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flemilfthal. is this anything.

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"shianni, won't you tell us about the hero of ferelden again?"

"haven't you heard enough of my stories?"

"no, no one tells them like you do!"

"well, she IS my cousin after all. let's see.."

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Dalish aravels

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“I am the eyes and ears of the Qunari people. Do you think you can deceive me?”

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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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Wicked hearts and wicked eyes

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Dragon Age: Inquisition - Temple of Mythal

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A fun fact:

In the brosca origin theres a man in orzammar who offers you like a single silver piece to let him pull out some of your teeth. He uses them to fix the teeth of the higher caste people (fantasy dentistry lol) And if you try and hangle or say no he basically tells you its your loss and there are plenty of dusters desperate enough to take the deal.

I reallyy wish we got to chew on dwarf politics and how fucked the system is more.

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it is still incredibly funny to me just how much bioware should have known that ending would have been poorly perceived. like from literally every single angle

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mini merehawke to brighten my day

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Carver Hawke

“The Second” Inspired by “The Emperor”

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this is killing me

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Me, selecting filters on Ao3

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miss my little group of freaks 💔

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You ever get lightheaded thinking about whatever Hawke was doing with their life before the Blight

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sorry i have personal hatred of the fact that dav took a dumb on literally any visual time consistency in architecture, clothes and thedas in general

DAO clearly painted Fereldan as a 13 century England. (it became a problem in DAI, where orlais looked a bit more modern, 17th century "Baroque"-ish in comparison)

but looking back at dav and we have:

investigators (any "investigations" back then went pretty much as we saw them with Hawke - a bunch of people stomping around looking for clues, listening to gossips and usually failing. that work was given to guards mostly, of course some locals could go and try to figure out everything themselves, but hiring a private investigator?? lmao)

elevators in Minrathous (i would've been fine with this one, if it was Archimedes' type of elevator, but that would include human (probably slave) labor, and we can't have that ☝)

Newspapers because do you have any idea how much time it took to make and publish anything in medieval times? I'm not even asking who these newspapers are for, cuz the majority of people in Tevinter (slaves, servants, workers) wouldn't be able to read. What the hell are you even writing about? You don't have good enough communication to make news??

cyan/magenta/purple/UNNATURALLY colored fabric, which back then could be acquired only by rich people, because the paint itself costed a lot (murex sea snail were used for purple fabric, for example, Cochineals for magenta)

general clothes style mismatch - just put harding, who's relatively fantasy looking next to steampunk-emmrich or noire-neve and observe the style clash.

and last but not the least:

a fucking piano, an instrument that was created in around 1700 (roughly the same time as steam engine and thermometer), is just starting there in a lighthouse and solas for some reason knows how to play it??

this is so jarringly inconsistent and just straight up stupid and i'm certain there's more stuff like this that my brain just blocked as a traumatic memory

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in kirkwall. straight up "blowing it" and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. The chantrey