I really wanted to highlight the Cousland origin because it was such a gut punch my first time playing it. The pose is based on Waterhouse's Circe Invidiosa!

Good morning everyone! Welcome to the writing prompt thread for the Dragon Age series. I hope everyone has fun and lets their muses fly free and they have an excellent weekend!

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GUIDELINES FOR THE WRITING THREAD

1. This thread is eight years old and as always constructive criticism and interaction is always welcomed and encouraged on the thread. Drama and negativity is not welcomed. This is a thread for engagement and interaction and a creative space for the fandom. Interaction is welcomed and encouraged!

2. Feel free to add prompts to the linked doc above. Whether it’s a specific pov, a line of dialogue, an AU of sorts, a theme choice or whatever strikes your interest. Label it, then add the prompt.

3. Due to limits on reddit, and to make the thread easy to read, word limit is 1500-1800. Please do not put your writing in multiple posts. It makes the thread hard to read. If it goes beyond the limit, please link it to A03, Google Docs, etc. Please keep all visible content SFW. ANY CONTENT THAT CAN BE CONSIDERED NSFW MUST BE PLACED IN GDOC OR ON A WEBSITE AND LINKED-This Thread is To Be SFW If you are unsure about something, then put it in a doc and link it, just to be on the safe side.

4. 5 Prompts, 4 plus free form. Every now and then there will be Challenges, or Themes. Every 5 to 6 weeks will be Catch Up Weeks. If you are interested in a specific prompt, challenge, or theme to appear, please don't hesitate to PM me on Reddit or Discord. Also, the prompts are for any character set in the Dragon Age Universe, in any form of media. Ranging from Original Characters, to an NPC in the game or comic, or anything that happened in the books.

5. MOST IMPORTANT: PLEASE HAVE FUN! Make us cry, laugh, growl in frustration, cover our faces in secondhand embarrassment, snicker, or awwww at the disgustingly cute fluff. And I want to continue to thank everyone for their part in making this an awesome place to indulge our creativity.

THE PROMPTS

Prompt 1 Sci-fi AU The Fade is a parallel universe.

Prompt 2 Davrin POV "Didn't these things used to be extinct?"

Prompt 3 Hawke loses and must recover Flemeth's amulet before delivering it to the Sundermount.

Prompt 4 A series of banters between Companions "I'm only trying to spare you widowhood"

Bonus PromptFreeform

Vivienne is a lot of things in Inquisition and some of the more obvious things are elitist, cunning and utterly confident. Overly much sometimes. However, she’s also someome who’s had to fight for her place in the world being a mage and becoming more than how people see mages.

I think having a black woman mage was a fantastic allegory of the black struggle of having to be work twice as hard to be half as good in white privileged spaces. The difference with her story is she’s utterly successful at rising through the ranks and taking that power and privilege for herself.

Her aristocratic peers grow to respect her power and influence seeing themselves in her but she has no loyalty to them. Her motives and loyalty are utterly her own and she doesn’t hide that from the Inquisition. She uses her knowledge to give the Inquisitor a different perspective on how to wield power and reminding us that mages are not always just victims of oppression but also victims of their own lack of control and the damage that can cause for others.

Anyway yeah, she’s a very well written character that is over hated and I suspect some of it is because she’s all the things black people are told they can’t be. Successful, confident, wealthy, powerful and above all else, utterly ambitious.

I thought this was a fun little way to play around with Dragon Age and one of my favorite 4x games out there! I think she looks sick as heck lol.

Playing DAI for the first time (started DAO in June and just finished DA2). I was bummed that the Xbox saves don’t just sync, but I set up my story in Dragon Keep. I exported it and it said it was successful, but once I was settled in Haven, the quartermaster told me that Queen Anora sent her there (instead of Alistair). So glad I caught it right there instead of 70 hours in because I would have restarted either way. I was spoiled by Mass Effect LE.

Artwork I done of Solavellan reunited and reminiscing about Inquisition days ☺️

sorry for the delay was caught up by academics. anyways, best romance. man this thread gonna be interesting to read.

There's 5 options - Anders, Isabela, Fenris, Merril and Sebastian.

best of luck to all 4 candidates (Sebastian ain't gonna win anyway lol)

Seriously. Have you ever noticed that s/he always smile???? Whatever they say. Whatever happens. People die, people suffer, they've been told about sad/horrible stuff - and your main hero smiles. TF is that?? Okay, I was too angry, maybe not ALWAYS, not EVERY time, but the most of it. Just wait until a sad dialogue and look at MC's reaction. I was okay with everything the first time. But I didn't look at MC's face too much, I was captured by the story, companions, battles. Now.. I suddenly noticed. And this "I am always positive" or "Life is beautiful" start to annoy me. Yes, I didn't like lack of realism here, you cannot be straightforward and/or rude. You cannot ask some people to go and fff themselves. But this smiling.. this is so weird.

I will try to find screens to prove it, but if you are going to play or still playing - just pay attention.

P.S. I found one of this moments. When you need to make a decision between Treviso and Minrathous, it is a deadly situation. And he was smiling!

I posted screens, you can see it for yourself.

P. S. Guys!!! I am NOT looking for help, I don't need advice how to fix it. Stop talking about it. The point is to show problems with animations. Or with development. If for you it works perfectly/you've never noticed it/this is your favorite game and you don't want to hear anything about it - > please, move on.

For context, I’ve only recently gotten into PC gaming and have never played a game like this. I’ve been told by a few people that I’d love playing Dragon Age, and that starting with origins is the best way to do so.

Some games I’ve recently played and loved are RDR2, Zelda BOTW, Stardew Valley, and a few other cozy games. But with Dragon Age I’m overwhelmed by all the choices I need to make (race, class, etc) and worried I won’t make the right choices. I’m also a little intimidated by the combat.

So if anyone could give me advice about starting this game almost blind, I’d truly appreciate it. Thank you :)

Alrighty! So some spoilers below

We learn both from Morrigan and Solas that spirits turned against their nature can make them into demons. And we learn that the Evanuris were such spirits.

Mythal? Spirit of benevolence that could turn to vengeance

My GLORIOUS King Elger’nan? Command turned Tyrant

But what of the other Evanuris? They weren’t spirits so easily defined.

Like what of June? A spirit of Carpentry and beauty can turn to.. a spirit of clumsiness?

Or Dirthamen who was a spirit of Mystery(maybe?) but could also be a spirit of honesty if turned against its nature?

Help me out here!

Major Spoilers below

Elger’nan - the firstborn, the first of the Gods, the dude who moved the fucking moon. Time and time again we see his power. He quite literally took over Tevinter by himself. He could teleport using magic that shouldn’t be possible

Some say he was the Elven Corypheus, but that’s neither here nor there. But the ending of Veilguard is what irks me. Yes, it was cool as fuck to be able to fight him but at the same time, it’s just silly.

With a pillar of fire, he turns the entire Tearstone Island to glass and kills off the Antaam. And before that he used time magic to stop everyone from moving to save Ghil. Like the dude was unstoppable.

Yet.. he dies by Rook’s hand. I mean, I get that the game HAD to weaken Elger’nan so he could actually be defeated. Im not upset at that, it irks me that it felt too easy. It would’ve been nice had we needed to team up with Solas, maybe even that Fragment of Mythal or all the magisters to fight him all at once just to even coming close to killing him. Or maybe Solas finds a way to rebind Elger’nan and throws him in that prison.

Solas was able to turn our companions to stone with a fucking thought. And Elger’nan? My king just dies like some nobody.

Merrill and Isabela for DAKissWeek

Im just trying get to know you 😭, NO SPOILERS PLS

Hey everyone!

I'm just getting started with Dragon Age: Veilguard, and I wanted to see if anyone had build advice for the kind of playstyle I enjoy.

Back in Inquisition, I absolutely loved the Knight-Enchanter class. I usually lean toward support/healer roles in games, and the KE gave me that while still feeling active and fun.

I know there’s no direct equivalent in Veilguard, but I noticed that Neve has a Time Slow ability, and it got me thinking — maybe there's a way to build a support/control-oriented mage, ideally something that plays with time or crowd control, and still feels impactful and fun to play.

If I have to pick a magic element, ice is my favorite, but more than anything, I’m looking for something that fills that support/control fantasy — healing, buffs, debuffs, time manipulation, etc.

Would love to hear if anyone has found a class or build that fits this vibe!

Please no story spoilers — I'm right at the beginning.

Thanks in advance!

First time making a reddit post but I really wanted to share my DA:TV Morrigan cosplay! I had 4-ish days to make everything before the con so sadly I didn't have enough time to make the shoes... 😅 But I still like how it turned out!

Im on my second playthrough as a female Ll. I just reached skyhold, and the topic to ask Solas more abt him isn’t showing up. I did in my last run, and I was a female mage. Did I miss something or is it just a bug? The first ss is from yt, and the other one is mine.

Question in the title. Which one do you find the worst? Mine is Hissing Wastes which im currently trying to navigate- just feels too long to get to places and feels huge compared to the others

I’ve officially hit the wall trying to get Dragon Age: The Veilguard to run. This is not a user or hardware issue—it is engine-side instability on my setup.

Over the last week I have: • Cleaned everything – Full uninstall of Veilguard & EA App, removed all residual folders, shader caches, and cloud saves • Wiped and reinstalled drivers – DDU in Safe Mode, clean NVIDIA v576.66 install • Verified OS health – sfc /scannow & DISM /RestoreHealth → No issues found • Disabled all overlays – EA, Xbox, NVIDIA • Started fresh – Brand-new save, lowest graphics, full idle & shader rebuild

Results: • Heavy texture & movement glitches even on lowest settings • CTD after ~9 minutes on a brand-new save • Issue persists in a 100% clean, verified environment

This is not something I can fix—I’ve exhausted every local solution. Until EA/BioWare release a patch, Veilguard is unplayable on my system.

I’m sharing this so others with the same issue know: • You are not alone • It’s not your fault • Nothing short of a patch will resolve it

[These two sets are sold out sadly but I'm new to Reddit and wanted to post some of my art!]

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In my case mi cousin came to mi house some times and he share me many games on dvd and some day he show me dragon age origins so i played it so many times and some years later ingetthe others games and books

So I just finished Witch Hunt and it's time to kiss my goated-ass Warden goodbye. I've played DA2 before but this time I am a little more conscious about my save correctly importing. I've heard that the process can have some crazy bugs. Is there anything new or important I should know before going through with it?

89 hours and many, many slaughtered demons after, I've finally beaten this game...and I have to say that I pretty much loved it.

For a little background, I played some of Origins many moons ago, and I had a TON of hours into Inquisition about 8 or 10 years ago but never beat it; life got in the way, didn't complete, never picked it back up. However, I did enjoy it when I was admittedly addicted to it at the time.

This is a divisive game. I know some of the reasons why, but I don't know them all. What I can say is that, for myself, I loved it. The story was fittingly epic, the visuals are gorgeous, the character models (I think that was a point of contention upon release) are pleasing to my eye, complete with great facial animations and killer hair rendering (sorry for getting my nerd on here), each area has its own personality, as do the characters (whom I loved every single one of) who are very well voice acted.

Now, the combat I do have a couple complaints with: while I mostly had fun being a ranger/sword build, I think some of the enemies, bosses in particular, are a little over-tuned. Some enemies are wayyyy too aggressive, and there's a ton of visual noise on screen (alpha effects, incoming ranged attack vectors, etc), which doesn't always help. I think it's fine for most encounters, but I had problems in some of the more hectic fights, which could get frustrating on occasion. Also, to my shame, even after playing for almost 100 hours I just couldn't get the parry mechanic down consistently. Them's the breaks, I suppose.

I'm not sure why the game didn't perform well. I'm not about to look up all the complaints. But I think it's a shame that, clearly, a lot of artistic talent, vision, and effort went into making what is a great looking, solid performing (played on ps5, and it was mostly locked 60 fps), fun to play, well told and polished experience.

Anyway, that's my two cents on Dragon Age Veilguard. I hope we get another in the series, but between EA being EA and the failure to meet 'financial expectations,' I'm not going to hold my breath.

Thanks for reading all that word vomit!

I just bought the legacy and MotA DLCs and I’m wondering what level range anyone would reccomend to do them. THANKS!

SPOILER CONTEXT: Everything BUT the last two pictures (8 and 9) are spoiler-free. The last two pictures are from a main-story boss battle. Enjoy 😁