Just imagine Neria Surana, a 17 y/o something mage from the Circle got recruited into the oh so secretive order of darkspawn fighters, accompanied by the also a young warden named Alistair (who we later learned was actually a royal bastard) to save the whole Ferelden after the order got wiped clean.
Neria don't know jack shit about the "rules" about being a warden so it's just her and this himbo, who tried his best to be her frontline attacker, trying to reunite the whole nation bcs of this crumpled paper of an old treaty (stolen by a witch deep in the forest mind you). Oh and they have to do their errands first then got the help they needed.
And along the way we met these people who we didn't bother to force them into Joining, and just "you're strong. i like you. lets be friends and save the world i guess". Like it's so One Piece-coded with me as Luffy and Alistair as Zoro, my second in command.
Cause look at my non grey warden crew. We got:
fellow warden who willingly go into the frontline for me but also dumped all the responsibilities on me, the freshly recruited elven mage
sus hot mommy who practiced old magic that is older than even everyone
scary looking qunari man probably accused of murder
church choir girl (who can shoot arrows and... sing?)
failed assassin/whore who were sent to kill us and failed
my mom from the Circle
heartbroken drunken dwarven man
a dog
a rock
And to enter this crew all of them only had to show interest in helping our cause, me liking them bcs they're nice/funny and strong. With no cost of them Joining.
This game is the best.
