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My favorite bit of the Dawn Will Come scene is when Solas is laser-focusing (heh) on the orb, meanwhile the Anchor has already decided what its focus is, and it is so transparently NOT the orb.
Solas is all “elven focus” this, “stolen power” that, meanwhile the Anchor is totally ignoring the shiny titan ball and sprinkling focus bars on the Inquisitor and all their companions. Something something the power of a god comes from their people.
#dragon age shitpost#dragon age#dragon age inquisition#dragon age inquisition spoilers#herald of andraste#inquisitor dragon age#in your heart shall burn#dragon age trespasser#trespasser spoilers#solas dragon age#dragon age meta#dragon age lore#dragon age speculation#elven focus#and then it throws a massive tantrum the moment Thedas starts to lose faith in the Inquisition#maybe titan hearts offer a more reliable/stable source of followers lol#anyway it’s real interesting that Solas brings up foci (plural) at the exact same time the game is introducing focus (singular)
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Veilguard vaguing:
It's not automatically a good thing, actually, that the game de-emphasizes or even outright removes racism against elves, and bigotry against other groups, from the story
#veilguard critical#completely declawing the sociopolitics of the story doesn't in any way make it a better story ugh#being of a certain race and even of a certain gender should mean something in the dragon age world and not all those things are good#and that's part of the challenge of the roleplay and part of the themes of the whole overarching story like#tevinter! is a location in this game!!#not to focus on just the elves but if we're not feeling the absolute depths and desperation of all the elves#not just the dailish#then there's no way to feel much complexity or conflict over - for example - what solas is trying to do and why he's so motivated#his character is boiled down to him being by himself and feeling conflicted over just his past actions#as if he didn't spend all of inquisition investigating yours and the companions' differing plights and worldviews#tbh though one of the biggest failings of inquisition is maybe possibly not highlighting the dailish and city elves enough#to help drive home this point - but veilguard is so clearly just kind of out here by itself with loredumping that goes completely#uninvestigated socially or politically that like... it doesn't matter much#like we just have to pretend that everyone is playing kumbaya now? with the elven god of rebellion real and running around?#that you can walk around anywhere in tevinter practically unbothered?#like bellara and davrin and every dailish elf in thedas aren't at all significantly moved by knowing their gods are just some guys?#i get more and more pissed at -good vibes- storytelling in all its mediums with every passing day#ISMtext
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i dont like the idea of everything being linked to the fade or the elves and mages etc etc and i think ive said that several times atp. but yknow what i DO want linked to everything? the deep roads actually. and im being serious abt that
#secret taylah rosykims lore for the uninitiated is that the elven patheon isnt actually my fave dragonage-ism . the deep roads is#i am soooo categorically obsessed with whatevers going on down there. the blights and old gods the lyrium the titans even the old thaigs#ALL of it#i need EVERYTHING and EVERYONE to always be forced to reckon with whatever is WAITING for them down there in the dark at the end of the day#like playing dao post orzammar always feels so sickening bc after that quest its like... how do u take the landsmeet seriously#how do you take ANYTHING on the surface seriously other than the blight#how do u focus on anything else besides what is directly UNDER you currently. BURROWING UP.#if i find out that orlesian mask culture had ties to the deep roads i would be like ohhhhh my fucking god keep going. tell me more lol#i have a feeling we wont be learning that much abt kal sharok in veilguard but god i hope im wrong and we do. bc i need it so bad lol#i just think its so neat. it makes my skin crawl in the best way possible#deep roads they could never make me hate you <3
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'Those rare few who transcend the normal boundaries of any skills or trades and excel due to passions within them for their art become very attractive to elves.'
'Irresistible' is a word used later in the paragraph and I could say something about how this is how most half-elves are born because elves apparently go nuts for non-elves who are obsessed with a chosen discipline.
Instead I'm just cackling in my brainrot over my version of durgetash where a certain N'Quess's engineering skills and mad scientist drive really did win the heart of a murdergod elf and cause them to lose their damn mind. Bhaal was a little too accurate in his imitation of an elf.
#If you have a hyperfixation and the creativity to work with it the elves think you're hot#Vel: Father forgive me for I have sinned. Again... But all that death he's causing with his passion is really sexy isn't it??#Bhaal: ...#babbling#/durgetash#OCs#Vel#edgelord hours#So many dwarven/elven and gnome/elven pairings that never get focus hidden in that original paragraph
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i'm glad, and i cried. but i still think rook should get to slap him. and so should ellassan, frankly.
#i love how much the inquisitor got to be involved in this story#without taking focus away from rook#cause ella did vow to try and save solas#so i'm so glad he got to be here to help do just that#and now he can FINALLY have a break. sort of. and live happily ever after with his husband the new archon#and rook is fluttering off to treviso after the new first talon#happy ish endings all around mostly sort of#fel's da:vg#veilguard spoilers#oc: kalais aldwir (rook)#oc: ellassan lavellan#i also really liked morrigan in this game#she really got on my nerves in dai for some reason. idk what changed#she stopped trying to be superior to the mc's knowledge of elven stuff perhaps#rook could match her beat for beat from being a veil jumper sjdlfng
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really been struggling with finding good mindless queer audiobooks to distract myself with lately. today i started not one but two different poorly written fantasy romances where the main characters bone within 24 hours of meeting each other (one of them was literally 5 minutes after meeting). allos are wild
#am not against smut but y’all are so annoying. god bless#what if - and hear me out on this - we had a conversation first#also one of them is an arranged marriage thing and when the two royal families met for the wedding#it is revealed that the one family didn’t know which son the other family had picked out to marry theirs#king just showed up and did a bob barker reveal like ‘and you get our wimpy third son!!!’ and everyone got mad about it#you expect me to believe royal families don’t hash this out with royal counselors and lawyers???#you want me to believe there weren’t thirteen layers of elven prenups involved in this treaty?????#sorry i can’t focus on this s*x scene I’m still thinking about the international implications of Fiancé Roulette these morons were playing#aster chat
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getting back into writing and finding a program that hides the word count is working wonders ngl
#being able to focus on telling the story instead of hitting an ideal word count#we'll get there when we get there!#i've had a story rattling round my head since i looked into how elven marriages work. its gonna be painful ngl#you know theyre like swans?? they mate for life. have sex acts as marriage. second marriages after being widowed basically have to be signe#off by the powers on high. crazy stuff. would never know jrrt was catholic#cherryposting
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How many random magical knicknacks does this guy own though. The knife is supposedly his, the orb (deceased) is his, and let’s not forget that mask from Redemption. Is the jawbone necklace the only thing that didn’t get raided from his junk drawer while he was sleeping.
#dragon age shitpost#just a dusty movers box of obsolete devices and cables#and every time one of the newer devices gets lost or broken#he has to reconfigure his plan to work on some ancient flip phone with half the screen chipped off#Solas looking at the red lyrium idol: ah shit the battery is completely crusted over#dragon age#dragon age spoilers#tevinter nights#dragon age inquisition#dragon age inquisition spoilers#trespasser spoilers#dragon age redemption#fen’harel#dread wolf#mask of fen’harel#red lyrium idol#elven focus#solas dragon age
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Fantasy au elven!izuna ranger!tobirama please and thank you.
#just a glitch#I just love the idea of Uchiha elves ok.#also elven!itachi and orc!Kisame but let’s focus on the TobIzu first.
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I've been feeling like I should do a dwarven or qunari Rook since I have 2 human PCs and 1 elven PC, but I'm leaning sooo hard towards playing another elf given who and what the main villains are. Also I rly want to be an angry Dalish to make up for what my Inky couldn't be
#I'm hoping Rook can get into v heated arguments with Solas too. Another way to make up for what Nesiaris couldn't do ;v;#it just feels like it'd be rly satisfying to do with an elven Rook#I do hope there's a lot more focus on dwarves and qunari than there was in DAI#esp qunari. It seems like dwarves will be dealing with sudden magic but who knows what'll be affecting the qunari
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Hey seeing a lot of veilguard negative comments on my dash (its actually like my....whole dash atm) so I'm looking for new people to follow who are just as in love with the game as I am! Or at least who don't post a ton about disliking it. I don't mind some criticism, I have my own, but I feel like 75% of my dash is very critical and I'd very much like to bask in the game I'm enjoying so much, or at least even out that percentage. So please interact if you:
Actually like/don't mind Veilguard (bonus points if you love it)
Like/don't mind Solavellan
Like/don't mind elven lore
Love DA games in general and aren't posting Veilguard negativity
I do a decent amount of writing myself, and would love to support other fanfic writers as well. Like or reblog and I'll check you out ☺️
#loving veilguard so far#i can understand where some of the critism are coming from#but it's not worth hating the game or shitting constantly#on it#so i'll just focus on the positive and everything i like about it#🥰#love solavellan#love elven lore#not a writer tho#just a gif maker and mod maker#and i would very much like to follow people who like the game too
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for oc asks - ghost for you most haunted oc and secret for your least haunted oc!
Thanks for the ask!
ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?
Most haunted is Eridis. At twelve years old, she witnessed the slaughter of many, many nobles including her best friend and her surrogate father. She then was raised by the church and became a knight who is just... the most dutiful. During that time both her parents died, only weeks before she was knighted and could have helped them. So now she is grieving for two families she's lost and on a quest to reclaim her ancestral blade and destroy all the other magic blades that caused that much death and destruction with it.
secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?
My least haunted OC is maybe Morys? He's an alchemist journeyman who desperately wants to advance to master but can't because his father and older sister are already masters and the guild won't allow for that. Besides that, he is just happy to be there and included! His (not so secret) secret is probably that he is very much in love with Amalinde, who's his parents' tenant and also a princess in exile. While that would already be an obstacle, she's also, unfortunately for him, a lesbian.
Send me some OC asks!
#look i've got an ask#girls-and-honey#i originally had a different answer but i decided to stay within one canon#most haunted oc OVERALL is kalia#elven empress and plague survivor whose entire family is dead#some of them she even saw die#and she can communicate with their spirits! which is not a good thing!#she's living with them badly#almost closer to the spirit world than the real one#and dead before the story even started#but that canon is on ice for now so i decided to focus on tivelfall#ask game
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Lately, I've been thinking about Mithrun and the ways he is dehumanized in canon.
Before I get started, we know that elven society is incredibly afraid of death and illness. This is obvious in how they look down on the short lived races and see them as weak and childlike. We also know that Mithrun himself had ableist views toward his brother and these values did not leave him once he, himself, became disabled. He is a product of the society that raised him, but I also think how Mithrun is currently being treated contributes to his view of himself.
Mithrun has had three different caretaking groups over the years. The first are the ones his brother hired for him. From what we can see, they did the job, but we can understand that they did not know what to do with him. No one had ever recovered from having their desires eaten so the focus was less on rehabilitation and more on keeping him alive.
Later we see Milsiril take an interest in him because of his desire to return to the dungeon. Since she did not bother to visit him for decades after finding him, we can assume that there is an ulterior motive here. Timeline-wise, this was when the majority of the canaries had just been wiped out. They needed more men, and Mithrun is set up to be the perfect single-focused soldier.
Honestly, we can assume that Milsiril doesn't really care about him or see him as a person. Mithrun is just a new project for her to play with. We can see this in how she's focused on superficial level concerns like the fact that he doesn't look nice and wanting him to be overly grateful toward her. She also talks about him like he's not in the room and can't hear her. This is a dehumanizing trait shared by many characters when talking about Mithrun.
When he finally does recover enough to return to the canaries, the military does not make any effort to accommodate his needs. We know the canaries are understaffed and the ethics are already bad, but they really did not even try to care about Mithrun's safety at all.
Entrusting a criminal with his care was questionable at best, especially when Cithis immediately took the opportunity to abuse her power over him and no one stopped her.
While acknowledging the light-hearted nature of the manga, it's uncomfortable that Mithrun was treated like a child and an animal by Cithis for her amusement. Regardless of her 'learning to respect him' later, the point is that Mithrun was taken advantage of and degraded because she believed he couldn't say no. No one bothered to do anything about this until Pattadol yelled at her.
Truly his treatment is summarized well by Milsiril here. Mithrun is extremely vulnerable to being abused by those taking care of him because he won't advocate for himself. He has one desire so he won't fight for himself in any other way.
It is obvious that Mithrun was not treated well by his caretakers and this has resulted in him identifying his needs through a disconnected and frankly, infantilizing lens.
I understand that it may have been a translator's decision, but I always thought it was interesting that Mithrun says that he's "not sleepy" which is a childish term. Otherwise, he speaks like everyone else, if not rather posh.
This, followed by the fact that he is responsive to Kabru treating him like a literal infant to get him to eat, paints a clear picture of the fact that Mithrun is not unfamiliar with being treated like this. He responds to it because he's used to it and has no desire to argue with being treated this way. When we consider the fact that the chapter started with Milsiril treating an older child Kabru in the same way, it is likely that she also did the same thing to Mithrun when he was under her care.
In these panels, we see that Mithrun does not believe that he can sleep without magical assistance, even though it is immediately refuted when Kabru takes the time to bundle him up and help him relax. Not only does he fully believe he can't sleep without external assistance, but he states directly that there is no point in him getting comfortable.
As Kabru observes, Mithrun's inability to recognize his needs applies to needs such as hunger and exhaustion, but it obviously also applies to emotional needs. Kabru just wanting to feed him something delicious and not wanting him to give up on life is the most consideration someone has given Mithrun in years.
The relationship they form over the course of a single week is enough to shape Mithrun's behaviour completely. Mithrun ignores Cithis's demand in favour of asking Kabru's opinion. It is Kabru's hand Mithrun takes to pull him out of his defeated state. It is Kabru Mithrun confessed his true desire to.
Do you realize how depressing that is? All it took was the new perspectives from Kabru and Senshi to make him consider the fact that he should keep living despite no longer needing to fulfill his duty. Being treated well could have helped Mithrun much sooner and this shift in the way he sees himself contributes to his recovery going forward.
TLDR: Mithrun has no desire to be respected, but why does that make people feel comfortable acting like he doesn't deserve it? Someone not caring about being treated well doesn't give you permission to treat them poorly. This feels like a playschool-level consent lesson: just because he's not saying no to a humiliating or degrading act doesn't mean it's a yes and therefore okay to do. Acknowledging this is the bare minimum of treating him as a person.
#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#dungeon meshi spoilers#delicious in dungeon spoilers#mithrun dungeon meshi#kabru dungeon meshi#cithis dungeon meshi#milsiril dungeon meshi#there's way too much nuance to get into in a single post#but i wanted to try to get some of my thoughts out#it is like 2am though so maybe it's all nonesense#my post
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i finished 7th dragon a lil while ago n some of the worldbuilding is so funny i cant stop thinking abt it. why is the lost city of atlantis populated by catgirls
#they made it so the women are all catgirls and the men are all more elven which is. something?????#story is kinda wild n not the Most interesting considering all the games ive played w time travel being a main focus#but its ok. enough to get thru it without issue after u get past the tutorial#the characters are also in the same boat where theyre alright but ive seen too many that did each characters job better#i DO rly like the custom character designs n stuff tho. might make ocs out of some of em that i grew fond of#i also appreciate that its a game set in the future that actually has ceased homophobia entirely AND openly. not enough of those i think#also idk if the balancing for the character jobs is perfect (bc one of em is just completely busted) but the dynamics u can create are fun#i always kept each team the same so i didnt play around w that part much but pairing physical-based jobs w each other#and magic-based jobs w each other seems really good#u can even base a team around most of ur characters dying for ridiculous damage output. rly funny idea that i might try one day#my favorite unit is the silly lil catgirl i had w the busted job. she wasnt on my main team so i discovered just how good it was p late#also u can date quite literally everyone. which has both good and bad perks as u can imagine#kind of a. persona type deal. yknow.#on the bright side there was a tragic clone character 👍 they did him so dirty tho there was so much more they couldve done w him#also theres an alien that looks like a stuffed rabbit and uses he/him that also turns into a girl. peak gender tbh#if anything the queer rep in this game kinda rules#not even sure if its on purpose or not. but it rules
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Here’s the thing.
Many Bagginshield shippers, especially in fics, focus on how Bilbo never got over Thorin, to the point where some describe Bilbo’s entire life as sad and empty and unfulfilled because of that loss.
Don’t get me wrong: I do agree that he suffered terrible loss and undeserved torment by the Ring. And the fact that he never married probably did have some connection to the memory of Thorin.
But, y’all, don’t forget or ignore the fact that, in Tolkien’s text, Bilbo does move on from grief and live the rest of his life well.
He does not become bitter from his pain. He retains his kind heart.
He is generous with his wealth, helping in every way he can the very community that ostracizes him.
He sees in Frodo a kindred spirit and takes it upon himself to be the parental figure that Frodo so badly needs as an orphan.
He and Frodo develop an uncle-nephew (really more like father-son) relationship built on trust, keeping no secrets from each other, to the level where he tells Frodo the truth about his encounter with Gollum. (And probably the truth about his feelings for Thorin, too.)
He and Frodo have so much fun, going for walks every day, studying the Elvish languages, and throwing big birthday parties to show the community a good time. It’s plain to see that caring for Frodo filled that massive void inside Bilbo, finally giving him someone to love and devote himself to looking after, after his first chance at that (albeit the first being a different kind of love) was taken from him.
He does not see himself as superior to the lower class despite his riches, and always treats the Gamgees with the utmost respect.
He teaches Sam to read and write.
He tells his story to the younger hobbits, inspiring more of them to want to learn more about the outside world and not be so sheltered and ignorant…an effort which ultimately saves Middle-earth because the Travelers learn from him to be curious and interested in the lands outside the Shire, and he inspires them daily, as they constantly say to themselves “if Bilbo could go there and back again despite great danger, so can we.”
He even learns to love having a tarnished reputation, ultimately taking advantage of being “mad” to play a fun prank.
When he is no longer at rest in the Shire, he gifts Frodo all his property which will ensure Frodo is set for life, and through all his passive aggressive gifts to his relatives, he gives the Gaffer genuinely useful items that he knows will help him, including ointment for creaky joints.
He gets a peaceful retirement among his Elven friends, which he spends writing his memoir so that future generations will know all about his lost friends.
And ultimately, he embraces the special gift of an exception from the Valar and rare permission to set foot in the Blessed Realm for one last adventure, where he will continue to look after his beloved nephew.
And the fact is, he never would’ve gotten any of these things if he’d stayed in Erebor. He would never have developed that special bond with Frodo - he may never have even met him - and consequently, Frodo may never have met Sam.
Yes, a lot of his life was lonely and somber. But much more of it, even after experiencing such a tragedy, was full of love and joy and fun and excitement. He became an invaluable caretaker and mentor to the next generation of hobbits, got a taste of fatherhood, passed on his expertise and his story, and spent his last years surrounded by friends and family.
Bilbo Baggins may have lost the love of his life, but he did not give up on life itself, and he lived a full one. Don’t forget that.
#lotr#jrr tolkien#lotr books#lord of the rings#the hobbit#bilbo baggins#frodo baggins#bilbo and frodo#hobbits#samwise gamgee#elvish language#red book#the valar#valinor#tolkien elves#bagginshield#thorin x bilbo#samfro#frodo x sam
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Calling it now:
If there's ever any future installments of Dragon Age there will be no mention of the differentiation between the Dalish or City Elves.
Like in DATV they will simply all be 'elves' and the vallaslin will be reduced to 'cool looking tattoo's that some veil jumpers have' - no mention of the elven pantheon either, because why bother! They're all dead now!
They're all dead and responsible for every lore plot point in Thedas, and there's nothing of mystery or substance left in the world now.
No mention of the culture in the alienage, of the vhenadahl tree, of the horrific racism and systematic abuse the elves have been through...now its just elves. With the way the Veil Jumpers have been set up, and the fact that the elven gods were the enemy in DATV, I find it extremely unlikely that the Dalish will even exist as a group either. Why would they? Their Gods returned and blighted the world - not that the fact is even truly discussed in the game. Elves are just elves, and the notable elves are Veil Jumpers.
Maybe you'll walk in a city, pick up a codex, and get a copy and pasted explanation of history from a DAO codex - a reminder of what we used to have and what BioWare absolutely demolished in their attempt to build a new IP on the bones of Dragon Age. The absolute whiplash in writing, story, and character between DAI and DATV is staggering. How on earth could the studio that made such a gorgeous, rich world of lore surrounding the elves in one game end up utterly bastardizing and reducing it to nothing?
How can you look at a place like the Temple of Mythal and go from those gorgeous golden murals and emerald tiled roofs that reached to the heavens to a place like the Lighthouse? From the Emerald Graves to the ruins of Arlathan - devoid of halls that reach to the heavens and golden murals replaced with stained glass? The entirety of the Trespasser DLC had more character and reverence for what the elven empire once was, and DATV feels as though it's approaching it with the perspective of 'generic elven bullshit with triangles everywhere'. All that unique architecture has been obliterated by adding in World of Warcraft focus crystals and automatons.
How can you go from the atmospheric/environmental storytelling of the Lost Temple of Dirthamen to Solas just blurting everything out? No weight, no double truths or hidden meanings - just blurting it out, getting it said and done with no gravitas? That was Solas' entire thing! People have made threads literally dissecting what Solas says and does not say - now he spits lore out as though it were common, everyday knowledge.
How can anyone justify the sudden emergence of magical automatons everywhere in old elven ruins? As if Dragon Age didn't have a host of enemies/creatures available to use in their stead - or the ability to create something unique to the forest of Arlathan. What happened to the spirit guardians? What happened to the lingering echoes of the elves slaughtered by humans in wars ages past like in DAO? Magic was their very existence - spells taking years or centuries to cast, weaving in and about each other - and you're telling me the ancient elves spent their time creating magical transformers?! It feels/looks so utterly seperate from everything we know of the elves from Dragon Age.
Or look at the Crossroads - listen to how Morrigan speaks of it - the reverence for the past, the misty atmosphere, and the heaviness of this pocket of the world that carries the fading memories of a world and people that no longer exists...now it's reduced to a hub world! People are just popping in and out of it at will!
In Trespasser, the few eluvians that we were available to travel to led to the most lonely, desolate spots of Thedas, which ensured their survival over the past millennia. The mirror in the Deep Roads, the mirror in the ancient stronghold in Ferelden...now they're everywhere!The 'few surviving' eluvians are in every major settlement of Thedas and all are in operating order! More than that, everyone who sees an eluvian knows what it is - this ancient marvel of a world long gone has lost all worth and is reduced to a 'world building' justification for fast travel.
Poor Merrill, slaving for a near decade to try and restore a small sliver of her history, only to have all gravitas and wonder of her discovery utterly made void. All that accomplishment wasted, especially when Bellara can wave her magic omni-tool and fix an eluvian in a matter of hours.
If you took every specific Dragon Age terminology out of the Veilguard and replaced it with generic fantasy bullshit you would never be able to tell the difference. The world of DATV is so divorced from its predecessors its astounding.
#datv spoilers#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#bioware critical#bioware what the fuck#elves of thedas#dalish elves#city elves#one good thing about how bad this game is: it's easy to just separate it from the rest of the games#I wanted to explore every corner of the ruins in Inquisition#I wanted to read every codex#fun fact! it's all gone now!#Never forget the bioware fucking nuked southern thedas from existence#weeping into the void#duncan didn't die for this#datv critical#edited to add in that I think the 'dalish' won't even exist as a group anymore thanks to DATV
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