On the Road Again

Aha ! Thanks for starting this thread, it might be needed indeed. I'm afraid the only ideas I have to submit right now concern the global state of the universe in which we want to play.

If we want some room for storymaking, skull-bashing, and character developing, it seems to me quite logical to start from where DA:O left us. But the problem is what to make of Awakening, which takes place at this very moment and with the very same Hero : playing the events of Awakening would force us into a predetermined series of lore-compliant quests that will make creativity difficult to sustain, but ignoring it sets us on a direct course of non-canonery.
I’m personally far from opposed to this, as I always say “canons are for shooting, not for playing,” but then again that’s my opinion.

So here are two options I can think of:

Either we start off right from the end of DA:O and decide to skip/ignore the Awakening story arc : that way we get the arrival into Vigil’s Keep, and more importantly we take up at a point where there is still a substantial amount of Darkspawn running around, the foreign agents provocateurs may still be present on Fereldan soil, and the poor state of everything is sure to give the Wardens a lot of job. On the other hand, we might have to redo much of the RP that had been settled on the previous forum. (I guess we could always make up shortcuts for the longer parts)

Or we can decide to start from the end of Awakening : the five or six-month delay with the end of DA:O gives a coherent background for integrating a lot of the previous RP : new Wardens, relationships, and others. The only “constraint” here would be that newly introduced character would have to account for not immediately going to the Hero after the end of the Blight. It’s not really a big deal, since we’re talking about a few months’ time. Ferelden would still be in reconstruction, but we would expect order to have returned to some extent at least outside of Amaranthine, and Vigil’s Keep would already be the Warden’s home although severely damaged by the siege.

As for the ulterior chapters of Dragon Age, I’m not sure what to make of them : most of it seems to take place at least a few years after the events of Origins (Inquisition starts in 9:40 and the siege of Kirkwall is set in 9:34), so if we take up from after DA:O we still have quite the RP-time until these events concern us. Now of course, we can still skip ahead a few years, the problem being how to account for it : even a single year is a lot of time spent together, so we’d have to think up entire backgrounds for how characters have interacted with each other for all that time, and how they came to evolve and develop within the Grey Wardens.


Okay I'm done reading Dragonage wiki for today, guess it's time for me to start being productive.
...I hate being productive

Well, we could continue where we left off, sorta. It would just start us off at Vigil's Keep...but we'd have the new Wardens that undertook the Joining Ritual en route to Vigil's Keep, plus the Orlesian Warden that would have taken over had Nygozy died, aka my blood mage Wolfram Caron. So...I believe if what I looked up was correct...eleven Wardens survived in the the two Joining rituals that took place in the rp, some of whom belong to people who haven't returned with the new activity in the forum. That doesn't include the Canon Warden origins and others that joined in back story. I don't know how many that brings the number to.

Hmm...but the story did get distorted a bit. We had shape shifters a plenty, a wolf pack serving the wardens, the last immortal elf who bestowed powers upon some people, including a way for Wolfram to shift in and out of the Fade if he drank a vial of blood from each past archdemon, essentially making himself immortal. Wow, did it get a bit weird. Even though I still want to keep that last part true, I know I won't miss the constant fighting Wolfram had with Ostef and Rakot.

I'm all for it being post Origins, early Awakening, since in the old rp, that's where we ended up, essentially. Any of the events that could possibly pertain to Fereldan in DA:2 and DA:I only happen years away. The nearest DA:2 thing that would have affected the group was Anders fleeing Vigil's Keep for Kirkwall, and maybe the Expedition. And that's not even that likely.

But The Golems of Amgarrak and Witch Hunt could possibly happen. Golems of Amgarrak could be done by any of the Wardens, but not sure about Witch Hunt.

I think for the time being we should stick to Fereldan, unless we plan on moving the whole group from region to region.

That's why I proposed to start anew. Too many.. paranormal activities.

I don't see any reason for what the Chantry in Denerim can't blow up for nefarious reasons...

About traveling to other countries: we're supposed to be the Grey Wardens stationed in Ferelden... unless there's anythreat anywhere else where more Wardens are needed, our only chance to get to other places might be defined quests or something similar. Or... well, let's not forget there are still two Old Gods sleeping in the Deep Roads.

But but I like starting over the relationships D:

Kidding. Not really. In the end we'll do whatever Nyggy chooses I guess. We ended making the other story a miserable mess...

Okay, I do have a quick question!

Are we working this forum where each RPer has one account, through which they play all of their characters, as opposed to the last forum, where everyone made different accounts for each character they had?

Oh, okay! I had just been wondering~ You had said that we should title character bios something like "Margaid's Character XXX," so I wasn't sure if you had it in mind that everyone would have one account. uvu/