Origins is the best Dragon Age game because you can make Alistair completely forgive you for actual child murder by giving him two cakes and making a sad face

I appreciate what Bioware was attempting to do in II by making the gifts for companions more personal and unique but nothing will beat the hilarity of Origins letting you posion god's ashes, murder and steal your way across Ferelden, and violate every single moral code your friends have as long as you pinky swear to buy them baskin robbins afterwards

Select concept art from the ‘making of DAI’ chapter in Bioware: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development

Top: Is that a representation of Solas and his line “My people had a saying long ago:  The healer has the bloodiest hands”? 

Second: This looks like Leliana, Cassandra and Vivienne celebrating the Inquisition’s victory at Skyhold. Is the elf on the left holding the ring behind the curtain (she has no vallaslin), supposed to be a sad post-game Lavellan after Solas leaves?

Third: Female elf Inquisitor [?] leading people away from exploding Skyhold [?]. I like her awesome mohawk

Fourth: Different concept looks for the anchor

Whenever I go to the Exalted plains I always imagine Lavellan feeling this mixture of excitement and deep sorrow. I imagine that she’s spent almost all of her life in the Free Marches with her clan occasionally living in Nevarra and Antiva, but has never been to Orlais.

 I can imagine her arriving in the Dales and feeling this sense of right and home in her very bones, I can imagine her looking out over the expanse of the plains or the endless green of the emerald graves and feeling this deep sense of belonging. Then this intense awful grief, that this was once home, this was once the land of her people, and it is lost to her. 

I was always a little annoyed that for the Dalish inquisitor there was never really an option to get properly angry with people when they patronize her or dismiss her beliefs, I wanted that renegade option where you can yell at a chantry mother or deck a noble.

 I want my Inquisitor to be able to ride up to the winter palace on a enormous halla in the most elvhen outfit possible saying to Orlais.

“we’re still here, you haven’t won” 

Dareth Shiral

Here’s my headcanons on Dalish lore, perhaps with more harts than is strictly necessary. 

I just really like to draw elves on deer

So the Inquisitor and friends spend a lot of time literally straddling red lyrium, how on Thedas have they not become infected yet?

Also art was started before the ban, I’ll post the t-shirt edition too ;)

Who drank from the Well of Sorrows?

Reblog this for Inquisitor

They are the worst parents