Dragon Age Meta Nexus

This was requested at @dawriting. File has transcriptions for all judgment scenes: Chief Movran, Denam, Alexius, Mayor Gregory, Erimond, Ser Ruth, Servis, Florianne, Mistress Poulin, Samson and Blackwall, plus Ser Barris' promotion scene on the throne and Storvacker's judgment in Jaws of Hakkon. # I've transcribed exactly as the subtitles showed, so the inconsistent capitalization of certain words (Templar/templar, Blight/blight) is intentional to reflect the spelling found in-game, as-is. # Denam's, Samson's and Blackwall's judgments have circular conditional dialogue, it is a bit hard to follow on a linear format. These will be made into flowcharts to read more clearly, I just wanted to write it all down first. # If the colors/bolding/italics make the text harder to read rather than helping with the flow, please do let me know.

So, Loghain's decision to poison Arl Eamon always seemed a little flimsy to me - until I actually went diving into the politics of Ferelden, after the occupation.

Anonymous asked: if i remember correctly bethany admits that being in the circle made her see the necessity for mage revolution, least in a defend the mages ending, but its been awhile since i played a non-mage hawke.

I mean Alistair's line about Templars not needing lyrium to use their abilities is generally disregarded as retconned by meta-commentary in the comics, but we actually can't disregard that line anymore because one of the possible endings to Inquisition is that Cullen opens a clinic to help Templars shed the lyrium addiction, and many Templars follow his example and sober up, and yet somehow are still able to remain Templars (which only makes sense if they're still able to use their Templar abilities, otherwise they'd just be generic soldiers).

ok everybody has probably already caught this by now, but I wanted to write it down - You have to judge the mayor of Crestwood for pretty much the same thing that Solas is responsible for (albeit on a much smaller scale). I couldn't have written a closer parallel if I tried - the mayor, in a position of authority, made the decision to unilaterally kill many innocent people in order to stop something he believed to be more terrible from happening (eta: and both were, perhaps, attempts to specifically stem the spread of the Blight - thank you for catching that, @rederiswrites!). Then living with guilt for years, all those deaths on his hands, wondering if he made the right call, until finally the truth was revealed. Where it gets interesting is when Solas reacts to the Mayor's punishment. And his reactions are almost the complete opposite of all the other companions.

So, it's implied in WoT2 that an Amell Warden is taken by the templars between 9:05 and 9:10. To quote the wiki: In the years after Leandra's leaving [9:05], several unfortunate events occurred within the Amell family, chief among them was when Revka's firstborn child was discovered to be a mage. Revka was seen sobbing in the streets, after the the Templars took away her child. After Revka's child was taken away, things only got worse for her and the Amell family. In the year 9:10 Dragon, Revka's aunt Bethann passed away after a second bout with cholera, the next year her uncle Aristide died of the same disease. Magic manifests, generally, between the ages of 6 and 12, which are the outer limits we see in canon. Which would make them about Hawke's age, and probably older.

Huh. This is an early banter between Solas and the Herald that I've somehow never heard or heard of before. Maybe it's old news to everyone else, but I hadn't encountered it. [...] I think that "attacked for no greater reason than their superstition" and "well enough to be suspicious" are both really interesting phrasings. I mean, he isn't just saying that they didn't want to listen. He's saying they attacked him and he doesn't trust them. And now more than ever I really want to know what those interactions really were and what went down, because that's more than just sour grapes because he offered wisdom 'from on high' and they didn't appreciate it.

This is a collection of posts and conversations about healing and medicine, both magical and non-magical, in Thedas. A lot of it is necessarily headcanon, but reading through some or all of these may help people formulate their own ideas of how these work, for writing purposes.

(all taken from the Last Flight tie-in novel) (non-plot spoilers, obvs)

So, for the meredith post, are you forgetting that the previous viscount was extorting money from the Orlesian navy and lynched the knight-commander who preceded meredith? ------------------------------- Hi, Anonymous person! I dunno. Perhaps I am! Are you forgetting that history is written by the victors, and that the Chantry and Orlais have been collectively winning at Thedas for about 900 years now? Because I'm not!

Either I'm forgetting something or I can't wrap my head around it. You're so smart and lore savvy, I was wondering if perhaps you could help me out! When elves go in to uthenara, they are asleep, right? And when people sleep, they basically go in to the Fade for a while? So before the Veil was put up... where did elves in uthenara go if there was no 'Fade'? Is it like a FADIER Fade? @_@

Because this is relevant to a thing I might do, I decided to look up what we know about the game of Diamondback. According to the DA Wiki trivia on Oghren's page, there is this bit of information: The card game Diamondback mentioned in Oghren's conversation with Alistair is a reference to a game of the same name in Dave Sim's Cerebus the Aardvark. That link goes to Wikipedia, which wasn't super useful, but I'll leave it in for the sake of how I got to where I did. With the magic of Google, I found a page of links and information on the comic mentioned. (I don't know that it's relevant, but it's interesting to note the name Cerebus.) Anyway, so I found this page. Which links to two different sites that have Diamondback information.

So the Veil effectively "broke" the Fade by sundering it from the physical world, resulting in the downfall of the elven empire and forever changing the world of Thedas as we know it today. But that's not why this line stood out to me. It's the bit about the "old dreams" that's really compelling, because the implication there is that the Evanuris aren't the only beings held at bay by the Veil. So, how does this connect to the Whispers In Red Lyrium codex? Hopefully the above graphics have helped illuminate some of my points, but I'll go ahead and explain myself a bit further. To point out the obvious, the "whispers" here are most definitely blighted. (Seeing how red lyrium is blighted - the jump here isn't a difficult one.) The word "sundered" is also an interesting choice of word, as it is strongly associated with two things: The creation of the Veil and the destruction of the Titans.

Cole in Trespasser: "He broke the dreams to stop the old dreams from waking. The wolf chews its leg off to escape the trap." Whispers in Red Lyrium: We are here We have waited We have slept We are sundered We are crippled We are polluted We endure We wait We have found the dreams again We will awaken No relationship, I'm sure. :}

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Sans magic and game mechanics, what do we know about what they actually do? Here's what I can find. I have left out any herb for which no in-world use or effect is given besides crafting, for brevity's sake. I have also left out herbs which appear to be strictly poisonous. This is all information from the wiki, so if anyone has more information from, say, the RPG guide, I'd love to add it.

Not complete, but substantial and annotated. Most annotations are wiki copypasta. Links are included to the wiki page in which each name is found. Not all names have their own wiki entries, which is kind of the point of this list. The list does not distinguish between Surfacers, dwarves of Orzammar, dwarves of Kal-Sharok, and dwarves of other cities lost to the Blight, but that may be something to consider.

It's not complete, but it's pretty substantial. Missing information is clearly marked in each entry with empty brackets. Where a clan name is missing, the keeper's name is used. This is a longer list than 'Category:Dalish' on the wiki, because it includes elves that don't have their own pages.

Annotated. To go with my goddamn ginormous list of Dalish names. The list isn't complete, but it's substantial. Annotations are from the wiki. All names are accompanied by a link to the wiki page on which they're found. Names of Qunari agents of Tevinter origin are not included, because those probably aren't Tevinter names.

Thesis Statement: The elven people are the descendants of spirits, made corporeal by crossing from the Fade into the physical world. Introduction This theory popped into my mind as I was playing Inquisition for the first time. I travelled a lot with Solas and Cole. As I did so, I noticed that the way Solas speaks to Cole is very similar to the way I speak to the teenagers in my life. It felt like he was speaking from a place of personal experience, and was trying to guide Cole, and keep him away from dangers or mistakes that he himself had made in the past.