#Corypheus

[lyriumbaby]

in your heart shall burn 🗡️

something to keep the hands/mind busy. shoutout to dragon age inquisition, that’s my baby.

(please don’t report without credit thank u swag masters)

[hyperfixationstation128]

I may have many bad takes, but hear me out when I say that Corypheus' line "For I looked upon the seat of the Maker, and it was empty!" goes so fucking hard!!

This has probably already been talked to death, too, but I've been thinking about it nonstop. Corypheus has been desperate for the Maker to reach out to him for so long. And to make his dying quote a plea for his nonexistent god to come to his aide, only to be met with aching silence as his death swiftly approaches SLAPS SO FUCKING HARD!!!

He wasn't the best villain, but man, some of his lines go really hard.

[thevaelguard]

[galedekarios]

dragon age: inquisition replay

"Praise me, for I would end the silence that answers!" [1/?]

[circlemagemal]

[ - Magisters Sidereals - ]

And each was promised Power and glory beyond all reckoning If they would only come to the feet of the gods and ask. And so they joined in secret, telling none Who were not of the temples of their designs. And in Minrathous, in the heart of the Archon a sliver of fear grew, Stabbing like a wound. Though he knew not why. —Silence 1:1-1:17, Dissonant Verse

They'll be featured in some Fade/flashback scenes later on in my fanfic 'Nothing but ambition where hearts once beat' so I decided to come up with some fun designs for these 7 bastards ♡

I was definitely going for that "you're playing with the big boys now" vibe from Prince of Egypt, lmao.

[warden-enchantress-archive]

"And so is the Golden City blackened With each step you take in my Hall. Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting. You have brought Sin to Heaven And doom upon all the world."

[illusivesoul]

That line that Corypheus says after being released in the Legacy dlc while he's all confused "Be these some dream I wake from? Am I in dwarven lands? Why seem their roads so empty?" highlights how in his time, the Deep Roads really were the commercial and trade arteries of Thedas, and how they must have been constantly bursting full of people and merchants trading and going from one corner of Thedas to the other.

Tevinter controlled most of Thedas, but below the surface, the dwarven empire was what truly connected it, all the distant Thaigs and cities bringing lyrium and other things all over the continent, and even trading with the Chasind and the Avvar as far south as Ferelden (and according to Bianca, its possible the Deep Roads might have gone beyond Thedas itself)

And then Corypheus wakes up a thousand years later and assumes he's on the Deep Roads and is puzzled as to why it all seems so empty and lifeless. And the irony is that, even though he doesn't know it yet, thats what the Deep Roads and all the dwarven lands except for Orzammar and Kal'Sharok have become. A dead, lifeless carcass filled with darkspawn, with decaying statues, crumbling Thaigs and a few squads of the Legion of the Dead representing the fading memories of the glory of the past that once was and will never be again, and slowly fading into history like the dwarves themselves.

[pupkinpumpkin]

Alright, if you could only choose ONE, who would you smash?

No coward answers

[sketchytea]

recently finally finished trespasser and i am feeling feelings before veilguard drops so here's my warrior quizzy tara ft. how my corypheus fight went as a completionist who fought him at like level 26

[solavellan--hell]

Yes, Corypheus was not a particularly exciting villain. But you CANNOT look me in the eye and tell me his lines didn't go hard as fuck.

Let the skies boil? Let the world be rent asunder?? Beg that I succeed, for I have seen the throne of the Gods, and it was empty????? Whoever wrote his dialogue did not hold back and they deserve more appreciation if you ask me

[blighted-elf]

Dragon Age: Inquisition - 2024 Replay

[nurabelmax]

Day 14 - Shadow The Shadow of Nightmares

[sha-brytols]

underrated narrative element of dragon age i absolutely adore is how the primary antagonists are meant to be foils of your character in the way that it almost seems like the story is asking you "will you become them? was loghain right about the ends justifying the means, no matter how brutal or bloody? was Meredith right about magic corrupting the souls of those you love?" even the notoriously shitty antagonists like corypheus mirror the inquisitor in that he is a mortal who was thrust into a position of unimaginable power and now faces the existential question of if divinity is truly real or is the will of a man powerful enough to move the heavens. do you guys see what i'm throwing down. it's so dark in here.

[roarrrgame]

Yes, it may seem like I’ve always romanced and befriended problematic figures such as terrorists in video games, but the truth, let it be known, is simply that I support mages. I support mages’ rights and mages’ wrongs.

Frankly, I do not care if they keep wanting to blow things up, if their arrogance and condescension could be mistaken as racism or classism, or if they have unorthodox relationship progression timelines.

To put it more bluntly, if I see a mage, I wanna fuck. Evil or not, mortal or god, living or undead, bald or with luscious hair.

[acentavra]

[5queerducksinatrenchcoat]

this line still goes so fucken hard