#the gavorn (brothers? cousins?) i feel like they also say something about stone sense and that feels adjacent to this | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mabaris · 2 months ago

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ok i’m listening to yesterday’s vows and vengeance episode and i had to pause immediately because harding swearing by the stone was so unexpected??? the idea that surfacer dwarves still believe in the stone as an actual religion is so interesting because unlike the other religions in thedas that believe they were abandoned by their respective deistic force(s), it is the individual who abandons the stone. the maker left the physical world and the creators were locked away against their will, but the stone is always there until you leave it, by choice or by force.

to have someone born and raised on the surface who still pays some importance to the stone introduces the idea of redemption to the philosophy of the stone. to me, being on the surface and still putting some kind of importance on it implies you left unwillingly right? because if you choose to walk away from it, you don’t care about preserving those ties. i wonder if she’s going to be something of a foil to varric—a child of exiles, born and raised on the surface, but she actually does have a desire to connect to that culture. and maybe that desire to reconnect is related to her weird new powers

#The Ones Who Walk Away From Orzammar. if you will #i was going to say that would be a different thing but actually. not really #and. yknow. there is something to be said about the fact that the casteless work for the carta is essentially to the city’s operation #we. don’t actually have a lot of info about people who choose to leave orzammar. maybe some do leave out of moral qualms with the system #but anyway. i don’t remember if harding says anything in the descent about it #i’m sure she does but i always thought of her as not particularly caring one way or the other #i’m literally not even two minutes in and had to pause and inhale deeply and go. ok maybe it was intentional lmao #and yknow what. the podcast has different writers than the game so maybe this doesn’t mean anything abt what her writing will be in the game #anyway i’m definitely choosing to read too much into this bc the most likely explanation is #they threw it in there as a clunky signifier that she’s a dwarf. even tho it doesn’t rly fit for her personally from what i thought i knew #or maybe it’s just a figure of speech at this point. i don’t know how many generations her family has been on the surface #maybe her parents are from orzammar and she was just kinda raised around it. i was raised catholic and don’t believe anymore but #i still say ‘jesus christ’ a lot lol #oh now i’m also thinking abt whatshisname from awakening #the gavorn (brothers? cousins?) i feel like they also say something about stone sense and that feels adjacent to this #sry i know this is v long and could be more concise but i’m at work and don’t have time to look it over #but i wanted to get it out. if i remember i’ll come back later and make a more coherent post lol #mine #harding

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