[ SECRET POST #3231 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3231 ⌋

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Re: dragon age: inquisition spoilers

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I find the way a lot of fans seem to either only accept him as king with a Cousland wife, or as a Warden for anyone else is a bit elitist. What is wrong with a non-Cousland female Warden being his mistress? Are people over-sensitive about that?

But then I was so tied to my pet-favourite race/class combo that I was not going to re-role a new character just to make her Ali's wife. I decided mistress worked fine for me and went after making that happen (and that was before I decided Elenaria was not just an expy of my Silmaril, thus destining the relationship to end anyway).

Re: dragon age: inquisition spoilers

[elaminator]

(FYI, I only romanced Ali with dwarves. I played other races, but none with him.)

I don't know about anyone else but I have chosen the mistress route (in the keep, never in-game), though only after seeing Ali or Hawke had to stay in The Fade if you left him a warden. I never left Ali a king at ALL before Inquisition though; I just don't care for him in the role. (Both because he didn't seem to want it, I thought being a warden was cooler anyway, I wanted us to 'stick together', and because I think Anora would be a better ruler. Even when he was simply my bro I left him as a warden.)

I'm not a fan of infidelity but I know you could convince Anora and Ali to marry for politics, so in the case that Anora knows and is fine with their relationship I don't see a problem. Still, I'm not fond of my warden and Ali having to sneak around to be together.

I don't think there's anything wrong with other people choosing it (personal preference and all that, everyone has one), but I prefer a route that allows them to stay side by side. (Even if, because this is BioWare, they are frequently separated.)

Re: dragon age: inquisition spoilers

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think my own view on it is at least partially attributable to my method of play - I effing love using walkthroughs for games and when I played DA:O I was always referring to the quest pages on the wiki for the best way to get through them. It was not just the individual quests either - I looked ahead into plot issues and saw the long-term things and decided quite a way ahead which I liked best plotwise, and setting up Alistair with Anora has the best result, epilogue-wise.

I don't know if I would have went the route of keeping the relationship if I was viewing Elenaria as being my RP character for real. I suppose I don't view the mistress idea all that badly due to a prosaic view of royalty and mistresses.

Re: dragon age: inquisition spoilers

[elaminator]

I effing love using walkthroughs for games and when I played DA:O I was always referring to the quest pages on the wiki for the best way to get through them.

Your 'first time through', or on subsequent playthroughs? My first time through I don't want to be spoiled for anything, so I wouldn't be looking at walkthroughs. After that though, sure!

But then again not everyone is as against spoilers as I am.

I suppose I don't view the mistress idea all that badly due to a prosaic view of royalty and mistresses.

I don't see it as a 'bad' option, it just isn't one I would choose for the majority of my characters. I can see why someone would pick it!

Re: dragon age: inquisition spoilers

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

That was definitely my first time through. I am pretty spoiler-proof, and don't mind knowing in advance the basic plot of something. It can mitigate the effects of a shock in a plot, knowing it's coming.

The only time I tried to avoid spoilers was when the book of HBP came out, but I trouble getting into reading it and the online spoiler period wore out and I gave up. I stopped worrying about being spoiled after that.

My tendency to walkthroughs dates back to Baldur's Gate, where having a guide book actually got me to sit and play BG2, partly because it informed me of the romances.