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flemilfthal. is this anything.

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i can't find that one really good post about the differences in fenris' hatred for anders (dismissive) vs merrill (pure vitriol) and how it relates to his idolization of family ties, but once you see it it's hard to ignore

forget slavers, blue wraith should have had him hunting down deadbeat dads or something

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lmao I just ran into Aveline my beloved... GOD what an introduction. "they will not have you" splattered in blood and then bringing her templar husband to heel like he's a bad dog... by god why couldn't we romance her

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The adventures of Inquisitor Maddox : Part 11

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That conver with cass always breaks me a lil, but tbh i dont think any of the seekers would had improve the situation

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can i just say. the opening scene of da2 where varric is trying to appear aloof and snarky UNTIL cassandra asks after the champion. he immediately slams shut. looks at his nails. all the fun leeches out of him. God I love this game

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step 1. get everyone in the world to want to fuck me

step 2. vow of celibacy

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see they don't look THAT alike. but i'm already loving the 0.2 seconds of the dynamic i've gotten

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everybody say hi to Verin. i'm about to blood this mage

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HERE WE FUCKING GO

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this will surprise no one but FUCK the EA app

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dont remember much of my 1st Hawkes except Merrill romance my beloved..... well. gonna do a blank slate run whatever feels fun in the moment. bonus points for having all the Extras so sebastian get ready boy

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i may be downloading da2. my beloved

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me breaking into the bioware offices: "hey. why do the evanuris have such a specific idea of gender and even family units, when they literally made themselves out of Intangible Abstract Concepts? what does motherhood or fatherhood even mean for mythal and elgar'nan? were they having biological kids? were they just copying the dwarves? did the hivemind dwarves have gender and family structures like that? how did that happen? humans didn't exist on thedas then, so it couldn't have been from copying humans?"

bioware, capturing me in a comically large butterfly net and then releasing me into the wilderness: "it's, uhhh, because of anaris' ancient arlathan manosphere podcasts 👍"

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Sometimes in Dragon Age, you just have to look at something, go "yeah, my version is better lol" and just ignore the source material for the rest of your days

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Another question for yalls wardens.

If they got to have their own personal fade dream/nightmare during that segment in the circle tower, what would it be like?

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i cant remember if i ever actually reblogged the post in which i wrote this out in the tags or if my app crashed, but my way of reconciling the fact that prior to inquisition even blood mages acted as if blood magic inherently opened you up to demons while solas claimed it cut you off from the fade (and i do not believe he was lying here—he rarely did so directly in inquisition) is that it does cut you off from the fade, just... slowly, but the pain inherent to, say, cutting yourself open for fuel, thins the veil!

so a relatively new or sparing blood mage is at greater risk while someone who's been a consistent user of blood magic for long enough is actually less of a risk!

as a potential example see uldred (lost control of a blood magic binding spell and got possessed) vs avernus (lost control of a blood magic binding spell and was like. fine). technically we don't know exactly how long or often either of them were practicing blood magic beforehand, but i doubt uldred could've done anything too openly or consistently other than teaching apprentices while avernus certainly doesn't seem to be treated as inexperienced in that regard in what we see of him in the flashbacks.

it also acts as a fun parallel with lyrium which is also both used for 'anti-magic' purposes and as a power source imo

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got banned from the circle chantry services because i looked a templar in the eye and said “blessed are the meatbeaters champions of the nut”