She has a checkered past preceding her holier-than-thou days but somehow that just makes it worse. She’s a total buzzkill that would probably lecture you for having a good time with petty theft or blasphemy. She’s convinced that The Maker has a plan for her personally. Maybe King Alistair has a new Dog, John Wick style. Also he gets killed in battle by the player character Hurlock Vanguard. According to The Darkspawn Chronicles DLC for Dragon: Age Origins, Dog’s name is Barkspawn and he’s Alistair’s companion. Old age has gotten him, if nothing else did first. It’s been ten years and Dog is a Mabari war hound. Isn’t that the plight of all sarcastic white guys secretly born to kings? I’d lambast him for his privilege if he didn’t always seem to show up to help his friends out with it. It’s sort of infuriating that a guy so averse to responsibility manages to fail upwards into ruling a nation. In every playthrough, I waffle on whether to make Alistair a permanent Grey Warden or the King of Ferelden, but his later cameos in Dragon Age 2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition (and all the novels) suggest that he’s destined to be king. By about the midpoint, I found out that thanks to all this Blight nonsense the two very dead kings were his dad and half-brother and he was very much in line to take over the family business. When Alistair and I set out together as the newly lone Grey Wardens in Ferelden, I assumed he would occupy class clown status for the remainder of the game. Zevran hasn’t actually changed, which is totally what we all expected. He says he’s freelance now, working for himself, but we all know that’s just another way to dodge commitment. He’s killed all his bosses and still refused to move up the corporate ladder in their place. Ten years later, he’s still killing people for a living. I took the one night stand and then told him thanks for the fun but my ladder-climbing Grey Warden had plans for a guy with a path to the crown. I’ll be honest though, I never saw that side of the Antivan ex-Crow. He might eventually open up and turn into a committed killer - that’s committed to your relationship, but also probably to killing. He probably doesn’t care if you stop the blight, really. He doesn’t care if you have sex with him (but that would be nice). He doesn’t care if you kill him (but he’d rather you didn’t). Sure, he had his reasons, but so does everyone else. Zevran was downright allergic to commitment in Dragon Age: Origins. As with all reunions, someone must win and many must lose. So as a practice run for ruthlessly measuring life milestones against my own graduating class, I’m going to judge my party of Dragon Age: Origins characters on what they’ve managed to accomplish since the events of the game, according to the loose “canon” of BioWare’s subsequent games, comics, novels, and my own playthroughs. I wonder if they would all judge each other on their achievements since the Fifth Blight was defeated, the way that we fear being judged by our own former peers after a decade. As my own 10th anniversary of high school graduation is coming up next year, I’m thinking back on a senior year spent with the fictional crew who made me want to attend university to study games.
Just like a group of once-close high school students, its band of unlikely heroes was scattered to the wind after their glory days hunting darkspawn together. Please note that The Warden, Hawke, and The Inquisitor will be referred to using they/them due to their gender being player determined.Dragon Age: Origins turned 10 earlier this month. Some companions are differently better than others, especially considering how some of them have started civil wars. These companions provide insight into parts of Thedas the player may otherwise not know about and form connections with the player to keep them invested in the game. RELATED: Which Dragon Age Character Are You Based On Your Zodiac?Įach installment in the franchise features a new protagonist - The Warden, Hawke, and The Inquisitor - and as such, gives players a relatively new cast of characters each time they pick up a game.
Every character has unique backstories, motives, and personal quests that deepen their connection with the player, overarching plot, and world of Thedas at large. Since 2009, players have been able to recruit, befriend, and even romance the characters they meet along their quest. Among fantasy RPGs, the Dragon Ageseries stands out thanks to its expansive cast of companions.