Dragon Age Meta Nexus

So, I keep circling around Watchguard of the Reaching, because there is so much going on in there. But, I've always been curious exactly what the fuck came back from the Fade, when the traveller's cord turned black. It's not named, just described

So, there's a codex conflict re the reign of Divine Beatrix III, and I think Faustine II was not actually the Divine at the start of the Dragon Age, because, well, Serault.

Florian's mother is from the Anderfels. (Duchess Catrin of Hosberg) I can pretty much promise she's not a Dufayel. Therefore, the relation has to be on the Valmont side, which leaves Emperor Etienne II (assassinated because he sucked eggs) or Grand Duchess Leontine. If dude's using the Dufayel heraldry, it's more likely his father's than his mother's, because what the fuck Orlais, why you so patriarchal. (It's just weird to me that the nation that created the entirely matriarchal Chantry passes titles almost exclusively to male heirs, where possible.)

Okay, so, that tells us something that may not have been immediately apparent. All the Loyalist First Enchanters are dead. The only First Enchanters who survived the rebellion at the White Spire were those who left with Fiona, who would be declared rebels for that alone, if they weren't already - and Vivienne, who was never confirmed as First Enchanter of Montsimmard.

Three codices from priests and acolytes, after their gods fell off the face of Thedas. Three stories with some interesting similarities (although the Dumat one is over the course of like ten minutes, not the presumable years of the others, so it's missing some things). Dirthamen, Dumat, and Razikale.

There is a song that the Maker thinks everyone should be singing. - Titans have a song that's different from lyrium song or blight-song. - Cole says something about 'when everything sang the same' in reference to the time before the veil.

So. Blood magic can create communicable diseases. Ancient elves did blood magic. The Blight is a communicable disease. Red lyrium (which is Blighted) grows in people, probably specifically their blood, since that seems to be the usual magical element. Technically, lyrium is 'blood' too-Titan blood-but I'm really not sure how to factor that here, since it's clearly not at all the same as regular blood (incidentally if lyrium is supposed to be liquid, which is possible, then Thedas as a continent has the most amazing case of gout).

Assuming this is the case, I put forth that Korth, either a titan or the guardian of one, removed 'his heart' - a titan's heart - and moved mountains, a thing we know titans can do, to cover it, because of the elves' hunt for the hearts of titans, which may also explain why the Lady of the Skies does not get directly involved. (As Cole says in Trespasser: "Their ancient shapers were mountains drawn of all their wills, walking their memories into valleys of the world." And I'm pretty sure Valta says something about it in Descent, but I can't find the quote.) Okay, so, having established Belenas/Korth is a titan - possibly a titan and its guardian - it's time to talk about what the fuck happened to that mountain. And for this, I'm going to call upon the legend of Andruil.

Oh lord. Uh. So 'alchemy' is definitely an idea, and still called as such (rather than Natural History or something to suggest a more recent, 'scientific' approach). The search term alchemy brings up quite a few hits you can check out on the wiki.

We are familiar with the standards demanded when trading with the various merchant guilds. Be it a sovereign (Ferelden), a royal (Orlais), a king's guilder (Nevarra), a double griffon (Anderfels), or any of a dozen others, one gold coin is worth one hundred silver coins or ten thousand copper coins. Let us instead concern ourselves with the art of the minter, how coins stand apart, and the more unusual currencies now falling by the wayside.

I've been writing in my Avvar!Hawke series again recently, and one of the things that came up (in banter with Sebastian, as it happens) was the reminder that before she was the Prophetess, Andraste was an Avvar. The sources are remarkably cagey about this fact, I discovered when I went to dredge up more details on her background. They volunteer up front the knowledge that her husband Maferath was Avvar (this seems to be held as a point of rancor between the Avvar and the Andrasteans, since Maferath betrayed Andraste, therefore the Avvar are evil and not to be trusted.) And her biography also states clearly that she was born to Avvar parents - "her mother was an Alamarri[2] woman named Brona and her father was the chieftain of one of the largest Alamarri tribes in what is now northern Ferelden.[3]" Yet they seem reluctant to come out and say straight out that Andraste herself was an Avvar.

A post I'm making because I thought I made it before and now I can't find it, and I just had to do all the maths again.

It took me a while to gather everything (you can find all this info at the bottom of my profile tab) and there are still some dates that are rather vague, but everything here is taken from in the game, the game years are used as comparison or are directly pulled from the World of Thedas book. Hope everyone enjoys! And of course if you have canon knowledge that can be added with more specific dates, let me know and toss me the source! :D

So, I just got tired of trying to figure out which Archon went when, and I went down the list and put them in order, where the dates of their reigns were noted. And then where they weren't noted, I made some guesses based on the order of historical events (those are marked). And then there's a couple at the bottom where I have zero fucking idea.

As I said in our previous post, one of the things that the Sisters have pondered is how magic and technology affect daily life in Thedas. We've been taking note of technology in the Dragon Age world that is based in scientific principles or that has been replicated with magic. For RPing and writing purposes, we have put together a list of magical and non-magical tech in Dragon Age so that we have a handy reference guide for what is canon (which implies what is theoretically possible) in the world of Thedas. Hopefully our lists will be useful to the fandom in general. We will update the list to reflect new information as we get new information or reread old sources. Our plan is to focus on the lesser known items from the games, books, comics and other media. If you have noticed anything we have missed, please add it via reblog or messages.

One of the things that the Sisters have pondered is how magic and technology affect daily life in Thedas. We've been taking note of interesting tech in the Dragon Age world that is based either on scientific principles or that has been replicated with magic. We have put together a list of magical and non-magical tech in Dragon Age so that we have a handy reference guide for canon items, which in turn implies what is possible, for RPing and writing purposes. Hopefully our list will be useful to the fandom in general.

my understanding of English is terrible so I apologize but where did you get the idea that the ancient elves were into magical texting? I think something flew over my head --- Happy to clarify. If you were referring to our post about Lyrium and Magical Technology, we got this idea from the Dragon Age movie, Dawn of the Seeker.

The Cradle of Sulevin is the final resting place of the shards of the one renowned Sulevin Blade, the finest weapon ever made. During the Exalted Marches, the Dalish made blood sacrifices of innocent humans captured by their forces here at a place one describes as "a place that was once sacred". The sacrifice goes horribly wrong, and in an attempt to prevent the process from ever happening again, one of the Dalish mages seals away his companions with the shards of the shattered blade. Since that day, the blade has been lost.

Sacrifice, Freed Are Slaves, Invasion, The Fall, and Archdemon textures pulled from the game files.