When Bria is information gathering at the market an old woman mentions that there's rumours of something odd happening at Adamant. Which means that the false Calling started at least 2 years before DAI.
I think that's referring to the events at Adamant that happen in Asunder, since that happens roughly around the same time.
Ah, I see. Thanks! I guess I'll need to get myself a copy of both Asunder and The Last Flight then. 
People are mentioning this thread is getting slower and someone gave me a solution... I'd only take it with a grain of sand.
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Solas is making us unhealthy, we must rebel against the heartbreaker...but then love him again...harshly.
You mean like consoles and other video gaming devices?People are mentioning this thread is getting slower and someone gave me a solution... I'd only take it with a grain of sand.
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People are mentioning this thread is getting slower and someone gave me a solution... I'd only take it with a grain of sand.
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Wait wait wait wait. Wait a second. What do you mean? Are you telling me there are things other than my computer...? That there's more? Why wasn't I informed sooner?!? D:
My whole life has been wasted!
People are mentioning this thread is getting slower and someone gave me a solution... I'd only take it with a grain of sand.
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Be honest. It's because I haven't posted yet 
XD
*dashes off*
And Garahel is the ****** man. Love that guy. He's like me 
Badass elven warden is badass.
People are mentioning this thread is getting slower and someone gave me a solution... I'd only take it with a grain of sand.
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That joke is soooo old, it's really not funny anymore. People used to tell each other that when I was still a teenager. But everybody with just a bit of common sense knows there's nothing more.
Only thing that I raised my eyebrows about was Leliana only looking into his *back-story* AFTER the fact, the whole his supposed village being gone for a few thousand years, when she supposedly had reports on everyone or something.
But to be honest, why would they care too much about that? He's a elf and a mage, they are normally pretty shifty. No one probably cared enough to look to deeply into it since he was pretty genuine about helping them.
Proably already answered, but that's just it.
She sent two agents to look into the village and check up on him immediately. They only just found the tiny village ruins after he's left, so blame for this can't be put on Leliana. It can't even be put on the agents she sent, really. A village that tiny, in a world like Thedas? With demons pouring out of rifts everywhere? Of course it'd take a long time to find it.
Just reading now.. how on heart do you have that armor before that scene? XD Have you like never spoken to Solas until you did the dragon?
Just reading now.. how on heart do you have that armor before that scene? XD Have you like never spoken to Solas until you did the dragon?
I had it on him in that scene, too. It's probably not the dragon drop, it's the Keeper robes you get in the Emerald Graves near Unadine Grotto (in that little cave where you fight a few bandits and find a glyph, I forgot its name).
Hybris wasn't a Forbidden One, he was like a Super Pride Demon... Really kinda mysterious. I was thinking of him earlier with all the talk about the Void. He says something like "I hold a piece of every fool who ever sat a throne here or in the Black". Then he drops a magic sword that Andraste gave Shartan. I'm not onboard the Solas=Shartan theories, but I do wonder where Andraste got that sword. Fen'Harel was considered to be aligned with the Forgotten Ones as well as the Creators, after all...
While the Shartan thing is very, very interesting, so is the 'or in the Black."
Black City? As in, who sat in the Black City? 
Or the Fade, or the Void?
Or does he collect Black Divine paraphernalia? 
That joke is soooo old, it's really not funny anymore. People used to tell each other that when I was still a teenager. But everybody with just a bit of common sense knows there's nothing more.
You're right. We rely on computers more than ever. It would be catastrophic if no one could get a wifi signal.
I heard people had to pay attention to physical maps when they wanted to drive somewhere and you could purchase an entire meal for $1. And dark chicken meat was cheaper than white chicken meat.
I had it on him in that scene, too. It's probably not the dragon drop, it's the Keeper robes you get in the Emerald Graves near Unadine Grotto (in that little cave where you fight a few bandits and find a glyph, I forgot its name).
Any idea how you get the schematic?
Any idea how you get the schematic?
The last dragon in Emprise Du Lion.
The last dragon in Emprise Du Lion.
Oh... That... SOB!
I didn't think of the taint as being a result of blood magic. I mean, the conventional story is that it was caused by the magisters' sin, but magic causing diseases that can spread to people who haven't been in direct contact, that struck me as new.Still, I don't think there's any conclusions we can draw about the Taint that we don't already know about before this book happened. Or maybe you have something in mind?
Yeah, Alistair was the love of my youth. Now Zevran is my DA:O romance of choice. So what if he really enjoys assassination/ murder with a singular pleasure and purpose? So what if he's banged countless nobles and spies from Ferelden to Antiva? So what if he happens to enjoy the smell of rotting flesh? So what if he was originally planning to kill you and your companions for money or die in the process? He ultimately ends up being the most devoted and stable of the companions. Which is hilarious.
Same here. It takes a bit to crack his walls but once you do he's completely and hopelessly loyal to the Warden. Pretty sure I melted into a puddle of fluff when I got the letter in DAI saying my Warden and Zevran were still in love and traipsing about Thedas together.
Same here. It takes a bit to crack his walls but once you do he's completely and hopelessly loyal to the Warden. Pretty sure I melted into a puddle of fluff when I got the letter in DAI saying my Warden and Zevran were still in love and traipsing about Thedas together.
That line, "Regardless, Zevran and I have our own battles to fight," made me wildly happy too. It helps that my canon!Hawke left Sebastian a widower and Solas bolted, but it's still heartening to have at least one happy, stable relationship left for my world-state.
I heard people had to pay attention to physical maps when they wanted to drive somewhere and you could purchase an entire meal for $1. And dark chicken meat was cheaper than white chicken meat.
It was much worse even, you can't imagine. When I was a kid we had to phone people or even go there to talk to them. And mobile phones were only there for speaking, nothing else. Kids even had to do their home reading themselves because there was no Wikipedia. It was all very medieval.
Any idea how you get the schematic?
Yes, you can get it from the Highland Ravanger (I think as a non-random drop, but I am not sure), but if very lucky you can get it as a random drop, too. However, Solas in the GIF might simply have the non-random drop robes from that cave. I know that my Solas did.
Ah, I've finally caught up! Feels like I've definitely been reading this thread for weeks since I found it. And also that I feel like I now know you guys quite well. Hello. I'll try not to creep too much.
I can't draw and I'm not a Super Lore Master and I don't really have much to offer the thread, but there are some songs I've been listening to that I quite like for Solas.
I'll likely be lurking here for the most part, soaking up all the knowledge and enjoying the debates. I wish I had more to offer in obeisance to this great thread!
Also, here is my poor lovelorn Lavellan:
Console table in Sephora?
Wait, I'm lost. Doesn't Sephora sell make up/perfumes?
I didn't think of the taint as being a result of blood magic. I mean, the conventional story is that it was caused by the magisters' sin, but magic causing diseases that can spread to people who haven't been in direct contact, that struck me as new.
I also didn't think the aravels actually flew. I guess they're more hovercraft, lol. I do remember people in Origins saying that the trees would part for the Dalish, but I figured that was keeper magic. Which I guess the aravels are, also. And in contemporary game time, clans are getting bogged down from trying to travel overland, which probably goes back to magic declining among them.
It's kind of odd that they say that about the Dalish whereas in DA2 there was ambient chatter about there being more mages than in the past. A leveling out between elves and humans?
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It's been a few months since I read it, so feel free to smack me with corrections if I remember something completely wrong.
The rage plague that wiped out (almost 
) all of the griffons is very interesting. I almost consider it foreshadowing for the reveal about how the Blight started. Blood magic seems to have very interesting interactions with the Taint, and both obviously relate to blood. Darkspawn emissaries use blood magic, don't they? Power from the Taint and from the blood, (which has the Taint) but nothing from the Fade.
Perhaps one of the gods in the olden days was experimenting with blood magic and something got wildly out of hand. Ghilly? 
The griffons' sheer hatred for the Blight is probably thanks to their being intelligent enough to recognize it for what it is. (Bad juju). Or maybe they're just smarter than the Wardens.
I also liked how the characters didn't get that much characterization. It felt deliberate. The Blight scoured them and left either functioning automatons and Wardens or dead and broken Wardens. Garahel seemed like one of the only Wardens able to keep his head in the life game, probably thanks in part to a certain Ruby Drakes Captain.
I felt like Isseya berserking up the griffons when she was ordered to was basically her point of no return. She couldn't forgive herself for that.
Also Go-Go Andoral.
As for the origins of the Blight and World of Thedas:
Whatever World of Thedas says, 'The Claw of Dumat' Codex entry and Corypheus himself strongly point to Old God worship having been on the decline in the years before the Golden City event. It was the motivation for the Seven High Priests to work together to create a crazy ritual to regain contact with the Old Gods.
I love the theory about the Creators being the elvhen pantheon and the Forgotten Ones being the human pantheon. How do the dwarves fit in, or did I miss that?
I don't think the thread has run out of things to discuss or theorize over. I think we're just sharpening our swords and preparing for the really out there Leinsky/tin foil hat theories, that are solid structures. (Meanwhile, Madrar adds the finishing touches to her artfully arranged ziggurats. )
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