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Nothing left to do but meme about it

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Calling it now:

If there's ever any future installments of Dragon Age there will be no mention of the differentiation between the Dalish or City Elves.

Like in DATV they will simply all be 'elves' and the vallaslin will be reduced to 'cool looking tattoo's that some veil jumpers have' - no mention of the elven pantheon either, because why bother! They're all dead now!

They're all dead and responsible for every lore plot point in Thedas, and there's nothing of mystery or substance left in the world now.

No mention of the culture in the alienage, of the vhenadahl tree, of the horrific racism and systematic abuse the elves have been through...now its just elves. With the way the Veil Jumpers have been set up, and the fact that the elven gods were the enemy in DATV, I find it extremely unlikely that the Dalish will even exist as a group either. Why would they? Their Gods returned and blighted the world - not that the fact is even truly discussed in the game. Elves are just elves, and the notable elves are Veil Jumpers.

Maybe you'll walk in a city, pick up a codex, and get a copy and pasted explanation of history from a DAO codex - a reminder of what we used to have and what BioWare absolutely demolished in their attempt to build a new IP on the bones of Dragon Age. The absolute whiplash in writing, story, and character between DAI and DATV is staggering. How on earth could the studio that made such a gorgeous, rich world of lore surrounding the elves in one game end up utterly bastardizing and reducing it to nothing?

How can you look at a place like the Temple of Mythal and go from those gorgeous golden murals and emerald tiled roofs that reached to the heavens to a place like the Lighthouse? From the Emerald Graves to the ruins of Arlathan - devoid of halls that reach to the heavens and golden murals replaced with stained glass? The entirety of the Trespasser DLC had more character and reverence for what the elven empire once was, and DATV feels as though it's approaching it with the perspective of 'generic elven bullshit with triangles everywhere'. All that unique architecture has been obliterated by adding in World of Warcraft focus crystals and automatons.

How can you go from the atmospheric/environmental storytelling of the Lost Temple of Dirthamen to Solas just blurting everything out? No weight, no double truths or hidden meanings - just blurting it out, getting it said and done with no gravitas? That was Solas' entire thing! People have made threads literally dissecting what Solas says and does not say - now he spits lore out as though it were common, everyday knowledge.

How can anyone justify the sudden emergence of magical automatons everywhere in old elven ruins? As if Dragon Age didn't have a host of enemies/creatures available to use in their stead - or the ability to create something unique to the forest of Arlathan. What happened to the spirit guardians? What happened to the lingering echoes of the elves slaughtered by humans in wars ages past like in DAO? Magic was their very existence - spells taking years or centuries to cast, weaving in and about each other - and you're telling me the ancient elves spent their time creating magical transformers?! It feels/looks so utterly seperate from everything we know of the elves from Dragon Age.

Or look at the Crossroads - listen to how Morrigan speaks of it - the reverence for the past, the misty atmosphere, and the heaviness of this pocket of the world that carries the fading memories of a world and people that no longer exists...now it's reduced to a hub world! People are just popping in and out of it at will!

In Trespasser, the few eluvians that we were available to travel to led to the most lonely, desolate spots of Thedas, which ensured their survival over the past millennia. The mirror in the Deep Roads, the mirror in the ancient stronghold in Ferelden...now they're everywhere!The 'few surviving' eluvians are in every major settlement of Thedas and all are in operating order! More than that, everyone who sees an eluvian knows what it is - this ancient marvel of a world long gone has lost all worth and is reduced to a 'world building' justification for fast travel.

Poor Merrill, slaving for a near decade to try and restore a small sliver of her history, only to have all gravitas and wonder of her discovery utterly made void. All that accomplishment wasted, especially when Bellara can wave her magic omni-tool and fix an eluvian in a matter of hours.

If you took every specific Dragon Age terminology out of the Veilguard and replaced it with generic fantasy bullshit you would never be able to tell the difference. The world of DATV is so divorced from its predecessors its astounding.

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Collages reflecting my ideas about fashion in Thedas (part 2).

Thanks for all the feedback you gave me on part 1! It really means a lot to me! The following references were used: Rivain: Pakistan and Indian fashion, Middle Eastern costumes in general Avvar: Scandinavian costumes Chasind: Costumes of the indigenous peoples of Siberia, costumes of Native Americans Par Vollen: South Asian and Greek Fashion

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Collages reflecting my ideas about fashion in Thedas (part 1).

The following references were used:

Ferelden: Fashion of Tudor England

Orlais: French and Venetian fashion

Tevinter: Byzantine and Ottoman costumes

Antiva: Italian Renaissance

Nevarra: Art Nouveau Fashion

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Yes, unfortunately, I agree with every word. "Unfortunately" because the game is really bad. It took me two days to play it to understand that I feel nothing while playing it. That what is happening seems cardboard and unreal. As if it were a play at a children's matinee. Sweet, good-natured… With no negativity. Whatever the player chooses, it will not affect anything globally. Even the character… The player cannot try to make him a different character, except for kind and caring… Simply because there are no such dialogue options. And since there are no dialogue options, the companions also do not show negativity towards Rook. Never. Only positive reactions and approval.

I think my official stance on this game is: it’s bad. Very little to nothing redeemable about it.

I’m someone who notoriously likes “bad” games (fallout 4 is one of my fav games of all time, is it good? No. Do I love it? Yes) and generally have no problem with suspension of disbelief when it comes to video games, but I just can’t do it with veilguard.

The writing sucks, I care very little for the characters, and the constant egregious retcons and destroying of lore throughout are slaps in the face one after another. This was a fumble of astronomical proportions 10 years in the making.

Veilguard is just a several hour long death knell of a beloved world and franchise, and because of that it is just a genuinely unpleasant experience throughout.

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"M̷̦͖̋y̸̞͂͘ eyes... Ḭ̵̽ can't look at the official DaV shader... so Ḭ̵̽ made it 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧🌀"® Before / After

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Hey Bioware, what the heck

VEILGUARD CHARACTER SPOILERS!!! . .

. Does nobody at Bioware know how people age? Never met a woman anyone in their 40's/50's?! I'm seriously baffled. We've got Old Granny Wynne, white-haired and bewrinkled, moaning about her advanced years at the ripe old age of... 49? And it's not just women. Let's not forget the travesty that was Teagan Guerrin during Tresspasser. Now in Veilguard, we've got Dorian "I use at least five products in my nightly regimen" Pavus having aged unusually hard for his age and character type. Plus we have a romanceable companion of an older persuasion. Male, of course. If you can smooch an older companion, he will be, without fail, male. Then there's the flip side. We've also got Morrigan and Isabela, both whom were introduced 20+ game years ago. They are canonically now in the same age range Wynne was in during DAO. And yet, miraculously, they've sported no signs of aging at all since the very moment we laid eyes on them. Nary a wrinkle, gray hair, or bodily 'flaw' in sight. Unlike Wynne, who was not a romance option, Morrigan & Isabela have to still look fuckable, which apparently means they don't get to visibly age. I mean yeah, I think they're sexy. But there's zero need to keep them perma-young. Middle aged women are sexy as fuck too. (See: Vivienne de Fer, also not romanceable.) But we rarely ever get to see an accurately depicted lady in her sexual prime, much less romance her! The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Cassandra, who turns 40 around the time of Tresspasser. And that's frustrating. So, again, Bioware. What the heck?! I know a bunch of you ARE middle-aged, so what gives? Why are 40somethings in your games either perky and nubile OR wizened and crawling inexorably towards the grave? Plz advise.

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i don’t know how yall create feminine human rooks cuz all my attempts look like a parody

jaw is square and masculine af, every completion has this weird blue stubble

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Dental hygiene

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Hah// that's my persona ୭୭୭

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Phew, I finished this ✨miracle✨. By the way, this is my new character 🤩 🔌⚡🔌 I have such a habit of making some such art right away instead of a reference. And I can't do anything about it yet. As long as I have the desire, I need to finish it, otherwise I'll quit without finishing it. I'm attaching here a brief info about this character. I hope I'll write it in more detail someday:

Name: Sergey Logun (almost never uses or voices his first name), 20 years old. Appearance: fair skin, short brown hair and green eyes. Alias: AS09nI4 (most often refers to yourself as such). Occupation: Russian hacker, computer specialist, navigator Alice Character: a smart and (not)very sarcastic guy. Actions are sometimes chaotic and likes to joke, as well as behave in a childish way. Hobbies: loves hacking everything he sees on the Internet, and can even hack communication channels just for fun.

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Phew, I finished this ✨miracle✨. By the way, this is my new character 🤩 🔌⚡🔌 I have such a habit of making some such art right away instead of a reference. And I can't do anything about it yet. As long as I have the desire, I need to finish it, otherwise I'll quit without finishing it. I'm attaching here a brief info about this character. I hope I'll write it in more detail someday:

Name: Sergey Logun (almost never uses or voices his first name), 20 years old. Appearance: fair skin, short brown hair and green eyes. Alias: AS09nI4 (most often refers to yourself as such). Occupation: Russian hacker, computer specialist, navigator Alice Character: a smart and (not)very sarcastic guy. Actions are sometimes chaotic and likes to joke, as well as behave in a childish way. Hobbies: loves hacking everything he sees on the Internet, and can even hack communication channels just for fun.

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I'm coming to life again, dudes. And here I show you what I draw!

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SUPER GOOD BOY!! I'LL GIVE HIM A WHOLE TURKEY TO MAKE HIM HAPPY

My Dragon Age OC - wolf Fennel, possessed by hunger demon! This good boy lives happily in the house of a Tevinter Magister 😊

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The Ritual's aggressive tenderness towards Kali

I'm tired of working on this hdhd sketch xdxd

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I did it, I did it! In principle, I am happy with this. What do you think of 👁 👁???

@laserandom "Costume(?) inspired by the image of Nicki Minaj from the video for Little Mix & Nicki Minaj - Woman Like Me"

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I did it, I did it! In principle, I am happy with this. What do you think of 👁 👁???

@laserandom "Costume(?) inspired by the image of Nicki Minaj from the video for Little Mix & Nicki Minaj - Woman Like Me"