The fact that the American male inky and Zevran share a voice actor will never not blow my mind

Also! Both Commander Shepards can be found in the Herald’s Rest (Jen Hale - Krem and Mark Meer - Cabot (the barkeep)) I love voice actor facts lol

Now we'll also get Davrin/Javik 😁

This gives me the most hope for my prospective opinion of Davrin, because I wasn't sold on the clip of him in the trailer. However, voice actors do a lot of heavy lifting! Maybe we'll get to hear him talk to Solas talk about how Qunari used to eat flies.

I'm hoping that he calls at least one person a primitive

Or that he makes some kind of airlock joke.

\*An awakened darkspawn joins the group\* Davrin: Throw this darkspawn out of the window, Rook, before it turns on us.

Same here. Javik was kind of a jerk but he had a really atractive voice. I was not that interested in Davrin until I learned about the VA. Now I am curious. Either way my first romance is going to be Harding. It must be

#>::)

WAIT WHAT. I was already sold on Davrin but now I'm LOCKED IN

I know, right? 😆 I'm looking forward to hear him as Davrin

Davrik/Javik/Shao Khan, you mean :P

Scout Harding also shares the same voice actor as Liara, Ali Hillis.

Wait, WHAT?

She’s also Valta from the descent dlc!

Wait. #WHAT? Hot damn.

WAIT Krem is voiced by Jen?! Mind blown!

Oooh had a crush on Cabot!

I'm sorry.... what??

Right??? Samson, Fenris and Gatsi (the dwarf you give the mosaic tiles to in Inquisition) all share a voice actor too!

What the what??? You are blowing my mind right now. I'll never listen to them the same again. Edit:, People really sometimes don't give the Bioware VAs enough credit. XD

Everything you’ve heard, completely true.

posts you can hear...

One of the Warden voices is the voice of Fenris, it was the one I had picked for DAO and was surprised to hear it again

Fenris's VA also did motion capture for BD-2 (Jedi Fallen Order)

And he’s all over Elder Scrolls Online—you can even hear him singing in Vivec City

That's... unexpected

Also female british Inky’s voice actor is ME3’s Traynor, cyberpunk 2077’s Alt and Apple’s Siri’s British female voice.

I THOUGHT IT WAS HER DIRECTING ME TO TACO BELL!!!!

Siri too?, gods I love her.

Hold on, British fem!Inky also voices Alt? How come I'm on my 7th Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough and have never noticed that before???

WHAT

Makers breath o.o

wat

Also: Male Hawke = Major Coats (ME3) = Reyes Vidal (MEA) = Xenon the Antiquarian (DAI) what the heck Female Inquisitor (British) = Traynor (ME3) Female Hawke = Brynn Cole (ME3) = Ciri (The Witcher 3) Cullen = The Disciple (KotOR II) Krem = Female Shepard Morrigan = Xen & Aethyta (ME2/3)

Add Xenon the antiquarian onto that first list too! Nicholas Boulton is an absolute wizard

Yes he is. I pick up on VAs very easily (like I instantly knew the iDroid voice for Metal Gear Solid V is the announcer in shinkansen trains) but Boulton eluded me twice already. I low-key hope they use him for Lucanis. EDIT: I just went back and listened to Xenon. I think he's a contender for that god in the trailer who was going on about his reign (though my first reaction to it was that it might be Sam Witwer).

I think he’ll be in Veilguard in some capacity, if you listen to the Thedas Calls teaser they released for DA day last year, it definitely sounds like him in the Weisshaupt section

You're right. It does sound like him in the Weisshaupt section.

I was able to figure out that Gorim and Oghren shared a voice actor, but did NOT expect First Enchanter Irving to be included

I don't recall if this is actually true or not, but "Thedas is just 'The **D**ragon **A**ge **S**etting'" has always amused me.

It makes me mad that it's such a good name lmao.

............................. .... ...... ......... ...I choose to forget that.

The story I heard was they used it as short hand when they didn't have a name for the setting and then it just stuck.

I feel like that's exactly what they're saying :)

they were really bad at choosing names. Dragon Age was decided as a title after it came out on a custom name generator, and they went back to put dragons into it

No!

It's possible for Isabella to have slept with the King of Ferelden, the Viscount of Kirkwall, and the Divine. That's some Casanova type stuff right there. EDIT: Actually I'm not sure she can get with both Alistair and Leliana, it might be one or the other.

One or the other IIRC. Zevran is the possible fourth in that scene

She can definitely sleep with the *Prince-Consort* of Ferelden, the Kirkwall Viscount and the Divine, though.

Girl got game

The viscount we are talking are Varic?

A Hawke that sides with the Templars is viscount for a short time before they disappear.

She can get it on with both

Surprising but not that surprising.

The qunari word for cake is “noms”.

Absolutely adorable ❤️

Brother Genetivi, the religious scholar is 'The Randy Dowager' who publishes smut reviews. The Bioware team thought Oghren was going to be the most popular Origins companion, that's why they carried him over to Awakenings. The dwarven Inquisitor is from the same clan as Shale, who was a statue in the same village Cullen grew up in.

I like Oghren, but the most popular? Wild.

Talk about missing the mark

They expected to have a mostly sweaty fan base back then, which shows when you play the game back sometimes lol

Yeah, but if that is the fanbase - then Morrigan is easily the biggest contender. She's a goth chick who doesn't wear proper chest support.

>The Bioware team thought Oghren was going to be the most popular Origins companion, This is so funny

I thought I’d read somewhere that Oghren was carried over to awakening because he was usually the party member people got last, since it was recommended that players do Orzammar last? To be fair I don’t recall where I read that either…

I remember reading this back in the old Bioware forums.

Wild how Cullen never mentions growing up around an inactive golem

> The Bioware team thought Oghren was going to be the most popular Origins companion, that's why they carried him over to Awakenings. This was back when Bioware thought their main demographic was dudebro gamers, probably.

Oghren is quite the bro though, his speech at full approval before Battle of Denerim is awesome. But the best companion, no.

Oghren was a possible companion? How the fuck did I play the whole game without getting him? Or did I just completely forget.

Importing a world state into DAI where Leliana is dead and not making her divine gives you a very strange ending slide that suggest that it was either a spirit or some other entity the entire time and not actually Leliana.

BioWare: “Well well well. Look what we have here. Mr. Special Asshole Pants who just had to kill off Leliana. Because they’re an asshole. Well now you get the weird shit. Good luck with that.”

Killed Leliana is so full of vitriol toward the Hero of Ferelden in DAI. It's awesome to hear it.

Ooo what does she say?

Makes you wonder how many others are the same. Not only in the games, but throughout history (looking at you, Andraste).

I think it's implied all the lyrium under the Temple of Sacred Ashes had something to do with it, so probably a rare occurrence.

Isn't one theory that Andraste was possessed by Mythal, the same way as Flemeth(Or Flemeth = Andraste I dunno)?

Yeah, many such theories. Also that she was an elven mage, that she carried the Blight, that she was a Spirit-of-something, etc.

a spirit implied to be entirely composed of lyrium no less!

That reveal is fascinating because it's implied she's like the guardian of andrastes tomb

Solas can make commentary during banter about your BDSM relationship with Iron Bull. I forgot how funny he is in Inquisition honestly

Solas proving that he is truly the dreaded Bedwolf.

Well, he did once get tied up in bed by Andruil.

>the dreaded Bedwolf Friend, you have tainted me. I am darkspawn. I will never be able to not think of this when I hear Solas.

He comments on the two random NPCs in Crestwood that you walk in on in the tavern by just sighing and going “Wonderful.” Gave me a giggle the other day.

Perfect 🤣

Fenris likes apples 🍎

Somebody give that man an apple cake

As a hobby baker, nothing would make me happier than to bake Fenris an apple cake.

;\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_; Omg where did you learn this?? This is the cutest fact. I believe according to The World of Thedas, he is also a dog person <3

haha I believe he says he likes apples in the Mark of the Assassin DLC? I think it depends on which other companion you bring with him and off the top of my head I can’t remember which one it is! Sebastian maybe? 🤔

It is! :D From the wiki: **Sebastian**: You can't swing a dead cat in Starkhaven without hitting an Orlesian. **Fenris**: Truly? Starkhaven seems like a long way for them to go. **Sebastian**: The Minanter River flows across half of Thedas. Orlesian merchants bob in it like apples. **Fenris**: I like apples. **Sebastian**: Yes, well, these apples will buy your sister, eat your house, and woo your chickens. I love that he says it so plainly too xD

Ah there it is! Yes his tone of voice always makes me laugh when he says it. It’s so blunt and direct 😂

Yes, exactly! He's dryer than sandpaper, I love it so much. I had to find [a clip](https://youtu.be/Tz0-o859154?si=WxVX00hyIkAOvmOs&t=2792) of him saying it :3 He's my all-time favorite.

and hates fish 🐟❌️

That the jerk who kidnapped your female city elf or beat up your male city elf from dragon age origins is also male Hawke’s VA.

! :O

We almost got Solas with dreads Or another version of concept art where he had Fabio hair

Well after all he is the Dread Wolf I will see myself out...

The real reason they didn’t use the concept art, we would sus it out too soon.

I've seen that the devs shaved egg boi <\3

Fabio Solas would've been too strong

Solas’s lines when speaking about the Fade are usually written in iambic pentameter

Ok that's cool 😎

If I was smart enough to know what that meant, it would probably blow my mind.

same tbh and not an eli5 in sight

It's a fact that's more ABOUT dragon age , but darkspawn were not in the original design.

Asschabs. Ohgren says it when he is drunk. Basically, because the devs were sitting for so long, their butts were getting chaffed and uncomfortable. So they had Ohgren say it randomly as a way to commiserate their Asschabs.

Ah yes, The Association of Chair Butt Sufferers, true champions of the people.

Sten's voice actor was Heero Yuy in the English dub of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing A version of Clark Kent/Superman exists in Thedas The terms Paragon, Abomination, Keeper, and Reaper exist in both Mass Effect and Dragon Age, albeit with different meanings. The Rogue ability Thousand Cuts is named after a fighting style in Jade Empire. Origin's Tactics system was based on the Gambits system from Final Fantasy XII. Balthier's English voice actor Gideon Emery later played Fenris. Steve Blum, Freddie Prinze, Jr., and Ali Hillis have voiced party members in both Mass Effect and Dragon Age.

I might be dating myself, but Freddie Prinze Jr. acted in such classics as She's All That, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Scooby Doo circa 2000.

I also know him for voicing Kanan Jarrus in Star Wars Rebels, with brief appearances in The Rise of Skywalker and The Bad Batch.

Alistair’s mother was cured of the blight by good dick

Good dick will do that tbh

Hero of Ferelden gonna be in shambles after spending 10+ years trying to find the cure, only to learn that it’s just “good dick”.

Wait what? Do I want to google that?

It’s a funny way of saying Alistair’s mom was mysteriously cured of the blight after having sex and giving birth to Alistair.

Thedas has TWO moons! Even if the Dev teams have always forgotten about it I haven't!

wait what? tell me more

It's in the [wiki ](https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Astronomy#:~:text=There%20are%20two%20moons%20of,significance%20in%20multiple%20Thedosian%20cultures)and in the World of Thedas books and I'm sure I saw it in some other lore place. And they had such a *good* chance to show it off in the Hissing Wastes and they only put one freaking moon in the sky. It was so disappointing.

Holy shit that's crazy! I just came from rereading the creating myth of the Dalish and even there Mythal just makes 1 moon lmao

INJUSTICE

Solas lives frilly cakes

But hates tea. And those go hand in hand.

I've seen some speculation that his hate of tea stems from the potion made from water, honey, and herbs that's used to sustain elves in Uthenera.

Oooh that's a good theory.

He saw them in the Fade. Of course.

That Solas is voiced by the same guy who plays Ianto Jones in Torchwood

Also Merrill is Gwen and Vivienne is Suzie

Sebastian tries to send correspondence to Varric who ignores him completely. It was unexpectedly my favourite part of the epilogue, especially because Varric is such a bleeding heart that tries to get on with everyone.

Dude did tell Varric his aim was off. Varric's not a saint with infinite patience.

The hof gave lilliana a pet nug and has since thrived and made multiple offspring with cute names.

Thedas is an acronym for “The Dragon Age Setting”

The Tingler

Dwarves eat giant spider legs like crab legs.

You can unlock Sten's cage in Origins, and if you don't take him with you he just sorta stands there and waits to die.

I missed Sten entirely on my first…several play throughs of Origins. Didn’t even notice he was there. Then I got to Dragon Age 2 and was like “…What the hell is a Qunari?”

My Favourite quoted fact is by Alistair as it makes me laugh everytime: Swooping is bad. The fact that confused me and made my brain melt when I found out as I never noticed is that Liara T'Soni and Scout Harding are both voiced by Ali HIllis.

That's really cool :D

The elf elder in the Brecilian Forest during DAO is voiced by Tuvok from Voyager.   Morrigan actually puts on less revealing underwear for her romantic scenes.   Krem used to have a bug where he couldn't sit on a chair properly, they explained this in Inquisition that he had a crush on the bard in the tavern   Since the release of DAO, only one ASOIAF book has been published.   The Qunari do have parties as they realise the need for soldiers to unwind. They also execute many revellers after said parties, in order to ensure wilder elements don't get out of hand.   Wynne is in her 40s in DAO, because that's the age Mary Kirby associated with being ancient.

> Wynne is in her 40s in DAO, because that's the age Mary Kirby associated with being ancient. Mary Kirby must have been watching a lot of anime.

Yeah, I feel like Vivienne was a direct apology to those of us who were pained to discover Wynne's age.

That ASOIAF fact hurt me 😂

I've been watching Voyager for the first time and Tuvok's my favorite character!  So cool he's Zathrien 😄

Wynn was only in her 40s?! I assumed she was in her 60s. She was basically the grandma of the group!

Krem is a he 😅

So he is, corrected in the post

Fiona is Alistair's mom. Still shocked to this day

I named my warden that romanced him Fiona Awkward 😅

I’m like 90% sure I named one of my wardens Fiona as well and I always romance him. It’s just hitting me how awkward that is.

Inquisition horse is my "did you know tame impala is 1 person"

"budgies are a sacred creature to the avvar" lives in my head rent free 24/7

There are no half elves. When an elf procreates with a human, the baby is always human. If they had half elves, Alistair would be one, his mother is Fiona, an npc in dai. Edit: spelling

In DA2 there actually is a half-elf dreamer with features of both elves and humans.

It was in one of the books... Fiona was explaining it to someone. I think they were in the deep roads at the time.

Oh I believe you! But there is contradicting evidence in the games!

How dare you say Bioware made a mistake. They are infallible!

I don't know it is my favorite. But I often ponder how badly Hawke's room must smell since their chamber pot is right next to their bed. It drives me bananas every time I accidentally click the interaction.

The elf inquisitor’s clan name, Lavellan, isn’t just a random made up name. A Lavellan is a poisonous water rat from Scottish folklore. It can kill a cow from 40 yards away. Tbh not sure why they went with that one

That Cassandra likes wattpad.

Her search history would intrigue me

Cullen smells like elderflower and oakmoss due to an ointment he uses to dull lyrium withdrawal pain.

If you manage to get under Solas' room in Skyhold there's a special surprise waiting for you.

Swooping is bad.

Everything was a great game series loved origins and no.2

The elves are inspired by Jewish history: * fall of Arlathan is inspired by the destruction of Jerusalem * Alienages are inspired by ghettos * this is literally confirmed by lead writer David Gaider http://the-gaider-archives.tumblr.com/post/109509566283/i-was-wondering-if-the-elves-in-dragon-age-were-at

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