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"Are you a vulture, I wonder? A scavenger poking amidst a corpse whose bones were long since cleaned? "

or, pov: mere seconds before Morrigan turns you into a frog

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i feel strongly about this

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(yes, that @gallusrostromegalus )

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Maintenance 

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The Leliana? Who accompanied the Hero of Ferelden to slay the archdemon?

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Hey everyone, I've fallen on some hard times and would really appreciate some assistance. Any donation is incredibly appreciated, but sharing helps so much if you can't!

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I thought Mortalitasi had to be nobility? Did that get retconned later?

From "Down Among the Dead Men" in Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights -

Every mage in the kingdom of Nevarra was part of the Mortalitasi, a group that trained the gifted in the mysteries of magic. They served as Nevarra’s arcane protectors and priests. Within the Mortalitasi was a group of select mages invited into an old fraternity called the Mourn Watch. e Watchers served as elite guardians, keepers of the Grand Necropolis and its sacred repository of the dead.

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Vharilynn, a Dalish mage and Dirth'araena's Very Good Friend™

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i just invented a cathedral rose window granny square pattern and i feel insane now

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being a symbolism enjoyer should humble you because at the end of the day no matter how eloquently you articulate it youre essentially saying "i love it when things have meaning"

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Finally after many attempts I made a tarot card of my Rook. For Kale I chose "the Hanged Man" card, but made a small mix with "the Star" card

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One field that badly needs to be purged of "Great Man-ism" is architecture.

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Sera in between Inquisition and Veilguard

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Granted I don't think there's anything wrong with enjoying media on a surface level. I think it's more boring to expect deep engagement and lengthy explanations from fans all the time. But also, you know, maybe avoid the critical tags if critique isn't your tempo. Or if negativity and confrontation makes your stomach hurt. 😭

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Do we know anything about how elves are treated in Nevarra? Is it safe to presume they they live in alienages like in southern Thedas, and when their magic is discovered, would the have the opportunity to join the Mortalitasi or is that reserved for Nevarran (human) nobility and an elf would be sent to the circle instead? This is one of the reasons I wish they didn't retcon the complex race relations in DATV. An elven Mourn Watch Rook feels like they could easily be the exception to the rule, given their unique origins as a foundling in the Necropolis, but reading the wiki page, I don't feel like there's any lore on what life is like for the general elven population of Nevarra.

Chantry law demands the existence of alienages. However, Nevarra is known to skirt the rules of the Chantry in other ways because of their unique culture around death, so it might be they have avoided the creation of alienages too? I can't find any mention of an alienage in Nevarra, but that does not mean they don't exist.

Except for a few outliers, every mage in Nevarra is part of the Mortalitasi in some way, serving as arcane protectors, priests, political advisors, and scholars, with their work depending on the fraternity they are a part of. Most mages are first put through the Circle of Magi for basic training, but there are couple examples of Mortalitasi keeping secret apprentices, like Sidony, or I suppose like Rook Ingellvar. (More I've written on the Mortalitasi here!)

Circling back to elven life in Nevarra though... we don't have a lot to go on. There is only really the elven character in the Tevinter Nights story, "Murder by Death Mages" to look at as a single example.

Cyrros laughed, and Sidony glared at the interruption. He was dressed as well as most of the noblemen here, almost as lavishly as Reinhardt. His thick, honey-coloured curls were slicked back in a way that almost fully hid the tapered point of his ears. An elf in such finery, mocking and touching a member of old Nevarran nobility, and no one batting an eye—this was someone welcomed with open arms and stacks of gold in circles fuelled by secrets and scandal.

Cyrros gained power and nobility through collecting and trading secrets of the nobility; he's kind of a Nevarran equivalent of an Orelsian Bard. But his introduction above does establish that it is rare to see an elf of such high social status.

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SOURCES:

Codex entry: The City Elves (DA:O)

Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights - Murder by Death Mages

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Elom and the little bird

More comics over here

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I was reading earlier today about how, in Scandinavian folklore, the nomenclature that's usually rendered as "ring" in modern English can variously refer to bracelets, armlets, or torcs as well as to finger rings. It's usually clear from context which is intended, though there are some legendary "rings" whose form is not specified in surviving accounts.

This ambiguity is, of course, not present in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings; though the work and its titular object are inspired by these sagas, the One Ring is clearly described as a finger ring. However, my brain has seized upon the finger-ring-or-bracelet ambiguity and spontaneously produced an anachronistic 1990s teen movie version of The Lord of the Rings in which the One "Ring" is a cursed slap bracelet.