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levikra · 7 months
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First Inquisitor Ameridan
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kattysouza · 1 year
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“In His Shadow”
Any other male Lavellan players get big sad with this reveal? I've been very frustrated with my art lately so trying out more quick painting processes.  
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venvellan · 8 months
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i routinely think about the horrible torturous waking nightmare it would be for lavellan to find inquisitor ameridan. you've spent weeks chasing after his trail under the assumption that he's human and only just discovered that telana was elven after historians/the chantry tried to erase her existence entirely. it's only by breaking his spell over hakkon and un-freezing him out of time that you realize he's– dalish? "andaran atish'an. i am glad drakon's friendship with our people has remained strong." oh, god, no.
you can tell the world he was dalish. you can try to correct history and give him the rest he deserves, but would they even believe you? the dalish inquisitor lavellan finds the only other inquisitor in chantry history and he was also dalish? you have to try, and some will believe you, but the human lords don't care. you'll find the most resistance in "educated" circles of historians, where they'll likely be whispering that you made it all up.
you may have spent your entire career as the inquisitor questioning how you'll be remembered, and the answer lies in finding ameridan. one day you'll be lost to time, and the few who remember you will do it incorrectly. public perception of you now is that you're a tool and servant of the chantry, despite not being andrastian, despite direct opposition from the chantry, but hundreds of years from now? some of the dalish may remember who you really were, but in a future under the chantry, they'd be fighting an uphill battle trying to keep that version of you alive. your only chance is to catalog your life, your identity, as dutifully as possible. write journals and letters reminding the world of who you are. leave little pieces of you behind, in hopes that it'll make a trail through time straight to you. the real you.
that's what my lavellan does, anyway. finding ameridan awakens such dread in him that he starts recording as much of himself as possible. the weeks after have him holed up filling journals with who he is, where he's from, his beliefs, his family tree. the choices he's made and exactly why, the people he wants to fight for. he keeps up that habit in the months and years afterward, writing as much as he can fit on the page about any relevant topic. varric could write about the inquisition, and he'd do his best, but a good story — a story that sells — is about fighting the templars and the demons and defeating corypheus. being elven would take up a paragraph at most in varric's story, and it's just not enough. people could forget him regardless, no matter how hard he tries, but he'll fight it as long as he lives.
and if all else fails, mythal forbid, hopefully the name 'lavellan' sounds elven enough.
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mogwaei · 2 years
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~First Inquisitor Ameridan~
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elfrootlover420 · 9 months
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love when inquisitor ameridan wakes up and sees inquisitor lavellan like "hey man glad to see the elves are still respected :)" and lavellan is like "lol nope its worse actually"
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drunken-drengr · 1 year
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Secret Santa gift for @inquisitorfatima! Former-Inquisitor Ameridan, Cassandra, and Varric enjoying(?) a game of Wicked Grace at the Herald's Rest.
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agirlwithadiary · 6 months
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Cast your vote!
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archofx · 1 year
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It's so sad how Ameridan has been there alone 800 years, and how it has been forgotten the facts that he was a mage and an elf.
I wonder if in Dreadwolf our inquisitor would be required to do a sacrifice like Ameridan's.
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fallout-cowgirl · 1 year
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"We needed a leader who inspired loyalty, not fear. I was needed, as I suspect you were needed."
"Take moments of happiness where you can find them, the world will take the rest."
"The passage of years can be delayed but not ignored."
"Take this, it holds the last few memories of an old hunter who was neither as wise nor as strong as he thought."
"Then I leave the world in good hands. Fight well Inquisitor I'm honored to have met you."
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I'm not sure how this quest isn't as talked about as much as it should be. Inquisitor Ameridan is one of, if not the very best, side quest out there. It is such a heartfelt moment. Emotions are brought out in such a great way. The Inquisitor finds herself on a journey to find the last Inquisitor that went missing, yet it's almost a mirror to the path she has been walking. They both didn't choose to be Inquisitor. They were called upon. Both made unusual friends and accepted them for who they were on the inside, not the outside. They brought people together. They fought for those who couldn't fight themselves. Both gave up their lives and their own desires because the world needed them. But most of all, they fought with every last ounce of breath they had, no matter how scared they were.
Meeting Ameridan really shows just how quickly the people turned on each other. Everything he feared would happen, did. He once was a hero to the people, but in the present , he would looked down upon. I think this was one of the best quests they could've made. It really brings things into a whole new light. If you haven't done this one, go do it, you won't be disappointed!
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displacer-beasts · 1 month
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Oh Inquisitor Ameridan... The first time I played this DLC was with my elven mage.
Finding out that the very first Inquisitor was also an elven mage, and that that information was lost to history (re: Chantry censorship) was so emotionally impactful.
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And he understood. Because of course he would, he was in the same position 800 years ago. Taking a position of leadership because the people need it. And having to give up parts of yourself. Having to become The Inquisitor and never ever being able to put that weight down.
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star--nymph · 1 year
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I don't know about you guys but whenever I play Jaws of Hakkon and I run into the codex on Ameridan and Telena, I lose all composure like:
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Don't talk to me about it. Don't touch me. They loved each other and the Chantry tried to erase Telana from his story. Her very existence was branded "problematic" and banned--because god forbid Ameridan be an elven mage and much less be in love with one.
All this while Telana waited for an eternity for him to return to her. Her love for him was so damn strong that spirits preserved her memories--and the only thing to bring those pieces of her memory back together, to give her some semblance of who she used to be?
"Ameridan? Yes. Inquisitor. Beloved."
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levikra · 1 year
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✦ First Inquisitor Ameridan
A little sneak peak of my illustration for the Dragon Age zine ! Extremely proud of myself and happy for the opportunity to participate in a project of one of my favorite universes✨
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nightmarist · 1 year
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I have a lot of feelings about Ameridan from Jaws of Hakkon. It must be incredibly awful to sit at the jaws, frozen in time, for hundreds of years. Dirthadin, though not technically supposed to be inquisitor, i know would be amazed to see a living relic of ancient elves AND the peaceful syncretism of Dalish and Andrastean. To see what it was like Before colonization. I think after meeting Ameridan, Dirthadin’s entire worldview would flip so hard, be nearly disoriented by the thought of a syncretic Dalish-Chant, by the idea of an Elvhen inquisitor, with an Elvhen mage lover.
It must have hurt to find out what Drakkon’s son did. I couldn’t lie to him, i told him the Dales were swept. But the melancholic connection between elf inquisitors felt significant enough to feel like One Day We’ll Fix This.
Also!!!! The Vallaslin i went with cosmetically is June, but Dirthadin’s actual Vallaslin would be a combination, of course, of Falon’din and Dirthamen. The fact that Ameridan’s is Dirthamen made me want throw my controller in the ceiling with glee.
Andraste holding up Halla in Imperial architecture is so cool…. Syncretism is one of my favorite phenomena in culture and mythology; preferably when it happens out of cultural sharing and not colonization.
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dragonless-age · 1 year
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Inquisitor Ameridan’s autobiography, otherwise known as
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crossdressingdeath · 2 years
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have you played Jaws of hakkon? Inquistor Ameridan made me cry
It's been so long since I played Jaws of Hakkon, I was going to play it in my latest run but I was overwhelmed by the desire to romance Dorian so I rushed through Trespasser so I could start again. This time for sure. But yeah, Inquisitor Ameridan is fucking tragic. It's made worse by the fact that we're not allowed to really engage with the tragedy. I mean... this is a Dalish mage whose identity was stripped away from him after his death in order to prop up a very particular agenda that he didn't share and didn't agree with, and even after finding the truth you can still bury it just because it would be bad PR for the current Inquisition to... you know, give this man who died to protect the world his legacy back. But even if you yourself are a Dalish mage, who would logically have a very personal reason to be rather upset by the reveal that the previous Inquisition also made a Dalish mage their figurehead and then buried his identity so they could pretend humans were better than elves, you just do not acknowledge that! Honestly at least put the fallout from the whole "the Chantry lied about who Inquisitor Ameridan was for centuries" thing in the actual game and not a war table mission where you can continue covering it up...
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bronsautracks · 1 year
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I played through jaws of hakkon again and EVERY TIME I finish the “where we once walked” and hear Ameriden’s Telana memory I get riled up because WHY..
did they shoehorn in a direct and translation of “tela’nadas” (nothing is inevitable) UNLESS it was to put rest to that specific, word-for-word translation being commonly attributed to solas’ response, “banal nadas” (possibly: the void/end is inevitable, an unfortunate inevitably/it must be done) to the nightmare demon in the fade.
Further support of this key difference in the meaning of the two phrases lie in:
The romanced inquisitor angry reaction to trespasser conclusion- “ma lasa banal ghilana!” (You lied to me/you led me astray, or more literally, you gave me bad/poor guidance)
Solas’ own admission, regarding his personality- “I AM grim and fatalistic” He’s not an optimist. He hears the nightmares taunts and responds with, “it is what it is,” because ya boy effed up miserably and is just doing his best with what he has.
And like I never wanted to argue this so when I last made a post about the revelation YEARS AGO someone said “it can be both” and I went with it because I’m not really big on discourse BUT IT CANTBE BOTH OKAY, they are representative of entirely opposing ideals and all I have as proof are these two points and the click of it all coming together in my brain that grinds against the thought that it’s being misinterpreted ever, even once.
So yeah, I think certainly ‘banal’ is literally translated as ‘Nothing’ but capital nothing, as in “The nothing” or “the void” which means that using it as a descriptive word or prefix would just give negative connotation to the following word or phrase, hence: “You gave me poor guidance!/you misled me!” (Ma lasa banal ghilana) “the end is inevitable/an unfortunate inevitability” (banal nadas)
Where as “tel” means ‘nothing’ as in “no thing” “not a thing” “none” so instead of negative, the connotation is nullifying, hence: “nothing is inevitable” (tela’nadas) “no apologies!/you’re not sorry!” (Tel’abelas!)
Also, Netflix, BioWare, Jesus, whoever, please, a show about inquisitor Ameridan next time you feel like doing a whole animated dragon age project. 🙏 absolution was great and after seeing it and playing jaws of hakkon I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED
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