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Unhinged Text Posts: Alistair Theirin Edition (Part 6)

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I listened to this on loop hen I draw him

And then his hubris leads him to the orb, and he gets throw out on his ass, and that's it, the most important relationship of his life for the past perhaps decade or more is gone. It meant everything to him and nothing to her, not in a malicious way, but just, she's a goddess. She's incapable of loving a mortal the way mortals can love each other.

And then he falls for Tav, so not only is he back "out there" in the dating world for the first time in a decade+ of being w/ the same person, but now he also may be wondering am I reading the signs correctly? Does Tav actually care for me? Or am I seeing what's not there, just like with Mystra?

So, "okay" is a word that doesn't appear much in DA dialogue through the first three installments, though it's become quite common by Veilguard.

Likely not an intentional evolution, but a symptom of the fact that the language used in DAV is generally more contemporary than the other installments. Still. Let's play in the space. Because it's not that no one uses "okay" before then. It's actually a relatively common Varric word -- he says it in both DA2 and DAI.

Obvious conclusion: "Okay" is dwarven slang.

(Corollary headcanon: Increased contact with the surface has spread dwarven slang more widely. Perhaps even helped by the popularity of Varric's books...)

Over my breakfast this morning I stared into space wondering what the origins of "OK" could be in the dwarven context. Orzammar is the obvious O. So... Orzammar Kingdom? Orzammar King?

Of course. "OK" is the seal that Orzammar's king uses to express that a document has his approval.