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The Enigma of Kirkwall

You know the single thing that bothered me most about DA:2 (besides Ali and Zev’s hideous mutant faces)?

The Enigma of Kirkwall–not its existence, but the fact that this thing, this seemingly REALLY VITAL piece of information was all but abandoned, thrown in as a really difficult little side treasure hunt with no quest marker and no incentive.  I personally never came close to finding all the pieces.  And yet:

“The mages of Kirkwall have a more troubled history than those in other Circles. A greater percentage of them do not survive the Harrowing, and a greater percentage turn to blood magic—almost double that of Starkhaven or Ostwick.”

“The blood of countless slaves was spilled beneath the city in sacrifice. Whole buildings were built upon lakes of blood. The sewers have grooves where blood would flow, all leading down. The scale is hard to fathom.”

“Beneath the city, demons can contact even normal men.”

So, like, DA:2 is the story of one incredibly fucked-up city, and THIS IS WHY it’s fucked up, and that’s not relevant info?  And the whole conflict is mage v. templar and the only reason it’s remotely morally grey is because well honestly you trip over blood mages and abominations every time you try to have a quiet piss in an alley, so after a while you start to feel like maybe even Meredith has a point, but THIS IS WHY.  Probably nobody should try to live in Kirkwall, much less mages, and yet these codices are probably only found by the most rabid completionists.

Bah.

[quotes taken from the Dragon Age wikia]

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Remembering ye olde days in the DA discourse trenches

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Ok guys just thought of this what is the first blorbo you’ve ever had/can remember

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Fenris, proof that not all wine aunts are fun

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I'm sorry but no videogame party does it like hawke squad. they're one of the most exceptional people in their city one way or another. they are remarkably pathetic and helpless when their personal shit hits the fan. their character arcs are a slight growth at best and a total regression and slow descent into a very bad place mentally at worst. no matter how you play hawke they can't completely change these fuckers' pivotal beliefs. they're obsessed with hawke anyway. half of them lives in literal shitholes. the other half willingly comes to aforementioned shitholes to hang out. their disgust and displeasure with each other is rarely a joke. they still care for each other's well-being to an extent. these bitches are very serious about wanting to cut each other's throats sometimes but they will behave for hawke's sake. they're also very serious about exploring each other's bodies and inventing nsfw fanfiction in thedas just to fuck with their friend group. the most unhinged dynamics of all time. there's no way it could be that good considering shitty writing and production hell but somehow it is. a mess of a game but also a miracle

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just some cuddling after sex

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I added some spice to the fluff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Here is sort of part 1 : 1

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I made the requests! I wanted to turn it into comic but my file got corrupted and i got too exhausted. Maybe i will finish it in the future! 

edit: i made part 2, kind of, here: 2

@moustashleigh, @stillnoteinstein

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Yeee… i made some stupid doodles on my nsfw blog.

You can check them out here: x

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Playing around with gouache on black paper 

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being on doxxing terms with a tumblr mutual is kinda funny like we met at yaoi university and now an year later we both know each other's exact locations

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is any of your player characters pre-veilguard transgender or nonbinary?

yes, all of them

yes, two of them

yes, my warden (HoF)

yes, my orlesian warden-commander

yes, my hawke

yes, my inquisitor

none of them is

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wip of Fenris I’ll probably never finish

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i need him in veilguard

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Compiled every moment in which Fenris smiles in the Blue Wraith and Dark Fortress comics, thought maybe people here would enjoy this

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Dragon age is coming back so you know what that means. Logging into your dash each day and seeing callouts because someone sided with the magical wizard rumpus club over the warlock circlejerk in their playthrough. Getting messages calling you problematic for following someone who has mixed feelings about the gnome independence movement. Seeing paragraphs upon paragraphs about how slorpity porpity the esteemed magical elf was actually justified in signing the pixie exclusion act. Get ready.

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Seems like a waste of a perfectly handsome elf.