Keeping the Darkspawn Down Romance Banters

Blackwall, Cassandra, and Dorian each have a unique romance line that has a chance to play every time you close one of the darkspawn tunnels in the Storm Coast, but it can be hard to trigger because 

• []banter doesn't always trigger at every tunnel

  []anyone in the active party can speak if it does

  []the romance line doesn't take precedence over the three other generic lines by the same character.

  This mod makes sure that if the special post-combat banter triggers, the character whose file you download will always be the one to speak, giving you a much better chance to hear the line (and optionally, removes their generic lines so you'll only hear the romance line during the quest). The mod files are split up by character—Blackwall, Cassandra, or Dorian—and then you have two options (only load one of them because they will overwrite each other):

  • []The 25% chance only guarantees that Blackwall, Cassandra, or Dorian will be the one to speak if a post-combat banter triggers, but does not change that they have four possible lines. This is probably the more immersive of the mods because if the banter triggers more than once, they'll say different things.

    []The 100% chance guarantees that Blackwall, Cassandra, or Dorian will be the one to speak if a post-combat banter triggers AND removes their three generic lines so they will only say the romance specific one. It's probably less immersive (because they'll probably say it multiple times during the quest), but the lines are cute and we can't hear them anywhere else (yet🤞).

  Notes:
  • []You do need to have locked in the romance before you start the quest.

    []This mod does not guarantee that the post-combat banter will trigger at all four darkspawn tunnels. Sometimes nothing will play, and sometimes a different banter file will trigger instead (i.e.. a general comment about darkspawn or a regular banter between two companions). In testing, I usually got a post-combat banter to play 2-3 times.

    []The game files suggest there is a possibility this mod could also affect a spot in the Fade, but I was not able to trigger anything there when I was testing.

    []Iron Bull, Sera, and Solas don't have romance lines recorded here, so that's why they aren't included in the mod 😔

    Updates:

    • []10/26/2025 - uploaded updated versions of the Cassandra and Dorian files to correct a bug where banter might not play at any of the tunnels