Its Insane To Me That Dragon Age 2 Is Sandwiched In Between Two WAY HUGER And WAY MORE SUCCESSFUL Games

It’s insane to me that Dragon Age 2 is sandwiched in between two WAY HUGER and WAY MORE SUCCESSFUL games about more traditional fantasy protagonists facing off against world ending threats and winning and it’s this…weird, raw, personal tragedy about how no matter what you do, you can’t always stop crisis and disaster from occurring. Like The Hero or Ferelden, no matter who they were, wants to stop a Blight. The Inquisitor wants to repair the sky. And Hawke, like, wants to make some money, hang around their friends, and keep their family and their adoptive city safe. And they can’t even fucking do that, so unlike the heroes before and after them. You spend seven years in Kirkwall until the game says, “yeah, no matter what, the prejudices and traumas and hurts of this world are Too Much for one person to stop them. The world changes, wars roll over the land, you cannot stop history, Hawke. You tried. You failed.” And then you just sit there, sixteen years old, listening to “I’m Not Calling You A Liar” and you’re like….well, I guess I really wasn’t a hero. Damn. I love it.

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an absolutely beautiful commission by @mooreaux of my warden, Arden Surana: Hero of Fereldan, Commander of The Grey, Areless of Amaranthine, *lists her 15 other titles*!

you should play fields of mistria because it's really good and because it's got yuri between women in STEM (Sorceries, Treatments, Experimental Magic)

Adonis, from a poem titled “Unintended Worship,” featured in If Only the Sea Could Sleep