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Anders... There's no such thing as a good spirit. There never was. All spirits are dangerous. I understood that. I'm sorry that you didn't.

@andersweek2025 

Sacrifice Sunday: Justice / Martyrdom / Greater Good

Sorry for skipping ahead to the next day’s topic, but still!!

based on the painting by Peter Ondreička, Tight Mask (Man with a Mask)

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we can go over the individual merits and flaws of every single character and weaponise morality to justify our likes and dislikes, but I think the great strength of DA2 is that we got sold a group of companions from different national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds with a great diversity of opinions and - whether you buy their loyalty with kindness or beat it out of them with cruelty - by the end of the game you can convince every single one of them without exception to either participate in genocide, or to fight against it. we can argue all day about who is best and who is worst. but every single one, no matter where they come from, has a full range capacity for both goodness and banal brutal evil.

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you know, more and more im starting to agree with the people who say playing a totally non religious very atheistic character in da, but specifically dai, is kinda really boring.

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riffing off other previous poll concepts; elaboration on each below bc if i have to try working within the poll character limit ill cry.

paz: blood mage, keeps making deals with demons, manipulates and lies to people constantly (see example: linae), constantly micromanaging people, completely ghosts all her friends a few years after awakening, post-inq lies to leliana abt forgiving her for the left hand of the divine thing so she has some influence over the current divine

maeve: is technically pro-mage but keeps siding with the templars, rivaled bethany, let isabela make the deal for the ship in act 3, was so mad at anders during/after tls the only reason she didn't kill him was bc she would've felt bad about killing someone who was previously a friend

oloris: on purpose let justinia die in the fade after the initial explosion, so firmly anti-inquisition he runs after twoh, has a complicated relationship with his daughter, only talks to his clan like once or twice a year max, kills the inquisitor during doom upon all the world

audace: betrays oloris to the inquisition after iyhsb, genuinely starts believing they are the herald of andraste, spends most of inquisition feeling guilty about and repressing their transgenderism, was knowingly and purposefully using leliana as a tool of violence by the end of inquisition, encourages cullen to go on lyrium again until corypheus is killed

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Você tá obcecada com aquele cadáver podre e inchado. É tipo o seu Jungkook. Que vergonha!

(its the same post but make it portuguese)

THIS IS NOTGOING TO BE A PUBLIC TREND.

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You're obsessed with the rotting bloated corpse. It's like your Jungkook. Embarassing!

i dont have to put up with this................................

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You're obsessed with the rotting bloated corpse. It's like your Jungkook. Embarassing!

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if no one else says anneliese in the next 15 minutes im blowing this whole place up

you guys heard it, someone else better say their fave oc of mine is anneliese, i dont want my home to be blown up like the chantry

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ESTHER HAWKE SEARCH HISTORY SIMULATOR

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in my canon jowan is a spirit medium too. if you even care.

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this is how the spirit warrior spec can still win

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the thing about it is spirit healers are like Complicated to deal with. because dealing with spirits is the #1 thing that the circle does not want its mages doing — the chantry believes its mages to be inherently corruptible, inherently susceptible, inherently unreliable when it comes to dealing with spirits and not being tricked or seduced or overpowered by demons. but spirit healers can do things that Vastly outstrip the advances of nonmagical medicine, and they're just too lucrative to ban. besides, imagine the outrage if the chantry told the nation they just had to Die, en masse, of injuries and diseases they knew to be treatable because, whoops, spirit healers are Bad Now! so theyre absolutely necessary (for profit, for appearances, for the benefits that being able to provide access to spirit healers brings the chantry — including spiritual ones, surely!) but also, under suspicion at all times, because... you never know what kind of spirit they're talking to. you never know Which will be the time that a spirit healer doesn't stop at talking. right.

which like... i think shows just how arbitrary and vague the definition of 'blood magic' must be, in universe. because, you've got a spirit mage and you don't trust them, and they're dealing with spirits every day... who's to say it's Not blood magic. and who's to say that even the things they are so confident theyre allowed to be doing wont suddenly become blood magic when it's convenient!

& like. living under that kind of surveillance. knowing that's where you stand with the people who hold your life in their hands. spirit healers!

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it would be really funny spirit healers were like this super nebulous concept though. imagine being an ostagar soldier when wynne was enlisted

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the thing about it is spirit healers are like Complicated to deal with. because dealing with spirits is the #1 thing that the circle does not want its mages doing — the chantry believes its mages to be inherently corruptible, inherently susceptible, inherently unreliable when it comes to dealing with spirits and not being tricked or seduced or overpowered by demons. but spirit healers can do things that Vastly outstrip the advances of nonmagical medicine, and they're just too lucrative to ban. besides, imagine the outrage if the chantry told the nation they just had to Die, en masse, of injuries and diseases they knew to be treatable because, whoops, spirit healers are Bad Now! so theyre absolutely necessary (for profit, for appearances, for the benefits that being able to provide access to spirit healers brings the chantry — including spiritual ones, surely!) but also, under suspicion at all times, because... you never know what kind of spirit they're talking to. you never know Which will be the time that a spirit healer doesn't stop at talking. right.

which like... i think shows just how arbitrary and vague the definition of 'blood magic' must be, in universe. because, you've got a spirit mage and you don't trust them, and they're dealing with spirits every day... who's to say it's Not blood magic. and who's to say that even the things they are so confident theyre allowed to be doing wont suddenly become blood magic when it's convenient!

& like. living under that kind of surveillance. knowing that's where you stand with the people who hold your life in their hands. spirit healers!

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