(I'm sorry, I HAD TO)
You know I just loved that bit when you get to Redcliffe castle.
Inquisition Scout: We came in the name of the Inquisition, but no one was expecting us.
Inquisitor: No One?
Me: Oh you cheeky bastards. 
After all they said they weren't going there but it was so subtle it was perfect.
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Sorry! I can edit it and put your name in if you would like me to?
No, thats ok 
I hope you get your birthday wish.I really hope they announce something, or release something on the 5th! That's my birthday, and that would be an awesome present! *hint hint*
I really hope they announce something, or release something on the 5th! That's my birthday, and that would be an awesome present! *hint hint*
Know Your Lore: Lyrium
http://www.dragonage...our-lore-lyrium
More than half the wealth of Orzammar comes from a single, extremely rare substance: Lyrium. The Chantry believes it to be the "Waters of the Fade" mentioned in the Canticle of Threnodies, the very stuff of creation itself, from whence the Maker fashioned the world. Only a handful of Mining caste families hazard extracting the ore, finding veins in the Stone quite literally by ear. For in its raw form, lyrium sings, and the discerning can hear the sound even through solid rock.
Even though dwarves have a natural resistance, raw lyrium is dangerous for all but the most experienced of the Mining Caste to handle. Even for dwarves, exposure to the unprocessed mineral can cause deafness or memory loss. For humans and elves, direct contact with lyrium ore produces nausea, blistering of the skin, and dementia. Mages cannot even approach unprocessed lyrium. Doing so is invariably fatal.
Despite its dangers, lyrium is the single most valuable mineral currently known. In the Tevinter Imperium, it has been known to command a higher price than diamond. The dwarves sell very little of the processed mineral to the surface, giving the greater portion of what they mine to their own smiths, who use it in the forging of all truly superior dwarven weapons and armor. What processed lyrium is sold on the surface goes only to the Chantry, who strictly control the supply. From the Chantry, it is dispensed both to the templars, who make use of it in tracking and fighting maleficarum, and to the Circle.
In the hands of the Circle, lyrium reaches its fullest potential. Their Formari craftsmen transform it into an array of useful items from the practical, such as magically hardened stones for construction, to the legendary silver armor of King Calenhad.
When mixed into liquid and ingested, lyrium allows mages to enter the Fade when fully aware, unlike all others who reach it only when dreaming. Such potions can also be used to aid in the casting of especially taxing spells, for a short time granting a mage far greater power than he normally wields.
Lyrium has its costs, however. Prolonged use becomes addictive, the cravings unbearable. Over time, templars grow disoriented, incapable of distinguishing memory from present, or dream from waking. They frequently become paranoid as their worst memories and nightmares haunt their waking hours. Mages have additionally been known to suffer physical mutation: The magister lords of the Tevinter Imperium were widely reputed to have been so affected by their years of lyrium use that they could not be recognized by their own kin, nor even as creatures that had once been human.
—From In Pursuit of Knowledge: The Travels of a Chantry Scholar by Brother Genitivi
All I know is not to touch Lyrium in it's purest form.
...Wait a second.
Let me guess, we're going to break another rule of reality in this DLC, and the Inquisitor's going to touch Lyrium in it's purest form?
Know Your Lore: Lyrium
http://www.dragonage...our-lore-lyrium
(I'm getting 404 errors on this page, can anyone see it yet?)
how did you find it to begin with?
how did you find it to begin with?
It's on their news page...
http://www.dragonage.com/en_US/news
(ninja'd! 
)
It shows up fine for me, Hrungr. Are you still having problems with it?
It shows up fine for me, Hrungr. Are you still having problems with it?
yea, found the culprit to, a dragon burned it to the ground..
It shows up fine for me, Hrungr. Are you still having problems with it?
works now
It shows up fine for me, Hrungr. Are you still having problems with it?
Yeah, I can see it now. It looks like it just went up.
(edited previous post)
Know Your Lore: Lyrium
http://www.dragonage...our-lore-lyrium
More than half the wealth of Orzammar comes from a single, extremely rare substance: Lyrium. The Chantry believes it to be the "Waters of the Fade" mentioned in the Canticle of Threnodies, the very stuff of creation itself, from whence the Maker fashioned the world. Only a handful of Mining caste families hazard extracting the ore, finding veins in the Stone quite literally by ear. For in its raw form, lyrium sings, and the discerning can hear the sound even through solid rock.
Even though dwarves have a natural resistance, raw lyrium is dangerous for all but the most experienced of the Mining Caste to handle. Even for dwarves, exposure to the unprocessed mineral can cause deafness or memory loss. For humans and elves, direct contact with lyrium ore produces nausea, blistering of the skin, and dementia. Mages cannot even approach unprocessed lyrium. Doing so is invariably fatal.
Despite its dangers, lyrium is the single most valuable mineral currently known. In the Tevinter Imperium, it has been known to command a higher price than diamond. The dwarves sell very little of the processed mineral to the surface, giving the greater portion of what they mine to their own smiths, who use it in the forging of all truly superior dwarven weapons and armor. What processed lyrium is sold on the surface goes only to the Chantry, who strictly control the supply. From the Chantry, it is dispensed both to the templars, who make use of it in tracking and fighting maleficarum, and to the Circle.
In the hands of the Circle, lyrium reaches its fullest potential. Their Formari craftsmen transform it into an array of useful items from the practical, such as magically hardened stones for construction, to the legendary silver armor of King Calenhad.
When mixed into liquid and ingested, lyrium allows mages to enter the Fade when fully aware, unlike all others who reach it only when dreaming. Such potions can also be used to aid in the casting of especially taxing spells, for a short time granting a mage far greater power than he normally wields.
Lyrium has its costs, however. Prolonged use becomes addictive, the cravings unbearable. Over time, templars grow disoriented, incapable of distinguishing memory from present, or dream from waking. They frequently become paranoid as their worst memories and nightmares haunt their waking hours. Mages have additionally been known to suffer physical mutation: The magister lords of the Tevinter Imperium were widely reputed to have been so affected by their years of lyrium use that they could not be recognized by their own kin, nor even as creatures that had once been human.
—From In Pursuit of Knowledge: The Travels of a Chantry Scholar by Brother Genitivi
Well, there's our tease of the day.
...I swear, if this goes on for another week without an announcement I'm going to lose it. This is all so consistently Deep Roads related (Something more absent in DAI than any previous game) it has to be leading to something. If this really is just the marketing department thinking that daily lore tidbits is a good way to tide over fans, they've sunk to a new low (Though its certainly got us paying attention hasn't it?)
" Mages cannot even approach unprocessed lyrium. Doing so is invariably fatal."
- Wait... weren't we touching raw lyrium veins in the Deep Roads (and Fade) for health & mana boosts in DA:O?
Maybe the rules are different in the Fade? *shrugs*" Mages cannot even approach unprocessed lyrium. Doing so is invariably fatal."
- Wait... weren't we touching raw lyrium veins in the Deep Roads (and Fade) for health & mana boosts in DA:O?
Modifié par Just_January, 03 août 2015 - 05:25 .
Well, there's our tease of the day.
...I swear, if this goes on for another week without an announcement I'm going to lose it. This is all so consistently Deep Roads related (Something more absent in DAI than any previous game) it has to be leading to something. If this really is just the marketing department thinking that daily lore tidbits is a good way to tide over fans, they've sunk to a new low (Though its certainly got us paying attention hasn't it?)
I say pray for Gamescom 
Maybe the rules are different in the Fade? *shrugs*
Where did we touch it in the Deep Roads? I can't remember.
The Caridin/Branka fight I think?
Maybe the rules are different in the Fade? *shrugs*
Where did we touch it in the Deep Roads? I can't remember.
Maybe the rules are different in the Fade? *shrugs*
Where did we touch it in the Deep Roads? I can't remember.
The Caridin/Branka fight I think?
Yup, and the rotating stone pillar with faces that spat at you were surrounded by lyrium veins.
Where did we touch it in the Deep Roads? I can't remember.
Ugh, that fight was such a pain, no wonder I forgot it.Yup, and the rotating stone pillar with faces that spat at you were surrounded by lyrium veins.
" Mages cannot even approach unprocessed lyrium. Doing so is invariably fatal."
- Wait... weren't we touching raw lyrium veins in the Deep Roads (and Fade) for health & mana boosts in DA:O?
That part's been pretty inconsistent across the games. Didn't Hawke pick up and toss that pure red lyrium idol in DA2?
Actually now that I think of it, the games have been pretty consistently ignoring that bit of the lore 
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