History Trivia / DragonAgeII

** As part of a graphical overhaul due to ''Origins'' recieving a lot of flack for dated visuals, ''2'' was made on a modified version of the Eclipse Engine called Lycium. This required remaking all of the assets for this game, and by the time ''2'' came out, Lycium had become outdated graphically to the team's regret.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The game was rushed after the highly awaited and ambitious Star Wars MMO ''VideoGame/TheOldRepublic'' was unable to make it to its projected release in early-2011 and EA demanded a major title before the end of the first fiscal quarter of 2011.

** Nicholas Boulton voices Male!Hawke, Malcolm Hawke in ''Legacy,'' Baron Arlange in ''Mark of the Assassin'', and Xenon the Antiquarian.

** Nicholas Boulton voices Male!Hawke, Malcolm Hawke in ''Legacy'', Baron Arlange in ''Mark of the Assassin'' and Xenon the Antiquarian in ''The Black Emporium''.

** A minor example, but as noted above, Sebastian is voiced by Alec Newman - who also voices Seneschal Bran. They can have a small interaction in Act 2 if Sebastian is in the party when Hawke speaks to Bran about the missing Qunari delegation.

** Gideon Emery voices Fenris and also Samson the ex-Templar.
** Miranda Raison voices both Cassandra Pentaghast and Fenris's sister Varania.
** Alec Newman voices Seneschal Bran, Sebastian Vael, and the male elf who stands guard at the entrance to the Dalish camp.

* IKnewIt: A few fans noticed that Qunari, other than Sten, likely possessed horns in ''Origins'' and guessed that this trait might turn up in future installments. Sure enough, the Qunari faction were redesigned with horned heads being the norm in the sequel. The hints came from a lone codex entry and the darkspawn Ogres (once you learn where they come from). Behind the scenes, Sten was originally supposed to be horned, but they proved problematic when mapping them to helmets, so he lost them.

* OneSteveLimit: Ser Otto Alrik shares his name with Ser Otto, the blind Templar from ''Origins''. The blind Ser Otto was an unambiguously good man, while the one in this game is unrepentantly ''evil''; this is probably why the one in this game is always called Ser Alrik, and his first name is only found in a codex.

* TalkingToHimself:
** Nicholas Boulton voices Male!Hawke, Malcolm Hawke in ''Legacy,'' Baron Arlange in ''Mark of the Assassin'', and Xenon the Antiquarian.
** A minor example, but as noted above, Sebastian is voiced by Alec Newman - who also voices Seneschal Bran. They can have a small interaction in Act 2 if Sebastian is in the party when Hawke speaks to Bran about the missing Qunari delegation.

* UpliftedSideStory: ''Dragon Age II'' hadn't originally been intended as a sequel to ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' -- instead, it was conceived as ''Dragon Age: Exodus'', a SpinOff game with a much smaller scope. However, publisher Creator/ElectronicArts demanded from Creator/BioWare a fully-fledged sequel within less than 16 months after ''VideoGame/TheOldRepublic'' was not going to make its projected release in early-2011, forcing them to repurpose ''Exodus'', with [[ContestedSequel polarizing results]]. Downplayed with ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', which was conceived as a mainline entry from the get-go but had to retroactively absorb much of the plot from the ''[=DA2=]'' expansion ''Exalted March'', which was planned but scrapped after its main game underperformed in sales.

** Nicholas Boulton voices Male!Hawke, Malcolm Hawke in ''Legacy'', Baron Arlange in ''Mark of the Assassin'' and Xenon the Antiquarian in ''The Black Emporium''.