Re: Problems with codex entries
@U1timatum13 Thanks for the post. For the first question it's been a while but I don't think the images change. I'm downloading a copy of the game and I'll load up an endgame save to double-check, but I think this is working as intended. I'll update the thread when the download finishes.
Edit: Checking on various saves from various points of progress the cards don't seem to change within the codex menu.
As for the codex entry I'm not sure how to force it to unlock. Sometimes transition areas a few times helps to unstick things.
For posterity, codex entry for The Perils of Bard Life is below, in the spoilered section.
As a bard, you are welcome anywhere in Orlais. Doors are opened to you with generous smiles, their wearers confident that no one would falsely pretend to such a title for fear of retribution. Your slightest request is immediately seen to. Your services are expensive and yet actively sought, and those who cannot afford them beg only to not have your displeasure turn their way.
One day, however, you will awaken. You will realize the smiles are false, and behind them lies revenge. At the first moment of weakness, your brother and sister bards will be unleashed upon you like a pack of hounds, and you will realize they are not your brothers and sisters at all. For all your fancy intrigue, you have spent your life creating nothing of worth. You have been swallowed by the web of your own deceits, and the Game of which you believed yourself master? It moves on without you, uncaring.
—From a letter signed "Sister Nightingale"