[Spoilers All] Tell me about your current playthrough you’re in the middle of while we’re in lockdown!

My most recent playthrough might be my favourite. I'm playing a City Elf Templar/Berserker romancing Zevran. She's pretty much a certified badass. She wears Juggernaut Plate Armour and wields a Sword and Dagger to easily dispatch foes. She's strongly against illegal magic, an opinion only reinforced by Tevinter abducting her people from the Alienage. Sadly she will likely never be able to become a Templar legitimately due to being an Elf, but she doesn't even want to. She uses Templar abilities to defend her homeland and protect people from the evil of magic, nothing more.

It's also the first strictly Andrastian playthrough I've done. She doesn't agree with the Chantry in their revision of Elven Andrastian history, but she believes in Andraste and justifies this belief through Shartan, no matter how many Dalish call her a flat-ear. She takes on a very Christian-like view of Andrastianism, and therefore wants Chantry reform. Ultimately she doesn't care much for the Elven gods and she thinks they are an outdated part of Elven history. In the eyes of Mythal she stood stoic without even blinking. Many would say that she walks with Andraste's hand on her shoulder at all times.

There are many struggles within her life. Struggles for acceptance, belonging and grief caused by trauma given to her by Vaughan. She doesn't hate humans, but she can't trust their leaders and nobility. She wants to follow Andraste's path, but she fully believes that Andraste won't do all the work for her, leading her to make rash decisions. She struggles to put her past behind her, how she was so close to being raped and killed. She keeps the Wedding Ring on at all times, not to show that she is happily married or devoted, but that she honours Nelaros's sacrifice so that she could live.

It's the most tragic playthrough I've done, even more heartbreaking than my Cousland playthrough. I am not sure whether I will sacrifice her or not. Using a child to absorb the soul of an old God through a ritual just seems antithetical to her beliefs, and she will never be able to live with herself. She also has so much tragedy in her life that she's honestly better off dead so that she can finally rest in peace. On the other hand, she really cares about Zevran and couldn't do that to him. I cant kill her off either because I'll probably end up in tears. She deserves a better life.

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