#Dalish Life

[lelianasbong]

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-

[corseque]

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

[mohntilyet]

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

[weaveandwood]

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.

[nessacousland]

Ariane/Finn - run away with me

" Fresh air and sunlight is good for you."

[detectiveneve]

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.

[thechantrydeservedit]

The HoF is gonna go through 5 different crisis once they learn about Davrin's companion

[thatgaymerguyb]

https://archiveofourown.org/series/4581508

Part 4 of A Life After, Family, is up now.

Davrin catches up with his sister and her family after the events of part 2. Will his sister accept him and his new human Bond mate? Take a read and see.

Pic is a favourite moment in the game. I can’t get screenshots right now since I’m on vacay in Orlando :). Hope you all enjoy the read!

[mabaris]

another thing that i just noticed is that the dwarves have now had done to them by the elves what we’d thought the elves had done to them by humans, at least before inquisition. cut down in their peak and permanently ruined, left to scrabble for the broken pieces of their history

not to say it’s an inherently bad choice because oppression isn’t that straightforward, but it sure was an interesting choice to shift the “they destroyed our way of life and fractured our society and we ARE allowing ourselves to feel angry about it and reclaim our history and maybe use that to rebuild what we once had” narrative from the elves to the dwarves. like if that’s the story you really wanted to tell, you could have also given it to like. bellara

[vigilskeep]

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

[suppenzeit]

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

[ohsweetflips]

not to be meta abt my rook and how i went abt creating them but there is something abt starting them solely with the idea of "you will have no relation to my warden and inquisitor, who are family and had almost a real-life decade of my life dedicated to developing their world" that really gets me going. like. from the very beginning you are on the outskirts. in-game, you were needed as someone new, someone out of the loop, and so narratively, your history is inconsequential. in-game, your backstory is murky at best, and so narratively, you will be by yourself until you find the people you will later be defined by. there is no intricate red string of fate weaving you into decades of families and history; you are the one on the outside who must be brought in. you have no family and thus the family of heroes that came before you will be folklore. you must learn what was inherent to them - what made them. you are thrust into a world that has already been crafted before you, and your creator has leaned into you being no one before your existence.

anyways. feeling so normal abt rhodes aldwir rn.

[annalyticall]

Uh oh romancing Davrin means I'm starting to become defensive when people say he's boring. This must be how the Wyll fans feel

[infamouslydorky]

Davrin: I don't believe in the fade

Emmrich: you're literally standing in it right now. That's where you go to bed each night at the lighthouse

Davrin: nah, it ain't real

[trickerys-domain]

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

[chibichibisha]

Opps I think I never posted my Warden Commander Mahariel and her crew of adopted kids misfits . Anyway here she is!