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*goes to Coachella in a white linen suit like an antebellum lawyer, sweating profusely and dabbing at my forehead with a handkerchief* now, I’m no fancy scientist, but would you folk know where a simple gentleman such as myself could obtain some acid? Now, I’m no big city lawyer, but could any of you fine youths point a country boy such as myself in the direction of some fucking acid?

fatgrowlithe

happy ten years to this post

fourth-wall-inc

I've realized that I do a lot of complaining but I actually love this game so much. So can we just appreciate how the first thing your first permanent companion says to you is "You know, one good thing about the Blight is how it brings people together"??

Because why does it PERFECTLY establish one of the core themes of the game?? EVERYTHING you do after Ostagar is bringing people together. Running around, gathering the most unexpected allies you can get just to end the Blight. You have a witch of the wilds, a chantry sister who is secretly an assassin, yet another assassin who actually tries to kill you, a soldier from this completely foreign nation who just went there because his boss got curious about the blight, an old lady who's somehow still able to stand on her feet just by some spirit miracle (even a literal spirit was like "damn, I have to come help those idiots") and an angry drunkard dwarf (okay, that last one is kind of typical fantasy companion but I love how they subverted the idea. Oghren is the most stereotypical dwarf to ever dwarf and yet all the other dwarves despise and mock him for it). And also don't forget a literal stone statue that hates all humanity (and birds)

All the major quests revolve around bringing different groups together to fight the Blight. The Landsmeet is, at its core, about bringing the Ferelden nobility together to finally do something about the Blight. Heck, you can even recruit the MAIN ANTAGONIST because more men fighting the darkspawn is ultimately more important than revenge. And also if you agree to Morrigan ritual it also brings a whole new being into this world, just to have a greater chance at surviving the final battle.

And also don't forget the Warden themselves. In the intro cutscene Duncan talks about how Grey Wardens recruit anyone who wants to fight darkspawn. Nobles, beggars, humans, dwarves, nobody cares. That's the whole running theme of this fraction. The whole Origin system, the main gimmick of the game and the literal title just highlights that anyone from any background can help to fight this world ending thing together. If that isn't some beautiful thematic consistency then I don't know what is

desiertas

All of this can rightly be called my fault. Whether or not you can do better remains to be seen. But if you can make this the end, Warden, I will follow you. I swear it. » I'm glad to have you. I suppose we'll see how long that lasts.

sscaredssheep

Dragon Age: Stolen Throne art. This was pretty experimental coloring wise, still adjusting

stonesense

it occurred to me that people might not know this and it still gets me: loghain’s massive silverite armour that he wears literally fucking everywhere including in, like, his office, in private, is a war trophy. he took it off the commander of the chevaliers at the conclusive battle against the orlesians. and before alistair was even born people thought it was weird how long he’d been wearing it. and he’s still wearing it.

#yea he he ha ha but please remember #he gave up everything for Maric #and he didnt want to #he lost his father and was denied the ability to BURY him #because maric batted his pretty eyes and said please dont leave #it had to be worth something #because maric ended up not even wanting to be king #he left with the wardens as soon as he possibly could in the calling #after having loghain basically force him to live #he needed his sacrifices to be worth something in the end #something worthwhile and lasting #i NEED loyalty like this

eastern-lights

jagalart

For Ferelden

Not much more is there to say, I love this guy. If you share the sentiment you might like to get a print of him at Targi Fantastyki or my store ✨

sisifroggy

Unhinged Text Posts: Loghain Mac Tir Edition

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seracadash

idk how to explain this properly but like. for me meredith works better as main villain than loghain not for how they are writen (cause indeed loghain has more content with the Power of being a companion) but for the themes in their stories. meredith is a templar with strong opinions about mages in a game thats full of strong opinions about mages and templars, companions npcs and missions included. You even got options to see who you support. Meanwhile loghain has the very very interesting conflict of orlais/ferelden wich is so cool but like. he is the only single character who cares about this. Like to a point that is ridiculous. He truly is like "am i going crazy im the only one who remembers the orlais ocupation??" and every single character just completelly ignores that topic. No one has opinions about it, not your companions, not the npcs, you can seen fereldan nobles marrying orlesians and no one comments on it. You know if that noble was dating a mage everyone would be like "omg the scandal!!!" but if it's an orlesian they just got an accent and not worth commenting. So it's like so fucking weird cause unless you read the book or recruit loghain you don't know how deep that shit goes. and then they never talk again about it in the next games except maybe a very misseable codex entry and like cmon this should be. A big main conflict. Like they talk about it a bit in dao but not as much as they should imo...