#and then corypheus

[companionsofusall]

god a character can really drive you insane

[shift-shaping]

The list of Notable Blood Mages on the dragon age wiki is so fucking funny like it's literally

Ancient Blighted would-be god of death and misery, my uncle who fell for two different crypto scams, and the autism creature

[thebaldursmouthgazette]

I’m sure Dumat being defeated the same year andraste was born means nothing

I’m sure this has nothing to do with the fact that andrastes mother was part of a tribe who helped the grey wardens fight and defeat dumat the same year she was born, meaning that she could have been a fetus affected by the taint in the proximity of a dying arch demon

And the fact that nobody knows which grey warden killed dumat, as seven wardens died from injuries from his death throes, and therefore we cannot actually identify a warden who absorbed his soul, means nothing

And I’m sure it is a complete coincidence that andraste had dreams and visions of the being later referred to as the maker her whole life, and behaved strangely, talking about hearing lost voices and seeing strange auras. That absolutely doesn’t sound like anyone else we know

[galedekarios]

dragon age: inquisition replay

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

[alltears]

dragon age twt au? dragon age twt au. HAPPY DRAGON AGE VEILGUARD EDITION

[warden-enchantress]

"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."

[biancadavri]

haven survivors: i can't forget the screams...i still smell the smoke.. all that blood.....i fear the sky will darken at any second and i will hear that wretched beast descending upon us once more...

what cadash looks like trying to lead them to skyhold:

haven survivors: :3c

[blighted-elf]

Dragon Age: Inquisition - 2024 Replay

[nurabelmax]

Day 14 - Shadow The Shadow of Nightmares

[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

[attractthecrows]

extremely funny to me how solas literally cannot catch a single break. not a SINGLE ONE of his plans has gone off correctly. score 0/3

[thevulturesquadron]

Sure, why not. In retrospect, he wasn’t subtle.

[pinacoladamatata]

another from the archives🥲 She's a menace <3

[drakonovisny]

if i had a nickel for every time a dragon age protagonist kicks off the plot by disrupting a big magical ritual that ends in mass destruction, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but weird that it happened twice

[baejax-the-great]

The storytelling just doesn't care. It doesn't care! It doesn't care why the venatori would have fallen in line under Elvhen gods--something that must have involved a power struggle of some sort and a complete realignment of their beliefs. Or why the Antaam would be okay with this particular brand of magic, or how they would feel about allying with the venatori. For that, they'd have to show the antaam being people at all--which they don't in an overtly racist way.

The enemies are faceless and they are bad simply because they are bad. It's easy to do that with demons or the new "mechs" that now exist for no reason. But then every "bad" person just falls in line and says, sure, yeah, I'll align myself with the blight, a monstrosity that everyone in Thedas has been brought up to fear and revile.

Even Isseya, whose (terrible) storyline is that she became corrupted by her obsessive need to "protect" the griffons has a random line about how Ghilanain is good actually. This one could have made sense! She was an elf. She cares about creatures. She could have been manipulated into believing that Ghilannain would bring back the griffons. But they didn't develop it that far. They didn't do anything. Her story was just "evil woman bad" stab stab. Isseya and those wardens being alive brought up a million questions about the calling and the blight, and not a single person thought to ask them. Just, whelp, glad that's over with.

A compelling villain makes a compelling story. It's not the only way to make a compelling story, but it is one of the dozens of strategies they didn't use in this game because it would have required in engaging with their own setting in a way they absolutely refused to do.

[dragonagesb]

This is one of my favorite moments with Varric