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And you thought his written manifestos were bad…
#dragon age#dragon age 2#dragon age ii#dragon age hawke#dragon age fenris#dragon age anders#dragon age meme#da2#da2 fenris#da2 anders#fenris#anders dragon age#dragon age exodus#kirkwall#thedas#dragon age mages#bioware#hawke x anders#hawke x fenris
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Merrill during The Last Straw ...
#🤣🤣#actually the templar corpses are lovely to see so yeah you know what I do agree!#Merrill#freedom is coming! everyone rise up on this beautiful evening! the revolution is here#the last straw#jokes aside this is just one of the many things that show how rushed the ending was#this is the final quest of the game the big climax and they didn't give them unique lines to say when we click on them#just generic night time dialogue#dragon age exodus#dragon age 2#Dragon Age II#Dragon Age#da2#hilarious#funny#my post#my posts#daedit#da mine
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CONFESSION:
Its really annoying and ridiculous to see people still crapping on Dragon Age 2 after eleven years. I religiously played Origins back then and kept up to date with everything that was said publicly about Dragon Age 2. The developers stated not to expect a sequel to Origins and they stated they would never do full on sequels. And I was fine with that. I loved playing Hawke and I loved the companions and their dynamic with each other. Now it was not a flawless game but it still thoroughly entertained me and I got my money's worth. But then again I have zero issues playing human protagonists. I will never understand why people can't let it go and move on and let the rest of us enjoy these games. As great as the warden was they did not have the same depth like Shepard from the Mass Effect Trilogy to be the protagonist in all three games.
And I will always believe they should have gotten rid of the 2 and called it Dragon Age Exodus.
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Keeper
#dragon age#dragon age 2#keeper marethari#dalish elves#dalish elf#illusivedits#illusivesouledits#da2#da 2#dragon age exodus#da exodus#dragon age screenshots#marethari dragon age#dragon age marethari#alienage#queue
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[TRANSLATION: Must be nice being blanketed. I’m not. 😭]
Yes I will make use of any cat owner photos for Anders and Gale of Waterdeep lmao
it’s a habit and besides it fits. Benedicta likes sleeping with both their partners but at least Fenris lets Kababayan sleep on their bed it just isn’t fair that Anders gets to keep Snowdrop with him 😭 😭 😭
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🥺👉👈 Want to play my Dragon Age location quizzes?
A while ago I had a dream in which I played geoguessr: Dragon Age edition, and I failed miserably at it, so I vowed to redeem myself. However, I'm not capable of building a geoguessr from scratch so I did the next best thing: quizzes!
You can take it on uquiz (I tell you the name of a location, you choose which pic matches) and/or quotev (I give you a pic of a location, you choose what's the correct name). Let me know if there's mistakes because I never made something like these before :')
#drops this and walks away#i did put some tricky questions but idk what's common-ish knowledge and what's obscure knowledge in da so. interesting experiment i guess#also i published them... a month ago? but i didn't think of sharing the links on here#if one of the people who took the quizzes already is reading this: hi ily i hope it was entertaining <3#dragon age#dragon age origins#dragon age awakening#dragon age exodus#dragon age 2#dragon age inquisition#dao#dao:a#da2#dai#quizzes#uquiz#quotev#dragon age quiz
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Listen man. I never said the Wounded Coast wasn't scenic as fuck
Can't fight. Too busy staring at pretty skies
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Warden Elissa “Sparrow” Cousland, Chapter 3: Alistair
Elissa has had two experiences with mages at this point in her life: the time that they healed her, and the time the templars told her not to talk with the mages maybe an hour before this moment. She likes mages and is curious about magic – the fear she had driven into her as a child has been questioned since she lost her faith in the Chantry when she lived on the streets of Denerim, and she's distrustful of Templars in general.
So Alistair making fun of mages but treating them like people while also making it clear that he likes them over the Templars or the Chantry? This was a good, if complicated, first impression.
Alistair came across as funny and a little hurt. Both of them were shy trying to figure one another out, but they were also quickly cracking jokes with one another about a wide variety of topics. The two were fast friends, which makes what happened later all the more tragic.
There are some that speculate that Alistair kept using lyrium to use the skills he used in his Templar training, which flies in the face of a simple truth: Alistair was taken from the Templar order before they could give him his first dose of lyrium. Nonetheless, he can use Templar skills as if he were on the dust, leading to speculation that he was obtaining lyrium illegally from somewhere.
The truth is much stranger.
Sparrow and Alistair would eventually reclaim a place called Soldier's Peak, a largely abandoned Warden fortress, and would plan much of her campaign against Logain and the Blight from there. Among the wreckage was found a mage named Avernus, an old Warden who had been researching ways to distill and expand the benefits granted by the Joining.
Carefully (very carefully) collected research secretly obtained from Avernus revealed that the taint was able to take the place of lyrium when it came to powering Alistair's anti-magic capabilities. Further research revealed that Alistair's bloodline had been further altered in the distant past by some unknown process, granting him powers beyond mere humans or even other Wardens.
Alistair and Elissa famously had something of an affair that started and Lothering and ended sometime after events in Redcliffe. Elissa went off to Orzammar and left Alistair to handle things at Soldier's Peak, with the given reason at the time being that they did not want to keep both surviving Wardens in one location; the truth, however, appears to be that the two needed time away from one another.
Alistair spent this time rebuilding a lot of his noble ties. His heroic actions at Redcliffe and Haven percolated through the Redcliffe knights, and the secret of his birthright began to move through the men – the story of a secret prince galvanized the forces of Redcliffe, and the Arl of Recliffe was more than comfortable to take advantage of Alistair's heritage.
The question that neither Elissa or Alistair have ever answered is what caused the break-up between the two. They remained and remain friends, and were still joking with one another as early as their return to Denerim. Alistair was furious when Elissa effectively forced him to become king, and paid her back by giving her Vigil's Keep – but this was the sort of fury that comes up between close friends poking at one another, and it is well documented that both have come close to dying for one another and that both are in frequent friendly contact with the other.
This becomes more complex when taking into account Alistair's relationship with his half-sister, Goldana. To say that their tie is strained would be an understatement. She took money from him during the Blight but wanted nothing to do with him after that, but his ascent to the throne forced her to accept a royal title and lands in order to keep her safe. The two of them do not speak to one another, though Alistair is known to dote on her children as much as he is able and she allows. She was given a respectable stipend near Highever under Fergus, who recognized her five children and had them properly educated. She married into the knighthood following the Blight, but she and Alistair never reconciled and their relationship was never more than strained.
(It is believed that Leliana and Anora once went to have a private chat with Goldana, which led to her not insulting Alistair nearly so much and being kinder to him whenever he was forced to visit Highever. The truth of this meeting may never be known, but it is known that someone matching Leliana's description once visited Goldana's laundry in the dead of night, and that Anora once demanded Goldana's presence in her private chambers. Whatever was discussed remains between the three of them.)
Anora and Alistair's relationship was and is complicated. Alistair had many traits in common with his brother, Cailin, though his good nature and sense of humor were tempered by his treatment as a child. Alistair was more grounded and realistic than his brother, and much more aware of his faults. Anora loved Cailin, and Alistair's similarities to her dead husband were initially a stumbling block between her and the new king. Over the early months of their relationship, however, Anora came to appreciate the maturity that Alistair had over his older sibling, and the two went from mutual respect to friendly and finally did fall in love. Alistair's sense of humor softened Anora somewhat, and Anora's grasp of politics proved a good bar for Alistair to reach to.
They had three children together: eldest daughter Maris, middle child Logain, and youngest son Cailin. Alistair was a doting father who arranged blind fosterages at Highever, Vigil's Keep, and Redcliffe for his kids.
Secretly, Alistair did have one child out of wedlock: before the battle with the Archdemon, it is rumored that he and Elissa spent the evening with Morrigan at the Witch of the Wild's insistence. Morrigan was later with child, and it is believed that child was Alistair's but that Alistair had nothing to do with the boy's upbringing.
Much later, Alistair and Morrigan met up again at Skyhold during the height of the new Inquisition. Alistair had a chance to meet the boy but did not reveal his identity at Morrigan's request. While their antagonism was well known during the Fifth Blight, Morrigan came as close as she ever could to apologizing to Alistair, telling him that she had told their child that his father was “a good man.” Morrigan also promised that their child would never take the throne, and that she was trying to be a better parent than her mother. Alistair is known to have commented that this did not set the bar especially high.
Of note, Elissa and Alistair met the pirate Isabella in Denerim during the Fifth Blight. It is known that Alistair spent some small amount of private time with them both. The details of what they are doing are mostly private, though Leliana has let slip that it was during this time that Elissa markedly improved in swordplay. Aside from this, Alistair accompanied Elissa to Soldier's Peak, the Lake Calahad Tower, Redcliffe, Denerim, Haven, Oste.gar, and into the final battle with the Archdemon.
It was at Ostegar that Elissa, Alistair, Morrigan, and Leliana gave King Cailan a proper cremation and reclaimed the weapons and armor of the fallen king and the Warden, Duncan. They also retrieved the goblet allowing for the creation of more Wardens, though they did not make any more Wardens during the Fifth Blight (it is believed that neither knew how to alter the darkspawn blood properly at that time, though they would both learn the rites later).
When Alistair staked his claim to the throne of Fereldan, he started using Cailan's armor (modified by the smith, Wade), and using Duncan's sword and Cailin's shield. It's rumored that some believed that he was Cailan returned from the dead upon first seeing him, a thing that made Alistair distinctly uncomfortable but that the Arl of Redcliffe was happy to play upon. The armor was set aside after the Fifth Blight and is kept in a private collection that owned solely by Anora.
#dragon age#dragon age origins#dragon age exodus#dragon age 2#dragon age inquisition#sparrow cousland#elissa cousland#morrigan#dragon age awakening#alistair#alistair theirin#arl of redcliffe#redcliffe#anora#king cailin#logain#leliana#goldana#grey warden#grey wardens#wardens#hero of fereldan#soldier's peak#vigil's keep#the fifth blight#the archdemon
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Okay I just want to say that the Red Templars seeking out Meredith's petrified body and somehow reactivating her to become their new leader after Corypheus was defeated is such a delicious parallel to how the darkspawn are compelled to seek out the Archdemons to awaken them and follow the commands of their tainted god, and I am living for it
#dragon age absolution spoilers#dragon age#origins#exodus#inquisition#absolution#corypheus#meredith stannard#darkspawn#red templars
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every time i remember dragon age 2 was supposed to be called exodus i get so sad. why didn’t they stick with that.
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CULLEN! That’s hilarious, say that again! 🤣
#LMAO#he actually has so many lines like this#Dragon Age#Best Served Cold#quest#Dragon Age II#dragon age 2#dragon age exodus#da2#funny#da mine#my post#my posts
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So so so obsessed with how the dragon ages are named
Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age: the second one
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dragon Age: Dread Wolf
#skin breathes#dragon age#like i know 2 was supposed to be exodus or something#but this is way funnier. superior even#dragon age origins#dragon age 2#dragon age inquisition#dragon age dread wolf
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listen, listen
I know this is gonna be a controversial take, but the more I think about it, the more obsessed I am with the idea of Varric voluntarily helping The Crimson Knight (especially in a worldstate where Hawke was left in the Fade).
I’ve talked before about how I view Meredith as the type of person who is motivated by her desire to protect her own at all costs, and how this leads her down the path of Well-Intentioned Extremism, and culminating in becoming the embodiment of the uh, Knight Templar trope.
And Varric is obviously motivated by his motivation to protect Hawke: he shielded them from the Inquisition, and when push came to shove and he was forced to expose Hawke to the Inquisition anyway, it can result in Hawke’s death. The Inquisition fails Hawke, who is basically Varric’s moral compass — without Hawke’s influence, he defaults to siding with the templars at the end of DA2.
Most of the Inquisitor’s inner circle scatters over Thedas and Varric returns to Kirkwall. Varric loves Kirkwall; he’s a Kirkwaller through and through: even though he’s never envisioned nor wanted a life of politics, he becomes the fucking viscount, because there’s nobody else left who wants one drop of the poisoned chalice of that role.
And Kirkwall is a city that has always been dependent on its templars for protection. They are the city’s military force, and the city is noticeably weaker once the templars abandon it — depending on world state, it can lose a significant portion of its territory to one of Varric’s former companions. If someone he knew and trusted can do that to Kirkwall, who else might take advantage of Kirkwall in its weakened state?
Varric is isolated and alone, away from anyone who might be able to help him see the situation in a different light: his main support network is Aveline and Seneschal Bran, neither of whom are known for their ardent support of mage rights. They’re doing their best to clear Kirkwall of the impacts of the war, of the red lyrium, and even though they’re doing their best to avoid exposure, being around that much red lyrium cannot be healthy. Slowly, the paranoia and increased penchant for violence settle in. It becomes impossible to resist spending more time around the substance — and sometimes, it talks! And it sounds like Meredith Stannard.
Varric is desperate and scared and has lost everyone he has ever loved. The Inquisition has been downsized or disbanded, and his only purpose is to serve his city: the same intention with which Meredith started, the same intention and fears that the red lyrium feeds upon in them both.
Varric fears becoming his parents: people who failed to protect him because they were too caught up in their past mistakes.
But sometimes, as people, in our attempts to avoid our fears, we end up barreling into them headfirst instead.
#do i actually think bioware is gonna give us a varric tethras corruption arc? no#but the narrative parallels are there and i just think they’re neat!#and like i never expected in my wildest dreams that meredith stannard would have actual plot relevance in 2022 so!!#and back when dragon age exodus the da2 expansion was still being considered#varric was meant to die at the end 🤔🤔🤔#tbh i don’t expect this to crop up in da:d bc there is SO much to cover and doing the writing for a world state with alive pro-mage hawke#would be tricky#but that’s why we have fanfiction#bless transformative fiction for letting us explore endless possibilities outside of the limitations of commercial interests!!#also emo about how both varric and meredith carry so much GRIEF about their families#and grief can cause people to do dangerous things#and when that’s coupled with positions of power …!#this is also tangentially a meta about the intersection of trauma and how power corrupts#thedas is not an environment conducive to healing lol#anyway i will continue to spin these thoughts around like a plate in a microwave#da absolution spoilers#dragon age#meredith stannard#knight commander meredith#varric tethras#dragon age meta#asha meta#asha’s villain manifesto#also warning that the trope links lead to tv tropes lol#bc I’m tired of people acting like fictional characters (vehicles for a narrative) are real people (capable of causing real world harm)
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MORE MEXODUS POSTING!!! because sometimes a ship of my ocs can cure me of all ailments and i won’t say sorry for it
#enthusiasm at its best#oc#original character#dnd#dungeons and dragons#d&d#dungeons & dragons#leonin#exodus#melodia#mexodus#theros#my baaBIIEEEESSSSS#i just kinda adore how they like each other in all kinds of ways :(#me when soulmates are real and true love exists and it can start at such an early age help me i’m bursting into flames
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My canon Hawke uses blood magic but bc i didn't use it till late in the game I always hc that it wasn't something Ex wanted to do. It was something he felt was necessary seeing how bad the situation in Kirkwall had gotten. And he hid it from his party. He hid it from Anders bc he knew his lover wouldn't approve and it was going against everything they stood for.
You face so many blood mages who lose control and turn into abominations but Hawke is confident that he is not like them. He can handle it. If Meredith wants to paint all the mages as monsters then he'll show what a real blood mage is capable of. The Templars pushed them this far. They dug their own grave, now they're gonna lie in it.
And it makes Anders """"betrayal"""" hit in a different way for me bc Ex would have supported him either way. Had Anders told him he was going to bomb the chantry Hawke would have willingly burned it to the ground with him. But he hid it, and Ex hid his blood magic bc they are both fucked up in the head and doing what they think is right for their people. They're not okay post Chantry Explosion. They're lives and relationship are in shambles but they stay together anyway.
#des rambles#dragon age 2#da2#anders#anders dragon age 2#hawke#exodus hawke#blood magic#the last straw#handers#handers headcanon
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