The golden halla remains one of my worst enemies - herding that damn thing to the Clan is so frustrating, the amount of swear words that leave me every time I do the task is alarming.
I love this playthrough, but I literally groaned when she glossed over the war table mission "specializations for the Inquisitor". The suspense of what class she'll pick is killing me! Will it be the one-hit-wonder, the explosion-enthusiast or the drugfiend?! I have to know!😂
I’ve never been so excited to watch someone else play a game before. I literally CANNOT wait for your reaction to the very end of this. That’s gonna be top notch. Please noone spoil anything to you ✨ 🤞🏻 💜 ps. I genuinely think you should avoid reading comments and scrolling internet at this point until you are done with the Trespasser dlc :p
For the War Table feeling like it's getting overwhelming, all of the Resources (Hinterlands Resources, Crestwood Resources, etc.) are repeatable. So try not to prioritize those missions unless you're farming for a specific herb or mineral. Gather Coin, Herbs, Leathers, Cloth, and Metal are the same. If you're looking to clear the table, try to do the other ones first.
You are so keyed in to where the narrative is leading you sometimes, it's really fun to see you guess things and then be proved right just a bit later, whether in the same episodes or a few down the line. I'm excited to see how things continue to go! thanks for sharing :D
the veilfire is always there for a reason; you might have to do some more thorough searching of the walls in different ruins around the area to find the glyphs. also if you listen closely, there are sounds when you're near a hidden glyph!
2:07:00 Kiki, regarding the haunted/spirit infested sacred ground: You will want to loot the graves to gain access to the crypt but only AFTER gaining the trust of the dalish clan. If you do it before completing the quests to gain their friendship, the keeper will be very angry and chances will be very low of you gaining their favor. Once you have their favor, it won't count against you if you raid the burial ground to get the key to the crypt.
You know, sacrificing Hawke (your alter ego basically) to save Alistair is about the noblest thing you can do in this game. Even more noble if it's sacrificing a warden you only just meet in this game, or even Logain. The inquisitor on the other hand should be at least somewhat of a hard nosed pragmatists, hard to say, really, which is the most pragmatic solution. In my final run through of the trilogy before I play Veilguard I'm making Logain a warden, which means Alastair, I believe, becomes a drunk, and I'll be marrying Anora to become king. That's a version I've never played before, and I want to see how the Inquisitor and Hawke interact with him.
You could understand the conversation between Solas and his dying demon/spirit spirit friend because they spoke elven and you are playing as a dalish elf.
The scene with Cole was not about Solas, it’s an important part of Cole’s quest. Letting him go with Solas, is Ghost Cole. Letting him go with Varric, human Cole. I made him human :D But yeah, it’s nice to see someone playing even now before Veilguard. It doesn’t impress me much yet, because I don’t like the Veilguard graphics. But watching these video makes me want to play the older DA games again, all odds them :D
If you ever do a second dragon age playthrough, try downloading the "War Table - No waiting" mod. It makes the war table so much easier and quicker to handle. Plus by the time one of the advisors are ready to report in I often forget what the mission was 😆 The mod really helps with that. Great video btw 😊
Ah yes, the Solas route. Hope you're having fun with it! Excited to see your thoughts and reactions as it progresses. (But also when you finish DAI I recommend watching scenes of the other romances. Some of them are hilarious or otherwise interesting with insights into each character. I think DAI really went in with their romances tbh.) Oh and also the Siding with the Templars quest.(As a staunch pro mage DA fan it took me ages to actually experience it because of my opinions but its actually a very interesting quest that provides context on some things i didnt know the answer to and worth at least a look.) Also! The Deep Roads and Frostback Basin buttons on your map lead to the two of 3 DLCs. I don't really think there is a preferred time to play them. (probably before Trespasser which is after the endgame) But they might feel a little out of place if you don't know they're DLCs so just a small note. (I must admit they went all out with their DLCs. I think the Deeproads one is my favorite DLC out of the whole series tbh. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
Ah, I see you've now fallen into the Solavellan well...good, good. 😌 Regarding thoughts on Merrill and Marethari in DA2: no, it wasn't the keeper who corrupted the entity sealed in the idol. Merril herself reveals that it had been used as a weapon many centuries before, during the war between the Tevinter Imperium and the elves. Was it already a demon before being summoned? Or was it a spirit at first, and then corrupted after being used as a weapon? This cannot be known. What is certain is that when it was imprisoned in the statue it _was_ already a demon, and it was already a demon when Merril began to contact it.
There are technically ways to "cheat" the war table by changing your PC's clock or something, it is indeed possible you won't be able to do them all except if you are waiting for them to complete before continuing the actual game.
"We never actually met the demon." One of many reasons I believed Merrill over the Keeper and the rest. Merill is actually DOING the thing and is NOT an idiot. She also recognizes the dangers involved and has constantly said SHE is the only that should be paying any prices for her actions. She never asked the clan to interfere in what she was doing. It's this exact reason why I end up killing Merrills clan anytime I play DA2. They refuse to see they were IDIOTS and attacked me for it. Doing a rivalmance with Merril is basically gaslighting her into thinking she's an idiot, when she's really not.
yesss! My exact thoughts I could never bring myself into rivalmancing Merrill and she’s my canon Hawke romance!! Friendship route is the way to go and I took responsibility for her actions so her clan yet still lived I didn’t know you could kill them :v
@@welovesimbala4150 I can't do that to her. Taking responsibility for 'her' actions implies she's a child and you're her parent. She made her choices, I'm not going to pretend the Keeper wasn't stupid for being possessed over fear. But yeah, if you don't take responsibility, they get 'fed up' with her, as if the Keeper being stupid and getting possessed was somehow Merrills fault. As far as I'm concerned, they got what was coming to them when they came for me, and I have no regrets each time. Self-defense, assholes.
hmm, but "accepting the consequences of her actions" means being possessed and dying; It seems to me that you completely overlook the fact that without Marethari's intervention it would have been Merril who died. Merril was ready to die to repair the Eluvian, ok, but how to sacrifice herself to save the life of her disciple makes Marethari a bad person? While not caring at all of her and watching her disciple die an orrible death would have been the morallly correct thing to do? Also, "the clan deserves to die"... The _whole_ clan? Warriors and civilians, men, women, children (because with all the adults dead, how would they survive?), _all of them_ deserve to die? May I point out that they certainly didn't come to your house to try to kill you, but _you_ were the one who entered one of their sacred sites...? 🤨
@ I agree 100% with you! I’m glad I didn’t massacre her clan as it wouldn’t have fit with my pragmatic Hawke. Merrill’s story is just so compelling and heart breaking as I sacrificed my Hawke in the fade leaving her all alone.
I think you also needs Cole for that party to actually initiate the romance between the two of them officially. I think they'd just flirt with each other otherwise but not actually date each other.
Iron Bull 50 shades 🤣🤣! Only romanced Josephine Dorian and Cassandra! 🤣Love how you interact with your companions!🥰🤣 so loving and carrying but never hesitate to send Leliana to take care of dark businesses 🤣 or to accidentally attack everything around you, while on mission!
@@bluemoon1716 Most but not all, there are still some big names left at Bioware. Namely Trick Weekes (wrote Solas, Iron Bull, the Chargers, Cole, Mordin, Tali, and others) who was promoted to Lead Writer for Dragon Age starting with the Trespasser DLC.
@@UnsungSilence yes and trick is the best writer in my opinion so i have full faith i don't like some decisions they made mainly about how much choice goes into this game but i do sort of understand since it will be a different part of thedas but that's the only really main issue i have mary kirby also wrote though she was laid off now, she wrote for the game as well and two companions (sten, varric, merrill, loghain and vivienne) so the whole 'no OG writers were on team' is false lol and personally my two favorites trick and mary still are writing lots of misinformation going around about the game in general, stop listening to youtubers who rage bait for views am i saying it will be perfect and the best game ever etc. etc.? no but the hate around it is weird and obviously drummed up due to politics and want to nitpick, not like in all the games you could have gay 69ing (lol) but i digress i watch Kala Elizabeth for info about it, obviously she's a bit more optimistic about it but you know what? i prefer that to baseless hate when the game isn't out she at least played it and not ragebaiting which is the most popular thing to do now some of you fail to realize trashing on games gives you more views than liking so it's less 'oh they are honest because they don't like it', you need to get rid of that mind set because it's the opposite now which is why the majority of tik toks you see for anything in general is rage bait
@@legomaster6201 i know this is the internet but the way you speak would come across as rude and controlling in real life. "why u no act like the way i want you to". there are better ways to inform people and this is not it.
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Ar lath ma, vhenan means I love you, my heart 😊
The way that one sentence had me gaggeddd for a decade 🥹🥹🥹♥️
Kiki's engagements with the golden halla is probably the best comedy break after Here Lies The Abyss video
The golden halla remains one of my worst enemies - herding that damn thing to the Clan is so frustrating, the amount of swear words that leave me every time I do the task is alarming.
Solas just dropped the L word in Elven. that's what "Ar lath ma, vhenan" means. "i love you, my heart" 😋
Me, a fellow solasmancer screaming and banging on the door in the background
gnawing at the bars of my confidment
Evil laughing and eating popcorn in the background
I love this playthrough, but I literally groaned when she glossed over the war table mission "specializations for the Inquisitor".
The suspense of what class she'll pick is killing me!
Will it be the one-hit-wonder, the explosion-enthusiast or the drugfiend?!
I have to know!😂
I can’t wait for Veilguard, watch out for spoilers! 🎉🎉
Absolutely, Kiki, do not watch ANY of the trailers. Nothing. It will SO spoil the Inquisition for you ejdhjsbd
1:06:06 And THAT'S why you help her get to the Circle in Origins! Your face when you twigged 😂😂
I’ve never been so excited to watch someone else play a game before. I literally CANNOT wait for your reaction to the very end of this. That’s gonna be top notch. Please noone spoil anything to you ✨ 🤞🏻 💜 ps. I genuinely think you should avoid reading comments and scrolling internet at this point until you are done with the Trespasser dlc :p
(Eats popcorn while watching) Yep. Nobody spoil nothing, capisce?
I love hearing your thought procces about spirits and demons!
Look, I commented weeks ago saying I couldn't wait for your reactions.... that was one of the big ones!
It won't be the last! Trauma bond sesh!
kiki's playthrough are the perfect segway into Veilguard
Solas' quest to save his friend almost made me cry....until I remembered. Nice Gaming!!
yep, the golden halla can either be really quick or 15-30 minutes. lol
Very humorous reaction to Halla chasing, where's a dog when you need one.
For the War Table feeling like it's getting overwhelming, all of the Resources (Hinterlands Resources, Crestwood Resources, etc.) are repeatable. So try not to prioritize those missions unless you're farming for a specific herb or mineral. Gather Coin, Herbs, Leathers, Cloth, and Metal are the same. If you're looking to clear the table, try to do the other ones first.
I am so excited you're romancing solas!!!!!!! another banger of an episode kiki, this playthrough is so fun to watch
seeing this title and thumbnail made my heart soar. so glad you locked in with Solas. he makes me swoon, i can't resist the egg 😭🥚💜
You are so keyed in to where the narrative is leading you sometimes, it's really fun to see you guess things and then be proved right just a bit later, whether in the same episodes or a few down the line. I'm excited to see how things continue to go! thanks for sharing :D
I was so looking forward to you exploring the Exalted Plains! The elven history is so interesting. Great ep
Getting recommended new channels playing my favourite series… this does put a smile on my face :)
Best of luck going forward, gonna smash it 👍
i have an idea! next vid, you can rank your fav companion from most liked to least liked. Something to talk about as youre exploring 🤩
Joesphine is awesome!
WE HAVE MERE DAYS PPL LOL
Absolutely loved hearing your thoughts on the events/interactions in this episode. I love your read on Solas, he's so strangely irresistible 💞
the veilfire is always there for a reason; you might have to do some more thorough searching of the walls in different ruins around the area to find the glyphs. also if you listen closely, there are sounds when you're near a hidden glyph!
2:07:00 Kiki, regarding the haunted/spirit infested sacred ground: You will want to loot the graves to gain access to the crypt but only AFTER gaining the trust of the dalish clan. If you do it before completing the quests to gain their friendship, the keeper will be very angry and chances will be very low of you gaining their favor. Once you have their favor, it won't count against you if you raid the burial ground to get the key to the crypt.
I think that an elf inquisitor raiding an elven burial ground should be avoided for narrative coherence
You know, sacrificing Hawke (your alter ego basically) to save Alistair is about the noblest thing you can do in this game. Even more noble if it's sacrificing a warden you only just meet in this game, or even Logain. The inquisitor on the other hand should be at least somewhat of a hard nosed pragmatists, hard to say, really, which is the most pragmatic solution.
In my final run through of the trilogy before I play Veilguard I'm making Logain a warden, which means Alastair, I believe, becomes a drunk, and I'll be marrying Anora to become king. That's a version I've never played before, and I want to see how the Inquisitor and Hawke interact with him.
You could understand the conversation between Solas and his dying demon/spirit spirit friend because they spoke elven and you are playing as a dalish elf.
The scene with Cole was not about Solas, it’s an important part of Cole’s quest. Letting him go with Solas, is Ghost Cole. Letting him go with Varric, human Cole. I made him human :D
But yeah, it’s nice to see someone playing even now before Veilguard. It doesn’t impress me much yet, because I don’t like the Veilguard graphics. But watching these video makes me want to play the older DA games again, all odds them :D
If you ever do a second dragon age playthrough, try downloading the "War Table - No waiting" mod. It makes the war table so much easier and quicker to handle. Plus by the time one of the advisors are ready to report in I often forget what the mission was 😆 The mod really helps with that. Great video btw 😊
Five more rooms to explore in Skyhold Miss Kiki
Capturing the Halla is faster when you are on your mount.
Ah yes, the Solas route. Hope you're having fun with it! Excited to see your thoughts and reactions as it progresses. (But also when you finish DAI I recommend watching scenes of the other romances. Some of them are hilarious or otherwise interesting with insights into each character. I think DAI really went in with their romances tbh.) Oh and also the Siding with the Templars quest.(As a staunch pro mage DA fan it took me ages to actually experience it because of my opinions but its actually a very interesting quest that provides context on some things i didnt know the answer to and worth at least a look.)
Also! The Deep Roads and Frostback Basin buttons on your map lead to the two of 3 DLCs. I don't really think there is a preferred time to play them. (probably before Trespasser which is after the endgame) But they might feel a little out of place if you don't know they're DLCs so just a small note. (I must admit they went all out with their DLCs. I think the Deeproads one is my favorite DLC out of the whole series tbh. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
LOl, with the golden halla, you have to heard her back, very carefully.
Fiona has some interesting lore to her. Might be better to look it up after you’re done the game though just in case there’s other spoilers
That conversation would have been interesting if she had made a different choice in the Fade... 😉
Ah, I see you've now fallen into the Solavellan well...good, good.
😌
Regarding thoughts on Merrill and Marethari in DA2: no, it wasn't the keeper who corrupted the entity sealed in the idol. Merril herself reveals that it had been used as a weapon many centuries before, during the war between the Tevinter Imperium and the elves. Was it already a demon before being summoned? Or was it a spirit at first, and then corrupted after being used as a weapon? This cannot be known. What is certain is that when it was imprisoned in the statue it _was_ already a demon, and it was already a demon when Merril began to contact it.
I don't know how far ahead you have these recorded, but I do hope at some point you finished asking Solas about his journeys 😂
there is a quest you can do on the throne of the inquisition
There are technically ways to "cheat" the war table by changing your PC's clock or something, it is indeed possible you won't be able to do them all except if you are waiting for them to complete before continuing the actual game.
Cake 🎂
"We never actually met the demon."
One of many reasons I believed Merrill over the Keeper and the rest. Merill is actually DOING the thing and is NOT an idiot. She also recognizes the dangers involved and has constantly said SHE is the only that should be paying any prices for her actions. She never asked the clan to interfere in what she was doing.
It's this exact reason why I end up killing Merrills clan anytime I play DA2. They refuse to see they were IDIOTS and attacked me for it.
Doing a rivalmance with Merril is basically gaslighting her into thinking she's an idiot, when she's really not.
yesss! My exact thoughts I could never bring myself into rivalmancing Merrill and she’s my canon Hawke romance!! Friendship route is the way to go and I took responsibility for her actions so her clan yet still lived I didn’t know you could kill them :v
@@welovesimbala4150 I can't do that to her. Taking responsibility for 'her' actions implies she's a child and you're her parent. She made her choices, I'm not going to pretend the Keeper wasn't stupid for being possessed over fear.
But yeah, if you don't take responsibility, they get 'fed up' with her, as if the Keeper being stupid and getting possessed was somehow Merrills fault. As far as I'm concerned, they got what was coming to them when they came for me, and I have no regrets each time. Self-defense, assholes.
@@Adanu191 that’s actually a nice way of putting it lol thanks for the insight. I saw it as me being her lover and protector.
hmm, but "accepting the consequences of her actions" means being possessed and dying; It seems to me that you completely overlook the fact that without Marethari's intervention it would have been Merril who died.
Merril was ready to die to repair the Eluvian, ok, but how to sacrifice herself to save the life of her disciple makes Marethari a bad person? While not caring at all of her and watching her disciple die an orrible death would have been the morallly correct thing to do?
Also, "the clan deserves to die"... The _whole_ clan? Warriors and civilians, men, women, children (because with all the adults dead, how would they survive?), _all of them_ deserve to die? May I point out that they certainly didn't come to your house to try to kill you, but _you_ were the one who entered one of their sacred sites...?
🤨
@ I agree 100% with you! I’m glad I didn’t massacre her clan as it wouldn’t have fit with my pragmatic Hawke. Merrill’s story is just so compelling and heart breaking as I sacrificed my Hawke in the fade leaving her all alone.
You've chosen Solas... (evil laughter)😈
You should bring Dorian and Iron Bull for some spicy banter
I think you also needs Cole for that party to actually initiate the romance between the two of them officially. I think they'd just flirt with each other otherwise but not actually date each other.
Iron Bull 50 shades 🤣🤣! Only romanced Josephine Dorian and Cassandra! 🤣Love how you interact with your companions!🥰🤣 so loving and carrying but never hesitate to send Leliana to take care of dark businesses 🤣 or to accidentally attack everything around you, while on mission!
2:36:35 Solas will be known to you by the end of the game. His is a facsinating tale.
you did adamant but hadn't still met dagna???
I have a feeling that DA Veilguard will be far inferior to Inquisition.
This is a different bioware. All the writers from mass effect and the first two dragon age games have left the company and started their own studio.
@@bluemoon1716 Most but not all, there are still some big names left at Bioware. Namely Trick Weekes (wrote Solas, Iron Bull, the Chargers, Cole, Mordin, Tali, and others) who was promoted to Lead Writer for Dragon Age starting with the Trespasser DLC.
@@UnsungSilence excellent news! Trespasser (imo) was the best bit of dragon age writing we've ever got!
I absolutely agree.
@@UnsungSilence yes and trick is the best writer in my opinion so i have full faith
i don't like some decisions they made mainly about how much choice goes into this game but i do sort of understand since it will be a different part of thedas but that's the only really main issue i have
mary kirby also wrote though she was laid off now, she wrote for the game as well and two companions (sten, varric, merrill, loghain and vivienne)
so the whole 'no OG writers were on team' is false lol and personally my two favorites trick and mary still are writing
lots of misinformation going around about the game in general, stop listening to youtubers who rage bait for views
am i saying it will be perfect and the best game ever etc. etc.? no but the hate around it is weird and obviously drummed up due to politics and want to nitpick, not like in all the games you could have gay 69ing (lol) but i digress
i watch Kala Elizabeth for info about it, obviously she's a bit more optimistic about it but you know what? i prefer that to baseless hate when the game isn't out
she at least played it and not ragebaiting which is the most popular thing to do now
some of you fail to realize trashing on games gives you more views than liking
so it's less 'oh they are honest because they don't like it', you need to get rid of that mind set because it's the opposite now
which is why the majority of tik toks you see for anything in general is rage bait
kiki you never asked cole all the questions so stop talking like you did if you really asked cole all the question they would not still be there
chill out, dude
@@x_rhi_x2772 i will chill out when kiki finally stops acting like she asked cole all the questions we saw she never asked him
@@legomaster6201 stop being rude to her
this is HER playthrough
@@legomaster6201 i know this is the internet but the way you speak would come across as rude and controlling in real life. "why u no act like the way i want you to". there are better ways to inform people and this is not it.