Your stairway lies on the whispering wind

Welcome to ossobuco/peacebone's Dragon Age blogging project! This post will be used to index all of the entries written for this project in chronological order, though they can also be found by using the "dragon age" or related tags in this journal.

I started playing Dragon Age: Origins in May of 2011 due to the influence of a good friend, who then suggested that I blog my experiences. The blogging began as mostly excited capslock spamming with occasional serious commentary on my character and the game world, but has evolved to be a good deal wordier, somewhat more in-character, and (I hope) slightly more sophisticated. My current ambition is to play through and blog about all of Dragon Age: Origins (and its DLC), Awakening, and Dragon Age II. Once this is done, I may go back and play different Origins and explore different characterizations, romances, and other options--well, I certainly will play them, but whether I will blog them is not yet decided.

So, if this is something that floats your boat, welcome, and I hope you have fun! My only request of you is that you do not post any form of spoilers beyond where I currently am in-game. As of this writing, I have not completed Origins and I have genuinely no idea what is going to happen, and I would like it to stay that way.

Current play-through: Lyna, a female Dalish elf

( DA: Origins )

Soooo, this is the thing I mentioned last post, the Sappho poem that struck me and reminded me of the Dalish elves and which I have translated and slightly adapted to be actually relevant to the Dalish. Um. I have retained as much of the original as possible, because what really drew me to it initially was the descriptions of nature in it, and mostly have just altered references to deities and things with symbolic meaning.

I have a lot of other thoughts on this, but I will spare you. XD

( Dalish love poem (adapted from Sappho's fragment, Δεῦρύ μ' ἐκ Κρήτας) )

Edit: ( And more thoughts )

( In which we go back in time! )

Anyway, I suppose it's time to announce my hiatus from this project. Hours at work are picking up, and I don't have time to play, let alone to blog, so we will be taking a little break. I expect to come back in full force around mid-October. Thanks to those of you who have been reading and commenting; it makes me happy that people enjoy this silliness. <3 Cheers, everyone. Until October!

In which the capslock-to-seriousness ratio regresses slightly, and there is a little mush.

( Or, formally, in which we locate Alistair's last living relative )

No pretense of actual purpose to this post, just more Dragon Age!

Spoilers through end of Redcliffe Castle.

( In which we finally kick some serious ass, and goddamnit, Alistair, stop it ;__; )