#corypheus who?

[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

[abyssal-ilk]

the slide where it is says divine vivienne is only able to remain in power because of her friendship with the inquisitor does kind of. kill me a bit. in the same way it kills me that when vivienne gleefully states that she has never been forced to live anywhere, the places she lists (celene's palace and bastien's estate) are quite literally tied to people who hold her safety in her hands. her safety is constantly hinging on how much the people in her social circle like her, and unlike other people in the orlesian court, she does not have a powerful family of her own to fall back on. like okay. if she loses favor she's just. fucked.

[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.

[wardensantoineandevka]

I always find it a little funny and amusing the common "Corypheus's For I have seen the throne of the gods, and it was empty! is such a raw line, it goes so hard" because I've always been DEEPLY unimpressed with it. it comes across for me as super tryhard and edgy. I can't be impressed with it because it feels like it's TRYING to impress me, it's straining too hard to be A Good Line that it sounds forced. like, I don't even think it's the best line of that MONOLOGUE, let alone the whole scene.

[sunlight-shunlight]

trying to make even a slight au of dai is very silly once you get to what corypheus should.... actually be doing at any given point... this guy is hobbyless. you can easily guess what like loghain or meredith are supposed to be doing in an au, but corypheus is just bizarre.

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Cullen (taking lyrium): I am bound to the Inquisition. I will serve until I am no longer needed.

Cullen: I always wanted to be a templar, to protect people. After Ferelden, I served out of fear… and because I was compelled. I thought if I removed the part that kept me chained, I would find my own purpose again. There are templars who have been through worse. Once your sacrifices are made, is there no end? Are you leashed until the day you die, or lyrium takes your mind away?

Cassandra: Mages have made their suffering known, but templars never have. They are bound to the Order, mind and soul, with someone always holding their lyrium leash. Cullen has a chance to break that leash, to prove to himself—and anyone who would follow suit—that it’s possible.

i see the words 'bound' 'chained' and 'leash' and black out and start barking

[mightierthanthecanon]

[Let Solas kill them]

[veshialles]

obsessed with the final phase of Corypheus' boss fight theme where it suddenly slows down, the battle drums fade and the choir rises, turning from a strong sense of urgency to an eerie and almost "angelic" tone

something something, themes of ascending to godhood, the innate horror of the divine, etc etc

[veatomis]

The problem i have with veilguard's main quests is that they feel like they're in the wrong kind of game. The scope of the destruction after youre done is SO big but its just. barely acknowledged (maybe because youre part of a very small and supposedly secretive team) Like the annihilation of weisshaupt, the final destruction of minrathous, the big archdemon with the eclipse, the two dragons in treviso/minrathous... They all feel like the kind of things we should've seen in a "end of the world" game like inquisition instead of veilguard + we have all of this destruction and yet we only really get to see how it affects the factions directly. I just think the game's overall plot would've worked better if the consequences of veilguard's quests and inquisition's traded places. The world is literally being torn apart by this evil ancient magister and thats why thedas needs the inquisition/inquisitor/herald of andraste to give the rest of the world hope. The evanuris keep making plans but because the veilguard is so secretive and its working with all of these factions known for not being entirely open about their missions/knowledge with the public theyre able to foil their plans before any real damage is done.

[venndaai]

Kind of insane that the Calpernia plotline and Corypheus's memory crystal journal is only accessible on the Templar route. half your players just don't get to hear the big bad's motive monologue or get the thematic value of the Calpernia storyline

something something Corypheus wants to restore the world to the proper order, Solas wants to restore the world to the proper order, the Inquisitor wants to restore the world to the proper order (but which one is that?)

[treviso-nights]

corypheus naming himself 'the elder one' will never not be funny to me. and especially with solas and abelas right there?? this dude either woke from the world's second longest nap and decided that he was too ancient to accumulate a job title that meant anything other than "old bitch" or his followers simply realized who he was and decided on,,, "old bitch"

[bunabi]

If that's not Dumat at the end of the trailer, I'm keeping the door open for 'The Dread Wolf' somehow not actually being Solas

Maybe Dumat & The Dread Wolf are aliases of the same guy manipulating events behind the scenes for centuries

Maybe bees in his pants one trillion times casted

[martyrmarked]

going to put the finishing touches on this blog over the weekend, but a quick starter call as a little treat xoxo

[ohsweetflips]

something incredibly poetic and sad abt essentially rigging my worldstate to ensure that hawke survives the fade only to play veilguard and realize that it wasn’t hawke’s days that were numbered.

[redlyriumidol]

Mad respect to fade hawke-leavers but that could never be me 😔🫡 I'm simply too weak to do a thing like that to my beloved Isabela and Varric....I simply do not have faith that whoever you leave behind will ever return like they were pretty clear about the fact that they'd probably die and it's been 10 yrs... I left Alistair too, sorry to him as well very sad etc but I don't regret it at all lol

[arlathen]

kicking my feet usually i exile the wardens because solas and cole approve of it and they're usually. correct. about things. but what if i recruit the wardens and then give blackwall to them during his personal quest. do you think he'll cameo in weisshaupt in veilguard if i do that. i would like to see my old man again.