#dao replay

[tinkerbitch69]

Always appreciated the simple but firm delivery of Sten’s “No.” when you ask him if he could tell you about the qunari. It’s always unintentionally funny and I appreciate a companion who will just say no and refuse to elaborate. More games should include one.

[pinayelf-archive]

lmaoo amihan is in her messy, awful, hypocrite era rn...

at this point she's still hiding the fact that she was tempted by the desire demon while exorcising connor... and is now in fact...a blood mage

the face of someone who is totally not a blood mage and who is totally not covering it up

i could write an essay but i think this speaks for itself

[buriedknight]

Blessed are they who stand before The corrupt and the wicked and do not falter.

[junodoom]

been rewatching MDZS recently bc with the crunchryoll license i can now put my wife (seen above) on the big screen (my TV)

[kemalamalam]

Come look at my insanity

[araneapeixes]

happy dragon age month, i miss my homies so I doodled them in some simple camp clothes (bc im bg3pilled)

[vulpixelates]

i know it will never happen but i so desperately desire an origins-type playable backstory thing in all games but especially veilguard. i feel like it added so much depth to origins and made you feel instantly connected to your character in a way that gets lost in games like inquisition where you fill in the blanks as you go except for the bare basics. like, i do enjoy the freedom to willy nilly decide where a character was before the events of the story from a creative perspective, but the playable origins were just so good! especially when you go back to where your warden is from and can engage differently with the arcs there

[taabakiera]

I will forever be obsessed with the fact that Zevran’s default tactic is to attack the enemy that targets the Warden

[inquisimail]

zevrabela you will always be famous

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

There's something about this that always makes me laugh, the way his tone just instantly changes in between sentences. Why is it funny. It's not funny, but it absolutely is.

[albaharu]

remembering how the character developtment of anders dragon age is seeing him getting angrier and sadder and more depressed each time 👍

[chadsuke]

managed to grab a screencap of my tabris yesterday. i installed some great tabris family morphs and had to make a tabris to match + I wanted to use a bunch of mods I found (like the hair and vitiligo mods, plus her skin tone and eyes are both from mods). i think she turned out very pretty!

[pinayelf-archive]

hiM WALKING IN WHILE EVERYONE IS BUTT BOOTY NAKED IS KILLING ME!!!!!

[corseque]

As I'm replaying Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition, I'm going to use the conversation toolkit each time and in each area that Elven is used in the series.

I've already found several bits of elven that are not on the wiki at all. And for many of the text that never had a translation before, there are translations in the localization comments.

I did a poll on twitter asking people if they thought this was good enough evidence to update the elven wiki, and got a 99% yes answer, so I updated the dragon age elven wiki, with an explanation in the /talk section. (Anyone can open Origins dialogue tree files in the DA Toolkit and see that these translated comments are in their own version of Origins)

All of this to say, we finally can say we know the canon words for "mother" and "no" and "brother" and "sister" in elven in Dragon Age. And several new long phrases.

Ghostly Boy in the Lair of the Undead in Dragon Age: Origins

"Mamae? Mamae na mara san…" VO/Localization Comment: the young boy is crying pitifully, he asks "mah-MAY?" in a hopeful manner and then says "mah-MAY nah-MAH-rah san" hoplessly (as if saying "mother is gone")

"Mamae! Mamae, se vara sal!" VO/Localization Comment: phonetically: mah-MAY! mah-MAY! suh VAH-rah sawl! he is calling out for his mother as he says this, crying pitifully

"Mamae! Mamae! Mamae!" VO/Localization Comment: The child begins calling out in a strange language for someone. He begins to sob uncontrollably and shouts louder. "mah-MAY" = mother

shade in the Lair of the Undead in Dragon Age: Origins

"Ma halani! Se vara lassa'val! Nae mal!" VO/Localization Comment: the elf is caling for help, terrified, and then screams and calls on her gods to save her. phonetic breakdown: mah hah-LAWN-ee! suh VARE-ah luh-suh-VAHL! nay mahl! The last phrase "nay mahl" should be shrieked in terror as the elf turns and run

ghostly elf in the Lair of the Undead in Dragon Age: Origins

"Viran se lan'aan? Ir annala for ros…" VO/Localization Comment: "Who are you? I cannot see you…" veer-AHN suh lah-NAWN? Eer ah-NAH-lah fohr rohs… said hesitantly -- she cannot quite make out the player

"Nae! Ga rahn s'dael! Ga rahn!" VO/Localization Comment: "No! Get away from me! Get away!" Nay! Gah rawn suh-DALE! Gah rawn! Suddenly realizes that the player is an enemy, terrified, backed into a corner

"Ir emah'la shal! Ir emah'la shal!" VO/Localization Comment: "I will kill you! I will kill you!" eer ay-MAY-la shahl! eer ay-MAY-la shahl! she turns on the player in terror, savagely attacking him (combat begins)

[kiivg]

.A trip to Orlais.

[milesmentis]

I am - once again - in Lothering

The DAO and DA2 mania has been slowly creeping up on us ... it's only a matter of time before I patch my laptop and Daisy remakes Marion so that she can put Meredith Stannard under glass and study her like a bug