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[Rabbitonfire]

I haven't figured out how to participate yet.  Also haven't found courage yet.  Also have to get up at the butt crack of dawn to proctor a science competition.  Should be sleeping instead of lurking on various social networks arguing about the color of a dress.  But hey, did you guys see those llamas?  
 
On topic:

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Source: http://pictureamoebae.tumblr.com/
 
Also...gross sobbing.

I would agree with you, but i'm used to being nocturnal. The distraction part is true, times like this is when I wish I wasn't a student so every night can be a free night. Don't follow my example. gchat can be confusing at first, but you can make up a mock-up gchat with only your phone and computer. This allows you to figure out controls.edit: that's how i figured out so I can have conferences with people without fumbling and delaying time.

[Satsumi]

I would agree with you, but i'm used to being nocturnal. The distraction part is true, times like this is when I wish I wasn't a student so every night can be a free night. Don't follow my example. gchat can be confusing at first, but you can make up a mock-up gchat with only your phone and computer. This allows you to figure out controls.

 

Like but out of likes

[MaidenM]

Now I'm going to try to figure out the phase we've most wanted in elven: "Elven Glory"

 

It starts with a line from this codex: http://dragonage.wik...Emerald_Knights

 

"Let the true name burn away and enter Din'an Hanin, the place where glory ends."

 

Din'an Hanin

 

Din= not, isn't, indicates someone who has died

An= place or location

 

So that leaves Hanin as "glory". I wondered if perhaps the "-in" part of the word could be translated to "inside" but I decided that it doesn't, since it would have been Han'in instead. 

 

So there you go. "Elven Glory" would be:

 

Elvhen Hanin!!!   Enjoy. 

 

...I swear I have heard Merrill shout this during combat. Well done

[electricfish]

 

 

Case closed.

[Rabbitonfire]

Now I'm going to try to figure out the phase we've most wanted in elven: "Elven Glory"
 
It starts with a line from this codex: http://dragonage.wik...Emerald_Knights
 
"Let the true name burn away and enter Din'an Hanin, the place where glory ends."
 
Din'an Hanin
 
Din= not, isn't, indicates someone who has died
An= place or location
 
So that leaves Hanin as "glory". I wondered if perhaps the "-in" part of the word could be translated to "inside" but I decided that it doesn't, since it would have been Han'in instead. 
 
So there you go. "Elven Glory" would be:
 
Elvhen Hanin!!!   Enjoy. 

I hope to see this in fanfiction. On repeat.

[Sable Rhapsody]

I hope to see this in fanfiction. On repeat.

 

I'll try.  Again, it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue in the throes of ecstasy 

 

Though I'm totally hearing "elvhen hanin" in Solas's voice and hnnnnnnngh.

[RogueBait]

I think that's why I never talk about the balcony kiss, why Fade-tongue and The Breakup™ gets all my attention. It confuses the hell out of me. It's so sweet, and mushy, and then he says whatever it is he says in elven (where I scramble and see what it means afterwards and squeal), and then he just... walks away?! Excuse me? And Lavellan is just standing there all sultry, staring dreamily at his retreating back and she doesn't look confused in the slightest, but I am.

 

Come back here and give me my fade-to-black boink scene, you egg!

 

I appreciate in earlier conversations that a lot of people prefer the lack of a sex scene, but goddamn it if there was ever going to be one, it should have been there.

 

Urgh. It confuses me so much. T_T Any help to make sense of that scene would be appreciated.

 

Long-winded, gag-inducing analysis below the tags:

 

Spoiler

My interpretation of the balcony scene is that Solas by this point has fallen completely and hopelessly for Lavellan, but up until the moment he asks to speak with her privately has been trying very, very hard to keep it under wraps. He knows it's a bad idea because of ~reasons~, but he can't help but finally approach her and put the ball back in her court. I imagine he wouldn't bother with the last ditch attempt of staving off the relationship by putting the ball in her court at all if he weren't conflicted (which stems from the general nature of ~things~), but Solas' life is clearly complicated at this time, which affects the way he behaves towards her, even though he wants her badly.

 

When she moves to him after he says he hasn't forgotten the kiss, the way he moves--kind of padding, shifting his weight, pulling away just a bit--is to me demonstrating that he's still trying in some small way to resist, as stupidly half-hearted as it is, and is most certainly conflicted, and perhaps also just plain old nervous or uncomfortable. He did say things have always been easier for him in the fade, after all. And that it had been a long time.

 

At that point he uses all of his remaining self control in one final bid to leave, stopping anything from happening, which he knows will push him past his tipping point, and when Lavellan stops him, tells him not to go, he is catapulted past that point of no return and gives in entirely, losing himself despite everything in his brain yelling that it's a Bad Idea. He kind of lays himself bare before her, the way he absolutely throws himself at her, enveloping her in one hell of a display of passion, and in the moment is so overcome by finally being able to express himself that he reverts to his first language and spills the big can o' beans that he loves her. Love beans.

 

At this point, I think he internally panics a little bit, or perhaps is just too overcome and is like, holy ****, I cannot actually deal with my emotions or this situation or this amazing woman right now, and leaves before she even has a chance to catch her breath. We know he chickens out with telling her the actual truth during their final scene, and I feel like he's chickening out here a little bit as well. She'll react in some way, and he's likely scared of that reaction, for many reasons. I imagine he's kinda like, **** shit ****, what have I done, have to leave, have to leave noowwwwww. *wipes sweaty hands on thighs repeatedly while pacing in the rotunda*

 

Anyway, that's just my take on it. It strikes me as incredibly romantic. 

[RogueBait]

Now I'm going to try to figure out the phase we've most wanted in elven: "Elven Glory"

 

It starts with a line from this codex: http://dragonage.wik...Emerald_Knights

 

"Let the true name burn away and enter Din'an Hanin, the place where glory ends."

 

Din'an Hanin

 

Din= not, isn't, indicates someone who has died

An= place or location

 

So that leaves Hanin as "glory". I wondered if perhaps the "-in" part of the word could be translated to "inside" but I decided that it doesn't, since it would have been Han'in instead. 

 

So there you go. "Elven Glory" would be:

 

Elvhen Hanin!!!   Enjoy. 

 

Thank you. This is good. Have intense desire to write some Solavellan porn using this phrase in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way.

 

... *waggles brows* Heh heh. Tongue...

 

Can I go to you for all of my translation needs? Because I suck at it, and you appear to be quite good.

 

Edit: Left out a word entirely. And I've only had one beer.

[DarthEmpress]

Long-winded, gag-inducing analysis below the tags:

 

Spoiler

My interpretation of the balcony scene is that Solas by this point has fallen completely and hopelessly for Lavellan, but up until the moment he asks to speak with her privately has been trying very, very hard to keep it under wraps. He knows it's a bad idea because of ~reasons~, but he can't help but finally approach her and put the ball back in her court. I imagine he wouldn't bother with the last ditch attempt of staving off the relationship by putting the ball in her court at all if he weren't conflicted (which stems from the general nature of ~things~), but Solas' life is clearly complicated at this time, which affects the way he behaves towards her, even though he wants her badly.

 

When she moves to him after he says he hasn't forgotten the kiss, the way he moves--kind of padding, shifting his weight, pulling away just a bit--is to me demonstrating that he's still trying in some small way to resist, as stupidly half-hearted as it is, and is most certainly conflicted, and perhaps also just plain old nervous or uncomfortable. He did say things have always been easier for him in the fade, after all. And that it had been a long time.

 

At that point he uses all of his remaining self control in one final bid to leave, stopping anything from happening, which he knows will push him past his tipping point, and when Lavellan stops him, tells him not to go, he is catapulted past that point of no return and gives in entirely, losing himself despite everything in his brain yelling that it's a Bad Idea. He kind of lays himself bare before her, the way he absolutely throws himself at her, enveloping her in one hell of a display of passion, and in the moment is so overcome by finally being able to express himself that he reverts to his first language and spills the big can o' beans that he loves her. Love beans.

 

At this point, I think he internally panics a little bit, or perhaps is just too overcome and is like, holy ****, I cannot actually deal with my emotions or this situation or this amazing woman right now, and leaves before she even has a chance to catch her breath. We know he chickens out with telling her the actual truth during their final scene, and I feel like he's chickening out here a little bit as well. She'll react in some way, and he's likely scared of that reaction, for many reasons. I imagine he's kinda like, **** **** ****, what have I done, have to leave, have to leave noowwwwww. *wipes sweaty hands on thighs repeatedly while pacing in the rotunda*

 

Anyway, that's just my take on it. It strikes me as incredibly romantic. 

 

omg i'm crying no i've had enough tears over this romance omg~

[BoscoBread]

GCHAT BETCHES.

NO. IT'S FULL!

[KarateKats]

NO. IT'S FULL!

TRY NOW

[laurelinvanyar]

Thank you. This is good. Have intense desire to write some Solavellan porn using this phrase in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way.

 

... *waggles brows* Heh heh. Tongue...

 

Can I go to you for all of my translation needs? Because I suck at it, and you appear to be quite good.

 

Edit: Left out a word entirely. And I've only had one beer.

You absolutely can. I love this sort of thing! In fact, I've spent 3+ hours on the wiki just coming up with filthy elven phrases...  Ask, and ye shall receive. 

[Rabbitonfire]

NO. IT'S FULL!

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE! *looks at list* oh, it's everyone i know.

[legbamel]

I was all set to lurk (no mic because the fam's in the room and y'all do not want to hear that!) but it's full again!

[MaidenM]

Still full D:

 

Well it's almost 6 am here, maybe I should just try tonight instead

[nikki-tikki]

I was all set to lurk (no mic because the fam's in the room and y'all do not want to hear that!) but it's full again!

oh no! . google chat is dumb with limits...we wish you were with us!

edit: we can talk on the thread

[Rabbitonfire]

*sigh* I guess I'll draw tentacles on my own watch. How dull.

 

Edit: mmm... I feel normal today. I'll draw flemeth! solas.

[legbamel]

The thread is so quiet I'm reduced to elvhen burial ritual research.

 

You may have noticed I define the term research a little loosely.

 

If there are to be tentacles (and, one presumes, probing thereby) I may stick around after all, though. 

[electricfish]

Still full D:

 

Well it's almost 6 am here, maybe I should just try tonight instead

 

 

I'm leaving in about 10-15 minutes, so someone else can pop on then.

[DarthEmpress]

Let's all take a moment to be grateful that George RR Martin isn't writing Solas and the romance.

 

BE VERY GRATEFUL

 

[laurelinvanyar]

The thread is so quiet I'm reduced to elvhen burial ritual research.

 

You may have noticed I define the term research a little loosely.

Speaking of elven burial... do elves decapitate their dead before burying them under the tree? Because if they don't, it would explain why there are so many undead around ancient elven ruins. 

[legbamel]

I was just thinking of elves in forest-y context but now that you mention it I'm pretty sure their relatively intact bods shouldn't be popping out of shallow graves like that.  At least in the Fallow Mire you got a pass for skipping the lore-specified incendiary funerals (though given the number of undead the place must have been much more heavily populated than the scattered cabins might lead you to believe).

 

Solas ToP from I don't know where because I haven't found the source.  It appears to be on Instagram but I don't have an account.  This came from a scraping site that lists the primary tag as #baldelf. 

While nobody's here I might as well post all my wonderings.  First, if a half-elf (though human by appearance) has children with an elf will their offspring still be human?  If you repeat this through a few generations will there be a point where the child "reverts" to being an elf or do the human genes just clobber the elven ones and replace them somehow?  Else, magic?

 

Second, Solas says he never could have imagined Cory could have opened the orb and he seems to have known he was a Tevinter magister.  How the hell did he find Cory in the first place or vice versa?  Did he just think the orb would suck up whatever power Coryflakes put into it, creating a husk Solas could kill easily and giving him his focus filled with magic juice?  Seriously, this whole orb thing is driving me mad.

 

Bonus material: How ancient elves got all that glitter to stick: http://boingboing.ne...photograph.html

[laurelinvanyar]

I was just thinking of elves in forest-y context but now that you mention it I'm pretty sure their relatively intact bods shouldn't be popping out of shallow graves like that.  At least in the Fallow Mire you got a pass for skipping the lore-specified incendiary funerals (though given the number of undead the place must have been much more heavily populated than the scattered cabins might lead you to believe).

Cole says something in the Fallow Mire about how they couldn't burn the dead fast enough and then they were ALL dead.

[Mims]

I don't think its possible for elf genes to revert back. Reverting would make sense if you think about genetics, but it seems like there's something 'weak' [magically or otherwise] about elven blood. You add something else to it, and it doesn't go back. 

 

Granted, we have no evidence of that either. But I don't think humans actually 'infected' elves with mortality. More likely elves realized that whenever the two races cohabited and formed relationships, human blood dominated. Humans also likely breed faster than elves, making it even worse. 

 

Which must have been infuriating to the elvhen.

[HurricaneGinger]

Found a Lavellan song if you refer her/him to the halla/hart:

 

 

Lyrics 

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Memory comes when memory's old
I am never the first to know
Following the stream up North
Where do people like us float

There is room in my lap
For bruises, asses, hand claps
I will never disappear
Forever, I'll be here

Whispering
Morning, keep the streets empty for me

I'm laying down, eating snow
My fur is hot, my tongue is cold
On a bed of spider web
I think of how to change myself

A lot of hope in a one man tent
There's no room for innocence
Take me home before the storm
Velvet mites will keep us warm

Whispering
Morning, keep the streets empty for me

Uncover our heads and reveal our souls
We were hungry before we were born

 

Felt a calm, old wisdom coming from the lyrics, and when I found out it is about a deer...well, I flipped. XD