


Even worse- it convinces you to erase yourself in order to somehow earn someone else’s love and approval. The thing about abuse is that it erases you. I clung to the smallest reasons why I should stay alive for one more day, just barely surviving until finally, I found something worth living for. Without someone else to live for, I had completely lost any sense of self, any grasp of where my life should go next. I’d been somewhere similar too- those first three months after the breakup, all I did was lay in bed, cry, and think about killing myself. I could vividly imagine how Leliana must have felt during her long journey through Ferelden after Marjolaine’s betrayal, alone and destroyed. The fictional events that Leliana went through were far more serious than what happened to me over the course of my university years (and I had never turned to religion as a means of recovery) but the parallels were there. The nuances of her past that had sailed over my head as a teenager now struck me square in the chest: I watched as Leliana slowly revealed how she was groomed by Marjolaine as a teenager, manipulated into a relationship for many years, suddenly and devastatingly abandoned for a perceived slight, and then how she so clearly latched onto the Chantry in a desperate bid for some semblance of identity. Party recruitment v1.What wasn’t predictable was how Leliana’s story hit me like a freight train the second time around. Karma’s Origins Companions - recruit and romance Cullen, Jowan, Gorim, Ser Gilmore, Tamlen, Soris, Leske, and Adela Inquisition - Cassandra | Cullen | Solas | Blackwall If you have trouble configuring them, hit me up and I’ll try and help you. I have not personally tested all of them.

The one thing I see that people want in Dragon Age is the ability to romance people where the game didn’t intend you to.
