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Immy as The Sun 🌺☀️

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Leliana found her.

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“Do you need to say good-bye?” Maric asked him cautiously. He shook his head. “No,” he rasped. “I did that long ago.” - Dragon Age: The Calling

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If I can’t have either of them… they should have each other! 

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Fact is oghren loved branka in the way y’all can only put in fanfic & wattpad kidnapped by one direction stories. Oghren loved his paragon so much that he drove his entire house into the dust just for a CHANCE to fight for her. 2 entire years he spent banging on the doors of the assembly/palace demanding she not be abandoned. Of course it drove him to drinking and raging and drinking some more, he was taught that paragons are living GODS (pretty much) and was contending with the cruel, shattering reality that it’s been reduced to just face and politics. And there’s a lot to unpack about political corruption there but there is also a note to be made about how far into the abyss the darkspawn have pushed his proud people into over generations upon generations. He isn’t just mourning branka he is mourning honor and culture and religion. His OWN but also his PEOPLE’S. You’re not allowed to talk to him about it though uhh fart joke - here, hold that

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dragon slayer ❤️‍🔥

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asma in the bird Thobe

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A very pleasing haul of vintage cookbooks going into my hoard to inspire and fuel my dragon age recipes. A very nice birthday find, very lucky to snatch these up.

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Legend-Mark, the Dragon Age Charity Zine celebrating all things Avvar is now available for digital download.

Secure your copy of this limited run Zine and support a great cause over on our itch page:

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A mutual pointed out that I made a whole dwarven house for all my niche nerds that are just various forms Senshi. And it is now living in my head rent free.

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WIP Wednesday

Tagged by the wonderful @greypetrel , thank you so much ❤️

I’m starting a new immy tarot card 🌺

Tagging: @vakarians-babe @star--nymph @ruthvelyan and @shivunin but no pressure ofc ❤️

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Ben Gelinas on Twitter: "I am so mad that the Dragon Age fan wiki does not have a note that we specifically named this town after Sarnia, Ontario... or at least I pitched the name and didn't tell Sheryl it was a real place and then it shipped."

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I know fandom prevaling wisdom is that Cullen is a little vain, but I have a different take on it. I really love to see Cullen taking care of himself. When you're stuck in the depths of PTSD hell the last thing you want to do is look after you. Washing, brushing teeth, getting dressed, it's a huge nightmare and massive wall. You lose your sense of identity, which is compounded by being in a military order like the Templars. I like to think that him doing his hair, thinking about his outfits post Templar Order now he has the freedom to choose are such positive steps in recovery and him discovering who he is as an individual and a person. Let Cullen do his hair and look pretty. It was denied to him for so long.

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If you like those cookbooks, I also highly and strongly recommend the Witcher cookbook. Even if you aren't a fan, the recipes it has are varied and inspiring. The Critical Role Cookbook is also good, so I recommend scooping it up when you can. The Dungeons and Dragons two cookbooks and the two World of Warcrafts are also good. Though I like WoW cause the layout is interesting to me.

I'm right there with you on loving to cook and getting inspired by them cookbooks around us. I'm glad these compilations can be helpful!

Finally cleaned this up, but if you find the tumblr posts cumbersome, here is a google spreadsheet of all the cannonical Drinks, Foods, and Ingredients of Thedas.

If you're looking for other resources, I have a masterlist of things I've worked on from other lists and maps, and other projects I'm working on.

Want to support this blog and just all of my chaos? You can check out my ko-fi.

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Finally cleaned this up, but if you find the tumblr posts cumbersome, here is a google spreadsheet of all the cannonical Drinks, Foods, and Ingredients of Thedas.

If you're looking for other resources, I have a masterlist of things I've worked on from other lists and maps, and other projects I'm working on.

Want to support this blog and just all of my chaos? You can check out my ko-fi.

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In addition to this, something that rotates in my brain is that the DA team has always wanted 10 years in-between each game. DA2 when it was taken from a dlc to a full game fills that 10 year gap. There is 10 years from the end of DAO (9:31) to DAI (9:41).

So, it lives rent-free in my brain that from the end of DAI (9:42) they stick with the ten years and start DA4 in 9:52.

I like the round number. It pleases me. That said the fact they keep the events of every game (with DA2 being the exception it always is) in the span of a year.... Doesn't please me lol.

Things that have been making my brain feral (tm) lately:

Patrick and John Epler also established once again that Solas doesn’t have your arm, with Epler also noting that if it weren’t for technical limitations, they should have had the arm melt away in the cutscene. (screenshot below the cut)

Healing magic just speeds up the natural healing. It can’t raise the dead or regrow limbs, but if you’re fast enough, it can reattach severed limbs. (screenshot below the cut)

Patrick mentioned how they had to record pronunciation for new elven words for voice actors. (Not clear how recent that was done) (screenshot below the cut)

Merrill is noted to be 25 in dao. Very intelligent and wise. Archetype the wise druid. Meaning she is 35 in dai and 47 by da4.

We are at least 2 months away from hearing the full game announcement; release date, game play, marketing. 3 months at most.

BioWare recently (re?)activated their tumblr.

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Legend-Mark, the Dragon Age Charity Zine celebrating all things Avvar is now available for digital download.

Secure your copy of this limited run Zine and support a great cause over on our itch page: