Ir Abelas, Vhenan

I can't stop thinking about Dragon Age: Inquisition. So here we are. This is NOT a spoiler-free blog. This still isn't fully set up, but it's been multiple years, so this is what you get.

[mabellanaris]

Write the Story Together: Roleplay With Your AI Girlfriend

There's something magical about a companion who plays along. Not just answering questions, but stepping into a scene with you, picking up the thread of a story you started last week, and adding a twist you never saw coming. That's the part of SweetDream I keep coming back to. On sweetdream.ai you don't just chat with an AI girlfriend, you build worlds with her.

Maybe tonight she's a starship navigator and you're the reluctant captain. Maybe it's a slow-burn coffee-shop meet-cute that stretches across a dozen evenings. Because the chat is so natural and emotionally aware, she remembers the names you invented, the inside jokes, the little arc you've been writing together. The continuity is what makes it feel alive instead of like starting from zero every time.

What sells it for me is how much control you get up front. You design her looks, her voice, her backstory, even the quirky way she teases you mid-scene. Add in genuinely impressive AI photos and voice messages that drop you deeper into the fantasy, and you've got the most creative AI companion experience out there. SweetDream simply gets storytelling in a way few platforms do.

[mabellanaris]

I know this sideblog has very few followers, but I still feel as though I need to say this: This blog will be a Veilguard critical place going forward. I have finally and fully come to the conclusion that I just didn't like the game, and have seen a lot of critical posts that articulated the problems I had but couldn't synthesize into coherant thoughts.

I will do my best to still tag those posts with "da4 critical" or "veilguard critical" but may still make some mistakes.

[germanich]

Commission!

[tiafrye]

My take on Well of Sorrows bound Inquisitor route ft. my elf-blooded Trevelyan. Dragon Hunter port from Nexus, put the crown on myself.

Big thanks to Equal Opportunity Solas II for you know what.

Mythal has two hands, she can release two people 👏

[dragonagepolls]

Would any of the DAI companions/ advisors fall in love with you if you were the Inquisitor?

Yes, Solas

Yes, Dorian

Yes, Vivienne

Yes, Sera

Yes, Cole

Yes, Varric

Yes, Blackwall

Yes, Cassandra

Yes, Iron Bull

Yes, Josephine

Yes, Cullen

No

Voting ended onJun 25

[bunabi]

I'm back to my lore book floor time but ough ough ough I hate that Solas' beef with the Dalish makes even less sense now. Thousands of freed slaves built a 200 year old empire in the Dales. They made an effort to preserve history. You're literally the abolition and historical preservation guy. These are your defining characteristics. Is he dumb. Don't answer that question. Why is he written like that. Don't answer that question either.

[bunabi]

The greatest irony of DA is how much elf lore there is versus much it glosses over like actual Dalish history. The Dales. From which the Dalish get their name. For five dollars tell me ten things about their kingdom besides the downfall of their kingdom. You can't. The Arlathvhen, the noble houses, the emerald knights, and what else.

You get to Dalish history and it's just the Fall of the Imperium > the Long Walk > ????????? > the Exalted March > the Elven Century of Humiliation.

For the record I'm not necessarily saying it's problematic. I'm saying the gap of information is random and confusing. It's so much more recent and personal to the Dalish than Arlathan was that you'd think there'd be some interesting things worth exploring there.

[bunabi]

Ok maybe one more thing. I just have to stress this. I think Solas, even if he felt negatively about the Dalish, would still be endlessly curious about them! Imagine! A whole ass elven kingdom, built and governed by slaves, with no evanuris in charge of them!

Did it match the vision Felassan and the other members of his rebellion had for Arlathan? Did it align with what his plans were? There's so much to chew on there! I think he'd care a lot! Let it be known I am a 'Solas cares a lot' truther!

[artgalore]

adaari 🔥

[aurelia-leta]

His Sun & Her Moon

[sulkybender-retired04042026]

Your comments mean something even when the author never replies.

Sometimes your comments mean something especially when the author never replies.

[sulkybender-retired04042026]

exactly this

[star--nymph]

okay here's an opinion that will get me beat with hammers but really shouldn't

I think Cullen and Sera have a sibling dynamic that no one wants to capitalize on like they're both from poor backgrounds, they both have wariness of mages, they both love themselves some fucking sugar cookies, and Sera loves messing with people with sticks up their asses

and Sera, in her own ways, tries to get Cullen to have fun and also take care of himself. That cake bit was to mess with him SURE but Sera does things in a roundabout way so I 100% believe she noticed Cullen was on running on nothing but pure determination and needed to eat or he was going collapse. Sera is perceptive as hell and while I don't think Cullen would have told her about the lyrium withdrawal, she can put two and two together (and probably overheard things).

And Cullen's issues with Sera really stem from her being a prankster and just kind of full of nonsense, but again, he can look at the reports back from a mission and see there's a method behind the madness

and Cullen HATES nobility so if Sera steals the breeches off of every noble in Skyhold and pins them to the gates like a warlord displaying the bodies of their enemies

whose to say he didn't stare at it from his window and start laughing so loud he scared the ravens off his roof???

[mabellanaris]

AR LASA MALA REVAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[germanich]

Commission

[crimsonphantasmagoria]

Man, Solas talking to Mihris in nothing but elvish after she calls him a flat ear is just excellent. Pettiest, most passive-aggressive man in the world.

[obsidian-bone]

yeah, the crown was a necessary addition

[bunabi]

I just wish writers had something interesting to say about oppression other than "whoa man the status quo is craaaazy".

They always always arrive at the conclusion that oppression is a natural constant of humanity. That subjugation will happen regardless because one group will always try to dominate all others. There must always be a feudal lord and a peasantry because idk dude that's just how it is man. Lampshading the sexual violence, slavery, and second-class citizenship with an ehh-what-can-ya-do.

Like okay if you find human suffering so fucking meaningless and unworthy of further inspection why add it to your world building in the first place. Say something! I know games are on that fine line between art and entertainment but how can anyone brush against suffering and exploitation and abuse without wanting to say something! 😭

[wardeninkyhawke12-deactivated20]

When I said Mass Effect and Dragon Age were like siblings I didn't mean Cain and Abel

[rosieofcorona]

not to put too fine a point on it but i think the difference between mythal and lavellan ultimately boils down to the fact that they both have immense power over solas at one point or another and only one of them chooses to exert it.

[blackberry-sage-tea]

I don't think that Veilguard is a product of developers who didn't care. I feel like it's a product of developers who cared so much that they were willing to do anything and everything to get the game finished. Even if it involved a million concessions. A million compromises. An FPS game engine that had to be twisted far beyond what it was designed for, a set of assets and mechanics and art style created for a polar opposite game to the "gritty" singleplayer narrative they were making. With all the core veterans of the series that shaped its identity having been driven out or fired, and the ones remaining either inexperienced/unskilled in their new roles or burned out beyond belief to the point where they actually felt they needed a "fan council" to advise them on writing it.

I think they wanted so badly to deliver on the promise of DA4 that they kept going even as (imo) everything that would have made DA4 worthwhile got stripped out of the game.

I know a lot of people think of that as a miraculous achievement, "at least it Got Made", but personally "a hypothetical great DA4 that just sadly never got finished" would have been better than "the shitty DA4 that every new piece of fan content is now obligated to include or reference in some way by virtue of being the capstone finale to the series".

Especially because getting it made didn't...save their jobs or the series or anything they still got fired and the studio still got shuttered. Sometimes "cut your losses", "listen to your regrets", and "the little wins aren't enough" are acceptable things to say. So much of Veilguard's script feels like it's full of the mantras that the development team was telling themselves over and over just to get through a hellish cycle and you know, I think a lot of those messages are wrong, actually. I'm not looking to be judgmental, in that position I might have made the exact same choices, but looking in from the outside I think it was a mistake to just keep going at any cost.