June: I got this.
*builds house size supercharged lyrium blaster*
June: There.
Person: What does it....?
June: We're going to blow it up.
PersonL Sir, I don't think-
June:*glare*
Person: Okay, we're blowing it up.
Elgar'nan: We will set them on fire.
Quizzy: They're Rage demons. They're already on fire.
Elgar'nan: MORE FIRE, DAMNIT!
I had a random thought. Imagine if instead of Solas we'd gotten one of the other Evanuris as a companion. Like say Ghili'nain.
Quizzy: We need to seal the breach!
Ghili: Okay, so here's what we do. We start by breeding a bronto with a dragon and then...
Quizzy: Yes, that sounds totally legit, do your thing Ghili
Ghili: *does her thing*
Ghili: Welp, just unleashed an immortal demon beast on the world who feasts on the souls of babies. This won't help us seal the breach at all!
Quizzy: Oh, you!
*cue audience laughter*
Dirthamen: My spies have whispered to me the secrets of all Orlesian nobles in high standing.
Inky: Cool, man, but see these demons by the rift? We've got to kill them.
Dirthamen: I know their secrets. These demons harbor darkness inside of them that you cannot even...
Inky: Can you cast a barrier? I could really use a barrier!
Dirthamen: I look at you, mortal, and I see every one of your secrets. You did not floss this morning.
Inky: Sh*t, Dirthamen, can we focus on the fight, because they've almost got Blackwall, and...
Dirthamen: I can see Blackwall's secret too. He...
*Blackwall grabs Dirthamen and throws him into the rift*
Quizzy: Yes, that sounds totally legit, do your thing Ghili
Ghili: *does her thing*
Ghili: Welp, just unleashed an immortal demon beast on the world who feasts on the souls of babies. This won't help us seal the breach at all!
Quizzy: Oh, you!
*cue audience laughter*
Or perhaps Andruil.
Andruil: I have made a spear of starlight to destroy the breach!
Quizzy: Go Andruil! we believe in you!
Andruil: ...Well that didn't work at all, I accidentally broke the veil even more and now the breach is eating Val Royeaux. Woops.
Quizzy: ...We didn't need Val Royeaux anyway.
It still amazes me that Solas has managed to learn this much about a world that is completely new to him in just one year
You could almost believe he was born in this age like everyone else.
I always imagine him a master of the Game back in his time.
Dirthamen: My spies have whispered to me the secrets of all Orlesian nobles in high standing.
Inky: Cool, man, but see these demons by the rift? We've got to kill them.
Dirthamen: I know their secrets. These demons harbor darkness inside of them that you cannot even...
Inky: Can you cast a barrier? I could really use a barrier!
Dirthamen: I look at you, mortal, and I see every one of your secrets. You did not floss this morning.
Inky: Sh*t, Dirthamen, can we focus on the fight, because they've almost got Blackwall, and...
Dirthamen: I can see Blackwall's secret too. He...
*Blackwall grabs Dirthamen and throws him into the rift*
D'awww!
Well, I have to go to bed now.I just finished listening to the interview and as expected, it's very interesting! Will have to listen to the first two parts in the morning.
G'night!
The calling is 30 years from joining. Bioware has quietly retconned that to more of an upper limit, but there's no particular reason to think the Warden is getting particularly close. After all Alistair, Loghain and Stroud are all going strong.
Also, the Warden was certianly relevant to DAI given all the potentially deep connections they have to people and things in the plot. I mean, this thread is pretty keen on getting the Inquisitor back to deal with Solas, but the Warden wasn't able to be back in a story where their love interest may have died or got the well stuck in their head or became Divine and/or Evil. Of course, that may not apply to DA4
Also, I believe the most realistic age for the Warden in Origins was late teens to early or mid twenties. So that puts them at about their mid thirties. I'm pretty sure the Grey Wardens go through their Calling mid life, so I think they're good for at least another 10 years!
In DA: O, it was said that the Wardens could go up to thirty years before the Calling really started to take hold, but there was no guarantee that it would not start much sooner. I think people want their Warden to live forever, but I kind of think of the taint like cancer - sometimes it takes you right away, just like that, sometimes you linger for years.
As long as the devs want to keep writing in little side things for people who have Wardens that are still kicking, I think that's cool, but don't pretend that they can't go at any time. It kind of takes away from the horrific nature of what was done to them to become a Warden.
IMO there's a distinction between having an emotional response toward the character (yay! good character!) and taking the character very personally (
?) And that goes for hating him and loving him. Every time I see something like "Solas betrayed me" or "Solas loves me," referring to the player rather than the Inquisitor, I wonder a bit.
Well that definitely seems creepy obsessive a little overboard, but I find nothing wrong with someone saying I hate Solas or I love Solas. The other way sounds like projecting yourself into the story a little too much while I think loving or hating a character is perfectly normal!
From what I know it is a pretty... hmm... instinctual reaction to many people? At least based on studies like the one mentioned here: http://www.dailymail...characters.html
I've also had a link to a study mentioned that for some time after reading a story we kind of 'live' in it or our brain - at least temporarily - think its pretty real, but goddamnit - I can't find it in my hoarded mass of links :/
This is really interesting! Although it makes me nervous about my sister and a lot of other young girls love of YA romances 
Yes, I think some emotion is unavoidable, especially if someone is a sensitive and emotional person. But once the initial feels fade, it's better to take a step back and realize emotions are just that - they're temporary, they distort reality, and they tend to make things simpler than they really are. Then it's time to reason and form a more balanced opinion of a character instead of feeding this emotional cycle to no end.
Yeah, I think it's reasonable to have super strong feelings during a time period after you read something emotional, but there definitely is a point where you should detach yourself a little from the situation.
I often say that I hate or loathe Anders, which is true without a doubt, but I mean it the same way that I say I hate when I'm around morning people when all I want to do is go back to sleep for another hundred years or I hate that little crease that eventually appears on the front of new boots. They didn't actually cause me physical or emotional damage-- there's just extremely annoying and I will endlessly gripe about them. And when I say I love Solas I mean I appreciate and care about his character. Obviously if someone asked me if I rather never play another Dragon Age or read about anything DA again or give up seeing my family I would...
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Um, choose my family of course
Of course
It still amazes me that Solas has managed to learn this much about a world that is completely new to him in just one year
You could almost believe he was born in this age like everyone else.
I always imagine him a master of the Game back in his time.
...You know what, I'm getting childishly excited about the planned hair color change *shamelessly spent money on a pretty purple lipstick and nail enamel* Plus, tomorrow I'm finally getting someone help me plaster my room with mah beautiful gray wallpaper, which means I can finally think of changing everything else in it >w<
Changes, changes... hopefully this will go far beyond changing some decor and surroundings.
Think the Shadowbroker, but with spirits as agents. Gaining that kind of knowledge wouldn't be to difficult. It's context that's a killer, but he played a version of the Grand Game that would make the hardiest Orlesian noble blanch for ages, so I expect it wasn't difficult.
Plus ca change.
It's the little things that make the difference though. You can play the political wheeling and dealing like a pro but still be baffled by a non-fade assisted toilet.
...You know what, I'm getting childishly excited about the planned hair color change *shamelessly spent money on a pretty purple lipstick and nail enamel* Plus, tomorrow I'm finally getting someone help me plaster my room with mah beautiful gray wallpaper, which means I can finally think of changing everything else in it >w<
Changes, changes... hopefully this will go far beyond changing some decor and surroundings.
Are you actually planning to do it?
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to write the act of someone grabbing another person's butt without it sounding overly juvenile or stilted/clinical?
As long as the devs want to keep writing in little side things for people who have Wardens that are still kicking, I think that's cool, but don't pretend that they can't go at any time. It kind of takes away from the horrific nature of what was done to them to become a Warden.
Yeah, there's a reason why my Warden turned into a Knight in Sour Armor. She glossed over the Calling back in Origins; who cares if you're gonna die within 30 years if you stand a good chance of dying tomorrow? But as she got older, the reality of her situation sank in with a vengeance. She's basically Grumpy Cat: The Mage by DA:I 
...You know what, I'm getting childishly excited about the planned hair color change *shamelessly spent money on a pretty purple lipstick and nail enamel* Plus, tomorrow I'm finally getting someone help me plaster my room with mah beautiful gray wallpaper, which means I can finally think of changing everything else in it >w<
Changes, changes... hopefully this will go far beyond changing some decor and surroundings.
Out of likes but WHOOO!
Are you dyeing it yourself? If so, remember to line your sink with plastic. Stuff stains like crazy, or at least the brand that I use does.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to write the act of someone grabbing another person's butt without it sounding overly juvenile or stilted/clinical?
"And then she stuck out her hand and squeezed his butt. It was squishy, but not too squishy."
Nailed it.
Are you actually planning to do it?
I do, actually. And I think I have to do it rather quick, because the more I'd think about it the more I'd second-guess myself - or something else will pop up and take my mind off it and then I'll just let it go, just like other plans for change... which, during cold, dark days of winter, is more than likely to happen and then I'll just hibernate through yet another season. If I do it now, at least I'd have a constant visible reminder both on and in my head that 'hey, you planned some changes yo! Might as well stick to it!'
Out of likes but WHOOO!
Are you dyeing it yourself? If so, remember to line your sink with plastic. Stuff stains like crazy, or at least the brand that I use does.
I happen to know a pair of hair stylists and I'm planning to consult them first or another salon that I know of that is relatively good at hair coloring - my plan so far is relatively ambitious and considering how thin and unruly my hair is, I don't want to ruin them with a first try
It's the little things that make the difference though. You can play the political wheeling and dealing like a pro but still be baffled by a non-fade assisted toilet.
Agree
He is no stranger to courtly intrigue, true. But I meant modern culture in Thedas as a whole. It's just... too much information to absorb in a single year.
And yet he did, somehow.
You don't learn faster in the Fade, as far as we know.
Sorry, to clarify, I was thinking of it as a kind of extension to what you said. Solas is incredibly intelligent and insightful, I think he would be able to pick things up in a way that most of us couldn't. Like how he beats Blackwall at Diamondback on his first game.
Well, I just slapped myself into the feels corner.
I hate myself sometimes.
This song.
I do, actually. And I think I have to do it rather quick, because the more I'd think about it the more I'd second-guess myself - or something else will pop up and take my mind off it and then I'll just let it go, just like other plans for change... which, during cold, dark days of winter, is more than likely to happen and then I'll just hibernate through yet another winter. If I do it now, at least I'd have a constant visible reminder both on and in my head that 'hey, you planned some changes yo! Might as well stick to it!'
Yay 
Sorry, to clarify, I was thinking of it as a kind of extension to what you said. Solas is incredibly intelligent and insightful, I think he would be able to pick things up in a way that most of us couldn't. Like how he beats Blackwall at Diamondback on his first game.
That, plus I think he absorbed at least some of it from the Fade.
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