#hissing wastes

[the-northern-continent]

This is probably relatable to no one, but one of my absolute favorite things to do in Dragon Age games is to kick the 2nd playthrough up to Nightmare mode… but instead of playing the combat as intended, I do the doofiest, most cheesed-up nonsense to powerlevel my way past problems.

In Inquisition I would drop into stealth and then run around the Hissing Wastes reading the most xp-rich journals known to man. In Veilguard I just defeated the qamekmaster at around level 8. Well, “defeated” is a strong word, I stood on the tiny strip of balcony that counts as “in the combat area” without actually dropping into the room. Under my very heroic supervision, Lucanis and Harding handled the problem.

I got almost 2 full levels out of it. 😅

[bossuary]

Who is the best Dragon Age: Inquisition NPC, and why is it Betyar, the Canyon Merchant's mabari assistant?

[nnatasha]

hissing wastes hiking

[zundely]

Living in a world where bioware didn't forget a whole moon while making this map.

[drawingsphopho]

[daitranscripts]

Hissing Wastes Masterpost

Area Introduction

Nothing Valuable

The Tomb of Fairel

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Locations Masterpost

[mayhemxtwins]

hey why doesn’t anyone talk about how MASSIVE the hissing wastes map is? There’s 7 camps in that thing. I never use my mount except here because. God. It goes on forever

[lothrilzul]

Excuse me but what the hell kind of design choice are the Hissing Wastes? Why is it in eternal night? I keep thinking I can't wait to see this place during the day then I remember it's never going to happen, like, what the hell?!

[dykebeckett]

sometimes a video game with a bad story has a good secret story that you can unlock if you pretend the bad parts aren’t there and make up a bunch of stuff

[arlathen]

inquisition's puddle-deep fetch quests and twenty-four-hour wait time war table missions are generally not. awesome game design. BUT one thing they did accomplish, ironically, was adding a lot of depth to the world via so many little background stories that you could completely ignore -- but that were there if you wanted to engage. like you were on this critical path but there were lives happening around you and you could find little traces of them. and with the war table, you got a snapshot of the political landscape beyond the important stuff that the inquisitor got dragged into. i dunno, i almost miss it. it feels like the closest we got were the inquisitor's letters.

[vaguely-concerned]

'the hissing wastes suck' wow what a way to admit you've never experienced the joy of listening to iron bull wax archaeologic about ancient dwarven building techniques

[vigilskeep]

ok i think the original schedule i had in mind was stupid bc everyone says the inquisition dlcs are good and i don’t actually want to rush each of them in a day. or rush the end of toram’s playthrough and be unsatisfied with it. but i should still get the base game done by thursday. if i don’t manage any of the dlcs i’ll do them in breaks from veilguard like fun little flashback interludes

[bossuary]

Ｂｏｔｔｌｅｓ　ｏｎ　ｔｈｅ　Ｗａｌｌ

Ｈｉｓｓｉｎｇ　Ｗａｓｔｅｓ，　Ｂｕｒｉａｌ　Ｇｒｏｕｎｄ　Ｔｏｍｂ

𝘼𝙦𝙪𝙖 𝙈𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙨 - 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙗𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙡𝙮𝙧𝙞𝙪𝙢. 𝙋𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙛 𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙮. 𝘈 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵.

1𝘰𝘻 𝘝𝘰𝘥𝘬𝘢 1-2 𝘰𝘻 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘢ç𝘢𝘰 𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘑𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘦.

[dragonageconfessions]

CONFESSION:

It makes me sad thinking Betyar's owner was likely killed by Red Templars or Venatori and that faithful dog is going to spend the rest of his days guarding the shop and surviving by eating the remains of dead spiders. We not only don't deserve the loyalty of dogs in real life but in games too.

[dragonagesb]

This is a lot of rambling

Trying not to cry thinking about how Iron Bull grows up under the Qun a place where you don’t have names and are addressed by titles Bull’s title literally being Liar but he describes finding his purpose as being a slab of marble having the last of the junk knocked off and finally seeing the final form of what you’re meant to be taking shape

He becomes one of if not The Best Ben-hassrath (secret police) agent ever, Gatt (a former Tevinter slave now Qunari agent Bull himself freed and gave the nickname Gatt short for gattlock the explosives) says Bull kept the streets of Seheron (a place that’s been in the crossfire of a seemingly endless war between the Qunari and the Tevinter Imperium full of constant death) clean longer than anyone before or after him to the point it almost kills him waking up one day and not being able to find a single reason to do his job anymore

He reaches his breaking point and turns himself into the re-educators people that literally torture you to try and ‘re-educate’ his obv ptsd but idk if that really works so instead they send him far away to Orlais to work undercover as a mercenary “tal-vashoth” (people who from his own experiences are ruthless bloodthirsty killers) (still battling with the being an object/person) he loses his eye and builds his own family of misfits, makes a name for himself (literally)(and makes a point of using an article to sound more like a ‘mindless and destructive thing’)

Eventually a demon spitting hole opens in the sky and a longdead archdemon-controlling darkspawn magister shows up claiming god is dead and he’s taking over, and now Bull finds himself working for this inquisitor some rando from no where that is the worlds only chance at beating this undead not-god and the inquisitor is also the guy who in one instant has the power to sacrifice Bull’s new family for an alliance with the Qunari or not and have Bull officially be considered Tal-Vashoth and be excommunicated from his home, friends, and family

All this to say I thought about what if in Demands of The Qun you tell the chargers to hold their position and then Iron Bull returns to Skyhold afterwards all alone…still technically apart of the Qun still technically an agent of the Ben-Hassrath, still another tool to be used by someone else….and he just has to keep going, keep lying

I’m going to start crying jfc just the thought of Bull quietly sitting in the back of the Herald’s Rest all by himself, there’s still the hustle and bustle of Skyhold, all kinds of people coming and going but none of the background noise will be his boys anymore (´༎ຶ^༎ຶ`)

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

So many things wrong with these chars now but I need to mourn a min bc we are never getting "The rats play while the cat is gone, but my son Aemond will return with fire and blood."

which just...this show sucks man. this show fucking sucks.