#dragon age absolution spoilers

[truetealtears]

Hey guys how much of A Time do you think Aveline is having looking after Kirkwall alone (at least in the official capacity... again) while Varric is off doing That.

Like bro not only are you supposed to be the Viscount but Meredith isn't dead for some fucking reason so you need to come back and deal with that, preferably permanently this time.

Edit - Please let this be how and why we come back to Kirkwall in datv

[mrs-gauche]

So Matthew Mercer "died" as Fairbanks in Absolution, only to be revived as Manfred in Veilguard?? lmaoo

[draconicrose]

I'm so happy people never stopped making amvs for their faves.

[airin-lavellan]

My take on Rezaren

I've never written a post before but this felt like a good first time. I've seen countless of posts labeling Rezaren as a manipulative slaver that only saw Neb and Miriam as his slaves and I just can't see it that way, I'll try my best to explain why. Just want to take this off my chest.

First off, the spirit summoning scene: it's been used as a depiction of his anger and how he just wants to get his way no matter what. Imo, it wasn't about getting his way, he genuinely wanted to find a method of using the circulum without any blood magic involved as he has weilded such magic and knows the price that has to be paid, he probably and correctly predicted that the magic artifact would requiere hundreds of lives just to achieve his goal so he wanted a way around. A way that would involve no bloodshed. The spirit stubbornly refused to give him further information about an alternate use and the dangerous person persuing the artifact. Rezaren only pushed when needed, because he believed in his cause and fought to do things right. Even if he risked angering the spirit which unfortunately happened, thus depriving him of a safe way to use the device.

Regarding the issues with Neb's corpse and keeping it around as his personal guard: He knew no other methods of keeping the body intact and prevent it from rotting. I also think that in Tevinter, like Nevarra, Necromancy isn't as culturally rejected as in other places hence his perception as it being a good choice. Important to also consider that Neb's spirit was always free, he was only using the body because he needed it if the ritual worked, he never took Neb's essence without his consent nor trapped him in any way, that's why he used a demon as a temporal host, he kept his brother's spirit and body safe in the only way he knew.

Now to his upbringing, Miriam blamed him for things he had zero control of. I'm pretty sure if Rezaren as a little boy ever got in the way of Miriam getting hit he would have faced other consequences as well. He was also raised with a mentality of having ownership over Neb and Miriam yet he always saw them as his siblings and truly loved them. Miriam is blaming him for what happened in the harrowing but Rezaren was literally paralyzed and in danger of posesion, he was totally helpless and couldn't help Neb even if he desired to do so. Even after Miriam killed his mother and accidentally ended Neb's life he still looked after her and told her to run before anyone found out. It was then that he dedicated the following years to fixing that horrible event that affected everyone. Just to make clear, I have nothing against Miriam as a character. She is a great protagonist but was certainly blinded by her rage and how much she has suffered, viewing Rezaren in a completely antagonistic light when he was just trying to help. I understand her not wanting to go back to anything related to her past but the way she saw Rezaren felt more like channeling all of that pain into someone and that person ended up being him.

Another example of Rezaren genuinely caring for Miriam is seen in the talk he was with Hira and when he mentions Hira in the fade dream. Rezaren claims that Hira doesn't deserve Miriam's tears and he is right. He also can't help but laugh when Hira says that she loves Miriam. He knows perfectly well that she doesn't, a woman who manipulated and lied to the person he supposedly loves definitely cares more about the circulum than her. Rezaren was just hinting at this in the dream because he wants Miriam to do better, he wishes she could she the truth of the horrible person that Hira truly is. Rezaren was also part of the deal, yes, but we know his intentions were good and had no other way of reaching out to Miriam, while Hira was willing to hand in her partner without caring about Miriam's fate. She would have handed Miriam over and then leave to Kirkwall with the circulum to destroy Tevinter, while Miriam was still in it. Rezaren, in ideal conditions , would have a safe way of bringing Neb back and would explain everything to Miriam so they could be together again.

Which comes to this: the real villain of the show is Hira. A horrible manipulative person that doesn't care about hurting anyone in her way or using anyone for her goals to destroy Tevinter. She wanted to destroy all of it: magisters, templars, elves, slaves, she didn't care.

Opposite to this we have Rezaren, a person that fought with the means he knew to offer a better life to what he saw as his family and repair all of the damage trying to do it in the most harmless way. Worth mentioning, he wanted to be in a place of power to make a real change for the whole nation. When he was rejected he couldn't believe all of his effort would go on a waste and that Miriam would downright reject him as a whole. He became desperate and had to use means like violence and the one thing that started all of the conflict: using the circulum with blood sacrifices because the spirit didn't tell him the information. I also genuinely believe that the circulum at some point did corrupt him as an individual turning his good wishes into an obsession. Tassia mentions this openly, she knows that her love is acting different. In the end all of his fight ended horribly and he died in his lover's arms unable to reach his goal of aiding not just his family but Tevinter as a whole.

[feykrorovaan]

Watching the first episode of Dragon Age Absolution when they mention the "Harald of Andraste":

[illusivesoul]

"Don't you get it? I hate Tevinter. This place hurt everyone I love, and I am going to make all of you pay for it. The good, the bad, you all deserve to burn. I'm done talking to lapdogs"

[demigoddessqueens]

dragon age Miriam with S/O that likes to smother her with love and pepper her face with kisses.

Aww! 🥹🩵

At first I’d imagine she might tense up at first to such contact because it may not be something she’s used to. Flushed cheeks, wide eyes, heart beating, it’s all too familiar and she wants to reciprocate, even if she feels hesitant

If this is after her fallout with Hira, it would take a while for her to reciprocate affections. Think Fenris and Hawke

But it becomes an acquired feeling to Miriam if you were to stay around longer

Your kisses make her feel valued, loved, safe. She can be protected and “at home” with you. Kisses start off quick but the more time you spend together, the longer you admire the blissed expressions of your lover and Miriam starts too in return.

Especially when you take as much valued time to remember every inch and likeness of her that you adore.

[drakonovisny]

why do i feel like fairbanks' death might be foreshadowing that one/multiple of our companions might die in da:d

[julius-seize-her]

Finally watching Dragon Age Absolution and …

[miscellaneousjay]

AS👏🏾 SHE👏🏾 FUCKIN👏🏾 SHOULD👏🏾! That bitch was gonna sell her back into slavery if it meant her plan was gonna go smoothly. Talkin bout “I knew you would escape”…as if that made shit better!😤 Like, if Miriam didn’t escape, then what?! For both of them to have been traumatized the way that have been and both of them moving through the world based on said traumas, for Hira to straight STAB our girl through the front like that was triflin and, if I was Miriam, I woulda took that scarf off and lit it on fire in Hira’s face!

P.S. I need them to drop a “Dragon Age: Absolution” RPG in this style! It would be so cute and I’m also certain that it would be the game that has me splurging on a Switch.🤓

Miriam & Hira’s scarf 1.01 || 1.06

[mrs-gauche]

So here are some thoughts and ramblings on The Missing volume 1! But be warned, it got very, very friggin long, because I'm nuts and also a sleep deprived German, so please don't look too closely for grammar mistakes under the cut, thank you. 🙂💀

 - First of all, I think so far, the art style and character writing overall has been mostly fine. At first, I was a bit sad to hear that Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir (who did Blue Wraith) wouldn't be involved again, but I think, especially in this volume, the new art style with the heavy shadows really captures that ominous, eerie atmosphere of the Deep Roads, the pacing flows rather neatly and Varric and Harding don't feel out of character at all! Yes there are some minor, odd design choices with the characters' proportions, some stuff is downright copy and pasted in multiple panels? lol, Charter looks.. different and deepstalkers are apparently now velociraptor sized. lol But nothing to get riled up about imo. Overall, I enjoyed it and I’m excited for more!

- Our man is getting a little grey around the edges. 👀 Throughout the volume I was actually actively looking for clues that could indicate when this story takes place. If fan speculations are true and DA4 is set some eight years after Trespasser (and this comic takes place right before the start of DA4), Varric would be around 50 now. I think you can also tell from his attitude that he's really getting tired of all the turmoil. lol I don't think there is a character with more appearances throughout the games, comics and books than Varric at this point. The man has been through so much.

It's kinda funny to me though how we're all like "Varric's getting so old and tired of all this, he needs a break!".. when, I mean, imagine what *8000 year old* Solas must flippin feel like. 😂 (I'm not saying this is a topic that I feel like isn't talked about enough, when there's SO much in Solas' dialogue and the way BioWare keeps emphasizing it in all kinds of ways, just HOW tired Solas actually is, but I digress. lol) Love me a story about tired old men chasing other tired old men.

But looking at the rest of this group in comparison, Varric really IS like that grandpa being out with the youngsters here. lol As for Harding, loving the new hairstyle! <3

- Evka and Antoine! <33 (Are they married yet?) What a great surprise, especially since these two were actually one of my favorites out of all the newly introduced characters in Tevinter Nights! So this comic marks their fourth appearance now, throughout books and DA Day short stories. Would love to see them show up in DA4 as well! Though I am curious, since the last we read about them, they were fighting off Darkspawn in an unknown place (while getting engaged lol), and in Tevinter Nights, they were heading towards Weisshaupt. In Inquisition, it seemed as though there was something suspicious going on over there, with the way it went radio silent on anyone outside the place and how no one was able to get a hold of the Wardens, so... did Antoine and Evka ever actually made it to Weisshaupt? Do they know what's going on over there? Or does all this take place before the story in TN?

- So I take it, Evka and Antoine were ordered to go there and investigate abductions and the disappearance of other Wardens after rumors of a "tall, dark figure emerging from the Deep Roads to drag the unwary to their doom". With the way this volume ended, it appears like the mystery about the abductions has already been solved now.. though wouldn't it be kinda odd to have the title be "The Missing", only for this mystery to be solved within the first volume? So I would think there is still more to it than just ogres and deepstalkers..?

The fact this all happened after "sewer excavations accidentally broke through the underhold" instantly rang a few bells in my head, reminding me of the chapter "Luck in the Gardens" in Tevinter Nights that was about an octopus-esque monster that lived in the sewers of Minrathous and killed countless people. It also reminds me of another chapter in TN about the Venatori trying to awaken a... thing lurking beneath Minrathous that was said to be "neither demon or spirit". Given the confirmed Venatori involvement at the end, could they be abducting people for some dirty rituals/red lyrium experiments?

Then there's *this* look.

So Varric and Harding exchange *a look*, suggesting that they do know more about those "rumors" than they let on. The two are actually on their own mission searching for Solas. While sadly the only reason we're given for why they're even going down there is just Harding saying she "got a lead", it raises the question if they were suspecting Solas to have something to do with those abductions? You know, while reading I had to chuckle at the prospect of Solas in Dread Wolf form dragging Grey Wardens into his “lair” just because, you know, he's bored and hates the Grey Wardens. lmao (Like, that has actually been his new hobby for the past ten years now to kidnap every Grey Warden in Thedas and gather them all in one place to lecture them about why they're so wrong about everything they're doing. lmaoo)

I'm sorry, but the way they're calling this place his "refuge" where "he could be hiding", did actually make me laugh out loud. I mean, who in their right mind would be crazy enough to actually use the Deep Roads as a "refuge" (if it ain't your last resort or something). lol Yes Varric, Solas has quite literally "come down in the world", it seems. Set up a cozy new home in the Deep Roads like it's just another free real estate (we'll get to *that room* in a second).

"Exactly Solas's style" lmao Yeah, I guess if you're able to petrify people and monsters of all kind with nothing but a mere thought now, you could actually find a nice quiet spot to even do some safe napping down there as well. 🥴

- Okay. Now let's talk about THIS part.

"Bold of you to assume I had a plan."

This made me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe.

So, if you didn't see my comment talking about the published synopsis a few weeks back, let me tell you that I spent a considerable amount of time thinking about what could possibly be Varric and Harding's brilliant plan here, just in case they would actually manage to find Solas. So....

How bold of ME to assume you had a plan VARRIC aflfjgllhgjh

No! Who needs a plan?? After eight years of searching unsuccessfully for our guy that could literally end the world as we know it any second now, we're just going to straight up walk down the Deep Roads without any kind of plan or back-up whatsoever. And Harding just came along without ever questioning once what the hell they were even going to do in case they found Solas up until this point. I'm. in. tears.

I even ended up joking in my initial comment about how Varric might as well just tie him up and try talking him out of his endeavors. Joke's on me then. lol

Though, even without a plan, the way Varric is expressing so much confidence when saying "We stop him, what else?" has me wondering, what Varric even means by that. If he is implying to actually kill him, then why would he be so confident about it, when he knows exactly what Solas is now capable of?

Actually, the way in which Varric and Harding seem to conflict over how to approach Solas, Varric wanting to "stop him" while Harding suggests "talking to him", is apparently going to be a recurring theme throughout the story, if we're looking at this newly published synopsis covering the whole series:

Which could actually segue directly into DA4, seeing as this seems to somewhat mirror the final choice in Trespasser on whether to "stop him at all cost" or "to save him from himself". So maybe they're going for something like the different war table options in Inquisition for DA4, like depending on which "advisor" you choose, it will determine how you deal with Solas?

"It's too dangerous. For everyone. It's up to us, and *only* us, to find Solas."

I feel like this quote may be coming directly from the Inquisitor (note that it does say "find", so this could be said by any Inquisitor, regardless of their relationship). So they don't want to get anyone outside the Inquisition involved (which could become a problem when trying to, quote, “find people Solas doesn’t know”), but also begs the question, how much does the rest of the world even know about Solas at this point in time? So far, the only people who we know are actively trying to stop him are the Inquisition, anyone who didn't show up to that meeting at the end of Tevinter Nights (the Tevinter Siccari and the Ben-Hassrath) as well as the Executors and Rasaan and the Qunari.

- Flashback time with Charter in Kirkwall! Didn't expect HER to show up again.. let alone to see Kirkwall.. again (after Absolution, that is)! lol

So this line right here confirms, to me at least, that Charter in this scene basically serves as a stand-in for the Inquisitor, since obviously they couldn't make the Inquisitor show up personally in this comic.

Also, if this whole conversation takes place after Tevinter Nights and Charter's meeting with "the Bard", am I the only one who thinks it's hilarious how Charter doesn't even consider to be part of this search team as well, when she's like the only person who actually managed to talk to Solas personally after Trespasser?? 😂 Charter was like "Bruh, I just barely made it out of an encounter with the guy alive, here's all the info I got, my job here is DONE", then she drank up her ale and sneaked the hell out of there. lmao "Tag! Your problem now, Mr Tethras, BYE!"

So Charter tells Varric to build a team and, again, I'm a bit baffled that this conversation that could literally determine the fate of the world, takes place over a drink in a public tavern nearly a decade (presumably) after the Inquisitor had already announced that they would need to form a team of people that Solas doesn't know. And then they keep talking about Harding as if she hadn't been present in that last scene in Trespasser as well. lol

I mean.. What have they been doing for the past eight years? 😂 What did the Inquisitor, Leliana, Cassandra and Harding talk about when they all stood around that table in the last scene in Trespasser? Did they all just decide on "Leave it to Varric" and left the room to get lunch after the Inquisitor said "We need to find people Solas doesn't know"? 😂 I just have a hard time to believe that, what should be considered the Inquisition's highest priority, to figure out a plan on how to go against Solas, hasn't been thoroughly discussed at this point...

- You know, isn’t it interesting how Varric keeps saying that Harding’s hesitation is gonna get her killed, yet he himself never straight up says that he’s going to kill Solas either, if it was unavoidable?

- Also, interesting choice of words here, Varric. "Broke the world" does kinda imply that undoing his actions would then somewhat "fix it" again, no? 👀 Just saying..

- So.. confirmation for an inevitably batrayal then? Lovely. Not like we were already on the lookout for any potential spy/traitor in the next companion line up for DA4 anyway. lol

- So after this and some neat monster action, we're getting another flashback and another pretty shot of Kirkwall. Varric has apparently done a fantastic job as Viscount at rebuilding the place... In fact, it looks SO good that I didn't even recognize our favorite shithole at first. lol

Speaking of Kirkwall, anyone else wondering when this story takes place in regards to the end of Absolution? Is "Merry the Mad” already secretly chilling down in the basement as an angry glowing mass of red lyrium at this point? Or did she take over right after Varric left? lol

- I love how Varric is like "But you've got so much to lose" to Harding, when he himself is talking as the flippin Viscount of Kirkwall, having an entire city to take care of. lol If there's "no guarantee to come back", surely Varric understands that he still has a lot of responsibility here.. (Also, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take that long for Solas to find out about the Viscount of Kirkwall having left the city?)

"Solas has made it clear he doesn't want us interfering."

Well, I don't know which Trespasser ending you got, Varric, but in MY ending, Solas all but seemed to *beg* for us to find a way to prove him wrong. lol

- So Harding "found a lead", and it's still the most frustrating thing in this volume to me (besides Harding missing her freckles of course :P) that they don't go into a little more detail about this...

I also couldn't even read any further beyond "He's been working out" on my first read, because I was laughing too hard at the images playing in my head of a Rocky Balboa training montage of Solas getting ripped in the Deep Roads aflldkefkj (Does anyone remember “Swolas”?). The man is obviously preparing himself for his one on one boxing match against Elgar'nan once the Veil is gone.

- Oh look, it's the same picture.

- So they actually manage to find "Solas' hideout" at 37564th Deep Road and whoever gave Harding that “lead” must’ve done an amazing job at describing how to get there.

- Alright. So, the ROOM.

Before we're getting into this, let me just point out that, despite Varric's dialogue, there's actually no real evidence here that proves Solas was ever at this place, right? I mean, if Solas truly didn’t want to be found, wouldn't a place like the Crossroads, where he alone has control over the mirrors and access to all kinds of secret locations, make much more sense then? So.. I’m not quite so sure about all this.

It's interesting though how both Varric and Harding note that they didn't expect him to be "so close to the Darkspawn", because it reminds me of banter between him and Varric, that revealed how Solas seemed genuinely confused about the matter of "endless Darkspawn". So, if he really stayed there in the Deep Roads, maybe it was the best place to study the Darkspawn and learn more about their origin, the Blight, etc.

......That being said, let's just assume that he actually was here, because that’s just so much more fun to think about. lmao

- So much for free real estate then. I expected Solas to be a minimalist in regards to interior design, but wow. There's more on the walls than there is on the floor. 😂 (Also, I could've sworn I've seen this flippin candelabra somewhere around Skyhold before.. The man didn't just take our armor (and hearts) when he left, apparently he also took our furniture.

- I know this joke has already been made, but looking at those walls, Solas has apparently now turned into this meme.

It's so strange to me though, how they don't even seem to look more into these papers on the walls, when those probably contain highly valuable information?? Or am I missing something here? All we seem to get in response to the walls is *this* line?

Well DUH, Captain Obvious, I wouldn't have guessed. 😂 You're pointing this out, yet you take the invitation letter immediately at face value and don't even question if there could be more to it or if it could've been placed there on purpose? lol

Don't break my heart like this, Varric…

- So Sherlock and Watson conclude that Solas must've been here until very recently before leaving in a hurry. In fact, he must've been in such a hurry that he didn't even have enough time to make his bed. lol (And this is just the most random little headcanon of mine, but looking at how he apparently took everything but this single letter with him, he must've something to stow his stuff in when he left, right? So I just want to believe that he still carries that flippin backpack from the beginning of DAI? lmao)

- And finally, the LETTER.

So.... are we all on the same page here that this has to be a red herring left there on purpose? 😂

I mean, WOW, you're telling me Solas.. just conveniently forgot about this single invitation, that, even more conveniently, just so happens to lead them to their next location now..? Riiiight.

The fact that Varric and Harding don't even seem to consider this though is quite worrying? lol The thing is, even if they acknowledged that the letter could be a potential trap, it would still be the only substantial lead they have right now. So either way, they would have to look into it.

I mean, if this doesn’t actually turn out to be a red herring.. Whatever, it's only a comic and we have to set up the plot *somehow* I guess, but oof, that would definitely put my suspension of disbelief to the test. lol

Anyway, about this invitation... I have a few questions.

- Was it actually addressed to Solas or did he intercept it? How did he get this invitation in the first place?

- If he did intercept it and it was meant for someone else, why is he interested in meeting this Lady Chrysanthemum (I know that's not her name, but I always think about the flower when I read it lol)?

- If it *was* actually addressed to him, what does this Lady Chrysanthus want from him? Does she actually know who he really is?

- Could it be a red herring by someone else entirely, who is trying to lead Varric and Harding on the wrong track? Maybe the Venatori we see at the end?

- Why the urgency?

- Anyway, Venatori apparently kill their targets with an X pattern now? Was that.. a thing? I can’t recall, but it makes me wonder if they wanted Varric and Harding to discover it? But why?

- So the Venatori are obviously scheming something here and I'm wondering if they're now stalking on Varric and Harding to get closer to Solas? And if Solas left this letter there on purpose, does he know about the Venatori AND Varric/Harding going after him? Who is trying to outsmart whom here? lol

- I must say, if our group is now parting ways and that was the last we saw of Evka and Antoine, they.. didn't really have much of a purpose? They had little to no relevance to the plot and I feel like the story would've turned out exactly the same without them? 😂 Which is too bad, because as I mentioned before, I actually really like their characters? :/ Let's hope they maybe turn out to be important in retrospective. lol

- I also want to mention that I've seen some people already suspecting Harding to be a traitor/agent of Fen'Harel? 😂 Now, THAT would be a plot twist! I can already picture it.. at the end of this, Harding will turn around facing Varric "I can't believe you were that gullible. You actually bought the whole thing with the placed letter, you FOOL." 😂

(- Also, this is just a super silly, wild speculation without any real foundation, but with the way this is all set up and how they keep saying how Harding's hesitation is gonna get her killed.. What if Harding and Varric will encounter Solas in DA4, then it will be exactly like Varric foretold, Harding almost gets killed and Varric has to save her, sacrificing himself (and that's how she gets Bianca) lol)

So that’s all I’ve got. I had a great time reading this, despite some odd moments, but that didn’t bother me at all. I’m looking forward to the next volume and hopefully, some answers, and if you like, tell me what you thought about it! 😁

[ghost-bard]

Rewatching dragon age absolution and godddd miriam dont trust sapphira PLSSSS 😭 girl… theres other fish in the sea… i promise…

I dont even remember how exactly everything goes down but goddddd i do remember that

[mahalzevran]

I just remembered we're probably gonna see meredith in the new game

[companionsofusall]

[id: series of fanart for dragon age

In the fade, Corypheus stands looking over a precipice with Garrett Hawke, who says “do you see this shit corypheus.”

Title: Dragon Age: Jokerization of Garrett Hawke.

After defeating Corypheus, hawke wipes his hands as he walks away with Carver, Anders, and Varric. Hawke says, “Well, this was something. At least we killed this guy and he won’t treat my family anymore.”

Five years later:

A redrawn screencap from Dragon Age Inquisiton is shown, where Corypheus stands holding the corrupted elven orb in his hand.

Hawke, incredibly tired, says, “what an actual fuck.”

The next comic shows Hawke, walking away from the petrifying corpse of Meredith in Kirkwall and stating, “Well, rest in peace. No more red lyrium freaks in my town. But I’m done, let’s go guys.”

A few years later:

A redrawn screencap from Dragon age Absolution is shown, in which the eyes of Meredith are shown glowing in a large crystal of red lyrium.

Hawke with a forced smile and bags under his eyes, disbelievingly says, “no guys you gotta be kidding me.” End id. ]

so i watched new series

[illusivesoul]

Tassia and Hira gifs cause I think about this scene and them a lot

[neolunanocte]

Watching Dragon Age Absolution and one of things sticking with me is that it really needed at least twice as many episodes.

The pacing is not great and the imho story suffers for it. Really needed more time to flesh out the characters. And not to of killed off Fairbanks so soon. Like it really felt rushed to me.

It would of also been nice to see more of the setting, too, beyond just the short montage and barfight.