dragon age thief in the house of learning

Special mention goes to the comments Javaris makes outside of Smuggler's Cut.

Flemeth will react approvingly to smartass remarks from Hawke. The rest of the party will often get in on it.

Deadpan Snarker: Hawke by the boatload if you play them that way.

Anders to Karl at the end of his recruitment quest.

Marethari will give one to Merrill if you take the optimistic approach to the way the battle ends.

Huon kills his wife Nyssa this way in the 'On the Loose' quest.

Varric admits to Cassandra that the whole thing is artistic license, but asks that she humor him.

Dead Person Conversation: If Legacy is completed in Act 3, at the end Hawke will have a conversation with a specter of their dead mother.

This used to unlock a codex entry, which claimed that Urzara's Tooth is a 200-year-old relic of a dragon-worshiping cult, but the codex entry has since been patched out.

Day-Old Legend: Killing a nameless high dragon will let you loot her Fire Gland, which, in turn, can be crafted by a local enchanter into an amulet named Urzara's Tooth.

Dashed Plot Line: A prologue, three acts, and an epilogue, with 1/3/3/2 year skips between them.

Real swearing, not the Pardon My Klingon that Origins featured. This game, however, is about a descent into madness with the hero caught in the middle. While other BioWare games have their elements of darkness, they usually end in the triumph of the hero and, in 'good' endings, everything restored.

This is by far BioWare's darkest game.

While Origins had very atmospheric, sometimes chiaroscuro lighting, the light in DAII is generally flat, without shadows, and almost uniformly bright.

Definitely not darker in terms of lighting.

Visually edgier, as the color palette is less realistically brown, but virtually reduced to shades of gray, brown and intense red, with sharp contrasts.

Also reconstructed with Sebastian, the rogue marksman who is also a paladin, and Merrill, a sweet, naive Moe who dabbles in every forbidden magic.

It's also Darker and Edgier in volume of gore, sexual situations, and dramatic tragedy.

Much of the grimness comes from how this game plays on a very personal level, rather than an epic one like its predecessor.

Darker and Edgier: Certainly darker than Origins.

Anders definitely serves as one throughout the story.

Cassandra implies that among those in the Chantry, Hawke is considered this.

Damn You, Muscle Memory!: While most of the controls haven't changed, many of the options on the radial menu have moved from where they were located in Origins, making playing the games back-to-back slightly jarring.

Dragon age thief in the house of learning