After playing both DAO and DAO, I noticed how there are two kinds of elves; The ones that wonders the land (Dalish I believe) and those that are in alienage.
Do these have country or land where they come from?
Does Elven nation exist?
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Posté 28 décembre 2013 - 04:44
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This is all from memory - apologies if I got anything wrong.
Elven civilisation predates humanity - they were a tall, magical race of immortals.
Then Humans arrived.
Elven civilisation crumbled after they became weakened by contact with humans causing them to lose their immortality (if I remember rightly).
Their cities crumbled, the humans objected to them having their own religion and caused problems.
Now most elves live in poverty in human cities under human rule.
Elven nobles started up tribes in the dales for a nomadic existence trying to maintain Elvish culture.
There may be intact Elven Cities/countries somewhere in the world but, if they exist then it is by avoiding all contact with humanity so are unknown.
some ruins of ancient elven cities may have appeared in the games.
Elven civilisation predates humanity - they were a tall, magical race of immortals.
Then Humans arrived.
Elven civilisation crumbled after they became weakened by contact with humans causing them to lose their immortality (if I remember rightly).
Their cities crumbled, the humans objected to them having their own religion and caused problems.
Now most elves live in poverty in human cities under human rule.
Elven nobles started up tribes in the dales for a nomadic existence trying to maintain Elvish culture.
There may be intact Elven Cities/countries somewhere in the world but, if they exist then it is by avoiding all contact with humanity so are unknown.
some ruins of ancient elven cities may have appeared in the games.
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Posté 28 décembre 2013 - 04:53
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"Elf
Once enslaved by humans, most elves have all but lost their culture, scrounging an impoverished living in the slums of human cities. Only the nomadic Dalish tribes still cling to their traditions, living by the bow and the rule of their old gods as they roam the ancient forests, welcome nowhere else.
City Elves
“Alienages have existed for as long as humans have claimed elven lands, the shems taking the best for themselves and leaving us little. They say that Val Royeaux has ten thousand elves in a space no bigger than the market of Denerim, the walls so high that daylight doesn’t reach the vhenadahl until midday.
But even if we wait for the sun, we accept that the alienage can protect as much as it separates. We don’t have to live here, da’len. Sometimes a family thinks to stand among the shems. Perhaps they even find someone willing to sell them a house in the docks or the outskirts. They soon learn that money does not grant kinship, and many have lost everything to brigands while neighbors turned their backs. They return with eyes opened, or their shame dies in the paupers’ field.
Here we help each other to better the world we have, not try to reclaim shadows of Arlathan, if it ever existed. The flat-ears looking for more—or worse, what used to be—they’re stuck. They’ll never be human, and they’ve gone and thrown away being elven, too. So where does that leave them? Nowhere.”
---- Sarethia, Elder of the Gwaren Alienage."
"Elf
Once enslaved by humans, most elves have all but lost their culture, scrounging an impoverished living in the slums of human cities. Only the nomadic Dalish tribes still cling to their traditions, living by the bow and the rule of their old gods as they roam the ancient forests, welcome nowhere else.
City Elves
“Alienages have existed for as long as humans have claimed elven lands, the shems taking the best for themselves and leaving us little. They say that Val Royeaux has ten thousand elves in a space no bigger than the market of Denerim, the walls so high that daylight doesn’t reach the vhenadahl until midday.
But even if we wait for the sun, we accept that the alienage can protect as much as it separates. We don’t have to live here, da’len. Sometimes a family thinks to stand among the shems. Perhaps they even find someone willing to sell them a house in the docks or the outskirts. They soon learn that money does not grant kinship, and many have lost everything to brigands while neighbors turned their backs. They return with eyes opened, or their shame dies in the paupers’ field.
Here we help each other to better the world we have, not try to reclaim shadows of Arlathan, if it ever existed. The flat-ears looking for more—or worse, what used to be—they’re stuck. They’ll never be human, and they’ve gone and thrown away being elven, too. So where does that leave them? Nowhere.”
---- Sarethia, Elder of the Gwaren Alienage."
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Posté 28 décembre 2013 - 07:38
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The elven civilization was once called Arlathan. It existed for thousands of years before it was conquered by the Tevinter Imperium and the elves were enslaved.
The elves fought alongside Andraste's rebellion and were given a new homeland in the Dales, which they called Halamshiral. However, tensions between the humans and elves led to the Chantry calling for an Exalted March against the elves and their new homeland was destroyed.
Many elves chose to live alongside the humans in their cities as second-class citizens, but there were small groups who chose not to submit to human rule and formed the Dalish clans.
The elves fought alongside Andraste's rebellion and were given a new homeland in the Dales, which they called Halamshiral. However, tensions between the humans and elves led to the Chantry calling for an Exalted March against the elves and their new homeland was destroyed.
Many elves chose to live alongside the humans in their cities as second-class citizens, but there were small groups who chose not to submit to human rule and formed the Dalish clans.
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Posté 29 décembre 2013 - 01:09
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Quick Answer:
Play Dragon Age Origins.
Choose Dalish Origin.
They tell you the whole story.
Play Dragon Age Origins.
Choose Dalish Origin.
They tell you the whole story.
