Its okay
I know your love is reserved for...others
Me, it's reserved for me!
Nonono. It's only for here. Not the others. Only the us.
And I spread it evenly, I'm just getting scared.
Unless you refrain from any legal steps to secure financial support, in which case I would gladly...
It is really beautiful, you should post more.
Oh how you play with my heart:
I'll have him go conquer the Italians to make everyone happy, then.
...Oh my goodness.
I can edit ALL of the titles, from empires down to counties.
Guys.
GUYS.
What's do you call someone from Val Royeaux? A Royeaun?
Pretty much. They're Royans!
http://dragonage.wik...iki/Val_Royeaux
Thank you! 
Thank you!
I was too tired last night and just noticed your little comment about Grunt now... Very appropriate
Might as well post the bits I did about my Solavellan ship a few weeks ago.
One comes from the fact that during my first playthrough, even though I couldn't romance Solas, I spent a lot of time going to the Rotunda, to start a conversation (even if I had nothing new to learn/say), and leave as soon as I could just to hear him say "Goodbye". I don't know, it's so sad and heartbreaking when he says it everytime, I can't help doing it. It became a private joke with my boyfriend, so when he leaves in the morning, he looks at me in such tragic way and says that exact same "Goodbye" and it cracks me up everytime (We're both Solas fans, obviously).
On my second (romanced) playthrough, I ended up going to the Rotunda and engage a lot with him even if I had nothing to ask, just to hear him say "Vhenan" or "My heart". Could be pretty disappointing when I'd get the "Hello" greeting instead >_>
Yeah, guess I like to go through that damn Rotunda everytime I can.
Currently working on a tarot card for my Inquisitor, with of course the special appearance of a tiny wolf. How original am I! 
*disgusted noise*
What's all this then? 
Then again, the pun-spiral has been slow for a while now. Some of the ones toward the end were kind of reaching too. When the thread is out of ideas, it's time to change the topic.
Speaking of which, we talked about trickster myths in Native American class. We also closely examined the story I mentioned a few days ago, "The Industrious Daughter Who Would Not Marry," whom Coyote tricked into marrying her, and she was none the wiser until she gave birth to little coyotes.
It turns out he won her by disguising himself as Payatamu, a prominent fertility god to that tribe. Essentially, all the boys in the village bent over backwards trying to impress her but she would have none of them, but then supposedly a god of their people strolls into town and flirts with other girls, then she bats her pretty eyelashes at him and they marry.
And I'm sitting here thinking, "Solas is like Coyote in that he's a canine trickster. However, Coyote tricks an ordinary girl by pretending to be a god, while Solas is a god (most likely) who pretends to be a humble mortal. Coyote just did it for sport ("She won't marry anyone? Ha! I can get her to marry me!"), Solas fell in love for real. The industrious daughter only married him because she was vain and proud enough to think a prominent member of her people's pantheon chose her of all mortals, while Lavellan fell for Solas without knowing he is a prominent member of her people's pantheon."
It was a fun read.
And this is why I love this thread to pieces
What's all this then?
Due to the unhealthy influence you people recently began to exert over me, I caved and bought Crusader Kings 2 last night. Does anyone have tutorial links before I dive into it? I probably won'the until I finish The Last Court at least once. I'm getting that bard in my bed if it kills me...and at my current health it might.
YEEEEES.
Hold on.
I'll link you all the things.
Due to the unhealthy influence you people recently began to exert over me, I caved and bought Crusader Kings 2 last night. Does anyone have tutorial links before I dive into it? I probably won'the until I finish The Last Court at least once. I'm getting that bard in my bed if it kills me...and at my current health it might.
Paradox isn't good at tutorials. It's best to learn by watching other people play and hearing their explanations, and then hopping into the cockpit to try things out. It's not a game with standard winning conditions. It's actually kind of hilarious to lose because your Queen poisons your food out of irritation over you ogling the Duchess of Kent, and you made the mistake of having the wife be the Spymaster. 
http://lparchive.org/Crusader-Kings-2/
A let's play where the guy shows you how to play. Non-video. While it was for an older form of the game, it's still great at the basics.
http://forum.paradox...ay-video-series
I've heard this one be highly recommended as well.
http://forum.paradox...-Doom-Abyssinia
Cleverness and grim determination in one of the most disastrous starting positions in the entire game. It's hilarious, but it also teaches you how to survive when things hit the fan.
As for my personal advice:
Try out the tutorial. It teaches you where the buttons are.
Start off as the Earl of Dublin, in the 1066 start. Fabricate a claim on your neighbor, (I think it's Kildare.) Patiently wait for your father to the south to die of old age, so you can inherit his land. Create a duchy title by having the majority of the de jure duchy territory, then press that claim in a war against the other bastard in that duchy. Rinse and repeat until you control most of the Emerald Isle, then form Ireland.
If you get bored waiting for claims to fabricate and you've got a handle on the basic flow of the game, head to Spain, 1066 start, as the King of Leon or of Castille. Leon is for assassinating your brothers to unite the Christian kingdoms of Spain, while Castille is a military approach to the Reconquista.
Muslims and non-Norse pagans are advanced. They also require DLC.
Stay the hell out of the Holy Roman Empire's way. They show the Orlesians how the Game is meant to be played.
If you have the Old Gods DLC, Vikings are very fun to pick up and play with. You can raid, kidnap, and sacrifice the Pope to Odin. That's all I'm saying. 
(The achievement for this is Holy Smoke. That's actually what made me finally buy the game a year ago.)
If you ever need help, just throw me a message. 
Oh god, I will never stop laughing like... ever again. Thank you very much.
What, are you implying that Killabee being a gentleman is a funny idea? My dear Siha, he's a Colonel! 'Officer and a gentleman, q.e.d!
How do I always miss when people are talking about me
Conan is quite the gentleman. The majority of the time and when he's an ass, well, just keep track of that and demand a whole lot of Solas pics.
Thank you
Anyway, I'd like to bring up the Fade quote from Solas again, because I can't stop thinking about it lately:
Certainly I'm not the only one that thinks this comment deserves more attention than being brushed off as a fib? Solas would have to have been there physically if he existed during the days that the fade and our world was one, if this was always his original form, no?
Anyway, I'd like to bring up the Fade quote from Solas again, because I can't stop thinking about it lately:
Spoiler
Certainly I'm not the only one that thinks this comment deserves more attention than being brushed off as a fib? Solas would have to have been there physically if he existed during the days that the fade and our world was one, if this was always his original form, no?
It's something I have always wondered. I have never believed he lived in a time where the Veil wasn't there myself. I find his reaction too much...entusiastic. And not in a nostalgic way.
OTT guys, but I'd been replaying the Still Ruins last night and got to wonder WTF is happening in there. The ruins themselves seem to be a mix of elvhen (?) and Grey Warden (what with the gryphon statues). and then you find te staff at the back of it, seemingly stuck in... something. As soon as you take the staff, everything unfreezes. What kind of artefact or magic can just freeze time for the entire area, and what is it doing there in the first place, is what I want to know. That's not something Grey Warden can do, so they have to have found it somewhere. That's some weird powerful magic there. I wish Solas could have commented on it, but I don'T remember that he did. Anyone has any thought on this?
It's something I have always wondered. I have never believed he lived in a time where the Veil wasn't there myself. I find his reaction too much...entusiastic. And not in a nostalgic way.
Personally I do think he was... but this comment is all sorts of confusing.
How do I always miss when people are talking about me
Thank you
Anyway, I'd like to bring up the Fade quote from Solas again, because I can't stop thinking about it lately:
Spoiler
Certainly I'm not the only one that thinks this comment deserves more attention than being brushed off as a fib? Solas would have to have been there physically if he existed during the days that the fade and our world was one, if this was always his original form, no?
His delight with that could point to it being his first time physically in the Fade himself, or it could be that since the Veil came up, he never thought he could go back.
It's all very ambiguous.
I don't know where I want to fall on the Solas-Fen'harel spectrum.
In others news, Ferelden.
So much cheating because I was tired and my Chancellor sucked to the point that fabricating claims would take a few hundred years.
http://steamcommunit...89/screenshots/
Calenhad had a bastard child who was handsome, intelligent, and devious. Naturally I had to name him Mordred.
His main son Weylon, who in DA was the historical successor, is tall. That's really it. Besides being cowardly. So thanks to Tanistry, which actually fits with Fereldan's politics perfectly, (the teyrns and banns wield a lot of power, but they always elect someone of the king's bloodline.) Mordred is looking to be the next king.
I also have a bastard daughter named Morrigan after the Avvar chieftainess who is all kinds of cunning. I'm hoping to set up her and her line in the southwestern county of Korcari.
It should also be possible for me to have a Byzantine Emperor just rename everything into the Tevinter equivalent.
Anyway, I'd like to bring up the Fade quote from Solas again, because I can't stop thinking about it lately:
Spoiler
Certainly I'm not the only one that thinks this comment deserves more attention than being brushed off as a fib? Solas would have to have been there physically if he existed during the days that the fade and our world was one, if this was always his original form, no?
I think it's quite possible that he hasn't always been what he is today. I think one other weird thing is that he doesn't want Cole to become more human. So maybe he has been some kind of spirit entity before and for some reason he isn't that anymore. I think that would explain why he doesn't like the idea that Cole becomes more human. Maybe he feels that he has lost some part of himself in that process and he doesn't want anyone else to go throught that or that being a spirit is much more better than being a human.
I think it's quite possible that he hasn't always been what he is today. I think one other weird thing is that he doesn't want Cole to become more human. So maybe he has been some kind of spirit entity before and for some reason he isn't that anymore. I think that would explain why he doesn't like the idea that Cole becomes more human. Maybe he feels that he has lost some part of himself in that process and he doesn't want anyone else to go throught that or that being a spirit is much more better than being a human.
He does brush off Humaney!Cole's question about 'Have you seen this before?' and poor Cole gets confused.
And the comment about, 'Maybe the gods were mages, or spirits, or something we haven't seen before," suggests a combination of the two to me. As does the apparent ease of Mythal existing with Flemeth.
OTT guys, but I'd been replaying the Still Ruins last night and got to wonder WTF is happening in there. The ruins themselves seem to be a mix of elvhen (?) and Grey Warden (what with the gryphon statues). and then you find te staff at the back of it, seemingly stuck in... something. As soon as you take the staff, everything unfreezes. What kind of artefact or magic can just freeze time for the entire area, and what is it doing there in the first place, is what I want to know. That's not something Grey Warden can do, so they have to have found it somewhere. That's some weird powerful magic there. I wish Solas could have commented on it, but I don'T remember that he did. Anyone has any thought on this?
That mission was a bit confusing due to the rifts being there as well, and frozen, when this happened long ago. But I guess tha's just their official look for fade breaches. I bet the mission was just there to show that tevinter had a history of doing what the venatori was before, so tapping into the breach's power in the sky made more sense. I doubt we'll ever know how they made artifacts for this, but what's his face who sent us in the future used some sort of amulet to mess with time too.
Isn't there a trope for unexplained artifacts of power? I bet scifi tropes have a name. Whatever it is, that's what we got. To show tevinter had unique magic of their own maing.
He does brush off Humaney!Cole's question about 'Have you seen this before?' and poor Cole gets confused.
And the comment about, 'Maybe the gods were mages, or spirits, or something we haven't seen before," suggests a combination of the two to me. As does the apparent ease of Mythal existing with Flemeth.
Indeed This is the main reason I held on to the idea of Solas' form we see now not always being being him, in combination with that fade quote. So glad someone finally took that screen, since people were saying before the duality theories had no support.
Anyway, I'd like to bring up the Fade quote from Solas again, because I can't stop thinking about it lately:
Spoiler
Certainly I'm not the only one that thinks this comment deserves more attention than being brushed off as a fib? Solas would have to have been there physically if he existed during the days that the fade and our world was one, if this was always his original form, no?
Do you think it's possible that he doesn't consider the world before the Veil and the Fade after the Veil the same thing? So saying he's never been there would technically be true.
OTT guys, but I'd been replaying the Still Ruins last night and got to wonder WTF is happening in there. The ruins themselves seem to be a mix of elvhen (?) and Grey Warden (what with the gryphon statues). and then you find te staff at the back of it, seemingly stuck in... something. As soon as you take the staff, everything unfreezes. What kind of artefact or magic can just freeze time for the entire area, and what is it doing there in the first place, is what I want to know. That's not something Grey Warden can do, so they have to have found it somewhere. That's some weird powerful magic there. I wish Solas could have commented on it, but I don'T remember that he did. Anyone has any thought on this?
I don't recall him saying anything significant about the nature of the magic or the staff. Time magic is something he claims to be unfamiliar with though and I'm inclined to believe it. Whatever magic the staff had and the rift in the shrine were probably both to blame for time stopping there.
That mission was a bit confusing due to the rifts being there as well, and frozen, when this happened long ago. But I guess tha's just their official look for fade breaches. I bet the mission was just there to show that tevinter had a history of doing what the venatori was before, so tapping into the breach's power in the sky made more sense. I doubt we'll ever know how they made artifacts for this, but what's his face who sent us in the future used some sort of amulet to mess with time too.
Isn't there a trope for unexplained artifacts of power? I bet scifi tropes have a name. Whatever it is, that's what we got. To show tevinter had unique magic of their own maing.
It's been awhile since I've done that quest. Wasn't it that they were messing with time magic relatively recently, but in an ancient ruin? There's an irritated Venatori sorcerer whose journal is full of complaints about the idiots in his group and how they're going to bring disaster down upon their heads. It's a further testing of time travel after Alexius failed and/or was executed for being unreliable.
The Venatori we fight as we enter the ruin are the expeditionary force sent to investigate why their techies went silent.
I think. 
Entertaining the idea of Solas being a vessel for Fen'harel is definitely an interesting one, but I don't know. If it happened to be true, I think I'd be slightly disappointed. I find the idea of an elven god still being alive in his original bodyform really fascinating.
That been said, maybe Solas's original form is something unseen and unknown entirely, maybe it's totally different from what Flemythal is.
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