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Female Power Romantasy novels can be indulgent as they like with giving the MC all the powers and hottest love interests and overcomplicated backstories, and I will cheer that on. Yes, there is a place for this! I see your vision, girl!

But the moment it starts talking about blood purity, her divine right to rule, and how ubermensch her babies will be with the man with the equally super special bloodline? You're doing girlboss eugenics at that point.

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do i, chuckles?

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I just found out that if you leave specifically a female Hawke in the fade and you have approval with Varric that’s too low to hug him and you give him Hawke’s last words that he says “I wish I had said something. It doesn’t matter now.” He does not say this for a male Hawke.

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I will say that I think it's really goofy that they're just using the terms "trans" and "non-binary" in, Dragon Age. It is not my preference.

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A few facts about Mercar Rook's canonical family background, in case anybody missed these tidbits:

Rook says in a conversation with Tarquin that their father "commanded legions near Ventus." Rook was found on a battlefield as a baby, likely near Ventus, and adopted into a military family.

According to a letter from Maevaris to Dorian, there is a high-ranking Soporati named Charon Mercar, who serves in or near Ventus as a "Legatus" in the Tevinter military. (In ancient Rome, a legatus was a high-ranking military officer equivalent to a modern-day general.)

Given the previous information about Rook's father commanding legions near Ventus, it seems likely that Charon Mercar is Rook's father.

EDIT: I should have said adoptive father here to make it clear that Rook is not Charon's biological child.

Charon Mercar has "privately expressed support for reform" and has influence with the current Imperator of the Tevinter military. (In ancient Rome, the title "imperator" was used to indicate the highest rank of military command.)

It makes sense to surmise that despite not being mages, Rook's family is as highly ranked in Tevinter society as a Soporati can be and has some influence in Tevinter's military and political affairs.

Obviously you don't have to take any of these facts as canon for your Mercar Rook, I just wanted to share them for anyone who might be interested.

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You’re fucking kidding we’re not a serious country 😭

The fuck do you mean Dr. Oz is in charge of Medicare and Medicaid

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The Inquisitor is supposed to be 30 in Veilguard?!

They were 20 in Inquisition?!

I fully thought they were late 20s-early 30s 😭

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You wrote about murder?? Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn’t even say ‘murder is bad’ at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can’t believe you condone murder, I can’t believe you’re pro murber, oh my fucking God don'ttalk to me when ou literally kill people, freak. I’m calling the cops, what the fuck, I’m shaking and crying.

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Saw someone say Veilguard’s sanded down edges reek of a game thats afraid of getting cancelled on twitter. which made me laugh my ass off but also…it’s kind of a portion of fans’ fault. Not to be all “you asked for this” but we saw it with 2077 before it even released. People lobbed every single problematic moniker at it (most of which weren’t even true) and caused a huge stink enough that the chronically online crowd were calling people bigots for playing it. Again, before the game was OUT.

Dragon Age is so famous for it’s insane fanbase that it’s become an expectation and an insult. So famous that the BG3 discoursers who tie themselves in knots over “problematic” content are often jokingly accused of hailing from the DA fandom. Are we really that surprised this was a possible outcome, especially with the weird rise of people thinking media = morality? Of art and stories becoming a way to show you’re morally pure and correct (as if that equates to any real world help)?

Boring, isn’t it? Almost as if stories need conflict to be interesting and trying to sanitize adult stories feels condescending at best and insulting at worst.

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it’s interesting how many people, including myself, share the similar sentiment that veilguard is actually incredibly fun while playing, and its the process of thinking back on it after finishing where it begins to fall apart and the holes begin to show… i think it’s especially interesting because at least for me, the other dragon age games are the opposite. i hate playing inquisition, but when i sit and look back on it i cannot help but admire how brilliant the writing and characters are. dragon age 2 can be a slog by act 3 but when i finish and think back on how the story unfolded i know in my heart that it was a masterpiece. i got bored or frustrated while playing them but these games stuck around in my head after finishing them for the first time not just for days or weeks but for years.

veilguard lacks this. i had A LOT of fun playing the game. i love the gameplay loop. i like the puzzles. i love the environments. it was probably the easiest dragon age game to blast through 60 hours of. but then the credits roll and instead of analyzing character arcs and deconstructing banter, im stuck on all the plot holes and missed opportunities.

veilguard gets worse the longer i let it marinate in my brain, rather than better. each rotisserie turn of the story over in my head reveals more and more nothingness - or just clumsy attempts at misdirection so i don’t think too hard about what’s missing. the dragon age games have always been an olympic sized swimming pool that you can dive headfirst into if you want, and you will be rewarded with a corresponding amount of depth. veilguard is one of those kiddie pools at a water park with slides and fountains and a water-based jungle gym on top - it’s fun on the surface and packed with things to do. but if you attempt to dive? you’ll crack your head open.

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Tevinter Slavery - Dragon Age Veilguard

Okay I love this game but it has flaws and the more i think about it the more I just... need to rant a little? Will put my rant under the cut because I know some people don't want to see that negativity.

Okay but what the fuck was that choice to just sort of ignore slavery in Tevinter? This has been built up since DAO when Loghain sold elves to Tevinter. Then in DA2 we have Fenris spending years being hunted by Danarius after he escaped.

Now we are IN Tevinter and we're just... ignoring all of that?? I know there is that codex entry from Dorian. Then we have that tiny side quest where we rescue slaves from the venatori. But even that's not Tevinter doing slavery, that's the bad Tevinter zealots doing slavery. As if all of Tevinter isn't built on slavery.

We are in Dock town. Where I assume slaves would be shipped into Tevinter but that's not what we see. I really thought we were going to have a big plot line with the shadow dragons fighting slavery and we didn't get that.

Like... was this EA stepping in and saying "No. No no. We can't talk about THAT."

Because why else would they just abandon this story that's been building up since Origins??

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i should get back to playing veilguard...

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This was all I could think when my Inquisitor was like “Slavery is bad” and Dorian was like “hmm I never thought about it” Fenris would have a field day insulting him

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Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane

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I'm gonna put him in my pocket

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hi. sorry