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Warden Commander Zukal Tabris has returned home for All Souls Day, but it's not a happy return. The alienage is on the verge of riot as the scent of souls day bonfires fills the air. Zukal turns to an unlikely source for advice.
Written for City Elf Appreciation Week @cityelfweek! Please enjoy a bit of angst for your Wednesday!
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The 9th of August will be the sixth day of City Elf Appreciation Week!
The optional theme is...
✨️Peace✨️
What does peace look like to your chosen City Elf?
When is an alienage at its most peaceful?
Where is the most peaceful part of the city?
Is peace something to strive for, fight for, give up on, or bask in?
Just some thoughts and prompts within a prompt <3
The 4th of August will be the first day of City Elf Appreciation Week!
The optional theme is..
✨️Marketplace✨️
Denerim's marketplace is just outside the entrance for the alienage, and that's where you can meet Slim Couldry, a half-elf pickpocket.
What about other cities? Where are the marketplaces there? What do the City Elves get up to? Do they have stalls?
Do some alienages have their own markets just for them?
There's a shop near a small marketplace in Dock Town run by Lorelei, a City Elf sold into slavery by Loghain and Howe during the Fifth Blight. She was rescued by the Shadow Dragons.
In Orlais, elves must obtain permits to trade in the human market districts.
Just some thoughts and prompts within a prompt <3
I think Sera as a character would get less hate as an "unelfy elf" if dragon age games in general did a better job of showing dalish elves specifically as having more agency in their actions. Alienage culture is only really explored in Origins but still establishes itself apart from the Dalish. Inquisition established Sera as apart from both Dalish culture and alienage culture. I think that's an interesting character to explore one who sees herself as no different than a poor human walking around. A person who grew up with all the same racism directed towards her, but none of the cultural foundation of being an elf.
The problem is that Dragon Age treats Dalish elves with very little agency. Origins gives them the most agency with you having to at least argue with them and talk Zathrian into making peace with the werewolves rather than just making the decision outright. But with 2 every aspect of Merrill's quest is still locked behind your decisions and in Inquisition even if you smash and loot Dalish graves the Dalish will be polite and accepting of your aid even while you're hunting halla down the road for hide. And Veilguard outsources every decision about everything to you and is uninterested in letting elves have thoughts other than guilt about what their gods are doing.
There's not really an opportunity to embrace Dalish culture in a way that forces you to be emerged in it. To complete dalish quests you don't have to dig through their culture. It's a side option to listen to story tellers or read codexes. You don't have to really sort out an understanding of the culture to complete quests. Even in origins you only really have to learn that there's a history of violence between elves and humans and the best story conclusion to that storyline is to convince Zathrian that his own desire for vengeance is hurting his clan because the humans have already learned from their punishment so it's just one grieving old man that's bringing everyone down.
So when it comes to Sera, she becomes this glaring beacon against a culture we don't really get to see. She's not like other elves, but we don't know what that means in any real sense. And doubly so if you've only played Inquisition. Inquisition especially is so devoid of elvan culture that her talking about being elfy just seems flat.
City Elf Week Appreciation Week - Day 5!
Please remember to tag @cityelfweek or use the tag #cityelfweek24 so your works can be reblogged! Today's optional prompt is alienage - but anything that's focused on city elves is welcome, new and old!
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Architecture of Kirkwall : Alienage
[This is part of the series “Playing DA like an archaeologist”]
CONFESSION:
"My mother is especially dead."
I have no idea what that's supposed to mean, but it's the funniest line in Origins.
Mod Note: A shoutout and thanks to Simon for helping me by sending me an image and youtube link. You saved me a lot of time.
But did humans use dogs in raids on the Alienage?
Rephrasing the question, what would a Tabris Warden's reaction be to the mabari most commonly known as Barkspawn?
