#dock town

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A night of celebration in the Safehouse, alongside Ashur Vesperian, Dorian Pavus, Maevaris Tilani, Elek Tavor, Neve Gallus and Verene Mercar.

WIPs:

During The Soul of a City quest Rook must confront Knight-Commander Lenos. There are very few specifics in his plans. But originally, Rook was supposed to not only find evidence against Lenos and fight him, but also actively thwart his plans. Most of this content was removed, but some of it can still be found.

In the Undercity, Lenos and the Venatori planted several bombs that, when detonated, would release the blight into the streets of Minrathous. One of the Venatori was so terrified of this that she shared the information with Rook. The script includes lines of this dialogue.

Lenos is in the catacombs beneath the city. He and the Venatori planned to release blight into Dock Town. The devices were meant to release blight? Yes! To breach the catacombs beneath the city. There's blight hidden there! If there's as much as I suspect there is, and if the streets collapse… I sensed more blight recently. A lot of it. I should've known. Pardon me if I don't believe a lick of this. Could be a trap. She's Venatori herself. This lines up with what we got from the source at the Swan. I thought the Venatori offered a better life, but I don't want this! My family lives here! And if the streets collapse… everything down there comes up here. It was Knight-Commander Lenos's plan. He and the other Venatori are probably still down there. Good luck down there. The Venatori have been selling lies to people for years. Promising them they'll make things better. It seems whatever we do to stop them, it's never enough. We need to catch Lenos. He knows the rest of the Venatori's plans.

Rook finds evidence of this (Minrathous target map in the bar) and reports it to Dorian.

Rook: I found this. The Venatori are targeting parts of Minrathous with these bombs. Dorian: Kaffas! Nothing like an attack to cause chaos in a city. Dorian: You should head there immediately. I'll send a message to the other Shadow Dragons to meet you. Dorian: You're going to need support.

In the Undercity, Rook was supposed to meet the Viper and possibly Tarquin. Unfortunately, almost nothing remains of their conversations.

Rook: Dorian said he'd get someone to meet us. It'll likely be one of the Shadow Dragons. Rook: There's the Viper!

The Viper (and Tarquin) stayed with the firtst device, while Rook went to disable the two bombs leading to it. Lines from the script:

This one's linked to two others that need to be destroyed first. Then Tarquin and I will deal with the rest of the Venatori up here.

Each bomb was guarded by the Venatori. After fighting them, the device had to be deactivated. It's unclear whether this was a special mechanic or just a one-click action.

Venatori combat 1 Rook: Venatori guarding the bomb! Venatori combat 1 end Rook: Let's disable this bomb. Davrin: Careful. Don't want it going off in our faces. Harding: Rook, please be careful with that. Lucanis: Careful, Rook. Taash: Try not to get blown up. Device 1 disarmed Rook: All right. We got one. Let's keep going. Venatori combat 2 Rook: More Venatori! Device 2 disarmed Rook: That's both devices now. Let's check in with the Viper.

In that time, there have been numerous Veilguard positive posts in which patient, loving, wonderful, insightful and intelligent individuals attempt to impart lore onto a fanbase which doesn't deserve their time and attention.

I can't believe I'm running across posts made within the past five days which express disgust and frustration towards the devs over things which have been explained in great detail multiple times on this site, BUT IN THE DAMN GAME.

AND Y'ALL KEEP COMPLAINING THE GAME TELLS BUT DOESN'T SHOW. AND YOU DON'T EVEN LISTEN OR WATCH.

"the crows are presented as wholesome" - they are not. this site has a crow fanbase which has run off and lionized Viago as Daddy, conveniently ignored all the in-game details which either hint or baldly state things Definitely Aren't Cool, and generally fetishized what it means to be a Crow because of Zevran and Lucanis. Then the same people, or others who weren't paying proper attention, whined when the headcanon crowded out the actual in-game material, and they said "Antiva is whitewashed." There have been multiple posts about this.

"slaves are meant to be everywhere in Tevinter and we don't see that" - we aren't everywhere, we're specifically in Docktown which is poor and people generally can't afford slaves there, but we do see evidence of slavery, and we run around with abolitionists and help save people from fascist slavers and free people who will either be slaves or victims of blood magic so IDK what to tell you, there have been multiple posts explaining this too, maybe leave your slave or savior fetish somewhere else.

"Racism is supposed to be rampant" - fuck off. I actually will not be explaining this because for once it was nice not to be called a slur. If you need this to feel "immersed" or to feel there are actual problems, I need you to check yourself fucking hard. If you want to masquerade what it feels like to experience bigotry, go play one of the prior games. This has also been discussed in multiple posts.

"Handling pure lyrium is fine now" no handling the dagger is fine Solas cleansed it, the dagger woke something up in Harding specifically she talks about how some dwarves are connected to the stone, she previously had not been one of them and maybe the dagger woke something up in her, or did you need a pop up explaining this? Were you paying attention during cut scenes and dialogue?

"Adult Dalish without vallaslin" - in the 10 years since Inquisition/Trespasser, doubtless some dalish have come to adulthood and found out what assholes their gods were and made the decision not to go through that specific cultural rites. Or maybe city elves joined the Dalish. Who knows who made up the elf population at that ritual site. Elves are not a monolith. We've made multiple, multiple posts about elves not being monoliths.

"Solas' opinion on blood magic went from neutral to negative" SOLAS FUCKING LIES. We've made multiple posts about Solas lying, if you need this explained further I suggest you play the game all over again, he lies to you throughout the entire game.

"Re-write of the after credits scene in Inquisition to recontextualise the Flemeth and Solas interaction" it's recontextualized because now we know who and what they were to each other. Learning new information does that. This is literally what happens all the time in science and history. You recontextualize what you thought you knew with new information. You're supposed to change your position, not whine about how the new information makes everything different.

These are just some of the things I pulled from a list on a post in which someone was really just upset about everything. Everything. Varric, Morrigan, Solas, everything. But I can't take their criticisms seriously, because they're upset that "too much was told" and "not enough shown" and yet didn't even pay attention to DA lore or in-game dialogue or context clues around the world of Northern Thedas to answer their own questions.