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[Amne YA]

https://www.youtube....h?v=ww_hqj-Cj3M

[DarkKnightHolmes]

At this point, who doesn't read Varric's books?

 

I can't tell if it's supposed to be a joke where everyone seems to have a thing for Varric's book or Bioware are really trying to tell us Varric is a good writer. I mean barely anybody talked about his books in DA2 at all and now everybody does.

[diaspora2k5]

It's a library of ideas for books.

[ComedicSociopathy]

Pretty sure that even Shepard has read Varric's books at this point. 

[OsiriNara]

Solas during the main game read the book and put it there.

 

or that library - which was constructed from materials both of the Fade and of the mortal world - actual acts like something/a spirit from the Fade would. There's no concept of time or the passage of time. So there's no chapter number. Now if that's true, what might happen once Varric reads it?

[myahele]

They (or Solas) do more than reading as evidenced by that sock next to his book 

[medusa_hair]

kind of immersion breaking, though. that's all.

[SwobyJ]

Creepy.

[SwobyJ]

kind of immersion breaking, though. that's all.

 

How?

[medusa_hair]

i just felt that way...i think because it was the realm of these ancient elves who had been destroyed by the creation of the veil, and now here is a book that is contemporary to the inquisitor. all the destruction and ruin and just overall feeling of great age, you don't really expect to find something like that

[SwobyJ]

i just felt that way...i think because it was the realm of these ancient elves who had been destroyed by the creation of the veil, and now here is a book that is contemporary to the inquisitor. all the destruction and ruin and just overall feeling of great age, you don't really expect to find something like that

 

That may mean something important though.

[Althaz]

Through L-Space, all libraries everywhere (and everywhen) are linked. Doubtless the books arrived that way.

[9TailsFox]

And funny think Varric didn't write this chapter yet.

[Knight of Dane]

And funny think Varric didn't write this chapter yet.

 

It suggests that whomever stays in the fade inspires Varric how to finish that story, he just needs to write it.

[BraveVesperia]

And Sandal's diary too, it seems!

[Porphyriassong]

I just figured it was a case like Morpheus' library in Sandman where all stories that ever have been and will be dreamed up exist. One character is even shocked to find a "novel" he wrote as a little kid. It's a concept that, as someone who has toyed with fiction writing, I find simultaneously comforting and mortifying.

[ArcadiaGrey]

They (or Solas) do more than reading as evidenced by that sock next to his book 

 

Okay, so it's months later, but I was just searching to see if anyone talked about this.  Could it be a reference to Dobby from Harry Potter?  If my memory is right he got a sock in a book to give him his freedom...

[thats1evildude]

The Fade is the land of dreams, right? People read Varric's books and inevitably they dream about them. Spirits see the dreams of mortals and recreate them in the Fade, so somewhere in the Fade Varric's stories are being played out.

The person who was left in the Fade at Adamant died, but their spirit may linger in the Fade. It drops in on the dream world of Hard in Hightown, a world when Donnen eventually retired from being a Kirkwall guard.

The Shattered Library is a recording of experiences as much as it is a repository for books, so the unwritten "chapter" of Hard in Hightown is captured in that book.

[CoM Solaufein]

Everyone who is anyone has read Varric's masterpieces of literature.

[elrofrost]

Considering that the library was torn apart thousands of years ago, just how did they get copies of Varric's books? I thought this was strange too.

[In Exile]

Considering that the library was torn apart thousands of years ago, just how did they get copies of Varric's books? I thought this was strange too.

 

The Fade evolves. 

[vertigomez]

That's not Varric's book. Solas wrote an embarrassing self-insert fanfic and tried to hide it amidst a bunch of ancient elvish stuff so no one would get suspicious.

[SwobyJ]

The Fade evolves. 

 

That's something we have to keep remembering.

[Addictress]

Pretty sure that even Shepard has read Varric's books at this point.

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[Addictress]

Considering that the library was torn apart thousands of years ago, just how did they get copies of Varric's books? I thought this was strange too.

The fade is sundered from reality but still continues to reflect reality. All that book required to exist was someone passing through the fade from Varric's time, or someone in that approximate location, with the idea of that book in their mind. Perhaps even instaneously it appeared because your party was passing through.