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after all these years, still very normal about them

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I don't know what it is about leyndell but it makes me so sad. The city is so big and beautiful and seeing it (sort of) empty and abandoned makes me :((

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Another art with one of my Dragon Age original characters.

Marnie is a kind young maiden, Ferelden nobleman's bastard daughter, a servant on his Denerim estate. Now she has left home and is traveling around Thedas in the company of her father's former bodyguard.

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Deep in the forest of Valenwood, Bosmer spinner telling a tale to a group of curious and enchanted young Bosmer children :3

So cute :3 I want story time in the big trees

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Hunter D and Rogier, the premiere Dungeons & Demigods party of the Lands Between. (squeezed Gostoc in there because why not)

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I need to draw these screenshots I love them

my lil elden lord

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my lil elden lord

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I'm getting pulled in by the shale x wynne propaganda. I've never even thought of them as a thing before but it makes so much sense and feels right

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EVANURIS | THE CREATORS

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Haven't played inquisition in a while...starting to miss the bald elf

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The Lion of Honnleath (2024)

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Details that spoke to me while replaying DA:O

Because the DA team really has been working on their lore and plot since the dawn of time.

Zathrian’s words about betrayal that would work so well for a certain someone else, too:

Dalish Warden to Zathrian: “How could you betray our people?”

Zathrian:

First mention of the Seekers, chasing outlaws mages from the Imperium:

The description of carvings on an ancient elven tablet that eerily resembles that of the Well of Sorrows:

Theories about Andraste being a powerful mage, as World of Thedas 2 also mentions. This would explain the “miracles” ascribed to her, her half-sister’s mysterious disappearance, and Andraste’s visions and episodes of trance. It would also give points to the theory “Andraste was one of Mythal’s first vessels”:

Sten correctly predicting the future moves of the Qunari and their attempt at conquering the South:

Flemeth’s Grimoire which bears Mythal’s symbol, the leafless tree:

First mention of an ancient elf - an Arcane Warrior - escaping their physical body to live as formless spirit, in this case inside an amulet. We will find another mention of this ability of the elves only in Trespasser, in the text related to the Exile of the Forbidden Ones.

On the altar used for the ancient elven ritual described on the tablet (see above) is etched the image of a wolf:

“Mined from the living.” Could this be about the Titans?

There are other little things, but I felt like these were the most jarring and interesting. It’s also good to remember that the devs recently confirmed that they planned the truth about the elven gods and Fen’Harel since from the very beginning of the series. Kudos to them.

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let it also be said that I love the Mahariel + Lavellan worldstate. It's so haunted. You are Dalish, you are not a part of human culture, but by happenstance you're dragged into it and to the forefront of hell to save a world that hates and fears your people. You have no choice. You can never return to your home, to the familiar, to anything you've ever known. You will be an echo; Mahariel echoing Garahel, Lavellan echoing Mahariel. You're so proud of your Dalish heritage, but your identity doesn't matter at all. Doomed to be a martyr for a people that do not respect you and cannot understand you, while your clan mourns, lamenting that they cannot bury you, no life-tree to stand as your memory. You're a hero. You're already dead. You died the moment you left your clan.

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Something must be in the air today I've seen 3 people say they hate, not even dislike HATE, origins which i didn't think was possible

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Zevran offers Alistair a word of advice