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"The caves are gone when you look away. Look away: they lie in ambush." //Cole coming in being ominous for a change @bushelofmuses

He frowned confused not knowing what he was going on about now. "What does that even mean?" He asked.

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Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014)

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l y r i u m.

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You're all wrong. Red Lyrium is just crystallised Gochujang coated with flaming hot cheeto dust.

for those of you who don’t know, gochujang is spicy hot chili paste common across asia. it varies a bit by country!

anyways turn on your location so i pry this headcanon from your hands

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since you all wanna be samson so bad

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Created a red lyrium potion design and decided I needed a blue counterpart for it. You can find both on a ton of stuff in my Redbubble shop here! 

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Мелькор увидел их внизу, тварей с него, наверное, ростом, а то и больше. Ходячие глыбы каранглира, в очертаниях которых едва угадывались те, кем они когда-то были, напоминая перекошенных горбунов, облепленных алыми кристаллами, проросшими через их кости и кровь. Чудовища стояли, издавая мучительный вой, который звенел на одной заунывной ноте, словно у поскуливающей собаки. Ошметки кожи и шахтерской одежды вплавились в кристаллы каранглира у них на груди.

  Багряная песнь Харт  

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DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION SCENERY ➸ [2/?]

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@thethirdamell requested a sketch of Accursed Ones Hawke with his red lyrium “crown” so here it is :P

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this ‘elder one’ managed to take the worst thing I could think of and make it worse.

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If you have the spoons (& willingness), I am curious & would love it if you could tell me why so many pretty minerals look like red lyrium.

Manganese! Also traces of iron, magnesium and/or calcium. But mostly manganese! Manganese gives you red!

I assume we're talking about this bad boy right here:

Rhodochrosite.

Also known as manganese carbonate (MnCO3), it occurs as a hydrothermal vein mineral along with other manganese minerals in low temperature ore deposits such as silver. In its purest form, it creates beautiful crystals like the one pictured above. However, calcium (and sometimes magnesium and zinc) frequently replaces the manganese in the structure, leading to shades of pink, the most common color encountered:

While you can find the pink tumbled stones in just about any rock gift shop, natural rhodochrosite crystals are rare and insanely expensive. Most are destroyed in silver mining operations.

As for why the artists at Bioware chose to make red lyrium look like rhodochrosite... I mean, look at it... it's mesmerizing... so beautiful...

*blinks, shakes head* Ahem.

Anyway, I hope that helped answer your question. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to nerd out over my favorite topic. 💖

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Do you hear it sing?

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This is a cool ass gif I found on accident:

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uploading a bunch of art from years ago i never posted here. here are some red cullens from 2020

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These Varric Tethras inspired dice are brought to you by the red lyrium mines of the Emprise Du Lion ♦️✨

One of my very best friends in the world got me this dice set during the holidays! They said these reminded them of Varric which reminded them of me because I love him 🥰

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What do you think? I made these!

The colour give me blood/vampire or/and red lyrium vibes.

And some witch vibes.

Would you buy such?