#Vasoth

[huldrabitch]

I hope they make a hawke-like character for dreadwolf or at the very least gives us origins like in dao. Because this very vague inquisitor stuff in daI is ehhhh

[thewardenisonthecase]

tags by @cognitivediscretion

MY GOD YEAH BULL, MY DUDE, I know you have a thing for redheads BUT MAYBE TEACH IT TO YOUR FELLOW QUNARI FIRST????

Truly fucking wild to me that an Adaar inquisitor cannot read a note that's in Qunlat.

Like, I get it, they weren't raised under the Qun - but their parents were and S U R E L Y, mama and papa Adaar would have taught the kid some qunlat. Hell, you can even greet Iron Bull in Qunlat the first time.

It just makes no sense that Leliana would be able to read it cause Iron Bull taught her but not someone who's literally a qunari with qunari parents, who was in a qunari mercenary band-

[notebooks-and-laptops]

Background characters in dragon age 2 my beloved. Seamus the idealistic youth who longs to be part of a culture his father despises and wants to create cohesion between his world and theirs. Evelina the mage who fled the blight, rescued orphans and then when she turned herself into the templars was locked away while her family was left to starve; forcing her to do deals with demons to try and keep them safe. Feynriel, the boy who longs for a father he never had, and who cannot find a place in this world where his powers and his heritage mark him as so different, so he flees to Tevinter.  Maaras, the Tal-Vasoth who warns you about Qunari attacking travelers on the path ahead, and who becomes a mercenary in act 3 who hangs out in the hanged man and can be chatted too. It just makes the world feel so much bigger, that all these characters who have complicated inner worlds and stories exist alongside Hawke and co. Truly makes Kirkwall feel like a real city.

[sirvinter]

@delavairess you're not bothering me at all! I love questions <3

I don't have a headcanon worldstate where Anaan-asala is a companion. Although thinking about it, it would fit pretty well. His contrast to Bull would be interesting to explore from a player's pov. I bet they would have some fun party banter hehe

I do have a main Inquisitor, though! Another Qunari incidentally. I'm actually currently doing a replay of that whole worldstate in preparation for Veilguard!

So my main inquisitor is Aatos Adaar - a young charismatic Vasoth mage with a vain streak and a tendency to catch feelings; he falls hard and fast. He ends up in a poly relationship with Bull and Dorian by the end. Aatos is also the reason I gave a go at making my own mods (hair + beard texture) :^)

[definitelynotadeathclaw]

What if we get to the cc in veilguard and there's scars for a qunari tal-vasoth mage escaping being a saarebas, what then

[hobgoblinsandpeachfuzz]

6, 7, 9 and 15 for your dragon age protags!

Thank you! <3

6. Attitude Toward the Qun

Setah and Mena both find it interesting. I think Setah was interested in the philosophy from Sten, while Mena was interested in the culture. Later, I think it mostly makes Mena sad, missing Sten, and wishing things were different.

Mariah actually is fascinated by the Qun and almost considered converting not because of their views on magic or other stuff, but the notion of purpose really appealed to her. I think she can’t wrap her head around most organizations in general, so she doesn’t end up converting, but she respects the Arishok but can’t abide anybody trying to conquer anything.

Sula has a complicated relationship to the Qun, but has never been a part of it. She was raised Vasoth, but most of her family escaped and she has lived with people with many different views on the Qun her whole life. Her family in particular is partially run by her grandmother who was a tamassran but rescued two mage girls and ran away and spent the rest of her life trying to find out who the Qunari were before the Qun, gathering history and artifacts and trying to rebuild an old faith from that (somewhat similar to the Old Gods). She keeps to that faith, but asks Iron Bull a lot about the Qun out of curiosity from all the things she’s learned before.

7. Most important person

Setah’s was Merrill, and then Morrigan.

Mena’s was Gorrim, and then Zevran and Sten, though she never went official with those romances.

Mariah’s is a complicated answer because I think she would say her family is her most important person, and she would say the whole Kirkwall crew is her family. That’s why it hurts so hard.

Thom and Jenny, their daughter, are Sula’s most important people.

9. Love Language

Setah’s is gift giving. She loves to make little things.

Mena’s is just chatting. She loves to to talk and listen both and could spend hours doing it with people she loves.

Mariah on the other hand loves to listen. Physical touch to, but her ideal way to show love is to hold you and listen to you.

Sula’s probably big into physical touch. I think her family is full of huggers and kissers and there’s lots of snuggling and cuddling!

15. Preferred weapon

You will begin to notice a pattern. xD

Setah’s is a Great Sword.

Mena’s is a Sword and Shield.

Mariah’s is a Great Sword or an Axe.

Sula’s preferred weapon is a Great Sword! Specifically, Certainty! ;)

[dalishious]

Don’t get me wrong I’m stoked that we are going to Tevinter, but I hope we at least get to see Seheron, if not in 4 then in future games. I think it would be cool if they made a game set there, with different backgrounds — Qunari of some stature, Tal-Vasoth on the run, Fog Warrior, etc. What about you?

In such a case, I would have zero interest in playing as anything other than a Fog Warrior, since I don't want any part in a colonizer simulator thank you very much

[belleropheon]

There was a scrapped idea about an prologue origin or something but it was scrapped because it was too slow or???

I actually spend too much time perhaps thinking about what each prologue would look like

The Trevelyan Inquisitor is established to be the youngest sibling right? If you played a warrior or rogue you're there to meet your older mage sibling and you can talk to them about escaping together and f yo family for supporting the chantey etc or be there to convince them to go back to the circle aka submit to getting leashed again.

As a mage trev you meet your older sibling who probably is involved with the chantry and you can talk/convince them to help the rebels or not while dodging that templar cousin or two. Can express not really feeling like family since you were taken so young.

This establishes the Trevelyans as being involved with their mage kid or just having cast them off when they turned out to be a mage, gives the inquisitor some background

The Dalish would've send a small group of some warriors/rogues and one mage to observe.

Whether you're the mage or non mage you're either being protected by the warriors or protecting the mage just in case it devolves into chaos and the templars try to do something to you.

Just observing and establishing clan relations and how you all fit into it, perhaps even a mention of other clans wanting to know the deeds when your group returns.

The Carta Dwarfs are kinda in the shadows and you just happen to talk to some curious clergymen about you being a dwarf and your clan, what it's like and stuff.. and totally having made a deal with someone for some goods

The Vasoth being there with a few of their group kinda walking around and making your presence known, keeping the peace a little and fielding questions from a few brave individuals who dared approach the "scary oxmen". Also serves to establish character relations and you can actually see some interaction between the different races and the Vasoth.

Every origin can talk to a few mages, templars, clergy and the other races, maybe even overhear some idle chatter about the situation and different views.

Maybe a little silly unique quest per origin like the trevelyans dodging the templar cousin/nosy chantry sister asking for a contribution from the trevs again.

The Dalish trying to figure out why the keeper send y'all when only one of you hid a few salamanders in her aravel..and perhaps talking about that Dalish clan that was plagued by both werewolves and Sylvan and wasn't that like right around the corner?? You don't think those spirits wander far from the Brecilian forrest right?!.

The carta dwarf having a friendly boasting competition with another carta dwarf that just gets more and more weirder the longer it goes on (and a chantry sister keeping score while a circle of onlookers gathers around you with Oohs and Aahs)

..I just want to see the Vasoth doing either bs'ing the folks around them with stories about how you suplexed an actual cow who was picking a fight with you or having to interfere with some trouble makers by just towering over them.

It ends when you decide to wander around, hear something and go to find the source of the strange noises, maybe even fight some shadow blobs before you enter the room (and those shadows later in the Fade being revealed to be Corypheus' henchmen and then you can hear the weird noises having been ol' Justinia calling for help) The scene ends before you open the door.

Dragon Age Inquisition desperately needs some silliness from the earlier games back. Yes I'm still salty there was no weird prison break segment for the inquisitor..perhaps were the roles were reversed and the inquisitor has to spring their team from prison by weird shenanigans. Where you hear banter from whoever is in jail (no blackwall doesn't count)

[agent-jaselin]

Calem would dislike Iron Bull more than Dorian does because instead of thinking of Qunari as savages he thinks of them as the same kind of invading force Garlemald is.

Definitely brings up that many foreign children likely died under the hands of a Tamasran for speaking their language or not following the rules enough. Suggests some Tal Vasoth might of been in the right to attack groups, that some were mad but others were likely wanting to stop the “education”.

Definitely makes Iron Bull angry as hell in the way only a rebel who’s suffered under a colonialists boot can. And it’s definitely harder for them to come to a middle ground than Dorian and Bull do, though it happens eventually.

[couslande]

Qunari in Kirkwall is such a good point I can imagine gladiator battles held where captive Qunari are forced to fight in a display of power after their loss or perhaps Tal-Vasoth surviving by fighting in secret rings in the many tunnels of Kirkwall and the idea of these giant, scar-covered Qunari used as a symbol of power and intimidation and the whispers of those that still fight underground after the invasion like a constant reminder that Meredith can't reach the roots of the rot and the war continues to brew under her feet, there is so much wrong with Kirkwall it's so dramatic and I love it so much

yeah the qunari and the post-act 2 stuff is really compelling and has a lot of potential. we see how they're dehumanised and treated like less than people by the likes of petrice and i highly doubt that that was just a minority view, and particularly after everything i could imagine the nobles trying to reassert their control of the qunari by making them do fucked up stuff like gladiator battles.

[perilegs]

i've been wracking my head around on what my inquisitor's deal is with her being a tal vasoth merc and all but i think i can play it as her being literally just some guy <33

[vigilskeep]

sometime i think about that one person's comment where it's like "orrr it's just a video game and u can do whatver bc it's supposed to be fun" or whatever when u were debating mage vasoth inquisitor and i sit here n realize like yeah!!! it is supposed to be fun!! fr changed my life tbh

REAL

[surnumanaja]

Kui viitsid, siis tägi/vasta kus su peakaanonis see rahvas thedasel tegutseb

[musicfeedsmysoul12]

More thoughts on Selkie!Dragon Age

Selkies are rare and usually are mages themselves or have magical bloodlines. Tabris being one had their parents hide it in fear they would lose their child. But they had no magic in the end.

While there has been rumours of a Selkie Qunari there hasn't been actual proof persay. The Qun would have bread that out and the Vasoth aren't saying.

Leandra was truly ashamed at having a Selkie child and never really owned up to it or admitted it. Taking her child’s skin was to teach her daughter control she told Malcom who didn't agreed but was to nervous about his wife leaving him.

The only reason Hawke lets her mother live with her is so her secret isn't shared. Its a very cold household. And its only with her dying breath Leandra apologizes.

Lavellan here is proud of his heritage but nervous about it. He's constantly wary of someone stealing his skin and there were actually some close calls with other clans who wanted him part of their group. Nothing provable but he was very nervous.

Leliana adores her lover and keeps her skin safe when Tabris leaves it with her while walking into dangerous situations.

Isabela adores her own girlfriend and has actually slit a few throats over people figuring it out. The whole crew has really.

Josephine as said helps create a refuge for people like her husband. She adores him and would kill for him.

As for Laidir… well, their story is one of woe. Their skin was sold to their wife by their own parents and they only got free by pushing their wife into the ocean which did not take kindly to a Selkie bound. They ran away to join the Lords of Fortune as soon as they could

[thewardenisonthecase]

Asala Adaar

Born in 9:08, Asala Adaar was the child of a tamaasran and a saarebas who had both left the Qun together (but the saarebas is not her biological father), alongside another kid they brought along. The four of them settles on the Free Marches, often moving around a lot and kept mostly to themselves. The only other people they would actually have a connection with were other Tal-Vasoth, and although her parents never actually joined a mercenary group, they had contacts.

Due to her parents, Asala knows Qunlat and also a lot about the Qun itself. She's very curious about the world and about other cultures, and she's always trying to find a way to learn more. Even thought she can't, she wishes that one day she would be able to visit Par Vollen, because she wants to see her parents homeland. Also, technically believes in the Maker: she believes there is some force out there that created everything and that is looking out for people, and the closest thing to it is the Maker. She's also a bit fascinated by the stories of Andraste. She does not like the Chantry, however (it's kinda like, when you're religious but you don't like the institution. She just believes, but she doesn't pray or follow everything and she has serious problems with thw Chantry).

When she was still young, her magic manifested, and so did her brother's. Their parents taught what they could, but eventually, they contact one of their mercenary friends to help with the magic. It's growing up with these mercenaries that she eventually joins the current group she's in. The money they make is good, and for a time, she was close to getting them residence in Kirkwall, but it was near the time that the Arishok arrived, so she moved their family out.

Asala, a few years prior to Inquisition, had trouble with Ben Hassrath agents, which ended in her mother's death, so she's very...wary and highkey scared of them.

When the explosion at the conclave happens, for a good time, she does buy the whole Andraste story, mostly because she's still in so much shock and everything's so confusing, that's the only thing she can cling on to.

Major Choices she made:

Recruited the Mages

Recruited the Wardens

Left Stroud in the Fade (I'm retconning this)

Celene and Briala rule Orlais

Recruited most of the prisioners as agents

Samson's armor was destroyed

Did the rituals in the Temple of Mythal and drank from the Well of Sorrows

Romanced Solas (thank you Equal Opportunity Mod)

Leliana is Divine

Disbanded the Inquisition

Will try to redeem Solas

Companions wise:

Recruited everyone

Blackwall sent to the Wardens

Bull is Tal-Vashoth

Dorian reconcilled with his dad

Gave Vivienne the real heart

Cole is more human

Cassandra will rebuild the Seekers

Softened Leliana

Cullen is lyrium-free

Let Sera kill that guy

Freed Wisdom

Helped Josephine

Varric found the leak

[reincarnation-if]

You mentioned before something about a war between the gods. What did they fight about and what were the sides?

Thank you for the ask! And I’m sorry if I take so long to answer everyone classes are kicking my ass.

This is a rough version of what happened from the perspective of humanity.

It had been several years since the old gods had been defeated by the new gods led by Limas. Humanity was still on edge, waiting to see what this new reign would mean for their everyday lives and who would lead the new pantheon. The popular opinion was that Limas would take charge, and the people were hoping for that future. However, he had not been seen by humanity since the war. So now, the Goddess Aevanna and the God Charak were prepared to claim the position themselves.

Tensions were high as the gods started backing either Aevanna or Charak. Ataenzo, Ithiri, and Dismosa sided with Aevanna. While Vasoth, Nimar, and Rusen supported Charak. The minor gods kept neutral while Zatin continued to support Limas. Ultimately, tension could only remain civil for so long until the two sides snapped and the civil war began.

The two sides were relatively evenly matched; however, Charak’s began to gain the upper hand as he did nothing to minimize collateral damage. However, that approach would backfire as it became known that he would eradicate humanity if he won and would start over. Incensed, Zatin joined Aevanna along with Etis, Nozhen, and Tima. Remos and Daza remained neutral.

With additional numbers, Aevanna quickly overwhelmed Charak and Dismosa was about to kill the god of fire until she was struck by a bolt of lightning. Limas descended from the sky, not much is known about what was said after that as no mortal being present survived. Aevanna requited Remos in hopes he would tip the scales back in her favor, but in the end, Limas’s involvement forced a stalemate. Once the war had concluded, many humans named Limas the betrayer of humanity.

The gods resigned themselves to a council with no leader, and it has been that way ever since, but the gods resent each other more than ever.