I've been converted. Is there, like... a meeting I have to go to?

[twist_shimmy]

Anyone who I beta for, or has beta'd for me, knows The Motto. So much as mention Orzammar in your fic, and you'll get a lovely comment in your sidebar containing the following icon:



I hate Bhelen, I hate Harrowmont, I hate Ruck. I especially hate Branka, and Hespith steals a chunk of my soul every time she turns away and doesn't let me put her out of her misery. I hate the carta, because they always die spread-eagled, facing my screen, and Jarvia has "plans" for my female Wardens. (My males were insulted that no plans were had for them.)

Then I gave in to peer pressure and made my Aeducan. Holy crap. She has more attitude than all of my other Wardens combined, and is a bigger schemer than Evie was. I ACTUALLY get to order the murder of other people! It's canon! :D

Behold!


She stands with attitude.


She also snarls. Exiled from your kingdom? Eh, fuck 'em.

My Dalish occasionally narrows her eyes, and my Cousland always looked rather... startled. She managed sad a couple of times, too. But this Aeducan has me enamored with her disdain. I want her to go forth and kill people and also sleep with them and then make that FACE.

Though if I ever wrote a fic with her involved, I think she'd kill Gorim, and that makes me sad.

New motto: OMG AEDUCANS, FUCK THE CARTA.

Comments

[darkrose]

I just got to the Dead Trenches. Fuck the fucking dwarves and the fucking Deep Roads. Mira's giving serious consideration to blowing Orzammar up, because with the exception of Dagna, who is MADE OF AWESOME, everyone there pretty much sucks.

But Aeducans are kinda cool.

[visser]

i just made an Aeducan, and Maker's BREATH I have had so much fun with her. Her attitude is going to get her in serious trouble with Alistair and Wynne, but she'd going to get along FAMOUSLY with Morrigan.

[(Anonymous)]

OMG LOL!!!!! This is exactly how I feel about Orzammar! I figured maybe the reason they all act like morons is because they are so close to the darkspawn all the time. Unfortunately, my next story is set there, but my Warden hates them as much as we do! Except for Oghren of course--he's always good for a laugh. :)

[zute]

"I want her to go forth and kill people and also sleep with them and then make that FACE."

Sleep with 'em before you kill them though. Otherwise people gonna comment.

[scarylady]

Going back to Orzammar to do post-Blight politics versus Bhelen is truly terrifying.

My writing has slowed to a crawl because every time I PoV Alistair he gets so tense I hurt all over in 20 minutes flat. The poor lambkin.

[andorin]

I hate Bhelen, I hate Harrowmont, I hate Ruck. I especially hate Branka, and Hespith steals a chunk of my soul every time she turns away and doesn't let me put her out of her misery. I hate the carta, because they always die spread-eagled, facing my screen, and Jarvia has "plans" for my female Wardens.

Word! I've made it to end game with one of my *counts* seven chars (all human or elf), all the other's are stuck outside Orzammar. I loathe dwarven politics, Dust Town and the Carta and positively everything in the Deep Roads.

But you say there's a cure? Perhaps I should overcome my racial prejudice here and actually start a tough cookie dwarf. Could be interesting...

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[lenna_nightrunner]

Make Shimmy give you her "FUCK THE DWARVES" icon :D

[prisoner_24601]

Ruthless Aeducans are awesome. I just started one a few weeks back and damn. Between ordering the murder of others, bitching people out, pissing off the brothers, and only speaking through Gorim to people of the underclass - it's definitely one of my favorite origins and makes me want to play through enough of the game to get back to Orzammar. It would almost make the slog of the deep roads worth it.

[cave_fatuam]

I don't know. I'm still a little snooty when it comes to the dwarves. I mean dwarves are kind of like children. They're tiny, funny sometimes, and you can't help but love them a smidge, but you only ever want to deal with your own for any great measure of time. I kid, I kid... sort of.

[miri1984]

*prepares to get shot* I LOVE Orzammar & The Deep Roads and pretty much everything about that treaty. I always do a little dance of joy when I get there with a char. Also, Aeducans and Broscas rock almost as much as Suranas.

[twist_shimmy]

You're not going to get shot, silly. There are other people here who <3 dwarves.

(Suranas will always be my fave, though. Except... are all Suranas BATSHIT INSANE, or is that just mine?)

[twist_shimmy]

I'm still going to hate the Deep Roads when my Aeducan goes back. But I can still envision an AU where Berkana MURDERS EVERYONE.

[miri1984]

*chuckle* I always think I'm a little bit weird about the whole loving-the-deep-roads thing. But I do. And Suranas do seem to be unhinged - must be something in the water :).

[twist_shimmy]

She was nice to the underclass, oddly enough. But oh man, did other nobles get some bile.

And Trian. That fucker.

I think I'd be fine with Orz if the Deep Roads weren't tacked on after it. Recently I've done this "Do a stage of Orz, now go and clear another zone, back to Orz, clear another zone, more Orz, Haven, Orz!"

Breaking it up works okay. XD

[twist_shimmy]

An excellent distinction. I'll be sure to tell her. >>

[twist_shimmy]

The only other thing I MIGHT EVER add to the Evie/Alistair story is her Grand Plan For the Dwarves.

I probably won't, though.

[twist_shimmy]

Inbreeding. They shouldn't have abandoned Kal Sharok.

[twist_shimmy]

I hadn't even thought ahead to Morrigan.

The Dark Ritual will be so anticlimactic. "What? Eh, sure, fuck 'im."

XD

[twist_shimmy]

The Dead Trenches are where I left my will to live on my first three playthroughs. I ended up putting on an audiobook, lowering the difficulty to easy, and just BURNING THROUGH DARKSPAWN.

[twist_shimmy]

I should make a FUCK THE DEEP ROADS icon.

[twist_shimmy]

It has made the rest of the city marginally more tolerable. Because now I have an insider's perspective, and I can look at characters and go "I COULD KILL YOU ON MY AEDUCAN, YOU KNOW."

[cave_fatuam]

Well, of course, murdering errrr'body is always a blast... what are things you can say in only very specific contexts. XD
I loathe going through the Deep Roads. What actually happens is horribly interesting, but the doing it is nerve-wracking. Then again, I'm a freak and love doing The Fade. So I guess to each their own, we're all special in our own way,I'd like to buy the world a Coke, etc.

[twist_shimmy]

I actually had to stop playing one of my Suranas when she got too crazy for me. Then I rerolled and got Faolan, who wanted to sleep with Mouse.

And yet she's more sane.

[twist_shimmy]

I love the Fade (on non-archers *sobs*). I still have Skip the Fade installed, because my characters always go there first and I am sodding. burnt. out.

[andorin]

*gank-gankety-gank*

"Let me get my main, then we'll see who the real loser is. Ha!"

or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR7FC-h0Fb8 lolz