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[wicked cool]

Theres a painting on the crestwood mayors office with flying creatures(dont look like dragons or griffons) . Anyone have ideas what they are

[thats1evildude]

I don't know. That painting is from World of Thedas and it doesn't identify those creatures. They might be stylistic or they might be some monster we haven't seen yet.

[Just_January]

Here is the pic.



They remind me of the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz.

[thats1evildude]

My brain jumped to "harpies," but flying monkeys seems legit.

[Just_January]

Theres a painting on the crestwood mayors office with flying creatures(dont look like dragons or griffons) . Anyone have ideas what they are

In Thedas, it would probably be more like flying nugs.

[IllustriousT]

I also always thought they were Harpies, but Flying monkeys and Nugs are more fun  .

[Dai Grepher]

My brain jumped to "harpies," but flying monkeys seems legit.

I understood that reference.

[Elfyoth]

Here is the pic.



They remind me of the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz.

 

 

Wait! There was some sort of art of Arlathan that looked very much like this! 

 

 

Also look at the owls, it looks like elven style... 

[Gervaise]

Well I don't know how the mayor would have got hold of an old elven picture but assuming he has, those are probably some of the creatures of the air that Ghilan'nain created.    She is attributed with having a whole host of creatures that ended up causing problems and so she was required to destroy most of them.    It has been speculated that the griffons were a hybrid creature she came up with and survived the purge.   We know about the halla and it is just possible that she had a hand in the original Kossith, although of course that is pure speculation as well.    So even if it isn't an original elven picture, may be the artist was spending some time in the area that is pictured and had a dream showing these things.  The structure in the centre looks elven to me.    I'm pretty sure that isn't the first time I've seen that picture.   Either it was shown before in a game or it is in one of the source books.   I'll let you know if I find it.

[Sunbows]

This tapestry is part of a series of tapestries depicting the rise and fall of Andraste. So it's Fereldan, not Elven. Presumably.

Four pieces out of this series of eight can be found ingame (or at least the Mod Maker, which is why I'm assuming they're in the game somewhere...), the rest can be viewed in WoT Vol. 1, pp. 112-115 or here.

[Aulis Vaara]

This tapestry is part of a series of tapestries depicting the rise and fall of Andraste. So it's Fereldan, not Elven. Presumably.

Well, in hindsight, the story of Andraste does seem to contain a lot of elements that seem to come from the history of Fen'Harel and Mythal. It's entirely possible that while the painting was made by humans, the creatures are either inspired or described by elven history. Probably indirectly.

[Wulfram]

This tapestry is part of a series of tapestries depicting the rise and fall of Andraste. So it's Fereldan, not Elven. Presumably.

Four pieces out of this series of eight can be found ingame (or at least the Mod Maker, which is why I'm assuming they're in the game somewhere...), the rest can be viewed in WoT Vol. 1, pp. 112-115 or here.

Hmm, last picture is bald guy with staff and orb.

[Gervaise]

Yes, I've found it now.   That is weird.    I remember thinking the first time I saw it, what does it have to do with Andraste?   I assumed it was perhaps meant to be the Black City, although it doesn't really fit with anything we've seen of that before.   The next one in the sequence is odd too, with a rather sinister looking black robed figure in a crown that is presumably meant to be the Maker, based off the description given in the Chant.   The dude at the end of the sequence is Havard carrying the ashes back home to Ferelden in his version of an urn.   I assume the staff is simply to support him.

 

If that sequence have nothing to do with Andraste, you'd really like to know what is going on there, but I reckon they're just messing with us.

[wicked cool]

The location looks familiar. Is it the place seen in original artwork pregame

[Aliceeverafter]

Hmm, last picture is bald guy with staff and orb.

nah that's the guy with the ashes. you can see it's a pot tucked under his arm.

[Aliceeverafter]

just reading chant of light

maybe those things are those lost in the void before Andraste speaks to the Maker?

 

Passing out of the world, in that Void shall they wander;
O unrepentant, faithless, treacherous,
They who are judged and found wanting
Shall know forever the loss of the Maker's love.

Threnodies 12:5

 

and

 

The Wellspring of All said, "None now remember.
Long have they turned to idols and tales
Away from My Light, in darkness unbroken
The last of My children, shrouded in night.

Andraste 1:1-1:14

[Beerfish]

Not all griffins look alike, the griffins in TW3 were kind of scraggly like that.

[Xerrai]

So...what city is that supposed be depicting? Minrathous? A slave port? Andraste's rebellion base?

[Meredydd]

The city might be the Black City, although the architecture looks elven (maybe a connection between Andrastainism and the ancient elves, like we saw in DA:O in the Dalish elf origin where there was a statue depicting a human deity but it was made by elves). OR plot twist: Arlathan is the Black City (that's why it disappeared, it's in the fade).

As for the creatures - could be a completely new creature we haven't encountered yet in the lore (like a harpy or a new type of demon), or could be symbolic of 'fallen' beings (akin to fallen angels/spirits), or they might be something similar to gargoyles (not in appearance, but in function - protecting the city).

[Gervaise]

They are definitely not griffons if you go by the images they have given of them up to now.  They do look as if they have human faces.    That might confirm that Ghilan'nain was getting up to some really weird stuff with her hybrid breeding programme.  It is definitely one of the strangest unexplained images that we have been given.    Are those walkways meant to be a stylised image of the eluvian network?   Is the reason that everything  apart from the building at the centre and the creatures are pale and insubstantial because this is the world between realms that Briala's party encounter in Masked Empire but we never actually experience in game? (the pathways we traverse are completely different from those described in the book).  If they had stayed in the place painful to humans and explored off the path, would they have eventually encountered this structure?  Is it in fact the exterior of the Crossroads central point that they reach in Masked Empire but again we never do in game?  Or is this a vision of how the Golden City looked as the taint spread?   So it is not glittering any more but not yet totally black and the strange creatures are really the artist's impression of spirits/demons fleeing the proximity of the place.   Has anyone tried asking the Bioware team about this?

[Draconaise]

Here is the pic.



They remind me of the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz.

Are those... uh... ELUVIANS across the background??