The Maker

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An in-depth examination of the extensive parallels between the fictional race of elves in BioWare’s Dragon Age franchise, and real life Indigenous peoples.

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CONTENTS

1. Forward 1.1. Disclaimers 2. Introduction 2.1. What is “Coding”? 2.2. The BioWare Approach 3. History 3.1. The Colonization of Thedas 3.2. The Bone Pit 3.3. The Long Walk 3.4. Assimilation 4. City Elves 4.1. Alienages 4.2. Family and Community 4.3. Wealth Disparity 4.4. Environmental Racism: The City Elves 4.5. Injustice System 4.6. Cultural Resilience 5. Dalish Elves 5.1. Clans 5.2. Keepers 5.3. Elders 5.4. Desecration of the Sacred 5.5. Human Threat 5.6. Hanal'ghilan 5.7. Vallaslin 5.8. Inuksuit and Tikis 5.9. Environmental Racism: The Dalish 5.10. Miscellaneous Culture Points 6. Stereotypes 6.1. Alienage Suffering 6.2. Human/White Saviour Complex 6.3. Laziness 6.4. Stoic and Emotionless 6.5. Elven Curses 7. Conclusion 8. References

1) you chose to make your elves look like nomadic arabs with the modest clothing and face wraps, and since the elves have never canonically dressed like this, it makes absolutely no sense for you to have them dressed like this, unless you wanted to make the distinction between Arabs/mena clothing and conflict

2) you actually used REAL people from REAL conflicts as reference? And not even hiding it much at all? I don’t think I even should have to explain why taking images from our struggles and trauma and inserting them into a fictional conflict for your art aesthetic is horrendously racist

3) as a child of refugees, many of whom lost their homes to conflict and war, and some of whom their lives, it disgusts me that you would treat our struggles in this way, this isn’t some slight fuck up - this is something horrendous. And I hope you see this and take this piece down and learn to respect refugees and their plight and not to see it and immediately think “how can I benefit off this”

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