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i had one datv critical post blow up and it's funny because you get a bunch of people supporting your silly little rant you spewed out into the void at a particularly frustrated moment, and are a little ashamed of, but every now and then you get targeted vagueposts insulting everything about yourself, from your age to the way you express yourself in a language that isn't native to you, to your choices and preferences in game, and honestly, yeah, you can't even contest that, because you are indeed 30 years old and have interests that aren't tied to corporate achievements and/or child-rearing, so i guess that does make you a loser to some, but also the post wasn't explicitly naming you, so it could have been aimed at anybody else who happened to share those traits with you, and really, it is objectively funny to be called a 'stan' of anything, let alone a video game that's almost as old as the person levying the insult against you... honestly i don't know how fandom famous people who get these posts every day and have for the last decade, deal with that kind of attention, because i had to fight the impulse to either delete my tumblr and become a hermit in the woods, or double down and get pulled into petty internet drama, every day since then, and i still don't know which of the two would be worse

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Antoine: *existing*

Darkspawn: hey there little mama, lemme whisper in your ear

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Tarquin beloved

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i finished dragon age veilguard, here is a picture my husband drew of me and how i looked at him (apparently) when i was in the middle of the final story quest.

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Bellara is one of the companions i was the least excited about, but her story resonates more than i thought

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i want Shale and Taash to have a very intense talk about pigeons but it's actually about gender and vulnerability

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Newly minted ambassador Josephine Montilyet is being shown around the Grand Necropolis by the snivelling nobility. They intend to show her how Mourn Watch take care of the Necropolis as well as boast about their ethically sourced workforce. When they enter, the first thing Ambassador Montilyet notices is a skeleton wearing a flower crown. It's poorly constructed yet surprisingly holds together as the skeleton swings it pickaxe.

They come across another and another until now even the skeleton guards are wearing them. The noble is getting noticeably upset, confused and somewhat angry thinking someone is playing a prank on them and trying to ruin the ambassadors opinion of Nevarra. They decide to take her to the memorial gardens only to find the source of the disruption.

A young Foundling who goes by the name Ingellvar is offering anyone they come across a flower crown, grinning from ear to ear when they take it. Vorgoth assists. The noble intends to take the being aside and lecture them on keeping their ward in check only for Ingellvar to offer Josephine a flower crown.

She accepts.

Twenty years later, Josephine still has that flower crown pressed and safely preserved behind framed glass. It's one of her favorite gifts and a fond memory of a child happy amongst the dead and their eldritch guardian watching over them.

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bioware has such an odd habit of setting up a conflict at the end of one game and going like ok whatever and completely replacing them with someone else in the next. the mage-templar conflict from da2 being swept aside in dai because the sky broke open...solas being replaced by generically evil elgar'nan and gilan'nain for the majority of the game in veilguard.

like why bother setting up these conflicts at all if you don't think you can handle the fallout?

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All of this can rightly be called my fault. Whether or not you can do better remains to be seen. But if you can make this the end, Warden, I will follow you. I swear it. » I'm glad to have you. I suppose we'll see how long that lasts.

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All of the discussion about spirits and demons in DAV has really got me thinking about DA2. Solas (and the game itself) tells us that when a spirit is denied its true purpose, it becomes twisted into a demon.

I think this suggests that Justice became Vengeance not because he was poisoned by Anders’ rage/desire for revenge, but because he was denied his original purpose as a spirit of justice in Kirkwall. The mages there were so oppressed and persecuted by the templars that after years of running a clinic and working to effect change without achieving any real justice for the mages, Justice was twisted from his true purpose into Vengeance. He was literally unable to fulfill his role and promote justice in that environment, so he was forced to become vengeance instead.

Anders wasn’t the reason Justice became Vengeance. Kirkwall was.

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uh Morrigan

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Dragon Age: Origins | Scenery - The Deep Roads

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.Rook.

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Brother aged, his scarring switched sides, and everybody knows that you can have either freckles or wrinkles, but you can't have both.

Spiridon Lavellan, then and now.