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Spring Again After: Playing Bioware Games

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This blog revolves around Bioware games, mainly Mass Effect and Dragon Age. Contains spoilers for everything.

in the spirit of reposting meta - there are two things happening when you're choosing between minrathous and treviso: 1) gameplay and 2) narrative. both of these are very different for what they mean regarding the story.

for the gameplay, no matter what city you choose, ghilan'nain is going to be there. you are the player and there is no rng. you do not need to guess nor put together clues to figure out which city is the 'right' one because there is no right one. you are choosing which city to save. this choice does not matter in the narrative because one city will always be blighted and one companion will always be hardened. this is your choice as a player. this is, simply put, gameplay.

narrative wise, rook has some of the stupidest luck in thedas. regardless of the city you choose for the gameplay, ghilan'nain is there. this is not how the narrative responds to it because the narrative viewpoint is different.

for the sake of everyone, i'm putting this under a read more.

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