Dragon Age: Origins & Roleplaying (plot spoilers).

[cloned_fiction]

So, I've been getting into discussions on RPing games over at the Mark Plays Dragon Age comments, and someone actually asked me about my characters and their story. Baaaaad idea. This is just my main DA:O character. I tried to write up my main DA2 character as well, but too many feelings got in the way, so for now there's just this.

Comments

[wake_the_dragon]

I think the Aiducan Warden can't become the king/queen of Ozamar because they're now considered a surface dwarf, and therefore casteless.

[cloned_fiction]

That makes sense, but I was still surprised the game didn't even give the Warden the opportunity to try and revolutionise the caste system and get him/herself elected. At this point I hadn't played many of these kinds of games and I wasn't used to common sense taking precedence over drama and a good, but sappy and cliché, story.

My Warden, Part One

[wake_the_dragon]

Name: Cordelia Cousland

Re: My Warden, Part One

[wake_the_dragon]

Mages: She sided with the mages. She was really annoyed by the Fade, which only made her more determined to kill the Sloth Demon

Re: My Warden, Part One

[cloned_fiction]

A Cousland! I have a Cousland floating around about 1/4 of the way into the game that I put on a shelf until I can make up my mind whether she romances Liliana or Alistair (on the one hand, being queen next to Ali sounds good, on the other the angst between Ali and my mage might make a better romance and I want to romance Lil at least once with a female Warden (which both my mage and Cousland are) but there's still my female Dalish elf that I could romance Lil on. I really liked the Cousland origin story (I don't mean I liked watching her family all die and stuff, but I thought it was a very emotional story that really sucked me in). I forgot to mention that in my Aiducan's story she didn't punch Alistair out at the start of the cutscene and so couldn't stop him from sacrificing himself because he still loved her and couldn't let her die. Watching him kill the archdemon and having him die in her arms broke her heart all over again, and I'm pretty sure she just disappeared after the battle was over.

Re: My Warden, Part One

[wake_the_dragon]

The Cousland origin is definitely my favorite; I liked the Cousland family for the most part and I was so sad when they all died. It was the most emotional origin for me of the ones I've played.

I have a Cousland floating around about 1/4 of the way into the game that I put on a shelf until I can make up my mind whether she romances Liliana or Alistair (on the one hand, being queen next to Ali sounds good, on the other the angst between Ali and my mage might make a better romance and I want to romance Lil at least once with a female Warden (which both my mage and Cousland are) but there's still my female Dalish elf that I could romance Lil on

I blame Bioware for making so many interesting characters romanceable in their games. I eventually want to make a Warden to romance Zevran, because I really liked him (though not as much as I liked Alistair).

Aiducan's story she didn't punch Alistair out at the start of the cutscene and so couldn't stop him from sacrificing himself because he still loved her and couldn't let her die.