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[a_driftamongopenstars]

I love games with a deep and extensive lore. It’s never an easy task to populate a world with enough background to keep it going beyond a single game (or even a line up of several). And I know only a handful of such games, created either by a small studio or a larger one, that succeeded in creating a truly solid world.

Right now all my attention (well, most of it! :D) is in Dragon Age. I never got to finish either the Descent or the Jaws of Hakkon DLCs for Dragon Age Inquisition and I’ve just finally completed both. How. Damn. Amazing these additions are?? I’m always a sucker for lore, especially if it shakes the foundation of what we’ve come to know already. And it’s not a simple “let’s make a twist just for the sake of it”. It fits, it makes sense.

And I can’t help but think of my Inquisitor Theseus’ reaction to everything that he’s experienced, from learning about the source of lyrium to meeting the first Inquisitor, Ameridan. I can just imagine the trip back to Skyhold and Theseus’ baffled state, impossible admiration for facing someone so grand, lost to history. An elf, with dalish tattoos, 800 years old and a faithful member of the chantry - this is stunning. Theseus is stunned, I say! :D

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[alaterdate]

Jaws of Hakkon was such a great DLC in every aspect. Descent was cool, but short and I didn't like looking for those gears. The lore in Dragon Age is so awesome, it's the only game I actually about care about lore in though lol. I love how the codex are written by in-world characters and then you discover something in the game that completely shatters what they've wrote.

They keep a lot of stuff mysteries with the answers just out of reach, but it really feels like you could piece the puzzle together yourself because, like you said, the new information fits and makes sense and opens up the door for new threads and discoveries! That's why I'm always excited by new additions to the series whether its the games or the comics or the lore books.

Theseus is such a cool name btw!

[singedsun]

Dragon Age lore is by the far my favorite for any video game. I love that dumb series. In fact when I'm at my computer my mouse is resting on the two giant lore books BioWare made for it. I mean, it doesn't always make sense, but it is definitely creative.