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[legbamel]

I'll give it a shot. I've never done this before so I'll either get by on beginners luck or I'll blow up the house.

 

I just hope they make it awesome.  Not like the Fifth Blight, which yeah Origins was a good game, but the main bad guy was really Loghain, not the Archdemon. They can't do that here. None of this human bad guy for emotional gut punch business and then you have to kill two mute dragons. Imagine Falon'din and Dirthamen as living breathing blighted deities wielding the sort of power that Corypheus could only fumble after, one of whom can see your very thoughts and the other commands death itself.

 

All of Thedas would drown in blighted glitter. 

 

I don't care what they do for the next game, so long as it's exactly that. Also Tevinter and Kal Sharok, and what's up with those Executors?  But Double Blight is my main requirement.

 

Side note: they talk about the song of the blight, which corrupts even old gods, right? So who's doing the singing? 

[pant pant]  Falon'Din and Dirthamen burning Thedas to the ground with flames of glittering death, with all the flash and sizzle Cory dreamt of and power burning from their glorious eyes...oh, so very much do want!

 

That said, I'm dying to know more about the dwarves.  I'm very much hoping the song of the blight ties in with the Titans and how they became vertically challenged and disconnected from the Fade.  The song better not be proto-dwarves singing Heigh Ho.  Well, maybe if Dirthamen ends up with it stuck in his head and whistles it while laying waste to Val Royeaux.

[MoonDrummer]

OMG. YOU ARE A GENIOUS. DRAW THIS RIGHT NOW. I DEMAND IT. I NEED IT. I WILL NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT IT.

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[Elira]

This thread never ceases to make my day.

[nikki-tikki]

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Amazing. AMAZING.

[Qun00]

After returning from Adamant, there's this dialogue with Mother Giselle about the truth regarding the anchor.

My Inquisitor told her "I'm Dalish", to which she replied " maybe the elven gods are aspects of the Maker".

I'm like "Do you have a death wish?"

[nikki-tikki]

After returning from Adamant, there's this dialogue with Mother Giselle about the truth regarding the anchor.

My Inquisitor told her "I'm Dalish", to which she replied " maybe the elven gods are aspects of the Maker".

I'm like "Do you have a death wish?"

 

Sebastian says something like that to Merrill regarding the Elven gods as well. 

 

Sebastian: "So what do you believe Merrill?"

 

Merrill: "Our gods abandoned us long ago. They haven't answered our prayers since the Fall of Arlathan. When we've proven that we are elves again, that we didn't lose everything, they will come back to us."

 

Sebastian: "We say the same of the Maker. Perhaps they are only different names for the same Divine force that created the world."

 

Merrill: "The Maker wants you to be elves?"

 

Oh Merrill...

[Raeona]

After returning from Adamant, there's this dialogue with Mother Giselle about the truth regarding the anchor.

My Inquisitor told her "I'm Dalish", to which she replied " maybe the elven gods are aspects of the Maker".

I'm like "Do you have a death wish?"

 

Nobody seems to take the Dalish faith seriously, which is probably typical of them.  

Cassandra asks you if you couldn't just slide the Maker in among the pantheon like their collectable cards and she's just bought you a new one.

That's a very un-Andrastian of you Cassandra.

[nikki-tikki]

Nobody seems to take the Dalish faith seriously, which is probably typical of them.  

 

Fixed it for you 

[Raeona]

Fixed it for you 

 

Not even the Elvhen take the Dalish seriously. Now I feel retroactively silly about my super Proud-to-be-Dalish-and-not-a-filthy-Shem Mahariel.

[nikki-tikki]

Not even the Elvhen take the Dalish seriously. Now I feel retroactively silly about my super Proud-to-be-Dalish-and-not-a-filthy-Shem Mahariel.

 

Aha well the whole Andrastian faith gunna have to rethink their whole outlook on life once the Elven Pantheon steps into Thedas.

 

Glitter falling, music blasting, in the most glorious outfits. One look from them and you will cry because you wish you could be as fabulous as them...

[Sable Rhapsody]

Aha well the whole Andrastian faith gunna have to rethink their whole outlook on life once the Elven Pantheon steps into Thedas.

 

It is deliciously ironic how despite all the Herald of Andraste stuff, the pantheon that definitely exists is the elvhen one.  Whether or not they're "gods" is a different argument, but they existed, and the PC meets them.  The PC can do the horizontal tango with one of them.

 

I think when Varric actually sits down to write my Lavellan's story, the irony might just make his head explode.

[In Exile]

Nobody seems to take the Dalish faith seriously, which is probably typical of them.
Cassandra asks you if you couldn't just slide the Maker in among the pantheon like their collectable cards and she's just bought you a new one.
That's a very un-Andrastian of you Cassandra.

Well, that's what Inquisitor Ameridan ends up doing with Andraste. Plus Cassandra is pretty heretical. Not quite Leliana level but still.

[Qun00]

Sebastian says something like that to Merrill regarding the Elven gods as well. 
 
Sebastian: "So what do you believe Merrill?"
 
Merrill: "Our gods abandoned us long ago. They haven't answered our prayers since the Fall of Arlathan. When we've proven that we are elves again, that we didn't lose everything, they will come back to us."
 
Sebastian: "We say the same of the Maker. Perhaps they are only different names for the same Divine force that created the world."
 
Merrill: "The Maker wants you to be elves?"
 
Oh Merrill...

Best comeback ever.

[In Exile]

It is deliciously ironic how despite all the Herald of Andraste stuff, the pantheon that definitely exists is the elvhen one. Whether or not they're "gods" is a different argument, but they existed, and the PC meets them. The PC can do the horizontal tango with one of them.

I think when Varric actually sits down to write my Lavellan's story, the irony might just make his head explode.

The real irony is that you're really the Heralrd of the Dread Wolf, since you've basically been given his power and mark. You're the Herald of a divine-ish figure alright, but not the one you're told to me.

And I mean a herald in a literal sense in a lot of ways since your appearance heralds his own entry into the global stage.

[Sable Rhapsody]

Best comeback ever.

 

Upon going through the DA2 banter again, I realized that Merrill has some amazing zingers.  But it's Merrill.  Which makes it doubly amazing.

 

 

The real irony is that you're really the Heralrd of the Dread Wolf, since you've basically been given his power and mark. You're the Herald of a divine-ish figure alright, but not the one you're told to me.

And I mean a herald in a literal sense in a lot of ways since your appearance heralds his own entry into the global stage.

 

Solas is a sharp one, and I like to headcanon that he at least acknowledges the irony.  And is maybe a little amused by it every time my Lavellan cringes over being called the Herald of Andraste.

[BoscoBread]

The real irony is that you're really the Heralrd of the Dread Wolf, since you've basically been given his power and mark. You're the Herald of a divine-ish figure alright, but not the one you're told to me.

And I mean a herald in a literal sense in a lot of ways since your appearance heralds his own entry into the global stage.

God, what an entrance. It's like a drunk celebrity stumbling from the side of the stage and collapsing into the orchestra during an awards show.

[Qun00]

It is deliciously ironic how despite all the Herald of Andraste stuff, the pantheon that definitely exists is the elvhen one.  Whether or not they're "gods" is a different argument, but they existed, and the PC meets them.  The PC can do the horizontal tango with one of them.
 
I think when Varric actually sits down to write my Lavellan's story, the irony might just make his head explode.

According to Solas, the ancient elves were immortal. Not as in invulnerable, but with endless life spans.

It's no surprise that the most skilled of their people wielded incredible power and were called gods. Divinity isn't necessary, just look at the dwarven paragons. They're just revered as such.

[In Exile]

God, what an entrance. It's like a drunk celebrity stumbling from the side of the stage and collapsing into the orchestra during an awards show.

The world almost getting nuked followed by the appearance of a literal god? I think it works. When they'll tell his story they'll leave out the fact it was all his fault (again). Solas really needs to stop breaking reality.

[Sable Rhapsody]

It's no surprise that the most skilled of their people wielded incredible power and were called gods. Divinity isn't necessary, just look at the dwarven paragons. They're just revered as such.

 

That's very true.  And at a certain point the conversation about what is a "god" becomes semantics in Dragon Age.  There's no divine "spark" like there is in Forgotten Realms, nothing concrete you can point to and say "There's a god."  So it's just easier to call them gods.  

[nikki-tikki]

The world almost getting nuked followed by the appearance of a literal god? I think it works. When they'll tell his story they'll leave out the fact it was all his fault (again). Solas really needs to stop breaking reality.

 

Is it weird that he is so calm about breaking reality. It's like. Oops. Big bang and hole in the sky...Oh well world, let's move on. 

[Sable Rhapsody]

Is it weird that he is so calm about breaking reality. It's like. Oops. Big bang and hole in the sky...Oh well world, let's move on. 

 

What's his alternative?  Beating his bare chest and wailing? 

 

He's a bad enough liar.  I feel like that would get some attention from the rest of the Inquisition.  

[In Exile]

Is it weird that he is so calm about breaking reality. It's like. Oops. Big bang and hole in the sky...Oh well world, let's move on.

To be fair it's his second time catastrophically breaking reality in a plan.

[BoscoBread]

What's his alternative?  Beating his bare chest and wailing? 

 

He's a bad enough liar.  I feel like that would get some attention from the rest of the Inquisition.  

There are about a dozen other PURPOSEFUL badass ways he could have entered the world.  Accidentally setting off a chain of events that ends in the deaths of hundreds of people and a massive hole in reality...you know what, that works.  Because his unassuming confession later will be all the more hilarious. 

[Sable Rhapsody]

To be fair it's his second time catastrophically breaking reality in a plan.

 

The more sinister explanation would be that he doesn't see anything fundamentally wrong with altering reality.  Breaking it is probably not his end goal.  But he did something bad in ye olden days, inadvertently contributed to the Breach, and was already planning something dramatic with the orb before it broke.  He also is the least fazed by the Bad Universe and talks about casually reshaping reality with quizzy.  We already know from his healer banter with Blackwall that he doesn't mind getting his hands dirty, and he doesn't see anything wrong with breaking eggs for an omelette.  I suppose in this analogy, Thedas is the egg, and the omelette is...a restored Elvhenan?

[legbamel]

Aha well the whole Andrastian faith gunna have to rethink their whole outlook on life once the Elven Pantheon steps into Thedas.

 

Glitter falling, music blasting, in the most glorious outfits. One look from them and you will cry because you wish you could be as fabulous as them...

I may have to write a drabble of the pantheon bursting onto the scene in a blinding burst of fabulous and then critiquing every other thing worshiped as divine.  "That drab little nothing was the Maker's bride?  What, did he lose a bet?  No wonder he let her burn."  [cue raucous laughter] 

That, naturally, brings a song to mind.

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