Dragon Age Meta Nexus

So, there's sun imagery in both elven and dwarven art, and in specific, there's a mural in Trespasser with a glowing orb at the centre of a titan. Which is, obviously, the heart depicted above. And that is what reminded me that I hadn't actually written a post about the dwarven - or at least Orzammarran fear of falling into the sky. Notably, they're all looking up. They fear falling into the sky on the surface. But, I offer you the codex from the Wellspring, of which that is a screenshot.

Some deaths may have been covered up, as one warden always dying to the Archdemon seems to be a grey warden "open" secret. But what if what we have been told isn't the whole story? Isn't is suspicious that we know 3 of the lovers of the last 4 blights, and have a convenient birth for the first? Something about the process of becoming an OGB seems to "purify" the Old God Soul. Remember: The HERO OF any particular blight is the person who is credited with stopping the blight.

The Third is the most interesting one to me. The elf was trying desperately to remember (and translate) an old bedtime song about Mythal that they remember from their childhood. I think the elf translates a key line of the song wrong. [...] This is an old lullaby, so it was passed on verbally and not written down, so there is no way that this elf would know if "Solas" was supposed to be a proper name or whether it was the word "pride." "Him Solas evanuris" does not mean "Making our leaders proud." It means "Making Solas an Evanuris."

Hi, I was wondering if by chance you knew if there's a list of hair or eye colors for the dragon age characters? I only ask because I'm colorblind and would like to know when writing descriptions for a fic. But if not, I completely understand. Thanks for your time. Have a nice day. Well, I looked, but I couldn't find one, so here's thirty characters in an open-to-edit spreadsheet, and hopefully other people will also contribute!

The ritual described thus far is probably the baseline for all Joinings, the most basic of components needed to successfully create a Grey Warden. The rest of what Isseya does, however, was a variation that employed blood magic to force the griffon she was performing the ritual on to accept the taint. So is this the same ritual that created our warden, Alistair, and the rest of the Grey Wardens? Does this prove that you only need lyrium, darkspawn blood, and a drop of archdemon essence to do the Joining? Eh, depends on who you ask. Last Flight describes the Joining ritual, but so does the RPG Core Rulebook.

Is it any wonder that the Brecilian Forest is one of our favorite areas to theorize about? So many interesting details to dissect! Is there something going on with the globe and the circles? Almost certainly! Are they related to the Veil artifacts? Possibly! And the Forest Ruins are just the beginning.

I look in wonder at your skills with Thedas' map. I have a problem I wish I had an answer to: How does Redcliffe village work? We get different maps for it in DAO and in DAI (supposed eastern part) and they don't seem to fit together. I can also not make heads or tails of Redcliff's supposed location on the world map (like with position of rivers/lake) in relation to the mini map in, say DAI. Nothing seems to add up. Could you help me make sense of this? Maybe maps need some turning or sth.? Nothing about the geographical lore of Redcliffe makes any sense. For example, the codex entry used both in Origins and Inquisition is full of nonsensical statements.

Is the Crossroads essential to eluvian travel? Or could there possibly be a way to 'link' two eluvians to each other and bypass the Crossroads altogether? Eluvian lore. I love eluvian lore! Looking through the instances of eluvian use in the games and in The Masked Empire, I would say yes, it's totally possible to connect two eluvians without using the Crossroads. The only things that seem essential to the operation of an eluvian is sufficient knowledge and power to create a path connecting two eluvians. If the distance being traveled is sufficiently short, neither of these pose much of a problem. The longer the distance, however, the more difficult it is to gather the power to create the path.

I read quite a bit about navigation and astronomy instruments, including astrolabes, while I was in high school and in my early college years. I was writing fanfiction for a very different fandom at that time that I felt required knowledge of 16th century sailing. I did notice that the globes in the Brecilian ruins resembled an orrery under glass and the orbs I jokingly called "weird ass whirligigs" do bear a resemblance to a dioptra or an armillary sphere. So could they be used for astronomy?

In thinking about Cullen and the significance of his possible romantic relationship with the Inquisitor (primarily for fanfic writing purposes), I've often wondered about the tortures he suffered at Kinloch and the effect that his experiences might have on it - particularly on starting that kind of relationship to begin with.

Ortan Thaig potentially numbers among the oldest and most vibrant of the dwarven thaigs, falling long after most of the other thaigs, lasting until as late as the Fourth Blight in the Exalted Age sometime between 5:12 and 5:24 Exalted (DAO Orta Dialogue; WOT 1, pg 98). We are not sure precisely when it was founded, but this was definitely earlier than the First Blight, because Paragon Caridin was born in this thaig (WOT2. pg 24).

Finally, this conversation is important to note, because I occasionally see people say that the mages never wanted to rebel until Anders blew up the Chantry, when that just isn't true. The Libertarians are the second largest group of mages. That is a really big portion. Enough so that in 9:31 they have enough power to petition separating from the Chantry the first time, as detailed by Wynne right here. They try again in 9:37. Then finally in 9:39, the rebellion began. So, let's not pretend that there was no large force against the Circles before Anders blew up the Chantry. Fiona was working her ass off for years, before Anders even took his Harrowing.

All of surviving Dwarven culture is shaped by war. They've been at war 1,200 years. If you were asked 'what is the worst injustice in all of Thedas' history?' I think most of us would first answer the Circles, or the forced addiction of Templars, or slavery in Tevinter, or the treatment of dissenters by the Qunari, or the alienages and the oppression of elves. But that dwarves have had to serve as a constant frontline defense against the endless waves of Darkspawn invaders for the last 1,200 years is the worst injustice in Thedas' history.

I just had to look up the ingredients of magebane for a conversation in another tab. The canonical ingredients are lyrium dust, 'concentrator agent', and 'corrupter agent'. Concentrator agent is made of heatherum and foxite (which are not mentioned outside the context of this ingredient) and corrupter agent is made of blighted lifestones. … which incidentally may mean that magebane exists because of the Blight.

I needed this today, and couldn't find it, so I went digging through WOT and pulled them up

So, as mentioned in the midst of some excited yelling about something else entirely, the 'great weapon' found in the Tomb of Fairel is a Superb Demon-Slaying Rune. (Unless it's the Bianca-only aiming module which raises so many more questions about the history of dwarven ingenuity, but I'm sticking with the demon-slaying rune.) So, here's some thoughts on that.

I liked Vivienne ... until the Trespasser epilogue slides when she brings back the Circle. I thought the College of Enchanters was meant to provide a safe environnent for mages to learn, so her bringing the Circles back when I wanted them gone all along just felt like she was desperately trying to hold on to her power and clout. I'm angrier at Bioware for putting this in the game in the first place, but I'd love to know what you make of it.

Timeline for the "shortest Blight" calculations with dates instead of relative time. Again, click the image for a full-size version. World of Thedas says that the Blight started in 9:30 and ended in 9:31, so this is a calculation of the date you need to start the origin to have the Blight end on Firstday 9:31 if you finish it as quickly as possible.

So DA:I introduced the concept of the Dalish Mage, something that's been desired by players since DA:O. If you wanted to be a Mage in DA:O, you were straight into the Circle DARN YOU, but we did encounter Dalish Mages elsewhere (namely with Velanna in Awakenings, Lanaya and Zathrian in Origins, Merrill and Marethari in both Origins and DA:2, various references in the books over time, and finally an Elf Mage Inquisitor and a Dalish tribe in the Exalted Plains and Emerald Graves in Inquisition as well as Minaeve (who we will count since she was born to a Dalish tribe despite being raised in a Circle and because her story matters in a bit). From this there has stemmed a renewed interest in Dalish mages as a whole, especially with the rise of Solasmancers and the like, and so this lore/meta serves to correct a few misinterpretations that come along (particularly for those who have ONLY played DA:I - you're missing out <3).