Magic and Macabre

When is a triangle not a triangle?

So….Tevinter Nights!  Still reading it, but you know me and maps.  I kind of like them.  And while the book’s map is short on details, it had one very interesting image that caught my eye.  

Let me zoom in a bit for you.

What an interesting depiction of the Veil!  Complete with spikey projections!!  Then I thought…we’ve seen those triangles before. Here they are clearly labeled as a visual representation of the Veil.  And if they represent the Veil between the Fade and the Mortal World then…

….it is very likely that they mean the same thing here.  

So this image may well be meant to show Solas creating the Veil.  

Now that alone might not be groundbreaking.  I think many of us thought that the triangles could represent magic or the Fade, but it seems to be more specific than that.  These triangles are the Veil in Solas’ art.  

Taking this as a working theory, then some interesting tin-foil hat analyses of the his other frescos is possible.  Here is what I am thinking:

The strength economy is in shambles.

but if boys like horses we call them ‘future cowboys’ and ‘rugged outdoors men’

I’m just saying, I’ve met a lot more horse girls than horse boys so when the dystopic breakdown of society hits us, it’s not going to be roving bands of young men on horseback (they don’t know how to ride, they haven’t B O N D ED)

@serialreblogger​ here you go:

Oh, here’s another:

It would appear that Asian scribes were also plagued by feline predations:

Have you ever looked at an octopus and wondered, “What is going on in their head?” Well, first of all, that bag-like sac sitting above its eyes isn’t its head. That sac is called the mantle and it's full of all the animal’s vital organs (three hearts, gills, digestive tract, gut, reproductive organs, etc). If you’re wondering where the brain is, it’s located just between the eyes, wrapped around the esophagus like a donut. So every time a cephalopod swallows food, it stretches out its brain a tiny bit—you could say they always have food on their mind! 

The Tale of the First Witch

Okay, but check out this video from mid-May 2022 of a Kestrel Dad who just kept piling up voles and mice beside his babies when the mom was injured/killed/mia’d by owls…but then watched one of his babies just swallow a lizard and went “OH. I can feed them small food!” and learned to tear it apart!

….the three chicks who were taken out of the nest for intensive care after the mom disappeared were put back in, and he just started feeding them, too.