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Plane doodles, Anders and Awakening Crew

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yet another from the archives

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Leliana

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A lot of people have commented on how Redcliffe in DA:I looks nothing like it did in DA:O. But actually there is a canonical reason for this. You see when Anders blew up the Kirkwall Chantry, the destruction was so great and so wide that debris flew all the way to Ferelden and reshaped the landscape. This was revealed in a hidden codex entry found by clipping through the windmill. 

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Other wip post was getting too long lol

Trying different cool toned palettes on each one to complement a warm highlight

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part 2

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anders making straight male gamers uncomfortable is my #aesthetic

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yay awakening. yay pride

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i do think the argument of "oh you're being EXTRA harsh on veilguard for being racist/misogynistic/etc! what about all that stuff in previous games??" is actually in very bad faith.

bc firstly: people have already talked about previous games at length. it is weird to expect old arguments to be rehashed when a new thing is available to discuss.

and secondly: yeah, i will actually hold veilguard to a higher standard! i don't think that's unreasonable at all. time is linear, and 10 years passed in between the last game! there have been so many highly public social movements since then, the entire world has changed. most people have had growth in their awareness of the world and how they understand history and politics in that time, just from being alive and reading the news occasionally. they SHOULD have improved! i was never expecting it to be showstoppingly good or like a masterpiece of writing, but... i think "not getting worse, and perhaps being 2% better" is a completely reasonable expectation.

but, it did not improve, and did actually get worse, unfortunately! i do not think it's reasonable for a game published in 2024 to have such a regressive, flat way of depicting women; their implications on the worldbuilding became incredibly similar to irl racist or antisemitic conspiracy theories, while the writers crowed about how they were so proud of ~giving the elves a win~; the portrayal of the qunari only got more flat and islamophobic, somehow; and the entire idea of "i can excuse being nb but i draw the line at being an immigrant" is so stupid that it sends me into space.

i think it's completely reasonable to expect better from Progressive Writers™️ in this modern era! this is a very low bar to exceed, and they still managed to dig under it, on such basic topics as "can women visibly age or be rude and still be major characters". previous games were managing to reach this standard, minor as it was! whether it's a failure of the writing itself, or corporate interference, it is completely valid to expect better.

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my precious one

(wanna finish it badly😔)

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the original little meow meow

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“The Blackmarsh is a gloomy, desolate place. All who travel the one lonely path between the trees are beset by an oppressive feeling of dread. Nothing stirs in the marsh, for even birds and beasts sense the foulness in the air and dare not stray too close.” - DRAGON AGE: AWAKENING CODEX

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group cutscenes kind of feel like when you run a mod that lets you have more companions than you're supposed to and everyone starts firing off on their similar comments like:

rook: elgar'nan and ghilan'nain should have been at the club

davrin: but they weren't. and that's what matters.

neve: yep. and the fact that they weren't at the club? that's what matters most

bellara: well. not EVERYONE likes the club!

harding: what matters is that they weren't AT the club, were they? um. not that everyone has to like the club!

taash: hmph. only losers don't like clubbing.

emmrich: you know, in my youth i enjoyed the 'club'... it seems significant that elgar'nan and ghilan'nain did not.

varric: rook. can you hear me? while it may be a generalising statement to say that all young people should be at the club, i think we can all agree that elgar'nan and ghilan'nain would have benefited from it-

manfred: manfred!

lucanis: (they forgot to give him a line for this one)

rook: well i'm glad we all know where we stand on this. let's get some rest while we work on some solutions

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a little follow up to this post . i think .

idk . i have these two on my mind constantly hh

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"Larian should handle the next Dragon Age game" Going off how they handled Baldur's Gate 3 if they handled a game like Dragon Age: Origins, they would release the game and then get people complaining about how they shouldn't HAVE to lose Alistair as a companion completely just because they spared Loghain because now they have to do 2 separate playthroughs and also their character has to face consequences for a decision. 5 patches later you can suddenly have both Alistair and Loghain on your team. And 2 patches ago they made it so Anora actually doesn't mind if you replace her on the throne with your friend because he has noble blood, because people complained that she shouldn't mind. And then in patch 13 Morrigan suddenly has half her dialogue replaced because players found her too mean. They don't know what to do with Sten at all so they remove his personal quest in Patch 2. Instead of developing the themes of Oghren's character further he's cut completely because dwarf companion. Due to popular demand they added Bella from the tavern and Cullen as companions and it goes as well as you expect. Your origin also has no impact on the rest of the game except you get a handful of dialogue options that are sometimes funny. In Patch 14 they change Bann Teagan's hairstyle, only to patch it back to his original hairstyle in Patch 15 because everyone hated it. In Patch 15 they give Dog fur, only to patch it away in Patch 16 because everyone hated it. Patch 44 has everyone reunite for a party at Arl Eamon's place for some reason. Everyone is playing a different version of the game because it has changed so dramatically between early access and Patch 743. You can fuck Morrigan when she shapeshifts into a spider at full release though.