Dragon Age: DLC Campaigns

K. Fields
2021-07-05T17:26:54-04:00
Video Games

The Ultimate Edition of Dragon Age: Origins contained a lot of content. It included a bunch of DLC (downloadable content) that enhanced Origins with additional quests, areas, characters, and items. It included the Awakening expansion, which I completed last week. It also included four smaller campaigns, the last of which I completed today.

Here are the DLC campaigns in the order I played them:

Leliana's Song - This is a prequel to Origins. As expected, you play Leliana, who was one of the grey warden's companions in Origins. Leliana is a young bard from Orlais with a complicated past. This campaign expands on her backstory.
The Darkspawn Chronicles - This is a "what if" alternate reality campaign. In this story, your grey warden from Origins did not survive the joining ceremony. Instead, Alistair leads the fight against the darkspawn. The story is flipped and you play on the side of the darkspawn in service of the archdemon. Your character is a Hurlock Vanguard who commands these dark forces. It was a combat heavy campaign. The story was familiar, having already played it from the opposite side.
The Golems of Amgarrak - This campaign allowed you to import an existing character. Daylen, my character from Origins, died so I continued the story of Gerod from Awakening. The plot involved the warden-commander's trip to Orzammar and his aid to two dwarven brothers. Of course, golems are involved as was presaged by the title. This campaign featured some of the most difficult battles in Dragon Age. The combat was definitely the toughest of the DLC campaigns I played.
Witch Hunt - This was the last campaign. I got to play warden-commander Gerod for one final adventure. The witch hunt was a search for Morrigan, a companion of the grey warden from Origins. Shortly before the climactic battle with the archdemon, she left the group vowing never to return. This campaign shows Morrigan's fate.

That's the end of the saga for now until I play Dragon Age II.