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Part 1: The Basics

What is your full name?

Where and when were you born?

Who are/were your parents? (Know their names, occupations, personalities, etc.)

Do you have any siblings? What are/were they like?

Where do you live now, and with whom? Describe the place and the person/people.

What is your occupation?

Write a full physical description of yourself. You might want to consider factors such as: height, weight, race, hair and eye color, style of dress, and any tattoos, scars, or distinguishing marks.

To which social class do you belong?

Do you have any allergies, diseases, or other physical weaknesses?

Are you right- or left-handed?

What does your voice sound like?

What words and/or phrases do you use very frequently?

What do you have in your pockets?

Do you have any quirks, strange mannerisms, annoying habits, or other defining characteristics?

Part 2: Growing Up

How would you describe your childhood in general?

What is your earliest memory?

How much schooling have you had?

Did you enjoy school?

Where did you learn most of your skills and other abilities?

While growing up, did you have any role models? If so, describe them.

While growing up, how did you get along with the other members of your family?

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

As a child, what were your favorite activities?

As a child, what kinds of personality traits did you display?

As a child, were you popular? Who were your friends, and what were they like?

When and with whom was your first kiss?

Are you a virgin? If not, when and with whom did you lose your virginity?

If you are a supernatural being (i.e. mage, werewolf, vampire), tell the story of how you became what you are or first learned of your own abilities. If you are just a normal human, describe any influences in your past that led you to do the things you do today.

Part 3: Past Influences

What do you consider the most important event of your life so far?

Who has had the most influence on you?

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

What is your greatest regret?

What is the most evil thing you have ever done?

Do you have a criminal record of any kind?

When was the time you were the most frightened?

What is the most embarrassing thing ever to happen to you?

If you could change one thing from your past, what would it be, and why?

What is your best memory?

What is your worst memory?

Part 4: Beliefs And Opinions

Are you basically optimistic or pessimistic?

What is your greatest fear?

What are your religious views?

What are your political views?

What are your views on sex?

Are you able to kill? Under what circumstances do you find killing to be acceptable or unacceptable?

In your opinion, what is the most evil thing any human being could do?

Do you believe in the existence of soul mates and/or true love?

What do you believe makes a successful life?

How honest are you about your thoughts and feelings (i.e. do you hide your true self from others, and in what way)?

Do you have any biases or prejudices?

Is there anything you absolutely refuse to do under any circumstances? Why do you refuse to do it?

Who or what, if anything, would you die for (or otherwise go to extremes for)?

Part 5: Relationships With Others

In general, how do you treat others (politely, rudely, by keeping them at a distance, etc.)? Does your treatment of them change depending on how well you know them, and if so, how?

Who is the most important person in your life, and why?

Who is the person you respect the most, and why?

Who are your friends? Do you have a best friend? Describe these people.

Do you have a spouse or significant other? If so, describe this person.

Have you ever been in love? If so, describe what happened.

What do you look for in a potential lover?

How close are you to your family?

Have you started your own family? If so, describe them. If not, do you want to? Why or why not?

Who would you turn to if you were in desperate need of help?

Do you trust anyone to protect you? Who, and why?

If you died or went missing, who would miss you?

Who is the person you despise the most, and why?

Do you tend to argue with people, or avoid conflict?

Do you tend to take on leadership roles in social situations?

Do you like interacting with large groups of people? Why or why not?

Do you care what others think of you?

Part 6: Likes And Dislikes

What is/are your favorite hobbies and pastimes?

What is your most treasured possession?

What is your favorite color?

What is your favorite food?

What, if anything, do you like to read?

What is your idea of good entertainment (consider music, movies, art, etc.)?

Do you smoke, drink, or use drugs? If so, why? Do you want to quit?

How do you spend a typical Saturday night?

What makes you laugh?

What, if anything, shocks or offends you?

What would you do if you had insomnia and had to find something to do to amuse yourself?

How do you deal with stress?

Are you spontaneous, or do you always need to have a plan?

What are your pet peeves?

Part 7: Self Images And Etc.

Describe the routine of a normal day for you. How do you feel when this routine is disrupted?

What is your greatest strength as a person?

What is your greatest weakness?

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Are you generally introverted or extroverted?

Are you generally organized or messy?

Name three things you consider yourself to be very good at, and three things you consider yourself to be very bad at.

Do you like yourself?

What are your reasons for being an adventurer (or doing the strange and heroic things that RPG characters do)? Are your real reasons for doing this different than the ones you tell people in public? (If so, detail both sets of reasons…)

What goal do you most want to accomplish in your lifetime?

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

If you could choose, how would you want to die?

If you knew you were going to die in 24 hours, name three things you would do in the time you had left.

What is the one thing for which you would most like to be remembered after your death?

What three words best describe your personality?

What three words would others probably use to describe you?

If you could, what advice would you, the player, give to your character? (You might even want to speak as if he or she were sitting right here in front of you, and use proper tone so he or she might heed your advice…)

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Tel banal ara'ma vir shiral ma'lasa belanaras

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“What is the old dalish curse? May the Dread Wolf take you?" 

Expect more tarot cards soon because I just love these aesthetics. 

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Darius art doll

Commission I made for talented AbzJHarding, and this character is from their comicbook Parliament of Rooks. (I hightly recommend you to go and check out their illustrations especially if you're into gothic stuff)

Doll is 75cm full length from the tip of beak to the tip of tail, fully poseable with wire skeleton inside. Green parts glow in UV light.

Head and claws are printed in durable resin. Fabric fur, feathers, wire, acrylic paint, varnish.

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What’s the old Dalish curse? May the Dread Wolf take you?

And so he did.

Something I’ve been working on between commissions this past week featuring my dear Inquisitor Miera Lavellan. It started off as a sketch of Solas and… well… things escalated quickly #mywholelifebasically 

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What is a Lúnara without their wings, stripped of the gift of flight and cursed to forever lay on the earth? They yearn for the skies, forever reaching out for the sun with outstretched hands but never being able to reach it, and yet they are still graced by its light.

But not you, Lucien. Not anymore.

Not after what you have done."

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The Veilguard companions + Varric Tethras

The crew who took the picture:

(Yes, it’s prosthetic arm)

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Elven translation in Trespasser (SPOILERS)

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR TRESPASSER!

DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED TRESPASSER YET.

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“Lavellan: If you had just told me… Solas: Then you would carry the same burden I do. Lavellan: I want to. Ma ghilana, vhenan.

Lavellan is saying “Guide me, Heart.” (Enlighten me. Tell me what you know.)

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Laraniel: Ma Harel Lasa! Solas: Only by omission. Lavellan: Ma lasa banal'ghilana! Solas: What would you have had me say? That I was the great adversary in your people’s mythology?

The dialogue wheel for this option is “You lied to me!” which is pretty much the intent of the elven.

A literal translation of “ma harel lasa” would be “you - trick/deceive - give”.

The intent is “You lied to me!” or “You tricked me!”

Edited: A literal translation of “Ma lasa banal'ghilana” would be something like “you - give - nothing/not/no - guide”. Since “not-guide” doesn’t really make sense, then “banal'ghilana” probably means something like “misguide” or “mislead”. So the best figurative translation of “ma lasa banal'ghilana” would probably be “you misled me”.

Altogether I think the intent is to say “You lied to me!… You misled me!”

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Solas: Ir abelas, Vhenan. Lavellan: Tel'Abelas. If you care, give me the truth.

“Ir abelas” literally means “I’m - sorrow/sorry”. He means “I’m sorry, Heart.”

“Tel'Abelas” literally means “Not - sorrow/sorry”.

Tel'Abelas is a very interesting phrase in this context, and I think there are several ways we could interpret it.

Lavellan could be saying “You’re not sorry (for lying to me)” or “I’m not sorry (for calling you a liar)”. Given the nature of the Elven language, she could mean both things at the same time.

/u/kittymaverick pointed out to me that “Tel'Abelas” could just be the default response to “Ir Abelas”. Sort of like when people say “how are you?” and you just reply “fine” as a default.

In that case, “Tel'Abelas” would basically just be an acknowledgment that there was an apology. It wouldn’t really mean anything by itself.

There’s an example of “Tel'Abelas being used in the game, after freeing Solas’s friend Wisdom. When Solas tells the Wisdom Spirit “Ir Abelas”, it responds with “Tel'Abelas.” Maybe it was saying “[Do] not be sorry.”

The meaning of the “Don’t be sorry” is still dependent on Lavellan’s intent. It could be an acceptance of the apology. Or it could be an accusation that the apology isn’t worth anything, and that he should give her the truth instead.

My interpretation is that Lavellan is saying “Don’t be sorry. If you care, give me the truth.”

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Lavellan: Solas, Var lath vir suledin. Solas: I wish it could, Vhenan.

The dialogue wheel for this option is “I won’t give up on you,” but that doesn’t really make sense given Solas’s response of “I wish it could.”

The literal translation of “Var lath vir suledin” is “Our - love - way/path - endure/strength to withstand loss”.

It probably translates to something like “Our love will find a way to endure” or “Our love is strong enough to withstand this” or “Our love can get us through this.” Solas’s answer makes much more sense in that context.

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Solas: I walk the Din'anshiral. There is only death on this journey. I would not have you see what I become.“

A literal translation of Din'anshiral would be “death/end - journey”. So it probably means something like “journey of death” or “journey to the end”. A more figurative translation could be “deadly journey”.

He is definitely saying that his journey will lead to death. I don’t know if he is referring to his own death, or the countless deaths that would occur if he brought down the veil. He may mean that he is on a suicide mission, but I just don’t know for sure.

If we broke it down further, it could possibly mean “the dead/not - place - journey”. Which could mean that he walks the “journey to the place of the dead”. Could this mean he is talking about going to the actual “land of the dead”? In which case, Lavellan literally could not follow him.

I think it was intentionally vague/ambiguous because it is a clue to where he is headed, both literally and metaphorically.”

Source: ser_luk on reddit

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Let's talk about Mythal & Emotional Abuse

This post is long, buckle up! I am going to go through Mythal's dialogue to spirit worm Solas, and break down why it has signs of emotional abuse.

Why go to such lengths, you may ask? I have seen too many boo-boo-the-fool takes on this topic across social media, and it has become clear to me that many people have no clue what emotional abuse even is.

I am not worried about the people who simply enjoy Mythal's character, if you are a fan of her, power to you. I will also say that Solas is still ultimately responsible for himself and his own choices. What bothers me is the ignorance on the subject of abuse. So here we go...

What is emotional abuse? Here is one of the article's that I am basing this off of, take a look if you are interested -

Emotional Abuse can manifest in many different ways. How Mythal behaves does not have to check every single box of abuse, but just enough to see a pattern.

PART 1 - The de-wormification of Solas

Let's go through the whole exchange and look out for - violation of boundaries, unrealistic expectations, isolating, invalidation, superiority, and emotional blackmail.

Mythal: "You have long observed the world. Why not consider joining it?"

There is nothing wrong with her opening lines on the surface. It's a bit of soft temptation, no biggie, right? It's a softball framing of what she actually wants from him, which is 'please inflict horrible pain on the Titan's to create a body, so that I can benefit from using you".

'But she is doing it to create peace!', the naysayers might say, 'she wants to end the war!' Yeah, the war she and the Evanuris started by pillaging the Titans to create bodies in the first place.

As far as emotional abuse goes, this fits 'unrealistic expectations'. The article I referenced gives some examples, "making unreasonable demands", "Expecting you to put everything aside to meet their needs." It is also 'isolating'. In that, she is asking him to leave his home and spirit life behind to serve her needs.

'B-but she's just asking, not demanding, he could just say no', the naysayers cry! Okay, let's find out what happens when he DOES, in fact, say NO.

Solas: But I have no desire to live as humans. I have the fade. Besides, I think you underestimate the danger. When you took the glowing stone to build your body, did the earth not shake?

Here we see Solas say no, attempt to set boundaries, and state the harm to himself and others that acquiescing to her will cause.

Now is a good time to bring up the voice acting. Solas sounds notably younger and afraid in this memory. There are parts where his voice is shaky, it conveys FEAR over what he is being asked to do. The way he sounds here reminds me distinctly of how Cole sounds.

So, does our ever-benevolent Mythal respect his boundaries or listen to his fears? Does she know that no means no? OR does she ignore all of that and continue to pressure him into the result she wants?

M: "The lyrium gives us the strength we had when we were of the fade. We are the best of physical and spirit. I need your wisdom. To withstand the louder voices who would go to far, like Elgar'nan."

"I need you."

In terms of emotional abuse, this is where the meat is. We have 'violation of boundaries', 'invalidation', 'superiority', and 'emotional blackmail'. All in one fell swoop (swooping is bad).

Solas has already said no, ignoring this and continuing to push is violating a boundary. Asking him to change his very form of existence is a major violation of his person-hood.

Imagine if someone told you they wanted you to help them with a task, but in order to do so, you had to get full body plastic surgery, or turn into an alien, or some huge physical transformation that will permanently alter your life. This is a blatant overstep, and not something that someone who cares about you would ever ask.

The 'invalidation' comes in with what she doesn't say. Notice, how she doesn't address the point Solas made about the danger and the earth shaking. She deflects.

An example of 'invalidating' can be "refusing to accept your feelings by trying to define how you should feel". It trivializes your feelings, or it redirects your feelings into something better suited to the abuser.

Solas' fear about the danger is trivialized by her lack of response to it. Ignoring his point implies that his feelings on it do not matter. He sounds frightened when he talks about it, and...she deflects using 'superiority'.

I think even the most die-hard Mythal fan can admit that she carries herself with an absolute air of superiority. It's one of her defining traits. Here she dismisses the dangers of using the Titan's to form bodies by pointing out how superior it is to do so.

The entitlement of "The lyrium gives us the strength", and "We are the best of physical and spirit" establishes her stance on being a higher power. This implies that she sees her lyrium body as being superior to simple spirits, which extends logically to Solas (by her logic, just a mediocre wisdom spirit in comparison).

Solas says "Hey, no, I don't want to do this because it is harmful and scary. I am happy as I am.", she comes back with "but don't you wanna be superior and powerful like me?" The flip-side of that is that it means she doesn't think he is good enough as 'just a spirit'.

Cue 'emotional blackmail', considering that she ends up using him for war, his spirit form isn't good enough for the task. He must irreversibly (as far as we know) change his very existence in order to become 'good enough' for her needs.

This is the clearest manipulation that Mythal uses in this exchange. The repeated "I need" (and this is the one that leads him to giving in) Some examples of emotional blackmail from the aforementioned article include, "Manipulating and controlling you by making you feel guilty; giving you a guilt trip", and "Using your fears, values, compassion, or other hot buttons to control you or the situation".

She presents the idea that the louder Evanuris need to be kept in check to appeal to Solas's values and compassion. She name drops Elgar'nan specifically, likely knowing that Elgar'nan is a hot button area for Solas.

The naysayers might be confused by this one too, 'She only asked for help with keeping the Evanuris in check. What's so terrible about that?' It's not so terrible on the surface, but paired with everything else it piles on to the manipulation.

Once again, there is a flip-side to her words that subtly imply, 'If you do not take physical form and help me with this conflict the world will get worse. I will be outnumbered by the less reasonable Evanuris. The consequence of failure will be on YOU, after all, I told you I needed you.' This is major guilt tripping, and it works. It works so well he internalizes it for millennia.

S: This is madness. You must know that. (sighs/shaky intake of breath) I will always follow where you go.

He is still trapped in the mindset of 'If Mythal's attempt at building a peaceful world fails, it is his fault. If her vision for the Elvhen people falls apart it is because his wisdom wasn't good enough. So, he had to transform into something better, more powerful, into Pride, to meet her expectations, and if his actions since taking physical form/becoming Pride all led to failure and more suffering, then it was all for nothing.

He was violated and has perpetuated violation in her name for NOTHING. That is an unbearable way to live and it breaks him until Mythal takes a shred of accountability for her part of it and releases him from her "service" at the end.

I am tempted to go into the parallels with both Solas' and Cole's personal quests in DAI, but this is long as hell already.

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Edit: I missed one!

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i just still cannot fucking believe that our home base in this game is Solas’s sad little divorced dad fade bachelor pad where he has spent 10 years alone painting on the walls and eating the thedas equivalent of stovetop ramen and we are going to get to rummage through his sock drawer. like if you had told me this in 2018 i would NEVER have believed you. we are gonna get to PSYCHOANALYZE his KITCHEN!?!?!?!?!?!

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Rip to everyone on this site who didn't realise they were following sleeper dragon age fans. The fandom is awakening from its deep slumber.

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"I'll talk to him guys!!"