the Voidling

came back wrong trope but the character knows that they came back wrong. they’re so acutely aware of how different they are now from how they were before that it drives them fucking insane. they’re stuck trying to return to somebody that’s long dead. they can never be the person they once were. everybody around them knows it. deep down, they know it too, but they’re trapped in a cycle of their own making. of trying to revive someone that no longer exists.

this is maybe half of what hiraeth means- it specifically means a longing for wales, for cymru, and is intertwined innately with the process of colonization and anglicization. in early welsh poetry “hiraeth” refers to grief for a lost loved one, particularly after death, but the word came into prominent usage after attempts by the english to wipe the welsh language (cymraeg) entirely, especially during the 19th century. this process was particularly enforced in school contexts, meaning that children could be caned or flogged for speaking cymraeg instead of english. it isn’t nostalgia for a place you’ve never been, it is specifically a longing for one’s lost culture. the other brytthonic languages also have an equivalent: the cornish (kernewek) "hireth" and breton (brezhoneg) "hiraezh." the brittonic word hir is found in the word for standing stones, menhir, “long” (hir) “stones” (men), and also in the cymraeg hiraeth. it is both ontological and physical longing. the past is a physical place, and it is a place that has been colonized.

"I can fix him" this "I can make him worse" that Pathetic. I can love him so much that it changes the course of the entire narrative.

that moment when you ask patrick weekes about this and he replies with “spoilers”

That is brilliant.  What if THIS is the Chant?

If you overlap them as well they can become constructive or destructive.

Yes… I started thinking about the Veil being an anti-soundwave which creates a dead space between the Fade and the real world, and then my brain went off on the music of the spheres and vibrations and M theory and dimensions and um… This doesn’t explain how mages open the Veil and pull from the Fade, or why blood magic thins the Veil, but it’s an interesting concept and what if those circles around Solas in his tarot card are soundwaves?

That’s such an interesting theory! And maybe the destruction would be destructive interference? Or maybe constructive with the harmonics. That would be such an interesting take on the science of magic then? The ability to channel energy or sound waves. Hell the rift mage path would make a lot of sense then. (kinda like biotics in ME with dark energy?)

Force magic would make sense that way!  I love force magic.  Could you explain more about how this would explain rift magic?

Off topic a bit… Doesn’t the name Corypheus mean composer/ conductor ?Bioware’s just toying with us now. 

holy ffff….

“Thedas is one big musical” is the only explanation for the existence of Hawke, so I buy it.