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inkeyjay · 1 year

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I am the REGRET of a GOD, YOU-

#dragon age #dragon age dreadwolf #dreadwolf #dread wolf rises #solas #regret #tevinter nights #demon #dragon age fanart #dragon age inquisition

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lavellaned · 8 months

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being a bad liar + unable to let people be incorrect about things = a very unsubtle man

#the side eye some of things he says gets #solas #there is only so much you can blame on the fade mr “I-miss-court-intrigue”#dragon age #dai #fen’harel #don’t even get me started on his tevinter nights undercover mission

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ohmyarda · 1 year

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Callback, Tevinter Nights, pg. 121

#dragon age #da #dragon age inquisition #dai #solas #da: dreadwolf #dreadwolf #dread wolf #tevinter nights #regret

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larkoneironaut · 8 months

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My Tevinter Nights art project 🗡️👵🏽:

—An Old Crow's Old Tricks—

written by Arone Le Bray

#dragon age #bioware #my art #da4 #dai #dragon age inquisition #Dreadwolf #DA:D #Dragon age Dreadwolf #Tevinter Nights #My Tevinter Nights art project #Lessef of the Antivan Crows #Lessef #Antivan Crows #Tevinter #An Old Crow's Old Tricks #Arone Le bray

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exhausted-archivist · 5 months

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In regard to my last reblog, I kinda want to expand on it.

The novels are 100% optional flavour text. They aren't required for you to really understand what is happening in the world. With the exception of Asunder, that one for me is a bit of a grey area but that is only because it covers aspects of two companions (Cole and Vivienne) that are glossed over and is rehashed entirely in an aspect by another companion's personal quest (Cassandra's).

Not even World of Thedas, the lore books are required because a big chunk of them are put in the game as codices. And the character stuff that's not? That's also flavour text and the fact that Leliana doesn't share background reports on your companions or you can't find them is a missed opportunity in utilizing Leliana. The whole "Game" aspect of Orlesian politics could have also been better incorporated through Josephine and Vivienne.

This is long so... cut.

But TLDR: Nothing is mandatory. World of Thedas, Asunder, and Masked Empire are just under utilized flavour text. They better not do the same or worse with Tevinter Nights.

We know they cut Cole from having Evangelina and Rhys appear for his personal quest and instead we got that weird thing with Varric and Solas being disagreeing dads on nature vs nurture. Rhys and Evangeline, but more so Rhys, are so important to Cole's background that I feel they could have brought them on with a little codex or preamble and it would have worked fine. They could have touched more on Cole's fear of becoming a demon again, his sense of identity and self, and even explored his whole concept of "helping" and his unique brand of compassion - because really Cole's form of compassion is a little off the beaten path.

But, that isn't because Asunder is mandatory, but because Cole isn't well anchored to begin with. They don't really explore him as a spirit/demon, they mostly use him as a way to tell you about other characters, and he's really wishy washy on even establishing what happened at the White Spire or with Seeker Lambert and just gives these sort of teasing/tantalizing starting points.

Which leads into a weak point with Vivienne. She has issue with how the war started. She has issue with the vote. She has issue with everything that happened with the White Spire. Which again, isn't explored and is just flippantly mentioned in banter with Cole or when she's snarking at Fiona.

We know she has issue with the vote because it was made when everyone was already dealing with Circles falling and templars killing people and extremist mages were killing other mages that opposed them. The vote was made not by people who were elected by the Circles - not entirely. They were made by whoever happened to get to Andoral's Reach and it was very much an emergency vote. She wasn't there for the vote and that's the start of the issue for her. Which, understandably this was written before Vivienne even existed, but with that they never resolve why she wasn't there for the vote or even aware of the chaos of the Circles. You kind of guess it's because of Bastien's health but yeah not really clear.

Both Cole and Vivienne's stories would be better anchored as well as give the Mage Templar war and the factions with in it more nuance if they even tried to incorporate the cliff notes of Asunder. It would also make it more of a flavour text and less of this murky grey area.

Which to make it even more murky and grey, Cassandra's whole plot of discovering the reversal to tranquility? Yeah that was discovered by a tranquil mage at the request of Divine Justinia. Literally every circle mage and Chantry person (of a certain rank) knows of its existence. Which they cheekily hide in ambient dialogue between Mother Giselle and another cameo character from Cassandra's past, Avexis. An elven mage who was turned tranquil because of the danger from her abilities to not only control small creatures but dragons.

That story Cassandra is known for? The dragons attacking the Grand Cathedral? Avexis was involved with that. Whole big thing in Dawn of the Seeker. But I digress.

Mother Giselle and Avexis talk about the reversal to tranquility in Haven. Everyone already knows but Cassandra's personal quest misleads you cause she's so pikachu-faced about discovering that there was a reversal and the Seeker's knew about it. Only half of the information should be new to her, the rest everyone knew about for a year and could have been beautifully folded into her story as to not only her mixed feelings on how she didn't feel as close to Justinia as Leliana was - because Leliana was in on it and Cassandra wasn't even aware that the Divine requested this happen behind the Seeker's back in 9:35 Dragon.

It would have been a great point to fold into the story to not only give more context to Cassandra questioning the Order but also feeling out of control and lost. Honesty would have been a good point in tension for her and Leliana to have.

But instead Cole goes largely explained, Vivienne is under explored and barely connected to the Mage Templar War conflict, and Cassandra is a (in my opinion) much less interesting rehash of something most people connected to the Chantry and Circles already knew for the most part.

Asunder is less required reading and more of discarded world building that amounts to a lot of missed opportunities.

Something I think that Tevinter Nights is at risk of if not worse. Either under utilized world building or they go full tilt in the wrong direction and it becomes the first required reading.

Specifically reading, because the first required additional media is the Legacy DLC of which they yoinked Corypheus and the whole start of the red templars from. And then again with Tresspasser which establishes and reveals so much vital information for the next game. Both DLCs, I think should have/be updated to free. Especially since it's been so long and they are required for the story now. And any "well players had to pay for them previously" is bs because new players can get the whole trilogy on sale for like 15USD. Deluxe editions included so they come with the DLCs - except for DA2.

Asunder and DLCs aside, lemme now circle back to the whole World of Thedas/Leliana and co thing.

The thing that grinds my gears about the World of Thedas bits is that a large part of them... are written to Leliana as reports. In game Leliana talks about doing background checks - how she isn't thorough enough with Solas because there wasn't enough time and more pressing things were coming. He slipped through the cracks. But everyone else? She got dirt on. Sera included. Leliana could have been a great vector to not only divulge more flavour text lore of our companions, but it could have also given us more aspects of conversation. How do they feel knowing Leliana gave us reports? Is sera annoyed because of the questions you can now ask? Is Blackwall sweaty because you might know details he doesn't? Does Iron Bull want to compare notes and see how good Leliana's network is?

There was so much they could have done with Leliana to not only make her more involved but made us more involved with the characters. It would have lead to more interactive story telling and folded in making the meta knowledge less meta as our Inquisitor actually used the resources of our spymaster.

Still, not required reading, but a way to fold in all the world building you've done to make the characters feel more real and give us a chance to bond with them. Even if we can't talk to them about it because "leaving it open ended for headcanons".

This also goes into how "The Game" is under utilized in Inquisition. So much of Inquisition is telling vs showing us or letting us experience something. Having more scenes where we walk in on Josephine dealing with combative knowledge, using our origins and background perks to play the game introduces us to the concept of Orlesian politics and perhaps we get perks - more soldiers, resources, gold, higher starting approval at the Winter Palace. Something that has more relevance to us and folds in this supposed system all of Orlais is beholden to.

A similar system could have also been used with Vivienne. Whether she was hosting nobles or if she wanted to gossip with you over a letter she received that she thinks could be of use to you if you know how to properly use The Game. It would have also been interesting if it impacted the noble npcs hanging out in the hall, if it became weighted depending on just how good you were. Less Orlesians meaning less support from Orlais and more reliance on other nations to legitimize the Inquisition. More Orlesians? A stronger army, more standing with the court and the Chantry, more ammunition for when you're dealing with Celene and Gaspard in the Winter Palace. Things like that. Simple story threads that didn't really need to go anywhere but perhaps impacted the ambient state.

It would have helped tie in Masked Empire and give it more weight (and also make Michel de Chevin be more than the rando the Imshael maybe killed).

Just saying... It's just under utilized world building in an interactive media.

#Archi is yelling #dragon age #bioware critical #bioware writing critical #dragon age inquisition #dai #asunder #world of thedas #the masked empire #tevinter nights #cole #vivienne #madam de fer #leliana #josephine #long post

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boom-doodles · 1 year

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Drawing request roundup (from Instagram)

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solasyoulittleshit · 11 months

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#dragon age dreadwolf #dragon age #dragon age theory #dragon age dreadwolf spoilers #polls #dragon age polls #dragon age factions #veil Jumpers #Shadow Dragons #dragon age the missing spoilers #dragon age the missing #tevinter nights #tevinter nights spoilers #antivan crows #mortalitasi #qunari #lords of fortune

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mrs-gauche · 2 years

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"I regret acting alone!", yelled Sutherland. Regret turned to face the young warrior, its many eyes shifting around its head, centering on him. The one it couldn't touch. It could kill them all in turn, but this new sensation was so tempting, and so familiar. It was as if Sutherland was echoing the regret that had drawn it to Skyhold in the first place. "I regret using my friends!"

#dragon age #solas #dai gifs #part 4 of the never ending gif set series of ''Solas is a very very very lonely man''#you ever think about Solas playing Diamondback with Blackwall..#..or Sera putting lizards in his bedroll and him getting back at her..#..or Solas nerding out over magic with Dorian..#..or him and Viv tattle about ''the Game'' and nobles' machinations..#..or Solas and Iron Bull playing mind chess..#..or his genuine admiration for Cassandra's strength and faith..#..or Solas asking Varric about things in his books..#..or how big of a deal it is for him to call you a friend at the end of it all..#...........because I do sometimes and then I get sad #tevinter nights #tevinter nights spoilers #that chapter made me sob #my gifs

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dragonageconfessions · 7 months

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CONFESSION:

I was already skeptical of Solas but there is a chapter in Tevinter Nights where he has this conversation with Charter and he sounds exactly like one of those egotistical cult leaders trying sell bull shit to perspective followers. Cults prey on people telling them what they want to hear. Thats how Solas sounded like in that chapter and it did not make me root for him, It made think how many elves will needlessly sacrifice themselves so he can sunder the veil.

Mod Note: The short story in Tevinter Nights the confessor is referring to is ..............

The Dread Wolf Take You

#Dragon Age Confessions #Dragon Age Tevinter Nights #Solas Critical #Dragon Age #9-20 changed chapter to short story

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ladyofc · 9 months

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Finally read Tevinter Night's...

#solas #dragon age #da4 #dragon age inquisition #tevinter nights #art #illustration #fen'harel

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solas-backpack-mug · 9 months

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i need everyone to know that solas is INTENSE as fen'harel. case in point:

(tevinter nights, half up front)

solas requires his agents to kill themselves to protect his secrets. death before capture

no wonder he doesn't let lavellan join if they ask him

#dragon age #solas #dragon age dreadwolf #fen'harel #dragon age tevinter nights #solas backpack mug

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thebookworm0001 · 2 years

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#gareth david lloyd #solas #tevinter nights #dragon age #since I was asked I figured I’d share the bit where he reads the thing

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cryptids-lair-of-hyperfixations · 9 months

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yeah im excited for dragon age dreadwolf bc plot and characters and stuff but i'm ALSO excited to see more terrible awful horrors like the Children in dragon age awakening. if the horror of hormok story in tevinter nights has anything 2 say it's that we're gonna have more of that energy and i'm so ready for it (not to mention that ungodly spider with hands from the behind the scenes trailer)

#dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age awakening #dragon age dreadwolf #dragon age 4 #dragon age tevinter nights #tevinter nights #also i'm realizing how jarring it is for me to talk about dragon age while my pfp is THIS

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ohmyarda · 1 year

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