fuck the chantry

shan/beep - 30 - any pronouns - Ao3 & Ko-fi

[antivaan]

hello, i'm shan/beep! here's a pinned post where i'm linking my Ao3 and my Ko-fi now that i've set one up! any support is incredibly helpful and appreciated 💛💛

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

Oh, you like that, do you?

[ikarons]

a thing about vivi that is always like. heartbreaking to me. that i feel is often overlooked in the fandom. is like... when she is supporting the circle system and arguing for reform over rebellion, when she's arguably conservative... she's Not arguing from being like. just too insulated from normal mage life to know how bad the circle system can be and Is. she's not pulling up the ladder behind her or arguing that everyone should just get good like her. she's arguing from essentially abject terror for the mage children, mage Tranquil, mages with no abilities that can be used to protect themselves or fight back, mages who are not ready and able to run off, become rebels and arm themselves, when inevitably the response to the rebellion from the chantry hits the weakest, most vulnerable, most Currently Still Easily Accessible circle mages the hardest. she doesn't think that mages should be in the torture basement forever because they deserve to suffer and suffering is what's best for them— she believes that if the circles fall, the people (the chantry, the templars, the nobility of every country under the orlesian chantry who rely on mage labour, the ordinary soldiers and civilians who have been raised to be Terrified Of Magic) will turn on her people. and they'll turn on her, no matter how well-behaved she's been! and When they do, she won't be able to protect the most vulnerable mages! she is trying to protect other mages the best way She knows how here!

she's The exemplary circle mage taking a permitted avenue to create a position of influence and Make something of herself, and it still isn't enough, and she's still forced to rely on wealthy and powerful patrons who don't fully see her as an equal person to them and can retract their patronage whenever they want, because a mage can Never be enough. and she knows it! probably better than anyone! she Knows she's always on the verge of losing everything she's built for herself! so yknow. yeah she's afraid, of templars and kings and queens and the chantry, of the Backlash the rebellion will provoke, and she's absolutely certain that the mage rebellion Can't Win, and when they are inevitably crushed, it will only be Worse For Everyone. that's not someone saying mages are Correctly placed under the templars' boots, that's someone saying If You Cause Trouble, All Our Most Vulnerable Will Be Killed. she's not entitled or disconnected from Normal Mages, she's terrified! & i think that often goes like. unacknowledged because. ok partly bc dai is constantly asking you not to sympathise with her and to instead be as suspicious of her as you can. but also because so much of her character is putting on a front and refusing to allow anyone to see her fear because so much of her influence comes from being able to control the narrative around her. you are falling for her bit!

anyway i do think even though it's obviously a real highlight of da that the characters have like firm opinions and beliefs that won't bend just to please the player it's kind of a heinous crime against me specifically that vivienne's perspective isn't allowed to evolve At All through questlines & the way the inquisitor can materially impact the political landscape esp wrt mages. given her everything

[noblcgames]

i apologize for what i must do. i do not wish to be your enemy

[bluerose5]

An absolutely breathtaking YCH commission of Davrin and Wyll by @drathe!!! The details were executed perfectly! They look so tender and in love, I can barely breathe. Bladewarden, my beloved! 😭💙

[dykieran]

luckily my good friend Alistair Dragonage will never abandon me

[dykieran]

luckily my good friend Loghain Dragonage will never abandon me

[dragon-age-tournament]

Dragon Age Fight Club — Group #7 / Match 6 of 6

Zevran Arainai

"i do think people undersell how scary post-origins zevran is. because sure, in origins he gets beaten and recruited, but if he survives? he starts hunting crows. not random bandits. crows. the people who trained him. the people who know his methods. the people who should be hardest for him to catch off guard. and he is still enough of a problem that they’re whispering about the black shadow years later. that is extremely funny and also kind of insane."

"He would cheat."

vs. Mythal

"I don’t even know what the opponent is supposed to do. She was one of the Evanuris, tied to dragons, worshipped as a god, feared by other godlike beings, and still influential ages after being murdered."

"The woman got murdered by the rest of the pantheon and still ended up being one of the most important forces in the series. That’s embarrassing for them, honestly. Imagine committing divine regicide and the victim continues to have plot relevance for several games."

"Full power Mythal sweeps. Fragment Mythal still scares me. Flemeth/Mythal scares me in a different, swampier way."

Who would win in a fight?

Zevran

Mythal

Voting ended onJun 28

[unsettlingcreature]

Please i had to bring this here im mcfreaking losing it

[stonesense]

all that being said, zevran’s favoured gift being gold bars has never not been funny

[stonesense]

warden: hey speak up if you want anything in particular from the loot

zevran: hmm. solid gold

warden: done

leliana: sorry, what? that worked?

zevran: i must admit i am as surprised as you

alistair: that was an option? nobody told me that was an option. i’m changing my thing

warden: no takebacksies

[thevaelguard]

Conversations you know that started screaming matches at the Hanged Man <3

[jiabisu]

[cherrydj-l]

loghain duel any %

[thedragonagebigbang]

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[sunlight-shunlight]

Inside BioWare's Narrative Design: Interview with Sylvia Feketekuty - RPGamer

Austin Langer was able to interview former BioWare narrative designer Sylvia Feketekuty. She discusses how the teams tackled exposition, pla

there's not a lot in this article but this made me laugh (despairingly)

(One thing I’d like to mention: there was a misconception going around at one point that I wrote all of the codex entries in Veilguard. This is not the case! They were split evenly among all of the writers.)

so. the writers were all responsible for secrets are lies that are true, and golden tevinter scissors, and fahrenheit recipes, and the noble anti-imperialist elf ally antivan crows.... and also none of them could use a string variable for the inq or rook's names :')

[meglosthegreat]

The passage that made me the most insane was this:

There’s things you can do to make it more inviting. When I was working on the Lore Glossary with editor Cameron Harris, we discussed with the rest of the narrative team how many terms we actually wanted to define. We limited it to a maximum of thirty. Throwing a bunch of new, setting-specific jargon at people can really overwhelm them. So thirty basic terms to define some of the most important parts of Dragon Age, with descriptions that never went over three sentences, seemed like a good limit.

You're telling me they picked... thirty??? lore terms for ALL of dragon age??? the game series built on lore terms??? THIRTY??? And you made sure to never describe them in more than THREE SENTENCES???

[magicvicky2]

“Your mother was a fiery woman. She would have made an excellent Grey Warden.”

[evilsoup]

the cultural object of the black hole is kind of remarkable. It's almost an anti-God in a sense, a negative infinity. Yeah there's this kind of dead sun that's collapsed into an infinitely dense point, and if you fall past its event horizon you're fucked. Every schoolchild knows this. A black hole can be introduced in a superhero blockbuster without any explanation except for its established look and the name "black hole", and this will be understood as the ultimate natural disaster, which even superman could not hope to defeat. truly S-tier cosmic object

[not-terezi-pyrope]

If there's any proof we need that our reality is made of math, it's that graph function singularities exist as physical features of our world. Undefined algebraic points exist, we can see them, they float around space touching things and fucking them up beyond all recognition, and they look like marauding black death wrapped in a spherical gradient of tortured spacetime.

Like, words literally cannot describe how cool black holes are. If they did not actually exist, I doubt that the world's 100 top rated sci-fi writers locked in a room for a month brainstorming could come up with anything nearly as good. When do you ever get something that is as top tier psychologically impactful as it is so deeply rooted in fundamental scientific truth about reality?

[persephones-domain]

Physicist here!

Black holes are the ultimate astronomical phenomena. They are regions where the very structure of reality is contorted into something alien. Defined not by substance but by the warping of spacetime, a black hole is a solution to Einstein’s field equations wherein the metric tensor collapses into a singularity—an infinitesimal point of infinite density, where curvature diverges and our mathematical descriptions disintegrate. The event horizon, delineated by the Schwarzschild radius , marks a boundary beyond which causal relationships cease to propagate outward. Nothing—not matter, not light, not information—can escape. From within, the geometry of spacetime becomes so distorted that all paths, all timelike geodesics, inevitably lead inward, like water down an infinite drain.

Time bizzarelt dilates near the horizon; a distant observer would see infalling matter slow, redshift, and fade, asymptotically frozen in time, somewhat like a hologram eternally flickering at the border. Simultaneously for the falling observer, however, the descent is finite and inexorable as space collapses inward, and the singularity looms in a finite proper time. Should one hypothetically remain on the event horizon itself, a null surface traversed only at the speed of light, the geometry becomes especially... strange: light emitted tangentially could orbit indefinitely along the photon sphere, forming a closed loop. So in this scenario, were you to gaze precisely forward, the curvature would distort light rays around the hole to the point you'd witness the back of your own head—an optical recursion born not of mirrors but of warped topology.

Even the notion of mass becomes disquieting here. A black hole's presence is encoded in the curvature it imposes, describable via the Einstein tensor and its coupling to the stress-energy tensor , yet the interior contains no structure! No matter, no surface, only the singularity at , where predictability ends. The laws of physics as we understand them yield only silence in response. And yet, paradoxically, black holes are not immutable. Quantum field theory on curved backgrounds predicts Hawking radiation: virtual particle pairs near the horizon become real, draining the hole of mass over unimaginable timescales, leading to eventual evaporation. What remains, if anything at all, is unknown. In this way, black holes are less objects than they are boundaries of comprehension: blind spots in our cosmology where mathematics hints at truths too extreme, too indifferent, to be made fully human.

[stonesense]

second blight starts within a decade of them founding the orlesian empire and chantry and nobody took that as a sign or anything

[stonesense]

blights are bad enough when there’s been a few and you’ve sort of gotten used to the idea that there’s one per archdemon but imagine being alive the first time everyone realises there’s more of these things