Dragon Age Meta Nexus

Q: Hello! I was wondering whether you knew of a lore-specific reason why only the Keeper and Firsts of the dalish clans are taught how to read and write in elvish? It just seems impractical if they want to preserve the language, since oral tradition is notoriously inefficient. More elves being taught elvish also means more people to pass on the language if something dreadful happens to both the Keeper and the First. Sorry if there's an obvious reason I've missed, it just really bothers me.

"David Gaider wrote: A Grey Warden can have a child… just not with another Grey Warden. So in the case of Alistair being married to a female PC the only possible result is no heir (unless Alistair has a child with someone other than his wife, I suppose). Grey Wardens have a limited chance of conception with a non-Grey Warden, but it does happen… and the child is not tainted in any fashion."

So look, the detail about Avvar deliberately letting spirits possess them were in the RPG materials back in 2010, long before Hakkon went into it.

Hi! I'm doing an Inquisition fic, and I can't seem to find anything about the size or demographics of the group of mages led by Fiona at Redcliffe, the ones who were, uh, "employed" by Alexius. Do you have any idea how many mages were there? How many of them do you think might have been children? I have no idea where to even start looking for this information.

Q: Hello, I was wondering if you knew what really started the mate rebellion? Some say it was Anders...Cassandra says it was because of the Rite of Tranquility was able to be reversed... and Vivienne, I believed, said it was Fiona's fault. So, I'd like to know your opinion on what caused it ! Anders is the one who takes the most blame for it, but he really, really did not cause the Circle Rebellion. Not the way everyone thinks anyways.

Disclaimer: All of this is completely canonical knowledge. Nothing headcanoned, all is sourced from the games. With the exception of clearly marked fanon/personal alternatives. I realized I've never done the most basic of resources, a list of Varric's nicknames for all characters.

Idk if this has been asked before, but how do mages and templars differ in how they use lyrium? Why do templars get addicted to lyrium but that doesn't seem to be a thing for mages?

So, what this establishes for us is that there was, at one time, an Elvhen city on Sundermount, and that a war was fought, there, with Tevinter. That's not really disputable, I'd think, in light of the ruins, the demon, and the fucking varterral. What this suggests, is that there's a titan here, and that it's been corrupt for a very long time.

And with that said, I'm really curious about the relationship between surface dwarves and the strength of the titans and the frequency of rock wraiths.

Y'all? Give me one good reason why Geldauran is not Hakkon Wintersbreath, because I got a real bad feeling about that, and it goes a little something like this...

Q: I was reading one of the links in the link thingy and it was talking abt the blight and how solas is grumbling abt the grey wardens (the their defence they found something that seemed to work after a few centuries of dying, who can blame them for sticking to that method) but how do u think the old tevinter gods tie into the blight and controlling the horde?

So, a thing that people keep bringing up is 'we know it's possible for elves and humans to have children, in Thedas; is it possible for dwarves and humans?' Canonically? Yes.

Q: Ah, I was wondering why the dwarves not being able to dream is mythals fault? Also learning abt the Titans thru ur posts is very interesting even if I do get a bit lost Now, we know dwarves don't dream, because they lack a connection to the Fade. BUT, we have two dwarves who have visions. Caridin's visions are attributed to the Ancestors. Dagna's are from faceplanting in lyrium. Both of them are really likely to have originated with a titan - Dagna's actually having visions of a titan and Caridin comes to understand the Sha-Brytol, in some primitive fashion.

So, if you go flip through Viv's stuff after she gives the quest to retrieve a snowy wyvern's heart, you can find her notes. The story goes that her lover, Bastien de Ghislain, is sick and only the heart of a snowy wyvern can cure him. But, this isn't a cure. It's a treatment for old age.

A collection of mentions of elves frolicking in party banter.

Magic exists to serve man, and never to rule over him. Foul and corrupt are they Who have taken His gift And turned it against His children. They shall be named Maleficar, accursed ones. They shall find no rest in this world Or beyond. -Transfigurations, 1:2 [...] Which is to say, the Chant says you're supposed to use magic - the Maker's gift - to help people, not oppress them. The Chantry says you're not supposed to use magic because it corrupts the world. And the difference is the fault of Tevinter imperialism.

Dirthamen's ravens are Fear and Deceit. With Dirthamen contained by Fen'Harel's decision to create the Veil, and whatever other seals may be in place, there's no one keeping the ravens in check. Nightmare and Envy are extremely suggestive, in their presentation.

Din'an Hanin, then, is the Grave of Glory, as found in Elgar'nan's Bastion. #i wouldn't personally translate this as grave OF glory - makes it sound like glory is what died as opposed to honoring the dead I was actually making the connection to Where Willows Wail, there. Granted, I may be wrong, but there's this ongoing thing about whether that's the tomb of the Emerald Knights as in it was made for them or as in they're just buried there, in a much older tomb/temple. Which… 'we lost glory to war', talking about the time around the Veil going up… I am much too sick to lay this out in full, right now, but I think 'Grave of Glory' may refer to either the death of glory, metaphorically - the place where the war began, ended, took the most notable toll, or the grave of Glory, literally, as in a spirit/demon who fell in battle or to forgetfulness/corruption. I'm gonna gesture to Solasan, here.

Just a lot of codex and item descriptions, all in one place. Notably, 'Hakkon' is also spelt 'Haakon' in several places - an item name in Awakening and the tabletop book Blood in Ferelden, most notably.

Proposed: Valeska's Watch wasn't originally a Grey Warden outpost. It was an elven outpost/trading post, on the Deep Roads. The architecture is consistent with Suledin Keep, Citadelle du Corbeau, Din'an Hanin, and the Dead Hand. Whether it's Elvhen or Dalish (as in during the Dales period, not after it), I can't be completely certain, but my bets are on it being Elvhen, if only because the Deep Roads were largely sealed after the First Blight.