The best Dragon Age Origins character was nearly cut content before a writer’s pigeon trauma saved her: "The pigeons used the HVAC like some kind of sex den. Angry, ugly pigeon sex"

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“I don’t recall how Shale began,” Gaider writes in a recentBluesky thread.

That’s what it all comes back to.

“Not only that,” he continues.

“The pigeons used the HVAC like some kind of sex den.

Angry, ugly pigeon sex.”

Faced to confront the pigeon apocalypse outside his window every day, Gaider poured his anger into writing Shale.

In the end, “I have a soft spot for Shale,” Gaider says in his thread.

“She has no soft spot for anyone, being… you know… made of rock.”