Oh, right. Basically shit happens that you don't need to concern yourself with until you've played through Origins. If you have any interest in the books, I would suggest trying to read them before playing Awakening as it might affect how you play through it and view certain characters.
It's another "save the world" plot, though. Sort of.

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/5817/sigrunmoti.jpg

I wasn't a fan of Awakening, either. Well, I was, but I wasn't. It was unbalanced, it was (and still is) incredibly buggy, to the point of being game-breaking, and it was rushed.

In all the campaigns and modules, Anders and Sigrun was among my most beloved companions. Many of Sigrun's comments reminded me about the intellectual goth girl with that thin line between not knowing whether or not she was serious.

I just go absolutely nutty over female Dwarves. It just so happened that she was quite sweet and she had a hint of innocence about her that was really cute.

I could be less perky if you like…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Hk5YlFo9Y

Me as well. I did come across two bugs while playing, but neither was game breaking and I had previous saves so got around them. I am playing it for the second time now and will probably get a third in before DA2.

Overall I really enjoyed it - thought it had a good story and plenty of content. Some quests were lame - but then there are always those pure loot/exp quests in most games. But I liked the overall plot and details.

Anders and Nathaniel were my favorite characters.

As for the "Ultimate Edition" I tend to agree with the rest that it is to soon to be doing this and a bit of a slap to all those who got things individually.

I loved DA:O and also thought that awakenings was a worthy extension. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. The uniqueness of the party members was very refreshing, outside of Oghren though… he really needed to be handled a little better.

To those that think this is a slight against those that bought the DLCs individually, I really don't think so. So many of us have been yearning for a complete edition, personally I wanted a complete DLC sans OC edition, and they delivered it after the final DLC was released. Those that bought them individually all got to play through them months in advance in most cases, and in the case of the last two they got a couple weeks, and still saved money from if they would of just waited for the DLC compilation. I can't wait for the release of this, although I do wish it didn't herald the end of future DA DLC though.

Sounds like you played a different game than the rest of us. The companions, and especially their dialogue, were an improvement over DA:O. At least to most people.

You're also greatly exaggerating how easy it was. It was definitely easier than DA:O, but a lot of that simply comes from knowing how to effectively use your talents by that point.

Also, if you finished it in 10 hours, then a flock of flying monkeys just flew out of my ass.

It wasn't much longer than 10hrs. I think my playthrough came in at around 13hrs, but I'd have to verify that.

Depends on your play style I guess. Sometimes I forget that not everyone is a completist like myself. I spent around 20 hours with it.

My playtime would have been longer if some quests had actually triggered (Sigrun's quest being a very common example).

I assume you completed the "Law and Order" quest in Amaranthine before getting Sigrun in your party. I was lucky enough to hear about that bug beforehand, and was able to avoid it.

Which reminds me, I'm surprised Bioware hasn't released another patch by now.

BioWare released 1.04 not too long ago, which supposedly fixed a number of bugs, including the one with Sigrun's quest.

It did very little, to be honest. I started a new Awakening save after it and Sigrun's quest didn't trigger again. Excellent patching skills :)

Interesting name. It appears to me as a mixture between Sigurd/Siegfried and Gudrun.

Whereas the word "sieg" in contemporary German language ("Siegfried" is several hundred years now and could be from "old German", so to say) means in English language "victory".

Sigrun = sigu + runa (althochdeutsch)
sigu = Sieg(german) = Victory(english)
runa = geheimer Zauber/Rune oder Zauberin (german)
= secret (occult) magic/rune or magician (english)

Well, she's Dwarven so that rules magic out :p

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I didn't find any bugs whatsoever in Awakening - I suppose I was just lucky.
But I didn't like it at all: the character system seemed to break down in such high levels, too many icons all over the place, I couldn't bother to learn what dozens of talents do at once, and I didn't need to because the game was considerably easier anyway… it seems like both the original campaign and the expansion was a sequence of battles with the exact same few enemies over and over - a tactic that worked for spiders seemed to work for ogres just as well. DA's system was very nice at early levels, it felt rich, but later it just became messy, flat and confusing.

The story didn't grab me at all and I'm certainly not going to read a novel just to 'get it' - maybe I'm wrong but I don't expect it to be very good and I have plenty of novels in my 'to read' list to bother with it anyway. I didn't care much for the characters either - I feel I wasn't given enough time to 'connect' with them… (+ Oghren's first (re)appearance with him waving at me like a school girl was the most ridiculous thing I've seen in a game lately.)

By the way I was very annoyed by those orphan's quests - I didn't do them all but at first they seemed to be a great improvement over the utterly pointless sidequests of Origins, but the fact that I wasn't given any choices whatsoever was painfully apparent in those: I know those guys are trying to fool me - I can hear them talking about it for crying out loud… why can't I confront them or warn their victims or do something other than sheepishly follow their instructions? I'm not the most dedicated supporter of multiple paths and C&C but this is supposed an RPG isn't it?

Then again none of the things that bothered me were absent in Origins… it was certainly Dragon Age, it did offer the same things the OC did, it was more fast-paced and you could see your character achieving his 'epic' status while bits and pieces were indeed somewhat more interesting…
So I suppose I was already fed up with DA in general when I got it. I just wished it would offer me something as different as possible than the OC - I was hopping that Bioware would pull a 'Hordes of the Underdark' again.

Sigrun, as with many typical Dwarf and/or Berserker names in various fictional settings is a common Nordic name.

It's got to do with Viking inspiration, obviously.

I didn't read any of the DA novels, and I had no problem with the story. I thought it was a lot less generic, and more interesting, than DA:O.

Loved the characters in Awakenings, for the most part.

Yesterday I came across a book by Tolkien - "the tale of Sigurd & Gudrun", in fact.
http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Sigurd-…6185925&sr=8-1