A guide to swearing in Thedas
These are all taken from the toolset (mostly under “cuss” in the soundsets, but also from various bits of dialogue), organized for your convenience.
These are Dragon Age: Origins ONLY. There are no files that are human-readable for DA:A, DA2, or any DLC or expansions.
Not English the King’s Tongue
Brasca! (Zevran)
Vashedan! (Sten)
Pretty normal
Alas!
Blast it all, anyhow!
Blasted bastards!
Blech. (Sandal)
Blood and ashes.
Blood and honor!
Bloody blast it!
Bollocks.
Cripes.
Crud!
Curse me for a fool!
Cursed for a fool!
Curses!
Confound it! (Flemeth, of all people)
Damnation!
Drat!
Fiddlesticks!
Blast and blazes!
Blast and damnation! (Morrigan)
Blasted curses of a thousand misfortunes!
Blood and damnation! (Leliana)
Burn it all!
Fire and death!
Dirt and spit!
Flaming bastard.
Garbage!
Lazy, slack-jawed louts.
Miserable wretch.
Of all the blasted–!
Of all the cursed–!
Of all the infernal–! (Riordan)
Of all the–! (Leliana)
Oh dear.
Oh, bother!
Oh, for pity’s sake!
Oh, poppycock.
Oh… blast it! (Alistair)
Phooey!
Shoddy piece of crap!
Sod it all!
Son of a bitch!
Son of an inbred!
Tarnation!
That’s a stinker! (fade!Cailan)
That’s swill!
Those bloody whoresons.
Thrice-cursed whorespawn.
Two-faced bastards.
Elves
Bleeding thorns!
By the lost Dales!
Fenharel’s teeth!
Mythal'enaste!
Slap me around and call me a wild sylvan! (Shianni)
Well punch me in the teeth and call me a wild sylvan…
Invocations of Andraste
By the Lady!
Andraste’s ashes!
Andraste’s breath!
For the love of Andraste!
For the love of Lady Andraste!
Lady’s breath!
Merciful Andraste!
Oh, Andraste, help me…
Oh, for Andraste’s sake.
Oh, for the love of Blessed Andraste!
Oh, for the love of the Maker’s Bride.
Well, throw me in a fire and call me Andraste!
Andraste’s clothing
Andraste’s holy knickers!
By Andraste’s burning under-drawers!
By Andraste’s dirty socks!
By Andraste’s holy knickers!
By Andraste’s sword!
Andraste’s ass
Andraste’s ass!
Andraste’s fat ass!
Andraste’s lily-white ass!
Maferath’s hairy arse! (bonus Andraste’s husband’s ass due to not having another category in which to put it)
The Maker
Great Maker!
Holy Maker!
Maker damn you for a fool!
Maker-forsaken piece of–
Maker’s beard!
Maker’s Blood.
Maker’s breath! (by far the most common Thedas-specific curse)
Tears of the Maker!
Paragons
Aeducan’s beard!
Beards of the Paragons!
Bemot’s beard!
Blood of the Paragons!
By the beards of the Paragons!
Caridin’s teeth!
Ortan’s teeth!
Paragon’s teeth!
Paragons have mercy!
Ancestors
Ancestors have mercy!
By the hairs of my ancestors!
By the stones of the Ancestors!
By the teats of my ancestors!
By the tits of my ancestors!
Dwarf culture
Bronto piss!
By the Stone!
For the love of nugs and idiot children!
Nug-dung!
Nug-humper!
Nugs and dolts!
Stonecursed duster!
Stones!
What the nug!
The Blight
Ah, Blight!
Blight and destruction!
Blighted wretch!
Darkspawn blood!
Fire and Blight!
Griffon’s buttocks! (fade!Duncan)
The Fade
Blasted fade monkeys!
By the Black City!
By the walls of the golden city! (Desire demon)
Fade monkeys!
Racial epithets
Bare-skinned shem!
Filthy elf-lover!
Bloody elf guts!
Son of a Fereldan bitch! (Tevinter guard)
Pee and poop
Ah, piss and vinegar.
Crap!
Dog piss!
Flaming rat turds.
Oh, piss on it!
Piss and blood!
Piss and spittle!
Piss on a stick.
Piss on it!
Shit.
Shite.
Stinking road apples!
Turd!
Dogs
Base-born jackal.
Bloody kibble!
Flea-bitten whelps.
Hound’s arse!
Miserable cur!
Of all the motherless mongrels.
Scurvy dogs! (Isabela)
Food
Applesauce!
Beans and spuds!
Milk and cookies! (Perpetua)
Pickles! (Paivel)
Ugh! That’s bean-rot!
Fereldan culture and history
By the giant stones of the Dwarfson.
Great Dane’s bitch.
Calenhad’s crown! (fade!Maric)
Animals and insects
Dung beetles!
Flies and bother!
For the love of little fish.
Hind of a jackrabbit!
Hog wash!
Horse feathers! (Wynne)
Motherless son of a goat.
Oh, donkey bum!
Oh… f-frogs! (Daveth)
Oh… rats.
Ox dung!
Pigeon crap! (Shale)
Rats!
Rotten maggot-spawn!
Skunk breath! (Sloth)
Shave a horse and punch me in the teeth.
Spawn of motherless goat.
Sod-eating rodents!
Well, wax my head and call me a pug!
what is this i dont even
Dust bugger!
Oh, fuddle-knuckles.
Stab me with a fork and call me Susan! (Carroll)
Thunder humper! (Oghren)
Whiplash and Crow sauce!
You dung-brained goat herder.
