#warden riordan

[anneapocalypse]

"Why didn't the Orlesian Wardens try harder to get into Ferelden?" Senior Warden Riordan did not sneak across the border alone, try to negotiate opening the border at what he thought was a good-faith parley only to be imprisoned and tortured, still manage to bust himself out as soon as he saw an opportunity, make contact with the remaining Fereldan Wardens, fight with them in the final battle despite being unable to get the rest of the Wardens in, and die giving them a fighting chance to kill the Archdemon for us to say that the Wardens all gave up on Ferelden.

#warden riordan #...i am just now realizing that rhymes #anyway had to give a shoutout for my boy #he grounded urthemiel! he tore the dragon's wing #he is the reason the dragon is on the roof able to be killed by people who cannot fly #REALLY SUCKS NOT TO HAVE GRIFFONS IT TURNS OUT #they'd have been very likely fucked without riordan #alistair didn't even know how to do a joining so they couldnt have conscripted loghain without him either even if they wanted to #dragon age stuff #gwaren exports

[where-dark-and-light]

#dragon age #dragon age origins #riordan dragon age #warden riordan #logain mac tier #dragon age riordan #mygifs

[dirtybiowareconfessions]

Confession: Riordan is such a sweet, wise fellow. Funny thing, first time I saw him in his cage, bloody and all that, I had a mod installed that removed all underwear, so I was shocked and pleased to find a bloodied, naked prisoner with an erection😂 Anyway, his personality is just perfect enough that I wouldn't have minded having a brief, sweet romantic/sexual affair with him, even though I would have probably wanted to die with him in the final battle. Job done, the hero can go anywhere they want, including "the Maker's side".

#warden riordan #dragon age #dragon age origins #bioware #dirty confessions #dirty confession

[lothrilzul]

The last 3 Grey Wardens in 9:31 Dragon

Loghain : Riordan : Amell

#riordan #loghain mac tir #warden loghain #warden riordan #warden amell #dorothia amell #grey wardens

[pumpkincalico]

The Maker smiles sadly on his Grey Wardens, as no sacrifice is greater than theirs.

#aka ferelden has the COOLEST grey wardens in all of thedas dont @ me #all o f them ate and left no crumbs #dragon age #dragonage #dragon age origins #dao #dao art #dragon age art #grey wardens #alistair theirin #loghain mac tir #cousland warden #warden cousland #elissa cousland #dao duncan #dao riordan #dragon age duncan #dragon age riordan #original art #portraits #painting #digital art #character design #original character #my art #calicoart #daocart #grey warden #warden commander #artistsontumblr

[kaltacore]

do you guys ever think about fiona dragon age. at this point she has outlived most of her former comrades with whom she had gone through joining. there's a good chance she'll outlive her son no matter king or not because no crown can stop the taint in his blood. do you think about her being the only one who got lucky among her squad and the order as a whole. do you think about her getting free both as a warden and then a mage but still never escaping that one curse of watching people she cared about slowly fade away

#hey guys. do you think about duncan's axe names fiona you guys #do you think about her asking about alistair but never approaching him even if he's a warden and hangs out next door #do you think about her leaving skyhold if he dies in the fade. do you ever #btw all this thought process was provoked by replaying dao and speaking with riordan once #im very normal about grey wardens once again #dragon age #fiona

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

Alistair: So I'm not going with you, I see. Any particular reason? Tabris: I'm not going to risk you getting hurt, Alistair. Alistair: And you think I want you going in there and sacrificing yourself? You think I want you to die!? But there's no use arguing with you, is there? We don't have time... and you are a stubborn, stubborn woman. Tabris: You would do something foolish. Alistair: Maybe… I guess we'll never know now, will we? I guess this is the last chance we'll get… before this is finished, one way or another. Be careful in there. Tabris: I love you, Alistair. Alistair:

Guess who made the ultimate sacrifice...?

Me. It was me.

I made the ultimate sacrifice.

The achievement wasn't worth it.

#dragon age #dragon age origins #dao #alistair theirin #dao alistair #warden tabris #i'm genuinely so heart broken #i just wanted to see what ending you get when you reject morrigan's ritual since i have very strong opinions on it as i've discussed before #and it's more in character for my tabris to reject it anyway so this was the first time i did it and just...... i am hurt #like... it's such a hopeless 'what was even the point? she didn't deserve this' feeling y'know? she didn't deserve this! #and neither did alistair... he already holds so much guilt over duncan and cailan making him stay out of battle in ostagar #and then rose makes him stay behind so she can face the archdemon and die ALONE... while also robbing him of the chance to stand beside her #the way i play dao is alistair is forever in my party like i literally take him *everywhere* he is with rose the entire journey #they are partners in this forever and always and they planned to face the archdemon together but that changed with riordan's news... #and this is the first time since they met in ostagar that he hasn't been in her party and i didn't expect it to hurt so much... #plus i keep alistair a warden so he's left alone in the aftermath of a blight that took everything from him #and i know the end card was retconned but it says that he was so hurt over the warden's death #that he said it wasn't the same anymore and he fucking *left* the order and fereldan and his whereabouts are unknown after he made #a small monument for duncan in his birthplace like.... again i know that was retconned since he obviously didn't leave the wardens but OOF #oh and don't even get me started on morrigan and how she responds to being rejected like i'm chewing on all my furniture right now #there is so much to dissect in that conversation and i'm too emotionally drained to handle it right now...

[lgvalenzuela]

I think one of my weirdest moments playing Dragon Age Origins is that I remember really vividly when Riordan is telling Alistair and The Warden that one of them is going to die, I said: I'll do the sacrifice

And Alistair got snippy with me and said: No, no, no, I will

And Riordan was like: Shut up you two I will

And in my second playthrough I was looking forward to that scene because I really liked it, but then Alistair says nothing? And he never did? Nobody else remembers this?

Where the fuck does that memory come from? Is this some kind of Mandela Effect?

#mine words #text #dragon age #dragon age origins #rune surana #surana #the warden #alistair theirin #riordan

[morssolamors]

fourth warden Riordan, this little man was a very forgettable character

#dragon age fanart #dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age warden #dragon age riordan

[rivilu]

See, the issue with me is that every single time I replay Origins I fall in love with everything about it more and more. Which consequently also makes me hate Inquisition more and more vitriolically each time.

#dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age inquisition critical #inquisition critical #2 is the middle ground if you're wondering. it has a lot of flaws but I still love it a stable amount. #inq though. inq my behated. my beloathed. #at this rate my da keep will never be completed jhbjgs #Imagine setting up and fleshing out such a fascinating and wonderful dark fantasy world #only for the second successor to spit at everything you created- retcon half your shit and add nothing of value #not content to JUST sanitize it for mass consumption- but doing so by placing the protagonist as head to a fucking religious institution! #FORCED TO WATCH / T H E M / DO THE SANITIZING IN REAL TIME! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM #Also i vehemently hate the '[x pagan/non christian coded god/ deity] revealed to just be some guy!' trope. I fucking despise it. #just spit at my face and tell me my religion is childish and stupid instead! Save us both some fucking time! #Then there's the whole plight of the mages being treated as fucking laughing stock and the wardens suddenly becoming incompetent babies #most likely just to bolster your protagonist's ego because look! This whole supposedly world saving order is stupid enough - #to fall to Coryphallus! But not you inquisitor- you're truly so strong and special and perfect and so much better than them! #just thinking about the wardens in inq. Mmm violence. #You know. darkspawn chronicles implies the Warden is the only reason the blight was defeated right? #similar to how the time traveling in inq implies the inquisitor is the only one that can stop corypenis #However the big difference is that 1. neither the warden nor the player explicitly know (could be assumed that Alistair/Riordan- #would manage without you) #2.though your recruitment was coincidental- it was still /earned/. and your connection to the taint is what influences it ending. #you're not a chosen one. just one of the chosen ones; in a sense #3. by inq- after seeing to protagonists accomplish way more with way less. I'm sorry but magic hand or no i'm not convinced- #that the inky is the only person capable of saving the world. Just not buying it. #And i'm not even done touching on HALF the things I hate! Yet another example: inq as a game has the strongest obvious agenda #and it's infuriating #Oh you're allowed to be a piece of shit to Sera; but you want to tear into mother Gizelle for literally spreading fucked up rumors- #about your love interest (talking about Dorian) and then having the GALL to come up to you fake concerned asking you to break up? #sorry mate the worst thing you can say is 'And where did those rumors come from?' mildly aggressively

[partystoragechest]

are we at the point where we can talk about the fact origins' ending was bad

#i dont mean this in a 'fuck the sacrifice' way #i mean it in a 'the sacrifice made as much sense as the fallout 3 one' way #like the final act is a string of bullshit concocted to force you into three decisions that are so easily contradicted its maddening #why cant riordan just say about the sacrifice so alistair can agree to recruit loghain on the condition he's sacrificed? #why cant a noble warden just take the throne because they were in the line of succession anyway? #why doesnt oghren volunteer for the joining NOW? literally what is stopping him? #why cant we just recruit every mf in the building to give ourselves the best damn odds? we're already conscripting half of ferelden #no really why CANT morrigan fuck riordan? because it needs to be a newly joined warden? then how does alistair count? #that last one especially is just 'bullshit i made up to give you a tough moral choice' #all of it is! #none of this is built up throughout the story except the landsmeet! #the sacrifice and dark ritual are just fucking dropped on you in the final hour of the game and its like 'ah yes good storytelling' #there is a version of origins where this could be a satisfying ending but it's not the version that exists :| #dragon age

[mugirmu]

ive heard of lots of people having frequent crash issues when playing dragon age origins on pc, but ive been lucky... 3rd crash ever was just now in the battle of denerim 😭😭😭 its no big deal because im a frequent saver, not even at the archdemon yet either, but RIP my immersion HSKDBSBDKS

#AAAGH THIS GAME IS SO GOOD I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT #all today ive finished the landsmeet and every other thing i wanted to do or check up on and this past hour or so? battle of denerim babyyy #when i played as a wee lad i never got past the assemble your armies part of the game #ive done so so much more than i ever had and im about to finish it!!! i really am!!!! #i LOVED the landsmeet and EVERYTHING SINCE THEN its so EPIC and da:o is a GREAT FUCKING GAAAANE #FOR FERELDEN!!! FOR THE GREY WARDENS!!!!!!!!!!!! GO KING ALISTAIR GOOOOO #anyway time to load in and do this one battle again i was almost finished with it >:((( #oh also HOLY SHIT RIP RIORDAN like i knew he had to die because the sacrifice is up to me but NOOO I WAS SCREAMING #also i had planned earlier to do morrigan's ritual (male warden) but when actually making the decision.... it was hard #i was thinking of what my warden would do. that he was totally ready to make the Sacrifice if he had to. and protect alistair the soon-king #but in the end i decided that zevran was more important to him than following honor in this situation #in death; sacrifice. but not today #also speaking of pre-made choices i almost backed out on: i also planned to have alistair rule alone #and he is! thats what ended up happening and im happy with it. but i sat there for like 15 minutes debating with myself #on if i should marry him to anora and have them rule jointly or not #but no :) maybe another playthrough #i LOVED the cutscene of alistair executing loghain. who can deny his ascension when he beat the snake in an honorable duel #ugh i know im ranting but ive never played or even seen videos of the landsmeet and the battle of denerim before and im SO EXCITED #YOU!! YES YOU!! LISTEN HERE!! IF YOU LIKE FANTASY YOU SHOULD REALLY PLAY DRAGON AGE ORIGINS #i know ive already spoiled it some but uwu forget

[where-dark-and-light]

#dragon age origins #dragon age #dragon age riordan #dao riordan #riordan dragon age #warden riordan #herr Mannelig herr Mannelig trolofven i mig #he'll be a true love of mine

[potatoesandsunshine]

like over the course of the game loghain does so many terrible things but you are introduced to the wardens as a group of dying people who are bound together by the way they’re dying and their enemies and if you accept that the wardens will recruit anyone, no matter their crimes, it makes sense to recruit him at the landsmeet. that doesn’t... that doesn’t make him a good guy. it just makes the warden’s actions there make sense. alistair leaving also makes sense. killing loghain also makes sense. game good bc all those things make sense.

#part of the reason the handling of loghain in subsequent games frustrates me so much is that characters in this world are constantly #relitigating ostagar - and it makes SENSE that people are doing that - but that's NOT the worst thing loghain does in da:o. #the fact that you don't know during the landsmeet that only a warden can kill an archdemon MAKES ME INSANE #riordan share that info earlier CHALLENGE

[ladyofsnark]

I think the worst part of Cousland's whole arc and them eventually getting revenge on Howe is how completely fucking empty it is.

They can kill this man and it still means absolutely nothing.

Their family is still dead. The world is still falling apart.

They didn't kill Howe and then wake up to everything back to the way it was.

And I think for a young, potentially spoiled Cousland that would be the most heart wrenching and bitter betrayal and I always imagine my Cousland basically collapsing on the spot and ugly crying because the idea of getting revenge kept them alive and now it's gone.

And later when Riordan tells them that killing the Archdemon will kill the Warden that strikes the killing blow, that's why they volunteer.

#dragon age #cousland #angst for your viewing pleasure #dragon age origins #the warden

[sapphim]

y'all have talked me around to the blackwall as hero of ferelden thing

it is vitally important that he is still *only pretending* to be a warden

it is equally vitally important that he never encounter a single grey warden who *actually knows what they're doing* at any point prior to rescuing riordan from howe's dungeon

riordan promptly gives himself an aneurysm trying to comprehend how alistair could have possibly fallen for any of his bullshit

#al's new here! it's not his fault #the timeline's off by about five years but I've committed worse sins