#doing dalish things

[thrumugnyr]

Salty egg - a Halla delicacy!

[girlbob-boypants]

Merrill using blood magic to cleanse the blight is insane given the lore that the blight is a manifestation of the Titan's torment nexus dreams. Lyrium is the blood of titans. It's a source of magic. Elves originate from the flesh of Titans. Blood magic can manipulate minds.

Something something the shared blood of two beings is used to soothe their anger. The Dalish fixing what their oppressors did to others.

[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.

[mscottontail-stash]

R E B E L L I O N | 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."

[superhousecat-once-again]

Unfortunately now that I’ve finally seen it, I 100% cannot stand the Solavellan ending and like I knowww that’s in large part because I’ve been functioning on a different level with the ship the entire time but it’s just sooo forgiving of Solas and sooo tragic for Lavellan and does not include the most fascinating element of their dynamic to me which is ‘Solas starts to see the value of the current world because of how much Lavellan loves it and is so deeply part of it’ and in fact fully discards it because Lavellan just fucks off to fade prison for “true love”

[itwasabeautifulwebbing]

since when are the antivan crows this nice??

[flossingh]

Devastating to realise that you absolutely can not under any circumstances reference any of Solas' other motivations or cause the player to understand his reasoning without the entire game crumbling into individual ones and zeroes before your eyes.

[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

[skyheld]

i need merrill to be the one who got the veil jumpers/bellara their expertise on eluvians if only because it undermines her story so much if they could find it on their own. she turned to blood magic, and marethari got herself killed, because of how difficult her task to rebuild the eluvian was. she thought the only way to find out how they worked was to summon a demon that had existed since the time of arlathan, because all other knowledge was lost. in the end she didn't get that information from it and she figured out another way, but it's likely that took several more years of study. she fought and sacrificed so much for that knowledge, and it shouldn't just be lying around.

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

HUH.

[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

[girlbob-boypants]

Shut the fuck up. Bellara just abandons Dalish traditions for ancient elf ones if you tell her the information in the Archive is useful?????

[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

[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-archive]

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