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Hurlocks are a breed of darkspawn both taller and more muscular than genlocks and often form the strongest part of darkspawn armies.
A heavily armored soldier in the service of a lord or cause. Typically a champion of good and a defender of the innocent.
The Legion of the Dead is a dwarven warrior faction in Dragon Age committed to fighting in the Deep Roads to their deaths.
Mabari are magically bred dogs, often used in Ferelden as war hounds. A Mabari War Hound can join the Warden's Party in Dragon Age: Origins, and can be summoned as a temporary party member in Dragon Age 2.
Mercenaries, Soldiers for Hire, have been found fighting in conflicts since the dawn of human warfare. These hired guns show a desire to turn their talent in the art of death to a more profitable profession.
Multiple endings is a term used to describe different outcomes or conclusions to a game based on the previous actions of the player.
Non-linear level design where the player is able to freely traverse the game world and choose where and when to visit certain areas in the game.
A digital distribution platform owned and operated by EA.
A subscription service from EA for the PC. Similar to EA Access, users pay a monthly fee to gain access to a range of titles published with additional incentives.
Combat that takes place in real time, but that can be paused to give commands to certain characters.
PlayStation Plus is a premium PlayStation Network subscription service.
Pride Demons are the most powerful demons that are encountered within Thedas in Dragon Age.
Prostitution is the exchange of money, drugs, favours, or other incentives for the performance of sexual acts.
In a game that presents multiple options of how to proceed, Pseudo Non-Linear is when all options must be completed in order to proceed further. In other words it gives you to illusion of choice but there will ultimately be a set path.
The tall, muscular race known as the qunari are a stoic and poorly understood people who follow the way of the Qun, sacrificing their own individuality for group cohesion. Part of BioWare's Dragon Age franchise.
A weighty real-world issue that some games comment on, often through allegory. Unfortunately, other games can offend players in their depiction of different ethnicities, whether intentionally or not, thus becoming part of the issue themselves.
Lacking the intelligence of the other variety of demons found in the Fade, Rage Demons exist simply to destroy.
Video game combat in which combat actions are performed in real-time, rather than through a turn-based structure.
Many games allow you to add characters to your playable group upon fulfilling certain conditions. This is a central mechanic of many RPG franchises, including Fire Emblem and Suikoden. These can be NPCs or even enemy characters that the player persuades to join their cause, through sidequests or dialogue options.
Though a somewhat less common archetype than black knights, red-armored knights still show up now and again in Fantasy works and elsewhere. Like Black Knights, they are often (though not always), portrayed as malevolent.
A playable class in many roleplaying games. Rogues are also sometimes known as Thieves. The class in almost all these games center around their stealth capabilities.
Romance in video games can either be interactive, in which the player attempts to woo another character, or an unchangeable part of the story of a given game.
Many games feature a story which involves saving the world and its inhabitants, often single handedly.
Scaleform is a software development kit used to integrate Flash based user interfaces with game engines.
Instead of having the loot spew out of the corpse it-self, this concept is based on having to interact with the corpse to obtain the loot.
An intimate physical activity between two or more individuals.
Female characters who are designed with highly idealized figures and proportions, outfits that are revealing and/or form-fitting, and prone to ending up in completely over-the-top poses designed to show off their bodies.
The ability to change shape. Humans shifting into animals is the most common type of shape shifting.
A shield bash is the act of using one's shield as a weapon to stun, knock back, or otherwise inflict damage on an enemy.
Quests that aren't necessary for game completion. They typically offer side-stories or specific rewards.
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