Sword of Highever

There are scenes that ask for something more, something extra. In my opinion, one of such scenes is when the player finds the ancestral weapons during the Human Noble origin, the invaluable symbols of the Cousland family.

The mod adds a short cutscene that is triggered at the conclusion of The Cousland Treasury quest. Any existing save must be prior to obtaining the items.

A reflection about Inon Zur's music used here, I'll begin with a quote from a conversation between actors Luke Dale and Tom McKay in a live action video about the game they performed in (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Official Live Action - Music).

LD: "(...) You know, musicians and composers, like, they are actually the ones that bring the real emotions to the table. They should be the stars of the thing, the game, the movie, whatever it is. Not the actors, not you and me. It's musicians that they're the ones who, like, create those moments, those moments where time and reality just disappear. And we should just cherish those moments more, 'cause there is so few of them these days.(...)"

It's true, and Inon Zur certainly did it with his music in Dragon Age. When I was working on this cutscene, only after selecting the music track I realised how music adds much to it, even if it's just a short scene. You can hear the same theme in Epilogue, after the entire long journey - from a roleplaying, immersive point of view, this is something connecting it all. Every danger and sacrifice along the way.

For Couslands, a very emotional moment in the Epilogue is

After all the perils, hearing the same music there can be a special experience. Even more with an additional interaction from  A Cousland Always Does Their Duty, to conclude the sword and shield story arc. But the other origin stories are not less special and equal in their drama and emotional content - this is what we can cherish, because such things used to be important to Bioware.

Installation:

Documents/Bioware/Dragon Age/packages/core/override

Uninstallation:

Remove from the folder