origins is set in ferelden because if you tried to explain the mere concept of orlais to a freshly out of dust town brosca they'd let the darkspawn win

replaying ostagar is so tiring ever since the flemythal reveal, it makes listening to her and morrigan just exhausting

Also the "Morrigan talks to Alistair directly" scenario leads to the possibilty of them just, doing the ritual and never telling the warden about it, which is unfortunately super funny to me.

bhelen in dao already has a wife who is not rica???

Zevran Arainai | DA:O

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the hightown chantry was probably sheltering orphans and refugees et cetera, and you can tell this because the moment your character arrives in kirkwall as a refugee, they get locked in the chantry prison on the orders of the chantry enforcers so that everyone poor can be forced out. this was subtle foreshadowing that the hightown chantry regularly shelters woebegone innocents. you can tell because the chantry is a place the player regularly goes to, where there are never any npcs who could be remotely described as that

anyway i was thinking again abt the deleted files in origins that implied you could bring loghain into the fade and he would see kid cailan and i was thinking abt loghain in the fade in inquisition and how unwell i could make him abt it

If there, someday, is a show set in Thedas/The dragon age setting (though I highly doubt it) I want there to be an elven character that stares into the camera any time there is anti elf racism or a human gets praised and rewarded for unearthing and discovering ancient knowledge while all the elven characters get shunned for it

*Cough cough*

Morrigan getting her eluvian knowledge by stealing from the dalish while treating all elves quite badly (even vocally considering the deal with the tevinter slavers in the alianage) and then getting to go into the well of sorrows, while Merrill who built an eluvian basically from scratch gets called stupid and naive and the token bad boy who is dismissive to other elves, who by the way are heavily based on and inspired by real life indigenous people and their treatment and who can be massacred in nearly every installment in the series including the books, like most other elf companions, which includes a queer woman who will make fun of the player character, their people and culture, as well as says that she's pretty much not like other elves, I won't speak on solas because that would make the post too long, but anyway Fenris can tell her that it would be better if she died instead of Marethari. And then Merrill pretty much gets ignored... Which honestly could be the better outcome with how much the writers hate elves and especially the dalish.

wanting to post about your ocs but not being able to draw or do art feels so embarrassing it’s like hey everybody do you want to know about this guy. there is nothing of substance about them that i can provide you with though

what drives me nuts about Vivienne also is, funnily enough, somehow everyone can get where Cullen was coming from no problem and forgive him when he objectively did WAY WORSE STUFF and had worse beliefs

Vivienne's beliefs and goals are actually very understandable and reasonable, and the only way you would think otherwise is if you assume she never experienced anything terrible in her time in the Circle

If anything, Vivienne's story is painfully relatable if you understand at ALL the experience of navigating respectability politics as an oppressed person. Like. You know it is unfair. You know it. But, at that point in time, you feel it's the only way For The Moment to get people to listen to you.

So she builds and builds and builds until she has enough standing that people have no choice but to hear her voice. Of course she would hate Anders—in her eyes it would feel like what he did set back every careful and calculated step she took to try to make the Circles into a safe space by mages, for mages. Cause that's what she's trying to do. Thats what she wants them to be. But she's such a stern and forceful personality—they call her Madame de Fer for a reason—that a lot of people don't see what her goal is (unless you make her the new Divine), especially if her desire to reform the Templars is abrasive to you

just remembered dragon age dreadwolf might release this year

The Warden saying that they're gone to find the cure for the Calling is a lie.

We all know that the Warden is hiding behind these words- an excuse to cover their real goal...

...The goal to find griffons.

I find it difficult to picture you curtsying to anyone.

Does BioWare know how much money they could make off of selling a canonical elvhen dictionary, do you think?

I would buy that shit so fast...

what if hawke and anders kept writing to each other while hawke was getting his unforgettable 'cassandra is beating the shit out of a dummy with my face on it' experience at skyhold

one day hawke witnesses a raven almost crash on his desk. the note, written in blocky letters, reads, "HAD TO TAKE OVER FOR A WHILE. HE KEPT TRYING TO FOLLOW SOME 'SONG'. WILL 'CATCH UP' ON 'SLEEP'. YOU BOTH ARE WELCOME. WHERE DO YOU KEEP 'TEA'."

the second raven flies in five minutes later. "FOUND IT."

hours pass, hawke goes to bed. the third raven screams to let her in.

"THAT WAS NOT TEA. PLEASE LABEL YOUR ELFROOT."

restarted my cousland playthrough I missed my bitter angry girl