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Howdy, Felassan! Do you happen to know the chronological order of E v e r y canonical piece of Dragon Age media (books + games + wasn't there a movie?), or where I could find that info?

Hello! Like chronological in the in-universe timeline? (If you mean irl release dates or wanted in-universe dates for each too lmk and I’ll update the post.)

Pls note there is some overlap (things happening concurrently). Some placements I used here are approximate or what’s more intuitive for the people consuming the media. In the lore, some dates aren’t exact, some pieces of media take place over a long period or at multiple points in the timeline, or are able to take place at various points in the timeline depending on player choice. Also in the lore, in some places there are discrepancies, conflicting information, things that don’t make complete sense or things which aren’t clear So, tis not a perfect list:

Dragon Age: Last Flight [novel]

Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne [novel]

Dragon Age: The Calling [novel]

Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker [film]

Dragon Age [IDW comic; unclear, but probably takes place before DAO]

Leliana’s Song [DAO DLC; takes place before DAO]

A Tale of Orzammar [DAO DLC; takes place before DAO]

Dragon Age: Journeys [game; unclear, but takes place before DAO and is a tie-in to DAO]

Dragon Age: Origins [Penny Arcade comic]

Dragon Age: Origins [game]

The Stone Prisoner, Return to Ostagar and Warden’s Keep [DAO DLCs; take place during DAO] 

Dragon Age: The Revelation [comic created by a fan and David Gaider; takes place near the end of DAO]

The Darkspawn Chronicles [DAO DLC; alternate universe timeline of DAO]

Dragon Age: Warden’s Fall [online miniseries]

Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening [Penny Arcade comic]

Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening [game]

The Golems of Amgarrak [DAO DLC; takes place after DAO-A]

Witch Hunt [DAO DLC; takes place after DAO-A]

Varric, Fenris, Merrill, Isabela, Anders, Aveline and Sebastian [short stories; take place before DAII]

Dragon Age II [game]

The Exiled Prince [DAII DLC; takes place throughout DAII]

Dragon Age: Redemption [web series; takes place at the same time as DAII but always before DAII DLC Mark of the Assassin]

Mark of the Assassin [DAII DLC; can take place at various points during DAII but always after Dragon Age: Redemption]

Legacy [DAII DLC; can take place at various points during DAII. The official date for it is 9:37, which is DAII Act 3]

Dragon Age: Legends [game; unclear, but is a tie-in to DAII. iirc BioWare writers have since said this is non-canon]

Dragon Age: The Silent Grove [comic]

Dragon Age: Those Who Speak [comic]

Dragon Age: Until We Sleep [comic]  

Dragon Age: Asunder [novel]

Dragon Age: The Masked Empire [novel]

Dragon Age: Hard in Hightown [novel; in-universe it’s a novel written by Varric that essentially fictionalizes the rough time period of DAII. He references it in DAI]

Paying the Ferryman, Paper & Steel and The Riddle of Truth [short stories; take place before DAI]

Dragon Age: The Last Court [game]

Dragon Age: Magekiller [comic; takes place before and during DAI]

Dragon Age: Inquisition [game]

Jaws of Hakkon and The Descent [DAI DLCs; can take place before or after end of main DAI storyline but always before Trespasser]

The Final Conversation [short story; takes place either before or not long after Trespasser]

Trespasser [DAI DLC]

Dragon Age: Knight Errant [comic]

Dragon Age: Deception [comic]

Dragon Age: Blue Wraith [comic]

Dragon Age: Dark Fortress [comic]

Tevinter Nights [short story anthology; hard to place, as the different stories take place at different points. For example, Hunger takes place after The Next One, Murder by Death Mages takes place during DAI, Herold Had The Plan takes place between Knight Errant and Deception, and The Dread Wolf Take You probably takes place after Dark Fortress. Some of stories clearly take place at some point after DAI or Trespasser and some are unclear]

Minrathous Shadows [short story; unclear, sometime after Trespasser? Is a sorta tie-in to Tevinter Nights]

The Next One [short story; unclear, but before Hunger in Tevinter Nights. Is a sorta tie-in to Tevinter Nights]

The Wake [short story; unclear, after The Wigmaker Job in Tevinter Nights but before Eight Little Talons in Tevinter Nights? Is a sorta tie-in to Tevinter Nights]

Ruins of Reality [short story; unclear, after Three Trees to Midnight in Tevinter Nights?]

‘Dragon Age 4′ [upcoming game; my assumption only]

Hope this helps?

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I took these high resolution screenshots of Dalish armors from DA:I for future reference

The plain grey parts are tintable ingame so I have no idea what their default color is ment to be.

All assets belong to Bioware/EA

I also put a neat little folder with the armors in a Blender file (unrigged) in case anyone would like to rotate the models and get extra detailed references. The folder also contains high res screenshots (4800x2200 px) in case they dont attach correctly to this post.

Link: https://mega.nz/folder/cIUGSb5A#JIOJyGiyVMMpTlVkP9jKRA

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i had planned to do more of these but i lost the ambition, so here’s what i had finished

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Fereldan Nobles

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So we know printing presses exist in Thedas, and we know paper is relatively cheap in Thedas, because both of these things have to be true for Varric to be an internationally-bestselling writer of trashy fiction.

And in the real world, the popularisation of the printing press created an information boom that was every bit as massive and revolutionary as the invention of the Internet, and a corresponding spread in sedition.

So consider the following:

City elves, hiding presses in their homes, using tiny, barely-readable type to compress the entire Canticle of Shartan onto a single A4 pamphlet. “Read this and then burn it,” they warn, as they pass it discreetly in the street. In some homes, Shartan is tinder every Sunday.

Anders is not the only mage with his own press. In the mage underground a fierce battle is waged in paper and ink, a natural extension of the arguments among the Fraternities. The Libertarians, Aequitarians and Isolationists pass pamphlets back and forth with such haste that sometimes the ink has barely dried on the page before three responses are posted through the door. Loyalists are rare in the underground, but their occasional output has been known to cause the entire paper supply in a small town to dry up as rebuttals flow in. The Lucrosians charge two silver apiece for their pamphlets, and are generally ignored.

(Sometimes mages escape with books, or find a rare copy in their wanderings. These are preserved and jealously guarded, copied as many times as the ink will allow. Amaranthine is a known hub for the underground magic tome trade… how else would the Warden-Commander find a book on blood magic there?)

(And sometimes those mages are elven, and the books are not about magic but about history, and the city elves print those, too, binding them with care and placing them somewhere anyone can go and look, because it is their history, and now their book, and it belongs to all of them, every single one.)

Paper is not as eternal as the Stone, but the Stone rejected surface dwarves long ago, and so they write their Memories onto paper and copy them relentlessly, storing them in endless libraries and warehouses across Thedas. If one archive burns, then the Memories will live on elsewhere. They write tales of Orzammar, too, and copy what they can from expeditions to recover lost thaigs, for one day Orzammar will fall. On that day the Stone may be lost, but the paper will live on.

It’s rare for casteless dwarves to be literate, but the surface is a land of opportunity and Sigrun is not the only one to learn. They have little interest in Memories, but a great deal in stories, and they tell tales of Paragons that Orzammar would never allow: Branka was off her nut, Tethras once fucked a bronto, Aeducan stole the invention which made him Paragon from another dwarf. Perhaps the stories are true, perhaps they aren’t, but they heal wounds their readers have had for so long that they had forgotten what it was like to be whole.

(One day a mage hands one of their manifestos to the carta dwarf they’re buying lyrium from, and a whole new group of furious essayists are born. It begins as simple venting - they do not have the mages’ academic training - but they learn quickly, and soon their newfound skills find a new target in the Merchants’ Guild for its perpetuation of Orzammar’s caste systems. One essay has a print run of 5000 and is read by at least twice that number of dwarves. It makes its way back to Orzammar, and soon the few literate inhabitants of Dust Town are doing readings to a dozen of their friends at a time, crammed into tiny buildings with guards posted on the doors.)

The Chantry bans private printing presses, but the nobles protest, because they need their weekly slander mags to keep up with the Game - and truthfully, many of the clerics like to read those as well. (Only to be informed about the depravity of the modern age, of course. They certainly don’t enjoy such scandal.) Templars raid homes, but the mages and the elves are careful, and the dwarves have lyrium to offer in exchange for silence. The Chantry tries to discourage literacy among the lower classes, but a learned child is a blessing upon his parents and unto the Maker, and the lower classes can spot hypocrisy a mile away.

And so the information age sweeps Thedas. The people are angry, the pamphlets impossible to stamp out, and the revolution draws ever closer.

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you know what’s telling. eamon doesnt like the idea of anora and alistair getting married. he literally wants alistair to rule alone so he can control and manipulate him into doing what he wants eamon couldn’t tell maric no when maric asked eamon to take alistair in, so you bet your ass he got the most he could out of alistair, by making him work as a stable boy and having him eat with the servants. and then as soon as he became too much of an inconvenience he had him sent to the chantry. eamon talks to alistair about his responsibilty to the throne but eamon didn’t even keep his promise to maric to take care of alistair and then as soon as he finds out that cailan is dead. as soon as eamon decides that alistair suddenly has worth. he’s trying to to force alistair into doing something he doesn’t want to do, because while eamon claims he can’t take the throne himself because he’d be no better than loghain, he knows he can rule through alistair and get him to do exactly what he wants. because alistair won’t question him eamon wanted anora out of the picture with cailan because he couldn’t control her and she stopped him from controlling and influencing cailan. its the same thing even towards the end of the blight. he doesnt even approve of the idea of alistair and anora marrying because then he wouldn’t be able to control alistair i fucking hate this man

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obscure elven heroes! appreciation. post

The Pale Demon: after Orlais conquered Halamshiral in 2:20 Glory and the Dales fell, one of the Keepers of the diaspora clans became infamous for his vicious attacks on Orlesians. humans came to know him as the Pale Demon, for he set upon soldiers and even unprotected merchants with iceblasts and blizzards from his staff, even in summer. these attacks continued until chevaliers killed the Keeper and then slaughtered his entire clan. the staff he bore was called Yavanalis (it’s curious to me incidentally, that Flemythal named one of her daughters Yavana - any connection? maybe the two words share the same root word in elven).

Wenni di Ladia: a City Elf from Nevarra, she was one of the most famous elven heroes from the Towers Age. directly descended from one of the last Emerald Knights who protected the Dales, she took up her grandfather’s bow, Tenasarin (any relation to the river Tenasir, where shrines to the elven gods stood?), to fight when the Third Blight threatened Thedas. her deeds, skill and beauty inspired entire armies, such that I don’t think it would be a stretch to say Wenni was one of the Heroes of the Third Blight. after the Archdemon was defeated, her name launched revolts and rebellions in the alienages, becoming a rallying cry - mien’harel! human Marcher rulers were angered by this, and Wenni was forced to flee criminal accusations. she vanished into obscurity, not unlike some Wardens in some of the potential epilogue slides, but her legend still lives on in the hearts of City Elves. this is very important, because in the City Elf Origin elven children playing “Heroes and Humans” will tell Tabris that they don’t know any stories about elven heroes. I like to believe that Wenni’s story is one that every elven child knows and takes great pride and solace in, just like Garahel’s is noted to be. 

Rajmael: a great general. the elves of the Dales fought valiantly against the Exalted March, but defeat became obvious. in one last act of defiance, Rajmael threw his dragonbone waraxe, The Veshialle, at the oncoming enemy before committing suicide by jumping from the Forlorn Falls. his weapon is said to rebel against all but elven hands. Rajmael may have been an Emerald Knight. a verse in the Chant of Light insists that he recanted his faith in the Creators, but we all know that’s human bullshit. curiously, his tale bears some similarity to that of Nomaris, one of the last Emerald Knights alive after the Dales were destroyed. he too bore an axe - the Axe of Green Edges. he lodged it in a tree, declaring that it should remain there until his People were free, before flinging himself into a river, presumably to his death.

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WHAT IF....

Fiona ISN’T Alistair’s mother?  (**potential spoilers ahead, so read at your own risk**)

I first considered the idea when the question was posed on a DA fan page on Facebook - “Who is Alistair’s mother?”  Naturally, everyone chimed in with “Fiona!”, but then one astute person noted that Alistair’s name is never mentioned in the book.  I checked and sure enough, when Duncan and Fiona bring the baby to Maric, his name is never uttered.  My writer’s brain kicked into overdrive with the potential this bombshell might hold.

I mentioned this possibility to @oblivion-and-wonderland​ and we discussed how things might unfold if there was a THIRD Theirin heir out there somewhere.  Then she found this in the comics…

“All the people I love are here…  Cailan, YOUR MOTHER, Loghain…”

But Fiona is still alive at this point because these comics happen before the events of Inquisition.  So to whom, then, is Maric referring if not Fiona?  Again, we tossed around some ideas and theories and I dared to pose the question of another Theirin heir on a fanfic writers page and instead of people tossing around ideas about it (which was my intent), it turned into this huge mess about how ridiculous the whole idea was.  I wound up deleting the post because I was looking for an honest discussion of the possibility of another heir, not an argument about why the idea is stupid or ridiculous.  Of course, I’ll probably get that with this text post, but whatever.

(I’M GOING TO STATE AGAIN THAT THIS IS SPECULATION.  I AM NOT SAYING DEFINITIVELY WHETHER OR NOT FIONA IS OR IS NOT ALISTAIR’S MOTHER. I’M MERELY POINTING OUT THAT IT’S POSSIBLE SHE ISN’T.)

The idea of a third heir stayed with me, even after the discussion died down.  I considered writing about it in my crossover (which I still may very well do), but I didn’t really give it a lot of thought or research.

A couple of nights ago, Karee sent me this…

This screenshot is from the Awakenings codex, but the one for Origins says pretty much the same thing - Alistair was raised at Redcliffe to hide him from Rowen.  However, Rowen was already dead when the events of The Calling happened, so if the babe Fiona had was really Alistair, there would be no need to hide him from the queen, right?

So, Karee put the screenshots together and tweeted them to Mr. Gaider & Mr. Weekes, asking for clarification.  Mr. Gaider’s response?  “I’m sure you can figure it out on your own.”

Believe me, I know the Dragon Age series is rife with timeline and continuity errors, but this seems like too big an issue to just be a simple mistake.

My theory is this… Alistair’s mother truly was a handmaiden; he was born while Rowen was still alive and hidden in Redcliffe.  Fiona did have a child with Maric and that son is still out there, somewhere.  Yes, her conversation in Skyhold lead one to think that she believes Alistair is her son, but she never expressly states this.  However, it’s logical to assume because she’d have no reason to think otherwise - she wouldn’t have known of Alistiar’s true parentage just as very, very few people would have known about her child with Maric.

I really think there’s a third heir out there and I think it’s going to cause some major ripples in DA4.

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Turn sound on for todays heartbreak :’D

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Dragon Age development insights and highlights from Bioware: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development

Some really tasty factoids here.

Cut for length.

Keep reading

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let’s get one thing straight: never once in my life have I actually wanted to use andraste’s ashes to save arl eamon

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Found a crossover sketch that I did last year: The aftermath of Space Scoundrel vs High Fantasy Rogue XD

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MY FIRST MOD! now at higher resolution with full-body toning!

i was trying to be funny with the title okay

i’ve always wanted to try my hand at altering alistair’s appearance in the game itself to resemble his origins appearance and i finally got my greedy little hands on him ;)

there’s a collection of files so you can choose what textures you do and don’t want or want to swap with other mods, plus the option of stubble!

mod used for photos: Padme4000′s ‘Inquisitor NPC’

i now have a ko-fi page if anyone is so kind as to support me! not that you’re not kind anyway!

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madame du fer

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Lady  Cousland

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sad puppy eyes