Dragon Age: Origins Site Updates

BioWare’s official Dragon Age: Origins website has been updated with new profiles for a character named Duncan, a creature called the Shriek, and an “alienage culture” called Ferelden. A bit on that last one:

Alienages have existed for as long as elves and shems have lived in the same lands. Ours isn’t even the worst: They say that Val Royeaux has ten thousand elves living in a space no bigger than Denerim’s market. Their walls are supposed to be so high that daylight doesn’t reach the vhenadahl until midday.

But don’t be so anxious to start tearing down the walls and picking fights with the guards. They keep out more than they keep in. We don’t have to live here, you know. Sometimes a family gets a good break; they buy a house in the docks, or the outskirts of town. If they’re lucky, they come back to the alienage after the looters have burned their house down. The unlucky ones just go to the paupers’ field.

Here, we’re among family. We look out for each other. Here, we do what we can to remember the old ways. The flat ears who’ve gone out there, they’re stuck. They’ll never be human, and they’ve gone and thrown away being elven, too. So where does that leave them? Nowhere.