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[tsunamitigerdragon]

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[Colonelkillabee]

I never punched her either. It was always way more satisfying to give her the verbal dressing-down that she deserved while not proving her point by acting like a brute.

 

And it was so worth it in ME3 when I was able to recruit her. Crowning moment of heartwarming right there.

It honestly seems like letting her win if you punch her anyway. Would much rather make her look stupid in front of the entire galaxy.

[Dr. Doctor]

I get by by naming his clothes silly things.
 
And then I saw this on tumblr and it broke my heart.
 

Spoiler

 
"solas’ final armor"
 
http://irabelas.tumb...las-final-armor

 

It could be worse, I made a staff called The Vengeance of Lavellan, it has a 10% chance to drop caltrops. Solas doesn't wear shoes, you do the math.

[Colonelkillabee]

Single or double spaced?

*Confused Cass*

 

"100 pages on breaking the 4th Wall!"

[nikki-tikki]

It could be worse, I made a staff called The Vengeance of Lavellan, it has a 10% chance to drop caltrops. Solas doesn't wear shoes, you do the math.

 

Genious! ^{I ran out of likes...}

[tsunamitigerdragon]

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[Caddius]

 

 

 

 

Hence me wondering whether teaching the hunters of your clan to read would be all that pressing when the division of labor is so strong in Dalish clans. When I picked the option with Josephine to tell her about Dalish clan life and I went on to list all the crap we do every day just trying to survive, the leisure of education and the clan's reliance upon a Keeper to ground them in the ways of the past seemed very clear to me. 

 

I totally understand Caddius' point of view that if one were part of an oppressed culture that was trying to preserve itself, wouldn't they wish for all to read so that knowledge could be passed down, etc. That makes total sense and I respect that point of view. That would be my choice were I a Dalish Keeper.

But I'm also aware of the strain of resources, the limited availability of books for nomadic tribesmen who probably don't transport massive printing presses in their aravels (they look a little small), and the likelihood of the Dalish having a book writing/ publishing contract with a Thedas publishing company seems rather low given the nomadic and isolationist standpoint of the majority of Dalish clans. If they had books, they most likely would have been hand written and incredibly precious. That as the case, I struggle to see the Keeper being willing to hand off a book to any passing member of the clan, and instead reading aloud to their tribespeople, teaching only those in positions of leadership to read.

 

Having just gotten my EUIV Manchurian campaign shut down hard, I am aware of the strains of nomadic life. 

But yeah, I've resigned myself to the idea that the Dalish will never take up my ideas of how they should stick it to the Man. 

Arianne's clan seems to have regarded the book Morrigan stole as one of their most precious artifacts. And Zathrian's clan is willing to attack you over stealing a songbook. So I'm going to go ahead and say that most of the Dalish are illiterate, with some of the more intelligent non-mages picked out by Keepers as storytellers and historians. Back-ups for the Keepers. Cuz' headcanon.

[Sister Squish]

About lyrium: I've always assumed it was like mercury, with both a solid and liquid state.  In Asunder, there's also a description of raw lyrium, and it's a liquid.

 

Morrigan said the magic is in the stones. Stones are often re-purposed. If the original elven structure was rubble when humans found it, they'd have used the stones to build according to their own needs, just the way the Inquisition is rebuilding parts of it. Could be why there's so much codex on the reconstruction?

 

Makes sense, if we're conceiving of it as the literal "blood of the Stone".  Liquid in its natural raw form, making what we refer to as blue lyrium a bit like a scab.  

 

*shudders*   The more I think I understand about dwarves and the Stone, the more unsettling they get. 

 

Quotes from World of Thedas V1 on the subject of LYRIUM (I will likely use at some point):

 

"blue-green crystal [...] Once refined - that is, dissolved in a liquid or heated until it crumbles into a fine powder - lyrium is safe for all to use." 

 

"If living beings are exposed to lyrium in its raw form, it will slowly drive them mad. It can also cause physical calamities, such as deafness, memory loss, and nausea."

 

> Can anyone compare this to a real-life substance? Is this like mercury?

 

"In its raw form, lyrium emits a strangely soothing sound that some call the voice of the Maker. The Chantry claims the mineral is a remnant from the birth of the world, when the Maker created the land and skies. They believe lyrium is not so much the essence of magic as the essence of all creation." 

 

"Lyrium's appearance in the Fade suggests it somehow bridges the gap between the dreamer's world and the waking world of Thedas." 

 

"The templar mage hunters of the Chantry engage in a ritual involving lyrium that grants them the ability to dispel and resist magic."

 

> This quote clarifies that lyrium itself does not give templars magic resistance. Rather, it is the ritual involving lyrium which achieves this. It un-complicates the properties of lyrium to simply strengthening magic power/replenishing mana. 

 

"Dwarves have long used lyrium to create enchanted items, most often weapons and armour. Without lyrium, enchantments placed on items are inevitably temporary." 

 

"Lyrium is a potent mana booster".... "mana is a measurement of one's ability to draw power from the fade,"... "a mage draws upon a personal reservoir of mana to cast all spells".... 

 

> How I am understanding this is: a mage has "form" carved into the fade, in the sense that there is a reservoir of mana specifically for them. As the reservoir depletes, the ability to draw from the fade weakens. Lyrium replenishes this ability. So... carving an enchantment with lyrium carves an ability to draw from the fade into an object. Gives the object a personal fade reservoir. Gives it "spirit". Right? 

[CapricornSun]

Source: http://millennium-fa...ope-in-time-you

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This next one is hot and a bit NSFW.  (Dat tongue...)

 

Spoiler

Source: http://drathe.devian...me-in-509852819

[Moirin]

I get by by naming his clothes silly things.

 

And then I saw this on tumblr and it broke my heart.

 

Spoiler

 

"solas’ final armor"

 

http://irabelas.tumb...las-final-armor

 

 

Lol. I did something like this too. I call his final armor "Dareth", i.e. the first part of Dareth Shiral which means Safe Journey if I remember right.

[jellobell]

It could be worse, I made a staff called The Vengeance of Lavellan, it has a 10% chance to drop caltrops. Solas doesn't wear shoes, you do the math.

Ouch. 

 

I dunno, there's just something about "Stay safe, I love you" that really hit me hard. Mostly because as soon as I saw that ending scene I desperately wanted him to be okay.

[Colonelkillabee]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quotes from World of Thedas V1 on the subject of LYRIUM (I will likely use at some point):

 

"blue-green crystal [...] Once refined - that is, dissolved in a liquid or heated until it crumbles into a fine powder - lyrium is safe for all to use." 

 

"If living beings are exposed to lyrium in its raw form, it will slowly drive them mad. It can also cause physical calamities, such as deafness, memory loss, and nausea."

 

> Can anyone compare this to a real-life substance? Is this like mercury?

 

"In its raw form, lyrium emits a strangely soothing sound that some call the voice of the Maker. The Chantry claims the mineral is a remnant from the birth of the world, when the Maker created the land and skies. They believe lyrium is not so much the essence of magic as the essence of all creation." 

 

"Lyrium's appearance in the Fade suggests it somehow bridges the gap between the dreamer's world and the waking world of Thedas." 

 

"The templar mage hunters of the Chantry engage in a ritual involving lyrium that grants them the ability to dispel and resist magic."

 

> This quote clarifies that lyrium itself does not give templars magic resistance. Rather, it is the ritual involving lyrium which achieves this. It un-complicates the properties of lyrium to simply strengthening magic power/replenishing mana. 

 

"Dwarves have long used lyrium to create enchanted items, most often weapons and armour. Without lyrium, enchantments placed on items are inevitably temporary." 

 

"Lyrium is a potent mana booster".... "mana is a measurement of one's ability to draw power from the fade,"... "a mage draws upon a personal reservoir of mana to cast all spells".... 

 

> How I am understanding this is: a mage has "form" carved into the fade, in the sense that there is a reservoir of mana specifically for them. As the reservoir depletes, the ability to draw from the fade weakens. Lyrium replenishes this ability. So... carving an enchantment with lyrium carves an ability to draw from the fade into an object. Gives the object a personal fade reservoir. Gives it "spirit". Right? 

 

 

 

Wow, this goes perfectly with what I was saying. I said that the "Maker" was a sort of entity formed by linked minds of all living things in the world, and that when it was separated, the lyrium was a byproduct of this entity's death. So now the fade is the remnant of that as its mind, while Thedas is the body. Lyrium is the result of the "death".

 

I had no idea that idea was actually in lore.

[Colonelkillabee]

And the profane eat lyrium and refer to it as eating the gods.

[CardinalSin90]

Look how far that so called flirtatious chemistry got Solas:

Spoiler

This made me laugh

[Sable Rhapsody]

This next one is hot and a bit NSFW.  (Dat tongue...)

 

*snip*

 

Too late.  The Dread Wolf has at least caught my Lavellan's scent more times than I can count 

[Aetheria]

Having just gotten my EUIV Manchurian campaign shut down hard, I am aware of the strains of nomadic life. 

But yeah, I've resigned myself to the idea that the Dalish will never take up my ideas of how they should stick it to the Man. 

Arianne's clan seems to have regarded the book Morrigan stole as one of their most precious artifacts. And Zathrian's clan is willing to attack you over stealing a songbook. So I'm going to go ahead and say that most of the Dalish are illiterate, with some of the more intelligent non-mages picked out by Keepers as storytellers and historians. Back-ups for the Keepers. Cuz' headcanon.

 

Well, that's basically why Solas is annoyed at the Dalish, right?  He's all like "why don't you guys get organized and stick it to the Man instead of rolling around in wagons eating toasted squirrel and whining".

[tsunamitigerdragon]

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[Caddius]

Well, that's basically why Solas is annoyed at the Dalish, right?  He's all like "why don't you guys get organized and stick it to the Man instead of rolling around in wagons eating toasted squirrel and whining".

That's also how I bonded with Solas at first. 

That and his advice for Sera on running a peasant uprising kind of deal.

I can completely understand why the Dalish are doing what they're doing. I just wish they'd luck out and get their own Andraste figure to get their act together without being exterminated by the Chantry. A tall order, admittedly. But I'd like them to get the chance to evolve.

[Renmiri1]

I loved Atton, and the tangled mess that was KOTOR 2. I really need to play the restored version someday. 

 

I never got much into it. Missed my FemRaven and Carth romance

[Renmiri1]

okay

no

but like

A "I love you, why'd u do this too me" Punch. 

3 hours of groveling and saying "I'm sorry Lavellan" at least for me to take his sorry ass back

[Colonelkillabee]

3 hours of groveling and saying "I'm sorry Lavellan" at least for me to take his sorry ass back

Yea right, one torch light scene again and you come crawling back Maybe naked Solas this time.

[NightSymphony]

http://pfennings.dev...hibis-509877321

[NightSymphony]

*pouts* there's no chibi Fenris

[jellobell]

I never got much into it. Missed my FemRaven and Carth romance

And I could never get into Carth. He just didn't do it for me. In fact, the whole first game didn't really capture my imagination in the same way that the second one did. I just loved how KOTOR 2 subverted the entire Star Wars mythos, while at the same time telling a truly heartwrenching story about the consequences of war. It took the backstory that the first game didn't even really touch on (two enormous and costly wars in quick succession) and turned it into something amazing.

[Renmiri1]

Yea right, one torch light scene again and you come crawling back Maybe naked Solas this time.