#Dragon age dwarves

[feeshies]

The people's pint-sized princess, Kozda Aeducan

I don't think I'm going to have her romance everyone because my heart belongs to the doomed bodyguard romance from the prologue

[shoutydwarf]

all that said i know it's canon that dwarves almost never die in the joining. but i favor the idea of them reacting to it more like griffons. dwarves have such a deep and personal hatred of darkspawn that the joining often just outright drives them mad. they probably live most of the time but i imagine their calling comes for them a lot sooner and they're a lot more darkspawn-esque than your typical non-dwarf warden (even bigger appetites, an even crazier intuition/hive mind when it comes to their fellow wardens, a much stronger darkspawn sense ability, strength and stamina that is just a straight up FRENZY in battle on top of usually being berserkers etc etc). and yeah

[zundely]

Having more dragon age thoughts- this time about my dwarves, and partially about Varric.

So, hot take to lead with- Oghren is actually a much better and more insightful character to criticse dwarven cast system and culture then Varric. The best dwarven companion we ever got is obviously Sigrun but I feel like this one is pretty much self-explanatory, so I feel much more compelled to talk through our two lovely dwarven gentleman.

First thing I want to say is that, while I usually feel need to say that I do not hold anything against Varric as a character, his disdain for dwarven culture is something that bothers me a little. Especially since he is one of 3 dwarven companions we get across whole 3 games, and by far the most popular one. He is actually pretty similar to Sera at times in a way he views his own heretige but the games refuse to address it. Which is a shame because I think his view on the culture he was basically excommunicated from before he was even born should be a bigger deal then some quips about beards and getting antsy any time he steps near a thaig. Like Varric clearly has some very very complicated feelings about all things dwarven- something that no so subtly is a mirror of his very very complicated feelings on his brother who was much more of a 'real dwarf'. It feels like in an attempt to distance himself from what his brother represented Varric also felt a need to distance himself from anything too dwarven. But at the same time we see that it's something he never really let's go off- he is moved by his ancestor's fate in Legacy dlc questline, he keeps up with dwarven politics, he will get a bit miffed at mere mention of him not looking your standard dwarf.

However since dwarven culture doesn't come up half as much as elven one in later games we never really get to do anything with Varric's internalized issues. It's just sort of becomes a running joke that he is "not like other dwarves, that guy he HATES deep roads and he doesn't have a beard". And while that in itself is fine, not all characters have to focus on their relationship with their culture it becomes an issue when Varric is the only companion representative of said culture through 2 out of 3 games. It means the game has much less opportunities to present us with fun lore in an organic fashion because Varric is too busy making sure we know he hates it here. Like why I am more tempted to take Iron Bull to a dwarven ruins the Varric.

Oghren was ultimately a much better point of reference for dwarves because he is a product of this environment and he is surprisingly insightful and self-aware about it. And despite the multitude of ways in which Orzammar failed him he still cares about it. He still takes a lot of pride in his heretige even if all it really brought him is being rejected for becoming the thing it wanted him to be- a killing machine.

And now I am stuck on one hand wishing that there will be SOMETHING done with Varric's not feeling dwarfy enough- on the other however if Varric will be the only dwarven companion in DA:D I am going to scream. I am sorry all the Varric fans, he is either coming back in an advisor style role or I do not want to see him . It sometimes feels like the writers are not comfortable with writing dwarves and they use the 'least dwarfy dwarf' Varric as a get out of jail card and I just want something new.

[truetealtears]

Hey if dwarves get access to the fade in datv and presumably the ability to dream, how many dwarves do you think are about to get their shit rocked by fear demons as they have their first nightmare ever

[illusivesoul]

Dragon Age Inquisition Scenery - Valammar

In ancient times the dwarves used the region as a trading post until it fell to the darkspawn. The uppermost layer of the soil has since collapsed, leaving the surface exposed, allowing for a massive waterfall to form. The built up humidity from the water has allowed trees and other flora to flourish about the region.

Architecturally, Valammar is very similar to Orzammar in the sense that the settlement is designed in a series of tiers. The thaig lay docile beneath the Hinterlands unbeknownst to those above. Darkspawn roam freely undisturbed—until the Carta's sudden interest in the abandoned fissure.

[finelyageddragons]

Once again thinking about a dwarven warden who is unphased in the face of darkspawn, who shows no fear in the face of Fereldan's boogeyman after having lived with them outside their doors and especially as an Aeducan who might even relish getting to fight them and have vengeance for their empire. Imagine how much they would inspire not just their fellow wardens but all their companions and allies meeting this enemy with such ferocity to save this home on the surface after having been raised on stories of how their last home was stolen by this same evil. I also love to imagine this great, unstoppable warrior suddenly leaping back at the sight of the undead and fight with a new frenzy of not rage but fear and disgust, with an even deeper hatred. Having been raised worshipping ancestors and living in grief of a stolen history and finding peace in the promise of a peaceful end embraced by the home that could never be stolen, the Stone, this warden is now seeing corpses rise, that rest stolen, the glory of their life ripped away so they can become servants of some dark magic. The undead is always unnatural to everyone but for a dwarf, the undead aren't just corpses, they're everything they value corrupted and sent back like a some ungodly evil. If the darkspawn are humanity's demons then the undead are the dwarves' devils.

[dragonageconfessions]

CONFESSION:

I really want to see in the next game is Kal-Sharok and how different the dwarves are compared to Orzammar. The fact they have an embassy in Tevinter really intrigues me. And this is going to sound mean but I hope the amount of Dalish content is reduced and the amount of city elf content raised. I played this game since the beginning and while I don't dislike the Dalish....I want Dragon Age not Dalish Age. They are not the only race in Thedas.

[eryniell]

She's so damn cute!!

Harding *-*

[sha-lyuzar]

Genuinely can't find the information online, but has BioWare confirmed what kind of backgrounds dwarven Rooks can choose from?

[murmel-malt]

it’s warden time 💙

[feeshies]

if I were Gorim I would have waited at least another month before giving up on her and marrying someone else. just saying

[dandylion-virtual-adventurer]

“No offense, but I’ve often wondered how you people get by with your awkwardly long limbs.”

Girl, I know YOU did not just say that to me...

[zundely]

Solas and Cadash relationship feels so deeply tragic for me. Like especially with a dwarf who experienced being castless- they know the look someone gives them when they don't recognize them as a person.

And I think that here on the outside they also go it, sometimes from humans sometimes other dwarves- but the last place they would expect it would be from elves. No, there is an unspoken trust and understanding there...

And then they meet this a bit odd elven guy. Maybe a first person ever to really explain the Fade to them, to make that knowledge normally inaccessible to dwarves seem within reach... but sometimes they can feel his eyes upon them. And the look in his eyes has something very painfully familiar to it.

[alyce-out-of-wonderland]

I'll never get over the road marker in dao in Caridin's Cross that vaguely mentions a child paragon. I'm terrified but very much intrigued about that story 🤔😭

This is why I love the deep roads what stories are lost here how much is lost 😭 let me find it all 😭 please I'm begging you 😭

[illusivesoul]

"Like, just wake up and you don't get possesed duh" - Oghren, 9:31 Dragon

[finelyageddragons]

You know what sounds yummy? Dwarven wardens coming back to Orzammar and finding everything uncanny, as if almost everything is the same except for one little thing they can't quite figure out. They walk the same streets and nothing has changed persay, the buildings are the same, the paths haven't worn at all. Sure the people are unsettled by the political situation but they don't look any older, if anything it's brought a fire back into them that's sparked them to life and yet- why does everything feel so distant and faded? They're coming home and yet they can't find it and everything they look at reminds them how far they are. It's all haunted. It's full of memories long gone. Home isn't here, it's in the past and there's no way back there and then it hits them. Orzammar is the same, the thing that's changed is them. Orzammar isn't haunted, they are. They are the only ghost in this place that waited for them without knowing they had already died.