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[Attacktaur]

Not sure if discussed elsewhere but can someone explain the meaning of this Codex entry found in the Crossroads?

 

http://dragonage.wik...east_of_Shadows

 

I know Bioware love their inside jokes.

[BansheeOwnage]

I took it as simply a light self-jab, but it probably means more.

[Aimi]

I think it's a reference to Patrick Weekes and his friends (Ritzy, Desert Bell, et al.), who run campaigns in the 13th Age RPG system.

[Renmiri1]

And Weekes loves unicorns

[megageeklizzy]

The front coverof this novel has a group of armed men and women fighting a horde of imaginary monsters, while a winged horse with a horn flies in the background against an enormous rainbow. 

 

Explain to me how you illustrate imaginary monsters.

[Sylv F]

Patrick runs a fine pen and paper campaign, but the reference is actually to a game run by a good friend of mine. The tone of the entry is my fond tribute to a certain kind of breathless, excitable sell-text you got on the back of fantasy novels when I was a kid.

(Forgive me for giving it away, but it's a pretty self-indulgent codex, so with Trespasser being the end of Dragon Age Inquisition content I thought I'd spoil myself this time.)
 

The front coverof this novel has a group of armed men and women fighting a horde of imaginary monsters, while a winged horse with a horn flies in the background against an enormous rainbow. 

 

Explain to me how you illustrate imaginary monsters.

 

What I meant to convey - it may be a little nebulous, my bad - is that they're fighting monsters that would be imaginary in the DA universe, as opposed to the monsters that actually exist in the DA universe. So instead of darkspawn, the cover might show our heroes fighting, say, tiefling assassins, or kua-toa warriors, which to people in Thedas are clearly made-up and could never be real.

[DarkSpiral]

That Codex entry smacked very strongly to me of late 80's/early 90's D&D modules.  Glad to see I wasn't far off the mark.

Thanks for the explanation!