#Minrathous

[eethok]

dreadwolf this, elven gods that NOTHING is ruining the tabris family vacation this year!

[anemonetea]

Arlathan 🍃 Minrathous 🐉 Treviso 🐦‍⬛ The Grand Necropolis 💀

Prints

[hoiist]

Region Tarot Cards from Dragon Age: The Veilguard

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[dragonagegallery]

Minrathous Streets

Had fun trying to concept in 360 degrees. While it never really proved to be worth the extra effort, the results are kinda cool. This image was meant to be a street-level view of the city of Minrathous, particularly with an eye of getting height and depth, like a termite mound that's been stacking up for millennia. You can see a magister on a standing palanquin, and a magically tamed-giant used for public transportation. By Matt Rhodes

Concept Art 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

[saltska]

'The light drawn echoes back. In aeternum.'

A short comic to fill in some gaps for my shadow dragon Rook.

Notes: (SPOILER WARNING) Notes: I saved treviso in my first run as it was honestly what my rook would have chosen

The scenario on returning to docktown was devastating as a shadow dragon especially as a fan of Dorian and I felt it needed a moment, like a “return to ostagar” type quest

[postcardsfromheapside]

This game has been out since Halloween.

In that time, there have been numerous Veilguard positive posts in which patient, loving, wonderful, insightful and intelligent individuals attempt to impart lore onto a fanbase which doesn't deserve their time and attention.

I can't believe I'm running across posts made within the past five days which express disgust and frustration towards the devs over things which have been explained in great detail multiple times on this site, BUT IN THE DAMN GAME.

AND Y'ALL KEEP COMPLAINING THE GAME TELLS BUT DOESN'T SHOW. AND YOU DON'T EVEN LISTEN OR WATCH.

"the crows are presented as wholesome" - they are not. this site has a crow fanbase which has run off and lionized Viago as Daddy, conveniently ignored all the in-game details which either hint or baldly state things Definitely Aren't Cool, and generally fetishized what it means to be a Crow because of Zevran and Lucanis. Then the same people, or others who weren't paying proper attention, whined when the headcanon crowded out the actual in-game material, and they said "Antiva is whitewashed." There have been multiple posts about this.

"slaves are meant to be everywhere in Tevinter and we don't see that" - we aren't everywhere, we're specifically in Docktown which is poor and people generally can't afford slaves there, but we do see evidence of slavery, and we run around with abolitionists and help save people from fascist slavers and free people who will either be slaves or victims of blood magic so IDK what to tell you, there have been multiple posts explaining this too, maybe leave your slave or savior fetish somewhere else.

"Racism is supposed to be rampant" - fuck off. I actually will not be explaining this because for once it was nice not to be called a slur. If you need this to feel "immersed" or to feel there are actual problems, I need you to check yourself fucking hard. If you want to masquerade what it feels like to experience bigotry, go play one of the prior games. This has also been discussed in multiple posts.

"Handling pure lyrium is fine now" no handling the dagger is fine Solas cleansed it, the dagger woke something up in Harding specifically she talks about how some dwarves are connected to the stone, she previously had not been one of them and maybe the dagger woke something up in her, or did you need a pop up explaining this? Were you paying attention during cut scenes and dialogue?

"Adult Dalish without vallaslin" - in the 10 years since Inquisition/Trespasser, doubtless some dalish have come to adulthood and found out what assholes their gods were and made the decision not to go through that specific cultural rites. Or maybe city elves joined the Dalish. Who knows who made up the elf population at that ritual site. Elves are not a monolith. We've made multiple, multiple posts about elves not being monoliths.

"Solas' opinion on blood magic went from neutral to negative" SOLAS FUCKING LIES. We've made multiple posts about Solas lying, if you need this explained further I suggest you play the game all over again, he lies to you throughout the entire game.

"Re-write of the after credits scene in Inquisition to recontextualise the Flemeth and Solas interaction" it's recontextualized because now we know who and what they were to each other. Learning new information does that. This is literally what happens all the time in science and history. You recontextualize what you thought you knew with new information. You're supposed to change your position, not whine about how the new information makes everything different.

These are just some of the things I pulled from a list on a post in which someone was really just upset about everything. Everything. Varric, Morrigan, Solas, everything. But I can't take their criticisms seriously, because they're upset that "too much was told" and "not enough shown" and yet didn't even pay attention to DA lore or in-game dialogue or context clues around the world of Northern Thedas to answer their own questions.

Everything in this game makes complete sense if you use lore from prior games and a single iota of imagination to see how it fits. We've had many delightful posts discussing this, seeing how things could be explained, when approaching the game from a place of curiosity rather than being upset because personal headcanons weren't satisfied or long-held expectations weren't met.

[maxx-the-queer]

Having finally played through both options for Veilguard and having to choose either Treviso or Minrathous, I can conclude one thing: there is absolutely no correct choice in either scenario.

By choosing to save Treviso, you leave violent Imperial-Supremacist slavers in charge of one of Thedas' most powerful nation. The only force with any resistance against them is all but decimated, if not by the Blighted Dragon attack then by the Venatori themselves. The hanged bodies in the streets all but taunt you as a reminder that nobody, especially the poorest and most vulnerable in Docktown, could ever hope to stand up to their power.

But by choosing to save Minrathous, you subject a city built on canals to a newer, more ferocious form of the Blight. In just a few main missions earlier Rook saw in D'Meta's Crossing just how devastating it can be. It seeps into the water, grows in the crevices of every building, and consumes everything to create new horrors. The once thriving markets that stood up to even the Antaam's occupation are gutted and turned into hospitals to care for their already suffering people.

The choice Rook makes isn't about deciding which city and its faction is more deserving of help. There is no "right" answer. There is no "morally superior" choice. The most vulnerable people suffer and die in either city either way.

The Minrathous-or-Treviso decision Rook makes is about there being no good options, but having to make those choices anyway. It is knowing that when you are presented with poor options, no matter your reasoning or how superficial it is, you have to decide.

The only wrong decision Rook could have made was to choose to do nothing at all.

[merrinla]

Lucanis: In Treviso, we have a tale of a masked man who lived in the bowels of the city. Rook: But why? Lucanis: Drama. Why else? (if Neve is in the party) Neve: Sitting in the sewer, and consumed with lust for a noblewoman he couldn't have? Lucanis: You know the story! Neve: We have the same one in Minrathous.

[loustica-lucia]

DATV — Hot Tevinter Nights with an ice mage❄️

(Fenris & Eleena Amell Hawke, 9:52 Dragon, Minrathous)

It's handy to have an ice mage around during hot, Tevinter nights❄️ Even more when you've been married for ten years🥳💞

Inspired by my fan, saving me in those horrendous heatwave keeping awake ;W; ... and it's not even truly summer yet, I hate it hereeee

[bioware]

TOMORROW your journey begins in Minrathous.

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[dragon--sage]

lmaoooo @ genitivi (rip) leaving the most bitter yelp review in the world for the imperium. it's not giving critiquing power structures here it's giving 'they're so mean to me there, customer service doesn't exist, the shopkeepers don't even SMILE'. because to be clear he's ragging on a city that looks like this:

police state though she may be, minrathous looks absolutely GORGEOUS?

how did tevinter hurt you, personally, genitivi?

[anemonetea]

Minrathous 🐉 🐍

[ann-chovi]

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[dragonagegallery]

Early Minrathous

These early sketches were an attempt to wrap my head around it, and to begin to incorporate landmarks that had been mentioned previously in the series. By Matt Rhodes

Concept Art 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

[curiouswisp]

You're stuck with me, Trouble.

[harellan]

A light to remember the dead. May they shine in aeternum.