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Would you be willing to become a Grey Warden in real life?

Discussion in 'Dragon Age: Origins' started by Beren, Aug 25, 2011.

  1. Beren

    Beren Lovesick and Lonely Wanderer Staff Member Member of the Week Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Would you do it out of altruism and self-sacrifice if there was a Blight in progress?

    Would you do it for personal fame and glory?

    Would you do it only if you were between a rock and a hard place, like in the Origins stories?

    Or would you be just too scared to go through with the Joining, or to face the prospect of eventually being overtaken by the taint?
     
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    Beren, Aug 25, 2011
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    No. Deffinatly not. I would rather someone else did it, while I fled north with a sack of gold.
     
    Rawgrim, Aug 25, 2011
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    I would, and I would probably die in the first battle.
     
    Ben Snow, Aug 25, 2011
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    Depends. I'd certainly make a long list of all my other options first, and sort through each and every one.

    If I do become a Grey Warden I may end up like Avernus, assuming I live through the blight. My methods would be less brutal though.
     
    Paracelsi, Aug 25, 2011
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  5. Ragusa

    Ragusa Eternal Halfling Paladin Veteran

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    Nah, I'd rather be a Witcher and get all the babes :p
     
    Ragusa, Aug 25, 2011
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    Hear hear, Ragusa. Wardens girlfriends actually puts on a bra when having sex (Morrigan).
     
    Rawgrim, Aug 25, 2011
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    Ragusa Eternal Halfling Paladin Veteran

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    While I like Morrigan, that bra thing is another reason. You get to see more in the first five minutes of Witcher 2 than in ME, ME2 or DA, DA2 taken together.
     
    Ragusa, Aug 25, 2011
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    Is there seriously something called "the taint" in DA:O?
     
    Gaear, Aug 25, 2011
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    I'm a lover, not a fighter.
     
    The Great Snook, Aug 25, 2011
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  10. dmc

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    Do I get me some Morrigan with Leliana on the side? If not, no deal.
     
    dmc, Aug 25, 2011
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    In my current physical condition I would get slaughtered by the first dark spawn I ran into to start the ritual. In 6 month or so I may answer differently. If I became a GW it would be to save the loved ones around me if I knew there was no other way to help them.
     
    Munchkin Blender, Aug 25, 2011
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    well, the only difference between a grey warden and a normal physical master is that they can sense the darkspawn and kill the archdemon... so no.
     
    Shoshino, Aug 25, 2011
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  13. Déise

    Déise Both happy and miserable, without the happy part!

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    I would act exactly like my namesake in the game. This is a three step approach.

    1) :mommy: Run away from the horrific abominations trying to end my life in nasty ways.
    2) :tobattle: Gather my senses and think through my situation. Realise the right thing to do is to stand up to these monsters for the sake of all that is good.
    3) :pope: Fail miserably and die horribly.

    I don't see myself as being cut out to be a Warden frankly. I'd find them and offer to help in whatever way they think best. "Stay out of the way" is more likely than "join us."
     
    Déise, Aug 26, 2011
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  14. Ofelix

    Ofelix The world changes, we do not, what irony!

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    Hell no; I'd do some "strategic replacement of valuable commodity" while everybody else is too busy being scared to death and book the first boat to Rivain (where they don't worship the Maker) and drink myself silly with all the lovely lasses of the land. Weeeeeeeeeeeee.

    As little as we know about it from the actual games, Rivain seems to me to be pretty much Thedas' Jamaica :cool:
     
    Ofelix, Aug 28, 2011
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