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[TheyCallMeBunny]

I like them all! I just mentioned it because I thought you might have been confused!

I love idioms because of how they're special to a language and it's so fun to hear other language's idioms and be   "that makes no sense!" I had a Dutch friend who was confused by "What's up?"  it seems so common place!

 

Axioms/maxims are awesome too though!

I love that with idioms you can often find the same sentiment across languages but worded differently, like how in English you say "Let sleeping dogs lie" and in Sweden we say "Do not awaken the bear that sleeps". My favorite English idiom is "May you be in heaven a full half-hour before the Devil knows you're dead"... And I do really like "receiving the wrong end of the stick", but that's mostly because I know about its origin.   

 

Do they have any idioms in Thedas that the writers have not borrowed from the our world? I can't recall any at the moment... 

[drosophila]

https://instagram.com/p/8rPpg1ICcJ/

 

#epicveil, 'but banal nadas', oh dear I'm dying.

 

I'm out of likes but this is just      

[Illyria]

I think it's funny how at char creation you can choose dual wield rogue, archer rogue, sword/shield fighter, two-handed fighter ... and mage.  Like I can be this kind of rogue or this kind of rogue or this kind of fighter or this kind of fighter ... or just a simple, silly mage.  I know the reasons for choosing in the beginning, it allows for cutscene variation and initial point allocation and such.  It just strikes me as amusing.

 

It would be cool to have hybrids though.  I've always liked the idea of a mage/rogue combo.

 

Edit to add:  And yeah you're right, it's actually three classes, not four.

 

I think it was a response to prolouge!Hawke a different weapon than the player wanted them to have.  It's a small thing, but it really annoyed a lot of people.  Got a Hawke that always uses her bow?  Why is Varric telling stories about her dagger wielding friend?

 

Ah, I wish I had a nerdy friend IRL I could talk to DA about. Most of my friends are film buffs or book nerds, and don't play video games. I'm not a massive gamer but I like a lot of visual novels, and I've always wanted to go to a convention. I have no friends to do it with, sadly


*high fives back*

oh man, that sounds really cool! I never got the chance to get into Spanish literature, but European literature, art, & film during interwar period was some of the most exciting stuff there is, as a rule of the thumb. I'd love to read some of García Lorca one day.
 
I know that feeling. It's got worse since I started formally studying philosophy, because most people kinda understand what studying art/literature means - it involves books and paintings, even if it's 'out there' books and paintings. It's now become almost impossible to talk to my mum on the phone about what I'm doing, because explaining 'yeah, I'm watching french films about WWII' is much easier than 'yeah, I'm studying Hegel'. (admittedly, I don't understand Hegel either).
 
 
I try my best, lethallan
 
 
mage does - or traditionally has - the most versatility of the classes though. You can be a mage in four different schools of magic usually, and it's left up to you which to specialise in. In DA:I it's been stripped down a bit - generally, to survive, you need a certain amount of points in the spirit tree, and the rest of the trees are kinda samey (no glyph spells, really?), but the specialisations allow you to play different roles on the battle field (e.g. KEs tank, Rift Mages control the field, and Necromancers deal more damage). Whereas if you're playing a warrior/rogue, you're basically either a sword&shield tank, or you specialise in DPS, nine times outta ten.
 
It's probably the worst in DA:O - if you're a warrior/rogue, you'd usually fill out the one tree of your chosen weapon, and then choose from a small number of specialisations based on what best makes sense (e.g. ranger for an archer, assassin/duelist for a dw rogue, and bard if you're planning on having a lot of cunning). Whereas for a mage you have... what, 64 spells to choose from? And you have loads of different builds you can play with which work, since mages can be damage-dealers, they can be healers, or they can be controllers, using paralyse spells, glyphs, and debuffs to shift the battle in your favour.
 
I miss DA:O mage combat ;_;

 

Me too

 

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#epicveil, 'but banal nadas', oh dear I'm dying.

 

I love it!

[Illyria]

Art!

 

http://lilium-snow.t...o-look-cute-hes

[FernRain]

I had a dream about Solas and an alternate end of the original game..

 

It was nice, the feels though..

 

He was taking us to a new Skyhold that was more elvhen in style, though it looked alpine in architecture. He started singing a song and everyone joined in. I can't remember if it was before or after that, but we walked together and I said "I love you" because I thought he would leave like usual.. He returned the phrase and I kissed his cheek. Then he went on to say something about us having a better room to stay in compared to everyone else. I said something about expecting this all to be too good to be true.

 

Dreams like that make sad, whyyyy..

[Flemmy]

You have all become important to me. More important than I could have imagined.

(Sorry, I'm drinking.)

[lynroy]

https://instagram.com/p/8rPpg1ICcJ/

*snip*

#epicveil, 'but banal nadas', oh dear I'm dying.

dat hashtag!

[Cee]

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#epicveil, 'but banal nadas', oh dear I'm dying.

#epicveil is our new name for all of this

[Flemmy]

Huh.  Just got issued my first forum warning point.  It's like losing your BSN virginity

 

 

 

The dialogue is a bit unclear, but it can be interpreted one of two ways.  If you headcanon that they slept together, then Solas means that he didn't sleep with you as the Dread Wolf to trick you; he slept with you because he loved you, as Solas, and he was truthful about his feelings.  If you headcanon that they didn't sleep together, then the line is his rationale explaining why.

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[Illyria]

#epicveil is our new name for all of this

 

Request to Threadad to make this the new thread name.

[NeverlandHunter]

I thought them strangely relevant, thanks!

 

Feel free to post your own  axioms idioms in reply if you wish!

"Love is like war... easy to start... difficult to end... and impossible to forget."-Unknown

And some Albert Camus!

“The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”

 

“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”

 

“There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”

 

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”

 

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”

 

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back.”

 

 “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

 

“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”

 

“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”

 

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

 

 

Those freckles... 

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There is a full picture

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But it's nude, so I'm hiding the source in layers.

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NSFW Warning

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Full picture from Here 

I live dangerously.

This gets liked because of your I live dangerously comment XD

 

I love that with idioms you can often find the same sentiment across languages but worded differently, like how in English you say "Let sleeping dogs lie" and in Sweden we say "Do not awaken the bear that sleeps". My favorite English idiom is "May you be in heaven a full half-hour before the Devil knows you're dead"... And I do really like "receiving the wrong end of the stick", but that's mostly because I know about its origin.   

 

Do they have any idioms in Thedas that the writers have not borrowed from the our world? I can't recall any at the moment... 

That's neat that they're so similar! I like that idiom too, and I don't know about Thedas specific...

[Ellawynn]

If he was in his early twenties and little bit more pretentious, coffee snob Solas would 100% be the Guy in your MFA.

 

As a creative writing major I feel this twitter so hard. It's like every snobby non-fiction-writing classmate I've ever had rolled into one.

 

"My piece isn't 'boring' - it's a meta commentary on the ennui of modern life."

 

Oh God I've heard that exact phrase nearly word for word so many times...

 

I love that with idioms you can often find the same sentiment across languages but worded differently, like how in English you say "Let sleeping dogs lie" and in Sweden we say "Do not awaken the bear that sleeps". My favorite English idiom is "May you be in heaven a full half-hour before the Devil knows you're dead"... And I do really like "receiving the wrong end of the stick", but that's mostly because I know about its origin.   

 

Do they have any idioms in Thedas that the writers have not borrowed from the our world? I can't recall any at the moment... 

I can't remember when or where it was (And it may have actually been on wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt) but I remember reading an article on all the different idioms the various languages have for "it's raining hard out there."

 

For some reason, the only one I can remember is "It's raining chair legs out there," which I think was from Greece. And I kept thinking how bizarre all the phrases were until I remembered that in English we say "It's raining cats and dogs." And yeah, I guess that'd seem pretty dumb to anyone who wasn't familiar with it.

 

*Cue mental image of cats and dogs just plummeting down from the skies*

[Illyria]

If he was in his early twenties and little bit more pretentious, coffee snob Solas would 100% be the Guy in your MFA.

 

Why have I never seen this before?  It's beautiful.

[figment_]

"Love is like war... easy to start... difficult to end... and impossible to forget."-Unknown

And some Albert Camus!

“The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”

 

“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”

 

“There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”

 

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”

 

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”

 

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back.”

 

 “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

 

“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”

 

“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”

 

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

 

 

This gets liked because of your I live dangerously comment XD

 

That's neat that they're so similar! I like that idiom too, and I don't know about Thedas specific...

Drat! Apparently I'm out of likes...

[FernRain]

I liked my wisp! I wonder what Solas would have said about it?

 

He doesn't seem to mind necromancy, and the necromancer now gets the choice of a wisp in the Trespasser optional talents for Spirit Mark.

 

I'll grab a screenshot of it for you.

[Ellawynn]

Why have I never seen this before?  It's beautiful.

It is absolutely perfect, isn't it?

 

Although I may be a bit guilty of some them myself...

[NeverlandHunter]

Drat! Apparently I'm out of likes...

They reminded me a lot of Solas! The unknown, the first two Albert Camus quotes and the "I rebel; therefore I exist,"  are the ones I think fit most with Solas!

[drosophila]

I think a lot of Murphy's quotes fit Solas very well:

 

If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

 

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.

 

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you have tried.

 

If anything can go wrong, it will.

 

If anything can't go wrong, it will anyway.

 

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

 

Smile... tomorrow will be worse.

 

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. 

 

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

 

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

 

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

 

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. 

 

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. 

[FernRain]

@NeverlandHunter,

 

Here are the wisps in Inquisition:

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You can have two:

 

 

They make noises.. like a plasma gun.

 

 

The talent:

 

 

Edit to post a video I made of them:

 

[Elessara]

@NeverlandHunter,

 

Here are the wisps in Inquisition:

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You can have two:

 

 

They make noises.. like a plasma gun.

 

 

The talent:

 

 

 

The wisps go pew pew pew?

 

=x

[Homeboundcrib]

Ok I'm going to ask a stupid question so I'm letting you all know now, and sorry if this has been brought up before.

[Homeboundcrib]

In the trespasser slides with a romanced Solas, when Lavellan is dreaming why does Solas appear as a wolf? Is it because she is imprinting that imagine onto him and her mind or the fade is creating that because he's the dread wolf. Or is he really there watching her as the wolf. I know they can be simple dreams but I'm going with that they are not. Again sorry for the stupid question.

[S.W.]

Art!

 

http://lilium-snow.t...o-look-cute-hes

 

Lavellan is right though. That is an excellent scarf (and he looks great in it, but this is Solas we're talking about, he'd probably look great in a paper bag).

 

Seriously, I want that scarf.

[S.W.]

In the trespasser slides with a romanced Solas, when Lavellan is dreaming why does Solas appear as a wolf? Is it because she is imprinting that imagine onto him and her mind or the fade is creating that because he's the dread wolf. Or is he really there watching her as the wolf. I know they can be simple dreams but I'm going with that they are not. Again sorry for the stupid question.

 

It's quite likely he can shape-shift, given that it's an ancient elven form of magic, and it's been hinted that it used to be common (Kieran asks why an elven inquisitor stays in the shape they're in).

 

Also, practically speaking, If I was going to spy on someone in a forest, I'd turn into a forest animal. It's also possible, given how familiar she once was with him, that appearing as his elven self may draw her attention more quickly, and thus be less effective.

 

It's not a stupid question, don't worry

[Elessara]

In the trespasser slides with a romanced Solas, when Lavellan is dreaming why does Solas appear as a wolf? Is it because she is imprinting that imagine onto him and her mind or the fade is creating that because he's the dread wolf. Or is he really there watching her as the wolf. I know they can be simple dreams but I'm going with that they are not. Again sorry for the stupid question.

 

Not sure that's been asked before but also don't think it's explained why.  Could just be that's how the slide was drawn, could be he was literally watching her as  wolf.  Pretty sure it's just not explained.