At some point bioware decided to ignore that the most obvious dalish courtship ritual is GIFT GIVING, i think its a huge missed opportunity for a pure comedy gold
Like imagine mahariel making gifts for their LI over and over again but they just... don't get it for some reason!?!? Their partner says "it's nice" and "thank you" but that's it??? What if their LI don't actually want anything serious?? Was mahariel just misunderstanding their flirting this whole time???
Or Merrill getting extremely tense when Hawke gifts her, like, a wooden spoon or some shit. and immediately goes "things are moving way too fast hawke, i mean it's nice but so sudden!! and keeper Marethary knows you but you're a human and she won't bless the wedding and-- " and Hawke just π§ Stands there. With a wooden spoon.
Or lavellan being just BUFFLED by the amount "marriage proposals" they're given from the nobles, and frantically ask Josephine to tell people that they're not interested or that they're already taken and Josie has to explain the meaning "cultural differences" to them after figuring out wtf are they're even talking about
Like come on












