It's the Friends We Made Along the Way

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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 last three questions.

29 — What do you love about Dragon Age?

The world. The lore and the politics and tensions drew me in so hard. I didn't even like fantasy or the medieval aesthetic before I got into Dragon Age.

The horror. There's so much fucked up stuff that I just love. Fucked up people, fucked up creatures, fucked up implications. What a playground.

The characters. Did not know you could romance people in this game. I was into Otome games, but they were so hard to get a hold of and here was one easily available (lol), needless to say I was stoked at the prospect. Beyond that, they're written so well. I loved that every Origins character had multiple facets to them that you had to pry into their little lives to discover. And then Dragon Age II just pulled me in forever.

Fenris. I love him. I love him. I love him.

30 — What do you hope for in VG?

Honestly, I just want more fucked up stuff about the Wardens. I was hoping the First Warden was actually a ghoul, but it's fine! I especially hope we get to pick Davrin's brain about the Wardens, he doesn't seem too enthusiastic about all their secretiveness. It'll be refreshing after Blackwall annoying the crap out of me in Inquisition.

I try not to have any high expectations as a rule.

31 — Introduce your Rook

I decided around the end of "Dragon Age Summer" to use one of my side character OCs as my first Rook. I was looking at all the details coming out to see if he was even a viable option to make in the game because of course he already has something of a backstory that grew when he ended up with his own spin-off story because I already liked him so much lol. It looks like I can work with what they're giving me with minimal need to head cannon/imagine different so that's great! Otherwise I would have abandoned this idea especially because:

I think it's a huge mistake to plan a character before even touching the character creator, but whoops. I haven't decided on his looks yet though. I do have a vague idea of hair/eye color, build, style from already having written for him, but I'm going to let the character creator help cement him rather than trying to create a specific look.

With using him as the PC for Veilguard I think he's become my specialist little boy of all. We'll find out if his story actually sticks once I finish the game with him. Otherwise it's back to non-PC status for him.

See you in Thedas!