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[Aliceeverafter]

Maybe a silly question but in every pic i've seen of Skyhold the main gate tower is on top of a rock with no road leading to it. this is the tower on the other side of the bridge with the portcullis in it.

Please don't tell me all those Orlesian nobles have had to scramble up a rock face in their pretty dresses and trews

 

any thoughts or is this just that bioware didn't bother draw it right?

 

ok so i might be slightly obsessed with details but i like things to work dammit!

 

 

this IS NOT MY PICTURE but is from a google search http://guides.gamepr...rd/18402579.jpg

i sort of presume it's bioware copyright *crosses fingers*

[ArcadiaGrey]

I just assume there's a snowy path, like the one you're walking on when you discover Skyhold.  It can't be easy as it has remained hidden, so anyone visiting would have had one hell of a trek up there.

I did find it a little funny imagining all those Orlesians in their big skirts having to negotiate their way up there tho, not exactly practical. 

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

By floating!

 

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Like so!

[Aliceeverafter]

By floating!

 

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Like so!

hah i like it

sometimes mobs get launched like this in a battle when they die ...

thats it! CATAPULT or trebuchet because we got a few of those, thanks Josie.

now i'm chuckling

[Lord of War]

I did always think Skyhold was a ludicrously impractical headquarters, yeah. Maybe post-Trespasser the Inqusition will be a given a compound or a palace in Val Royuex or something.

[Aliceeverafter]

I just assume there's a snowy path, like the one you're walking on when you discover Skyhold.  It can't be easy as it has remained hidden, so anyone visiting would have had one hell of a trek up there.

I did find it a little funny imagining all those Orlesians in their big skirts having to negotiate their way up there tho, not exactly practical. 

oh yeah good point. i'd forgotten it had been undiscovered or for so long.

but i'm still thinking it'd be an overgrown path, not a cliff face.or hmm griffons ... ...

[Sifr]

Probably a snowy path that winds down the slope, hidden on the side of Skyhold that we never really see?

 

Might be more interesting though if the tower at the end of the bridge, concealed a large spiral staircase that descended down through the rock, then leads to a tunnel that comes out at the base of the mountain. Sort of similar to the giant spiral staircase in the Vatican, for anyone who's ever been there?

[introverted_assassin]

by inventing an airplane...early in fictional history. that was a LONG trek to Skyhold...ain't nobody got time for all that.

[Aliceeverafter]

I did always think Skyhold was a ludicrously impractical headquarters, yeah. Maybe post-Trespasser the Inqusition will be a given a compound or a palace in Val Royuex or something.

 

i totally agree!

but i was *gutted* at the Trespasser 'live in the garden of the Winter Palace under a bit of trellis' solution. What? I don't even get a room in the palace?! Thanks Celine, i still have a certain amulet here somewhere that i forgot to mention ...

[lynroy]

I've been all over Skyhold with flycam and there's no way to gain entry unless you fly.

[Aliceeverafter]

Probably a snowy path that winds down the slope, hidden on the side of Skyhold that we never really see?

 

Might be more interesting though if the tower at the end of the bridge, concealed a large spiral staircase that descended down through the rock, then leads to a tunnel that comes out at the base of the mountain. Sort of similar to the giant spiral staircase in the Vatican, for anyone who's ever been there?

i *like* your thinking.

i was even thinking pullys and a bucket like in the canyon near the dog vendor in er? Hissing Wastes?

but stairs and horses ... ever read Jingo by Terry Pratchett - just how did the Patrician get the donkey down the tower? (and apologies if you haven't - that was quite a way off topic )

[Aliceeverafter]

I've been all over Skyhold with flycam and there's no way to gain entry unless you fly.

dammit i knew it.

thank you.

i am saddened (sigh)

[themikefest]

I went to Rent-a-Dragon to get me to Skyhold. For only 100 gold coins, I can have a dragon fly me to where ever I want to go. Of course I have to bring my own drink and bag of peanuts. excellent.

[DarkAmaranth1966]

Easy answer - magic.

 

Yes that bugs me too, I can imagine a way in but, it's just that, imaginary, there is no way to walk or rode into Skyhold in the game.

[Sifr]

The lack of accessibility is probably the reason we have such a large amount of people camped down in the valley. They ran out of welcome brochures shortly after arriving at Skyhold, so anyone who arrived late simply has no idea on how to get into the castle.

[Qun00]

Considering that Solas speaks of palaces floating in the sky during the time of ancient elves, maybe Skyhold originally didn't need a road or an entrance.

It simply landed on that mountain after the Veil was created.

[Aliceeverafter]

yeah i think we're going to have to go with magic entry or elves had reeeeeeally long legs and just ... eh who knows.

 

i'm going with trebuchets

 

thanks for all replies!

[Melbella]

There's probably an Eluvian somewhere in the basements that we don't have access to. Also, a Deep Roads entrance.

 

As for the picture in the OP, it looks like the path from the gate is hidden behind the rocks.

[PapaCharlie9]

There's probably an Eluvian somewhere in the basements that we don't have access to.

This, at least during SPOILER's residence.

In the follow-up human residence, I'm headcanoning erosion. There used to be a paved road up the rocks, but erosion or a Titan with a upset tummy caused an earthquake and it all fell into the lake. Which then receded over the following decades of no occupancy. Why wasn't Skyhold more damaged by the earthquake? Science! I mean, Magic!

Crap, should I SPOILER the Titan too? Ruins the joke.

[OH-UP-THIS!]

Considering it was built by the ancient elvens, I'd go with magic/eluvian.

 

Now I know that won't sit well with most of y'all, so I'm going to suggest there is an elevator in the tower.

[robertmarilyn]

There is a giant, with a big club, at the bottom of the mountain. He wacks each person with the club and they go sailing through the air, to land in the courtyard of Skyhold. That's why you see all those injured people in the courtyard, even after you've built an infirmary. 

[vbibbi]

I think it's a good question. I appreciate the concept of Skyhold but it's not well presented in game. The view as you've shown is not conducive to actual transport in and out of the keep. And the entire sequence from IYHSB was completely impractical, as there was no way that the entirety of Haven could pack everything up on brontos and make the trek to Skyhold during the chaos of Cory's attack. Plus when we arrive at Skyhold it's presumably empty of supplies so we have to wait to restock.

 

Let's not even talk about the troops camped outside Skyhold's walls who are apparently okay with sleeping in the snow next to a frozen river.

 

 

I like the idea of Skyhold but the game forces me to headcanon too much in order to make it practical.

[Waving_Dolphin]

Human cannon. Just blast me right over the wall.

[nightscrawl]

I'd imagine that there is a path that leads into the valley below where all of the troops are camped out. I don't think it's hidden, just that the devs neglected to add one in.

 

 

I think it's a good question. I appreciate the concept of Skyhold but it's not well presented in game. The view as you've shown is not conducive to actual transport in and out of the keep. And the entire sequence from IYHSB was completely impractical, as there was no way that the entirety of Haven could pack everything up on brontos and make the trek to Skyhold during the chaos of Cory's attack. Plus when we arrive at Skyhold it's presumably empty of supplies so we have to wait to restock.

 

Let's not even talk about the troops camped outside Skyhold's walls who are apparently okay with sleeping in the snow next to a frozen river.

 

 

I like the idea of Skyhold but the game forces me to headcanon too much in order to make it practical.

 

I once tried to flycam my way from the door in the great hall to the Inquisitor quarters; there is no actual pathway there, which is disappointing.

[PapaCharlie9]

I once tried to flycam my way from the door in the great hall to the Inquisitor quarters; there is no actual pathway there, which is disappointing.

You mean it's a separate zone, like the Undercroft? Or does it just not load the model, because its behind a door? I have that problem with Flycam -- even though I know the area is in the same zone (there's no in-game transition), if there is no viewpoint character in the area with line-of-sight, none of the model loads, so I see a bunch of nothing.

Pardon me while I go off on a tangential rant: Why is the Undercroft a separate zone? But useless stuff like the garden and the kitchen are not? It takes forever to load the Undercroft on my PC, and forever squared if I have any kind of texture mods. The Undercroft is the place I go to in Skyhold the most, by far, at least twice as much as the War Table. Why do you troll me so much, Bioware?

End rant.