What I liked about the Dwarves was that while Harromount was the better person, Bhelen was the better leader. Fact is, the Dwarves decline under Harrowmount but grow under Bhelen, thus the right choice is not so cut and dry.

Bluffing your way out of Fort Drakon is so unbelievably fun. Some S tier quest writing for sure

When my Dwarf Noble, Durin, returned to Orzammar, he did side with Harrowmont to show off at the Provings and get back at Bhelen. After multiple playthroughs showing Harrowmont to be a weak king, the idea of Orzammar stagnating and my Dwarf allowing his home city to decay further didn’t sit well with me. So I convinced Vartag to let me switch sides and Bhelen eventually received the crown. I had my fun humiliating Bhelen for his wrongful exile, then ensured the throne stayed within the family. Essentially the whole quest was one big flex for my Aeducan, showing that Bhelen could only become king by his big brother’s strength and cunning. Bhelen pushed politicians, but Durin moved mountains.

Zevran and Oghren teaming up and pretending to be circus brothers acrobats in order to break the Warden from Fort Drakon is the closest DA:O ever gets to the levels of insanity you experience when playing TTRPGs and I love it wholeheartedly

Paragon of Her Kind was the GOAT. Playing a dwarf noble who was basically left for dead by Bhelen, naturally supporting Harrowmont just because Bhelen did you dirty, then figuring out that Harrowmont caused decline to Orzammar was something else.

I wish I could have tried Crime Wave. But I've never spent enough time developing all thieving skills.

Oh Maker, I usually have two companions convince Tana to leave her post during the breakout. I forgot that you'll find these guards killed when you're in the final battle in Fort Drakon.

I think nature of the beast had the most enemy types found in a questline
wolves, bears, darkspawn, undead, werewolves, sylvans, ogres, a medium size dragon, revenants, spiders, arcane horror

I recently played DAO for the first time and immediately did a second run! Excuse the wall of text, I'm having a blast in DA games and am going to geek out a little bit - I think my top 5 quests (non DLC) are:
Paragon of Her Kind, Unbound, Mage's Collective, The Unlikely Scholar, and Jowan's Intention.

1. Paragon of Her Kind - you already explained why (& I agree,) but I also love how well this whole questline foreshadows the Landsmeet. Orzammar is immersive and I love the lore and quest pacing there :)

2. Unbound - Finding those little creepy clues all through the game that culminated in a back alley fight against Gaxkang was just really cool. I had theorized about wtf was going on as I found them. I got lucky and Gaxkang dropped the Fade Wall shield for my arcane warrior warden too!

3. The Mage's Collective - these are exactly the type of morally ambiguous things my wardens like to do, and have some really interesting lore and implications. The Scrolls of Banastor codex is one of the most interesting in DAO I think, so if I had to pick one from the Mages Collective, it would be that.

4. The Unlikely Scholar - Dagna is ambitious and willing to sacrifice so much to meet her goals. I help her leave to study at the circle, but I can understand why a parent wouldn't want their child leaving and making such a monumental decision either. I think DAO has a recurring theme of accepting or fighting against fate, and this is another quest that lets you decide how your warden feels about that sort of thing (even while trying to resolve their own fate too). Plus she uses her education later on which was so fun to discover.

5. Jowan's Intention - again with the fate theme... Jowan is controversial; I like that you have so many wildly different options to take with him. My first warden had him run away in Redcliffe bc she had more important things to deal with but sympathized with him. Imagine my surprise when he showed back up later AND was attempting redemption. It made my choices feel impactful and I was honestly happy to see him attempting to make good on his word.

Haven't done a proper thorough playthrough of DAO in years, this was so nostalgic! <3

1. Wardens capture. I had Sten and the Mabari team up, was hilarious, too 😂

2. Nature of the beast. My elves would always help their people, even if the leader sacrificed himself

3. Paragon of her kind. I love to hear Oghren nagging about his wife’s decisions. Even if you kill Branka, he’s like „Stupid girl” and still stays with you 😂
But as anything non dwarven Grey Warden i always choose Bhelen as King. I don’t like the way golems are created. I mean, dwarves have to die for it. Shale is the best example

4. Unlikely scholar. Dagna is so cute and if she wants more than just being married off by her father, why not help her. Rewards you later in DAI with the “Acquire the Arcanist” mission. I had Culled with the Templars Escort them and when I saw who it is, I was like “Yay, i have Dagna!”. Spoiler alert, in my DAI epilogue, Sera and Dagna started dating ❤

5. I don’t know why, but I like doing the Whole Redcliffe plot, along with Urn of Sacred Ashes. You learn a lot about the world and it’s history

I’ve been playing Origins since it came out when I was 4(my brother got it and I would always watch him play until he finally made me an account and I started playing myself too) but I’ve never thought of my favorite quests much. I definitely like the Origins and companions quests but feel like those would be cheating. That being said Nature of the Beast, A Paragon of her Kind, The Battle of Denerim, Lelianas personal quest(I know I said I wouldn’t but its just one of my favorites) and Return to Ostagar are probably my top 5.

Until now i never knew you can escape fort drakon without killing the soldiers a completely new scenario i thought killing is the only way to finish the either selecting companion or escaping, i always choose companion choice , especially broma brothers all the time. Now i trying again this time not killing soldiers thanks for that !!.

Reminds me i need to do a full playthrough again of this game at some point.

I remember the first time I did the sir Landry quest I had just got the power of blood from the wardens keep dlc pack and my character was using the speed ability and he did a decapitation death blow it was crazy 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Only time I've changed my mind in Orzammar is because I played a Dwarf Noble. I wanted to pretend that I was supporting the brother to keep the family on the throne, but at the last second I betrayed him as "revenge" for how he betrayed me. Outside of that, kind of know who I wanted to support before I started the line with my other characters.

I really love and appreciate your videos bro I discovered dragon age origins back in 2017 when I was 11 on the Xbox one cause it had just been released for backwards compatibility and I had a blast I’m still playing it today at 18 years old just on the pc now ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I'm currently replaying DAO as a human noble woman, romancing Alistair. I'm looking forward to the landsmeet, which is one of my favourite quests in the game.  This time I'll try to become the queen on Alistair's side.

Good video lad keep m coming

being a dalish and siding with the werewolves is just funny AF

I love Jon Curry. In general I like to play the women characters (like FemShep ❤️), but in DAI I go for a male Qunari mage just so I can spend hours listening to Jon ❤️😸