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[Cee]

Well, my favorite character is Arya, and whatever she will do or not do, she's not exactly a contender in the larger game. Other people I like seem destined for something bad but I just don't know at this point, and as with Solas, sometimes even if you sense something bad might be coming, you still need closure.

[lynroy]

Court approval -100, mission failed.

 

 

BUT IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT.

 

I jumped on the sofas and tables repeatedly and got thrown out.

 

The world ended later that night.

I like your style.

[MoonDrummer]

Religious fanaticism, real or for ambition that resulted in burning people, killing his own brother with underhanded magical weirdness, wanting to sacrifice children, and he doesn't even necessarily want the throne, he feels responsibility and duty to do it. Stubborn and kind of a hardass. Then he presumes to throw himself around and try to bribe people like Jon. His only redeeming qualities are the occasional snark and as a father. He's also boring a lot of the time. He kind of lost me completely when burning kids, his own nephew, became a remotely reasonable idea.

 

I tolerate him but I dislike him. His chapters aren't as bad to read since they're usually a Davos POV or others who are more interesting.

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Spoilered for off topic, and spoilers.

 

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Renly was a traitor and usurper who brought his own fate down on him, Stannis offered to pardon him and he refused. No sympathy for him at all. 

 

Restoring the last know person of Stark blood to Winterfell may be bribery, but it would have been something that the people of the North desperately needed.

 

Yeah, sacrificing children is bad, but at the end of the day he didn't so it, and he acknowledged that Davos was right to stop him. Desperate times as they say. Stannis is the lord of basically uninhabited islands, and still he took on the hundreds of thousands of men the Tyrells, Starks, Lannisters and Renly could bring together, and out of those 5 kings he is the only one left, and the only one to actually bother defend the kingdom from Wildlings, and the only one to give a toss about the horde of Ice zombies on the march.

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"I never asked for this crown. Gold is cold and heavy on the head, but so long as I am the king, I have a duty … If I must sacrifice one child to the flames to save a million from the dark … Sacrifice … is never easy, Davos. Or it is no true sacrifice."

"The more we bleed each other, the weaker we shall all be when the real enemy falls upon us."

"Demons made of snow and ice and cold. The ancient enemy. The only enemy that matters."

‘Lord Seaworth is a man of humble birth, but he reminded me of my duty, when all I could think of was my rights. I had the cart before the horse, Davos said. I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.’

​Sorry for babbling on, I take my Stannis seriously. 

[Cee]

^ He gets a bit better over time, yes. And there are far worse characters, as in people who do worse things. Still,

[BoscoBread]

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Spoilered for off topic, and spoilers.

 

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Renly was a traitor and usurper who brought his own fate down on him, Stannis offered to pardon him and he refused. No sympathy for him at all. 

 

Restoring the last know person of Stark blood to Winterfell may be bribery, but it would have been something that the people of the North desperately needed.

 

Yeah, sacrificing children is bad, but at the end of the day he didn't so it, and he acknowledged that Davos was right to stop him. Desperate times as they say. Stannis is the lord of basically uninhabited islands, and still he took on the hundreds of thousands of men the Tyrells, Starks, Lannisters and Renly could bring together, and out of those 5 kings he is the only one left, and the only one to actually bother defend the kingdom from Wildlings, and the only one to give a toss about the horde of Ice zombies on the march.

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"I never asked for this crown. Gold is cold and heavy on the head, but so long as I am the king, I have a duty … If I must sacrifice one child to the flames to save a million from the dark … Sacrifice … is never easy, Davos. Or it is no true sacrifice."

"The more we bleed each other, the weaker we shall all be when the real enemy falls upon us."

"Demons made of snow and ice and cold. The ancient enemy. The only enemy that matters."

‘Lord Seaworth is a man of humble birth, but he reminded me of my duty, when all I could think of was my rights. I had the cart before the horse, Davos said. I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.’

​Sorry for babbling on, I take my Stannis seriously. 

Stannis is important. Davos is important.  So important that I fantasize that they both survive the war, retire to old town and open up a chain of Greek Restaurants. They are known for their delicious gyros and homemade tzatziki sauce whicht they they market for grocery store sale.  STAVOS!(Picture is from Zorba! The greek)  PRetty much the only reason to watch the show is the two of them at this point.

 

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[MoonDrummer]

Stannis is important. Davos is important.  So important that I fantasize that they both survive the war, retire to old town and open up a chain of Greek Restaurants. They are known for their delicious gyros and homemade tzatziki sauce whicht they they market for grocery store sale.  STAVOS!(Picture is from Zorba! The greek)  PRetty much the only reason to watch the show is the two of them at this point.

 

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Pretty much, the show has basically become bad fan fiction at this point.   Still waiting on Bran, Rickon, Gendry and the Blackfish to meet up and form a boy band. Hot Pie can come too.

[MayriyaNoori]

*catches up with thread*

 

I just wanted to share my thoughts on the whole drinking from the Well.

 

My Lavellan doesn't do it and the reason is actually what Cole says. Cole says something like "There will be so many voices in your head and you won't like them." My Lavellan took Cole around everywhere because she loved his insights and this one would have truly struck a chord with her. Selling her mind space would just cross the line for her in the pursuit of knowledge....especially since by this point in the Inquisition I can see my Lavellan becoming detached from the idea that she is the First of Clan Lavellan.

 

Plus, my Lavellan would actually kind of like and probably get along with Morrigan. My Lavellan loves being a mage and Morrigan loooooooooves being a mage and I can just see them having some very interesting conversations.

[Niamaduir]

So, having not read Masked Empire yet, is there more to the whole "rabbit" thing than it being a racial slur. Cause my ears picked up on it, and I felt like it was equivalent to "knife-ears" with some possibly dark implications (my mind went to the idea of Orlesian hunting elvhen "rabbits" for sport). I also thought I heard it a lot in the ambient conversations during the Wicked Hearts, Wicked Eyes quest.

 

On a somewhat unrelated note, does anyone wish there was a third option to the whole blood magic conversation with Solas? With it being so taboo and forbidden I have a hard time RP a character that is all excited about it, but having had some conversations with Solas that I feel sift my Lavallen's prospective I felt like she would not necessarily be all "blood magic is evil". I really wish there was a third option with a "well, you've certainly given me a lot to think about tone."

[Sable Rhapsody]

I really wish there was a third option with a "well, you've certainly given me a lot to think about tone."

 

The lack of a third option also struck me as being odd.  Especially since a lot of Solas's convos (the spirit one, the post-Halamshiral one) give you the opportunity to express a wide range of opinions.  Then again, blood magic kind of went on the back burner in DA:I plot-wise after being featured so heavily in DA2.

[Garnet]

I was looking through my JoH screenshots to see what the final main boss' level was but apparently I took no screenshots during the battle. Boo. Will have to get some on my mage.

 

But I did find another example of my specialty....the laggiest, derpiest screenshots around, thanks to my five year old PC.

 

This is a JoH shot but I took off the text/context, so no spoiler.

 

My Lavellan is dignified, really.

Nia has those moments too.

 

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..It was going to be such a nice shot, too. Way to go, classy lady.

I can't seem to get a good screenshot of them in this scene. She either has that look or Solas is covering his face with his staff. XD

 

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"Please, no pictures!"

[MayriyaNoori]

On a somewhat unrelated note, does anyone wish there was a third option to the whole blood magic conversation with Solas? With it being so taboo and forbidden I have a hard time RP a character that is all excited about it, but having had some conversations with Solas that I feel sift my Lavallen's prospective I felt like she would not necessarily be all "blood magic is evil". I really wish there was a third option with a "well, you've certainly given me a lot to think about tone."

I was actually thinking today about how blood magic must be something that all mages in Thedas feel at some point. Because it is basically drawing magic from blood instead of lyrium or the Fade right? And think about all the fighting people see in this world. Not to mention if you were a healing mage, how much blood you would be exposed to. Surely all mages on some level feel the power in blood and get seriously tempted to use when it is in front of them.

 

Ooo...that's an interesting thought then. Especially with all the fighting the Inquisitor does...and if Solas does open the Inquisitor's mind a little bit about it. I almost wonder if that alone would cause a mage to almost subconsciously draw on power from blood of fallen enemies in battle or something.  Or healing wounds drawing from the blood coming out of a victim.

[Garnet]

I was actually thinking today about how blood magic must be something that all mages in Thedas feel at some point. Because it is basically drawing magic from blood instead of lyrium or the Fade right? And think about all the fighting people see in this world. Not to mention if you were a healing mage, how much blood you would be exposed to. Surely all mages on some level feel the power in blood and get seriously tempted to use when it is in front of them.

 

Ooo...that's an interesting thought then. Especially with all the fighting the Inquisitor does...and if Solas does open the Inquisitor's mind a little bit about it. I almost wonder if that alone would cause a mage to almost subconsciously draw on power from blood of fallen enemies in battle or something.  Or healing wounds drawing from the blood coming out of a victim.

I have always thought of blood magic kind of like blood bending (from Avatar: the last airbender/Legend of Korra) except more ritualistic and with different consequences because of the darker themes in Dragon Age. (Demons and sacrifice and such.) It seems like something that you have to study and is much harder to master but it's obviously more powerful. I do wonder why it makes it harder to enter the fade though. I think I have read theories about it on here but I can't recall what they were. I always take the top right option "It seems interesting" for the conversation with Solas. "Interesting" doesn't mean I intend to study it for use. My inquisitor is just very inquisitive. She's the kind of person who would take things apart to see how they get put back together again. (Varric should keep Bianca far from her.)  

[Illyria]

 

I've kind of given up on ASOIAF and GoT at this point.  The Venn Diagram overlap between characters I like and characters who could actually survive to get s*** done is increasingly small.  And at a certain point, darkness-induced apathy really starts to sink in.  I made it further than my boyfriend, though; he quit on Book 3.

 

(still pulling for Stannis the Mannis though)

 

That trope is the main reason I gave up early in book 6.  It's sitting there on my shelf waiting to be read, but everything is just so damn dark it's hard to take sometimes.

 

 

I like your style.

 

I am disapointed that leaping into the dancing area didn't lead to a scandalised cutscene.  I just got a fade out and teleported back to where I started.

 

So, having not read Masked Empire yet, is there more to the whole "rabbit" thing than it being a racial slur. Cause my ears picked up on it, and I felt like it was equivalent to "knife-ears" with some possibly dark implications (my mind went to the idea of Orlesian hunting elvhen "rabbits" for sport). I also thought I heard it a lot in the ambient conversations during the Wicked Hearts, Wicked Eyes quest.

 

On a somewhat unrelated note, does anyone wish there was a third option to the whole blood magic conversation with Solas? With it being so taboo and forbidden I have a hard time RP a character that is all excited about it, but having had some conversations with Solas that I feel sift my Lavallen's prospective I felt like she would not necessarily be all "blood magic is evil". I really wish there was a third option with a "well, you've certainly given me a lot to think about tone."

 

'Rabbit' tends to be used by people probably wouldn't consider themselves racist but just consider elves to be so far below them that it wouldn't even occur to them that it's a slur.  Some people who use it might even think they're being affectionate, instead of condesending and arrogant.

 

As part of his campaign against Celene, Gaspard managed to get her universities on his side and had them commission papers on how, since the elves have rabbit-like ears, they're basically animals and hunting them should be legal (Gaspard doesn't believe this.  He just wanted to make the fact that the Empress was rumoured to have an elven lover as scandalious as possible.  So... your mind went to the right place :I

 

Screw Orlais.  Except Bria.  She's cool.

[MayriyaNoori]

I have always thought of blood magic kind of like blood bending (from Avatar: the last airbender/Legend of Korra) except more ritualistic and with different consequences because of the darker themes in Dragon Age. (Demons and sacrifice and such.) It seems like something that you have to study and is much harder to master but it's obviously more powerful. I do wonder why it makes it harder to enter the fade though. I think I have read theories about it on here but I can't recall what they were. I always take the top right option "It seems interesting" for the conversation with Solas. "Interesting" doesn't mean I intend to study it for use. My inquisitor is just very inquisitive. She's the kind of person who would take things apart to see how they get put back together again. (Varric should keep Bianca far from her.)  

My Inquisitor would also be very inquisitive. But I don't think blood magic would work out well for her, and not because of the whole Fade block thing or superstition. I like playing fire mages.....so everything just kind of cooks and cauterizes around her. Probably a bit of a road block for a blood mage.

 

Funny note on enjoying playing a fire mage....Dagna cracked me up with her "You want fire? The first request is always fire!" line. I was like "Dagna! I lovez you and wish I could take you aroundz!"

[Garnet]

My Inquisitor would also be very inquisitive. But I don't think blood magic would work out well for her, and not because of the whole Fade block thing or superstition. I like playing fire mages.....so everything just kind of cooks and cauterizes around her. Probably a bit of a road block for a blood mage.

 

Funny note on enjoying playing a fire mage....Dagna cracked me up with her "You want fire? The first request is always fire!" line. I was like "Dagna! I lovez you and wish I could take you aroundz!"

Haha. I love Dagna too. I play a fire/lightning mage so her comment made me go, "   ... "

[S.W.]

Court approval -100, mission failed.

 

 

BUT IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT.

 

oh god this every time PLEASE.

 

but seriously, I think I have much more sympathy for Loghain's point of view having now been to the Winter Palace. Orlais is a ****** terrible place for so many reasons.

[Sable Rhapsody]

I have always thought of blood magic kind of like blood bending (from Avatar: the last airbender/Legend of Korra) except more ritualistic and with different consequences because of the darker themes in Dragon Age. (Demons and sacrifice and such.) It seems like something that you have to study and is much harder to master but it's obviously more powerful. I do wonder why it makes it harder to enter the fade though. I think I have read theories about it on here but I can't recall what they were.

 

The only hint I can recall as to why blood magic might make it harder to enter the Fade comes from the Blood Mage specialization background in DA2:

 

Nothing inspires as much wild-eyed terror as the Blood Mage. Mages of this type take the raw energy of life and twist it to their own purposes. They can corrupt and control, and sustain their power by consuming the health of others, willing or not. The effects can be vile, but this specialization isn't limited to madmen and monsters. Many see it as the only form of magic that is truly free, because it's tied to the physical, not favors to spirits or demons. It remains an undeniably violent and self-destructive discipline, however, the Blood Mage must be careful. The temptation to take just a little more is always there.

 

Bolded emphasis mine.  It may be that blood magic, since it draws from the mage's own life force and not lyrium or mana, functions a bit like templar powers do by rooting the mage in the physical world.  That physicality may make it difficult to get into the Fade.  Since the mage is basically substituting their life force for mana, it might even weaken their natural connection to the Fade.  Gameplay-wise, I don't think blood magic is supposed to work on spirits, possessed corpses, or other enemies who are not "alive" (though that rule is spotty).  It would also help explain why Meredith's super-charged templar powers were so worthless against my blood mage Hawke 

 

but seriously, I think I have much more sympathy for Loghain's point of view having now been to the Winter Palace. Orlais is a ****** terrible place for so many reasons.

 

I wish I could go back to Origins and apologize to Loghain.  Broken clock right twice a day and all that 

[Nehn]

 

LOL Her face! Anyone notice that Solas is so terribly slow? Whenever you see him walking up mountains (Taking the mountain trail in the prologue or walking to Skyhold) he always lags behind and leans heavily on his staff. Poor old man. 

[Illyria]

Glad to see there's a lot of support for Solas (on topic!) in the recent 'who is the best romance' thread.  Best Egg is the best.  No-one can deny that.

[Cee]

Nia has those moments too.

 

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..It was going to be such a nice shot, too. Way to go, classy lady.

I can't seem to get a good screenshot of them in this scene. She either has that look or Solas is covering his face with his staff. XD

 

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"Please, no pictures!"

 

 

Does she have purple eyes too, because maybe this is a shared affliction of the purple eyed Dalish.

[Sable Rhapsody]

LOL Her face! Anyone notice that Solas is so terribly slow? Whenever you see him walking up mountains (Taking the mountain trail in the prologue or walking to Skyhold) he always lags behind and leans heavily on his staff. Poor old man. 

 

When several thousand years old you reach, walk as good, you will not 

 

After learning who he is, I figure he's just trying to give the impression that it's quizzy who finds Skyhold, not him guiding the Inquisition toward it.

[NightSymphony]

LOL Her face! Anyone notice that Solas is so terribly slow? Whenever you see him walking up mountains (Taking the mountain trail in the prologue or walking to Skyhold) he always lags behind and leans heavily on his staff. Poor old man. ..maybe he's just taking him time. He is immortal after all, there is no rush. Stop and smell the roses and all that. :-P

LOL...maybe he's just taking him time. He is immortal after all, there is no rush. Stop and smell the roses and all that. :-P

[NightSymphony]

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Wonderful Solas Cosplay

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[Garnet]

Does she have purple eyes too, because maybe this is a shared affliction of the purple eyed Dalish.

She does! I was on a white hair/purple eyes fixation when I created her. I love different combos of hair/eye colors. It's probably due to my anime-fangirl side. 

 

To stay on topic (I'm sorry, I go off on random off-topic stuff a lot because I get over-excited when reading stuff on here. XD )

This look: the one that made me really go "Oh! Solas is pretty smexy..   "

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[MayriyaNoori]

She does! I was on a white hair/purple eyes fixation when I created her. I love different combos of hair/eye colors. It's probably due to my anime-fangirl side. 
 
To stay on topic (I'm sorry, I go off on random off-topic stuff a lot because I get over-excited when reading stuff on here. XD )
This look: the one that made me really go "Oh! Solas is pretty smexy..   "

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Yeah.....I still drool a little when I see that scene. I'm pretty convinced this is one of those moments we get to see Fen'Harel without the mask moments. Granted the wolfier Fen'Harel. I also think the mask kinda slips off in the waterfall scene before they kiss and we see Fen'Harel again only in love and all that fluffy goodness.

But yeah, it's looks like that picture that make me want ro kill to see him go full on Fen'Harel on someone without the worry of giving himself away.

And this is pure speculation, but I'm pretty sure this is the look he used to get the robes off any elf lady he wanted back in Arlathan. Just sayin'.

just sayin'.