off gallivanting instead of trying to pass helpful policies, he has a bastard child out there somewhere despite being unhappy w his existence as a bastard child, but at least he's madly in love w his wife ????? 😭 uhh i'm in my lady macbeth era 😍🥰🫶

and obviously the dwarves seem to be in a bad state

but uh

mostly happy endings all around yay!!!!!!!!!!

my gaming experience:

i played on normal difficulty bc i watched a video of the head game designer guy (?) on the steam store game profile where he was talking about how 'tactically minded' and 'strategic' you have to be to beat his 'super mega realistic and dark and edgy' game (paraphrasing) and i am competitive at heart and took it as a challenge 😭 and also i am always thinking about freaking g*ry g*gax (i hate him) and how he thinks women can't play dnd bc they're dumb (i hate him) 😭👎

normal difficulty was pretty tough tho, especially at the beginning when i was trying to get the hang of things HAHA so maybe i should've dialed it down... but i did beat the game on normal the whole way thru so take that g*gax!!! >:)

i did enjoy the combat system!! it was a bit of a slog, but close enough to bg3's turn-based combat and spells system that i was vibing, mostly 😆 i did like sword-and-board a lot and i'm glad it was actually very useful (unlike dnd 🤣) and had a lot of ability options!!

my run was about 73hrs long, but that's bc i had to restart battles multiple times HAHA

i almost gave up after completing the intro and getting to ostagar bc all the npcs were so misogynistic ;_; like literally everyone i was talking to at that point was like "HA you are a woman, everyone knows women can't fight 🤣🫵 you look so STUPID w your SWORD" and it felt rly awful... like c'mon... this is a world where dragons are old gods and ppl use magic and visit another dimension when they dream, you REALLY can't fathom that a woman would want to learn self-defense?? (also the gooner boob armor w those stupid leather chokers... eugh 🤮) it was just too much for me personally 😭 i'm already in a male-dominated workplace irl i don't need more of this gendered hostility when playing fantasy video game tyvm 😭

BUT i am glad i pushed thru bc there was less of That Nonsense as i carried on... and all the different locations we visited and the lore there were all really interesting!! ofc some stuff is "spoiled" for me since i've already played veilguard, where a lot of questions (ie. where lyrium comes from, why elves are in their current state, etc.) are answered, but it was cool seeing how info that's made clear in veilguard is obscured in origins!!

i'm still super intrigued by the maker and andraste - the puzzles before finding the urn were really cool!! especially the riddle room about andraste's personal history, i love riddles 🙂‍↕️ and iirc the maker and andraste don't rly have a big role in veilguard since that's mostly about elf and dwarf lore? 👀 so my fingers are crossed for more andraste lore in da2 and/or da:i 🙂‍↕️

i liked all the companions a lot!!! i wanted to tote morrigan around but she kept hitting me w disapprovals LOL so my main party was alistair (sword and board templar), leliana (ranged bard), and wynne (healer w nature & cold damage)

wynne was high-key carrying HAHA but my warden and alistair were definitely the high damage hitters 🗡️💥 i have no idea if i built leliana properly lol she was okie but she was mostly around to pick locks

leliana did carry in the final battle!!! i had her sprinting between ballistae and shooting the crap out of the archdemon sooo let's go leliana!!! 🤩🥳

i liked wynne and alistair's dynamic a lot!!! when she was talking about her son who was taken from her, and alistair lost his mom... i was like ;_; whenever they had a convo where wynne was nagging him or offering to take care of him ;_; except 🤨 then they had a REALLY WEIRD BANTER IN "RETURN TO OSTAGAR". AND NOW I'M LIKE. WHAT IN THE OEDIPUS 😭

also back off meemaw that's my man!!!!! 🙄

wynne is kind of a baddie tho bc oghren was aggressively hitting on her and she was just rolling w it, i hope they have a weird hookup at some point post-game 🙂‍↕️👍

speaking of oghren, i really like everything going on in orzammar - it was really complex, and the environment and story were all so dark but so well done????? like i genuinely felt kind of sick when interacting w ppl on the deep roads ;_; i hated branka... i know she's kinda crazy from the exposure to darkspawn/blight etc, but she was pretty awful and siding w caridin felt right 😭

okay i am rambling a lot haha but in conclusion - fun game!!! great characters and dynamics and environment!!! really interesting lore, and i feel that everything presented in veilguard both supports and complicates the ideas started in origins and vice versa!!! 👀 surprisingly cohesive for a story/game series that's been produced over the span of 15+ years!

GUESS WHO JUST BEAT DA:O HAHA >:D