It's a picturesque little place, isn't it? Aside from being ruined and haunted.

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31 Days of Dragon Age is a prompt list floating around tumblr meant to celebrate what we love about Dragon Age in the lead up to the release of the next game. Prompts here.
I decided to post them by game rather than each day, so here are my answers for the Dragon Age Awakening questions.

09 — Favorite Awakening companion

It's... Anders. I still think he's ugly (no offense Anders fans) and dislike him in DA2. But in Awakening he is absolutely hilarious. And he loves cats. And we get to give him a cat. Part of me is glad that I played DA2 before I got my hands on a copy of Awakening because I probably would have been devastated by his personality turn. But the other way around I get to be happily treated to a version of him I like after knowing a version I dislike.

I'm also gonna mention that I love Mhairi and that she dies. What a shock! What a perfect tone setter. And I also like Nathaniel because I like that either we've just killed his dad because he was in the way or for revenge. It's good stuff.

10 — Favorite Awakening quest

It has to be the part where the Architect steals your pants. The first time I played it was the same time I was romancing Morrigan and had gotten her ring. As I mentioned before in prompt 2, my warden was livid about having that ring taken away from him. That made the quest really fun for me. But I also love a good naked dungeon escape quest. I also like escaping Fort Drakon in Origins.

Other than that I loved the meetings with the nobles and the commoners where everyone yelled at me about where I decided to station guards (A Day in Court). The political stuff was such a treat! I wish we could have gotten more of that in DA2. It kind of feels like they were going to add that, but didn't have time, and then plopped something similar into DAI. I also super loved when the angry nobles who tried to assassinate the warden showed up in DA2 and Hawke killed them, lmao. (Though it shows up as quest in 2 based on what happened to Amaranthine rather than how you handled A Day in Court).

I also like any time we get to fight in the Keep. So in the beginning and optionally toward the end. It's an interesting map and thematically cool to be under siege.

11 — Favorite Awakening scene/dialogue

The part in the Blackmarsh when the First realizes that he was betrayed by the Mother is such a good moment. He's immediately like "time to team up with another evil scary lady!" not the Warden.

I also like making the choice in Amaranthine about whether to protect the city or the keep. They make it seem like you can only save one, but that's not true. The tension though, the drama.

12 — Favorite Awakening lore/codex entry

It's the Architect himself. He's (of course) brought up in The Calling, but idk you don't think you're gonna actually meet the guy. And then you do. And it's so cool.

I did not like him in The Calling, and the more Bregan fell in with him the more I shook my head. So actually the confronting the Architect in Awakening was fun.

As for a specific codex entry. These two are so fucked.

Codex entry: The Architect's Journal

The Seeker collected two elves, male and female. The rest died defending their camp. Unfortunate, but a small price to pay. The male has since dashed his head on the wall. Odd. Don't all living beings strive for survival?

The Seeker confessed that he did more than simply collect the elves. He found the elves and humans at odds, then exacerbated the conflict by making the humans look responsible for the two elves' disappearances. He said he wanted to see how the elf leader would react. Odd again.

The female elf has developed a...bond of sorts with her guard. Many of the other disciples seem drawn to her as well. The Seeker says her name is Seranni. Perhaps I should speak to her. Maybe she will understand.

Codex entry: The Architect's Notes

(These are scribbles on loose sheets of paper, barely decipherable.)

What happens if the Old Gods perish? Does the song die with them?

The blood is the key. The blood is always the key.

The female elf is accommodating, allowing me to take her blood for my work. Perhaps she thinks I'll release her if she cooperates.

My disciples report that another elf is rampaging through the woods, killing humans. Revenge for what we did to her kind, only she hasn't seen through the Seeker's ruse. We'll keep this from Seranni. If she is upset, she may stop cooperating.

Perhaps I should have killed it while it slept.