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julsera · 1 year

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Thus I freed the elven people and,

in so doing,

destroyed their world.

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dragonageconfessions · 3 months

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CONFESSION:

I know people will disagree with this but I actually felt sorry for Alexius. I read the codexes and discovered he and his wife actually loved each other. Alexius's own father wanted Felix dead for not being proficient in magic. Alexius's wife had him killed. And they encouraged Felix's studies at the University of Orlais because he turned out to be a gifted mathematician. Alexius apparently even agreed with Dorian's views on how the Imperium must change.

A darkspawn ambush killed Alexius's wife and infected Felix with the blight sickness. Those tragedies changed Alexius and it showed how grief can destroy a person. I felt bad for Felix because he knew he was dying and faced it with such dignity and peace. All he wanted was to spend his remaining time with his father. I ended up making my own headcanon that Maevaris Tilani ended up caring for Felix during his final days.

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dragonagecompanions · 7 months

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Why do you think Varric made the Inquisitor a Comte? Wouldn’t that make them outrank him? Dumar seemed pretty powerless and I always thought that Varric got shoved in the rule to make him in charge of the recovery of Kirkwall but not actually of Kirkwall?

Sweet gentle anon, I know it was not your intention but you have stumbled into one of my favorite conversational topics and I hope you are ready for the fall out.

Welcome, children, to Fereldone talks about Thedas' Geo/Theopolitical bullshit!

(tl:dr at the bottom)

So, very important things to know going in: Kirkwall's political history is weird. Founded by the Tevinter Imperium in -620 Ancient (which is DA equivalent of BC/BCE, or the time before the ages ascribed to history by the chantry), it was a mining city. After a slave tried to kill the Archon the Magisterium decided they needed to start importing- and presumably breaking the will of- slaves farther from the heart of the imperium and thus the City of Chains gained purpose.

I could throw a lot of facts and names at you, but here's the basics-- it housed millions of slaves over hundreds of years, at the end of the ancient age they rebelled and overthrew it. Kirk means black in Alamarri, the stone they mined there was jet black, and so Kirkwall (black walls) becomes a Free city. It suffered during the fourth blight in the Exalted Age (fifth age, for those keeping score at home), was conquered by the Qunari in the Storm Age (seventh age) and was then conquered by the Orlesians. Orlais was on a roll with the whole 'we own everything whoops killed your ancestral leaders', but in the Blessed age (eighth age) the people retaliate and overthrow the empire to regain independence.

For reasons I can only assume are laziness and a desire not to change all the paperwork, the leader of Kirkwall is still referred to by the Orlesian word Viscount/Viscomte. Bear with me, this is important later.

We are now in the early dragon age (9th age, and when Inquisition happens). The first two rulers of free Kirkwall sucked. Basically they blockaded their own port and made people pay a fortune to get in and trade. This didn't sit well with the Chantry, who would much rather do that themselves, and in 9:14 Divine Beatrix II (later saved by Cassandra!) tells the Templars to strong arm him into submission talk some sense into the viscount.

The knight commander is killed in the exchange, and so his second command Meredith Stannard steps up to try her hand at negotiations. It goes poorly, so she arrests and jails the Viscount and essentially takes control of the city with full Chantry approval. Now the Templars are essentially in control of the city, and so they appoint a puppet leader (Dumar) to play act in control. But Meredith is actually in charge, and everyone knows it.

Including Elthina, who named her Knight Commander. This is why the Chantry never actually does anything about templar abuses.

So! If you are still with me, this is where Viscount becomes important. There are some wibbly bits about how you treat Sebastian Vael in DA2, but essentially Kirkwall decides that it's time to be an actual city state and not a poorly run Theocracy. As the only man with a plan (and the money and influence to do it), Varric steps in to help his home town. Ecstatic at not being responsible for that, the nobles (comtes) band together and put him in charge.

So while yes, in Orlais Viscount be beneath comte, Kirkwall has been so broken up and conquered and messed with over the years that names and titles are meaningless. In my personal opinion, Varric ennobles the inquisitor so that they will always have a staunch ally amongst the backbiting Kirkwaller nobles. It's also a nice and generous a decent thing to do, of course, but Varric is very good at making something do a lot of things for him all at once.

(Also, Varric knows exactly what that key does. He just ensured that someone smart enough and invested enough in peace will always be able to either open or close the harbor--making sure that the people who depend on him will be safe no matter what.)

Personally, the Trespasser epilouge is useless. It's the result of not having a head writer to review things, and the sweet but misguided attempt to give us closure if DA4 never happened. Hawke doesn't come back to Kirkwall. They are in Weisshaupt (if not in the Fade), and that plotIine will likely be in the final game. The Inquisition in whatever form it still has will be heading north, possibly with Kirkwall as an operating base, and this way the Inquisitor (who is confirmed to not be playabe in DA4) will have a reason to be there and not in Tevinter.

That's my read, anyway.

tl;dr Kirkwall has weird history that led to odd ways of organizing their nobility, Varric wants friends in places almost as high as him, shit's going down in the north and I think the inquisitor will be in Kirkwall so the writers needed a reason to put them there.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Mod Fereldone

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illusivesoul · 2 months

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I was listening to the songs of the Phantom of the Opera movie and the lyrics of "I Remember / Stranger Than You Dreamt It" made me think of the Architect since he was the High Priest of Beauty in Tevinter, and got inspired to do this.

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thekingofwinterblog · 9 months

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So, i see a lot of anger in the Dragon Age fandom regarding the Evanuris turning out to not be real gods/being evil, and it being planned from the start.

I don't think the reveal was handled particularly well(Like most dalish reveals in DAI)... But I very much disagree with the notion that it was a retcon, not planned out, and there were no hints at all.

This is a statue of Falo'din, one of said elvhen gods, as portrayed in dragon age origins.

And this is the kind of imagery you will find all over darkspawn lairs as they constantly build shrines to this image.

The same image is also raised in a secret blood mage tevinter cult in Denrim...

And in the same house you will also find statues that are similarly revered by the blood mage cultists that are flat out Falo'din statues. Only with more hands.

And when we see concept art for how the arch demon was supposed to look like we have the key that ties all these statues and imagery thats worshipped by three different people together.

Urthemiel, the dragon of beauty, the fifth Old God to be awakened by the Darkspawn, is Falo'din, the Elvhen God of death and fortune.

And in case you still aren't convinced, notice the giant gold plate that all of these(except the Dragon form of Urthemiel) has on it's forehead?

This is the symbol later games gave Urthemiel.

The foreshadowing and evidence that the Elven gods were not what they appeared, but were evil and on top of that was the old gods, was there from day one.

I do wish they had handled this better, and given some more context and clues when the obvious form of the Archdemon(and the implications it had) was changed, but its abundantly clear that when they designed the first game, they really did want to make the ultimate plot twist rather obvious.

I really wish they had stuck with that foreshadowing, rather than keep their secrets tight to the chest all the way until tresspasser. There were so many times they could have foreshadowed this connection between the evanuris and the old gods before that, but they chose not to, in order to keep the twist as long as possible, rather than using foreshadowing to enhance the story.

#dragon age #falo'din #evanuris #old gods #archdemon #archdemons #dragon age origins #urthemiel #arlathan #tevinter imperium

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eluviansandevanuris · 1 year

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Fashion of the Winter Palace: Dorian

When Josephine announces that they are to chose their own clothes for the ball at the Winter Palace Dorian retreats to his library corner to think.

For all his glib jokes, Dorian is intimately aware of how mages from the Imperium are perceived, it doesn’t matter that he’s not actually a magister. For the nobles of Halamshiral that is all they will ever see him as.

He could wear one of the uniforms that Josephine commissioned, but hiding who he is has never been one of Dorians’ strong suits. He will not hide, not here and not in Tevinter.

He will never ‘play the part’

And so Dorian gets to work, he will treat this as any other soirée in the imperium, he will dazzle and intimidate, enthral and horrify. Orlesian fashion is oddly simpler than Tevene fashion. Yes more styles come and go every year, but it’s not like the secret language of Tevene fashion where every stitch speaks.

When Dorian is announced at the Winter Palace, a momentary hush falls over the ballroom and one Orlesian noble faints, Dorian looks majestic, he looks regal, he looks like a magister of old.

The outfit he wears in many layered and complex, with whisper thin inky black silk as an under-robe , the ends peaking out making it appear as if he’s walking on smoke. The over robes are rich and heavy with golden embroidery, glimmering in the light of the Winter palace.

If one looks closely many of the looping swirls of brocade hide glyphs of protection and resistance to poison.

The black velvet surcoat is a thing of beauty, wide shouldered and high collared adding to Dorian’s daunting appearance.

The sleeves of the ensemble are eye catching and mesmerizing, the eyes of a dozen peacock feathers wink at the gathered masses.

Dorian leaves no part of himself unadorned, his eyes are lined with shimmering gold and curved around his ear is a golden serpent cuff.

As he walks through the halls of Halamshiral scandalized whispers bouncing off the marble walls, Dorian cannot help the small satisfied smile that curves along his lips.

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pani-artz · 10 months

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Dorian and Maxwell Trevelyan just being two little bookworms

This is going to stay as unfinished since Dorian's outfit is driving me insane.

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emmahdraws · 1 year

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he’s everything right with the world

living a lie, it festers inside you, like poison

you have to fight for what’s in your heart.

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squirrelwithatophat · 2 years

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Fenris: Tevinter would crumble without slaves. The Imperium's elite know no other way.

Hawke: (“Don’t they rise up?”) Seems like a slave rebellion would end that.

Fenris: There are rebellions all the time, actually.

Fenris: Most of them end... poorly. The Senate always unites when faced with "sedition."

Fenris: One day things will change. Then the magisters will see just how fragile their hold is.

Forget the Dread Wolf (no offense) — this should be the plot of Dragon Age 4. Let’s guillotine the archon! Burn down the Senate! VIVE LA REVOLUTION!

Then again, given what we’ve seen of Bioware’s previous forays into politics, maybe it would be best to focus on the nerdy hobo god. I swear to god, if there’s a subplot that tries to guilt us about being mean to poor helpless slaveowners just trying to hold their totally happy slaves in peace

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selfpossesedghost · 9 months

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Inquisitor Trevelyan and Dorian - Cult

Transcript:

Inquisitor: Blah Blah. "My cult is better than yours." I've heard it a thousand times.

Dorian: Well, you know, it's a chance for the Imperium to really one-up that whole "starting the blight" thing.

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Dragon Age Inquisition

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inay-art · 5 months

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Theodora of the Imperium, relatively quick portrait.

#Dragon age #Tevinter Imperium #Theodora #my art

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randomfallout4posts · 2 years

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I’m back on my Dragon Age bullshit and I’m trying to pinpoint what cultures the countries of Thedas are based on but I’m not sure. Here’s what I have so far.

Ferelden: England with Celtic influence

Free Marches: Scotland tho maybe it varies based on each city state?

Orlais: Mostly France but I like to imagine some regions being based on Sub-Saharan Africa,

Nevarra: Northern Africa, ie Morocco, Algeria, Egypt etc with some southern Spanish influence though I keep seeing people say it’s based on Prussia

Antiva: Italian city states

Rivain: Caribbean, with some Western African influences

Tevinter Imperium: Roman Empire, with a wide range of cultures from Greco-Roman to North Africa to Western Asia

Seheron: No idea maybe Southern Asia

Par Vollen: Again no idea, I’ve heard it’s based on the Ottoman Empire and I’ve heard it’s based on South America

Anderfels: German? Russian? Scandinavian?

#dragon age #ferelden #antiva #nevarra #orlais #free marches #par vollen #seheron #anderfels #tevinter imperium #rivain #dai #dao #dragon age inquistion #dragon age lore

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maleficarlife · 1 year

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I would like to point out that the entirety of Absolution would not have happened if Orlais didn't decided they have a right to Tevinter artifacts just because they are blood magic.

#that thing stayed in its vault for centeriues #rezaren wouldnt have been able to hurt miriam if hira had not been able to infiltrate the mission #and it wouldnt have been possible if there had not been a mission in the first place #but since thats blood magic and its tevinter then somehow the heist is justified #dragon age #tevinter imperium #dragon age: absolution

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illusivesoul · 2 years

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