#music of thedas

[evermorelore]

𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑠; 𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑛 🌻 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝐸𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑄𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑖 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠. 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒. 8𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 / 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑏𝑒

[thorgans-guide-to-thedas]

The Anderfels

A great expanse of sandstone and savanna holds the vibrancy of diverse people and cultural artistry. Connected by vast trade highways and driven by unique crafts, the Anderfels pull cultural inspirations from sub-saharan and West Africa.

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[andarateia]

LYRIUM: SONG OF THEDAS

A millennia of history in two paragraphs. The truth about the Maker, elves, dwarves, Titans, and the Evanuris - and it's all thanks to lyrium, three little words, and one big song!

[lafaiette]

Guys, I'll be honest, I'm not really feeling it

[mrs-gauche]

Ghil Dirthalen on YouTube uploaded the music track that was played before yesterday's Gameplay Showcase!! 💜💜💜

[pinacoladamatata]

Not sure if it's reassuring to me that several people on twitter coming forth to state they've played part of the game saying the actual gameplay maintains that dark fantasy feel, or if it's making me more suspicious

[seeker-ophelia]

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

Attention all; Bards and Beauties, Monsters and Men, Dwarves, Elves, and Qunari alike!

(NO Veilguard Spoilers!)

Everyone's Favorite Bard, Aly of The Dread Halla Tavern, is releasing a new Album! You might know her from the Heartbreaking Lavellan's Lament, The Classic, Infamous, Thedas Drinking Song, or The Scandalous and Hotly-Debated Chantry Boy!

Find us on the Magical Platform TWITCH at 8PM in the mountains, 7PM in California, and 10PM over eastways! (Friends across the pond, it'll be like 2am, go to sleep)

Lets spend the last night before Veilguards Release Celebrating More Beautiful Ballads, Knee-Slapping Jigs, and Classic Folk Rock Drinking Songs!

Hope To See You There, Dareth Shiral!

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

sorry to message but i just wanted to yell because I saw a post and yOU’RE THE AUTHOR OF FALLOUT FROM THE FADE ???? oh my goodness it’s my favourite fic ive read it SO many times.

i left a comment on ao3 last night because i finished reading it again and i just genuinely hope one day you finish it (i understand you have much going on i am just greedy).

but yes thank you so much for creating it, fenris and hawke are everything to me and this fic is my canon no matter what happens in veilguard. 💜

hahaha HELLO yes that is indeed I... I guess i do owe a little bit of an explanation here since its been uh... like 4 years since I last updated, yeah :| But it still makes me so happy that even after so long people still enjoy my little pile of suffering and yearning!

I don't know how many people who used to follow it are still on tumblr (I think a lot of people i used to write with/who would comment have deleted their tumblrs and AO3 accounts in the intervening years alas) but i do I owe anyone remaining a little context I guess lol. Long story made short is like very shortly after my last update i got broken up with unexpectedly from my 4 year relationship, and went into a bit of a spiral about it. I didn't fully stop writing at this point (though I think nothing I wrote in that like... year or more ended up posted anywhere), but I did realize that when I went to work on my ongoing stuff I was in a place where I was like... only wanting to write about anger/losing relationships rather than healing ones. And that part of me wanted to change some of the things I had planned for the following parts and ending of Fallout From the Fade. And so I decided to take a step back from it for a while to see if I actually wanted to make those changes when I was less bitter or if I wanted to follow my original plan.

And that took me about a year, emotionally. However by then I had actually left my prior job (where I spent a lot of time hiking/camping in the wilderness of Utah with no internet, and I used that time for writing), and started graduate school courses. Aaaannnd grad school has been slowly eating my life since. I've only posted I think one other fanfic since then, and it was a very short prose-poem one shot. Another contributing factor was my gaming tech was too old to actually play Trespasser when it came out, and by the time I got a laptop that could handle it, I had to replay the whole game but I was working full time, etc... and i felt really disconnected from the DA fandom since I couldn't read all the new fic/understand all the lore deep dive posts/experience it with everyone else simultaneously. Oh yeah and I work a second job as a professional mermaid in varying degrees of intensity depending on the season/oportunties available haha.

All that being said. I actually have written more of FFtF in the last 2 years. But like I said in the other post I made kinda recently, the long gaps between my later updates (vs the ones I was doing way more regularly in 2016-2018) had me rethink the approach I was using to write and post it, which was a chapter at a time. It felt like stringing people along in kind of a mean way to dump a chapter and then vanish for another year, and I knew I couldn't promise consistency while doing a masters/PhD program. So I've been kind of fiddling away at it slowly still, both actual writing of following chapters, and some substantial firming up/drafting sections in my outline to get to the eventual ending and ensure it's more cohesive than a lot of my slapdash chapters. But! Idk! I do also def work slower without the fun of having an audience, and miss that. and I never actually asked of the people who are left and still wanna read more of it, if they'd rather just get a chapter every 6 months or so as I scrounge it out. If you are one of those people and have an opinion def let me know.

I will say, the imminent presence of Veilguard does have me more inspired and creative again, and some of that has been going to Fallout. Especially since I'm no longer watching the videos/gameplay bioware is putting out since they have SOOO many spoilers and I wanna go into the game at least semi blind, so my creative energy has to go towards my personal stuff rather than joining everyone else in speculation and hype now. I'm definitely not promising I will have it close to finished by October when Veilguard releases, because I'm still in grad school and the next months are busy for me in terms of mermaid work too, but I am hoping I can make some good chunks of progress between now and then. But then if I say that and can't follow through after all I also don't wanna let people down.

Anyway yeah, it's sort of a lot of conflicting thoughts. But I'm still rotating Hawke and Fenris and this fic in my mind even these years later... which for me is honestly pretty normal. I mean I have whole original novels/worldbuilding ideas/etc that I've worked on for 10-15 years in my own time haha, I've been writing fiction for fun since I was like 10, so I think I also just think of stories/writing across a bigger timeline than people who start writing with fanfiction (which is MUCH faster paced) than original fiction. The difference of course is no one sees my original stuff so there's no one to care if i take 2 years between chunks of progress. SO I guess what I am trying to say is, yes definitely it is not abandoned, I am plodding away at it bit by bit, I also hope I can finish it one day!!!! that is within this decade i hope! whether or not anyone else is left to read it but me haha

[brekkie-e]

I will give the haters this, I left the defeat screen up for a while, and I swear to god the ambient Normandy music was playing. Truly a Mass Effect sound track. I think it would be so funny if Mass Effect 5 comes out and it has serious Dragon Age vibes. My conspiracy theory is they got the files switched up accidentally.

[melonyfelonyfellonme]

Was worried for a couple months my order hadn't gone through properly but it's here and it's gorgeous !!!!

(Apologies for the horrific lighting but I was pretty excited hahahaha)

[evermorelore]

𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑠: 𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑠 👑 𝑌𝑜𝑢'𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 - 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑂𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑠. 𝐴𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚, 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒'𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎, 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑦. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒. 8���𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 / 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑇𝑢𝑏𝑒

[thorgans-guide-to-thedas]

Seheron

A contested and war-torn land filled with all sorts of dangers to those who do not know its ways. From prowling beasts to fatal landscapes, the mountains of Seheron will test your resolve in more than one way.

Horror/suspense style playlist for DA TTRPG

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[shinceltyblewup]

Anyways I think Hal'ain deserves to be really bitter and angry post-messy divorce I really do make him too nice sometimes. It will be on sight in Veilguard but maybe they'll kiss again, eventually. To everyone else's detriment.

[baelavelaryon]

spent so much time modding that i didn't realise it was almost midnight lol

[thedragonagelesbian]

yknow those nightmare da fights that pit you against a revenant and an arcane horror together

thats cyrus and anders.