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[Gilsa]

New hair mod released by The Trolling Chaos:
 
Alternate Sidecut
 
This mod replaces the bob hairstyle with a fuller, slightly longer alternative to the base game sidecut, with a larger shaved area and rounder hairline. It does not replace the base game sidecut itself. There is an ear gap for elves; no or negligible ear clipping is achievable for most head shapes. Versions with the shaved area on the left- and right-hand sides are available for all race/gender combinations. Please read the mod notes in full before downloading.
 
Linking the dwarf-specific pictures here. (Click the link to see the other races.)
http://thetrollingch...eplaces-the-bob

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[ewigDunkelheit]

So, I finally, completely, finished my Cadashplaythough. I was originally going to romance Iron Bull,but decided to break up after that funny scene and go with Josephine (what a great new character!). While I was considering my flirtatious bisexual dwarf, I had hoped Cassandra would be available due to my Cadash's devout Andrastianism, but that option didn't exist due to my preference for completing Here Lies the Abyss right before What Pride Had Wrought. In the end, I decided starting with Bull, and finishing with Dorian, was the most enjoyable for me.

On a side note, with how long everything is if you explore most zones, it seems to work better if you have multiple partners. Even spreading it out, the content can run dry pretty quickly with only one romance (at least in this game).

I find it interesting to see some of the opinions in support of the elven characters and content. People will hold up the Exalted Plains, Emerald Graves, various temples, and final quest, but the dwarves have the Storm Coast, Hissing Wastes, Valammar, Crestwood caverns, and load of npcs (Harding, Dagna, Gatsi, and my Skyhold had them all over the grounds-probably due to my alliance with Orzammar). My Andrastian Cadash didn't see much special elven content outside of What Pride Had Wrought. It is amusing that Cadash ends up having an elven magic permanently grafted to him, and I also chose

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to become an agent in service of Mythal

(I am unsure whether tagging is necessary at this point, but just in case). If my warrior were two-handed he could even wield a legendary Dalish weapon. The Dalish legacy can be co-opted by any race, poor elves. To be fair, if elves were integrated properly in this game, I would have been one. I do not regret having a second dwarf in my canon world state though, not at all.

I am a little late to the party, but here is a camera capture of my shield Templar (in tags for size):

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[Tishina]

The playful interaction/dialogue between the two flows very well. Fun read, thanks! Feel better soon!

 

Have a  !

I'm really enjoying how the intimacy is unfolding between them.

 

Hope you feel better soon!

Glad ya'll liked it! Thanks! And thanks, hopefully I'll be able to spend more time at the computer again soon.

 

Edited for accidental post.

[vertigomez]

Beautiful hair mods, beautiful fanfic, aruuugh I cannot take these feels.

So, I finally, completely, finished my Cadashplaythough. I was originally going to romance Iron Bull,but decided to break up after that funny scene and go with Josephine (what a great new character!). While I was considering my flirtatious bisexual dwarf, I had hoped Cassandra would be available due to my Cadash's devout Andrastianism, but that option didn't exist due to my preference for completing Here Lies the Abyss right before What Pride Had Wrought. In the end, I decided starting with Bull, and finishing with Dorian, was the most enjoyable for me.
On a side note, with how long everything is if you explore most zones, it seems to work better if you have multiple partners. Even spreading it out, the content can run dry pretty quickly with only one romance (at least in this game).
I find it interesting to see some of the opinions in support of the elven characters and content. People will hold up the Exalted Plains, Emerald Graves, various temples, and final quest, but the dwarves have the Storm Coast, Hissing Wastes, Valammar, Crestwood caverns, and load of npcs (Harding, Dagna, Gatsi, and my Skyhold had them all over the grounds-probably due to my alliance with Orzammar). My Andrastian Cadash didn't see much special elven content outside of What Pride Had Wrought. It is amusing that Cadash ends up having an elven magic permanently grafted to him, and I also chose

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to become an agent in service of Mythal

(I am unsure whether tagging is necessary at this point, but just in case). If my warrior were two-handed he could even wield a legendary Dalish weapon. The Dalish legacy can be co-opted by any race, poor elves. To be fair, if elves were integrated properly in this game, I would have been one. I do not regret having a second dwarf in my canon world state though, not at all.
I am a little late to the party, but here is a camera capture of my shield Templar (in tags for size):

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Your Cadash is so dashing!

Thanks for sharing your experience -- it sounds like a great playthrough, and your guy sounds like a real Lothario. (I mean that in a good way. ) And it's interesting that when you get down to the basics of it, there's some solid dwarf content in this game... even the comments about Bhelen/Harrowmont, Branka, Paragon Brosca/Aeducan, etc. were really well done, I thought. Plus Bull fanboying over dwarven architecture, LOL.

I feel like Skyhold's got to be one of the most racially and culturally diverse locations in Thedas at this point... which is awesome.

Side note, does anyone know how much of Orzammar falls under different surface nations? Err, that's probably weirdly worded, but I mean... if you just took a shovel and started digging rreeaally deep, is Ferelden the only place you'd find a dwarven kingdom, or does it stretch into Orlais/anywhere else?

[ewigDunkelheit]

I realized after reading your comment (thanks for the thanks) that I unintentionally made my Cadash sound like he engaged in all of those relationships in the same playthrough. I just meant that after trying some of the different paths, I made my final choice of Bull to Dorian, and rolled back a few saves to continue from that point. Not that there aren't good opportunities provided to support a bisexual orientation if you are so inclined. I just decided to make a minor revision to my Shepard (the trilogy offering a greater opportunity of depth to an indecisive bisexual) instead, and take an opportunity to finally romance one of Gaider's characters (together they made quite the charming pair).

 

I like having my deep-voiced, bulky, well-bearded warrior that carries an enormous shield (Magehunter) be a dashing gay male character. While he was very flirtatious, Cullen was the only other recipient outside of the two he did romance. I suppose that was simply the limitation of the programmed recipients. Oh, talk about a missed opportunity. It would have been most excellent to have romanced Cullen with my Cadash!

 

And yes, the dwarven kingdoms were found underneath pretty much all of Thedas. According to the information provided Kal-Sharok is found beneath the Hunterhorn Mountains which run between Orlais and the Anderfels.

[Spectre4hire]

As much as I like Harding, I don't want the first  dwarf romance in the Dragon Age Series to be an after thought, an add on, and that's what it would feel like to me with Scout Harding in this game. 

 

Scout Harding for next game? Sure.

 

Or perhaps a dwarf Carta member or a member of a prestigious warrior caste. 

 

Or Sigrun 

 

Or all of them to make up for having no dwarf romances in the first three games. 

 

But that's just my opinion no need to spread it around. 

[Andreas Amell]

So let me get this straight. Long ago the dwarves were part of some ancient beings called the titans. From what Dagna had glimpsed, it's like a symbiotic relationship where all the dwarves shared a group mind. Then something happened and they were severed from the titans. It might have some connection to lyrium, which is a fuel source of magic. They can handle lyrium enough to shape it into runes, while it's toxic to anyone else besides mages made tranquil. Dwarves also can't dream, like the Formari who are separated from the Fade.

 

So, it's safe to assume the dwarves are some sort of magical race themselves, enabling them to handle lyrium to an extent. Maybe when they were part of the titans they were assigned specific roles, like workers bees and so on. But then something happened to severe them from the titans and they had to think for themselves. The caste system is their way to maintaining the role they had under the titans, even if they don't remember it. Lyrium is connected somehow. Maybe it is the blood of the titans, but how it's connected to the Fade is a mystery. Sandal could be a dwarf who is partly reconnected with the titans, which could explain how he's managed to defend himself with magic feats.

 

So if they reconnect with the titans, what would happen to Thedas?

[themageguy]

I think that lyrium is the key.

Coles has some interesting insight about the nature of dwarves and Templars (whose bodies have been changed)

https://m.youtube.co...h?v=3wI6X8y6T9s

I believe this something older is related to the Titans.

[Tishina]

So let me get this straight. Long ago the dwarves were part of some ancient beings called the titans. From what Dagna had glimpsed, it's like a symbiotic relationship where all the dwarves shared a group mind. Then something happened and they were severed from the titans. It might have some connection to lyrium, which is a fuel source of magic. They can handle lyrium enough to shape it into runes, while it's toxic to anyone else besides mages made tranquil. Dwarves also can't dream, like the Formari who are separated from the Fade.

 

So, it's safe to assume the dwarves are some sort of magical race themselves, enabling them to handle lyrium to an extent. Maybe when they were part of the titans they were assigned specific roles, like workers bees and so on. But then something happened to severe them from the titans and they had to think for themselves. The caste system is their way to maintaining the role they had under the titans, even if they don't remember it. Lyrium is connected somehow. Maybe it is the blood of the titans, but how it's connected to the Fade is a mystery. Sandal could be a dwarf who is partly reconnected with the titans, which could explain how he's managed to defend himself with magic feats.

 

So if they reconnect with the titans, what would happen to Thedas?

Maybe their connection was severed by the creation of the Veil itself? I suspect it's important to link together all the different racial stories...

[themageguy]

What if the titans were destroyed due to being tainted?

The taint was within their veins ie lyrium, and with their remains lingering, the tainted lyrium was used to create darkspawn, etc.

I hope to find out more about titans in DLC or, which will probably be more likely, the next game or novel.

[Gilsa]

Don't let me interrupt the Titan conversation. Just dropping a heads-up on a new dwarf-friendly mod that was released today by firemadeflesh/horography. Just linking the dwarf specific picture, but there are other races at the link so check 'em out.

http://fmfmods.tumbl...ith-bangs-dwarf


 
Last, but not least, the tag notes say:

 if any of these styles are desired for other races or genders let me knowwell except for qunari but i'll try to work on those too and something for dwarf males too sorry including some long overdue pjs

 

Looking forward to seeing the male skyhold pajamas. This is the same modder that did the female carta version so it'll definitely be worth the wait.

[Sifr]

Question: how does the nightmare know what a dwarf quizzie and Varric are afraid of, when dwarves don't go to the Fade to dream?

 

As themageguy said, Nightmare is reading their minds, which we've seen before that Spirits and Demons are capable of doing.

 

Cole's the most obvious example of a Spirit being able to do this, but Demons have been known to do it as well, in Origins there was a Desire Demon who gave a Templar an illusion of the family he wanted, while Cullen was tortured by illusions of a female Amell or Surana, among others. When he was possessed in Asunder, Pharamond taunts Adrian by alluding to Rhys and Evangeline being into each other, while calling Wynne a hypocrite for calling him an abomination, showing that he's aware of her own state as one.

 

I kinda feel Cory making anti-Dwarf comments is a bit OOC given he seemed to display a rather opposite stance in Legacy and Tevinter society held the Dwarves in high regard historically in canon.

 

Corypheus is kinda a tool though, ain't he?

 

 

There's some fantastic Harding cosplay pictures here: http://theprincessam...ed/ami cosplays

 

 

That is totally awesome and adorable!

[myahele]

Yeah, it seems as if Proto-Dwarves did share a hive-mind type of thing. Apparently, repeating something you're good at over and over against is a sign of a good sculptor and one with "more than passing knowledge of The Stone," according to the Dwarf that assesses all mosaic tiles.

 

I don't think Dwarves are supposed to be large in the literal sense, but with the hive-mind then they can experience being large via the Titans

 

Additionally, Titans walking the land is one of the signs that the Maker/ Thedosian Rapture will appear.

 

We now know so much about the Elves, Humas and even Qunari than we do about the Dwarves.

 

Lastly, it seems as if Dwarves and dragons are linked in someway: Old God prisons being Thaigs (potentially Dwarven creation), Fairel making weapons to potential kill dragons,despite never being a threat due to dwarves living underground, the place where Sandal was found had a mosaic with Paragons, dragons and elves.

 

If you looks closely:

 

 

Both look similar despite having different artstyle, but they're dragons nonetheless IMO

[Sifr]

What if the Titans are actually the (extremely hacked off) entities hinted to be trapped within Red Lyrium itself?

 

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We are here.

We have waited.

We have slept.

We are sundered.

We are crippled.

We are polluted.

We endure.

We wait.

We have found the dreams again.

We will awaken.

 

The use of the word "sundered" is interesting, since Tranquility has been referred to by that term (as being "Sundered from the Fade") and the similarities between Dwarves and the Tranquil has been noted before, as both are unable to use magic or dream.

 

The idea of being crippled in some fashion also comes up in Solas' conversations with Varric, where he refers to the Dwarves as being "the severed arm of a once mighty hero", suggesting that they might have had magical aptitude until something happened that caused them to lose it.

 

Being "polluted" seems to refer to the Red Lyrium, which would also fit with how the Titan mentioned in the codex by the Tevinter sculptor was looking for lyrium... if they lived on it, the corruption of their food source would explain why the Titans vanished?

 

Furthermore, if they've been slumbering and are now starting to awaken, the Titans may indeed be returning to walk Thedas once more.

[themageguy]

Im currently debating on whether my Cadash will ally or disband the Templars....

Ser Barris is pretty damn awesome

[Gilsa]

Argument for allying with the Templars: Templars are good for Carta business.

 

Argument for disbanding the Templars: Well, you ain't Carta no mo'. =p

[Sifr]

Argument for allying with the Templars: Templars are good for Carta business.

 

The Carta member in Haven shows that they definitely believe in the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition from Star Trek, especially #34 and #35.

 

"War is good for business"  and "Peace is good for business".

 

(I allied with them, myself, gotta keep your customers happy)

 

[Andreas Amell]

I get the impression that the places the Old Gods were buried in are intricately dwarven-carved prisons with magical barriers. If Bioware has us enter one of those prisons by way of an Eluvian I'm calling it now!

 

But the connection between the Fade, the Veil, and the separation from the Titans is still a mystery. I can't wait to see how they'll answer that. Maybe the red lyrium idol back in Dragon Age 2 was some misguided attempt by its inhabitants to reclaim their lost connection. The naming of Paragons might even another subconscious desire to achieve their lost greatness. They literally must have moved mountains!

[ewigDunkelheit]

I must have missed something...but what is this about dwarves and a relationship with "Titans?" Admittedly, I had Here Lies the Abyss near the end of my playthrough, so Dagna's war table missions came to me pretty late. Maybe I didn't get through all of them. I did have a conversation with her about an experiment where her perception and consciousness "expanded."

 

Even though my official adventure will exclude the Hissing Wastes in the future, I dislike missing out on dwarven content. Please enlighten me about these Titans, if anyone is feeling generous with their time.

[Merela]

I must have missed something...but what is this about dwarves and a relationship with "Titans?" Admittedly, I had Here Lies the Abyss near the end of my playthrough, so Dagna's war table missions came to me pretty late. Maybe I didn't get through all of them. I did have a conversation with her about an experiment where her perception and consciousness "expanded."

 

Even though my official adventure will exclude the Hissing Wastes in the future, I dislike missing out on dwarven content. Please enlighten me about these Titans, if anyone is feeling generous with their time.

 

Well, we do not know much about the Titans, except for Dagna's comment following her experimentations with the Fade where she was "very tall" and she "thought all the thoughts" and Kieran's one when, after Cadash jokes about trying to be taller when the boy points out they are a dwarf,  Kiki says that "Dwarves cannot be taller. Not without the Titans." So what are the Titans? Myself I think they are the creators of the Dwarven race, that they were to them what the Creators were to the Elves of old (with or without the same relationship?) and that the lyrium is all that remains of them. But mostly they're speculations, wild speculations for everyone!

[Gilsa]

Sifr referenced a vague conversation with Solas and Varric that may or may not allude to the Titans:

 

Solas: "I am sorry to have bothered you with my questions about your people, Varric."

Solas: "I see so much of the world in in dreams. Humans, my own people, even Qunari."

Solas: "Dwarves alone were lost to me, save scattered fragments of memory where some spirit cared to watch."

Solas: "Now I know why I see so little."

Varric: "And why is that?"

Solas: "Dwarves are the severed arm of a once-mighty hero, lying in a pool of blood."

Solas: "Undirected, whatever skill at arms it had gone forever."

Solas: "Although it might twitch to give the appearance of life, it will never dream."

Varric: "I'd avoid mentioning that to any Carta, Chuckles. They might not take it the right way."

[ewigDunkelheit]

Thanks so much. It seems I unknowingly excised a lot of the references from my adventure. After reaching Skyhold and speaking with Cass, Solas, and Vivienne, my Andrastian dwarf had Cole leave. I also never used Solas (outside of Measuring the Veil in the Hinterlands), and my Warden Commander refused Morrigan's ritual.

 

Maybe I should find a way to include the Hissing Wastes back into my quest log just so I don't miss out on anything else. Hmmm...I am not a real big fan of open-world, so instead of adding, I would want to swap out something else. I think I would need to delete Emprise du Lion from my adventure, but that would be a lot of varying content to give up just for learning about Fairel.

[Sifr]

Sifr referenced a vague conversation with Solas and Varric that may or may not allude to the Titans:

 

Solas: "I am sorry to have bothered you with my questions about your people, Varric."

Solas: "I see so much of the world in in dreams. Humans, my own people, even Qunari."

Solas: "Dwarves alone were lost to me, save scattered fragments of memory where some spirit cared to watch."

Solas: "Now I know why I see so little."

Varric: "And why is that?"

Solas: "Dwarves are the severed arm of a once-mighty hero, lying in a pool of blood."

Solas: "Undirected, whatever skill at arms it had gone forever."

Solas: "Although it might twitch to give the appearance of life, it will never dream."

Varric: "I'd avoid mentioning that to any Carta, Chuckles. They might not take it the right way."

 

Cheers, I was looking for this exact conversation the other day, I think someone deleted it from the wiki?

 

This conversation has always fascinated me, what is he talking about?

[themageguy]

Sifr referenced a vague conversation with Solas and Varric that may or may not allude to the Titans:

Solas: "I am sorry to have bothered you with my questions about your people, Varric."
Solas: "I see so much of the world in in dreams. Humans, my own people, even Qunari."
Solas: "Dwarves alone were lost to me, save scattered fragments of memory where some spirit cared to watch."
Solas: "Now I know why I see so little."
Varric: "And why is that?"
Solas: "Dwarves are the severed arm of a once-mighty hero, lying in a pool of blood."
Solas: "Undirected, whatever skill at arms it had gone forever."
Solas: "Although it might twitch to give the appearance of life, it will never dream."
Varric: "I'd avoid mentioning that to any Carta, Chuckles. They might not take it the right way."

Thankyou sooooo much Salroka!

i knew id heard this conversation somewhere!

[Gilsa]

Wedge Bob Hairstyle by The Trolling Chaos. Female only this time (sorry, guys!). It's a sleek looking bob. Linking the dwarf pic. Check out the link to see how it displays on other races.
 
http://thetrollingch...places-the-base
  

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