“Getting captured by a target seems a tad detrimental to one’s budding assassin career.” “Too bad for you, then.” “Yes, it’s true. Too bad for me.”

Gotta say, there’s beauty in the simplicity of 1v1-ing a golem as a fellow golem in the fade. I punch. You punch. We punch. Every once in a while one of us hurls a boulder. There’s just something about two little dudes just duking it out with their bare rock fists, y’know?

I have worked out why I dislike the Fade and the deep roads missions in dao. I can't read or navigate a map to save my life and I keep walking in god-damned circles. I'm in the deep roads now and I have gone down the same route a dozen times and I do it a dozen more times cos everything looks the same to me jfc why am I like this.

.A trip to Orlais.

Zev but with dark hair

I have such a backlog of dragon age art i never posted.... Here's my main Origins crew <3

>:)c

thank you dragon age origins mods

THE BATTLE OF OSTAGAR / dragon age: origins (2009)

if i had a nickle for every time i became enamored with the deceptive rogue elf x uses-humor-as-a-coping-mechanism-for-his-self-loathing ship, i would have two nickles. which isn't a lot,

DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS | REPLAY [1/?] ➸ A CHILD OF THE DALISH

“We are the last Elvhenan. Never again shall we submit.” “The Oath of the Dales, and no smart-mouthed comment? Thank the Creators for small mercies.”

this is like the first conversation scene of Dragon Age: Origins, and if we'd paid attention to it, we would have seen it was clear foreshadowing that the elven gods were "wrong" in a way that the Dalish don't expect. I've seen people claim the elven gods plot is some annoying new direction in the story that is made up to throw the series off track from what it's really about. so let me repeat myself

this conversation happens in the first ten minutes of Dragon Age: Origins

also I figured out how to use the Origins Toolset to look at the dialogue trees so you're all in a world of hurt

The Warden's story is basically about someone who is supposed to die and refuses to do so. They should die in their origin, but Duncan saves them. They should be killed by the Joining, but they survive. They should die at the Tower of Ishal, but Flemeth saves them. And if you take Morrigan's offer the main game ends with them looking at this situation that everything the Wardens know says should be absolutely, 100% fatal under any and all circumstances and saying "This is not going to kill me".

The Wardens as an organization have a whole thing about heroic sacrifice, giving their lives for the cause and all, to the point where every single Warden who lasts the full thirty years the Joining gives them is expected to end their lives with a suicide by darkspawn. The idea that their deaths should always be a sacrifice is in their motto. It's never put in the same frank terms as the Legion of the Dead, but in a way the Wardens are also a group that is "already dead"; their fate is sealed, whether they die immediately from the Joining, thirty years on from the taint, or somewhere in between in battle they are doomed. So it's interesting that our introduction to the Wardens is a character who depending on choices can just refuse to accept the inevitability of their own death. And it gets even better in Awakening, because the Warden can choose to sacrifice Amaranthine rather than leave their Wardens to die. The "correct" decision for a Warden would absolutely be to save the city! If the Amaranthine Wardens died so the city could be saved, that would be "right"! But the Warden can say "No, my Wardens are not expendable". That is very much not the choice a "good" Warden should make, but the Warden can do it!

I don't know, there's just something so good about the way a Warden who chooses not to sacrifice themselves to slay the Archdemon looks at the obsession with heroic sacrifice that permeates the Wardens as an organization and just refuses to be a part of it to the point where by Inquisition their goal is to ensure that no Warden needs to go on the Calling ever again, and I really hope that DA4 confirms that they succeed.

This. This. This entire conversation with Morrigan actually makes me want to sob. She and my Tabris always becomes close friends over the course of DAO; that, paired with the fact that my Tabris always romances Alistair, makes everything about this hurt so much more when you take DAO's ending into account.

Her confusion over why my Tabris didn't send her away. Why she didn't abandon her after they learned of Flemeth's plans. Why Tabris went out of her way to slay Flemeth and bring her the true grimoire. She asks Tabris why, and is baffled when the answer is, "I did it because I'm your friend," as if it's that simple.

The way Morrigan looks at the warden, the way her voice cracks when she says, "I want you to know that while I may not always prove... worthy... of your friendship, I will always value it."

She knows how this will end; Flemeth sent her with the wardens with the end goal of stopping the blight and obtaining the old god soul through the dark ritual. Morrigan knows that Alistair and Tabris are the only Grey Wardens here, and assuming they don't find more, one of them will have to die defeating the archdemon unless they agree to do the dark ritual.

With that context, her asking Alistair, "And what if a Grey Warden has forced to choose between the Warden he loved and ending the Blight? What should his choice be?" suddenly has so much subtext weaved through the words that I'm gonna start foaming at the mouth. She's practically telling Alistair that a warden has to die. She's scrutinizing his reaction to find any hint that suggests he would agree to the dark ritual in order to save himself and the woman he loves. And when he doesn't choose, she has her answer.

Morrigan made comments to Tabris about him, almost hopeful that their relationship was just a physical thing between them and not actually riddled with feelings... and then gives disapproval when Tabris says she loves him.

She doesn't want the warden to die; hell, she doesn't want Alistair to die, either; whether because she does actually care about him or because she knows it'll break her friend's heart if she loses him, or both!

Things would be so much easier if the only two Grey Wardens left to defeat the blight didn't fall in love, wouldn't they, Morrigan?

She knows that in the end, no matter the outcome, she will lose the woman she called sister and it's devastating.

Morrigan, who has never known true friendship. Who grew up isolated in the woods with an abusive mother and terrible implications for her future. Who discovered said mother planned to take over her body just as she did with her other daughters. Who doesn't understand kindness as it was rarely given to her without a catch. Who isolates herself from the others in camp. Who finally has a companion she cares about... and in the end, if her plan works and the dark ritual is completed, she'll end up pregnant and alone and wearing Tabris' resentment like a tender wound on her heart.

Or Tabris will reject the ritual, and will die to the archdemon.

Or her lover will.

I just- the dynamic between the warden, romanced Alistair, and Morrigan is so good and painful and rich that I'm gnawing on furniture as we speak.

do you guys ever think about fiona dragon age. at this point she has outlived most of her former comrades with whom she had gone through joining. there's a good chance she'll outlive her son no matter king or not because no crown can stop the taint in his blood. do you think about her being the only one who got lucky among her squad and the order as a whole. do you think about her getting free both as a warden and then a mage but still never escaping that one curse of watching people she cared about slowly fade away