#magrallen

[felassan]

where have we seen ouroboros before in Dragon Age?

Iron Ring

the Magrallen

this symbol on the ground when Flemeth meets Kieran. it also crops up elsewhere

and they’re not eating themselves but here’s Himself with a twinheaded serpenty staff

[doebucks]

Made the piss snake Magrallen circulum infinitus from Dragon Age Absolution 🐍

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[thethirdamell]

Chapter 236 / ??? - From Kirkwall We Fled: Maddened Fandom: Dragon Age (Dragon Age Origins: Awakening & Dragon Age 2) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings Additional Tags: Blood Magic, Dark, Horror, Angst, Sexual Content Main Pairings (M/M): Anders / Hawke, Anders / Amell Summary:

“Magic exists to serve man, and never to rule over him. Foul and corrupt are they who have taken His gift, and turned it against His children. They shall be named Maleficar, accursed ones. They shall find no rest in this world, or Beyond.” Anders knew the verse. Every mage did. But Anders was a runner. He ran from the Circle. He ran from the Templars. He ran from relationships. So what did he care? He was never going to rest anyway.

Chapter Excerpt:

Anders was never supposed to see Hawke again.

He wasn’t supposed to survive the Harvester or three months attached to the magrallen. He was supposed to die, but it was like he didn’t have the decency. He was worse than a roach, and seeing him sit up and run a weary hand through his greying hair made Anders’ heart race, and his hands shake, and his skin crawl.

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[dalishious]

I’ve seen people talk about how cadash can dream with solas despite no connection to the fade, but what about a dwarven hero of ferelden and kinloch hold? I’ve never played a dwarf warden up to the circle before but I can’t imagine they’d cut it out... is there any reasoning given as to how you can enter the fade that you know of? can oghren go?

Dwarves can get pulled into the Fade from strong external forces like anyone. 

In The Calling book, Utha is thrown into the Fade by a demon with the rest of the party

In DA:O, the sloth demon throws a dwarf PC and/or Oghren into the Fade with the rest of the party

In DA:2, Marethari’s ritual is able to throw Varric into the Fade with the rest of the party

In the comic Until We Sleep, Varric is thrown into the fade by the Magrallen with the rest of the party

They just don’t go their naturally. And needless to say it’s probably a wicked scary experience lol

[spratwurst]

I’ve put together a list with parts of the DA lore that we don’t know much about and that could potentially become relevant in the next installment... for reasons. It’s incomplete currently and I might expand it sometime, but here we go anyway.

People & creatures

Titans

Sha-Brytol

Evanuris

Sentinel elves

Old Gods, especially Razikale and Lusacan

Forgotten Ones

Scaled Ones

Rock wraiths (Profane)

Forbidden Ones

The Stone

Band of Three

Kossith

Phantasmal warriors

Magisters Sidereal, the Architect

Dreamers

Golems, the Nexus Golem and Ethereal Golem specifically

Tyrdda Bright-Axe, her lover Lady of the Skies, and the daughter Morrighan'nan

Elf-blooded people

Varterral

Malvernis

Gangue Shade

Locations

Crossroads

Void

Black City

Primeval Thaig

Weisshaupt 

Tevinter Imperium

Objects

Eluvians

Lyrium wells

Foci

Arulin'Holm

Lights of Arlathan

Anvil of the Void

Magrallen

Other

Blight & Blight magic

Taint

Lyrium & Red lyrium

Blood magic

Tranquility

Litany of Adralla

Uthenera

Veilfire

[irlaimsaaralath]

SPOILERS POTENTIALLY BELOW FOR THE COMICS AND STUFF. CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

That said...

@thevikingwoman - Good point about the codex being a potentially unreliable source. And, I agree that the bad press that it gets comes primarily from the Chantry. The Chantry uses tales of blood magic like they use any tale of magic that they can't control or understand: they twist it to turn it into a cudgel to bludgeon their charges and the unaware populace into believing what they're selling. "Magic bad. We're necessary." It's just another instrument in their collection to keep mages leashed and everyone else afraid, keeping everyone in line.

I'm also inclined to adopt Solas's take on it: just another type of magic.

@elvenbeard - I've also read the bit about the manner in which the blood is taken having an effect on the power of the spell derived from it. More violence = more power. In this case, however, I think violence here could be replaced with any number of things, as in it need not be physically violent. Maybe subverting someone's mind to the point that they give freely might have the same power as taking it forcefully if you've put the same amount of effort into subduing the person or twisting their minds into submission.

@meat-mill - Are demons an essential part of blood magic, though? I thought they could be an element of it, but that they weren't inherent in it. It's my understanding that blood magic is used to create the phylacteries kept in Circles for their mages, and certainly the Chantry isn't cavorting with demons to create them, I'd think.

Oo. The magrallen. THAT's interesting and something I was kind of looking for. I haven't read the comic that it's in, but I've read about the magrallen on wikis and such. Do we think that it was just a one-off? A contraption created specifically for Maric and the purpose it served or do we think that similar contraptions are used regularly in blood magic? Perhaps not to such a profound degree, but I guess I'm wondering if maybe the one that held Maric was a super tricked out version of an implement that is common use in blood magic.

I'm hoping that the answer is yes, it could be a common thing among blood magic practitioners for...reasons. If so, would it be called a magrallen? Having not read the comic, I don't know if that name was specific to the one Maric was in or a name for the thing in general. Anyone know?

Also! Thanks to everyone who's commented and reblogged! These conversations are always so fun and helpful! Keep 'em coming!

Blood Magic

Okay, DA meta folk and, you know, everyone else, too.  Talk to me about blood magic.

Is it 185% bad?  Can it be good?  Can it be used for lofty purposes?  Merrill anyone?

Also, this is apparently from a codex:

“Just as treacherous, blood magic allows the Veil to be opened completely so that demons may physically pass through it into the physical world.”

If it allows travel from the Fade to the real world, wouldn’t it necessarily allow the reverse?  I mean, I know it took like an entire world full of lyrium AND blood magic to get Tevinter into the Golden City, but what if you didn’t want to send a whole posse?  What if you just wanted to send one person?  Or a part of a person?  Or a THING?

Currently accepting any and all comments and head canons about blood magic.  And tagging people that might be (but probably aren’t interested), but I think y’all are smart and clever and so I’m tagging you anyway.

Hearts.

@savvylittleminx @savvylittlewriting @thevikingwoman @ket-mofo @liaragaming @elvenbeard @elveny @star–nymph @fragmented-eluvian @kurogoesinthedas @ellstersmash

[calwyne]

How the Evanuris shaped reality through the vallaslin.

We know that the evanuris were god-like figures. It is constantly and heavily implied that this status of 'godhood' was beyond simple reverence, it affected their nature. As Solas says 'the first among our people are not killed so easily'. In the canonical comic 'Until we sleep' we learn of a tevinter magister forming a cult of somniari, 'dreamers' with the goal of using the blood of great dragons to shape the minds of dreamers, and subsequently, reality itself.

Aurelius Titus is convinced that the magisters of old were close to unlocking the secrets of 'godhood', and he firmly believes that this secret can only be obtained by using the blood of great dragons to shape the dreams of others. He has had Maric captive, using the great dragon blood in his veins to power an ancient device called a Magrallen.

Who before the magisters supposedly acheived godhood? The Evanuris, the only among the people who were permitted to take the form of dragons. To take the form of a dragon, supposedly a 'divine' form, was considered an offense.

Only gods were permitted to take this form, and we know from 'until we sleep' that dragon blood is key to blood-magic that allows one to shape the dreams and spirits of others to command the fade. Let's take a look at this very interesting mural that we come across in tresspasser.

Here we see those with the vallaslin are connected to something. That something feeding into them is marked with the wavy lines that we have seen time-and-agsin representing the fade and dreams in other murals. In the center of this is an orb-like structure, potentially shaping or directing this connection. Those with the vallaslin are surrounded by an artificial looking halo, (perhaps drained of dreams, of will) each of them with markings foating over them. We know how much solas believes in free will. I'm sure we can imagine him working to ensure that his people were not misused in this manner. Could this be the power the magisters sought? The power to shape the dreams and mind of others? Once freed, the elves stand with no connection to power working on them. The fade surrounds them in a natural way, their dreams their own.

I believe this was what Titus was trying to achieve - however, despite years at his disposal, drawing Marics blood, he doesn't seem to have made it far at all besides giving himself acess to a strange kind of dragon-magic. What was he missing? What was he actively seeking at the time? Apparently he was trying to infiltrate the Sanctuary of Yavana, witch of the wilds, Flemeth's daughter and Morrigans elder sister. The place where dragons find sanctuary, and where Yavana has used Marics blood to awake a great queen of dragons.

So Aurelian Titus was able to use his power to become a magister, to gain power, but to achieve more than this he needs one of the great dragons alive. What is it that Dorian called the orb when he recognised it from ancient texts of tevinter?

I find this name 'vessel of dreams' very interesting. We see one of these orbs involved in the strange power that connected to wearers of the vallaslin. Were they integral in shaping dreams? Draining them perhaps? Using them in some manner to shape reality, it seems. When his orb is broken, he is horrified, shaken. If asked if it can be repaired, he tells us 'that would not restore what has been lost'. Is it possible that the dreams of his people, stored within, have been lost, now that the 'vessel of dreams' has been broken. I believe that the Evanuris used this power the magisters seek to shape reality, to become the gods they claimed to be, and this power used the vallaslin to drain and enslave the dreams of their servants.

[luciouschest]

so i was doing some reading on the stuff i haven’t played and 

As Varric shoots the Magrallen, he is accidentally pulled into the Fade, where he wakes up to see Bianca awaiting him. She tells him she found a captain willing to cross the guild and sail them both away. Apparently both Bianca and Varric were on the run from the "Guild" and that she was the designer of Varric's signature crossbow, which at the time wasn't named yet and was meant to make them both rich. It is insinuated that Bianca and Varric never were able to escape and knowing that, he realized that the Bianca he was talking to was just an illusion of the Fade. Knowing that the Bianca spirit wasn't the real one that he loved and lost so long ago, Varric exits his dream.

i’m going to fist fight whoever wrote this

[felassan]

assorted thoughts on DA: Absolution -

IMDB from a month ago was right

it looks good, I'm excited

stacked voice cast

diverse voice cast & characters

Cassandra my beloved

I hope there will be a Season 2

Qwydion 🥺 Vashoth?

the fact that it's been built in close collaboration with BioWare’s creative team (including head writers and lead creative directors), and that it was a big passion project for the show creator, who spent weeks immersed in DA lore to prepare and said they want to make something fans could be proud of.. 👌

"PS: if you’ve read this far, see you on Dragon Age Day. Or maybe sooner" hellooo what does THIS mean 👁️ you have the attention of each one of my many Pride demon eyeballs. another Absolution trailer, episode one or something of Absolution dropping early as a preview, or something like Absolution character profiles or behind-the-scenes/making of reels on or before DA Day? or something for DA:D?

Lords of Fortune once again prominent, again I'm guessing they have a role to play in DA:D

Evariste Lemarque is the latest minor character to ascend in DA's time-honored tradition of Ascended Extras. he was a neat side NPC, I'm looking forwards to seeing his expanded backstory/characterization etc, I love it when DA side characters get some spotlight & fleshing out tbh. he makes sense as a group leader given his history leading the Watcher's Reach refugees. given his appearance in the scene with Cass and Leli and the fact that he can be recruited in DAI as an Inquisition Agent, I guess he is the group's Inquisition contact and that the group are being sent on this quest on behalf of/at the behest of the Inquisition (or Inquisition remnants timeperiod depending). it reminds me a bit of Bull's Charger's, Sutherland's Company, Vaea and co, and the adventuring group questing on behalf of the Inquisition in Genetivi Dies in the End. like a show about an Inquisition War Table mission :) very cool!! the world feels more alive and dynamic when we have the sense that lots of things are happening in the background off-screen around the games

3 fighters, 2 mages and Miriam/a thief, sounds like the classic DA and RPG party with a team leader setup.

the Cass and Leli scene reads like the Inquisition briefing our group on their assigned quest

Miriam's childhood looks like what Fenris' must have been like :( I wonder if the other child in the flashback is her sibling. I wonder if something happened to the other child at the hands of the woman who enslaved Miriam or because of Rezaren, contributing to Miriam's trauma :(

I am once again wondering if, given the heist and thieves plotline, some ideas and aspects from Joplin (with its "spies and heists, secret heroes nobody knows about" vision) were rolled into Absolution. I am also once again thinking about the Magrallen. so our latest macguffin is an extremely dangerous likely Tevinter magical artifact fuelled by blood magic, while the Magrallen was a Tevinter magical device also powered by blood magic which dates back to ancient times, the time of the Dreamers. Titus was using the Magrallen to augment his power, with the intent of restoring Tevinter's greatness using his augmented Dreamer powers to do mind control and brainwashing. he talked about how the ancient Dreamers commanded the fade, "mages sculpting dreams. Dreams sculpting reality". Rezaren also seems to want to build some kind of new, better, grand future for Tevinter regardless of the cost, albeit one that's more righteous and better for everyone involved not just those in power (and the question posed then is: is it ok to fix Tevinter, and create a better future for everyone in it from all parts of the society, if the cost of that is mindcontrolling everyone or whatever else? reminds me a bit of the questions posed by the Control and Synthesis endings in ME). maybe the Circulum Infinitus is a small, mobile/portable version of the Magrallen? it presumably does something similar or adjacent at least. blood magic (and Rezaren appears to be a blood mage) already allows for mind control. With a portable macguffin that boosts blood magic powers, a blood mage could probably mind control many, many people, maybe even a nation or the whole magocracy (all those in power in Tevinter)

the hooded figure with many eyes is tied to the Pride Demon I'm sure

seen a few folks wonder if the horned silhouette is Iron Bull, I don't think this is the case, I think it's the dragon skull/dead dragon from 0:12 in the Absolution teaser trailer

maybe Rezaren and possibly also Tassia are the children of the woman who enslaved Miriam before? Rezaren and the woman's hairstyles and clothes look kind of similar, and that could explain why he's (if it's him) the man at the heart of Miriam's misery. and isn't the flaming sword symbol on Tassia's hammer a version of the Templar symbol? the Imperial Templar Order falls under the authority of the Magisters and the Tevinter Circle of Magi. so for Tassia, as she's dutiful and hardworking, as a dutiful Imperial Templar that could be why she's aiding Rezaren, and her character's personal conflict will be about how much she's willing to stand by and let happen for 'the good of Tevinter', and where exactly she draws the line. if they're siblings, she'd be a non-magic scion of a noble magic house (if Rezaren being born into privilege is anything to go by), and therefore perhaps feel duty-bound to contribute towards the greatness of her house and country in her own, non-magical way, in lieu of being a mage herself.

it threw me for a loop a bit that Matt Mercer isn't voicing the character that looks like Matt Mercer hh

with the way Rezaren sees himself, and the prideful notion he has that he should be the one to build a better Tevinter.. he sounds like precisely the kind of person who would be susceptible to a Pride demon. haha we in danger

what could Hira's secret be? maybe she is a blood mage, that learned the power in order to help her crusade? with her crusade against Tevinter, I wonder if she has crossed paths with Dorian, Mae and the Lucerni

the most powerful man in Tevinter: the Archon? the Black Divine? Rezaren? I wonder if our group are stealing the Circulum from Rezaren or if both they and Rezaren are opposing forces both trying to steal it at the same time from the most powerful man in Tevinter.

[dalishious]

Who is Maevaris “Mae” Tilani?

I could answer this question by just saying “Yes, she is a character from the comics.” But instead I’d rather answer by explaining a bit about her.

WARNING: This post contains panels from the Dragon Age comics Those Who Speak and Until We Sleep, including transmisogynistic violence... Because it would be a disservice to not recognize both the good and bad of Mae’s character, and that includes how she is treated by the writers.

ROLE IN THE COMICS

Maevaris Tilani is first introduced in Those Who Speak #1. For some context, Alistair is on a quest to track down his father, Maric, and has enlisted the help of Isabela and Varric. In Antiva, they learned that he was taken by a man named Aurelian Titus, a Magister of the Tevinter Imperium. This is where we meet Mae.

Varric: Alistair, this is Maevaris Tilani--widow to my cousin Thorold. Maevaris: King or not, you’ve got hands like a stonemason. I’d love to see what you can do with them. Alistair: It’s... a pleasure to meet you, Magister. Alistair: She’s really a magister? Varric: Recognized by the Imperial Senate.

Mae is Varric’s cousin in-law, and gave him information on the whereabouts of Aurelian Titus; specifically that he would be in attendance of the ball the story starts off at. 

Because Alistair is Alistair, he immediately confronts Titus and a fight breaks out rather fast. One Magister tells Mae it isn’t her fight and that she should back off, but she says she promised Alistair, Isabela and Varric that they had her protection, and doesn’t break promises. The man then calls her a whore,  and so she fucking roasts his ass like the pig he is. (Sidenote: this is part of a larger pattern with these comics--literally all the female characters are treated horribly. I really should make a post about this all on its own.) 

Varric: Remind me never to make you angry. Maevaris: Good advice for anyone.

When the baddies are all taken care of, Mae urges the three to leave before the authorities get there. She kisses Varric on the cheek goodbye, and gives him one final warning: That based on a battle cry from one of the Magisters, Titus is a dragon cultist, something Tevinter deals with a lot of apparently, and they’re “never pretty.”

Maevaris appears again in Until We Sleep, this time with a bigger part. At this point, Alistair and co have gained the aid of the Qunari in attacking the stronghold of Titus and his cult. Here he has been keeping Maric attached to a device called the Magrallen, that’s using his special dragon blood to make him very powerful. But Maric isn’t the only one we see Titus has locked up...

Varric (narrating): --But I certainly didn’t expect what I found. Maevaris: Varric...? Varric: Mae? What have they done to you? Varric (narrating): Maevaris Tilani is one of the best of us. She’s a mage, she’s family, and that’s all I’ll say.

What you are seeing is how the Gaider decided to reveal Maevaris is a trans woman. No, I’m not joking, I wish I was.

Varric frees Mae and gives her his cape to cover herself. She says she wishes he didn’t see her like that, and Varric says he wishes he didn’t get her involved. She cuts him off and tells him that Titus needs to be stopped, and all the “blood sucking vultures” as she calls them who want to “restore the Tevinter Imperium.” 

But as I said, all the female characters in these comics are treated poorly, and Mae’s suffering is bordering on torture porn. It’s kinda hard to read.

Maevaris: I don’t want you to see me like this. Varric: I’m sorry. Varric: I should never have asked for your help. Varric: We shouldn’t have left you at the ball-- Maevaris: Shut up.

Mae directs Varric into the laboratory, where by shooting the Magrallen, he sends them all into the Fade. When Varric finds her, she is at a fancy bathhouse with her dead husband, Thorald. Where Varric was (at least momentarily) tricked by the Fade, Mae is fully aware of where they are, and is actually quite happy.

Maevaris: Oh, don’t look at me like that--I know he’s just a spirit. Maevaris: That doesn’t mean it’s not lovely to see him again. Maevaris: You were always so patient with me... Maevaris: I’ll never forget that. Thorald: Yes, my love.

She asks Varric why it has to be them who saves the world, why they can’t just stay in the Fade and be happy. Varric responds by asking if she really doesn’t want revenge on Titus, then. Mae uses magic to construct a new outfit and the two head off... But not before we need to see another image of her half naked and beaten, just in case you forgot from the last issue.

She and Varric find Isabela trapped in a nightmare, where Isabela is part of the Qun. (Remember how I said the women are treated horribly in this series? Well, Isabela definitely has it the worst, and I can’t even get into that right now. Just know that this is part of a larger insult to her character.) Skipping through all of that, Isabela finally snaps out of it, and Mae offers her some advice in my favourite quote from these comics and one of their gems, for sure:

Maevaris: It always is--letting someone else define you. [Re: Isabela saying the Qun would be easier. I know, I know, like I said, that’s BS for another day] Maevaris: I don’t know you, but I know that much. Maevaris: Look yourself in the eye and take strength from what you see--Damn what anyone else believes.

Being the party’s mage, Mae guides Varric and Isabela through the Fade, where the finally get to the last of the crew: Alistair, who’s dream has him riding in a forest with Maric as prince of Ferelden. Again, skip skip skipping along the plot because I don’t want to spoil the whole story in this post, the four plus Maric find their way to Titus’ dreamworld, where we see the kind of Tevinter he wants. Isabela asks Mae if she wouldn’t do the same, in his position. She answers by saying that the people of Tevinter are too prideful, and that magic is not the answer to everything. (An interesting response, for a Magister.)

Maevaris: He wants to restore the Imperium, ruling Thedas with the power to reshape men’s hearts. Isabela: And you wouldn’t, if you had his power? Maevaris: My people have a wounded pride. Maevaris: Magic is useful, but it doesn’t fix everything.

Cue a fight scene. It ends with Mae placing a barrier around Maric as he approaches Titus, and decapitates him. The group returns to the real world, to find Maric barely alive thanks to the Magrallen. Mae initially tries to console Alistair by saying that maybe he could be saved, but knows the truth is a different story.

Alistair: It’s... really bad. Maevaris: There are healing magics. Maevaris: I’ve heard rumours about the Dalish, and another Magister, exiled to Anderfels... Maevaris: Legend says they could graft spirit onto flesh, to restore life. Maevaris: But... I don’t know.

Alistair destroys the Magrallen completely, and with that, Maric burns up and dies. The crew part ways and Mae returns to Tevinter.

ROLE IN DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION

What’s that? Mae is in Inquisition? Well, not truly. But you may recall Dorian name-dropping her as a good friend of his, and Varric can be overheard saying they are in contact through letters with an Inquisition scout in ambient dialogue at Skyhold.

She is also a part of the War Table mission, A Friend in Qarinus. It details that Mae is trying to introduce a law in the senate that would help stop Venatori activities, and the Inquisition has the opportunity to offer support. She responds in a letter:

My Lady Inquisitor,

Considerable as your support has been, I'm saddened to report my motion died on the Senate floor... although I am hardly surprised. My fellows in the Magisterium don't enjoy the thought of having their "freedom" limited in any fashion. That was, however, hardly the point of the motion. It was a statement that needed to be made, and your support allowed me to make it far louder and clearer than I ever would have on my own. So I thank you. With any luck, this will draw support from those who feel as I do. It will also draw fire from Venatori cultists still in the shadows, but I say let them come. I will not back down in the face of such fools. I'm sending along a few things which I hope will aid your efforts, and will see what more I can drum up. Give my love to Dorian. The poor boy is such a hothouse orchid, he must be wilting in the cold.

Magister Maevaris Tilani

Come Trespasser, Dorian says that he and Maevaris have been working together in hopes of creating a group who’s goal is to restore Tevinter, and sure enough, in Dorian’s epilogue, it says they have done as much, forming the Lucerni. The two are featured together in one of his slides.

This is mainly why people are hoping she will appear in the next Dragon Age game; it makes sense.

WORLD OF THEDAS: VOL 2

Mae’s entry in WoT:v2 gives us more information on her background. 

Mae came out as trans when she was fifteen, which caused a scandal among the nobility in Tevinter. But Maevaris had total support from her father, described as a kind and understanding man, and her family was extremely wealthy thanks to ties with the dwarven Ambassadoria. This helped matters greatly.

When Mae’s father was executed as a scapegoat, she took revenge against the allies that abandoned him. As customary, she was to inherit his seat in the Magisterium, but many other Magisters challenged this, saying that she “flies in the face of every tradition held dear”. Mae used their family relations with the dwarves to outmanoeuvre her opponents, and was granted her rightful seat.

Through all that, she also fell in love with Thorald Tethras, and they had a sincere and loving relationship. But Thorald was assassinated in 9:37 when visiting Minrathous by Mae’s enemies. She spent her inheritance from Thorald on exacting revenge.

It ends by saying that Mae has a unique reputation in the Magisterium, walking on a balance of fear and respect.

IN SUMMARY

Maevaris Tilani is a confident, empathetic, caring, intelligent, driven, and talented mage who has had to deal with quite a lot, is willing to fight for what she sees is right, ready to take change into her own hands, has spent her life doing what will make her happy, regardless of social stigma, and doesn't give a fuck if people disapprove of that.

However, there is one thing that I dislike about Mae, (besides how she is treated in the comics): She displays a similar view on slavery as Dorian, dismissing Isabela insulting slavery by just saying that everyone has slaves. But given that by Inquisition she is pushing for more and more reform for her country, I hope this is something that she has/will have grown out of.

Mae is easily one of the more fleshed out minor characters in the franchise, and this is why I’d love to see her developed even more.

I hope this answers your question and then some, Anon!

I’m gonna be a pathetic bitch and start pointing out I have a ko-fi on any time-consuming meta. So hey, if you’d like/are able to support this blog, why not consider checking out my ko-fi?

[dalishious]

Does anything important happen in until we sleep? (Something that causes varric to be in the fade if)

Oh boy I’m sorry this will probably make zero sense without reading the whole series but I’ll try my best... Varric, Isabela and Alistair were on the hunt for Maric. It turned out Maric was being used to power this thing called the “Magrallen,” because Theirins have magic dragon blood, which a Magister named Titus was using to become mega powerful, wanting to “restore Tevinter” to it’s “past glory” by creating a cult of Dreamers. Varric shoots the giant red orb and everyone in the vicinity gets sucked into the Fade.