Why Sten is one of the best companions.

[@PKFl4sh]

Sten, after stealing cookies from a kid: "There was a child. A fat, slovenly thing. It didn't need more."

[@Nuxinor]

For his own good….

[@old_Deviltounge]

that should have been on the list, but i guess it was more of a templar moment.

[@Zaxares]

Sten also eats the cookies afterwards, the glutton. :P There's another conversation with the Warden where he reveals that the only thing he likes about Ferelden is cookies. (He also talks about cake at the epilogue, so it seems Sten has a sweet tooth.)

[@abnerefraimrosavidal5643]

That's the most cute "softie" of all time

[@sunningdale3478]

I love Sten's response to a female Warden. Basically questioning if you are even a woman at all since you are fighting.

[@DrZaius3141]

Sten says "trans rights".

[@RorytheRomulan]

Why would women wish to be men?

[@whatareyoulookingat908]

Yeah Sten and others woke agenda-drive drivel was pretty pathetic. Glad Bioware is no more. Despite good games they pushed the garbage far too often. Thankfully, you were usually able to off those bad characters. Juhani in KOTOR, Silk Fox and Sky in Jade Empire, Sten and Zevran here, and the Bull character in Dragon Age Inquisition. : )

[@SithEmpiredidnothingwrong]

Female Warden is not a woman, she is a walking weapon. - Sten, probably.

[@__-tp4tm]

​@@whatareyoulookingat908 I dunno, Sten was "rude" enough times for it being more entertainable than most honey mouthed characters lmao

[@farisafif3305]

"Congratulations, you found a wastebin". I never brought him to Andraste's ash because it does not relate to a qunari by a bit. But his response is just wow

[@Norinia]

Funny how despite his attitude towards ‘just some dusty relics’, the Qunari would go batshit crazy over ‘just some old book’ just a couple years later.

[@TheLordboki]

@@Norinia Seeing inquisition Qunari gave me whiplash.

[@warchiefvenomn7612]

​@@Norinia Considering how that book is the base of their entire society, it kinda makes sense.

[@Norinia]

@@warchiefvenomn7612 Well yes, but the point was that he can’t understand the importance of other cultures’ relics even though his culture has it’s own. That’s not accepting other relics as important, just understanding why others may care and be amazed by those same relics you don’t understand.

[@chrishoward3733]

I SAID NOTHING TO YOU…..HUMAN 🫵🏻

[@ThePariahDark]

Sten and friends find the Holy Grail. "Marvelous, the cup that held the blood of Christ!" "It promsies eternal youth!" "... so you found an old drinking cup. Are we done now?"

[@IAmChadBroseph]

I’ve got to travel with him next play through. Straight savage.

[@Kratos8462]

He’s hilarious

[@maxernium]

Hah, elf magic (derogatory)

[@quint3ssent1a]

Funny how a culture that doesn't put training mages very high on their priority list can still be condescending towards someone else's magic. If anything, it's elves should say "hah, qunari magic.'

[@PsychSoldier756]

@@quint3ssent1aHah elf lover (derogatory)

[@JoeBerg38]

Every time I watch these kinds of videos, im reminded that DA:Origins truly is the best classic RPG out there

[@gatzalask7592]

Indeed. We had to wait till baldurs gate 3 to earn something similar. Now who knows how long it will take to get a similar experience

[@nunyanunya4147]

new ones are absolute trash :(

They should have stopped with origins.

[@Xenolithial]

In DA2s defense thats been the only game since Origins that did the Qunari right. The Arishok was a good character and I would have loved to have seen more of him. The music was also pretty good from what I remember. Fenris also provided some additional insight into Tevinter The entire thing felt more like a large DLC than an actual sequel. But still more Dragon Age than either Inquisition or Veilguard

[@knicksprop]

I like forcing the confrontation with him in Haven because I feel he respects you more (when you win, obviously).

[@SeventhheavenDK]

Me too!

[@KitsuneShapeShifter]

God I love Leliana

[@stevekerrigan6546]

Just that "congratz, you found a waste-bun" 😂😂😂

[@-Thunder-Warrior-]

"What is a "Veilguard?" I see. My Sword!"

[@DrZaius3141]

I was promised there would be cake. There is no cake. The cake is a lie.

[@Stormcrow179]

Leliana, Wynne: Veneration of the urn of sacred ashes Sten: Boring

[@jakegriffith6871]

Sten's reaction to finding the setting's equivalent of the Holy Grail: "Congratulations. You found a waste bin". Love him.

[@bladerj]

i just realize, i never found sten sword in all my playthroughs lol

[@spalenzagabriel]

His reaction is so cute

[@JulezRulez8]

Love it when he gets catty

[@RZmovement]

We need Sten's opinion about the the new DA companion and characters

[@bearVshark100]

He definitely killed that family, tho

[@solertree8653]

I mean yeah, he freely admits it very early on

[@anubis7457]

@@solertree8653nah he was framed. It was deepfake AI by Biden.

[@aistisnarmontas4515]

My favorite lines were when IN fort Drakon Sten was with a dog. And Sten like is something like : - I have a dog, what else of me you want? 🐶😂

[@KeiBrightwing]

Sten, the HK-47 of Dragon Age.

[@nunyanunya4147]

he gets along with DOG. there for he is a good Qunari

[@Xenolithial]

My first playthrough i accidentally left him to burn in Lothering. Unluckily I was forced to restart the entire game later on. Extremely luckily this allowed me to actually encounter and recruit Sten. Easily one of the best companions in any of the games His interactions with literally anyone never failed to be a mix of confounding and amusing in all the best ways. Can't do a run without him

[@ommadawn8434]

Sten got all the sass

[@iceh-o-h904]

If I could get anyone anyone back in Veilguard I would pick Sten Everytime! 😂

[@DaenaMichelle]

This aged like fine milk

[@dragongrandmaster]

sten would be a arishock a big leader

[@Avenger85438]

They considered bringing him back in an early stage as an advisor apparently alongside a return of war table missions.

[@viczio]

Oh god please no, that would've been disastrous.

[@tibblebybble]

my friend sten is the funniest person i know

[@MaxPowers2.0]

lol, They must have made a last minute design change to Sten’s character. I always thought it was unintentionally racist how Morrigann first describes Sten as a “noble beast” or something when he just looks like a tall black dude with cornrows. I didn’t get it until DA2 came out and I saw what Qunari actually look like. Ever since then I would mod my play throughs of DAO so Sten actually looked the part.

[@garroshhellscream594]

Qunari design was not finished due to time constraints, Origins was a very long project to get release.

[@MaxPowers2.0]

@ …Makes sense

[@L3FT2BURN]

I always mod every other Qunari but Sten with horns

[@rosskerr1439]

@@L3FT2BURN Well, that would look more realistic.

[@Glacier_j_291]

Him and arishovk are my favorite Qunari

[@Antonio-ONI]

People tried to use Leliana's banter with Sten to prove Origin had cringy dialogue in comparison to Veilguard. Edit: Apparently the narration doesn't make sense for evil characters but when you're a GW anything to beat the blight is a go and you can legit convince npcs of your actions. But oh well.

[@ryanmalady376]

Nothing in the first game is as cringy as veilguard

[@Antonio-ONI]

@@ryanmalady376 Just beat Veilguard, I don't have the energy to do another playthrough, I'm just gonna go back to the first three.

[@AliothAncalagon]

They might as well try to prove that the Earth is flat, by putting a water level on a desk xD

[@Antonio-ONI]

@@AliothAncalagon Honest, I have 200+ hours in Veilguard but it's because half the time I take breaks to play with AI chats and watch videos since I get board but I need to beat the game for my opinion to matter to the Veilguard defenders. Apparently I'm not a fan of DA (even tho I played all three DA games, read one book) but I did read loads of the DAO codex bc there were interesting. The Veilguard defenders are so delusional.

[@AliothAncalagon]

@@Antonio-ONI So you waste weeks of your time to gather the foundation for the very proof that the people who you want to present it to will disregard anyway? I like debunking flat earthers, but I wouldn't spend a month to gather a 100 page study full of evidence that they won't even read either.

[@rphb5870]

DA:O Sten= best companion DA:I Iron Bull = Okay companion DA:W Trash = even the darkspawn wouldn't touch that

[@Spiralpaladin]

DA2: Arishok= Great antagonist.

[@rphb5870]

@@Spiralpaladin he was certainly a better antagonist then Meredith

[@anubis7457]

@@rphb5870 Meredith: ”reee mages bad!!! red lyrium is awesome!!! of fck im a statue!!!”

[@rphb5870]

@@anubis7457 well it could be worse, she could be Trash

[@wingthomaux]

I‘m kind of mad at myself for choosing the probably most basic option for my first playthrough😢. Alistair, Leliana, Wynne, my warden is a mage. I simply chose for party composition, I needed a lockpicker and a healer, so I kind of got forced into it. I guess that’s kind of the noob group and the more edgy companions are meant for the second playthrough.

[@solertree8653]

do yourself a favour and put Alistair and Morigan in your party

[@wingthomaux]

@ I don’t need her since I’m a mage myself and she‘s just so unpleasant to be around. I mean other characters have their edges, but she’s just being insufferable for no reason. I’m kind of convinced that the hype around her exists only for two reasons.

[@ignisimperia6972]

I recently done my first playthrough and I gone Morrigan, Alistair & Shale myself. Wish I could add Leliana in but other than that it was excellent, loved Morrigan and Alistair the most, especially Morrigan.

[@Kal-213]

Yeah I convinced myself I was going to vary my party members this time around, but they are so similar to my first playthrough. The only difference is I have Sten instead of Alistair. I'm romancing Zevran this playthrough so he's in, and last one I needed a rogue and liked him better than Leliana. Any obv we need a healer so Wynne has to come. But next time I'll bring Leliana and Morrigan. Maybe. Or Oghren

[@Lucifronz]

I wound up skipping most of the stuff in the refugee camp and moving on, so I actually never got Leliana or Sten on my first playthrough. It wasn't until a second or third playthrough that I corrected my mistake. I simply got ahead of myself and didn't fully grasp that I was skipping rather important content by leaving the area.

[@Warren13958]

Sten is one of the few people in the first game who don't bug me well other then your, dog, morrigen, zevran and ogrhen

[@mcdonkey500]

played through this game last month and at first got sick of him being an asshole but he was pretty based sometimes

[@9tz768]

i let him rot in his cage

[@Moon_Ryder]

I hope we can see him in dragon age dreadwolf

[@snufftbunz]

lol

[@veselinasenov5935]

@@snufftbunz Lol, indeed, unfortunately.

[@marius1822]

... lol

[@wilder11]

L M F A O

[@garroshhellscream594]

You can have qunari that are not qunari if you want.

[@sakethsonu]

Shenadan Sten

[@spalenzagabriel]

Heheheheheh Softie.

[@carbonfibercarpet4655]

Sten would beat the shit out of that Qunari that Taash brings food to in Veilguard lmao

[@Avenger85438]

You mean the one specified to not be a soldier but a sailor and navigator? Big shock. Also both remained loyal to the Qun and thus are in actuality on the same side.

[@MoonsongReverb]

Hm…. He isn’t romancable, though 😂

[@johnpantag472]

I don't like him to be honest because he doesnt show any emotions and seems shallow but thats to be expected. I mean he is a sten. Qunari warriors don't have emotions.

[@Turin_Inquisitor]

Because I left him to be devoured by dark spawn.

[@captainunload]

Gay

[@misakikoko4500]

Of the Bioware games I've played, he was my third most hated companion, behind only Carth and Allistair. I never had him in my party after I recruited him. I did like some of his comments in the video though.

[@4dotaonly]

Alistair's development, especially when hardens, has a lot of sense. Yea, it looks silly and the start of game (and I enjoy with the prank DLC to take his Doll to Morrigan to play with), but he finally mans up and takes his responsibilities.

[@Carlosdreamur]

Carth hate in 2024 😭

[@misakikoko4500]

@@Carlosdreamur Always and forever. I feel cheated that he got away.

[@zarddin]

@@misakikoko4500 Sten was great. He was telling all the women that they can never be like men and instead of fighting should be at the camp cooking for the rest of the team and let the men do their job as fighters.

[@nocturnal03]

@@zarddin haha, someone didn't actually play through the game as a woman ;)

[@carloscrispens4816]

Good ol sten before da inquisition retkoned the qun and the bull was "yeah, we even take in trans and whatever."

[@rangerquiet6192]

The Bull don't care as long as they can fight and drink.

[@stesnuash8986]

The Inquisition didn't retcon anything. The Qun is just as rigid in DAO as it is in DAI about "gender = job". Example: both Sten and Bull aren't naturally accepting of female soldiers - google Sten's conversation with FemWarden and Bull's banter with Cassandra. The reason Bull is much more chill about it is that Sten is an Antaam - a warrior, and Bull is Ben Hassrath - spies, assassins, reeducators. Therefore Sten's reaction to female soldiers is more rigid and lacks understanding while Bull's is more adaptive. It also helps that Ben Hassrath is unique in employing both male and female Qunari. The Soldier is a strictly male role. Both Sten, Bull and other Qunari will tell you that every female Qunari that takes up arms and joins the warrior role is treated like a man, because that's what Qun demands of the role. Gender = job, simply put. DAI's Female-to-Male trans Qunari being trans is an added bonus on top of that, and a neat personal touch for that particular Qunari. Please do tell where's the retcon, I'm having a hard time finding it

[@thayspamacheno628]

The Qun wasn't retconned, it was expanded. Back in DA:O it was really generic since they were just introducing the concept and a lot of ideas weren't in there yet, but it is pretty clear even from DA:O alone Sten wasn't talking about your body. He was talking about gender roles. He isn't complaining that you are a female warrior, he is complaining that you are a warrior who acts feminine. For the Qun, if you are fighting you are a man, period. Sten himself says as much, if you tell him "Well, I'm fighting and I am a woman", he'll retort saying "One of those things can't be true". He's denying that you are a woman right to your face even though he looks at you and sees a female, hence = for him, anyone fighting is a man, regardless of their genitalia. Hope this helps. And as Stesnuash put before me, the Iron Bull is not a soldier, he is a spy. Sten was a Antaam, Bull is a Ben-Hassrath, and they are more flexible than the soldiers since as spies they interact with other cultures way more often.

[@CheomaNozomi]

It wasn't Inquisition that did it... Veilguard has.

[@CplVeers]

​@@CheomaNozomithe writing was on the wall in DAI

[@The482075]

Bioware was always "woke". These interactions present Sten as being in the wrong. He represents a conservative, "woken should know their place, men should never cry" mindset. He is mocked by Leliana. He is confounded by a female Grey Warden. So Bioware all of a sudden getting branded "Woke" because their quality of writing went down hill seems silly. The progressive politics is the same as it always has been. It's the writing that went downhill.

[@PickMeAdventure]

No. Bioware is woke because you can't even slightly disagree with the nonbinary qunari who behaves like a child. In Origins you could make fun of Leliana's faith, talk back to Sten or try not to argue with him. It's called freedom of choice not progressivism.

[@RafaelGarcia022]

@@PickMeAdventure You're criticising bad writing, not the politics. Read the original comment again.

[@Zymemaru]

I love when people have absolutely no idea what people mean when they call something "Woke" but still try to use it as a strawman. It literally doesn't apply in this scenario at all. Sten isn't presented as being wrong he's presented as a fish out of water that comes from a culture so alien he is literally baffled by the things he's seeing to the point of incomprehension. Saying there are "Progressive politics" in the game is such a stretch it's absurd. The game doesn't have gay only romances but has straight only ones. Stop the cope

[@spectralassassin6030]

And just like that, I know you have either never played the game or don't understand Sten as a character at all. Nothing you said about him is true. He is written to be a character from a far off land whose people and culture is VERY different to the ones in Fereldan. A fish out of water scenario. He's also not mocked by Leliana. She was just teasing him for playing with a kitten when he's always coming off as hostile or indifferent to everything. It's meant to be a charming little moment.

[@exnihilonihilum2318]

@@ZymemaruDAO have gay romance. Zevran and Leliane are bisexual so… for the rest I agree with you. And Thats all

[@Avenger85438]

So many outrage tourists have suddenly appeared in the comments just to bitch about Veilguard despite the fact that it's getting positive reviews and is being enjoyed. Apparently no one informed that is not a forum, it is a comment section for a video, and they are off topic.

[@altmaster3288]

Keep huffing that copium.

[@Maityist]

Reviews that were deleted if negative. So much so that people leave a thumbs up on Steam before proceeding to critique the game in their actual review just so it doesn't get deleted. But sure, keep deluding yourself.

[@Th1sUsernameIsNotTaken]

Having negative comments removed and MANY of the positive ones shitting all over the game so that their negative review doesn't get taken down doesn't really scream "doing well".

You have no power here, huff your own supply somewhere else.

[@Thormundson]

Don't lie, you can't change reality

[@vladbush1464]

Idk. I killed him in Lothering twice in my last playthroughs because he is so mean!

[@rangerquiet6192]

You monster :-)

[@vladbush1464]

@@rangerquiet6192 that's all these darkspawn thingies 😈😈😈

[@ugn154]

Get to know him and you'll learn to respect him like we all do.

[@zarddin]

He is not mean. He is honest.

[@MrDacat]

he is the worse

[@spectralassassin6030]

Eh. He's grown on me over the years. Once you understand exactly what his whole character is about, you start to enjoy having him around. The trick is to remember he's a fish out of water character. He doesn't understand anything about the land he's in or it's people. All he knows is his homeland.