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[The Spirit of Dance]

Mote Prime.

[In Exile]

sandalisthemaker wrote...

Thedap

Brilliant. 

But wouldn't technically still be Thedas? 

[KiwiQuiche]

I wonder why they don't have the concept of planets? Some ancient cultures knew the Earth's size, accurate to mere milometers and some even knew the distance from Earth to the moon. Is Thedas/the inhabitants just uncaring/stupid/Chantry when it comes to this?

[Steelcan]

KiwiQuiche wrote...

I wonder why they don't have the concept of planets? Some ancient cultures knew the Earth's size, accurate to mere milometers and some even knew the distance from Earth to the moon. Is Thedas/the inhabitants just uncaring/stupid/Chantry when it comes to this?

We don't really seem to be involved in the adacemic lives of Thedas's top scholars.  The only nation to even likely bother with this would be Tevinter or the Qunari, and I don't see them sharing

[DeinonSlayer]

Well, I can't speak for DA2, but in DA:O the moon (as seen above camp) is Mars, bleached white. Only one conclusion can be drawn from this: it's an as-yet undiscovered Martian satellite populated by tiny, tiny people.

[KiwiQuiche]

Steelcan wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

I wonder why they don't have the concept of planets? Some ancient cultures knew the Earth's size, accurate to mere milometers and some even knew the distance from Earth to the moon. Is Thedas/the inhabitants just uncaring/stupid/Chantry when it comes to this?

We don't really seem to be involved in the adacemic lives of Thedas's top scholars.  The only nation to even likely bother with this would be Tevinter or the Qunari, and I don't see them sharing

Damnit, I like reading about that kind of thing in games; it's one of the reasons I like Elder Scrolls so much, what with their "the second moon is the corpse of the god who made Nirn" and how some of the stars are actually where other gods fled to avoid being sealed in, with only the Daedra/gods who remained. I find that stuff facinating, tell me about it Bioware >:|

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

KiwiQuiche wrote...

I wonder why they don't have the concept of planets? Some ancient cultures knew the Earth's size, accurate to mere milometers and some even knew the distance from Earth to the moon. Is Thedas/the inhabitants just uncaring/stupid/Chantry when it comes to this?

I oversimplified slightly. What Gaider came right out and said was that to most of the continent's inhabitants, that is the world. That probably includes much of the White Chantry, since until the current Divine they didn't seem very experimentally inclined. We have no idea if the Black Chantry would care enough, but a magocracy that tried to map the Fade could credibly have something along those lines.The Qunari probably have the concept of a planet down; I'd wager they're at least at Galileo's level if they're using their mathematically inclined members as well as they should be. But we haven't seen from their POV, and even if we do a soldier Qunari (and let's be honest, that's what we'd want to be) wouldn't be likely to know this stuff. It doesn't matter to them. And this assumes that the universe Thedap is floating around in works that way.

Modifié par Riverdaleswhiteflash, 31 octobre 2013 - 01:15 .

[Steelcan]

KiwiQuiche wrote...

Steelcan wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

I wonder why they don't have the concept of planets? Some ancient cultures knew the Earth's size, accurate to mere milometers and some even knew the distance from Earth to the moon. Is Thedas/the inhabitants just uncaring/stupid/Chantry when it comes to this?

We don't really seem to be involved in the adacemic lives of Thedas's top scholars.  The only nation to even likely bother with this would be Tevinter or the Qunari, and I don't see them sharing

Damnit, I like reading about that kind of thing in games; it's one of the reasons I like Elder Scrolls so much, what with their "the second moon is the corpse of the god who made Nirn" and how some of the stars are actually where other gods fled to avoid being sealed in, with only the Daedra/gods who remained. I find that stuff facinating, tell me about it Bioware >:|

Thedap is actually one of the planets around Nirn

/headcanon

Modifié par Steelcan, 31 octobre 2013 - 01:17 .

[whogotsalami]

Thaerun

[Swagger7]

Steelcan wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

Steelcan wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

I wonder why they don't have the concept of planets? Some ancient cultures knew the Earth's size, accurate to mere milometers and some even knew the distance from Earth to the moon. Is Thedas/the inhabitants just uncaring/stupid/Chantry when it comes to this?

We don't really seem to be involved in the adacemic lives of Thedas's top scholars.  The only nation to even likely bother with this would be Tevinter or the Qunari, and I don't see them sharing

Damnit, I like reading about that kind of thing in games; it's one of the reasons I like Elder Scrolls so much, what with their "the second moon is the corpse of the god who made Nirn" and how some of the stars are actually where other gods fled to avoid being sealed in, with only the Daedra/gods who remained. I find that stuff facinating, tell me about it Bioware >:|

Thedap is actually one of the planets around Nirn

/headcanon

Well, if both Tamriel and Thedas have a moon that uses Mars as its texture, and Elder Scrolls lore says that the moons were once pure white and featureless, but darkened and acquired splotches over time, then maybe Dragon Age is part of the prehistory of Tamriel?!?



In all seriousness, what's with the overuse of photos of actual planets and moons in fantasy games?  Why don't devs make their own instead of using something from NASA?

[Rolling Flame]

Foopydoopydoo wrote...

Surprise plot twist - Tuchanka.

Can't be. The moon is clearly Klendagon.

[Pistolized]

I almost told the story of some guy in the codex who walked West into unknown lands and eventually came in from the East.  But then I remembered I was thinking of Jade Empire.

On another note, I vote "Arth."  But really I vote that it doesn't get, or need, a name.  

[Sith Grey Warden]

sandalisthemaker wrote...

Thedap

+1

As for knowing about planets, it's very much likely that the elite of Thedas know the world is round (commoners might not, though, because they don't get educated). The ancient Greeks here on Earth proved the Earth is round using geometry in the 3rd century BC.

This, of course, assumes that Thedas is indeed on a planet. Do we have any reason to believe it's not just a large piece of rock with a flat surface?

Modifié par Sith Grey Warden, 31 octobre 2013 - 02:23 .

[Boycott Bioware]

This guy is crazy, he manage to map Mundus and dig out the TES universe, interesting....



Is there someone from DA fans crazy enough to map DA universe and dig out it's secret?

[Br3admax]

Qistina wrote...

This guy is crazy, he manage to map Mundus and dig out the TES universe, interesting....



Is there someone from DA fans crazy enough to map DA universe and dig out it's secret?

Yeah, they are called the devs. They've mapped out all of known Thedas a very long time ago. 

[Boycott Bioware]

Mundus is the universe, Nirn is the planet in TES

Thedas is just a continent in DA

I don't think the dev really map the whole universe of Thedas yet

[Br3admax]

Mundas is not the universe. Mundus is a small dimension that holds the planets that are the gods of Nirn and the planet Nirn itself. This in turn is surrounded by Oblivion, which is itself surrounded by Aetherius. Aetherius is the universe. Oblivion is a galaxy, and Mundus is the solar system, and even this is in a nutshell. It is much more complicated than that. Now, if you want to call me wrong, at least be right yourself.

Second, no one knows about those other places so how would they be mapped. They are only concepts even now.

[Boycott Bioware]

Whatever, but i am sure the devs didn't even create the whole universe of Thedas yet

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

Qistina wrote...

Whatever, but i am sure the devs didn't even create the whole universe of Thedas yet

I don't think they've created the whole continent of it yet.

[Rusty Sandusky]

What a twist it would be if at the end of DA:I a Council First Contact ship lands in Thedas.

[Boycott Bioware]

ThisOnesUsername wrote...
What a twist it would be if at the end of DA:I a Council First Contact ship lands in Thedas.

Or Christopher Columbus land on Thedas and think it is India

Modifié par Qistina, 31 octobre 2013 - 03:45 .

[MissCurlsbel]

DeinonSlayer wrote...

Well, I can't speak for DA2, but in DA:O the moon (as seen above camp) is Mars, bleached white. Only one conclusion can be drawn from this: it's an as-yet undiscovered Martian satellite populated by tiny, tiny people.

Did not expect to see "The Little Prince" around here.

[Boycott Bioware]

Each race call this planet we live on differently

English peoples call it Earth

My people call it Bumi (it's Sanskrit)

Arab call it Dunya

So each races in Thedas should call the planet differently

[Boycott Bioware]

Actually my people call this planet "Bumi" it means "Mother" in some sense...we don't call our mother as "Bumi" but it means like that. It's like "the place of everything is born". "Pribumi" means "children of Earth", but today that term changed to "a race that originally belong to the nation"

My people always say "Ibu Pertiwi", that means "Nation" or "country" in literature manner, "Negara" is country/nation in standard use (in which derived from "Nagara" of Sanskrit). "Ibu" means "Mother" directly, and we call our mothers "Ibu". But some call mothers as "Emak". But "Pertiwi" is a bit mystery, some suggest that it actually a name, a Goddess name, originally "Pratiwi". So "Ibu Pratiwi" directly means "a mother named Pratiwi", but this a theory, no one know what "Pertiwi" really mean, we just say it usually in songs or literature

So, the relation between "Ibu Pertiwi" and "Bumi" maybe do have relation with Gaia, the mother of nature, the mother earth, only in different culture and form. "Ibu Pertiwi" is the mother of nation, and is "Bumi" where the "Pribumi" is born

But when Islam come we adapt the Arab term, we say "Dunya" but in the form of "Dunia" (non-Arabic sound) means "the World", we don't call Bumi as Dunia, but Dunia refer to the world and not the planet. "Dunia" also being used widely referring to places such as Europe, we call it "Dunia Eropah", Christian world we call as "Dunia Kristian", fantasy world we call as "Dunia fantasi" and so on...so Dunia is any world, we maintain "Bumi" as the name of this planet

[Sir Pounce-a-lot]

Qistina wrote...

Waynne says earth...but of course earth also could be mean dirt in English



But i would named the planet..."Shroom"

Her implication is that they went to another world and then came back to the earth, so "earth" refers to their world, not just dirt.