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End Times Prophecy Headlines: June 6, 2023

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random dalish headcanons

halla are not raised for slaughter like goats or sheep, but when they die of illness or age or accident, every part of their body is used, to honour their life. usually a funeral is performed first. things like halla leather and halla horns are very expensive because of this; it’s rare the dalish will sell either to non-dalish, but the high price those goods fetch when sold to shems is a pretty good source of income if they get really desperate.

halla milk is definitely a staple of their diet though. halla milk isn’t as sweet as cow or goat milk but it is HUGELY superiour in terms of fat and protein content and makes really tart, tasty cheeses. you milk a halla for the same reason you milk a cow, it’s good for them.

all dalish can understand halla, who do not talk but make themselves understood to elves. it’s not just reading their body language like you would a mabari or a cat, but neither is it verbal words nor telepathic thought. the process is impossible to explain to shems. “you just /know/ what they mean,” lavellan says to cullen after trying to explain it to him for like an hour.

dalish spirits are strong as fuck, but their wines are typically shit, and mostly used ceremonially. that varies by clan, location, year, and luck, though. sometimes you forage some good shit.

lavellan was BLOWN AWAY by the ABUNDANCE of readily available sugar in haven and skyhold. sugar would have been an expensive luxury to his clan. that and the idea that shem are used to food just being like… delivered to them is like ????????? to him. most shem have never even butchered a chicken in their lives????????

like city elves, dalish marriages (they dont call it marriage, but lbr it’s marriage) are mostly arranged. dalish clans that we’ve seen are mostly small, and after a while everyone in it would be related to everyone else in some way, and i hc that they’re you know, intelligent enough to recognise incest = bad. there’s no stigma against a love match, it’s just kinda rare bc most of the people in your clan who you spend 99.99% of your time with are like, your first cousin. so chances are once you’re an adult your keeper eventually arranges a match, and it’s not like YOU MUST MARRY THIS PERSON OR BE CAST OUT FOREVER it’s like hey i found this girl from another clan who i think would be perfect for you, you should spend some time together and see if you’re into it. 

for them, it’s about tracking bloodlines for the purpose of knowing who everyone’s parents are; “pedigree” is a non-issue, unlike human nobility. you’re not matchmaking for pedigree kids, you’re matchmaking to create healthy, long-lasting, loving relationships that produce happy, healthy, supported children. 

family lines are tracked through the mother. they have no word for “bastard”

the attitude about homosexuality varies wildly both by clan and individual, but nowhere is it forbidden, no one sees it as inherently wrong or sinful, it would be refusing to reproduce that would be the problem.  at WORST, the attitude would be that it’s a selfish individual choice.

like the qunari, the dalish see transgender individuals as just being the gender they say they are, because surely they’d know best, right? nonbinary individuals are not unknown to them, and elvish has always had gender-neutral singular pronouns, and gender-neutral forms of gendered words, like lethallin (masculine), lethallan (feminine), lethallen (gender-neutral).

trans and nonbinary individuals are widely viewed as special and important. shem don’t understand but fuck ‘em.

kicking out mage children to die in the woods is stupid. if i HAVE to acknowledge it as canon because apparently it is now, i hc that was that an extreme minority view. one or two specific clans’ stupid decision is NOT a common, widespread practice. if a clan already has a lot of mages and is worried about templars, they make contact with another clan to harbour the mage child until a more permanent placement can be found. elves do not fear magic like humans do. magic is a precious commodity, and a USEFUL and RARE skill. it is a gift to them, not a curse.

dalish religious ceremonies involve a lot of song and dance, especially call-and-response type of songs. a lot of their song uses sounds that aren’t explicitly words, necessarily, but which are loaded with meaning anyway; this is a result of them substituting what they’ve lost of elvish.

they don’t really have the space to be hauling books around. they have an oral tradition, and most dalish are functionally illiterate in terms of the common tongue. they don’t really need to read. that said, some choose specifically to learn, and keepers/firsts usually make the effort to learn, since they’re usually the ones preserving and studying ancient elven artifacts which does include some books and scrolls.

their history being mostly oral, they also use song as a teaching tool. it’s much easier to teach a bunch of six-year-olds history lessons if it’s presented as catchy songs.

dalish dancing is way more expressive and interpretive than ballroom dancing. it’s meant to tell a story, not follow a set of rules, and how good you are at it is determined not by how well you follow predetermined steps but how good you are at getting your point across and how creative you are. your dance should make your audience *feel* something.

it’s also how the Youths flirt with each other, you gotta really practice ya moves for the next arlathvhen cuz what if neria from clan whatever thinks ur a scrub... ya gotta Bust A Move...

they craft elaborate costumes for their dances. everything on those costumes is symbolic in some way, meant to express something.

generally speaking storytelling is SUPER important to their culture. much of their values are taught by fables. elvish is an inherently metaphorical language, this has always been the case.

all dalish are taught to track and hunt with bow and arrow. obviously some are better at it than others, but everyone learns the basics just in case. everyone learns to provide for themselves just as everyone learns to defend themselves. children, men, women, elderly, everyone learns.

dalish courting involves a LOT of gift-giving on both sides. usually one party initiates it with a gift, and if the other party is interested, they return with a gift, and so on and so forth, the purpose being to show mutual commitment to providing for each other. it’s not regulated by gender roles.

the vallaslin ritual involves taking just enough lyrium and felandaris to trip balls and go into the woods and have a spiritual experience. used to be elves would take lyrium and meditate and receive a message from their chosen god, and that’s how you picked your patron, but the gods aren’t listening anymore, so you just kind of have to have your own epiphany about life and culture and yourself and stuff. it’s meant to purify your mind and clear any lingering fears or doubts away. then you purify your body and the keeper mixes your blood, their blood, and the keeper’s magic into an ink they embed under your skin.

vallaslin is applied when you are ready, not at a certain age. some get it as young as fourteen or fifteen, others have to wait until well into their twenties. it’s about maturity and being ready for adulthood. 

nobody has ever failed the ritual. that is, sometimes people can’t do it on the first or second etc attempt, but nobody has ever PERMANENTLY failed to complete it. a keeper who senses that a young adult is sensitive and might not do well at it is likely to encourage them to get a small design. it’s a keeper’s job to see their whole clan safely through the ritual. if someone fails, it’s as much the keeper’s failure as theirs.

everyone in the clan has a “job,” but if you’re not up to speed or where you should be, the keeper intervenes, finds out why, and fixes it – whether that’s through counseling, or assigning extra training, or figuring the individual just isn’t suited to the task and finding them something else that brings them pride to do instead.

they bathe a LOT, cleanliness is super important to them. shem stereotype them as being stinky wood savages but nah, once or twice daily bathing is widespread practise, and they’re super careful about keeping their water sources clean. 

nomadic life is hard as shit. most clans lose a couple members every year from age, illness, accident, starvation, or shem interference. some years are harder than others. babies and the elderly are especially at risk.

there’s a dalish saying of “two keepers, three opinions.” the arlathvhen can get… heated… with debate, but nobody takes being argued with personally, because if you can’t defend your position then it’s a bad position. debate is a bonding activity. it’s the keeper’s job, also, to make sure everyone’s opinion is heard.

you will pry shoeless elves from my cold dead fucking hands

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LOS ANGELES | 5 of the biggest takeaways from Comic-Con 2018

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LOS ANGELES | 5 of the biggest takeaways from Comic-Con 2018

LOS ANGELES  — San Diego Comic-Con 2018 ended Sunday as workers stripped the branding off the buildings, windows, buses, elevators, escalators and every other square inch of open space in the city’s Gaslamp District. Weary attendees squeezed in one last thing before heading home with bags of merchandise, sore feet, some sunburns and fewer dollars in their bank accounts.

The four-day comic book convention attracts some 130,000 souls every year who come for the swag, the parties, the exclusives, the stars and the wild experience of being with like-minded, and often costumed, pop culture fanatics. It has the potential to be the epicenter of geek culture — and for brands and studios, a valuable litmus test for what might pop and what might fizzle in the years to come.

Here are a few of the biggest takeaways from this year. ___ THE #METOO FACTOR After other big gatherings like the Sundance Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival made overtures to explicitly address harassment issues and detail procedures for how to report, Comic-Con, which has been criticized over the issue in the past, chose to defer to its standing Code of Conduct and partnerships with local law enforcement and private security companies. Programming director Eddie Ibrahim didn’t use his platform introducing nearly every Hall H panel to mention the topic at all.

For many female attendees, harassment at conventions is nothing new, but some noted an improved atmosphere. “I have seen a difference,” said Paige Campbell, a 22-year-old from Chicago. “I have been cosplaying for seven years. It’s been getting better, but we still have a long way to go.”

Also, after Chris Hardwick stepped down from moderating panels following misconduct allegations (which he has denied), he was replaced in many instances with women, like Yvette Nicole Brown and IGN’s Terri Schwartz.

GUNN FIRING UPSTAGES COMIC-CON There was some news out of Comic-Con — television’s first transgender superhero will appear on the CW’s “Supergirl” in Nia Nal (played by Nicole Maines), the beloved animated Star Wars series “Clone Wars” is coming back for another season, Andrew Lincoln confirmed his departure from “The Walking Dead” and a Walter White cameo was teased for “Better Call Saul” — but certainly not as much as years past. It didn’t help that this year nearly everything was upstaged by James Gunn, who was fired from writing and directing the third “Guardians of the Galaxy” by the Walt Disney Co. after controversial tweets from a decade ago were resurfaced. It dominated off-stage conversation from attendees and creators.

“It’s a tough one, you know,” said “Aquaman” director James Wan. “You’ve got to be mindful. It’s just that fine line of freedom of speech on one hand. And on the other hand, you’ve got to be mindful of things that get out there. I don’t know. Where do we sit today, in the culture and the space – are we going too far one way or are we going too far the other way?”

WARNER BROS. STEALS THE SHOW Warner Bros. has had some ups and downs with its DC Universe films, but with a clear runway to be the biggest show of the convention with the absence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars or “Game of Thrones,” the studio came to Comic-Con ready to fight with “Aquaman,” ”Shazam!” and some early footage from “Wonder Woman 1984,” which is only three and a half weeks into its shoot. It was easily the best-received presentation of the convention and generated interest for its superhero slate with a notably light-hearted tone, in stark contrast to the DC darkness that has basically become a cliché (and fodder for a “Deadpool 2” meta joke). The studio also for the second year broke out its horror films from New Line into a second event, ScareDiego, held at a more appropriate post-dinner hour to preview films like “It: Chapter Two,” which also just started filming, and “The Nun.”

A BIGGER PARTY SCENE For years Entertainment Weekly’s starry Saturday night party was the only bash in town, but everyone has been getting into the branded party game this year from Variety to Nerdist luring attendees with promises of star sightings, free drinks, fun sights and photo booths. The WIRED Cafe was a bumping scene every day with a DJ blaring tunes as guests waited in line to see folks like Joe Manganiello and “Riverdale’s” Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse, National Geographic brought out astronauts on stilts and Neil deGrasse Tyson, while Doug Liman held court at a Variety and YouTube event. The EW soiree on the Hard Rock rooftop was once again packed to the gills with celebrities of every kind, from “Aquaman’s” Jason Momoa to “Sharknado’s” Tara Reid. The stars of “The Good Place” could be seen dancing to Nicki Minaj, as Ezra Miller tested out the big branded float in the middle of the pool and the new star of “Doctor Who,” Jodie Whittaker, bounced around the party with a big smile on her face.

LINES, LINES EVERWHERE, ESPECIALLY IN TOWN Comic-Con is infamous for its epic lines to get into Hall H, the 6,500-seat room that hosts the highest profile stars and studios, but for many it was not a problem to breeze into the fabled room. Sure, some still slept overnight in line to ensure the best possible seat, but many reported that it was no problem to get in. Instead, the biggest lines were often to get into the Rotten Tomatoes “Your Opinion Sucks!” live-shows and for the various branded installations and experiences like the “Jack Ryan” Escape Room (3-hour wait), the Laika exhibit with a Neil Gaiman-signing (5-hour wait), or a “Ready Player One” installation (which also had its own escape room and hosted nearly 2,000 people a day).

By Associated Press

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End Times Prophecy Headlines: June 6, 2022

End Times Prophecy Headlines: June 6, 2022

End Times Prophecy Headlines.com HEADLINES MONDAY June 6, 2022 And OPINION “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.” —Matthew 24:4 “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky ===INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE: New U.S. sanctions target yachts with Putin ties; Russia takes majority control of key…

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End Times Prophecy Headlines: June 4, 2020

End Times Prophecy Headlines: June 4, 2020

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“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.” —Matthew 24:4

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End Times Prophecy Headlines: June 4, 2019

End Times Prophecy Headlines: June 4, 2019

Bible prophecy in today’s news headlines

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End Times Prophecy Headlines: June 4-6, 2021

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End Times Prophecy Headlines: June 4, 2018

End Times Prophecy Headlines: June 4, 2018

Bible prophecy in today’s news headlines

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“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.” —Matthew 24:4

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