Game of Thrones Daily
Three Goblin Art
ojovivo
Stranger Things
izzy's playlists!
Not today Justin
Discoholic 🪩
Mike Driver
Peter Solarz
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
Show & Tell
Claire Keane
Kaledo Art
taylor price
sheepfilms
trying on a metaphor
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Today's Document
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Singapore
seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from Spain
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from Netherlands
seen from Türkiye
seen from Türkiye
seen from Belgium
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from Germany
seen from Singapore
seen from Romania
seen from Malaysia
@wardenshapard
The hardest choice in Dragon Age was actually in Inquisition, where we had to decide whether to leave the helmet display in the settings and then the whole party would wear stupid ugly helmets, or poor Cole would lose his beautiful hat
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
i love alistair’s ostagar dialogue so much. in unrelated news next time i see someone say he isn’t smart i’m beginning the killings
do “i’m sure the revered mother meant it as an insult—sending me as her messenger—and the mage picked right up on that” and “i think cailan is actually excited to ride into battle with us. maybe he thinks that’s what his father would have done?” and “you want the chantry’s version or the truth?” and “[seven full sentences of chantry history casually recited offhand and then followed with his alternate take because he didn’t take it at face value]” and “i’ll tell you, it’s teyrn loghain we should be looking to win [the battle], not the king. cailan just wants his place in history. the teyrn is planning the strategy. errrr, that’s my opinion, anyway. i guess i should be thankful the king favours us grey wardens, but i know who’s keeping the lid on the pot” and “ostagar itself is an excellent defensive position. the wilders were pushed back from here time and again in ancient days” mean NOTHING to some of you people
See I DO think that da2 was excellent set up for DAtV reveals and potential plot. Except DAtV fucked up said plot and reveals and lore so the payoff set up specifically in DA2 doesn't land.
Like. Everyone talks about Sandals prophecy that clearly refers to either the Titian's waking up or the veil coming down BUT. One must also remember Flemeth saying the world stands on the precipice of change and basically every single thing she says on mount sundermount.
Then you have Merrill and the mirror; you have Merrill curing the blight from the mirror, suggesting something about ancient elves/old Arlathan knowledge can be used against the blight (linking the two together?). Merrill is the first person to truly speak about the dread wolf, the trickster and set up that character as someone to take centre stage later.
The enigma of Kirkwall is also there, suggesting the city was perhaps used to reach the golden city by the magisters of old, who then saw the throne of god was empty - they breached the prison where the evaneris are held, and yet that barely comes up in DATV.
Da2 also is probably our best exploration of tevinter and it's society through Fenris. Its Fenris who people look to when they imagine the horrors of tevinter society, the ones we expected to see in DATV.
It's just. They wasted so much set up here.
i’m having to reevaluate my opinions on the realism of the couslands surviving for centuries cockroach-style despite being an obvious threat and canonically involved in rebellions, because i just learned about a real historical noble family who are somehow still fucking alive to this day despite centuries where they were involved in literally every plot rebellion and civil war and they were constantly getting killed or imprisoned about it and still holding on as a family line. and broadly speaking, the reason was that they kept getting reinstated no matter what, because nobody else could or would defend the border they were in charge of. so i’m having to come to the conclusion that the theirins have killed imprisoned and executed the correct number of couslands, but they just keep putting them back next generation because the couslands defend the northern coast which forces orlesian armies to struggle over the mountain passes when they come. and the couslands are unfortunately really good at that and the only ones who can get it done, meanwhile theirins are allergic to the sea, they get on a boat and you never hear from them again. so they’re stuck with each other
the Couslands are also like… by and large pretty heavily in favor of whatever is good for their people, which seems to be what earns the loyalty of their freeholders. the original unification of Ferelden under Calenhad was opposed by the sitting Teyrna Elethea Cousland which tracks because why would she imagine that would be needed, but after defeat she swore fealty. the rebellion where the Couslands supported Sophia Dryden was noted to be because the king she wanted to depose was a tyrant, which seems like a good enough reason to rebel, despite losing and having the teyrn and a bunch of the family executed. and the Couslands of course supported the rebellion against Orlais. they were literally well loved enough the Landsmeet wanted to make Bryce king instead of Cailan, which is frankly incredible given how well loved Maric was himself and how much everybody seems to care about Calenhad’s bloodline.
the Couslands are honestly the best example we have in Ferelden of a family in power that seems to have consistently held that attitude toward their people since the Black Age, and I’d wager it stems from the fact that they weren’t originally a noble family at all! the Couslands only wound up in power because Flemeth (yes that Flemeth) killed the previous teyrn Conobar Elstan, and his captain of the guard, the first Cousland teyrn, took the title since there were no Elstan heirs. the Couslands are second only to royalty by the time DAO starts, sure, but they’re a scrappy line that descends from knights, not nobles, and I think that’s pretty damn cool too. (also Eleanor’s a freaking pirate raider admiral so the Cousland HoF just had no chance not to be like that imo)
amell crest on the hip is such an insane move i’m not even that much of a fenhawke person but i think about this all the time
i can’t get into a relationship with the person i’m in love with right now even after we slept together, because of my backstory trauma: understandable
i can’t get into a relationship with the person i’m in love with right now even after we slept together, because of my backstory trauma, so instead i’ve decided to unannounced show up wearing their family crest like a badge and then continue wearing it constantly and publicly, as if to tell everyone i belong to their household (of which otherwise nobody is left but them), for the next THREE YEARS of NOT BEING TOGETHER: what could possibly be this wrong with you
Sorry, i'm stealing these :3
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
It's never not funny that the entire planet of Illium knew Thane Krios' full government name, race, and his NEXT TARGET and still couldn't do anything about it. Everyone you ask is like "Thane Krios? Oh you mean our local assassin? Yeah he's here somewhere. I think he's after Nassana."
He's Illium's open secret in the way that Archangel was Omega's, but at least Garrus took steps to protect his identity. Thane was quite possibly the only drell on the planet. Walking around in that outfit of all things.
today i’m thinking about how the despair demons tend to single rook out and how the first time this is recognized is after the treviso/minrathous decision
like, listen. i know it’s probably just a game mechanic thing. but it’s interesting to me that every despair demon in the game does this—single rook out. and how you encounter a lot more despair demons the worse the situation gets. and every single time, without fail, rook is their primary target.
like. the potential juiciness of it all. rook who carries regrets and despair hidden behind a smile that no one can see behind until the regret prison. rook who has to keep up a brave face as the leader so that the team doesn’t collapse because someone has to make a decision.
the narrative juiciness of regret…despair…someone sedate me
Just Cole droppin those words of wisdom.
Cole has never meet a Sylvan.
That one post about a married couple knowing where the other one keeps their back up knives is so Rookanis to me. Rook's dagger/mageknife gets knocked out of their hand and they immediately reach into Lucanis' armour for another one. Lucanis running past Rook and grabbing the spare knife from their thigh because it's more convenient than the one in his boot (which is only there for Rook's use anyway really)
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
I miss himmmm
Sorry Alistair
One of my fave things about the DA games is the parallels of characterization between the protags.
The Warden and The Inquisitor both have a kind of dignity and honor about them. They're both like "I absolutely did not want to be in this position, but here I am and we'll get this done one way or another." They both force people to work together for a greater good and unite under their banner and both are reasonably competent at their jobs.
Hawke and Rook on the other hand... things are just going wrong constantly for them, they are both consistently on their 13th reason, and their main defense is a "the horrors persist but so do I" attitude. They also did not want to be in the position they're in but they're "DOING MY FUCKING BEST CUT ME SOME SLACK I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE STEPPING UP" and if one more thing goes wrong they're both going to just start biting people.
I like the idea of Anders keeping his warden armor because letting him retain that small dose of diplomatic immunity sounds really funny
at the very least the darktown clinic is politically neutral
isnt it a warden’s duty to take care of not only the Blight but the citizens whose lives have been affected by it
also what if a darkspawn was down there
havent seen one yet but like imagine if that happened
Have you seen darkspawn in the sewers? No. Do you want darkspawn in the sewers? No. So that’s what the grey warden is for
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
i wish it was more visibly obvious that cassandra’s interrogation of varric was in the amell estate because i did not pick up on it initially and it’s so deranged
i just thought in the same two minutes about this and then about the rooms that hawke closed up with all their mother’s things untouched and the study where fenris and orana learned to read and the carvings in the stairwell made by a bored isabela’s blade and the damage from merrill and sandal’s experimental mishaps and the marks in the wall where some idiot challenged sebastian to darts and the little hidden compartments stocked with anders’ homemade potions left behind in the haste to leave... i suppose if they were based there then cassandra’s people must have torn right through it looking for clues. or just to put varric on edge
oh people still didn’t know this. i only found out online myself. yeah idk if you can tell during the other shots but it’s most obvious when cassandra walks out at the end, you can see the amell shield up
"I hate the fade." "I hate the deep roads." Well I hate fucking Denerim. Run around getting jumped every four minutes. There's a fucking plague nobody is dealing with. Some blind templar is the only one doing his job. Terrible layout. Ass of a city.
