The Deep Roads

Just a Dragon Age sideblog.

[aeducanka]

Pinned!

pinky promise to edit it later to look more presentable!

basically this is to say:

hi! I love dwarves,

the blog is on semi-hiatus, but I promise that I still care for DA,

my current goal is to go back to playing DAI in the not so distant future,

I watched DAVE being played, it didn't spark joy, currently I have most DAVE tags blocked and I act like it doesn't exist,

the chances of my reblogging anything for DAVE rn are so low that I don't even have set tags for it. Blacklist #veilguard critical if you don't want to see the 1 post that I have in it,

in any case, there won't be any DAVE spoilers on this blog,

I actually want to go back to having a tagging system, but no promises when it comes back,

an OC page would be nice, too, huh?

thanks for stopping by :)

[lelianazine]

☀️ Production Update! (6/1)

Hello everyone and happy pride! Our next big update is here!! So as of writing, our entire stock of charms have safely reached me, Mod Bee, and have been accounted for. However, as shown in the photos, for the special randomized "golden nug-cha" charm, unfortunately we weren't able to make it double-sided foil due to how we chose to manufacturer them, the method we used was safer and resulted in virtually no errors vs other methods with a higher error rate. Still, we wanted to bring it your attention to apologize for the sudden change and for the very few we have in our eventual leftover shop we'll make sure to note it. For our love letters, the papers have been delivered to my friend who volunteered to do the printing on them and our wax seal is undergoing a few final edits before we okay that for production. And finally for our plushies, they have finally shipped! As mentioned prior, they're coming by seamail so it'll be a bit of a wait, but we'll be closely monitoring their progress as they make their way here. :D That's everything for now! We should have just one more update, maybe two, before we're finally done with production and can begin our fulfillment period! Thanks for being patient with us! <3

[dalishious]

Help keep me connected and you know, alive lol

If you've ever enjoyed my presence here, I'd really appreciate any sharing / donation you can give right now. We owe for two months of internet so if I don't pay by the due date they may cut us off. 😟

I currently only have $15 available in my bank right now, before I reach my overdraft limit:

There is no cell service where I live, so the internet is our only stable means of communication, too.

But even more important is even though I am currently on sick leave, I still have to pay into my employee insurance or they will cut me off from all my benefits. I cannot afford my life-sustaining medications (including for my diabetes) without this! Last week they tried to take out $148 for this but I had insufficient funds, so I got hit with an RTN.

This is all to say, I'm in a tight spot financially again and could really use any help you can provide... 🙏

[PayPal] [Ko-fi]

or direct message for e-transfer (Canada only)

[critter-of-habit]

I feel like getting that letter from Varric would be the last push Merrill needs to get her Eluvian working again.  Then she’d march into Skyhold, grab both Varric and the Inquisitor by the ear and drag them back into the Fade to rescue her girlfriend.  

[trismeowgistus]

It really is crazy that Bioware came out with the friendship/rivalry system in DA2 and not only did it never revisit it, no one else did either?? Like a system that lays out and explicitly incentivizes roleplaying as a character with real principles and explores how butting heads with a character might actually play out? And I know that you can have different dynamics with party members in other DA games but I feel like what was so special about 2's system is it explicitly didn't frame making a character mad as a loss of progress but a different kind of progress.

[telumendils]

the way that dragon age 2 really is just a series of increasingly worse tragedies culminating in anders doing what he does.....

also something about the inevitability of it all. you are going to lose your home and become a refugee in a foreign nation. you can do nothing to stop this. bethany or carver is going to die before you get out. you can do nothing to stop this. you are going to lose your remaining sibling. you can do nothing to stop this. you are going to lose your mother. you can do nothing to stop this. isabela is going to run off with the relic. you can do nothing to stop this. the arishok is going to attack your city. you can do nothing to stop this. anders is going to blow up the chantry. you can do nothing to stop this.

maybe you can do the right thing, pick the right choices, forge strong enough relationships to help mitigate some of the damage from these things, but they are going to happen. you can do nothing to stop them.

[seracadash]

the thing i loved most about dao is indeed the origins. having a different start for everyone. making one of the main missions more relevant to your character (orzammar to aeducan/brosca, mage circle to surana/amell, etc etc). That playing with a Brosca in the first run can be so "oh man chosing the king of orzammar is the most important thing ever and it's going to affect my family" and then meeting howe like "who's this random guy ok lets kill him" vs playing with a cousland being like "ok dwarf politics whatever !! the blight!!" and then going like "oh howe my biggest enemy i would never forgive you" like that's the good shit. that depending of your origin your first impression of duncan could change so much. and it was wonderful!!! i love this sooooo so much,,, and then no other game had even tried to do this ever again ú_ù becaue apparently making 6 different tutorials is very hard

[sevibun]

[aylaaescar]

*taps microphone* hello? is this thing on?

Anders is a character. he did/didn't do bad things, and he was/wasn't wrong.

[akamuminyidaibiao]

reztassia

[5hio]

I’m playing DAI again, and the Contact Hero of Ferelden quest gets me every time ;;( specially bc I romanced Leliana anD SHE MISSES MY WARDEN SO MUCH omg the angst

Anyway so I doodled this while crying basically, I want to play DAO again

[dalishious]

Amaris Lavellan wiki page

Check out this amazing site that @shaylecadash built for me on neocities! I plan on adding my other 'canon' characters in the future, but for right now, I'm still working on adding to the page for Amaris.

[CLICK HERE]

[queam]

Hedwig Aeducan

[dalishious]

Staying up past midnight to finish an art piece has never been so worth it! I'm really happy with how this redraw of DAI's fem elf tarot card with Amaris turned out.

[sevibun]

like dogs, shianni.

[dalishious]

Neve Gallus. You agree

[leliwardens]

If Leliana was not a female love interest in 2009, what do you think her romance would have been like?

(context in tags)

Hi anon, gonna be real with you first that this was just a random ask and I was like sick but scrolling thru my dash I saw that post linked above spit out from my queue LOL.

But to first provide context: the tag itself was brought on by the fact if Leliana didn't have to be widely appealing to a (presumed) male audience to romance her, she would be different. Gaider forever ago on Bsky in his retrospective threads posted this (specifically about Cassandra):

But obviously this can be applied to all LIs, and I've talked before about how all non-lesbian female LIs (so...just not Sera lol) are written in such a way for that (presumed) male audience to romance them.

THIS ALL BEING SAID AND TO ACTUALLY ANSWER YOUR QUESTION: If there was such a way to remove all biases, I would like to think you would have far more dealings with Leliana's past and more unsavory elements (enjoying the "hunt" and the Game itself), and that there would be far more doubt the more she reveals if she's being honest with you, and further genuine with her feelings in a romance (with an m!Warden she literally talks about becoming the woman someone wants to see basically manipulation lol). I'd want there to be more direct parallels building up to her crisis that she is becoming or has already become Marjolaine rather than just the one conversation after her personal quest. AND I'd also think we'd have far more in-depth views on her relationship with Marjolaine, at least more involved than her brushing it all off because you gotta get to the sex scene and she can't be hung up on her ex lol. I think more beyond the "bad girl gone good" approach her romance has, just more to that, would be what I'd want to see.