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[Dai Grepher]

The Last Court is that browser game right? I haven't played it but if you could narrate the story in short I'll be grateful.

Does that game imply that Morrigan made her Eluvian from scratch? Because there's a lot in her story post Witch Hunt that's left for assumption.

 

Yes, and I highly recommend that you play it. If not, spoilers...

 

Spoiler

You are the Marquis of Serault (Character select male or female) (two characters to choose from, again male or female) (custom name). Serault is known for its glassworks. The town has even created glass for the Grand Cathedral (I think, or maybe this is only propositioned at the end of the game in a good ending). But Serault is also better known for something else. Something terrible and humiliating. The Shame of Serault was your... grandfather? I think. Or maybe it was uncle. Anyway, uncle grandfather was a bloodmage and he did bad bloodmagey things. Your family is despised by your fellow Orlesians. The town's Chantry was nailed shut and your family's majestic glass mask taken away and locked up tight.

 

You must govern Serault in ways that increase its standing in Orlais and the world. But there's all kinds of weird and terrible happenings you have to deal with. Bandits, twilight (not the vampire series, thankfully), uprisings, backstabbers, liars, etc. But you're not alone in this. You have plenty of supporters and followers who will help you, work on your behalf, aid you, and even love you.

 

But to complicate matters Divine Justinia has announced that she has started her pre-conclave Orlesian party tour, coming to a town near you. Er... actually coming to YOUR town. But oh snap, this is your chance to get your Chantry re-opened. But oh crap... you have to actually impress her first. You have about 6 days to prepare for her arrival by upping your town's dignity, your people's freedom, and your treasury's wealth. The Divine also loves fine eats, trophies, and kisses (secrets). So you better get crackin'.

 

Eventually, a dark sorceress shows up (Morrigan, duh) and shows you an official letter from Empress Celene that you are to show Lady Morrigan hospitality and cater to her needs. You can either accept her in or turn her away.

 

Over the course of about five days you learn that she is working in the glassworks to produce something secret. You can sometimes pull her "card" (a function of this webgame itself) and thus talk to her about various plot related things like her origins, her magic, or her opinions. At the end of all this she tells you that she has accomplished what she needed to and she'll put in a good work with the Empress. She asks you if you would like anything. I forget most options, one is to lower Serault's twilight, but the one I picked was to look under the wool tarp she had covering something large in her wagon. She lets you look at it, and it's a great mirror. You can actually peer inside it and it seems like it could take you to another world. She then covers it back up and says something cryptic I forget.

 

But anyway, you host the Divine at your crib and spend all the vitals, trophies, and secrets you've gathered. In the good ending, which I got, the Divine get so ripped that she unseals the Chantry in celebration of your awesomeness. She also presents you with your family's mask, which you can then place upon your face or smash on the ground. I smashed mine and gave the jewels inside to the people. The Divine loved it because, who doesn't love it when glass breaks? Well, there's a big fat baron who gets all red-faced at you, but meh.

 

So the next afternoon (because the Divine is hung over) she departs Serault for the conclave. She thanks you for the party. Little does she know it was her grand farewell.

 

But seriously, play the game. Just don't buy "dawn" points. This game is everything Sit in Judgment and the Chore Table should have been for Inquisition.

[andy6915]

One of the biggest problems with Merrill's Eluvian is how bloody small it is and the fact that it blocks the path into itself. You're supposed to walk through these things, and hers... Would have made that rather difficult.
 
Compare.
 

 

 
 
Large, easy path.
 
 
 

 
 
 
Tiny entrance and metal things block your way in. Maybe part of the reason it never turned on is that they have a built-in proximity alerter that told it that the path was obstructed. Even if she had got it to work, she would have needed to crudely saw the metal parts off and would have needed a lot of squeezing. And that's a lot of squeezing for her, a small framed woman who's basically built like a twig.

[NWN-Ming-Ming]

I imagined that if Merrill's eluvian was activated and 'turned-on', the metal would become animate and go all 'liquid metal', uncoiling and straightening from its lop-sided and weird configuration.

[zambingo]

Merrill's has a snake theme, Tevinter loves the snake/reptile theme, perhaps Merrill recreated a Tevinter style Eluvian. Doesn't the lore say that Tevinter only used them for communication? You wouldn't need to have a giant one for that.

[andy6915]

Merrill's has a snake theme, Tevinter loves the snake/reptile theme, perhaps Merrill recreated a Tevinter style Eluvian. Doesn't the lore say that Tevinter only used them for communication? You wouldn't need to have a giant one for that.

Tevinter says a lot of things. I thought the "communication" thing was just what they assumed they did, because as usual no one fully understands a damn thing about ancient elves.

[Gervaise]

Well in WoT2 in the history of Morrigan it says that she brought a mirror to court that was covered in rust and mud like it had been dredged up from a swamp and Celene was really excited to see it.   So is this the same one as in Last Court or did Morrigan bring a different one that looked like an eluvian to fool Celene?   If this was after the events of Masked Empire then Celene would know about the key.  

 

Anyway, I think the one in DAO was connected with Arlathan.   That is the dark city that could be seen because it was underground and would also account for why it was swarming with darkspawn.    The menacing creature could be the reason that Tevinter sunk the city into the ground, a matter of self defence rather than maliciousness.

[andy6915]

So... The images I posted were full size before, but now they're tiny. How did that happen? The wiki's own images look small, so it wasn't a moderator on here or anything.

 

Weird.