[dragon age] the ps5 is here... the game is here... it's TIME (spoilers obvs)
though tbh i probably won't make it through the character creator tonight. or if i do it'll be barely. this shit takes me HOURS
just so everyone knows it's been two hours. i am just now finishing my rook
And now you get to make your inquisitor!
NO,
anyway heres my rook
CUTE!!!
don't ask me for a name it's going to and i'm going to die
at least the class part is easy. it's all elf rogue all the time BAYBEE
man they totally removed how i usually play rogues though lmao... damn. i want to be a tornado of knives. fuck this dueling shit
oh wait is Rook the first name???
rook's a nickname!
AH okay
i was like damn they givin me surnames here what
alksdj but yeah i was kind of disappointed with the rogue stuff bc i don't use bows and i don't care for the trap stuff so duelist was my only option
and that was just. eh.
yeah no i am always a two handed dagger rogue so this is like. boooo
lol one of your first special attacks is basically being a knife tornado
WELL GOOD BECAUSE THAT'S ALL I EVER WANT TO DO
every game i am an elf rogue and i am here to stab things
except for da2 where i had to be hawke but like you know
now i get to fight the name, aka where i die. naming OCs takes me six business years.
okay this could take me 27,000 years but in the interest of Not doing that. I'm going with Thalia
ugh god why did they make a character creator that doesn't have the same FUCKING OPTIONS as the previous one if you're making a character from an old game
WHY DIDN'T YOU MODEL IN THE FUCKIN HAIRSTYLES
this is
the start of you questioning
many of their choices lmao
WELCOME TO A BIOWARE GAME I LIVE IN HELL--
this is as close as im getting lmao
from inq, for reference
well honestly these were the character creator references but like hurgles there's only so much i can d
do*
SO THAT TOOK FOUR HOURS.
god i made her short for an elf and she's barely taller than varric im fuckin LAUGHING
i have to go to bed but. this is exactly what i thought. character creator took sixteen thousand yeasrs
stupidest thought I've had playing the new dragon age so far: "oh, so if you walk into fire. it makes you be on fire. huh"
(still playing the tutorial)
forgot to say but i had to stop bc tabletop tonight but i got through the tutorial, so that's fun
i love the game is like "yknow look around if you want" and im taking every opportunity to turn this place upside down
at some point this game will laugh at me for stalling but if i spent 200 hours in DAI 100%ing the entire thing ur damn right im doing it here,
oh haha okay the blight is VERY back, got it--
fuck that mayor dude tho he can go straight to hell
blegh i hate how sympathetic they're making solas lmao
like... i know, i know, they're retconning some stuff, but cmon
the whole thing of solas vs the other gods was supposed to be a nuanced thing and now they're like. lol no they're all bad and the dalish are STUPID. sucks to suck
its just. rolls my fuckin eyes. lol. lmao. sighs
idk this is def me as the #1 Solas Hater but they really did bend over backwards to make this bitch right, huh
hey solas if you were so correct maybe you should have told someone eh
ITS JUST LIKE... so much of the lore of the other games was the elves were persecuted for following their religious beliefs, and their gods, which nobody believed in or gave a shit about
and now SUDDENLY. everybody knows. and also they were all cunts. so ig the dalish were stupid little assholes
well solas didnt like them so if hes right then that tracks
i do love that varric says specifically he picked rook basically because they were hawke 2: the second one
thats so on brand for him
"this is my preferred kind of idiot"
he needs to find some crazy little freak who will do some nuts bullshit
but yeah lmao solas just. being right. i'm glad i didn't give my rook vallaslin in this one but hugghhgughguugh
idk man it makes me feel like some kind of asshole having my inq as a dalish who fucking loved her clan and her history and it sucks shit having all of this Happen
did you know the elven gods are running amuck bc the elven gods are free and running amuck hey shall we say it again, the elven gods are- did you hear- the elven-
ROLLS MY EYES
man the antivan crows shouldn't even exist anymore. they just do not give a shit about zevran ever again
the writing is a little Weird in this one
like I know im particularly sensitive to this bc the original elves vs humans thing in DAO was written explicitly to mirror jews vs christians lmao
like andraste is fucking jesus. the Maker is christian god. and anyone who doesnt like that gets their ass kicked culture broken and people killed
and the longer the series has gone on the more they want to change their Elf Lore and its like yall fucked up so bad ya dont even know
LIKE IMMA KEEP GOING theres obviously way more to this story but bioware keeps finding new ways to cyberbully me
now all the gods are either evil or assholes ig?
dude
the way they handle solas in this game is
one of my top complaints
they spent years building him up just to have him be ur bestie while you take down other gods ??????
every writer at bioware is a solas fucker and it SHOWS
well i've done a couple quests now, got thru a couple in the crossroads and picked up Lucanis
but my only problem so far is I can't fuckin!! run around all these new spaces!!
i want to explore! i want to buy things! rude ass
ok im allowed to go back to the crows' area at least omg
YEAH you always get to go back after thank god
I MEAN LIKE i doubt they're gonna let me go back to the ossuary
so i was being Very Thorough
SO I totally ran into a boss battle i wasnt supposed to in antiva HAJKL;GSA
GOT A GOOD FUCKING WAY THROUGH IT THOUGH
if this makes sense to anyone: it was the deep sorrows champion. i think the little icon next to it implied i should be level 25. i am level 9.
omg i was 12 against a like 35 boss i think and it took Years but then i didnt even level killing it i was so mad
WOWWWW HLQKJFASD
i did not win but. i got a solid 3/4ths of the way through before i ate shit and died
and all without a warrior even!!
we had to come back to that one too lol
Also there are things later that to acknowledge at least that Solas is still trying to fuck the whole world with what he wants to do, so there's that at least.
I'm hoping for more though.
But yeah, the lack of Zevran acknowledgement bugs me too... they even killed his Talon in a Tevinter Nights story.
hhhh yeah until they tell me solas is actually a huge dick i won't be happy but like. you know
for now i'm fucking around treviso and finding every fast travel point and lamenting my lack of money LMAO
you'll get plenty when you sell the valuable items
that's what they're for. Sell them to murchants and you raise the strength of the faction of the merchant you sell it too, as well
oh no I have I just keep bankrupting myself buying things
oh lmao
LIKE TRUST ME i will get more im just. i want all the things forever
so ill be poor a while
totally fair, we do this too
especially with gifts and momentos
YES that's literally what's been gettin gme
do i have no money? yes. do i have one (1) area unlocked and already have 20 mementos? also yes
ugh now im torn bc i have this weird marker on my map that says it's an eluvian but i can't find the fucker
like by all intents and purposes i should be right on top of the fucker AND it says it's the level i'm on can i just?? not have it yet??
alright well i think i've gone everywhere they're gonna let me go for the time being LMAO i'll have to come back later with more companions
i wish they would let me lay down map waypoints tho this is getting a little anoying
god i found another memory in crossroads about how great solas was and im so
i know im being a hater rn but im gonna do it harder. im a fuckin hater
i don't give two shits about his reasoning, even in like the initial conversation his whole plan was like "yes people will die but that's a sacrifice I'M willing to make" bullshit so
fuck you solas lmao
IT JUST SUCKS LIKE they make so many choices for your rook and so far they've just been. so fuckin up solas' ass whether you want them to be or not
like ive been nothing but rude to his bitch ass in the fade but every time i get a memory it's ooooh he's so saaaaad :c
yeah i really hope that changes bc i hated solas when he was just a pretentious asshole in inquisition but i hate him even more now lmao
also i never thought i'd say it but i wish he'd stay bald
HE LOOKS EVEN WORSE WITH HAIR I'M SORRY-
they saw everyone thirsting over his concept art and then decided to give only the worst parts of that
oh harding's hearing voices oKAY
ughhhh bellara is so CUTE im going to DIE
her little artifact quest in arlathan is killing me ;;
HUMMINGBIRD...
man this game is trying really hard not to let you just explore freely among a world bc people got all up in a twist about people getting lost in the hinterlands
well i went back and got that mfer i was underlevelled for and i died once- but it was my mistake- and then kicked it's fuckin ass
(im lv 14 lmao)
but NOW im going to bed
man i wish i knew when i was getting the rest of my fuckin companions
having a perma party comp of 3 rogues and 2 mages is killing me
yeah it's WILD that they don't give you any warriors till uh. right before A Big Choice
i literally just want all my party members lmao
honestly im feeling it most when i have to have Neve in the party, not bc i don't like her or w/e but because I like having Lucanis (so I'm not the only one close-quarters) but neither Neve nor Lucanis heal
so i always have to have bellara or harding and it's like. blertghgusdf
i also just kind of can't determine what the hell i'm supposed to be doing in this game yet but most early bioware games have that problem
(early in the plot of a bioware game, i should say)
oh a warden? i'm finally meeting a warden?? can i fuckign hAVE MORE PARTY MEMBERS
Neve and Lucanis both have healing abilities!
You just have to level them up and manually select them as part of their hot set of 3
(while Bellara and Harding have them preloaded as default choices)
iirc all your companions have one healing option
(But also yes. Uh. No spoilers but once you finish Davrin's quest it jumps instantly to a BIG CHOICE you have to make.)
FUCKIN. WHERE IS NEVE'S. I CANNOT FIDN IT
AUGH GOD THERE IT IS, FUCK, I'VE BEEN SUFFERING FOR NO REASON
anyway good to know, i'm going to uhhh "meet the first warden at the cobbled swan" so i think that's. not this. but ig we'll see
No, it's when you go through the eluvian for it.
IIRC it's very clear "You are going to go get a warden to recruit someone for your team"
OKAY well thats good
cuz yeah im out here like where are more party members thANK YOU
YEAH It took me by surprise
Like I expected something like this more to come at the end of an act not midway through it???
so I lost a whole day to save scum back to before it.
OH SHIT IT'S DORIAN
(I PROBABLY didn't need to but I wanted to Be Sure...)
DORIAN
thank you gayboy i need fucking backup against this shem bitch
okay NOW i'm at the point where i'm doing davrin's quest so
HERE WE GO,
oh no this grey warden is french. i'm glad he's not my party member
Did you notice who voices the First Warden?? 
oh god no i was so blindly mad at him KSJHLDFGSA
It's Nicholas Bolton lol
Also Viper is someone you should recognize
OH i always play femhawke i... didn't even notice KHLJSDG
and yeah viper is fucking matt mercer. why would anyone make an anything without matt mercer
lmao well Bolton has been in all of them! He's the dipshit noble son in the city elf origin as well as m!Hawke and Xenon. I screamed when we went back to play Origins again and realized lol
Me when I recognized Fenris with the Templar in Lothering
HAHJLKAFAS GOD well welcome back bolton
oh i see this is the. minrathous/trevioso choice, i've heard this is the end of act 1??
no!
you've got a ways to go
UGH FUCK IT KILLS ALL THE SIDEQUESTS THOUGH...... so now i ahve to reload an old save
YEAH it does
i hate when games do that without warning
deeply annoying lmao
bc ofc the two sidequests i hadn't done yet was.... wait for it... in minrathous and treviso
im leaning towards saving minrathous though. because dorian is there and also. fucking venatori. but STILL
yeah i do every sidequest before i finally move on to the next story question, just to be sure LMAO like I GET IT BUT ALSO
yeah i went with minrathous too bc like. i don't want to say "well just civilians dying is Less Bad" bc it's still a horrible situation no matter what
YEAH I MEAN i never know exactly how long the main story quests are
but neve had a point that the venatori being in a good spot to stage a coup is REALLY FUCKING BAD for a country that's already as corrupt as tevinter is
YEAH i saved minrathous, her argument was fucking sound
reeeeeally glad i did not go with the antivan crows background like i was thinking HAHLSK;FASD
but yeah like. tevinter is fucked already and also before this the antivan crows sucked shit?? like sorry bioware that you're rewriting this whole Thing but. they do, so
I ended up saving Terviso which is deliciously painful if you play a shadow dragon.
like just some A+ straight through the heart.
YIKES KLJSHDGSA
but also everyone else I know saved Treviso so PLEASE TALK ABOUT HOW THIS GOES I'm so curious!!
yeah no i picked the veil jumpers bg so likeeee i am REMOVED from this
but yeah like... idk treviso is Nice and i like it but also bioware originally set up the antivan crows as villains because, surprise, they were shady assholes
but once again they've revisionist history'd this whole thing
hell they even removed the elf racism from minrathous they tried to make Everything less bad
I mean like my reasoning (ic) was "Terviso has no standing army they just have the crows they are fucked if we don't help them. Minrathos has the shadow dragons who I know personally are incredible and a fantastic army, they have a much better chance."
YEAH i mean that's fair enough
though i mean, technically the antaam should also fight in treviso but. yknow. shrug emji
y e a h
tbh as much as this choice really fucked me up i REALLY liked it bc like
both sides have a point!
it's a tough ass decision
i liked being slapped in the face with it even tho i was caught off by it happening so EARLY dfgljk
i'm honestly just surprised they'd do this before you even have your whole party LMAO
YEAH
i had to backtrack too bc i hadn't done anything in treviso and i hadn't even done lucanis's early character quest stuff, bc my thought was just "okay cool i'll just get all the companions and then take my foot off the gas and work on what i've gotten already"
BUT. WELP.
thank god this game autosaves ten thousand times
YEAH it felt like an end of act 1 type choice but no they hit you with this early on
YEAH THAT'D BE THE IDEA, HUH
Harding: Rook, what are we going to do?
Me: WE ARE SAVE SCUMMING TO FIVE HOURS AGO IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.
Me: WE ARE SAVE SCUMMING TO FIVE HOURS AGO IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.
LITERALLY. FUCKINGNGIGSNDF
me now fucking around arlathan forest first before i go do. all that again
(well really it's bc i have to go to bed so more on this tomorrow ig)
OKAY well i went back, did every other sidequest i could possibly do, and have now re-done davrin's intro
anyway im sorry lucanis but im saving minrathous i cannot let the venatori get worse
well at least it let me send my other two party members with lucanis :/
wait were you not supposed to beat the dragon
aw man there's no shop with the crows anymore?? shit
ah. that's where the goddamn shopkeep went.
did they die......
turned into darkspawn :/
when you don't save treviso you get a quest from the crows to like, clear blight from the city? and you run into two special darkpawn while doing that, Hide (the trainer for the Crows) and Fletcher (the shopkeeper)
i assume it's smth similar on the minrathous side
OH THE... SHOP IS OPEN AGAIN FOR THE CROWS IN THE FADE... GOT IT......
can't rank them up again tho so that. fucking sucks
well im. stopping there for now bc playing dragon age gives me such a fucking headache
(this was a problem in inquisition too lmao idk what it is. it just get me)
popping back on for a tiny bit before my tabletop game tonight and- first time back at lighthouse and i could go pet assan. obvs this is right after the whole uhhh running around blight-soaked treviso and having everyone yell at me
and instead of like. petting petting. my rook just falls to her knees and fully body hugs him. and assan lays his little beaked head on top of hers and gives her a little wing hug ;;
i have no idea if that happens every time but it touched me
honestly im starting to get the feeling of who my rook Is, which is just like... someone who wanted to do great things, and then after her backstory she's just kind of jaded about her ability to do those in normal ways? so she's gonna go fuck some shit up and make some people mad
but she's kind of learning firsthand that being a leader is uhhhh really complicated and she's trying to be diplomatic and put together but damn she's gonna break eventually she just needs to get the job done First,
okay had a little more time so i went out to arlathan forest to do an outing with davrin, came across this puzzle for a big chest and there was like... an orb?? there?? that talked to me?? but the 'person' talking was just "????"
SO THAT'S CONCERNING
beat the tar out of another champion tho so i get to go unlock another door
omg, I went to the lighthouse once and Davrin and Lucanis were standing by Assan lowkey shit talking each other and it was just like
oop scuse me just gonna squeeze by you here for a sec don't mind me
PETS THE GRIFFON.
And because the characters look at you when you're close enough...
Well, it was a funny scene XD
the characters looking at you when they're done talking is SO funny in the right situations cause i got a convo earlier with neve and taash and neve was pointing out how taash had something that was easily distracting them lately, or something like that
and both of them
immediately looked at rook
(i'm romancing taash rn so-)
HAHAJKLFASD
"distracting", huh
(wink wonk) and all that
ok having conversations with harding about the inquisition makes me feel like. so much "god the things i could do with this game if i could really get into it"
like. it finally hit me. why did they bring Harding here. they could've brought Dagna and it would have been so much more ic
like some of their descriptions of the inquisition talking to each other is cute but as soon as they try to bring your pc into it it just. dies lmao
but the little story about Cole did make my heart tendy dskfjghks thats my BOY
OHHHH HOHOHOHO I GOT MY FIRST FUCKING REVENANT
(and by 'got' i mean 'defeated' bc this guy whacked my ass last time but NOW THAT I HAVE A FUCKING WARRIOR)
and speaking of warriors. i'm finally gonna go get taash JKLSHGAS
oh. oh they big. oH
B I G
i am playing a scrawny elf so seeing how big they are i just
sweats
this is a beautiful gift to me bioware and i will forever treasure it
im playing as fat an elf as they would let me but she's still short so HJALKSA
honestly i think re: romances it's either gonna be her or bellara so i'm excited to meet her
yeah honestly it's been so hard to figure out who to romance i'm loving EVERYONE jlskhd
i've got taash locked in on my current "canon" run but i also wanna smooch bellara. and neve. and emmrich honestly lksdjf
even tho emmrich is kind of super dad coded for my mourn watch mage i'll just swap to a different origin-
LMAO
i want to romance a lady this time just bc in previous games my lesbian ass is like 2/3 with dudes somehow
so im out here like i need to get back to my roots. which are gay elves. gestures to my warden
hell yeah gay elves
that's been my warden. and my inquisitor. and my rook. obviously not hawke but i romanced merrill so she was SMOOCHING a gay elf that counts
yeah i romanced leliana (as a gay elf), fenris (so like. gay elf) and then. iron bull fuckin Got Me
but thus far im def most drawn to bellara and taash is like usually my Type so
oh. oh she breathes fire. oh okay
(and by oh okay i mean im aroused)
OH SHIT IT'S FUCKING ISABELA
IT'S FUCKING ISABELA
WHY DID THEY NOT BRING EVERYONE BACK FROM DA2 KSJDHFLGLJ;SFD
(me, right after meeting her: .............................so I know she's Taash's boss but also like she's her other mom right)
like they're out here doing eluvian shit like where is merrill. we're in tevinter WHERE IS FENRIS--
oh just
just wait
re: getting the hots (h a ) for taash
one of the flirting scenes with them almost made me scream out loud
ALSO RIGHT RE: MERRILL
I'M STILL MAD SHE WASN'T IN INQUISITION BC FUCK MORRIGAN BEING THE ELUVIAN EXPERT SHE'S LIKE THIRD AT MOST TO BE GIVING US DEETS ON ELUVIAN SHIT
merrill should be all over this game
(i love morrigan dgmw but between merrill and briala they deserved to be the eluvian expert more than her)
NO YOU'RE SO FUCKING RIGHT
MERRILL ERASURE IS FUCKING CRIMINAL AND HAS BEEN!!!!
god imagine if we got merrill in this game. imagine merrill and bellara
bellara is already like "what if merrill had actually gotten the support she needed and deserved" SHE DESERVES FRIENDS LIKE THAT!!!
merill and bellara would get along like a house on fire and it would slap ass
but bioware is afraid of female characters that aren't morrigan kfjdlhgsd
OwlKnight: LITERALLY I said at one point "Bellara is what I wanted to be able to be with Merrill"
GRIPS ALL UR HANDS
like it's almost heartbreaking when you start getting scenes with bellara and emmrich bc just.
man imagine if people heaped glowing praise on merrill the way emmrich does with bellara
sob i haven't met emmerich yet but im sure it's going to end me
like even playing through inquisition and all the revelations about the connections between spirits and demons and all the eluvian stuff was like. "everything merrill did and talked about was Right, Actually, and everyone needs to fucking apologize to her right now" and Veilguard is just making me double down on that hldkfsg
oh he will
emmrich is just. i am a whole ass lesbian but that silver fox is getting to me 
even just in a platonic way i adore him, he's def one of my favorite male companions in all the DA games
dragon age has needed to apologize for merrill for years
but im very excited to meet weird grandpa
Emmerich is hilarious because istg he's basically the type that solas was pretending to be with the Inquisition but this is just who he is so he's friendly and helpful.
GOD YOU'RE SO FUCKING RIGHT
he's just a dork about his interests and so massively kindhearted and. augh 
alright i spent two days fucking around with every sidequest i could shove in my pockets, i'm out of them, NOW im gonna go get emmerich LMAO
I LEARNED FROM EARLIER. IM NOT LEAVING ANY QUEST UNDONE
LMAO
i love the necropolis is like "oh yeah open this door. the other demon fights are easy peasy. that thing is gonna be fine just go finish it"
and then i open the door and it's a lv 40 dragon.
fight it
no, no i immediately started getting my ass kicked
(im only lv 31)
oh mood
i didn't know what was coming, opened the door, and just. IMMEDIATELY closed out and reloaded alfhfh
yeah no i tried it for about 20 seconds but i was running without a fucking warrior at the moment and went. no. no this is not happening thank you
fight it but better
when i gain a few more levels. and also come back with taash
lmao this game like "this is a level 42 revenant" and me destroying it 10 levels under
should i probably not open the 3 sealed door at level 32? yeah, probably. am i doing it? well
just gonna take a little peeksies
(and then it was another dragon)
GOD I WAS THNKING IT MIGHT BE BUT IF IT IS IM GOING TO DIE
its just such a dragon age thing to do
SON OF A BITCH THERE IS A DRAGON DOWN HERE
yeah no we're. we're turning around. this one is worse than the last one
i really wish dragon age didn't do this thing where the enemies that lead to a path are like
20 levels lower than the boss
okay well im now completely out of sidequests before i go see morrigan so. putting that down for now
oh it's. this is where my inq shows up. Oh No
wait why does the inq have two hands. am i seeing things
AVELINE IS THE VICOUNT?
OF KIRKWALL? I MEAN? IT? ISN'T THAT VARRIC'S JOB?
NO HANG ON BACK UP DENERIM IS JUST GONE?
CAN YOU MFERS NOT JUST SAY THAT SHIT
okay i think the left is a prosthetic. not how i would have imagined it but like. sure
oh is weisshaupt the end of act 1...
ok yes i've heard this is the end of act 1. they got tired of me fucking around
i love davrin having a hard time with manfred and assan and i can just go in and start shrieking right back at them
helping.jpg
oh nvm harding wants to go to the deep roads i have more siDEQUESTS
oh love seeing a button that says 'view regret'
oh i can finally use the fuckin. absolute littany of wolf statues i have
dragon age there is no romance between mythal and solas don't even try me here
she was like his MOM
TAASH STOP SAYING THEY'RE DOING IT IM GONNA KMS
taash like "gilf tho"
i mean listen i'd also fuck mythal but like we know explicitly that's not true from previous canon. not that bioware cares about that LKJHSFDG;SGD
oh okay the ancient elves were SPIRITS, sure, what the fuck ever
I think the other hand is supposed to be a prosthetic!
Like, it might not be clear if it's a close skin color to what your inquisitor had anyway, but on mine it stood out
YEAH i could kind of see it at the end
honestly it blended in to the outfit and the low lighting of the scene
but also i have a strong headcanon that my inq wouldn't have gotten a new hand, i wrote a whole fic about it, but like. YKNOW. STUFF,
anyway now the blight is solas' fault also. amazing
let's just make everything in dragon age lore about solas!!!
its bc hes the sole-ass
KILL
"THE ELVEN PEOPLE OF TODAY DO NOT DESERVE TO SEE THE WORLD TORN APART TO SALVE YOUR CONSCIENCE" THANK YOU, MYTHAL,
oh it's fucking valta down in the deep roads. of course it's fucking valta
once again, here i am going "why isn't this fuckin dagna"
damn alright i convinced mythal just by not being a shmuck
honestly i think my rook is my first dragon age pc that actually wants to be some sort of hero JHKSLDGD
I have 10000 complaints abt how Harding was handled and I’ll never forgive them 👹
ITS JUST. IT'S BAD FAM