The original Blood Dragon Armor reused a dwarven heavy armor model already in the game, one of the chunky "Massive" plate mail sets that made warriors in Dragon Age: Origins look like rejected ...

The pact is already a hefty price to pay, but as if it wasn’t enough, the Blood Mage specialization is also quite a costly ...

This comes from a deep dive into Zevran from Dragon Age: Origins, an early example of a ... and the other is hitting on you while covered in his own blood after failing to assassinate you.