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"average apostate mage betrays hero once a Dragon Age game" factoid actualy just statistical error. average apostate betrays mostly 0 times a game. Betrayal Solas, who lives in sad fade land & betrays over 10,000 people each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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Harding/Bellara is so appealing to me. Learning about our ancient peoples together. The lies told by the ancient elves and how they hurt us both. The anger felt with nowhere to place it. The discovery. My beautiful rare pair

Bellara tinkering with a device to test the lyrium in Lace's skin, talking about how their magics are the same and how they differ.

I need to make fanart... my propaganda

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we need block appeal on this site i need to be able to argue my merit to people who hate me for one (1) thing i said so that i can reblog their good posts

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idk man i think dragon age peaked when they put florence + the machine song with "and i love you so much i'm gonna let you kill me" lyrics in the end credits of the game where you can romance a character who will later surrender and let you kill him for what he's done

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our spiritually elevated rejection of canon vs their intellectually dishonest refusal to engage with the text

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Thinking this afternoon about how so many people who romanced Anders considered him blowing up the Chantry to be a betrayal and how that just. Never really clicked for me to call it that. Because so explicitly So many times over the relationship he tells you this will be messy and never easy and at one point even explicitly says some things are bigger than he and Hawke's relationship and it is just. So clear that he loves them but they can't and won't stop him. And I cannot feel betrayed at all when he was upfront about that consistantly tbh.

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birth

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A few of these are probably referring to the date posting bug thing, but AAAAAAAAAAAH!

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People who think the Anders romance is sad and tragic be like "He broke my heart bc I ignored his warnings from the start, and also failed to take into account the glaring need for my Hawke to be a certain type in order for this romance to work well, and thought I'd have my way and bend this npc to my will so I can be in the center of his universe instead of his cause, but then the game didn't go according to this plan and now I'm angry and sad! Anders romance tragic!"

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still thinking about the da2 LIs giving hawke a favour to wear of their own, and i just

isabela’s bandana, tied to a belt loop or worn just like the pirate queen herself wears it, to shield hawke from the sun. keep it, isabela says, laughing, i’d rather wear a hat anyway, but she never seems to get around to getting one, and sometimes when hawke knots the bandana around their hair she smiles, a small, sly thing with just a touch of fondness to it.  it smells like her, like faraway places and the ocean air. hawke ties it to the post of their bed while sleeping, and, later, to their cabin bunk, where it becomes a reminder of home rather than distance.

merrill gives hawke her favourite green scarf, loved and worn and washed so many times it’s become sheer and soft to the touch. hawke wears it looped around a forearm or knotted around the hilt of a weapon; hawke likes to watch it fluttering in the wind whenever they heft their greatsword and it always makes them smile.

anders doesn’t own much. he’s carried one satchel of belongings with him from kinloch hold to vigil’s keep to kirkwall, and it’s only gotten thinner with time. he offers a feather, but there are hundreds of those scattered all over the estate anyway - hawke swears the man moults in the spring. after a moment of thought, he finds the right gift at the very bottom of his bag, far beneath his mother’s pillow. “don’t laugh,” he says, defensively. “this was a gift from the warden-commander,” and into hawke’s awaiting hands he places a cat collar, tiny bell now without a clapper, silent - the better to evade templars - but obviously well-loved. hawke immediately attaches it to their armour, and wears it with pride.

i don’t have anything to give you, fenris says, sounding almost uncertain. he touches one of the leather feathers sprouting from his gauntlets, as if testing, and then glances around the room he’s made his own; candles and books and a sword at rest against a wall, empty bottles and whetstones and rags. cobwebs too, mostly. you’ve given up enough, hawke says, and smiles; i’ve only ever needed you to stay.

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Kind of a scene in my head that existed for a moment.

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(warning i'm about to ramble over something small)

So, if cousland tells alistair that they're family was just murdered, he sayd "how stupi of me to forget" which means he was told prior, but before this conversation, the warden can never actually tell Alistair about what happened in Highever (as far as i remember, the topic never comes up. you can tell others you're from highever or that you're the teynr's child, but besides Cailan, you can't tell them you're whole family is dead)

now, considering that alistair says that you must be the recruit duncan talked about (if you tell him your name, he even says like ah right that was the name), that means between the duncan recruiting/conscripting the warden and them arriving at ostagar, he most likely sent a letter to alistair.

which leads me to this: i cannot stop thinking about duncan writing a letter to alistair ahead of time to tell him about the recruit and saying "oh yeah by the way, the arl of amaranthine kiilled their whole family so maybe don't bring it up"

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Sheryl Chee (Harding's writer) on the state of things

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spin the wheel for a genre!

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Reblog if you have no intention of leaving the Bioware fandom anytime soon

With the release of the final Dragon Age Inquisition DLC and Andromeda a long way off, interest will decline of course. But if you’re in this for the long haul, stick this on your blog.

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due to the recent news about the layoffs at bioware, and the clear understanding that dragon age will be kept alive by fans...

would anyone be interested in a dragon age kiss week? i am very willing to set up that project. for us. a week for us to celebrate without corporate greed getting a single cent out of it.

let me know and spread the word!

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Like, listen. The thing that gets me about the fact you can summarily execute Anders for trying to save his people from genocide is like.

He trusted you. He fought for you. He saved your life. You saved his. You were one of the first people in his life to treat him as a person, and this means even more if you’re not a mage.

Hawke threads him along for almost ten years. They keep his loyalty, they reassure his anxieties, they contradict his doubts. He trusts you. He tells you about what’s important to him.

He loves you so much he doesn’t want to bring you down with him. Sure, if you’re rivals he doesn’t want you to stop him, but if you’re friends he doesn’t want you to help. Because he was so sure you would. And he knows this is awful; he considers it to be the destruction of his soul. And he doesn’t want to see you do that to yourself.

And after all of that. He’s so fucking sure you’ll just kill him. Sure, you think he’s a person. But thinking anyone else like him is a person too? Entitled to a life free from harm? That’s impossible. There’s no way you’d care enough about the senseless murder of children from this marginalised community to approve of radical action. And that’s fine. He’s accepted that. He’s still here. He still saved your life every time you asked him to. He still risked his life every time you told him to.

Idk I just have a lot of feelings about how the end of DA2 tells us that Anders truly and sincerely believes that even the last person alive who loves him more than anyone, his closest friend, would still murder him without hesitation, and that’s ok. They’re entitled to that, so much so that he won’t even defend himself. That for him, a close friend who would kill you for protecting your people is acceptable. That that’s the most care he can ask for and more than that is unimaginable.

It just fucking hurts.