Eight total in the default, but yeah. (9 and 0 are mapped to potions, which I changed because I need my e/q/f/r/g keys to be mapped to things like potions for MMO Reasons) That said, I already know some Creative Juggling is going to happen when I get to having more than five spells, because I am not well built to utilize the entirety of my number bar. I may have to fuck around and remap aforementioned letter keys instead. We'll see.
I'm playing as an Aeducan for the first time today and as a dude so i can romance Morrigan and i'm liking it so far! I played the origin twice, once as a Down With The Crowd prince and the other as an elitist asshole who speaks through Gorim. the first is a rebirth of my Brosca dude who i only got to the end of lothering, but that i sort of liked thinking about becoming a Good Dad for kieran and, like, i have an ever expanding list of ocs for my canon world. it needs feeding. but i already have a Brosca in it and i'm not going to give up Glitter. i like the haughty prince better, though. watching as he falls from grace and manages to become less of a giant piece of crap is going to be a lot of fun, so i'm going to continue with him >:)
So, I didn't get a chance to screenshot the missing floor before I fell into it, but. The rotunda Solas chills in didn't quite load when I ran into the room, so I plummeted into hell. Spoiler: large screenshots There was faint music box lullaby music playing in the vicinity of that WHATEVER THE FUCK in a tophat in the top screenshot. I couldn't run out of the room, but I could run off that cliff into a glitchy cellar; running out of the glitchy cellar dumped me into a wall in the Undercroft, stuck forever without being able to move again. Lullaby music still playing. I fast travelled out and now I'm waiting for Creepypasta Bioware to start bleeding everywhere I guess.
Oh, that's good. Slytherin is the only house that makes sense for her - sure, she's nice and prefers non-violent solutions, but Leliana even says that Josephine kills with kindness.
Started a new run of Origins. This time finally as a city elf. He is a cranky and sassy bastard named Setanta and he has no time for these humans. Damn humans. Like Kom'rk he's a rather vengeful sort it seems though he's far less coolly grumpy about it. Kom'rk tried to be a model super good elf man person. Setanta just has no fucking time for your shem bullshit and really doesn't give two shits what they think of him. Or most anyone else rather. FUCKING FIGHT ME ASSHOLES. I SASSED THE FUCKING KING TO HIS FACE. YOU THINK I GIVE A SHIT? He is very aptly named. Setanta. After Cú Chulainn. Glory is well and good, but no one says you have to be the nicest goodest person. Like every other character I have ever made in anything ever he is a redhead. One day I will play someone who isn't violently anti-Chantry or super pissy about humans but today is not that day. Also I have noted that damn near every character I make in these has a vengeful justice seeking streak a mile wide. They have different ways of going about it, sure. I mean Saoirse won't just get up in your face and be like bitch I'm going to shank you. She'll orchestrate your shame and doom silently and twist the knife, but she'll make you fucking pay either way. And Kom'rk is more like a Western hero. He'll quietly gut you in the name of frontier justice. Either way JUSTICE is very important. Also yes Slytherin Josie is the only thing that works and everyone else is very fucking wrong. We're not all huge dickfaces. SNEK PRIDE.
He could also use slings and swords so it doesn't matter. Cú Chulainn was a multi-skilled hellion on the battlefield just like his daddy.
Attempting Inquisition again. Glaring at Solas. At least I have Varric and Cassandra and Bull and Dorian...That and au fixfic I guess. Au fixfic fixes all.
Which fixfic (Sorry if it's been mentioned and I'm just not remembering) Inq could use a good fix, even though I love it a lot.
Whatever fixfic I decide to write as a very frustrated and depressed reconstructionist. My biggest issue with the game remains what happened to Dalish lore and Solas' entire role in that. I suppose that, yes, I am too small a demographic that Bioware could have possibly have planned for me but I am upset with it on a personal level regardless and have decided to just accept that fact. I just feel that there were far better ways in which that whole matter could have been handled while still maintaining Solas as some sort of tragic trickster god. Or I guess not "god" but that's part of my problem with it so...
Oh yeah the 'we're never confirming whether the christian analogue deity really exists or not it is a matter of belief but the polytheistic minority gods? total fakes' thing is certainly, uh, a thing.
I want to personally find Andraste and kick her off a fucking cliff. And then beat the Maker to death with her corpse. It is not just a thing. it is genuinely fucking enraging to me AND IT IS SO FUCKING BORING TO TOP IT OFF. Along with being offensive.
I definitely seem to be in a minority in this, but I actually really like the revelations about the Dalish religion. I can see how it in addition to their stance on not confirming The Maker can be kind of distressing, but for me its mostly BW continuing to interestingly subvert some typical fantasy conventions. I find the idea that the human (elven?) drama was cast into myth after the fall of the Evanuris really compelling. And that they were just people, and kind of shitty people at that. I also have theories/headcanons about Andraste not actually hearing The Maker or being chosen in any particular way but using it as a framework to get power and strike at the Tevinter Imperium. The magicalness of her ashes if this were the case could easily be explained by their placement over a massive deposit of Lyrium. I don't think BW have said anything about not exploring that avenue. They might have even hinted at with the Black Divine teaching that Andraste was a mage.
I fucking hate it because it is tired and stupid. Why can't I have gods? Why can't my gods be mortal? What the fuck is wrong with gods that are just people like you or me but with super powers? Why do we have to go OH NO THEY WERE FUCKING ASSHOLES. HUMAN GODS CAN NEVER BE OK. EVER. All the while Andraste's stupid bitch ass gets to continue having the Maker's existence non-confirmed. It's not distressing. It is personally fucking offensive to me.
