#doing dalish things

[thrumugnyr]

Salty egg - a Halla delicacy!

[himbohimhoe]

Holding out hope that the writing in veilguard will get more bearable but rook saying to lucanis that it's "not nice that Spite hurt him" and he "shouldn't accept that it’s fine bc it wouldn't be ok if a person did that" like. That is a demon. Built off a single emotion called SPITE. Rook I am finding it really hard to believe that u have lived in thedas for more than 30 seconds.

[nessacousland]

Ariane & Finn - Dalish sword and mage spell

"A letter to Magistrate Aldebrant details an encounter with Finn and the Dalish elf, after they had left the company of the Warden and the dog, and struck out on their own. According to the letter, the magistrate's men intercepted the two and narrowly escaped being impaled and fried by Dalish sword and mage spell." - World of Thedas Volume 2

[trickerys-domain]

So I just got a chance to listen to the Dev Q&A (thank you Ghil Dirthalen!).

Was anyone else extremely annoyed and disappointed by the answer regarding City vs Dalish Elf Rook?

Like that 'things are different in Northern Thedas when it comes to elves' comes across as such a lazy lore excuse for 'we didn't want backlash for restricting races to factions' considering from every other peice DA media released, we know that's not true. The dalish and city elves are very much seperate cultures and factions on their own.

It would be like saying orzammar and surface dwarves are 'basically the same' in northern thedas

[mscottontail-stash]

R E D E M P T I O N

"Do you know what the worst part is? Part of me was excited about proving myself to the Dread Wolf. This is how you do it, right? You get people so eager for those little scraps of approval they never see the knife coming."

[ruushes]

where would they like to be buried for ailill?

this is a rly interesting question for him! he would *like* to receive dalish rites but believes himself too blighted to safely bury. at the same time he very much does not want to follow the warden tradition of going to the deep roads to die fighting darkspawn bc 1) he hates the deep roads so so much and 2) he's very afraid that he wouldn't be killed before deteriorating to the point of essentially becoming darkspawn himself

i think if he died without/before any cure for the calling he'd want his body to be burned, since there aren't rly any readily available better options; it's also what he had to do with tamlen's body which would feel right to him in a sort of deranged way

[oediex]

When I finished Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, I realised it was my 22nd platinum trophy. I had planned on finally earning the platinum trophy for Dragon Age: Inquisition this summer. But wouldn't it be nice, I thought, if it was the 25th?

In 2018, my friend sold me his PS4 after upgrading to a Pro himself. He knew I was interested in gaming and so I didn't have to think twice. He sold it to me for £80 and threw in Dragon Age: Inquisition for good measure. So I'd have something to play. My very first Playstation trophy was The Wrath of Heaven - by finishing the prologue of the game.

For a couple of years now, I've had only one trophy left to earn - beat the game on Nightmare difficulty. I've been postponing it, not for fear of failing at it, but for fear of the finality it seems to imply. I will, of course, still be able to play the game, but I won't be able to earn any trophies for it any more. A sad thought.

[pinayelf]

ignore the ppl abt to ambush immy for a sec lmaoo but I've had dai for over 7 years and have over 1400 hours in the game but last night was the first night I went into this dungeon (cave was marked as dungeon in the hinterlands) lol

[howyouducan]

Very sad that the religious focuses of Dragon Age Inquisition are Andrastian and Not Andrastian. I'd love to delve into a fantasy belief system, but the only option is Fantasy Catholicism and it's only fully available as an option to humans, which is the most boring race to play as in a fantasy game

[nelkenbabe]

what i don't quite understand about the criticism of "bioware doesn't know or like the grey wardens, did they even play origin lmao" is that. origins is not even remotely a full representation of grey wardens as an order

the player character is, along with the 6-months post recruiting Alistair, one of the few grey wardens we meet, and the two of them know very little, next to nothing. the whole point is that they are cut off from all other wardens, that they don't have access to information or any leads on how to go about defeating the blight.

duncan is secretive as fuck, and genuinely scary during the joining, and then he's dead. riordan doesn't join until way later, and even though we get some crucial information regarding the matters at hand it still gives us little about the grey wardens as a hundreds-of-years-old organization, their policies and how they actually handle things. the only thing the player character has about what grey wardens even are, is the ideal of what a grey wardens should be

so going off of origins, we as players as just as naive about the grey wardens as our character. i suspect that it's that naiveté that leads people to be severely pissed when it's brought up again and again that the grey wardens, as an order, are a group of people who make fucked up, morally corrupt choices for The Greater Good. that's all the entire order has ever been, starting in origins when duncan can literally blackmail you into joining the grey wardens (cousland origin), and then the whole secrecy around the ritual, where a recruit dies from participating in the joining, and then duncan kills the other recruit who changed his mind.

it's also brought up in the DA:2's legacy dlc again, and of course becomes even more glaring in Inquisition, and genuinely i think all of it is a part of the dragon age series' running theme of "any organization that reaches a certain size will fall prey to morally bankrupt people making bad decisions, regardless of the purity of intent."

now whether that is a good thing or not may be worth a discussion. but my point here is that the grey wardens being a fucked up organization that commits gross, morally questionable acts and is subject to internal politics, is not a new concept. it's a well-established part of the dragon age universe. i understand that a lot of people may not like it. but it does not come out of nowhere

[kissingwookiees]

... what did solas just say to davrin?? hang on pause rewind...

[makerscockandballs]

Merrill misses the nightly lore/stories Marethari told around the fire.

When she mentions this to Hawke, they invite her over in the evening to read her a book in front of the fireplace. She falls asleep right there on the floor and sleeps better than she has during all her time in Kirkwall.

[mashamorevvna]

one thing i wish dragon age had explored more wrt the vallaslin is if there is an element of nomen omen about it, or even to fulfil a need the clan has for a specific role. ie, you are inked with mythals symbols and thus you are expected to embody concepts like motherhood and justice OR bc the clan has need to raise a youth to take the place of an elder that is currently fulfilling a specific role like, as per the previous example, the one tasked with dispute resolution

[bisexualalistairtheirin]

I'm so unused to not having the Mabari that I straight up forgot to give it the flower and only noticed something was amiss when we were arriving in Lothering.

[leia-leek]

prayer circle {{Please don't let Davrin be anti-elfPlease don't let Davrin be anti-elfPlease don't let Davrin be anti-elfPlease don't let Davrin be anti-elfPlease don't let Davrin be anti-elfPlease don't let Davrin be anti-elfPlease don't let Davrin be anti-elfPlease don't let Davrin be anti-elf}}

[cityandking]

ok. daichi dragon age au. seeker of truth — trained healer but still first and foremost a seeker, more templar-adjacent, heavy on the shield imagery and the stubbornness of justice, staunchly andrastian but operating outside the bounds of the chantry

OR. daichi from a super remote mountain dalish clan that his dad took refuge with when daichi was a wee baby for mumblemumble reasons; trained healer and the keeper's first (keeper helaine?); half-human so a little awkward and ungainly compared to the rest of the dalish kids but stubbornly making up for his deficits