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>recognize it as part of my divine punishment

(With dialogue from Origins, II, and Inquisition!)

My pal @boltlightning had this galaxy brain idea! I decided to build it out for fun.

Inspired by the 45 by 45 connections puzzle by Thomas Colthurst, and using its code as a base, I have made a fun(? hopefully!) game for people whose brains are full of Dragon Age quotes.

Here's how you play:

Click a quote that you recognize, then click on another quote spoken by the same person to stack them together.

Keep on clicking quotes and adding them to the correct stacks. (You can also add two stacks together.) When you have collected all of someone's quotes into one stack, it will show that your collection is complete by transforming into their name.

Don't worry - you don't have to finish the game in one go! Even if you close the window, your progress should save - as long as you come back with the same browser/device, you can continue where you left off.

The game will be complete once you have collected 27 stacks of 12 quotes each by 27 different Dragon Age characters. (All from DAO, DA2, and DAI! Sorry, I just haven't played DAV enough to have a brain full of quotes about it.)

PLAY THE GAME IN-BROWSER HERE

1. you immediately marry her

2. there is some reason for you not to marry, or some reason that your relationship will always be inherently unacceptable and illicit no matter what you do, to the extent that a marriage could not make this situation respectable or possibly you straight up can’t get the chantry to approve one for whatever reason

3. josephine montilyet, the Social Expectations woman, that’s her Whole Thing, has decided with zero words of dialogue on the subject to throw her reputation down the drain for no reason

YOU CAN’T JUST... DATE... we are in the setting that alistair fucking theirin comes from. that vivienne comes from. you can’t just DATE as EQUALS. either you are married or one of you is the mistress (gender neutral) and it’s not josephine bc her background is always higher status than yours! is it even possible for her as an unmarried woman to have a mistress (gender neutral) and still be acceptable in society let alone influential and universally beloved which is the requirement for her whole job and life purpose? and if you are that woman’s mistress (gender neutral) then for the love of god can we please talk about it and talk about WHY this is happening and the social forces at play because that is surely central to the dynamic!!! is it because you’re a woman? a mage? because you’re not human? i straight up can’t think of a reason for non-mage male trevelyan unless i just pretend something crazy like he’s already married?

if josephine is only asking you to marry her after ten years (TEN YEARS) then basically my only reasonable interpretation is that this relationship was for some reason that level of illicit and it has taken ten years for her to either literally change society enough for it to be possible to marry you, or to decide she does not care abt what everyone thinks actually. that’s all i’ve got. it’s so frustratinggg that the josephine romance wants to play with the high stakes and drama of courtly romance but it doesn’t understand what the stakes should be at all. this is the “whispers of an affair to bring people’s status crashing to the ground” region of thedas! this is the character for that! there’s all her rumour spreading and matchmaking war table missions! let me marry that woman or make it the big deal that it should be that i can’t! angry grumbling continues