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"Klingons"??? Are you maybe thinking of Vulcans? I still believe, that the peace under law requires the execution of Loghain considering his lots of atrocities. King Cailan himself decided to hang Arl Howe for murdering Teyrn Bryce and his family and for his annexation of Highever. If King Cailan due to any circumstances would have survived the battle of Ostagar, imagine, what he would have done to Loghain? Would you even King Cailan call an offended kid? Furthermore I still believe, that Loghain himself would prefer to die, instead of becoming a tranquil. I don't know the tranquils so much, but due to the two romans of David Gaider, that I have read, I know Loghain. For this reason I think of a fourth option: Let Loghain himself decide, wether he wants to die or to become a tranquil! A quasi-regicide???????? Did I read rigth? No. NO WAY!!! Loghain is here the only regicide! (Actually twice, if he gets the chance to, first murdering King Cailan and then at least trying to murder King Alistair.) Loghain's regicide and his usurpation of the throne are the main causes for his execution. You CAN'T committ regicide against an usurper. Do you think, King Maric commited regicide against Meghren? To execute(!) (not to murder!) Loghain is no regicide and no "quasi-regicide", but nothing but justice! By the way, concerning the priority I guess, that Loghain's abilities as a general are overvalued in this particular case. All you need against the Blight are Grey Wardens. And you only can replace Alistair. Seems to be an adverse change. As a result you don't have got more Grey Wardens. Riordan could have taken someone else instead of Loghain, just anyone.

Thank you for the link! I had seen this mod before, but I don't mean some special boss enemies and I don't want to finagle some precious booty. I just think about normal gear of normal enemies. I play the rogue, but I even would accept, that just the arrows were all gone - but not the bow. And, yes, I know, that most games don't include 'realistic' loot drop. I have played so much RPGs, that I feel like a kind of veteran. I remember "Betrayal in Antara", what seems to be one of the few exceptions. s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal_in_Antara There you get an armour and a weapon from every enemy, who fighted against you with that gear before. Presumably to compensat for this advantage, the gear in Antara shows abrasion and has to be repaired. I don't think, that I would be overpowered, if I got some plain bows of some common bowmen. It only bothers me for logical reasons, not for the loot drop itself. So I would appreciate, if someone would fix the lack of logic concerning the loot drop.

Imagine, you beat for example against a bowman, but the booty contains not even a bow (nor some arrows). Seems to be unfair and 'unrealistic', doesn't it? I think, you had to get at least that, what you see, which means the armour and the weapon of the enemy. Is there a mod, to get fitting booty relative to the antagonists?

Thank you, Thandal! I don't yet know these ones.

How peculiar? The game itself contains Loghain's execution and the execution of other persons. By the way, I guess, I mentioned it before, that I am in RL totally and unconditional against the death penality, which is consistent with the law of my country; this is not really amazing, neither for your country nor for mine, because it's standard for european countries. I only accepted it in game, because it should be a medieval world. Remember Jowan, the mage who poisoned Arl Eamon: Jowan fled the ritual of tranquilizing, because he found it unbearable not to be able to love any longer. And as his mage friend I was able to relate to that point. I am sure, even Loghain himself would consider his ending more merciful than a life as a tranquil. No free will for Loghain is cruel. P.S.: Thank you for the link!

After considering again, I think a punishment as a tranquil is - to cruel. Never thought, I would ever consider any punishment being too hard or too sore for this treator and arch villain Loghain. But I think an execution, short and sweet, would preserve his dignity and, maybe more importantly, it would preserve the dignity of his judges! By the way, is it possible at all to make a non-mage a tranquil?

I am not sure about this, but I could imagine: 1. Alistair is the rightful heir to the throne, because he is King Maric's son and in Ferelden matters the blood line, which means from the beginning about 400 years before the Theirin family as the one and only royal house. Actually Alistair needs not to get king, in fact he is already the rightful king by blood and origin and his claim is only to be confirmed by the Landsmeet. By contrast the dwarfes don't have a heriditary monarchie at all but a kind of elective monarchie. So the Assembly is to vote the king. The old king may designate his child as his successor but only as a suggestion. In addition the dwarfes have got several noble houses and not only one higher-ranking like the Theirins for Ferelden. As a result the dwarfen prince or princess will not automatically become king or queen at the same moment when the old king deceases. 2. The dwarf prince or princess has been banished. I haven't finished yet a playthrough as the dwarfen princess. Is there any act of rehabilitation? In each case he or she becomes a surface dwarf. I suppose, this could be an impendiment to become king or queen, doesn't it?

Go!

Would you ask Thandal?

Would you like to read about the content of the second book, The Calling?

Well, I've got the German version of the books. I did my very best to tranlate these sayings. The qoutes shall only indicate the directly speech. Excuse me! I should have mentioned, that the qoutes don't indicate the original English sayings!

Ha, ha. The best is yet to come: Rowan, to be accustomed to wear her armour, chose a seductive dress, a Calabrian red off-the shoulder silk robe. (Unfortunately she was to square-shouldered and mesomorphic for such a dress.) When she realized, what already was going on into the tent, she left and met - Loghain. To explain the situation she told him, that she couldn't sleep. Loghain answered : "Therefore you decided to put on a nice dress and to go for a walk." (In the following Loghain told her, that she looked wonderfully beautiful. She told him: "Chuck it!" Then he told her, that he knew, how Rowan looked at Maric. Clatching at her hands he told her, that he knew, that she was bespoken to Maric and was to be his queen, but that he, Loghain himself, couldn't stop to think about Rowan. By his standards he made a kind of profession of love or rather he even needn't to make at all. But Rowan devested Loghain of her hands and said: "Stop it! Please, leave me in peace!". This time Rowan still resisted Loghain.) To be fair, I had to mention, that Loghain, who had loved Rowan from the beginning (which means for three years), tried to leave the camp soon after this scene. But Maric and even Rowan didn't let him go, because both of them needed him as a friend and as a strategian. So Loghain stayed. (Little addendum: Actually Katriel did open the gates of the fortress West Hill, but this had been part of the trap, because the hostile troops had been waiting for Marics men.)

Hi Magdalena, thank you so much for your kind words! However I have no idea, where I could publish such a synopsis. I love to write and to frame something, even in English, I mean though it's an foreign language to me. I would like to retell just for me the story of Dragon Age Origins including some original dialogs (in German, of course). Concerning King Maric, well, at this point he seems to be still trusting, like Alistair not-hardened, because he is - to say it with Fiona - just a good person. Probably he projects his character onto others. I like torned persons, too. At least I find them interesting. But this Severan is more black than grey to use the same metaphor. He has been the power behind the throne, a kind of the grey [sic!] cardinal. But he isn't content with his role, he wants to ascend the throne himself. Even Loghain himself has more shades of grey, at least in his former days, protecting Ferelden and protecting Maric. Nevertheless in my opinion only black tones of Loghain rest during the periode of the fifth blight. As I wrote before, Rowan has got a love triangle with Maric and Loghain. All of them have been friends, and the inhibition level on a friend seems to be lower than on a stranger. So she has taken Loghain as a comforter, when she finally wanted to visit Maric in his tent, but Katriel has been faster. I guess for her part Rowan still loves Maric. But Maric loves her in another way and in addition he has got guilt pangs, because he knows, that his best friend - Loghain -, really loves Rowan. Astonishingly enough Maric losts his will to live after Rowan's passing. By then rosvita

Yes. That's it! Thank you very much!

The whole folder Debug misses! The folder Global is there, with the file char_stage as its only content. The whole folder Arl Eamon misses. I've just read something about a possible solution: Maybe my Toolset cannot "communicate" with the english databank and cannot find these files. I am just lokking for a possibility to change the language setting of my Toolset from German to English, but I am afraid, there isn't any language setting at all...

I've seen some trousers without a top in a dancing video: http://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/2004/?tab=7&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fdragonage%2Fajax%2Fmodvideo%2F%3Fvtype%3D0%26id%3D2004&pUp=1 Is there any mod to get these trousers?

Thank you for your kind hint! I used the Wiki concerning CREATING A MODULE, but my Toolset still doesn't show me the areas. I am very sad. (Into the tutorial there are beside the folders DEBUG and GLOBAL still ARL EAMON, several BACKGROUNDS, BROKEN CIRCLE, CLIMAX and others.) When I start with a new module, I make it the following way: - clicking FILE - Opening MANAGE MODULES - clicking NEW - completing the wished NAME (for example Tent) - completing a fitting UID (for example rosvi_tent) - changing the EXTENDED MODULE from (None) to Single Player - clicking HIERARCHIE - choosing Single Player What am I doing wrong?

Hi Magdalena, I'm so glad, that I can be of service to you. Actually, yesterday I've read the fitting passages again. I forgot to mention two other aspects: 1. First one, Katriel pretended to be a messenger of Byron Howe (Arl Howe's uncle), who recently defected. By the way, a pathetic scene - Byron on his knees ahead of Maric, his rightful king/ prince. (I wished, someone would create a mod with the oath of allegiance for king Alistair. Perhaps I will try on my own.) Practically Byron and his nearest stuff had been killed. Well, I'm afraid, Katriel could have had something to do with it... She pretended to give a warning from Byron, concerning the advancing hostile corps. Immediately Loghain was leery of her, because he thought, if Katriel as a messenger could escape, than Byron could, too. But Loghain knew, that Byron had the order to occupy the enemy, and Loghain finally thought, that Maric had the talent to evoke the self-abandoment of his supporters. 2. When Katriel came into Maric's tent, he told his temptress, that he didn't want to take advantage of the situation - no doubt, he's really Alistair's father... I guess, this has been the founding stone of Katriel's unprofessionell behaviour to fall in love with her target. As you know, usuallly men were at least indifferent about elves or even cruel. But not Maric. At their first meeting he called her "Mylady" and he was always friendly and good to her. Well, until he killed her. She hadn't the order to kill him, but to insinuate herself into his confidence as I wrote before. At the beginning, her client, the mage Severan (a kind of counsellor of Meghren), wanted her to bring him Maric alive. Later on Meghren changed his opinion and wanted Maric to be killed immediatally. For that reason inside of the fortress West Hill someone else (another spy) told her, that Maric should be killed, but she refused. (I guess, at this point she liked Maric to much to kill him or to let someone else kill him.) So this other spy tried to kill Katriel - known or unbeknown to Severan. So Katriel felt no longer committed to Severan and decided to help Maric. She rode to Maric, who sat already into the trap being attacked by eleven soldiers. At this point Rowan, knowing already about the affaire de coeur, had given up her own father(!) Rendorn during the battle of West Hill, only to rescue Maric (along with Loghain). Katriel killed three of the aggressors. Both of them, Loghain and Rowan started to be wary of Katriel, because this woman didn't seem to be as helpless as before, when Marid should rescue her. Then the way to Gwaren to meet the rebel armee or the rest of it had been cut off by the enemies. Katriel suggested to use the Deep Ways and Maric decided to take this chance. It was horrible. They had to fight against giant spiders. Loghain accomplished to tug the others into a kind of shelter and felt in a faint like the others before. Awakened again Loghain and Rowan tried to convince Maric to leave the unconcious Katriel alone in the shelter. Maric was indignant at the suggestion to leave anyone alone in the Deep Ways, even a pretended traitor, and he didn't believe. Katriel became awake and tried to tell Maric the truth, but he didn't want to hear it. In the Deep Ways Maric found his magic sword - in the hand of a dead warrior. Maric saw, that this sword had been a dwalish work. The sword banished the lichen of the darkspawn. Later one they were attacked by the darkspawn, but then dwarves of the Legion of the Death rescued them. Maric with his charmes won even these dwarfes as his allies to fight in Gwaren at the surface! Maric, decent as always - Alistair's father, indeed - offered the magic sword to the dwarfes being its rightful owners, but their commander refused. And so Maric got his magic sword - by the way gleaming blue not yellow. (I always give this sword to Alistair, of course.) By the way, Gwaren is a dwalish name meaning salt and sea and had been the dwalish outpost into the Deep Ways. Human men built their town over it. The dwarfes managed to open the seals of Gwaren. There they had been attacked by surprise, but Maric recognized Shale as a golem of his own armee. He called to be Maric. Willem the master of Shale made several testing spells, because he thought, that this had been a kind of trick. But he had to confirm, that Maric was the real Maric and the soldiers felt on their knees. Later on, Katriel went to Denerim to make a kind of termination by Severan. As it was a kind of common decency or a case of honour (for bards) she didn't kill the mage, but only dazed him, so he couldn't perform magic this moment. Rowan had kept Katriel under surveillance. For this reason she knew that Katriel had been in Denerim, into the Royal Palace. Rowan told Loghain about it. Well, Loghain told Maric and Maric killed Katriel. Seems to be fair? Loghain left something out, a little detail: Rowan and Loghain knew, that Katriel broke with Severan and that Severan offered a reward for Katriels head. Rowan was appalled by Loghains behaviour. Loghain wanted Maric to kill Katriel. Maric had told Loghain, that he loved Katriel, that he even would marry her. Loghain couldn't understand, because he loved Rowan and he knew the people wouldn't accept an elfish queen and he told Maric so, but Maric didn't accept. I guess, Loghain wanted Maric to marry Rowan, because she had been the fitting queen for Ferelden. Rowan comforted Maric. Well, a sort of tangible solace... She spent him strenght. And she became his queen, a good queen. Later on Rowan and Loghain led the rebel army in the battle of the river Dane. Maric himself had a special mission: He killed Severan. Actually Katriel left Maric a letter with the description of her last meeting with Severan and how to paralyze Severan (with a contact poison as Katriel used herself at the doorknob of Severan.) So she expected Maric to kill her. Unfortunately Rowan went ill and died before her time. Probably she became infected in the Deep Ways. (By the way, Maric didn't betray her, because she had been dead for years, when Maric first met Alistair's mother.) Hope this could help you... By then rosvita

My Toolset (Version 1.0.982.0; Database Version 1.0.0.194) works. Nevertheless I think, that it isn't complete. Is this possible? I want to learn, how to make cutscenes. For this reason I watched a tutorial and parallel tried myself into the Toolset. Everything went well until the point when I came to the View Points: - (Double-)click should make the object inspector appear. OK. - Scrolling down (into the object inspector) just to the point SETTING. OK - First point of SETTING is AREA. OK - AREA has got the vanilla setting (NONE). OK - clicking NONE makes THREE LITTLE POINTS appear. OK - clicking THREE LITTLE POINTS should make appear 20(!) Folders, especially PARTY CAMP, which I am lookimg for. But not for me. I only found three folders (GLOBAL (with only char_stage in it), Demo and Writer's Comp). What shall I do? By the way, that's not the first time, that I got the impression, that something missed. If I use the searching field for persons for example, it won't show me all the fitting files.

Oh, yes. I see. Great! Thank you for the hint!

Which variante do you need? I have got: - save game before the landsmeet: Alistair hardened; 100 Pkt. love; "experiences" not already made (the save game is in Denerim, so you could visit the camp to let him get the experience before they will attend the landsmeet); Anora to side with you at the landsmeet

Well, I would do so, too. (By the way I didn't know this possibility during my first three walkthroughs.) But, if I remember correctly, there's still about 40% of the game to play after the farewell at the gates. I would miss Alistair so much all the remaining time after the gates... Sigh. For this reason I have to bit the bullet.

Hi Magdalena, not sure about Maric, but the painting is a good likeness of Alistair... Concerning Loghain I totally agree with you. But even Loghain is not born a bitter old man. Well, actually he has been a bitter young man before - lol. No joke. I guess Rowan has been a beautiful brave woman. The problem was, that Maric saw a kind of mate in Rowan, less the woman. And yes, Maric's elven mistress is Katriel - a minstrel like Leliana, or better like Majorlaine. Like Alistair he's not the man to have hosts of mistresses. Actually Katriel set a lousy trap for Maric: There had been some pretended attackers who pretended to rape Katriel - just the moment she knew, that Maric would come along. So she could peform the fair maiden to be rescued. He rescued her, of course he did. And when he was wounded in bed, she came to warm him up, just playing the thankful one. This way she insinuated herself into his confidence. After this he sent her to open the gates of Westhill, but she didn't, of course she didn't. And so he lost the battle and a lot of men, including Rendorn Guerrin, the father of Eamon, Teagan and Rowan, which meant Maric's future father-in-law.

Thandal gave a tip how to do that. Look here: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/193986-dont-have-to-have-sex-with-morrigan/page-2

Hi Thandal, I did it. Actually, it was not so difficult as I feared. Now my Toolset can open the Alistair main dlg. Hurrah! Many thanks. But, I still have got another problem: There is an error message: "GFF file contains references. Shared references will no longer be shared." I got the same error message sometimes before. I am afraid, I caused something before with a wrong click in the gff editor... Help!!! Regards rosvita