I also feel that the CE Origin connects better to the overall story of the game. Also, Vaughan is by far the most vile of any villain that appears in the six Origins you'll likely take great enjoyment gutting the bastard. The interactions with your family are more endearing and the story conveys the oppression of the elves better than that of the Dalish origin. It's also the only origin that might leave you desiring revenge against the darkspawn.īut the City Elf origin is … well, it carries a far stronger impact on the character, IMO. The end scene where you say farewell to your clan is very touching. I feel that a lot of people who dismiss it out of hand don't really take the time to explore the Dalish camp and talk to the people there there's a lot of great interaction with the NPCs, particularly if you have a Persuade check that's worth a darn. I think I prefer the city elf as a character the way I've made her because she suits my own personality better and the sort of dramatic rp in my head whereas my Dalish elf is more of a way to explore a type of character that I don't normally play, taking me out of my comfort zone. I haven't decided if she'll bother to romance anyone. She treats most humans with disdain or bare tolerance toward party members. She does not care for the human religion and scoffs at it. She is an archer, I wanted to try that skill and figured Dalish background was a good excuse as it seems appropriate for 'woodland' style elves. My current Dalish elf is profoundly anti-human pretty much and intolerant of city elves usually unless they prove they are worthy of their heritage. She will be kind to humans if they are kind to her though. Being brought up in the alienage she is a believer, although not devout. She takes out all her angst on any enemy going basically.

Her background is a good excuse for her to have become both a duelist and an assasin and use dual weapons.

She also reacts badly when humans make negative comments about elves including party members. For instance she is in a romance with Zevran, but she also has feelings for Alistair, but she's reluctant to get too heavily involved with him. She knows there are good humans in the world, but because of what humans have done to her family she finds it difficult to reconcile her feelings. It allows me to play her as a bit conflicted in her feelings towards humans. They both have merits in terms of back story and how you want to rp your character also what equipment you get to start out with.

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