#dragon age valta

[jazzajazzjazz]

AU where they're happy

[FULL VIEW]

[solonelyyoon]

I'm not

saying anything

but--

[maia-beans]

Veiltober - day 24, Lyrium

I know we all love Trespasser, but The Descent DLC is soooo good as well. They always manage to put the most interesting lore in DLCs, its crazy. I also really hope we get to see more about what's going to happen with the Titans, and the good news is we don't have to wait much more, baby!

Prints and stuff available on my Redbubble!

Prompts for Veiltober by @lynnerdo as always!!

[catebees]

Do you think it possible to get a Valta or Renn from the descent dlc? I just finished them and i adore them both!

The Descent DLC my beloved

[0ccuria]

I'm freaking out over Harding being able to manipulate stone exactly how Shaper Valta did and also that's probably what Sandal has been doing this entire tiiiiiimmmeeee like I'M GOING CRAZY

[felassan]

Harding was a shepherd born to a seamstress and a trader. her mom named her "Lace" hoping that her daughter would be as pretty and delicate as lace. imagine being Harding now, going home to visit ur parents for the holidays or something and having to explain that like somehow despite being a dwarf you can do magic now all of a sudden 😭

[biancadavri]

graphic design is my passion <3

[geopvnk]

something i'm really excited about re: veilguard is that all the stuff so far has been very very open about the evanuris and elgar'nan and ghilan'nain and their whole deal, which makes me think that there's going to be a bigger lore reveal/twist that they HAVEN'T shown us, which is to say TITANS TITANS TITANS TITANS FINDING OUT HOW THAT TITAN GOT BLIGHTED LACE HARDING WIELDING TITAN MAGIC TITANS TITANS TITANS

[notebooks-and-laptops]

Not really into hearing why u hate other people's wives in the tags but I AM interested in hearing why u love Ur wife

[bharv]

Their ruin is etched in our bones, whether we knew it or not.

[zundely]

Playing DAI again and I have some thoughts about the Varric/Solas banter. Those aren't entirely nice thoughts however so so be warned if you don't like hearing negative takes about DAI, which is totally cool btw, this is what is coming under the cut.

So what I feel like most often gets praised about the banter between Varric and Solas is that they perfectly encapsulate their opposing wirldviews. Varric who embraces change vs Solas who can't let go of the past. And I do get that. I think the old man on the island part is great.

What is not so great is... a lot of their banter leading up to that part. I am not a fan of Solas asking questions about dwarves, dwarven culture- some of which I would love to get an actual answer to- and Varric just shrugging and going "Dunno don't care, all the dwarves that care are stuck up pricks" and then Solas marveling at him being not like other dwarves.

And the thing is- that is kind of the point like, Varric not caring much about past and embracing now is the core part of this philosophical debate. Embracing the change is the key element of Varrics prespective. What I dislike is how we end up putting all of dwarven culture on the chopping block to drive that point home.

I already made a post once about how Varric's approach to his heretige is very close to Sera's. And, even if Sera is not the most perfect representation of internalized racism... there is only one Sera, and there are 6 other elven companions, all of whom have diffrent perspectives on their culture. There is less then half of that for the dwarves, and no other dwarven companion in Inqusition meaning Varric is the only point of view on the dwarves we get. Imagine if through both DA2 and DAI the only elf companion we got was Sera.

Now why do I care about that. Because the "people who care 'too much' about their traditions and culture need to chill out" narrative is something that perminates a lot of Dragon Age writing about minorities. The elves do get it most often and the worst, but other races like dwarves and qunari aren't getting off the hook either. And with dwarves it annoys me specifically for quite some time now- because the racist and kind of anti-semitic writing in dwarves slips under the radar a lot of the time, especially since the writers did make a point to state the Jewish inspiration in Andrastian Elves openly and they get a lot more focus in the narrative.

So we end up with Varric, whose internalized racism not only goes unexamined, it is something that earns him praise and awe from an elven god. The message, however (hopefully) unintended is "Rejecting your cultural roots in the name of assimilation is a better way to be then worrying and caring about what you might be loosing ". And idk, I just. Don't like it. I think it sucks.

[0alix0]

veilguard isn't even out yet but i already want to point out that we were ROBBED of the opportunity to play as a Kal-Sharok dwarf

or having a female saarebas as a companion

or having a rivaini fortune teller mage / llomerryn companion who's both a dalish and (technically) a city elf because they have a settlement there

crossing fingers for Llomerrynian Davrin??

or a warrior who LOVES mages for once BIOWARE PLEASE--

CROSSING FINGERS FOR MAGE-SUPPORTER DAVRIN IM BEGGING YO--

[loveydoveypiperwright]

Finally finishing Descent [I played it 10 months ago but playing it on Nightmare convinced me to give up for a while lol] and I'm ngl, I'm kinda obsessed with this screenshot?? A treehugger (Dalish Elf) being so so so far underground in order to aid some short nerd (Shaper scholar) + her friend's squad of walking corpses (Legion of the Dead) in order to find out whether or not mythical creatures (Titans) are real. In the same area the Chantry's god locked up Tevinter's gods. Near the core. Amazing

[caffeinosis]

[crossdressingdeath]

The Oracle: Once, I was Valta. As you were Lace, then Scout, and now... something else.

Oh. Valta's in a statue now. Well we're just not going to unpack that. Moving on!