I once again ventured into the Drachenlands and actually got some decent photos this time. Got several shots of my custom gambeson and a group shot of me in my DA:2 Warden gear at opening ceremonies.

Both Grey Warden fits made by the amazing https://www.instagram.com/veijanikita/

Favourite game for so many years now… My beloved DAO Morrigan 🖤 Gradually finishing her skirt and arm accessories🕷️

And yes, that is a labubu with a matching jacket that I made out of fabric scraps from my own jacket lol.

For the Drachenfest LARP, your character can be summoned from any world—so mine is a Grey Warden Archer/Rogue. This year, I had the pleasure of not only performing a Joining ceremony (using an official Joining chalice and my lyrium dagger) to create a new warden during the game, but I was also appointed War Master for our camp and led our troops in the final battle.

I ended my pre-battle speech with the words:
“In peace, vigilance. In war, victory. In death, sacrifice.”

A Big Announcement from the DATaW team!

Dragon Age Thedas at War is a total conversion mod for Crusader Kings 3, we can announce after three years of modding we have officially released on Steam!

It is a wild moment for many of us on the development team, and we hope you enjoy playing the mod we have put so much time and care into. Updates will continue to come out, as we do not plan on stopping with new content anytime soon, this is just the first taste of what we have in store!

Thanks for sticking by us, and to many more years of modding!

Discord : https://discord.gg/TGpY36twHf
Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3767974559
Modcon V DATaW Trailer

So I've been a huge fan since Origins, and these games have fueled my creativity for the past 14 years or so. Though I have yet to play Veilguard, the first 3 games have been a constant joy. They actually inspired me to push on through as an artist (I am self taught) and just enjoy the ride. I was (and still am) a Solasmancer 🤣.

All made by me :) and yes I am standing on stilts lol

Sculpted in ZBrush, retopologized in Maya, and textured in Substance Painter, 3DCoat, and Photoshop. Rendered and animated in Blender. Based on my own sketch and created as a practice project.

I loved so much to play Dragon Age: Inquisition and them I decided to paint this artwork!

My next step is to play Dragon Age Origins and 2 and one day, I'll have more inspiration to do another painting!

Hope you enjoy my painting!

I wanted to share some Dragon Age tarot cards I have painted over the years, heavily inspired by the original DA:I ones, naturally!

The first one (Hawke x Isabela, 6 of swords/lovers inspired) is the most recent, I finished it as a commission yesterday. Then there's one for Zevran, one for my qunari mage inquisitor and the last one is my dalish warden! I have done others too, but they're not Dragon Age related. I love making these and I always learn something new every time I design one!

Edit: Good news for those asking about the Zevran card, it is available as a print! I do take custom tarot commissions from time to time, if folks are interested you can check my availability on VGen!

I must admit, I was disappointed not to meet our new Arishok while up north (Especially since he can plausibly survive every canon of choices)! Here's what I think he might look like with his longer hair and beard from his later appearances.

But be mindful whom you approach when seeking deals in the Marquisate of Serault. [...] Care, rivals, for they are as skilled in the Game as their glassworks, though they have been considered outcast since the great Shame of Serault. Mind their welcome as you would a smiling cardsharp, or risk attending your last court. And remember the promise and threat of "PAYMENT IN GLASS."

[Edit October 2025: I ended up adding a lot of, and I really mean A LOT of, brand new content since this release. Do check it out! Some of the info below might be slightly out of date.]

Original post for context

The free and open-source adaptation/remake/demake/revival of The Last Court is ready, in full playable form! It has 9 chapters, more than 180,000 words and 860 pages of sweet Dragon Age goodness.

I have thrown over 100 hours (re-)building this thing and by the Maker, I really need a vacation.

WHAT EVEN IS THIS THING?

It is the lost 5th Dragon Age videogame! Set squarely in the middle of the saga, between Dragon Age II and Dragon Age Inquisition, this is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure gamebook based on a browser-based, card-driven game with very unique lore. It got permanently deactivated in 2020... :(

... but it is revived! Somewhat. You can try it yourself right now. :)

WHAT CHANGED, GAMEPLAY-WISE, FROM THE DEMO?

List incoming!

• Stats changes are actually mentioned to you, so you know exactly how much e.g. Prosperity you have won or lost.
• The Chronicle now records over half a hundred different events, items and assets you get throughout the story. Each has its own icon!
• Ah yes, all stats have their own icons as well!
• There are DICE ROLLS! True to the original, Skill Checks take into account both your Skill and your luck. But mostly your Skills.
• If a choice will involve a Check, now icons will inform you which Skill will be tested. Now you can actually strategize!
• There is a cool map of Orlais on the Codex now, from the Asunder novel and modified by myself to include a couple of importance places. It was also used as the background in the original game!
• Oh right the whole Codex is actually a Codex now, containing key entries with relevant lore from the games.
• Difficulty modes! You get Casual and Nightmare to go along with the Normal Mode from the original. Suffer! Be happy! Or both!
• Revamped council screen! It's no longer one massive list but something that actually takes into account your choices, and it has icons for every counsellor, accomplice, bodyguard OR lover.
• There is a Tutorial! Sort-of. It has key tips that should avoid issues like players not noticing that you have to click on red lines to advance and stuff like that.
• You now have a preview of all available character portraits. Guessing no longer required. :)

COOL BUT WHAT ABOUT NARRATIVE CHANGES?

Ah yes, glad you asked. There are a few:

• Completely revamped large portions from the DEMO (Prologue + 3 chapters). It should feel like a fresh experience for those of you who tried it.
• Added the rest of the story - 4 more chapters and an Epilogue, for a total of 9 distinct chapters. Details further down below.
• Unlike the original, cut content was restored so 6 portraits are available rather than just 2.
• Portraits are no longer linked to classes. Wanna be a girl-scholar? Go for it.
• Big one: the Huntress and the Scholar are joined by 3 new classes! You can now play as the Initiate, the Envoy, and the Alchemist, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
• Your gender (that is, if you are called Lord or Lady, Marquis or Marquise etc) is no longer tied to character portrait. Wanna be a Lord in make-up? Andraste forbid anyone stops you.
• You no longer face a massive gauntlet of exposition in the Prologue. You meet a few key characters according to your choices, and the rest organically through the story.

COOL COOL BUT ARE THE HUNTING SECTIONS STILL IN-

• Well yes but the hunting sections are AWESOME. And there are like, triple as many of them now, straight from the original. Anyway, back to it.

YOU WERE ON ABOUT NARRATIVE CHANGES...

• Ah yes. Unlike the original all Cases can be ignored with a proper conclusion, and most have unique event alternatives or variables that you can only see by ignoring one the Case.
• Several end-of-passage lines have been replaced, featuring lines from the original game - I managed to grab those from some old YouTube videos which preserved footage of the browser game.
• Several event chains have been added to the first three chapters. Like, a measurable lot. They got around 20-50% longer in some places...
• All skill checks have been rebalanced and should be a tad bit easier. Hey, Nightmare difficulty is a thing so if you want a harder challenge that is still an option!
• You can now take a lover - and yes, you can cuck them!
• Instead of having every character in your council, now you will be prompted to handpick ONE of them as your counsellor. Each character will have a unique boost to either the State of the Realm (Attributes/Threats) or a Skill, sometimes both.
• If you want you can eventually fire your counsellor during the course of the story, and replace them with someone more experienced that will offer further boosts. If you don't change them you will gain a small boost, generally to Dignity.
• Accomplices work the same way, you can now handpick one among 3 options. And yes, the Dashing Outlaw can serve as both accomplice and bodyguard, or even just as one or the other, in tandem with, say, the Silent Hunter or the Well-Read Pig-Farmer (respectively).
• Several events from the earlier chapters also have unique Events/Assets information added to them.
• Plus a bunch of other stuff I forgot about.

HOW MUCH IS IN THIS?

Well, like I said: 148 THOUSAND words (the DEMO had 37k). Around 140k words if you discount some support stuff, which is considerably more than Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen or 1984 by George Orwell. It should take you around a couple of hours to finish, if you are a relatively fast reader and don't mess around checking the Chronicle's updates every now and then.

In any given run I doubt you will see more than 25% of the entire thing, though. And no two playthroughs will be exactly the same.

HOW MUCH IS THIS?

It is FREE, now and forever.

The original used microtransactions to get around the mobile game-like time blockers, but this adaptation has none of that stuff. Zero. Just go ahead and play it without spending a dime, you deserve it.

WHAT ABOUT PLAYING ON MY PHONE?

It works quite well on mobile devices!

Do be warned that, if playing the itch.io version on mobile, I recommend more frequent saving as mobile browsers often reset the game to the very beginning if you refresh the page, or the phone runs out of memory. Just save the game at the start of every chapter or so and you will be fine!

IS THIS ONLY PLAYABLE ONLINE ON ITCH.IO?

I have made it available as a standalone file (link in comments) so anyone with a PC will be able to play it, even offline. Just click the HTML file from inside the unpacked .zip folder, and you can play on your browser of choice even when offline.

It also guarantees that The Last Court will remain playable even if itch.io crashes down or something. The whole purpose here is preservation, after all.

It weighs less than 7 MB. It works perfectly on PC; on mobile, I don't think browsers will be able to load the images but the standalone game will be technically playable, just not very pretty.

WAIT, WHAT IS THIS ABOUT OPEN-SOURCE?

In the standalone version I have also included the original .twee file I used to make the adaptation. Open it using the free and open source Twine Harlowe application, and you can get direct access to the source code.

• Check the hidden triggers, checks, variables etc to plan your next run.
• Tweak whatever aspect you want, from text to difficulty.
• If you know programming or art (I don't, lol) you can even change the layout, colours, everything!

If you feel like you can make this game even better, go for it. As long as you release it for free as well and credit folk, all good!

HOW IS THE STORY STRUCTURED NOW?

Like this:

• Prologue: The Edge of the World (80 passages)
• Chapter 1: The Herald (86 passages)
• Chapter 2: Glass (83 passages)
• Chapter 3: Road and River (81 passages)
• Chapter 4: Omens (80 passages)
• Chapter 5: The Fields (85 passages)
• Chapter 6: Enlightenment (98 passages)
• Chapter 7: A Tangled Web (150passages)
• Epilogue: The Arrival of the Divine (75 passages)

Total: 860 passages (counting the Codex and behind-the-scenes coding passages)

The DEMO, in comparision:

• Prologue: (82 passages)
• Chapter 1: (60 passages)
• Chapter 2: (82 passages)
• Chapter 3: (52 passages)

Total: 307 passages

It has not just almost tripled in length (while being closer to 4x in size) but also has way more coherent story structure. Should feel way better to play, but feeeback is welcome!

I FOUND A BUG, TYPO OR STRANGE THING. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

Please tell me what you saw! Either here, or on itch.io's own comment section.

WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT NEW CLASSES?

The Huntress and Scholar return, but they are joined by 3 new classes available to all characters. Here is the starting Skill point distribution:

HOW MANY ENDINGS DOES THIS HAVE AND HOW DO I GET THEM?

There are 7 distinct endings, with 1 of them - the "Good" Ending - having 4 increasingly good variations depending on your success. I use quotes here because all endings are valid in their own way and feel satisfactory enough, at least to me.

• Peril Ending: Have higher Peril than Prosperity by the end of Chapter 7; avoidable.
• Twilight Ending: Have higher Twilight than Dignity by the end of Chapter 7; avoidable.
• Revolution Ending: Have higher Revolution than Freedom by the end of Chapter 7; avoidable.
• Confrontation Ending: Enter the Sealed Chantry... and be an ass when asked about it.
• HK Ending: Be friendly with the HK in every opportunity.
• The "Bad" Ending: Fail to impress the Divine (that is, have 4 Divine's Favour points or less).
• The "Good" Ending: Impress the Divine (that is, have 5 Divine's Favour points or more). If you get 6 Divine's Favour, you will get the Keys event; with 8, the Mask event; with 10, the Fortune event ("best" possible ending in the game).

Well, that's it. I hope you enjoy The Last Court, whether trying it for the first time or going back to Serault for one more adventure. :)

honestly can’t believe it took me this long to cosplay anything dragon age related and it was so fun seeing people get so excited to recognize someone cosplaying from origins!!!

Ive been working on this cosplay for 5 years, and this year finally finished it. The armor and wig are made by other creators. The costume includes a heavy aging SFX latex makeup.

Yes, hyperfixating much 🌚

Did I have 50 free hours to spend? I didn’t. Do I have a rekindled obsession with the franchise that formed me as a person and I haven't hoped to get more of? Yup.

Can I spend these 50 hours I didn’t have hyperfixating on my obsession with barely managing to do anything else besides (🤡🤡🤡)? Oh certainly!!

I have this Dragon Age Artbook that has a tapestry with characters' faces all over the first 2 pages and I was always so in awe and I wanted to do something like that too. Honestly, I can’t be more hyped, I haven’t hoped after 10 years to have more of this world (that I can talk about 3 hours straight no kidding) and still can’t really believe it please tell me I haven’t dreamed it!!

Fell in love with this world in 2009, the longest commitment of my life really.