Shay patrick cormac, AC rogue might be the shortest game but i still think its underrated as hell, one of the best ones in my opinion
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Any thoughts on the Origins -> Insquisition discrepancy/retcon that templars require lyrium to use their anti-magic abilities? Apologies if you've answered this before, but it's been on my mind that Alistair can canonically use templar abilities without lyrium, and possibly the warden too.
Yeah, in DA:O Alistair says you don’t need lyrium in order to learn the templar talents. But in later games, it's stated that their abilities do derive from the lyrium.
Gaider once said the following to explain away the retcon: "Even if Templar magic was recognized as spellcasting, it's not innate to the Templars, if they just stopped taking lyrium eventually they would lose the ability. Although as Alistair proves, they can use the ability for a long time afterwards."
But this is forgetting the fact the Alistair also says he never started taking lyrium in the first place, lmfao????
So it's pretty sloppy retconning. But what's new there?
My understanding of current canon at least is that lyrium is required, and we're supposed to forget about DA:O. But I definitely prefer Alistair's take on it, that the Chantry just uses lyrium as a means of controlling the templars, and it's not legitimately needed. “You don’t need lyrium in order to learn the templar talents. Lyrium just makes templar talents more effective. Or so I was told. Maybe it doesn’t even do that. The Chantry usually doesn’t let their templars get away, either, so they can spread their secrets. I’m a bit of an exception. Lucky me.”
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Few groups have inspired as many conspiracy theories as the Knights Templar. Behind the stories was a real group who became incredibly powerful before disappearing completely.
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Templartations Exchange 2024 is on its way!
We're back for the third year straight! This time with a dedicated Tumblr blog to gather all the announcements and to share the creations of our talented participants ❤
What is Templartations Exchange?
Templartations Exchange is a Discord server exclusive fics and arts exchange created to celebrate templar, ex-templar, almost templar, and conditional templar characters from the Dragon Age universe, such as Cullen Rutherford, Alistair Theirin, Raleigh Samson, Delrin Barris, Knight Captain Rylen, Carver Hawke, and others
Note: even though this is a templars-related event, members of the Templartations community DO NOT necessarily go with templars siding play-throughs nor share the in-game pro templars views. This is an event hosted for everyone to celebrate their favorite Dragon Age characters and appreciate the diversity in the fandom.
How do I sign up?
Please follow the link to our Templartations Discord server here, complete The Recruitment and look for the instructions in the Exchange channel.
Event time table:
Nominations: February 25th - March 2nd
Sign-ups: 2 weeks: March 3rd - March 16th
Assignments Issued: March 17th
Creation Period: 8 weeks: March 17th - May 4th
Collection Goes Live!: May 11th
Creators Revealed: May 18th
We look forward to seeing you there! Happy creating!
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da2 made me go “😠 fuck templars, man!!” and then bioware was like “oh?? you want to fuck templars??” and gave me dai with Cullen, Barris, Rylen, etc etc like i am so serious right now they did NOT have to do all that lmao
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