#quest meme

oh realizing that gwendolen cousland and anora could get married in the multi-warden worldstate (and that it was the outcome with the most substantial logical backing behind it, even) was an incredible moment. like.

gwen’s not even a warden in that worldstate, she’s just been allied with them for the majority of the game, so nobody can throw a fit about them putting a warden on the throne

eydis aeducan doesn’t care who’s on the throne so long as they feel they owe her somehow, so she’s happy regardless. (also, she thinks these backwater human politics are charming)

sulina mahariel would vastly prefer a compassionate and empathetic ruler on the throne over a technically competent ruler, and gwen’s been around and seen enough of the tragedies visited upon ferelden’s most vulnerable subjects that she trusts her to. you know. be baseline conscientious.

gwen is easier to talk into marrying anora on account of they’re both gay for each other and have been trying to hide it since they were teenagers.

eamon guerrin is big mad if alistair’s not on the throne and that sparks joy

eamon guerrin is big mad if anora’s on the throne, and that sparks joy

eamon guerrin is big mad both at the reminder that not only were both bryce cousland and loghain mac tir more popular than he’ll ever be, their daughters are also individually and collectively more popular than he’ll ever be, and that sparks joy

ferelden’s lesbian queens sparks nothing but outrage for eamon guerrin and nothing but joy for me

the sob story about how rendon howe betrayed the couslands and attempted to murder them all and then kidnapped anora with her father’s permission and locked her away and then gwen cousland murdered the shit out of him to avenge her household and whisked her lady love away to safety played really well for the onlooking crowd of banns. they ate that shit up.

leliana should write a heroic ballad about it

leliana should write a heroic ballad about it and have the final verse resolve “also I’m the mistress to the queens of ferelden now don’t hate me ‘cause you ain’t me"

¿por qué no los dos?

champions of the just is sadly just objectively a better/more lore friendly/more narratively coherent quest than in hushed whispers. but I also can’t leave fiona and dorian hanging like that ToT

so Alden Trevelyan (the guy what with the glowy hand) and Leliana go recruit the mages while Kataara Adaar (the apostate what will eventually become inquisitor) and Cassandra go ferret out wtf is up with the templars and disband and conscript them.

I haven’t read any of the mass effect tie-in comics or novels

I sided with Sloane (and tbhhhhhhhh bioware did her dirty in how they framed that choice - and the fandom response to both characters was excessively predictable). At least with Sloane, you know exactly what you’re getting. Reyes? Woof. Nah. No idea. No thank you. I don’t need to find out the hard way.

oh *places head in hands* oh i haven’t revisited broken circle since i decided to swap rafael from the surana origin to the tabris origin. oh it’s different now that’s so weird. it’s no longer his personal lil psychological torture chamber. oh, arl of redcliffe plays differently with jowan now too. this is what i get for letting spiro and rowan gallivant off into the sunset with anders for the duration of the blight instead of being forced to stick around and reap the consequences of irving’s actions. I’m having a moment wow both these quests vibe so different without raf there.

I guess they... say fuck the templars and... recruit wynne... and that’s it I guess. it’s a perfectly normal quest that no warden is deeply emotionally attached to. wynne still regrets all the life decisions that lead her to horny twentysomething jail.

Oh yeah!! Orzammar is a blast because, at the end of everything, considering I moved Orzammar after the Landsmeet, everyone finally gets some insight into why Eydis happens to be Like That jkdjs;s

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man I canNOT think about priority: rannoch without remembering how my roommate at the time full-body yeeted themself across the room to power off the XBox when they failed the reputation check and [SPOILERS SPOILERS]. that paragon interrupt is brutal. had to go all the way back to a save halfway thru me2. what a good quest, tho.

This is a delightful question actually because when Tabitha (my first girl) was my canon Hawke I decided to ignore All that Remains so long ago that I often forget about it completely. (Leandra lives happily, marries Bodahn, becomes viscount, and lives a long life in her beautiful house with her beautiful daughter Bethany and her wife, Merrill) This is because I think the women in refrigerators trope is boring and offensively lazy and I hate that DA2 potentially pulls it twice in a single playthrough with Bethany as well as Leandra.

That said! Rethinking it in the context of Juniper (my worst girl) I’m totally gonna kill Leandra. Gonna cut this for length here.