In peace, vigilance. In war, victory. In death, sacrifice. - Grey Warden oath.

For four hundred years the Great Enemy has remained dormant. In their dark dwellings, in the Deep Roads, the Darkspawn searched endlessly for their prophets: old gods in the forms of dragons, corrupted by the Darkspawn into Archdemons. These creatures, little more than myth to most, begin the Blights that tear the world apart. Unstoppable and unrelenting armies blanket the nations of Thedas in darkness. Now, in 9:30 of the Dragon Age, another Blight has begun, lead by an old god. The Korcari Wilds in the south of Ferelden are being overrun by the Enemy. While the Darkspawn may be fought by conventional means, the Archdemons leading them are all but immortal. The only weapons capable of defeating them, and therefore ending the Blight, are the Grey Wardens. Men and women of all races and walks of life, knights and magi, thieves and barbarians, combatants without peer, each sworn to give their lives against the Darkspawn. Four hundred years after the last Blight was ended by the Warden Garahel, the Fifth Blight has begun. The feudal armies of Ferelden have massed to face the Enemy head on. What few Grey Wardens exist in Ferelden, ever vigilant, are prepared to give the ultimate sacrifice.

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OOC:

Dragon Age is incredible. I'll just start with that. Grimdark fantasy, ends-justify-the-means-type heroes, inevitable doom despite victory. I personally love fantasy, and I know I'm not alone there, so I thought I'd throw this out there to see if anyone bites. My idea is essentially the plot of the Origins game (because it's a massive enough journey with plenty of opportunity for side adventures) with a few alterations, such as not all Wardens dying at Ostagar, for the sake of the RP, etc. However, I'm very open to ideas, so if anybody is interested and has any plot concepts let me know!

Interested. Origins was always a fun game despite some errors. One of my favorites

I love Dragon age, but I think it, if you really like that Grey wardens theme, would be better to set RP to the times after Inquisition.

I'd be up for this, I just recently dug through DAO.

Heya, guys. Pleasure to have you.

Naked Bohemian said
I love Dragon age, but I think it, if you really like that Grey wardens theme, would be better to set RP to the times after Inquisition.

I would imagine you're right. However, I've no idea what happens in or after Inquisition, haven't played it. I'm a heathen.

Neverthless still interested.

:)

Bumpity bump

Going to keep my eye on this one. I'm interested, however, I do have a lot going on right now, so I'm not sure if time will permit me to join.

Interested!

I would suggest going the other way with it, however - rather than more of the Wardens surviving Ostagar none of them do, and without the influence of The Warden and Alistair the Darkspawn destroy Denerim, plunging Ferelden into chaos. We're the first wave of Warden reinforcements from the rest of Thedas. It tells a new story rather than just retracing a told one.

Silent said
Going to keep my eye on this one. I'm interested, however, I do have a lot going on right now, so I'm not sure if time will permit me to join.

Hope to have you with us :)

McHaggis said
Interested!

Great! :D

Corsair said
I would suggest going the other way with it, however - rather than more of the Wardens surviving Ostagar none of them do, and without the influence of The Warden and Alistair the Darkspawn destroy Denerim, plunging Ferelden into chaos. We're the first wave of Warden reinforcements from the rest of Thedas. It tells a new story rather than just retracing a told one.

A very good idea! However, if I recall correctly the rest of Thedas barely knew there was a Blight in Ferelden (the epilogue said something along those lines), apart from Orlais, and that's only because Cailan sent messengers to Celene. So, I'd definitely be happy for people to have Orlesian wardens if they wanted to. We could retcon the lore slightly to allow for other nations to join in, but bearing in mind geographically some nations are a lot further away than Orlais so soldiers may not arrive in time. Unless of course those reinforcements arrived way after the Blight destroys Denerim, etc. in which case there may not be much of Ferelden left to save. We can discuss what we want to do.

I am interested. Will a skill system exit, or will it be more free-form? And from that, are only vanilla spells allowed for mages, or can people come up with their own?

Completely free form. I don't think skills, dice and points have any place in creative writing, personally, it should be up to the imagination, so long as it's progressive (no one is born as a master swordsman after all, same goes for mages ;D). As for spells, whatever you like. Necromancy, Elvish druidism, benevolent holy magic, etc. :)

I'm interested as well, this sounds like a great idea.

Great :)

I'll probably start an OOC tomorrow to see who's still interested.

Oops, double post.

Last bump before OOC goes up!

I'm interested, but have never played a dragon age game(hopefully that changes this christmas), so will that have any impact in this setting.

That's fine :) you can just treat it like any other fantasy RP.