Reimagined Characters of DAO

Update Note 5/20/21: After some issues with mods disappearing which are required for this overhaul to work, they have reappeared and all is right in the world... at least for now. So yes, this mod is very old but if you enjoy it, I have updated the install instructions so people can continue to use it. Thanks for the support, I'm still working on a future overhaul that blows this one out of the water... so keep your eyes on the look out for that sometime!

- CawCrowche

For the 10th anniversary of Dragon Age: Origins, I really wanted to create something for the game to make it feel a bit more new again. Naturally, since the only thing I know how to do is make character morphs, I decided to go that route! So here are a bunch of morphs I made that replace the appearance of many of DAO's characters to now receive modded skins, tints, tattoos, eyes, hairs, and even eyelashes; made only possible by the talented mod authors of 20+ individual mods that this mod uses their assets to create! Beyond that, these morphs are constructed from the ground up to give characters a wholly new facial structure. There are also a few changes made that try to actively bridge the gap between other Dragon Age game, specifically Inquisition. So hopefully this mod will make the characters seem like they are a part of the same universe Inquisition is in, at least a little more than before.

FEATURES & CHANGES

For starters, characters that are not explicitly made to be old won't suffer from the extreme wrinkles or sagginess that plagued many vanilla characters. In general, you could say that everyone looks more youthful, with only a few characters truly getting the old n' ugly treatment. Not only will this improve immersion when playing a main character who before seemed to be leagues above the beauty standard of everyone else in Ferelden, but characters will also reflect a more expected life expectancy of a dangerous world without modern medicine. Those are just the reasons I made up to explain why they look younger anyhow.

SPECIFIC CHANGES

Right off the bat, humans in the game have the most diverse appearances out of all the other races. This is really just due to the fact that they have the most options for hairs and facial expression presets, whereas the others (especially those dwarf males) have limited good options to choose from. You'll find that the males lack a little bit of hairstyle variety compared to the females, however I did try my very best to make each and very character look individual.

You've probably noticed from the pictures above, but the elves I made don't take inspiration from the DA2 ones unlike a lot of other elf mods out there. This is because I wanted them to look more like the ones in DAI which don't have those harsh, angular features but instead look