I am jelly of your Lavellan's pretty cheeks. I am never, ever happy with mine. I fiddle with them for ages and end up just settling. Maybe I'm picking the wrong base face.
I always pick the second face base that dark skinned one and modify from that because it seems to have the best facial shape :3 and most easy to modify. Just changing skin colors etc.
I really liked the old Ghilan'nain vallaslin. The new one's nice but not as powerful looking imo.
OMG I am getting soo many likes I am so happy I spent time making this x3 almost cried making it
I remember here being the thread of Solas' eye color.. and uhmm someone said that they used some mod so Solas' eyes looked different color and that his eyes had this purple inner circle.. well I actually have it already.. I don't know if it is my good graphics card with this program that adjusts everything ( I downloaded even better eyemod later on not in this pic ) but here are his eyes to me WITHOUT mods:
You can see the purplish inner centre of the eye.
Thanks! I was deciding on whether I should keep the hq eye texture which brighten eyes or switch to sweetfx for higher shaders. This settles it. Use sweetfx.
Thanks! I was deciding on whether I should keep the hq eye texture which brighten eyes or switch to sweetfx for higher shaders. This settles it. Use sweetfx.
I do not use sweetfx XD but I have better mod for eye texture.. can you take a picture of sweetfx eye texture? I was wondering if to try it?
Err... good morning guys! Skipped a lot of pages since, well... you know. I missed you though, I couldn't visit the thread so often these days.
I went to the temple of Dirthamen again, yesterday, and found this:
OKAY HERE IS MY ELLANA WITH HALLA GOD'S VALLASLIN!
I just think of her as an innocent kind of sweet Halla so that is why it fits for her perfectly and I find it so cute that an innocent halla falls in love with trickster god of rebellion.. the dread wolf
x3
It was said that Halla's god was the youngest and so beautiful with snowy white hair and since my character has really light hair almost white it also fits very well ( I do not want completely white hair because it does not fit her )
She's so pretty! Why does everyone have such beautiful Lavellans?!
Not that my Lavellan is ugly or anything but I find everyone else's to be really beautiful! @___@
I remember here being the thread of Solas' eye color.. and uhmm someone said that they used some mod so Solas' eyes looked different color and that his eyes had this purple inner circle.. well I actually have it already.. I don't know if it is my good graphics card with this program that adjusts everything ( I downloaded even better eyemod later on not in this pic ) but here are his eyes to me WITHOUT mods:
You can see the purplish inner centre of the eye.
Excuse me while I stare into his beautiful eyes... 
I really liked the old Ghilan'nain vallaslin. The new one's nice but not as powerful looking imo.
Me too. DA:I's Ghilan'nain vallaslin is pretty but I prefer DA:O's version of it. That's what my Mahariel had. 
(Posting a pic of my Mahariel here just because I want to show her off a bit. 
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LOL! I didn't expect that. xD
She's so pretty! Why does everyone have such beautiful Lavellans?!
Not that my Lavellan is ugly or anything but I find everyone else's to be really beautiful! @___@
Excuse me while I stare into his beautiful eyes...
Me too. DA:I's Ghilan'nain vallaslin is pretty but I prefer DA:O's version of it. That's what my Mahariel had.
(Posting a pic of my Mahariel here just because I want to show her off a bit.
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LOL! I didn't expect that. xD
Thank you so much!!!! haha I assume it is your lavellan on your picture :33 I thought she was so adorable! I know! I also find everyone's lavellans so beautiful XD idk why they all are so cute and sweet in their own way!! What is your lavellan's story if I may ask?
OH! AND NO I DON'T MIND * Stares at his eyes too *
I am in love with a video game character.... FOREVER ALONE
For RabbitonFire.
5990: Thalsian, also known as the First Priest of Dumat, is the first known person to wield blood magic, and the first Magister. The Archon claims to learn this art after personally communicating with the Old God. The power he gained from blood magic allowed him to spark the birth of a future empire under his rule.
6185: Darinius, the High King of Neromenian, takes control of the Tevinter throne, uniting the kingdoms of Neromenian and Tevinter under his rule.
6400: Darinius of Tevinter forges an alliance with the dwarves.
6405: Darinius unites the kingdoms Tevinter and Qarinus, forming the mighty Tevinter Imperium. He declares himself the first Archon. The Dreamers learned the use of lyrium to enter the Fade from elven captives, and these dreamers later became the first of the Imperium’s ruling Magisters.
6619: The hostility that festered between the Tevinter Imperium and the elves finally turned into open war. Armies of the Imperium surrounded the fabled elven city of Arlathan.
6625: The Magisters resorted to a horrifying blood ritual that sank Arlathan into the earth, destroying it utterly and deciding the war in their favor. The conquest of the elven kingdom was complete: All those who did not perish with their city were enslaved, their spirit crushed and their ancient culture destroyed forever.
6702: The Tevinter Imperium expands rapidly, bolstered by its new elven slaves. The Imperium takes nearly all of northern Thedas and begins the conquest of lands across the Waking Sea.
EDIT: So yeah. Ninety years of the four human kingdoms of Tevinter, Neromenian, Barindur, and Qarinus, formed by the Neromenian tribes. Barindur is lost to a volcano. And Tevinter becomes the most powerful and absorbs them, forging the Tevinter heartland. A few decades after the Tevinters form an alliance with the dwarves, (coincidence?) the war with Arlathan begins. Interestingly, it lasts for a few years, rather than the effortless sweep that the Vints like to paint it as. Complicating this is Abelas's admission that Arlathan was already in decline and the Elvhen destroyed themselves. We don't have any dates on that, sadly.
It was my default choice in DAO too.
They are going to find out eventually. I'm sure of it. Solas knowns it aswell. I think that he was trying to hit 2 birds with one stone - unlock the orb, kill Coryfish. But suprise suprise, he bodyjumps.What I'm not sure is whether he knew that dispensing all that energy would result in the Veil ripping , or was this just an unforeseen consequence?
From what I understood Solas didn't know about red lyrium (he didn't know Cory had any) at the time (I did see a dialogue line about this), so he couldn't have known Cory had a red lyrium dragon to keep himself from getting killed. His plan was to give Cory the orb to unlock and have him die in the resulting blast, He never guessed Cory wouldn't die or could use the orb himself.
Edit: hit post too quickly. Anyway I don't think the rip in the veil was intentional. The orb unleashed more energy than expected. He has no reason to want the veil ripped because it means his spirit friends would be pulled through and corrupted, that's the last thing he wants.
From what I understood Solas didn't know about red lyrium at the time (I did see a dialogue line about this), so he couldn't have know Cory had a red lyrium dragon to keep himself from getting killed. His plan was to give Cory the orb to unlock and have him die in the resulting blast, He never guessed Cory wouldn't die or could use the orb himself.
Edit: hit post too quickly. Anyway I don't think the rip in the veil was intentional. The orb unleashed more energy than expected. He has no reason to want the veil ripped because it means his spirit friends would be pulled through and corrupted, that's the last thing he wants.
Do we know if the Breach was intentional or not?
My guess is that the ritual Cory was working on was very specifically designed to grant him the Anchor, crack open the way to the Fade and the Black City, and prevent him and his followers from being roasted.
The fact that he casually opens up another Breach in the endgame without his cadre of Warden Mages and seemingly without the preparation suggests that the Orb is terrifyingly powerful and that the Breach as it is in the beginning was a mistake.
I wish we had a lot more information on Cory's plans. Why does he expect to be able to waltz into the Black City and not get kicked out like last time? Is it because he thinks the red lyrium and already being darkspawn will be his trump card? Is it the Anchor?
From what I understood Solas didn't know about red lyrium at the time (I did see a dialogue line about this), so he couldn't have know Cory had a red lyrium dragon to keep himself from getting killed. His plan was to give Cory the orb to unlock and have him die in the resulting blast, He never guessed Cory wouldn't die or could use the orb himself.
Edit: hit post too quickly. Anyway I don't think the rip in the veil was intentional. The orb unleashed more energy than expected. He has no reason to want the veil ripped because it means his spirit friends would be pulled through and corrupted, that's the last thing he wants.
Solas didn't know that Corypheus could take the bodies of other Blighted people/creatures. He sounds surprised and dismayed in the Temple of Mythal after Cory body hops.
I can see him wanting to remove the Veil somehow. He's very enthusiastic about what the world could be if that were the case. If there's a less violent way to do it that wouldn't hurt spirits, he'd probably be all for it. One of the theories going around is that removing the Veil is his end goal.
Solas didn't know that Corypheus could take the bodies of other Blighted people/creatures. He sounds surprised and dismayed in the Temple of Mythal after Cory body hops.
I can see him wanting to remove the Veil somehow. He's very enthusiastic about what the world could be if that were the case. If there's a less violent way to do it that wouldn't hurt spirits, he'd probably be all for it. One of the theories going around is that removing the Veil is his end goal.
I suspect removing the veil is what he'd like yes, but he also knows it isn't a good idea in the current world. I think Solas intends to change/undo the past somehow. That's why he needs so much power. I've been looking at the tales section in the codex, there are some foreshadowing songs in there that gave me that impression. (The Nightingale song in the same section incidentally also makes me think Leliana is Dirthamen, and is the one who killed Felassan in TME. Dirthamen wants the key to unlock the eluvians. But that's an idea for another thread.)
I finally did the temple of Mythal and the talk with Solas after last night... right before bed which was probably not the best plan 
It was all very well done and stuff, even though I knew it was coming and prepared myself it still hurt a bunch. Kinda thankful I didn't do it for my first playthrough. But now I just want to get to the end of the game...
Oh and since someone asked earlier I went with the "whatever you need we can find it together option". Figuring she was hurt but not angry. Also she did let him remove her vallaslin.
I suspect removing the veil is what he'd like yes, but he also knows it isn't a good idea in the current world. I think Solas intends to change/undo the past somehow. That's why he needs so much power. I've been looking at the tales section in the codex, there are some foreshadowing songs in there that gave me that impression. (The Nightingale song in the same section incidentally also makes me think Leliana is Dirthamen, and is the one who killed Felassan in TME. Dirthamen wants the key to unlock the eluvians. But that's an idea for another thread.)
I'm inclined to agree about his end goal being undoing (the results of?) something that happened in the past. We love theory here if you're inclined to share the Leliana/Dirthamen one. 
I finally did the temple of Mythal and the talk with Solas after last night... right before bed which was probably not the best plan
Oh and since someone asked earlier I went with the "whatever you need we can find it together option". Figuring she was hurt but not angry. Also she did let him remove her vallaslin.
I think most of us rushed through the end after the final romance scene to get the whole thing over with.
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1 FA -6405 TE Ancient Founding of Arlathan
4750 FA or -1655 TE: Elves first notice the quickening, which puts an end to their immortality and forces them to withdraw from human contact. This is thought to be mere legend
4800 FA or -1605 TE: The Old Gods begin whispering to humanity from the Golden City. They teach the Dreamers of the Neromenian tribes magic. These Dreamers become the priests and rulers of their people
6405 FA 0 TE Ancient Tevinter Imperium founded
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214 TE or -981 Ancient: The hostility that festered between the Tevinter Imperium and the elves finally turned into open war. Armies of the Imperium surrounded the fabled elven city of Arlathan.
220 TE or -975 Ancient: The Magisters resorted to a horrifying blood ritual that sank Arlathan into the earth, destroying it utterly and deciding the war in their favor. The conquest of the elven kingdom was complete: All those who did not perish with their city were enslaved, their spirit crushed and their ancient culture destroyed forever.
Ok, so... if the elves noticed the quickening, does that mean the veil was placed by then? Which may have been when the elven gods and forgotten ones were trapped. Then 50 years later, someone or something contacted the humans from the city?
Thank you so much!!!! haha I assume it is your lavellan on your picture :33 I thought she was so adorable! I know! I also find everyone's lavellans so beautiful XD idk why they all are so cute and sweet in their own way!! What is your lavellan's story if I may ask?
OH! AND NO I DON'T MIND * Stares at his eyes too *
I am in love with a video game character.... FOREVER ALONE
Yes, the pic I'm using is my darling (babyfaced) Tala Lavellan. Thanks!
As for her story, you mean when I created her? Well, I'll keep it under the spoiler tag just so that the post won't be too long. xD
If there's anything else specific you'd like to know about her, feel free to ask. xD
And yes, I'm probably gonna end up FOREVER ALONE because of my love for fictional characters. ;___;
It was my default choice in DAO too.
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She's a cutie! I'm still out of likes so I'll give you a 
instead.
Well the quickening could have happened sooner, it just became obvious when they noticed it. It's the sort of thing I could easily see as not being obvious until sometime after it happened. Like I can't imagine all elves woke-up one day and were like "OMG we are aging and dying??!!" It was probably something that was realized over time.
Do we know if the Breach was intentional or not?
My guess is that the ritual Cory was working on was very specifically designed to grant him the Anchor, crack open the way to the Fade and the Black City, and prevent him and his followers from being roasted.
The fact that he casually opens up another Breach in the endgame without his cadre of Warden Mages and seemingly without the preparation suggests that the Orb is terrifyingly powerful and that the Breach as it is in the beginning was a mistake.
I wish we had a lot more information on Cory's plans. Why does he expect to be able to waltz into the Black City and not get kicked out like last time? Is it because he thinks the red lyrium and already being darkspawn will be his trump card? Is it the Anchor?
From what I understood the breach was an accident. The first time cory went into the black city he didn't expect to find what he did, that it was empty. He most likely became blighted there and as a result suffered from madness and amnesia. Who knows how he got back into the world, maybe used an eluvian. I don't think he himself knows anymore. Now that he is already blighted and has learned to control it that may no longer pose a problem. The anchor is just a means for him to actually get to the black city. How he intends to become a god by just going there again I have no idea.
1 FA -6405 TE Ancient Founding of Arlathan
4750 FA or -1655 TE: Elves first notice the quickening, which puts an end to their immortality and forces them to withdraw from human contact. This is thought to be mere legend
4800 FA or -1605 TE: The Old Gods begin whispering to humanity from the Golden City. They teach the Dreamers of the Neromenian tribes magic. These Dreamers become the priests and rulers of their people
6405 FA 0 TE Ancient Tevinter Imperium founded
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214 TE or -981 Ancient: The hostility that festered between the Tevinter Imperium and the elves finally turned into open war. Armies of the Imperium surrounded the fabled elven city of Arlathan.
220 TE or -975 Ancient: The Magisters resorted to a horrifying blood ritual that sank Arlathan into the earth, destroying it utterly and deciding the war in their favor. The conquest of the elven kingdom was complete: All those who did not perish with their city were enslaved, their spirit crushed and their ancient culture destroyed forever.
Ok, so... if the elves noticed the quickening, does that mean the veil was placed by then? Which may have been when the elven gods and forgotten ones were trapped. Then 50 years later, someone or something contacted the humans from the city?
I've grown suspicious of the Quickening claims until we have more information.
The theory posited by people earlier in this thread is that with the destruction of the bare-faced Dreamer caste, the slaves did not have access to uthenera rituals. And that uthenera allowed the elves to draw sustenance from the Fade and survive for long periods. Would Solas be able to spend time around the Inquisition without Quickening? Or maybe rules about that work differently for him.
Then again...if Old Gods=Creators or Forgotten Ones, the dates work very well. Spend a few decades arguing with each other before discovering Dreamer talent among the Neromenians, and turning them into a weapon to aim at their own people.
I want more information!
Ughhh I hate random loot! I spent too much time reloading in Emprise du Lion, but I got it! FINALLY!
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Lucky! I spent an eternity at Emprise du Lion earlier, reloading my save and hoping to get that armor schematic but so far, no such luck.
Morning all,
Just got home from a brutal night shift with a dying 25 year old. I needed this screenie to cheer me up:
I love the look on my inquisitor's face: "I don't trust that smooth bastard!"
Have a good one, I need sleep.
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