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we got a sequel

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not a single thing in DAI can compare to the feeling of horror and dread i got when Hawke followed the puddles of blood thru kirkwall at night after discovering that leandra was sent flowers by a serial killer

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it was not always sad times

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CONFESSION:

I just finished reading the Dragon Age Comics that featured Fenris and I really enjoyed them. The writer did a fantastic job writing him and I literally could hear Gideon Emery's voice when I read it. I know it probably won't happen but I think it would be amazing if Fenris was in the next game even if its just a quick cameo.

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What Happen To The Hand (unfinished)

Never gonna finish this so might as well post it here

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what do y'all imagine Maximum Angst™ solas is like

like we see him get big mad a couple times throughout inquisition and his interaction with low approval inquisitor is a Gift but

what is he like when he's truly, righteously, deeply angry and hurting? what was he like when he realized what happened to mythal? quiet, brooding wrath, or "I'm going to destroy Everything Immediately with fire and blood"?

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i just finished trespasser and in this house we meme to cope

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"Duncan, my mentor, he spoke of you"

"Duncan... Right... Good man"

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Blackwall: Hey, do you want a quickie?

Cullen: A what?

Blackwall: A quickie.

Cullen, flustered: Excuse me?

Blackwall: A quickie, one of those Orlesian pastry things.

Cullen: IT’S PRONOUNCED QUICHE.

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do you ever think about how zevran is the only love interest still traveling with the warden?? do you ever cry??????

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The idea of Cassandra and Dorian being trashy romance novel buddies delights me to no end. 

(Especially if they’re the sort of people who can keep a blank face while reading smut but completely lose it over fluff)

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morrigan should’ve cackled at least one time in dragon age. a golden opportunity utterly wasted

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Just a quick Fenris painting. Because that face…

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How do you feel about Blackwall's whole deal? I think I prejudiced myself against him in all future playthroughs by romancing him in the first one b/c I very much did not love how he treated my inquisitor during the reveal.

I've never romanced him, so I can't speak to that. Otherwise... honestly, it's a good arc. They somehow made it kind of... boring, but the plot itself is pretty good. I mean, a man does something horrific largely by accident (he didn't mean to kill children; it was kind of fucked up just in general but the kids dying was not part of his plan) and plans to spend his entire life making up for it to the point of going back and admitting to his true identity when one of his men was going to be executed even though a) he was fine and would've avoided all consequences if he'd just stayed away and b) even going back he as a "Warden" could've invoked the Right of Conscription and protected the guy without revealing his identity! He willingly chooses to take on the consequences of his actions, even if it means his death! That's a powerful storyline, especially in a game like Inquisition where so much of the cast just... gets away with horrible shit that they've done, took part in or allowed.

Honestly it kind of makes the rest of the cast look bad comparatively (compare Cullen hastily disavowing all knowledge of the things Meredith was doing right in front of him and at least some of the time with his input and getting away with a massive promotion even though the Knight-Captain of the Gallows was quite possibly the worst person to put in charge of the military branch of an organization that was supposedly neutral in the mage-Templar conflict with Blackwall here willingly submitting himself to justice after getting away with what he did and accepting even execution as a fair punishment), but in isolation it's a very good character arc and I wish they'd done more of that sort of thing. It's good for your characters to face consequences and have to make up for the awful things they did rather than just brushing it under the rug and hoping nobody notices! The way Blackwall tries to do the latter but in the end can't go through with it is very good for his character and as an arc in its own right, but also causes problems for the "sympathetic" characters who successfully cover up their misdeeds and don't have that crisis of conscience that forces them to own up to what they did or were part of.

Also I like that it's actually treated as a complicated situation; Blackwall meant to do something bad, but not as bad as it ended up being, and he regrets that and learns from it. Unlike with some other parts of the story as far as I remember Bioware doesn't really tell you what the "correct" choice is (aside from Cullen, who was at the least complicit in the torture and potentially the murder of all the innocents in the Gallows, insisting he deserves to die for what he did which is... genuinely kind of funny; the only reason you're still alive is that I'm not allowed to judge you for your crimes, dude); it's up to the player to decide whether death is just in this case or if Blackwall should make up for what he did by continuing the path he started on and doing good. Ah... proper grey morality. It's good to see it again.

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Carver showing up in Act 2 like,

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“Merrill”