Deep Roads Apologist

yeah yeah companion quests in Awakening are like, two lines of dialogue at most but to be completely fair if I were just trying to enjoy my lunch break and the Goddamn Hero of Ferelden barged in, armed to the teeth, POINTED at ME (on lunch break) and said She's (only now I would realize Sigrun is awkwardly standing behind them looking like she's about to throw up (I was distracted by the frankly absurd amount of weapons they carry) (it's my fucking lunch break)) literally sorry. Here's some gold. I would too consider the matter settled

solas/cadash couldn't happen because he'd be in his little study all sad and torn up about his Deal™ and cadash (absolutely clueless about the Deal™) would be like "maybe a little backstabbing and sabotage could cheer you up? i've got a cousin who needs to learn a lesson" and his sheer love for the game would take over and he'd black out and only come to his senses forty years down the line, deep into a surprisingly wholesome marriage (thirty-seven years and counting) to the head of the cadash family, now the strongest branch of the carta on the surface, bunch of dwarves calling him boss, a bunch more calling him uncle, he has grown a moustache,

im not saying illario isn't an attractive man or that you can't fix him but bhelen did all that much more competently, he would treat miss y/n right. On account of actually getting the job.

cassandra's romance is fun because there's a non-zero number of scenes that are less about you sweeping her off her feet and more about you watching whatever the fuck she's got going on with varric, making romancing her the closest we'll ever get to understanding what the da2 love interests had to live through

look all i'm saying is that Leske survives in five out of the six potential origins and that his life in Orzammar is pretty much over and that facing whatever the hell is going on Up There can't be worse than being jobless, traumatized and ostracized even by other casteless in Dust Town and that maybe he could ingratiate himself with a branch of the Carta that doesn't care about what he did or didn't do to Beraht and listen, none here knows how low the hiring standards of House Cadash were like in 9:30 Dragon,

mmmmmayhaps a dwarf warden should have had the whole confrontation with marjolaine turned on its head, with leliana being set on killing her at the start and you having to talk her out of it before the option to just let her go appears. just because. don't mind the suspiciously Tug-shaped elephant in the room

usually I'm very "don't tell me what to do" regarding the implied age of customizable player characters (this fucker I'm piloting for the next sixty or so hours is forty-three at their youngest and the game will have to deal with it) but I've gotta hand it to Dragon Age, the Warden has to be pretty young. Unfortunately "hmm. I wonder what would happen if I put on this dude's armor and pretend to be him while I kick the asses of a bunch seasoned warriors who have been fighting darkspawn longer than I've been alive?" is a deeply twenty years old idea to have 😔