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* It's a small moment, and I'm not quite sure if it counts, but I found it to be pretty awesome. When playing a female City Elf who killed Vaughn, I was asked by Wynne how I was recruited into the Grey Wardens. Not mincing words, my character explained to her that she had killed the Arl of Denerim's son for hurting her family and friends, and that if she had the chance, she would kill him all over again. Knowing Wynne, I expected to get a lecture. So I was shocked at her reply:
-->'''Wynne:'''You say that with such cold conviction it frightens me. But I can find no fault in your actions. ''I would have done the same thing''
And then I remembered how much ass Wynne kicked when protecting her apprentices from the demons at the Circle, and realized that yes, she '''would''' have gone after Vaughn, and she would have torn him apart. Holy crap. I think it's safe to say Wynne = BadassGrandma.
-->'''Wynne:'''You say that with such cold conviction it frightens me. But I can find no fault in your actions. ''I would have done the same thing''
And then I remembered how much ass Wynne kicked when protecting her apprentices from the demons at the Circle, and realized that yes, she '''would''' have gone after Vaughn, and she would have torn him apart. Holy crap. I think it's safe to say Wynne = BadassGrandma.
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* Jowan in the mage origin. A timid, lowspoken and somewhat pathetic guy, but the second his girlfriend is threatened with imprisonment he bellows with more force and rage than we ever see before or after: "I WON'T LET YOU TOUCH HER!", and then proceeds to stab through his own hand, raise his arms, and knock out the First Enchanter, Knight-Commander and an entire roomful of Templars with the sheer, brutal force of his own blood. Woe the day they gave up on the possibility of recruiting him to your party.
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* Jowan in the mage origin. A timid, lowspoken and somewhat pathetic guy, but the second his girlfriend is threatened with imprisonment he bellows with more force and rage than we ever see before or after: "I "NO!! I WON'T LET YOU TOUCH HER!", and then proceeds to stab through his own hand, raise his arms, and knock out the First Enchanter, Knight-Commander and an entire roomful of Templars with the sheer, brutal force of his own blood. Woe the day they gave up on the possibility of recruiting him to your party.
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** You yourself, a comparatively much stronger mage, will have to go through about three fourths of the game before getting even remotely strong enough to solo so many enemies of that caliber, and Jowan had yet to go through his Harrowing... That's how angry and desperate he was.
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** You yourself, a comparatively much stronger mage, will have to go through about three fourths of the game before getting even remotely strong enough to solo so many enemies of that caliber, and Jowan had has yet to go through his Harrowing... That's how angry and desperate he was.is.
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** You yourself, a comparatively much stronger mage, will have to go through about three fourths of the game before getting even remotely strong enough to solo so many enemies of that caliber, and Jowan had yet to go through his Harrowing... That's how angry and desperate he was.
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* Jowan in the mage origin. A timid, lowspoken and somewhat pathetic guy, but the second his girlfriend is threatened with imprisonment he bellows with more force and rage than we ever see before or after: "I WON'T LET YOU TOUCH HER!", and then proceeds to stab through his own hand, raise his arms, and knock out the First Enchanter, Knight-Commander and an entire roomful of Templars with the sheer, brutal force of his own blood. Woe the day they gave up on the possibility of recruiting him to your party.
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*** Denerim opens with the city in flames and the darkspawn outside casually executing Denerim's soldiers. The camera focuses on one soldier, on his knees, a nasty looking darkspawn sword to his throat. He looks up and is stunned to see the army that you've gathered charging towards them. The darkspawn slits his throat a moment later, but I like to think that even though the soldier knew it was too late for him, his last sight gave him a flicker of hope for Denerim.
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*** Somewhat diluted by the fact that you've just screwed over your homeland in the name of revenge though.
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*** Not ALL of it, but a considerable number of those spells are in the game. Arrow of slaying, shapeshift (spider), taunt, lightning, walking bomb, indomitable, and overwhelm all make an appearance and are all usable in the game.
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*** Somewhat diluted by the fact that you've just screwed over your homeland in the name of revenge though.
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--->'''Arl Howe''': "There it is, right there. That damned look in the eye that marked every Cousland success that held me back. It seems you have made something of yourself after all. Your father would be proud. I, on the other hand, want you dead more than ever..."
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Delinking Dethroning Moment Of Suck, which has to be signed and only be on those pages. I\'m not 100% sure what it\'s getting at regardless (not played the game in question).
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*** It ends up becoming (another) CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the player character, and a DethroningMomentOfSuck for him!
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* There's two subtle ones that happened in the Deep Roads, long before the Warden got there and only revealed in the Codex.
**The first is the 'Crosscut Drifters' a group of renegade dwarven miners who tell the assembly to piss off and go hunting for lyrium veins in high-risk areas. They break through a wall and find a cavern where a huge mass of Darkspawn about to surprise attack Orzamarr. What do they do? Blow the entire cavern up, burying the darkspawn...and they did this knowing that it would bury them in there as well.
** Then there's the story behind the tale of 'Topsider's Honor.' An elf came down from the surface to fight Darkspawn with the Legion of the Dead. Just a regular elf too, not a warden. He was such a badass that not only did the Legion treat him as one of their own, but they gave him a full burial with honors.
**The first is the 'Crosscut Drifters' a group of renegade dwarven miners who tell the assembly to piss off and go hunting for lyrium veins in high-risk areas. They break through a wall and find a cavern where a huge mass of Darkspawn about to surprise attack Orzamarr. What do they do? Blow the entire cavern up, burying the darkspawn...and they did this knowing that it would bury them in there as well.
** Then there's the story behind the tale of 'Topsider's Honor.' An elf came down from the surface to fight Darkspawn with the Legion of the Dead. Just a regular elf too, not a warden. He was such a badass that not only did the Legion treat him as one of their own, but they gave him a full burial with honors.
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** It has a little extra oomph after you learn that Grey Wardens [[spoiler:usually only visit the Deep Roads when they are nearing the end of their tainted life - and rather than withering away, they choose to take as many Darkspawn as they can down with them.]]
* Playing as a Mage and arrive at the gong on the urn of sacred ashes quest. use the gong suddenly the dragon flies down. when it kills your team and your left alone. whip out virulent walking bomb walking bomb cone of cold frost grip and a few offensive attacks and to bring it down Single Handedly. Then to repeat this against Flemeth, and the ArchDemon by the time you get to awakening and meet the spirit dragon at this point your laughing. "oh goody another dragon"
* Playing as a Mage and arrive at the gong on the urn of sacred ashes quest. use the gong suddenly the dragon flies down. when it kills your team and your left alone. whip out virulent walking bomb walking bomb cone of cold frost grip and a few offensive attacks and to bring it down Single Handedly. Then to repeat this against Flemeth, and the ArchDemon by the time you get to awakening and meet the spirit dragon at this point your laughing. "oh goody another dragon"
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** It has a little extra oomph after you learn that Grey Wardens [[spoiler:usually only visit the Deep Roads when they are nearing the end of their tainted life - and rather than withering away, they choose to take as many Darkspawn as they can down with them.]]
* Playing as a Mage and arrive at the gong on the urn of sacred ashes quest. use the gong suddenly the dragon flies down. when it kills your team and your left alone. whip out virulent walking bomb walking bomb cone of cold frost grip and a few offensive attacks and to bring it down Single Handedly. Then to repeat this against Flemeth, and the ArchDemon by the time you get to awakening and meet the spirit dragon at this point your laughing. "oh goody another dragon"]]"
* Playing as a Mage and arrive at the gong on the urn of sacred ashes quest. use the gong suddenly the dragon flies down. when it kills your team and your left alone. whip out virulent walking bomb walking bomb cone of cold frost grip and a few offensive attacks and to bring it down Single Handedly. Then to repeat this against Flemeth, and the ArchDemon by the time you get to awakening and meet the spirit dragon at this point your laughing. "oh goody another dragon"
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** Especially in light of Irving's warning that one should never make deals with demons because they ''never'' end well. This one ''does'' end well, because dammit, ''you're the Warden and you say so!''
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* Playing as a Mage and arrive at the gong on the urn of sacred ashes quest. use the gong suddenly the dragon flies down. when it kills your team and your left alone. whip out virulent walking bomb walking bomb cone of cold frost grip and a few offensive attacks and to bring it down Single Handedly. Then to repeat this against Flemeth, and the ArchDemon by the time you get to awakening and meet the spirit dragon at this point your laughing. "oh goody another dragon"
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* Killing the high dragon with only your Dog left in your party. It's about 7 minutes of biting its ankles to death.
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* Killing the high dragon with only your Dog left in your party. It's about 7 minutes of biting its ankles to death. death.
* Ser Otto the blind templar. Going into the Alienage to solve a problem with no real help, fighting demons in a haunted orphanage, all pretty damn badass. But his ultimate crowning moment has to be when in mockery a rage demon throws a book at him, Otto simply swats it away in a manner that makes you question how powerful templars can really be and made me respect them a lot more.
* Ser Otto the blind templar. Going into the Alienage to solve a problem with no real help, fighting demons in a haunted orphanage, all pretty damn badass. But his ultimate crowning moment has to be when in mockery a rage demon throws a book at him, Otto simply swats it away in a manner that makes you question how powerful templars can really be and made me respect them a lot more.
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*** This is aided by [[TimCurry Tim Curry's]] excellent voice acting where you can really hear the anger in his voice as he can't deny what he sees in the Human Noble.
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* The FinalBattle against the Archdemon is pretty awesome too. Your party, reinforcements, and a few ballistae versus the Archdemon and ''his'' reinforcements. It's even better when you see the various [=NPCs=] you helped in the game, such as Arl Eamon, First Enchanter Irving/Knight Commmander Gregoire, Zathrian/Swiftrunner, and/or Kardol joining the fray.
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* The FinalBattle against the Archdemon is pretty awesome too. Your party, reinforcements, and a few ballistae versus the Archdemon and ''his'' reinforcements. It's even better when you see the various [=NPCs=] you helped in the game, such as Arl Eamon, First Enchanter Irving/Knight Commmander Gregoire, Zathrian/Swiftrunner, and/or Kardol joining the fray. This only applies to the PC version, however; players unfortunate enough to be stuck with the console version are left alone to be swarmed by the darkspawn summoned by the Archdemon.
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* If your PC kills the Archdemon [[spoiler: and dies in the process]], Sten travels back to Par Vollen. He is asked if there was anyone honorable outside of Par Vollen. Sten replies that in all his travels, [[ItHasBeenAnHonor he only ever met one.]] If having TheStoic from a race of [{TheStoic stoics]] praise you to his people isn't awesome, I don't know what is.
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* If your PC kills the Archdemon [[spoiler: and dies in the process]], Sten travels back to Par Vollen. He is asked if there was anyone honorable outside of Par Vollen. Sten replies that in all his travels, [[ItHasBeenAnHonor he only ever met one.]] If having TheStoic from a race of [{TheStoic [[PlanetOfHats stoics]] praise you to his people isn't awesome, I don't know what is.
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** Also worth noting that the death blow animations are determined by the weapon skill set your using (two hander, one hander and shield, or dual wielding), not by the specific weapon you're holding. This means that these can show you stabbing a mace or axe through an ogre or dragon's skull. It's friggin' sweet.
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* Killing the high dragon with only your Dog left in your party. It's about 7 minutes of biting its ankles to death.
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* If your PC kills the Archdemon [[spoiler: and dies in the process]], Sten travels back to Par Vollen. He is asked if there was anyone honorable outside of Par Vollen. Sten replies that in all his travels, [[ItHasBeenAnHonor he only ever met one.]] If having TheStoic from a race of [{TheStoic stoics]] praise you to his people isn't awesome, I don't know what is.
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* The FinalBattle against the Archdemon is pretty awesome too. Your party, reinforcements, and a few ballistae versus the Archdemon and ''his'' reinforcements. It's even better when you see the various NPCs you helped in the game, such as Arl Eamon, First Enchanter Irving/Knight Commmander Gregoire, Zathrian/Swiftrunner, and/or Kardol joining the fray.
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* A Mage possesses the ability to pull off one of these on their own if they have Master Coercion- after performing the blood magic ritual at Redcliffe to enter the Fade, and confronting the Desire Demon, if you have that skill, it's possible to not only ''browbeat the demon into leaving Connor's soul alone forever,'' but also get the Demon to cough up one of the 'favors', whether that's the [[BloodyMurder Blood Magic]] specialization or an extra spell, free of charge. How's ''that'' for being persuasive?
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* Oghren gets one in ''Awakening'' with his Joining. While everyone who takes it and survives passes out, Oghren chugs the goblet and lets out a hearty burp, treating it as merely another one of his {{Gargle Blaster}}s.
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*** For me, it's just the sight of the darkspawn running away that fills me iwth pride. After an entire game of the darkspawn standing their ground, fighting to the very last darkspawn standing, the fact that they break and run like cowards is an inspiring sight.
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*** For me, it's just the sight of the darkspawn running away that fills me iwth pride. After an entire game of the darkspawn standing their ground, fighting to the very last darkspawn standing, the fact that they break and run like cowards is an inspiring sight.
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* The Battle of Ostagar, where King Cailen and his men are positioned to crush [[TheHorde the Darkspawn]] once and for all. [[spoiler:It doesn't work, but]] the battle cinematic is truly awesome to see, especially on higher graphics and with the CrowningMusicOfAwesome blaring from your speakers at top volume.
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* The Battle of Ostagar, where King Cailen Cailan and his men are positioned to crush [[TheHorde the Darkspawn]] once and for all. [[spoiler:It doesn't work, but]] the battle cinematic is truly awesome to see, especially on higher graphics and with the CrowningMusicOfAwesome blaring from your speakers at top volume.
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*** Something about standing up to Arl Howe and telling him to look you in the eye and see the person you haven become, and that what he's done has only made you stronger is so satisfying and powerful. This troper originally didn't like the Human Noble origin, remaining an Alienage girl at heart, till that scene. Arl Howe's bitter awe and shock at your defiance is definitely one of the most awesome moments in the game.
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*** Something about standing up to Arl Howe and telling him to look you in the eye and see the person you haven have become, and that what he's done has only made you stronger is so satisfying and powerful. This troper originally didn't like the Human Noble origin, remaining an Alienage girl at heart, till that scene. Arl Howe's bitter awe and shock at your defiance is definitely one of the most awesome moments in the game.
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*** Something about standing up to Arl Howe and telling him to look you in the eye and see the person you haven become, and that what he's done has only made you stronger is so satisfying and powerful. This troper originally didn't like the Human Noble origin, remaining an Alienage girl at heart, till that scene. Arl Howe's bitter awe and shock at your defiance is definitely one of the most awesome moments in the game.
