#and corypheus

[thevulturesquadron]

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

[thevaelguard]

[galedekarios]

dragon age: inquisition replay

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

[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."

[illusivesoul]

That line that Corypheus says after being released in the Legacy dlc while he's all confused "Be these some dream I wake from? Am I in dwarven lands? Why seem their roads so empty?" highlights how in his time, the Deep Roads really were the commercial and trade arteries of Thedas, and how they must have been constantly bursting full of people and merchants trading and going from one corner of Thedas to the other.

Tevinter controlled most of Thedas, but below the surface, the dwarven empire was what truly connected it, all the distant Thaigs and cities bringing lyrium and other things all over the continent, and even trading with the Chasind and the Avvar as far south as Ferelden (and according to Bianca, its possible the Deep Roads might have gone beyond Thedas itself)

And then Corypheus wakes up a thousand years later and assumes he's on the Deep Roads and is puzzled as to why it all seems so empty and lifeless. And the irony is that, even though he doesn't know it yet, thats what the Deep Roads and all the dwarven lands except for Orzammar and Kal'Sharok have become. A dead, lifeless carcass filled with darkspawn, with decaying statues, crumbling Thaigs and a few squads of the Legion of the Dead representing the fading memories of the glory of the past that once was and will never be again, and slowly fading into history like the dwarves themselves.

[pupkinpumpkin]

Alright, if you could only choose ONE, who would you smash?

No coward answers

[treviso-nights]

the significance of rook as a protagonist who is 'unable to be evil' is because the inquisitor can be. and hawke. and the warden, for that matter. in dai there are companion disapproval cutscenes for a reason: you have either fucked up so badly or killed so many people that they literally stage an intervention for you. rook, by contrast, is a tremendously appropriate protagonist for veilguard—not just because they’re handpicked by varric but because they are good. like their goodness is the point. it is the story.

and i get why some players would be upset by that and feel constrained by the moral paradigm the narrative inherently embodies. players like options. however, rook's goodness (in whatever capacity) does not necessitate that they're a bad/flat protagonist considering they have unique backstories which tells us about the quality and the context of that goodness. in my opinion, it's a natural byproduct of the overarching story of the dragon age games: yet another person thrust into a role and political position they did not ask for but must pursue for the greater purpose of all.

the thing about veilguard though is that no possible protagonist could be as bad or as evil as the evanuris (and by extension, the chaos ripping the veil down would do at this point in time), so to play as an evil!rook feels counterintuitive to the point of the game regardless.

if we WERE to get the option to play an evil!rook who, for example, supports the evanuris and blights the world alongside them, it just means there's no more world to play in. dragon age is over.

furthermore, there's no option to help solas bring the veil down because it is an evil option. it's not a dev mistake that rook doesn't get the opportunity to side with our favorite war criminal. to most thedosians, the end of the veil means the end of their life. solas is one of the most unreliable narrators in the series, so the idea that he has harm reduction measures in place is unmeasurable because he is a proven trickster. those who'd take the chance anyway would still be considered evil by all who are affected in the wake of it.

—and i agree that it would be fun! but it's not veilguard's story because the stakes are higher than they have ever been in previous games, and thedas needs someone else to save it once again.

[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

[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

[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

[5queerducksinatrenchcoat]

this line still goes so fucken hard

[pinacoladamatata]

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

[roarrrgame]

Yes, it may seem like I’ve always romanced and befriended problematic figures such as terrorists in video games, but the truth, let it be known, is simply that I support mages. I support mages’ rights and mages’ wrongs.

Frankly, I do not care if they keep wanting to blow things up, if their arrogance and condescension could be mistaken as racism or classism, or if they have unorthodox relationship progression timelines.

To put it more bluntly, if I see a mage, I wanna fuck. Evil or not, mortal or god, living or undead, bald or with luscious hair.

[dragonagesb]

This is one of my favorite moments with Varric