(shakes Flemeth) TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW

SCENERY IN DRAGON AGE: INQUISTION - OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE OF SACRED ASHES [14/?]

does jowan saying “the clock’s ticking” confirm the existence of clocks in thedas. did we already know this like am I forgetting something

there’s a little toy horse on wheels in the Tabris home🥺

i am doubtlessly not the first person to figure this out but zathrian’s vallaslin belong to dirthamen, keeper of secrets. inchresting.

Anyone wanna play "Who's Brave Enough to Poke Meredith?"

NATHANIEL HOWE

if i had a nickle for every time i became enamored with the deceptive rogue elf x uses-humor-as-a-coping-mechanism-for-his-self-loathing ship, i would have two nickles. which isn't a lot,

Well… I rarely share my OC stuff but… why not, I guess? My dalish son ✨🍃 ✨ 🌿 ✨🍃 ✨

Valentin & Mitch | 665/?? N7 Infiltrator // Quarian Sentinel

some outfits for my girlies 💗 👠💃

from top to bottom: shepard (claire) / street kid v (val) / corpo v (venus)

going through some of morrigan's conversations where she talks about flemythal, and I'm reminded that morrigan and solas have a very weird relationship through her. do they both see her as a mother? would that make them the weirdest siblings in dragon age? does she see her as a mother and solas sees her as a friend? what do I do with my suspicion that at one point solas was written as mythal's lover? would that make him spiritually morrigan's stepdad? or was he the family dog? Is Flemythal the abomination similar enough to Mythal to draw these relationship lines? I know they argue with each other in mythal's temple, but it's so funny because it's almost like they're both arguing in her house about like which one of them knows her the best. And morrigan doesn't even know she's talking about her own mother. What Pride Has Wrought remains the quest with the strangest and strongest undercurrents

SCENERY IN DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION - REDCLIFFE [6/?]

my bf came in and saw Alistair on screen and got so excited he goes “it him. it’s the boy” so fucking true bestie

one of those things that's really striking and interesting to me is how often it's simply not addressed when discussing low approval Solas + inquisitor that Solas is, in many ways, acting out his role as the fantasy trickster god. he comes to you in a very humble format; an apostate mage elf, which in the social dynamic puts him veeeeery low on the podium. one of the first things he does in his first conversation is address the fact that HOPEFULLY, the Inquisition will remember who helped, and who did not -- because it is a very real possibility, again, in the context of the social dynamic, for him to be fucked over supremely by the inquisition -- to put him back into a circle, etc. once it's over. of course, Solas knows, and we the player know, that this will never happen, because he's Fen'Harel and such and such. but when interacting with him IN GAME? that social dynamic is vital to understanding why Solas acts the way he does around you. it's fairly easy to rack up approval--simply make the effort to consider a perspective other than your own, a perspective from someone who society has deemed very low (elven mage). slam him down and be belligerent? it only confirms that the leadership here is rooted once again in power hungry individuals who will step on the lowest classes for their own gain.

it's quite literally... fantasy trickster god testing the hero to see if they will treat the humblest person with kindness, or need to learn the error of their arrogance. solas APPROVES almost entirely of things that promote elven and mage freedom, helping the needy, freeing those who need freeing, not playing into being an arrogant leader. when you punch him, in the social dynamic, you are exerted an abuse of power and authority that now goes beyond the verbal, into the physical. could HE, if he were a simple elven mage, defend himself? no. because an elven mage hitting the leader of a holy army back could have him be put to the death. none of this excuses Solas' own flaws, his faulty reasons for his actions, etc. but like, taking into consideration the actual social structure of the game and what kind of power dynamics are going on here, it's necessary to UNDERSTAND the character and what kind of choice you make here, and how it all informs Solas' idea that either 1. he's wrong, this world has things worth saving, but he cannot diverge from his course, even if he on some level wants to be stopped, or 2. this world is just as terrible as the one he left behind, and it needs to be undone.

Miriam