#Dalish Life
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if davrin has a million fans, then i am one of them. if davrin has ten fans, then i am one of them. if davrin has only one fan then that is me. if davrin has no fans, then that means i am no longer on earth. if the world is against davrin, then i am against the world-
#dalish grey warden swag? powerful. heart? BIG!!!!!#anyway. he deserves every joy & happiness and i will protect him with my life 😌✨#davrin#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard
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it’s very difficult to be 85% attracted to voices and nothing else because I can say to myself that I’m going to romance the old man necromancer, but then he’s going to open his mouth and have the most unattractive muppetish clownish voice/cadence/way of speaking in the world and it will be all over. I literally HAVE to hear them.
incidentally that’s how Solas got me. Like I was trying to romance Iron Bull and he is physically perfect, but just his voice didn’t do it for me, just as Solas was talking in that very perfect voice and intriguing cadence…
anyway what I’m saying is I need to hear these people talk. Appearances mean nothing to me, it’s voice and personality
#DA4#Dragon Age#looking just at the people and I feel like the grimdark guy might have the closest to an acceptable voice#but what if the necromancer uses Cassandra’s hot fake accent?#what if either of the Dalish characters have Welsh accents? 😔#Which of these characters will inevitably have a clown voice that couldn’t possibly be attractive?#Life is hard out there
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from @/elfbotanist on twitter who is posting from trick's bluesky; they elaborated a bit on exactly what the intention of the solavellan ending is
#honestly#this is a lot more sad than i originally interpreted it#i was like oh they can leave if he confronts his regrets like rook did#but it doesnt seem like that is the case?#maybe it is a possibility but he has to stay there to study the blight that is also trapped there?#honestly i love this ending the more i sit with it#but the more i sit with it also the more it hurts#i was expecting him to die and i was really prepared for that#but this is tragic in a way i wasnt expecting and its got me so fucked up#its beautifully poetic#the trickster god who freed slaves and trapped tyrants allowing himself to be trapped#to make up for everything he has done#for him to return to the fade after being forced into the physical world#for him to follow mythal into the physical only for his mortal lover to follow him back into the fade so he wouldn't have to be alone#lavellan giving up her life for this makes me sob#i love her i love this its so fucking bittersweet i could die#and with what tay said about a dalish keeper's role being to guard everyone from the dreadwolf#thats exactly what shes doing but because she loves him she is helping hold him accountable#i genuinely cannot stop sobbing this is so insane#i cant believe they managed to absolutely bamboozle me like this because i did not expect something so tragic#well played trick weekes.....#solavellan#solas#veilguard spoilers#dragon age the veilguard spoilers#da:v spoilers#dav spoilers
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In war, victory. In peace, vigilance. In death, sacrifice.
My Grey Warden from DAO, Ellaria Mahariel. A Dalish dual wielding rogue, she was plucked from her clan and joined the Grey Wardens, defeating the Archdemon and ending the Blight.
#my art#dragon age origins#da: origins#grey warden#warden mahariel#ellaria mahariel#i may not have finished the game in real life but i did in my head!#and that's all the matters#because i love ellaria and i will come back to finish your romance with Alistair i promise#also i miss making fun of the word taint#dalish elf#dao
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Ariane/Finn - run away with me
" Fresh air and sunlight is good for you."
#dragon age#ariane#finn#ariane/finn#my art#many mosquitoes feasted on sweet untasted (?) mage flesh that day#haven't stopped loving these two real life just keeps me busy#took way too long to finish this one#no energy left for their weapons though#or Ariane's upgraded armor for that matter - though since this is shortly after the DLC the plain version makes sense i guess#dragon age witch hunt#witch hunt squad tag#dalish#circle mage
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alright with 30+ hours. I'm gonna yap about my personal itching beef, since I'm having a ton of fun. but.
I think by far one of my biggest issues with the game is how much they flattened out thedas' social & political landscape. maybe for ease, maybe out of fear of tackling their topics "badly," but the way that they both want to address tevinter's slavery, but have also extremely downplayed elven subjugation & oppression as a longstanding lore, is sooo... frustrating.
I think the story so far is pretty solid, I'm having a GREAT time, I enjoy all the cast, but it does feel like it could've been a lot deeper if they'd fully accounted for the breadth of these longstanding lore realities that come with magic & class & whether one is human or elven or dwarven. I've gotten NONE of that, AS an elf shadow dragon. davrin going "that'll endear us to the world..." about the gods being elven is insane -- elves are already oppressed under the structures of thedas! tevinter is where all of this STARTED. similarly, the lack of interaction between magic & class is like... craaazy to me.
these structures are present throughout the entirety of each game, it should feel different in each location. it just feels clumsy to both want to address the social issues of slavery, etc. present in thedas, and ALSO flatten out the differences between city elves & dalish, not emphasize it more especially with an elven origin... like wdym. wdym. that one of the biggest mentions of it with an elven rook is the scroll lore where rook goes "it's about time someone acknowledged what my people did..." about some guy who praised the elves. a shadow dragon elf rook will have been living with a very specific systemic structure of oppression for their entire life. WHY isn't that here. the story structure I'm having a good time with, the characters I'm having a good time with, but goddd it could have been so much deeper if it had actually incorporated some of the complexity & nuance of these social structures in thedas. you look silly trying to both include these themes of shadow dragons breaking slavery and ALSO pussyfooting around The Origins Of How We Got Here. that's not even getting into MAGIC, and how being a MAGE should mean something different in different places. like. whahrhrrhrhrhrr.
#I feel like it just.... lessens the weight of everything by far#love neve but it's insane to me that she DISAPPROVES of hem saying she would've also been pissed that mythal sided with elgar'nan#'enough to start a rebellion?' YES GIRL. SLAVERY IS WRONG? nsgdnkmgfmsgndgfds????????????#you're apart of the DISMANTLING OPPRESSION FACTION. WHERE ARE YOU?#and because these characters' origins aren't being as considered; I feel like their reactions are just#slightly off for the world they're in#this is MOST present with davrin & neve I think -- taash is a little more thoughtful in their pursuit#anyway. whatever. davrin's my babygirl davrin's my belovedest hoohohhh but insane to me that he's#dalish and his biggest commentary on the elven gods is like#haha clan life wasn't for me not my gods!#why not just make him a city elf then. oh wait! we don't care about the difference anymore#I do want him bad though. I do.#dav critical#dav spoilers
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The HoF is gonna go through 5 different crisis once they learn about Davrin's companion
#I like to believe my warden would supposed another fellow dalish but nope#why does he get a Griffon?#the only consolation you have as a warden is that u can't have them because they are extinct#like I interrupted Winnie weird life lesson and still didn't get a griffon#dragon age#dragon age origins#dragon age the veilguard#davrin dragon age#Davrin is by far the most interesting companion in this thing#hope the writers let him be proud of his heritage#or at least doesn't insult it#haven't post in a while about DA because depression got me#but I'm here!!
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Have u ever taken a look at the inquisition multiplayer characters on the wiki? Theres some super interesting stuff there! One of them is the last surviving disciple of andraste cultist and shes a reaver. Theres an arcane warrior and a legionnaire and also Isabela is there. Some of them shed some interesting light on the inquisition too, like the reaver
briefly looking at their descriptions in world of thedas made a black hole of despair gnaw at my guts, yes
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speaking of veilguard kind of going nowhere. i am so mad over there being no in depth epilogue. at least tell me what happens to the factions that are being led/guided by people rook influenced !!!!!! all these companions have obvious obligations outside of the veilguard, and they're all dedicated to the lives they lived before they joined this team, so of course they would go back. what effect did bellara deciding to keep the archive have on the elves? neve decides to protect dock town by any means necessary, so what does that mean for a blighted minrathous? everything to do with harding and the titans ????!!!! and solas just accepts being trapped because he's been 'outplayed' DO NOT MAKE ME LAUGH!!!! somebody has got to tell me what happens after the world gets 'saved' because the south in chaos, minrathous almost destroyed and the last of the elven gods being dead is like. crazy. and the companions just commenting things i already know is really not cutting it for me
#not even like. including the fact i thought the romances were primed to go worse#davrin + short warden lifespan + hesitation + guilt#lucanis + family obligation + first talon + long distance + dorian style 'i have to leave' speech#neve + cynicism + refusal to commit + unable to picture a life for herself that doesn't include losing loved ones#and how a rook's backstory would change that. a veil jumper who refuses to leave arlathan because their history means so much to them#clashing with davrin who barely thinks of himself as being dalish anymore#it was so clear to me. go girl give us nothing#i am being quite mean because there are things i adored in veilguard. especially with companion to companion relationships#neve-bellara i think is a good example of this. where you see them meet early and then continue to look out for each other#how blood of arlathan is kind of primed for you to take both of them which adds to this idea that they are close#so there can be good writing its just bogged down by a lot of other things. augh#dav spoilers#dav#dragon age spoilers#txt
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i wouldnt bet my car on it... but i can see bioware resolving solas' story with him having to accept that he cant keep chasing his past, and having to sacrifice his godhood to live a normal life for once
#:V#dragon age#solas#also what with his numerous Issues with gods and being worshipped i think it would do him good#to be a normal man who lives a relatively normal life (preferably with lavellan). he can still teach the dalish their history#like i get why hes doing what hes doing but honestly. it doesnt seem like his heart is fully in it always#he has to keep pushing everyone away just so he doesnt get Too Attached which isnt helping his case
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So I just got a chance to listen to the Dev Q&A (thank you Ghil Dirthalen!).
Was anyone else extremely annoyed and disappointed by the answer regarding City vs Dalish Elf Rook?
Like that 'things are different in Northern Thedas when it comes to elves' comes across as such a lazy lore excuse for 'we didn't want backlash for restricting races to factions' considering from every other peice DA media released, we know that's not true. The dalish and city elves are very much seperate cultures and factions on their own.
It would be like saying orzammar and surface dwarves are 'basically the same' in northern thedas
#I love da elves and the differences between city and dalish are part of that#i really wanted to play as a city elf but now its looking like it won't really matter dialogue wise#not to do the 'origins was better' person cause I dont like to do that#but this is one thing that they def presented better in origins#maybe controversial opinion but you should not be able to play a dalish elf in some of the factions#to me it doesn't make much sense for a dalish elf to end up as part of the shadow dragons or the mourn watch or the crows#the mourn watch and crows because they're factions where most members are there for a majority of their life including youth#shadow dragons because they are a minrathous specific faction and as far as I am aware dalish in major tevinter cities are an oddity#I digress but overall i think I was annoyed by the way the questions was answered more than the actual answer itself#still kinda lame tho#dragon age the veilguard#datv#datv spoilers
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The unwilling Inquisitor, the last of her clan, the Star
done by Sol Salinas :)
#dragon age#dragon age inquisition#inquisitor lavellan#dalish inquisitor#aria lavellan#still thinking of this piece#its incredibly beautiful and i love how Sol was able to bring my girl to life❤️#i can’t wait to comm this artist for my warden!!#da tarot card art is my lifeline
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Elves that float around in my head lately,,,
#went insane and thought backwards like clan life pre inquisition hhrhhghgh#my art#oc art#drawing#dragon age#lavellan#never let me colour again this shit aged me#dalish inquisitor#dalish elf#inquisitor lavellan#queue
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Opps I think I never posted my Warden Commander Mahariel and her crew of adopted kids misfits . Anyway here she is!
#Dragon Age#Dragon Age art#Dragon Age Origins#Dragon Age Awakening#Dragon Age oc#Warden Mahariel#Warden Commander#She is an archer specialist and a master ranger so she is always patting beasts like they are puppies#Her cool stance is a lie her head is empty no thoughts#like#who is Andraste?? is she famous??#The dalish life is hard you know#my art
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I have no idea why but I absolutely hate how Ameridan' story was handled, they basically dumbed it down to him worshipping both the creators and andraste/chant of light, which kind of proved Cassandra's dumb (and incredibly disrespectful) point of an inquisitor having "room for another god". It's also so unfair how they made the evanuris to just be power hungry slavers and tyrants, my only hope is that if the creators were disproving then I hope it would be the same for the chant of light and maker (seeing asnit was solas who made the veil and not the creator) I really hate how centrist the game has gotten, like flat out, whenever I hear the words grey morality and nuance I can't help burn cringe, that's how much dragon age has ruined it for me.
It's also so incredibly funny how the devs are genuinely surprised that most of the players are pro mage, like of course we are?
i think it's particularly extremely aggravating, the way bioware writers write about a pantheon as if polytheistic religions are simply a thing of the past and dead and some kind of mystery/mythology. according to bioware, this kind of writing for polytheistic religions is fine because no real religion these days would everrrrrrr worship multiple gods /sarcasm. (note that the links are just some examples and not comprehensive in the least)
there's a lot of writing choices i quite simply disagree with in dai, and there's some that are just... i don't even disagree with them because that implies it's something to argue about. some of their writing choices are just wrong. after borrowing so heavily from ethnic groups to shape their fictional histories, the disrespect of writing their fictional oppressed minorities as being responsible for their own oppression because they were not "open" enough to include/absorb expy christianity into their religious beliefs and fought back against violent colonialism. the resulting clumsy collation between isr*el and the indigenous people of the americas wanting to reclaim their lands stolen from them by white colonisers makes my blood boil.
ameridan is just another piece of the puzzle that makes me seethe. we have a man who apparently ~existed before hostilities between the elves and the humans~ which is now the fault of drakon's son who invaded the dales after ameridan was long gone. that's already absolute bullshit because ameridan lived in the fucking dales. elves only started living in the dales AFTER ANDRASTE'S REBELLION. after the fall of arlathan, and hundreds of years of enslavement at the hands of tevinter humans???
additionally, the battle of red crossing happened in 2:9 glory, but tensions between the elves and humans had been building up since the second blight. drakon the first died in 1:45 but the elves apparently did "nothing" to help montsimmard when it was overrun by darkspawn in 1:25 divine - twenty years before his death, there was already simmering resentment. additionally, it was drakon the first that expanded the orlesian empire and the orlesian chantry - wotv2 notes his battles against the darkspawn did more to spread the chant of light (specifically, the orlesian chant of light which he, yknow, fucking made up) than any of his other attempts. by the time the exalted march on the dales happens, over three quarters of thedas is under orlesian rule. maferath himself handed the dales to the surviving elves from andraste's campaign in -165 ancient and the elves lived in the dales peacefully until the orlesian chantry was salivating at its borders. and the orlesian chantry has a history of wiping out "cults" - i.e. other sects of their own religion that differ from belief, no matter how minor, to their own. including, notably, the wholesale genocide of a non-violent sect centered around fertility rituals and, later, the dragon worshipping sect in haven off their own land. (and i'm willing to BET MONEY that they were originally alamarri themselves, considering that andraste was brought there to rest, and considering how cultural variance in religion usually occurs [i.e. through the blending/adoption of folk beliefs or the cultural/religious practices from Before]. so the andrastians slaughtered the cult AND THEN TOOK THEIR FUCKING LAND.)
the entire way andrastianism is treated in inquisition makes me violent. and unfortunately, it does not look like it's going to change - there's been multiple statements about how the maker's existence will continue to remain "a mystery" out of a reluctance to confirm or deny the existence of a One True God which, coupled with how they've shat on every other religion in the game - the tevinter chantry, the qun, the stone, the elven pantheon, every other sect worshipping the maker/andraste - gives me absolutely no hope that the writing team is going to get their heads out of their asses about it.
#asks#bioware critical#dai critical#and tbh at this point i really think anyone acting like the writing team is being geniuses or whatever is kinda racist and deluded lmao#most polytheistic religions surviving today are inextricably linked to ethnicity and culture and rich histories of surviving and resisting#colonialist attempts to wipe them out. i feel like comparatively there's fewer polytheistic religions in ''the west'' (more specifically#rooted in white culture) as a result of that. but bioware didn't borrow from THOSE white-rooted polytheistic religions and cultures#they borrowed from native; jewish; roma; even hinduism when it came to the dalish elves but people want to act like the only thing bioware#is pulling from is fucking norse mythology. borrowing character archetypes from norse mythology and planting them onto your#fictional ethnic minorities based off real life religions and people. IS NOT ACTUALLY GOOD WRITING. when you dont CONSIDER the implications#like Gods Not Being Good or having Separate Morals To Humans is a huge theme for norse mythology#but not so much afaik in other polytheistic religions TODAY???#fucking bioware SHOULD HAVE JUST USED NORSE MYTHOLOGY AS A BASE FOR THE ELVES FROM THE START#and NOT brought other ethnic groups into it???#the moment they did they SHOULD HAVE been considering the implications of their writing. and that they didn't and continue NOT TO#is actually something people are allowed to be fucking upset about!!!!
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wonder if romancing harding as a dwarf is what s*lasmancers felt like in inquisition, where you feel Catered To
except the catch is harding is actually a genuinely wonderful and sweet person who cares about others and isn't racist
#datv for ts.#IM SO IMPATIENT TO KEEP PLAYING IM RATTLING THE CAGE OF MY 9 to 7 WORK LIFE SO I CAN GO BACK AND ADVANCE.#im seeing spoilers tho and im like RAAAWWR!!!! RAAAAA DWARF STUFF!!! HARDING!!!!! MY LOVE!!!!!!!#is this what it's like playing a dalish elf i wouldn't know i'm never catered to this much in dragon age as a dwarf fan.#dwarf lore was always on the periphery unless you played As A Dwarf. the descent was my fave DLC bc of how it focused on the dwarves#and introduced the titans.
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