#thedas is a wreck

[youremyheaven]

vedic astrology observations pt 2

in my previous post i had briefly talked about how moon influence, cancer rashi, jupiter influence tend to give the natives a large chest and make them very curvy. ill expand more on that here:

Pushya (cancer rashi) stellium (sun, rising and venus) Selena Gomez is known for her generous curves

Hasta sun, Pushya moon + mars native Monica Bellucci is known for her luscious curves

Punarvasu sun & moon, Sofia Vergara is blessed with a big bosom

Vishaka moon, Pushya mars & rahu, Hasta jupiter & saturn Beyonce made it cool to be curvy back in the day

Punarvasu moon, Penelope Cruz

Punarvasu moon, Mariah Carey

Purvabhadrapada sun & mercury, Alexandra Daddario

Milana Vayntrub, Purvabhadrapada sun & rising

2. Serpent Yoni is present in the charts of most seductresses/femme fatales/sex symbols. Nakshatras associated with snakes, like Ashlesha, Rahuvian nakshatras (rahu is linked to serpent), UBP etc are also commonly found in the charts of many sirens 🐍

Rohini sun, Angelina Jolie. Her atmakaraka is her mercury in mrigashira

Mrigashira moon, Jennifer Lawrence (she also has Ashlesha sun)

Natalie Portman, mrigashira sun

Megan Fox, venus in mrigashira atmakaraka (moon in ashlesha)

Margot Robbie, swati moon (rahu is associated with snakes) and has venus in rohini

Parveen Babi, Mrigashira moon

Urmila Matondkar, saturn and ketu in Mrigashira

Sridevi, ashlesha stellium (sun, rising and venus)

Mila Kunis, sun in ashlesha, moon in swati

Marilyn Monroe, sun & mercury in rohini

Pola Negri, a silent era sex symbol, rohini mars and ketu in ashlesha

Theda Bara, the first ever sex symbol had UBP rising

Clara Bow, the woman because of whom the term "it girl" was coined, had venus in mrigashira atmakaraka

Snakes have long been associated with mysticism, hypnotism and evil. A seductive woman can put anyone into a trance and make them lose their mind and forget the reality they inhabit, similar to how a snake charmer can make a snake twist and turn according to their will by playing certain tunes, a highly magnetic woman can get anything she wants by channelling her inner serpent.

3. Homewreckers, Mistresses and Concubines

Camilla Parker Bowles is probably one of the most famous mistresses in the modern era. She has Punarvasu sun & mercury and is Pushya rising

Monica Lewinsky has Pushya sun & Punarvasu mercury

Angelina Jolie has Pushya venus & rising, along with Saturn in Punarvasu amatyakaraka

for those of you who don't know, Ben Affleck cheated on JLo with Jennifer Garner and then married her. JGarner has Ketu in Pushya whereas JLo is a Pushya moon

Tom Brady left his pregnant wife to marry Gisele Bundchen, who has Pushya sun and Punarvasu mercury

Blake Shelton was still married to Miranda Lambert when he started seeing Gwen Stefani who has Punarvasu moon

Madhuri Dixit, in perhaps her most iconic role, plays a courtesan named Chandramukhi in the movie Devdas. She has Pushya moon conjunct Jupiter

its pretty well known that Priyanka Chopra had an affair with the much married Shah Rukh Khan (not the first time she was accused of being a mistress) PC is Punarvasu sun & mercury

Marlene Dietrich who was best known for playing femme fatale- esque, mistress-y roles had Pushya moon

I was very surprised to find Punarvasu and Pushya nakshatras crop up so often as they're often considered to be the "goody good girls" but perhaps this is what makes them so desirable to men, so much so that they're ready to wreck and ruin their lives, careers and marriages to chase these women. I had mentioned in another post about how since Cancer is the most feminine sign, women with these placements are often considered the ideal wife/gf and I suppose this is the shadow side to that. Desirability is a double edged sword and must be wielded carefully. obviously i dont condone cheating nor am i making it sound like a positive thing but i thought it was an interesting recurring pattern nonetheless!!

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#vedic astrology #vedic astro notes #sidereal astrology #astrology notes #astro observations #nakshatras #astrology observations #astro notes #astrology #astroblr #astro community

[dalishious]

My Five Biggest Fears for Dragon Age: Dreadwolf

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is highly anticipated by BioWare fans. At one point, I would consider myself to be excited for it too, however, unfortunately the long wait with zero information about the game has only wrecked my personal anticipation. Will my hype return once we actually start to get some regular news about the game? Most likely. But until that time comes, all I find myself doing is just… worrying.

These are the five biggest things I worry about.

5. Big, beautiful maps of nothing

In both Dragon Age: Inquisition and Mass Effect: Andromeda, most of the open world maps are very… empty. Instead of creating an adventurous feeling of excitement to explore, it just makes travelling those maps a tedious task. Games like The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim or the new Baldur’s Gate 3 have open maps too, but those developers actually made use of their space with level designs. Skyrim is full of caves, ruins, etc. content to stumble upon. So is BG3, as well as introducing new dynamics to a fight depending on which direction you approach the encounter from. These games prove an understanding of how to best equip an open world concept that BioWare has only executed in a few maps across both their most recent RPGs. I do not want to see Dragon Age: Dreadwolf be yet another case of luscious forests where developers spent far too much time making look visually beautiful, and not enough time actually filling with game content.

4. Shoddy attempts at retcon

For those of you who don’t know what “retcon” means, it is short for “retroactive continuity”, and refers to the phenomenon of fiction introducing new information that is inconsistent with past information. The purpose is to revise old material. Dragon Age: Inquisition had more than one attempts at retcon that were terribly executed. For example, the player is told not once, not twice, but three different times—as if repeating it enough will erase all the extensive lore up to that point saying otherwise—that the Dalish get rid of their mages if they have “too many”. This is despite the previous games and extended materials showing that the Dalish practically revere their mages.

Now, not all retcons are bad. For example, in Marvel Comics, the superhero Karma’s real name was recently retconned to be Xuân Cao Mạnh, a real Vietnamese name, after spending years and years with the made-up Vietnamese name, Xi'an Coy Man. This is an example of how retons can be used for a good purpose, like fixing a long-lasting mistake. But what exactly is the mistake in saying the Dalish are good people who don’t hate mages like most of Thedas? That was just a cheap, transparent excuse to villainize both elves and mages further.

Cheap, transparent excuses like that make me lose faith in BioWare’s writing. It concerns me with what other lore they view as needing “correcting” in order to reinforce their idea of Grey Morality™ where it doesn’t belong.

3. Imposter characters

One of the biggest grievances I had with Dragon Age: Inquisition, was how the Hawke written in that game was in no way the same Hawke I played in Dragon Age II. I understand that it would be impossible to capture the exact customized character, but the Hawke in DA:I was placed into the game with an anti-blood magic agenda, and wouldn’t shut up about it. This is hilarious, considering how many players chose to make their Hawke a blood mage personally!

With this in mind, I am terrified that my Inquisitor, who will very likely make an appearance in Dragon Age: Dreadwolf, will be used for whatever new agenda needs to be pushed. I better not hear a single anti-Dalish comment from my Lavellan, is all I’m saying.

2. Whitewashing ahoy

For all the talk about #diversity values, BioWare has a very extensive criminal record when it comes to whitewashing their own characters. Almost every single one of their most prominent visibly non-white characters have had their skin lightened or completely washed out, as well as ethnic features erased, at some point or another. This is why I cannot share any excitement or desire for existing characters to make a return; the fear that we’ll have to see Zevran next looking like Chris Hemsworth next haunts me too much.

But this particular fear runs even deeper than individual characters. Why? Because we know that Dragon Age: Dreadwolf will be taking place in northern Thedas, which up to this point has been consistently depicted as having largely non-white demographics. I’m not saying there are no white people in Tevinter, Antiva, etc., but I am saying that if I see the same mix of 80% pale tones and 20% “everyone else” we’ve gotten from the last three games, I will absolutely flip shit. White characters should be in the minority for a change. Otherwise, what is the point of shifting focus away from the dominantly white countries in the first place?

1. This will end of the Dragon Age franchise

Is this the most likely to happen of all fears? No; it is probably the least. But after the pathetic failure that was Anthem and the lacklustre response to Mass Effect: Andromeda, I would not be surprised if BioWare is on thin ice in EA’s eyes. (Which is ironic, considering the demands made by EA to chase after multiplayer fads and micro-transactions are what got BioWare into such a mess in the first place.) Electronic Arts is a garbage company run by garbage people. That much has been proven time and again. The executives behind BioWare itself aren’t clean, either. Unfortunately it will be average employee that suffers the most punishment and blame if the game does not meet the likely very high standards set out for it. In some ways, they are almost set up to fail.

It’s not fair, and there’s not we can really do about it, because the gaming industry is run by selfish idiots. It’s because of this that if events come to pass that the Dragon Age franchise was put “on hold indefinitely” so BioWare can work on clunking out an Anthem sequel, I would be very upset, but not very surprised.

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#dragon age #dadw #dragon age dreadwolf #dreadwolf #bioware #meta

[aces-to-apples]

obsessed with king alistair theirin being yoinked off thedas to play the part of tav in bg3 and absolutely wrecking astarion's shit because my hardened boy takes one look at him and goes "sassy and unnerving blond bisexual elf ambiguously trying to fuck me? maker i miss the old days. well cmon Discount Zevran let's go fix whatever's existentially killing us this time"

#by apples #alistair theirin #astarion ancunín #baldur's gate 3 #dragon age #da fic ideas

[theluckywizard]

In the Shattering of Things, Ch. 58: The Tower** 🍋

Summary: In spite of her lingering confounding feelings for Cullen, Rose finds comfort in Hawke after the assault on Caer Bronach. CW: Explicit sexual content Fic Summary: Lady Rose Trevelyan's idle, aristocratic life blinks out in a haze of irrelevance when the breach destroys the Conclave. She may be soft and coddled when she joins the Inquisition, but there's a fierceness inside her she's yet to fully recognize. Armed with only a few relevant skills and the mark that makes her a legend, she is thrust onto a path delivering hope where it’s long been scorched away and finds comfort in the grumpy, handsome stick in the mud charged with her protection and training. As she stumbles her way across southern Thedas, she begins to realize she's tangled at the center of machinations she barely understands, and she's not alone in that. Enter Hawke. Thank you to @warpedlegacy for beta reading this chapter! Excerpt below the cut ⏬

I stride up the steps, glancing askance before pushing inside and immediately assess the door to see if it can be locked or barred. Finding no key, I consider my options and proceed to drag a trunk in front of it. I hear a titter deeper in the room behind me.

“That’ll stop them!” Hawke teases me. After lighting a few candles with a splinter of wood, he stops to browse a shelf of books and bottles of brandy and wine. Everything is cast in a wiggling warmth, a perfect manifestation of the adrenaline fueled flutters inside of me as I take it all in. Dividing the room is a canopied bed half hidden in tied drapery, thickly piled with linens and blankets and pillows and furs— all the trappings you might expect of a storybook bandit king. Surveying the room similarly, Hawke runs a hand back through his hair and it strikes me as oddly anxious.

“Small step above ‘tent with a barrel’, right?” he says, pleased with himself as he shakes his wet jerkin off onto a chair. I pull off my jack as well and perch on the edge of the bed to undo all the laces on the back of my knee high boots with buzzing fingers.

To be perfectly honest, I’m a giddy wreck. It’s been years . Am I really about to break this dry spell bedding the Champion of Kirkwall? I actually laugh out loud at how surreal it is and he shoots me a sharp look.

“What?” he asks, raising his eyebrow with a smirk as he kicks his own boots off. I fix my gaze in my lap, timidity taking hold.

“Just laughing at the absurdity of it all,” I remark with a shake of my head.

Hawke wanders over wearing only his breeches, naked from the hips up. I gasp lightly, involuntarily. As I’d observed before, he’s longer and leaner than I expected underneath all that imposing plate armor, but his shoulders and chest have the bulk required of a front line warrior. He kneels before me and helps pull my boots off, restraining his usual dashing smile behind flushing cheeks.

“I didn’t know you blushed, Hawke,” I tease him in spite of my own mad flush. His lips turn timidly. “It’s not a bad look.”

He takes my hands, as chilled by the rain as his are and brings them up to brush his nose and lips against them, the warmth of his breath sending a delightful chill down my spine. 

“I told you,” he says, kissing my fingers, his gaze reaching deep into mine from under his brow. “It’s been a long time.”

Illustration by me! Read the rest here Start the Fic Here

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#in the shattering of things #rose trevelyan #dragon age fanfiction #hawke x trevelyan #cullen x trevelyan #the eventual smut #only took 300k words #the hottest of messes #🍋🍋🍋

[aymayzing]

Lys Lavellan and the No Good, Very Bad Time in and after the temple of Mythal

allowed a human to drink from the Well of Sorrows instead of drinking himself because everyone was worried what such an unknown power that apparently comes with a price could do to the person who is solely responsible for saving the world

if his grandmother/Keeper learns of this, she will banish him from the clan for sure

ancient elves fucking hate the Dalish

Mythal got killed???

Morrigan would not shut up in the temple even though Lavellan is DALISH. If you closed your piehole for a moment, Morrigan, maybe you'd learn why there is a Fen'Harel statue next to the entrance!

Cassandra, Bull, we are absoluetely NOT desacrating a temple of a goddess Lavellan believes in. stand here while he runs around some tiles

Abelas, have you ever actually spoken to a Dalish elf?

Dorian, vhenan, why are you so worked up over the fact that it wasn't Tevinter who destroyed the elven civilization? Isn't that good news in a way?

wait, what do you mean leave for Tevinter???

all the troops are stuck in the Arbor Wilds but Samson is here so quickly, how does that work

"the dreadful after. I do not know what the future holds" Dorian you are kicking the elf. look at him, Dorian, he is already on the ground crying. just say whether you love him or not

look what you did Dorian! now the elf is crying even harder!

oh so if you bottle up your feelings and all the stress you're going through after leaving your home, surviving a huge explosion, being in the fade physically twice, being made a leader of an organization that has to save the world and being the only one in your relationship with some emotional intelligence, you might have a breakdown. is that what is happening rn? okay cool. time to wreck the room,scream and then pass out crying in your lover's arms as you're begging him not to leave you

no need to rub in the fact you now understand ancient elven jokes, Morrigan

wait, your mom is Mythal and wants to posses you and your son has/had a soul of an Old God? That's one fucked up family dynamic

Mythal just said Lavellan does the People proud :3 I dedicate this to all the haters who thought Lavellan wouldn't make it as Inquisitor and to Abelas personally. Your goddess likes him so much more than you >:3

love and peace in Thedas actually, the world is beautiful and everything will be fine

Dagna gets her samples of the Fade <3

oh no, why is the sky green

#oc: lys lavellan #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #inquisitor lavellan #i have Thoughts TM on my Inky's time in and after the temple #it is his lowest point through DAI #dorian also learns that maybe he should be a bit more open and straightforward with his feelings because lavellan doesn't read minds #that's definitely a very important moment in their relationship

[yukichouji]

15 Questions

Thank you so much for the tag @fade-and-loathing-in-thedas​! ❤️❤️ These little tag games are so much fun!

Tagging: @heniareth @gaffsie @books-apples-socks and anyone else, who would like to! Though no pressure, as always :)

1. Are you named after anyone?

Nah, my mom was just really into this name because of the scandinavian spelling. It is also a name that is fairly common in Germany but spelled differently, so I get to do a lot of correcting, for fun lol

2. When was the last time you cried?

5 minutes ago... I’m an emotional wreck, OK? I stress cry, I cry when something mildly sad or upsetting happens in something I’m watching/playing/reading, I cry when I’m angry, I cry when there’s a sad bit on the darn news. I’ve made my peace with it and know that me crying just isn’t a big deal usually xD It’s just a thing that happens.

3. Do you have kids?

No. Never wanted to and so likely never will, either. Some of my friends/family around my age are starting to have kids and I adore all of them to absolute bits, but it’s just not for me personally.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Yep. Whenever I can get away with it. A lot of the time it just slips out. It’s a defense mechanism, OK? Though it’s mostly directed at myself.

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people?

People’s moods/general vibes.

6. What’s your eye color?

Blue-green.

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

Both. Depends on the mood.

8. Any special talents?

I am weirdly bendy. Pretty sure it’s a genetic thing. When I was younger I used to be so wobbly, I’d just fall over if I didn’t actively concentrate on standing or if there was even the tiniest uneven spot in the ground when walking. I’d just drop. Now I have some muscles to stablelize this precarious construct of a body and it got a bit better. Still clumsy as hell, though. And I can twist up into really interesting knots. It’s fun.

9. Where were you born?

Hospital.

10. What are your hobbies?

Too many haha I’m a hobby hopper. I do a ton of different things at once and have a really hard time of sticking with one thing in particular. I really like gaming, reading, writing, drawing, painting, cross stitching, embroidery in general, playing the guitar, baking, yoga, any sort of martial arts thing, hiking, visiting museums, table top RPGs, etc., etc. ...

11. Have you any pets?

Not currently. I used to have some here and there. A mouse and then a budgy as a kid, later I had bunnies for a while. But my current appartment doesn’t allow pets and right now I don’t really mind. I have neither the time nor the money to take care of them properly. But I would like a cat someday maybe.

12. What sports do you play/have played?

I did a couple different types of martial arts. Karate the longest, but I also tried, Hapkido, Judo, Tai Chi (yes, that counts as a martial art), and, uh, archery? Yeah...

13. How tall are you?

I don’t know feet, cause I’m european so yeah. 1,71m <3

14. Favorite subject in school?

Literature and Biology.

15. Dream job?

I had a couple growing up. Running my own bookshop. Writer. Comic artist. Musician. After a bunch of collisions with reality, I’m actually pretty happy with where I’m headed right now, working in science. It’s a lot of fun, the right kind of challenging and I have this amazing opportunity to keep learning and expanding my horizon while being able to contribute a tiny little bit to gaining new knowledge all together (some of which might actually end up being useful one day). It’s cool. (Also, please don’t mistake my younger self wanting to be those things with me actually being good at any of those things. Took a bit to figure out that you actually need both the passion and the skill to make it work...)

#tag game #me things #fun fun

[fandomn00blr]

Cheers to the continued joy/suffering/unbearable anticipation of all my diehard solavellan mutuals! You all dragged me into this fandom (this might be shocking to some, but I have both a solavellan and an entirely fucked-up solseradaar...teehee), and by golly, jumping off from that ship(wreck) has certainly taken me to some altogether different and strange places! Without the grim ancient Vulcan, I mean elf-in-sheep’s-clothing, I’d probably still be reading Hobbit smut, tbh.

And to the rest of us...let’s not let the name distract us from the bigger problem facing Thedas --- the unholy genetic amalgamation of nug, harvester, and whatever-the-fuck-that-spider-hands-thing-is that our ethically-dubious Wardens obviously created with the Architect in a misguided attempt to fix their Taint, unleashing Ghilan’nain’s wrath instead. 

Help us, Morrigan. You’re our only hope.

#no i won't be taking questions #dragon age #sort of #da4 #dragon age: dreadwolf #is it two words or one? #idk #there be no spoilers here #but it has been pointed out that dreadwolf -> fadeworld

[iamthescalesofjustice]

to clarify i think if here is a marriage at all its a tactical alliance type of thing. theres precedent for her doing this.

like. is hakkon a good date? who knows. to a certain kind of person, probably, but in general i think not.

but its not about that, its about wrecking centers of imperial power. the thing is the stuff about qunari-tevene conflict & tension is that it distracts from the internal counterweight to tevinter which is orlais. they are mirror of each other.

hakkon wants to crush orlais and andraste wants to point him at tevinter after theyre done with that. why leave an army at your back? and why stop at disrupting one without the other? both will ultimately need to be dealt with if the state of things in thedas are going to improve. (which hakkon doesnt really care about but andraste does to an extent and it will promises an uphill battle which in itself enriches him)

#they are absolutely fucking though #given the canonical limitation of dragon status aka wings to afab dragons this means andraste and tboy hakkon are probs tailbangin it out #its after sunrise i really should go to sleep

[kissingwookiees]

so in the time between trespasser & da:d with the inquisition dissolved, the anchor removed, and also brendan attempting to stop the use of lyrium... brendan kind of flounders to find his new place in thedas post-inquisition and with solas hanging over his head the entire time!!

it's just this dread in his heart, this fear of the unknown, this fear of what solas is truly capable of, a fear that he won't be able to stop it, and a feeling of helplessness because of all of it. and it WILL manifest as a drive for vengeance, like he doesn't just need to stop solas because solas is going to wreck the world, he needs to stop solas because he was his pawn... a chess piece to be disposed of once it served it's purpose. he was fed lie after lie and put up on a pedestal only to have the rug ripped out from under his feet. and he needs to prove he was worthy of more than that.

the inquisitor trevelyan solas left at that eluvian will not be the same inquisitor trevelyan that confronts him if and when it ever happens

#oc: brendan trevelyan #sweet innocent young man turned prophet to vengeance driven middle aged recluse #during this though he's also playing dorian's arm candy so its not all bad #he grows a beard and stache combo #its very fetching

[heavydutycooking]

@thedas-fat-emporium

"Oh you never fail to impress me with your desire for more, my dear Jin. And with your gas as well, the perfect way to make sure nobody but you can enjoy devouring the restaurants food." Leliana grinned as she snuggled up to her big blob, resting upon her soft flab was very enjoyable, especially when she was waddling along and jiggling like crazy!

People would flee from the path of the ravenous school blob, as paving slabs crumbled and edges of buildings were smashed by her wide, destructive hips colliding like a wrecking ball. "Oh, my love, I cannot wait to see how large you will become after today. Every pound just makes you more beautiful, and able to show this city just who is large and in charge~"

@thedas-fat-emporium

On the way, Jin picked up a few snacks for herself, down a few vending machines and a hotdog cart while moving to the next restaurant, where in went the blob... breaking open the walls with her increased flabby waistline and having her head go through the roof, supposedly it had the largest amount of Chinese food available, and she wanted it~

Letting all her body drop at once the surrounding area shook tremendously. Then, Jin got to eating, stuffing as much as she could down her gullet whether it was cooked or not. Either her hunger was too great to ignore or her tastebuds found anything delectable, even uncooked noodles. Either way... after this that place wasn't going be around much longer after Jin was finished.

[waking-seas]

the implications of the 9:52 Dragon thing...bro...what have my other protags been doing ????

#dragon age #my hawke probably has kids now #my warden has been gone for so long...ferelden just doesn't have any leadership #there's alistair but he doesnt know what he's doing without my warden #my inquisitor has been running around in the forest looking for wolves and then going to hawke's mansion to cry #thedas is a wreck

[lesbianladyeboshi]

Selling Michel Du Chevin to a Forbidden One demon for like 1 rune is still Comedy.

#imshael's deals suck....but he has more lore potential and havoc to wreck in thedas #like what was his cleansing choice offered that was so terrible the red templar reluctants would rather die fron red lyrium. #also I support Cullen/Michel de Chevin because them being a unit makes them easier to evict from my castle #siren plays dai

[kegareki]

But I did choose you, the spirit wearing Solas' face had said. He had accepted the title of hahren, had claimed them as lethallen, had named them vhenan; he had lain beside them at night and shared with them magic and memories and language; in his own oblique fashion, he had even told them the truth, as much as he dared, and when he revealed himself as Fen'harel, he had hid nothing. Had told them that he walked the path of death and he would bear it alone.

When the world was ending, he sent them back with the words, You had wanted a future with me; I am giving you a chance at one.

A pained, bitter laugh bubbles up in Venydha's throat. "Dammit," they whisper. “Dammit.”

gd please someday PLEASE let me write my angsty time travel sorta-fix-it solavellan fic. it is the very definition of yearning and i NEED it

#keg wrecks #keg writes #every draft gets me so much closer to something i can post #venverse #venydha was ORIGINALLY a self-insert that i was gonna write happy fun drabbly fic for. you know. classic modern person in thedas #and then i got deep in feelings. and now venydha's story is time travel. #grief-stricken and full of loss and love and trauma. #innocence lost and idealism ripped away. #and yet. and yet. #ordinarily i like functional friends-to-lovers relationships because relationship drama does not appeal to me #and YET solavellan is my damn kryptonite

[icharchivist]

reading World of Thedas as “Light Reading” before going to sleep was the worst perception possible of “Light Reading” considering most of it is me taking notes of the full timeline and of the language specific part while also overanalysing the shit out of everything

on the plus side though since i went to sleep (at 4am or so, 2/3 hours after i started reading rip) full of DA thoughts i woke up excited to get back to it.... at 8am, so now i’m bright and early and happy after a 4 hours night sleep which i’ve hadn’t felt in a while. 

I’ll go back into plaything though bc my hand hurts from taking notes i’m a fool

#I did this entierely to myself huh #also last night i had a major 'hOLY FUCK' bc an entry of wot really convinces me about the whole 'the taint comes from the void' thing #and that it was indeed discovered by ancient elves #litterally only one world in the elven section of the book gave me a whole HOLY FUCK moment at it #which is all the more fun considering a friend and i had this theory for a while #but seeing it this batlant in WoT is just... h o l y f u c k #ichatalks about da #Also: it's ridiculous how happy this game series make me dkjhfjkdf #before i started the games I was a complete wreck #... still am #but when i played the games the first time i ended up waking up early just bc i was excited to play #and now that i'm replaying dai it comes back at me too - this need to wake up early to play #but also wakes up early when i read the comics or the books before sleeping tho #so sleeping with thedas thoughts in mind truly do wonders to my mental health somehow #now time to see if i'll survive on 4 hours of sleep all day ayy

[tea42]

Dragon Age thoughts-  Keeper Marethari was an Agent of Fen'Harel and Solas was Sleeping on Sundermount

Ok, I got to fandom late but I haven’t seen this one and there are so many little things that make me think this.

While Solas was in Uthenera / walking the Fade in a long sleep, he had helpers both in the fade and in this world who were setting his schemes in motion. I think there are things that point to Marethari being one.

Before she adopted Merrill from another Clan to train her, Marethari lost her Keeper and her husband by Avvar attack and made a deal with the Witch of the Wastes in order to save the remainder of her Clan. This is how I think she might have been recruited by  Flemeth who we know to be working with Fen'Harel in some capacity.

When Hawke first meets Marethari he asks how she knew he was coming and in the middle of her responses is that she listened to her dreams. Solas is a dreamer and gives his operatives orders in dreams.

The Graveyard at Sundermount in which we release the locket with Flemeth’s soul was an ancient site for Uthenera / the Fade sleep. Merrill actually says part of a poem about  Uthenera to release Flemeth from the locket and he journal of a dreamer Keeper Marethari may give to Hawke after the Night Terrors quest is called the Tome of the Slumbering Elders. It belonged to the last dreamer in her Clan.

My big theory is that Solas's body was on Sundermount while he was in Uthenera.

That is the real reason why Marethari moved her clan there and stayed camped there- to guard him and wait for him to wake. When she dies they move on quickly enough if alive so it was the Keeper keeping them there (haha!)

I actually also think the demon Audacity bound on Sundermount was originally guarding Solas as a Wisdom Spirit but became corrupted when the Magisters in KIrkwall (Emerius at the time) breached and corrupted the Golden City (nearly confirmed lore).

Marethari warns that he would use Merrill’s mirror to escape out of his prison and into our world. This is often sited as a mistake on her part but I don’t think she meant Audacity would cross into Thedas from the Fade, but that he would possess Merrill and use the mirror network wreck his own havoc on Thedas because I think Audacity was actually already in Thedas in the same way as Justice.

He was imprisoned in that statue and then her words after she let him possess her were that she ‘made herself it’s prison’. This echoes Anders words on Justice. Finally, her plan of having them kill her to kill the demon makes no sense if it were a normal possession but it does if it’s a Justice&Anders situation.

It is very clear that she would self sacrifice herself for Merrill, but I suspect part of it was her oath/duty as an agent of Fen'Harel. She had to prevent Audacity from escape.

If these ideas of mine are true it would add more complexity to her actions, especially with Merrill. She might tell nobody of her ties to the dread wolf under oath which we know she keeps seriously

'there are few things in this world stronger than a promise kept'

There would also be the stigma. The Keeper is supposed to protect the Clan from the Dread Wolf, not serve him.

My HC is she is caught in a geas-like situation- caught between oaths.

I thought this would be an interesting Loghain-like spin to take that might make fan feelings more complicated.

I’m not saying Marethari doesn’t deserve criticism as presented in DAII, but please no bashing her in the comments.

If there is anything to specifically to add to or disprove any of my logic let me know.

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