Great ending... It all started off a bit slow and general didn't care for the eluvian focus in terms of setting but the areas were rather great, especially liked the deep roads and that fortress where the dragon was. But that final sequence, the 'forest area' where you're finally chasing the Qunari leader as she tries to reach Solas... that all sequence was awesome. Beautiful beautiful location and music and very satisfying final scene with Solas.
I chose to reorganize my Inquisition under Divine Cassandra, who I also romanced. Felt very satisfied with that and that it also made sense... even some bias on the part of both the Divine and Inquisitor... maybe a different Divine/Romance would fit a disbanding more, but I really like the sort of conflict of interest and bias it showed... the way Cassandra smiled when I announced I'd have the Inquisition served her seemed like she was pleased... dunno if non-romanced Cassandra smiles the same way but it fits for my headcanon haha. Also, I feel better about choosing her as Divine now, too... I've still been unsure if it was my preferred headcanon... but after seeing how she and the Inquisition handle things as respective leaders, and how it sets them up for the future (and how they handled their romance), felt it worked out perfect to have Cassandra romanced/Divine and really sets up an awesome paradigm between the Inquisitor, Divine, Dread Wolf.
What else... oh, holy shit... Qun Iron Bull dies?! I didn't even realize that was a thing because it was such a non-event for my Charger Bull. She just said a quick sentence that almost seemed desperate and he was like, of course not. Didn't even realize it was meant as a player choice moment (I would have guessed that even Qun Bull would have said no because of how it was presented.)
But I'm soooo satisfied by this because I actually predicted this would happen..... I went back and forth on my Iron Bull choice sooooo much. I kept leaning toward Qun Bull... Iron Bull was #2 most used character (and favorite) behind Cassandra, but it just fit my Inquisitor a lot to let Bull sacrifice the Chargers... it made sense... the Qunari alliance made sense... even Iron Bull would say it made sense (he constantly approves when you sacrifice things for the greater good)... However, I just couldn't shake the feeling that I may lose him. I figured, well the Qunari alliance is just a handful of ships and agents anyhow, so they're not that important for Corypheus... and they're going to betray us anyhow the first chance they get. And while the alliance may have short term benefit, long term we lose the Chargers and we probably lose Iron Bull... I was sure he'd end up going back to the Qun.
I decided to save the Chargers because I felt it was the best long term way to secure (almost force) Iron Bull to stay loyal to me... force him to sacrifice his loyalty to the Qun and secure his loyalty to the Inquisition. So, for this to actually play out as I thought it may haha sooooo satisfying
One question I had... what happens to Blackwall if you pardon him but force him to keep living the lie? I spent like 20 minutes searching and even the rather detailed epilogue wiki only say what happens if you pardon him and tell him to reclaim his name as Ranier, or you give him to the Warden.... checked Youtube channel too (that basically has every imaginable conversation) and nothing.... does 'Living the Lie Blackwall' just use one of the other 2 possible outcomes?
That was my one sort of headcanon regret... I ended up saving him but I always like the idea of forcing him to remain as Blackwall and basically 'owning' him.... plus the tarot card art was awesome haha it fit using him with a 1H axe.
wonder if the next DA will use the Trespasser data because I noticed the game doesn't save after you beat it... so how to transfer your final decisions? hopefully they bring back Dragon Age Keep, I thought that was a really fun pre-release activity, almost like a AD&D pen and paper dungeon master, crafting and re-tweaking any small changes to 'your story'... I spent hours on the last one hahah and that stupid web browser game was kinda fun/addicting too and I ended up always using Serrault Glass because of it
anyhow, felt very satisfied and think it set's up the next game perfect, especially with my Inquisitor, Divine, Dread Wolf triangle, the Inquisition and Tevinter versus the Qunari foreshadowing, the general possible bias, conflict of interest and even more reasons for Ferelden or Orlais to distrust the bias of the Inquisitor and Divine (and how the Dread Wolf can use that), and politics of a romanced Inquisitor and Divine while the Inquisition serves the Divine and the Dread Wolf tries to use all these conflicts to corrupt the Chantry and Inquisition... disbanded Inqusition, non-romanced Divine seems a lot more focused and maybe efficient but I'm exciting for how damn complicated my Inquisition, Divine, Dread Wolf paradigm is haha anyhow, just my ramblings... very satisfied as a whole.