As I'm Doing My Sweep To Make Sure I've Gotten All The Curses And Insults In Dragon Age, I Was Curious

SOOO here's the veilcard template i made for myself 🫣

it's a very barebone but fun little way to introduce your Rooks !

the template is here in case anyone is interested 👉👈

The template contains a .psd file and a blank transparent .png version with separate icons for people who can't access the .psd

Feel free to edit it to better suit your needs! ( the "personality traits" for exemple could be changed to other better suited words for your Oc, you do you )

HUGE thanks to @pinkyjulien's Extrated DAtv folder ! all the icons I used came from it !

have fun!

i would really appreciate if you tagged me or just tag it #veilcard so i can see them 🥹

my goal is to collect all the rooks like pokemons so i can become the ultimate Rook master™

Love it when mages/spellcasters in stories have slightly otherworldly traits. Unnatural eye colors/pupil shapes, unusual skin tones/hues, sharp/animal like teeth, nails, or ears, fur/horns/scales/feathers where they'd normally have none, etc.

we go on your [sigtryggr's] signal.

Warden Mahariel. Champion of Kirkwall. Inquisitor Lavellan.

The hands of our heroes.

on a second DA:I playthrough i’m noticing so much more foreshadowing in companion/advisor dialogue of how cadash/adaar/lavellan/tracelyan as a person HAS to be obliterated by the inquisition as a political, religious, and narrative force and the title of inquisitor.

mother giselle tells you from the beginning it doesn’t matter what you believe about being/not being the herald; you are an icon to the common people and the chantry.

josephine tells you after the truth about “andraste”/justinia is revealed in the fade—it doesn’t matter what you saw or felt, only what is remembered collectively.

dorian tells you if you ask to go with him to tevinter—you can never undo being the inquisitor, and would take away his agency just by being there.

varric tells you in haven that you’re a tragic hero, and asks at the wicked grace game if there is still a “you” separate from the inquisitor.

solas tells you in skyhold, if you tell him you intend to disband the inquisition, that the power you’ve amassed can’t be destroyed, and will only pass to less worthy hands if you relinquish it.

and all of that is just off the top of my head and comes up before ameridan’s name is ever mentioned.

and it’s all been said before but like! fuck! truth is the game was rigged from the start! you’ve been COOKED, inquisitor! YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME! it’s so fucking good

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Collages reflecting my ideas about fashion in Thedas (part 1).

The following references were used:

Ferelden: Fashion of Tudor England

Orlais: French and Venetian fashion

Tevinter: Byzantine and Ottoman costumes

Antiva: Italian Renaissance

Nevarra: Art Nouveau Fashion

Hawke Family | Aesthetic (Before DA2)

Abigail Thorn as Sharako Lohar

House of the Dragon / Season Two Episode Eight

How the Chantry (and Orlais) Turned Kirkwall into a Police State

One aspect of the Dragon Age series that I’ve always found odd is the way in which rather crucial political and historical context surrounding major conflicts the player must decide tends to be relegated to codices, outside materials (e.g., books), and optional dialogue with minor characters… meaning that many if not most players don’t seem to end up actually seeing it.  Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts (Dragon Age Inquisition) in particular has become somewhat notorious for what it left out, but it’s far from unusual.

With regard to Dragon Age II, there’s a popular perception among fans that the troubles in Kirkwall can be attributed almost entirely to rogue behavior on the part of Knight-Commander Meredith and various evil blood mages.  This is understandable given the overall narrative framing and Bioware’s aforementioned problem of making key context very easy to miss.  But once we take a look at the full picture, it ought to be clear that the Chantry did not simply “fail” in their responsibilities towards the mages or towards the citizens of Kirkwall more broadly — they actively created and maintained the very nightmare they later professed to be dismayed about.

Moreover, despite the running Mages vs. Templars theme, the mages were hardly the only one’s who suffered under Meredith’s rule. Indeed, Kirkwall endured a brutal 16-year-long dictatorship (9:21-9:37 Dragon) that came into being courtesy of the Chantry and the Orlesian empire and only fell due to the mage rebellion.

Here I’ll describe in detail (with sources and citations) the story of how the Chantry turned Kirkwall into a police state and one that ultimately descended into what the writers themselves termed “genocide.”  

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