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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
we're not kids anymore.
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Mother Hannah: Blessed is the Prophetess, His daughter, sacrificed to the holy flame. May the Chant reach the Maker's ears and tell Him of our contrition.
Has anyone noticed this before? I've not seen anywhere else in the game mention the Maker's daughter/refer to Andraste as such.
AF attack against @imwyvy of the bestest firbolg ever, Etta.
The original plotter and instigator. I'm curious to see how they deal with her entity (for lack of a better term, I guess) in Veilguard.
i will never get over the dao character creator being like "men and women are equal :)" and the dao intro being like "men and women of all races and creeds come together to form the grey wardens" and then the entirety of ostagar is like "huh, didnt know an elf could join the wardens. oh, there are only men in the camp."
its a shame that we've seen spirits possess trees and rocks and studd, but our only spirit companions are: possessing person, possessing corpse, or the (admittedly cool) made their own weird semi-human body
does anyone else think it would be kind of better if the pc was told at the beginning of the game that a grey warden had to die to end the blight?
i certainly understand the *drama* of telling them right on the eve of battle, but i think having the players have the thought that they will need to either let themself or alistair die in the back of their mind the entire game would be interesting. i think it would make the wardens' emphasis on sacrifice make more sense, and wynne's lectures on how it is a warden's duty to serve and save everyone more impactful.
i also think it would make accepting the dark ritual kind of more of a difficult choice if the player had already accepted this truth, rather than hearing they're going to die and then immediately offering another solution.
Revenant and Maris
thinking about how if alistair does the dark ritual, then there's a decent chance kieran is the sole heir to the ferelden throne
The Maker smiles sadly on his Grey Wardens, so the Chantry says, as no sacrifice is greater than theirs.
remembering the work miranda raison put in to create the unique nevarran accent for cassandra and then in veilguard everyone in the mourn watch is just british
@dykieran i will never be able to think of manfred as anything BUT skeleton pinocchio. immaculate
Another artfight character ref, started out as an AU version of Luce but kinda became more and more her own thing.
Basically she's everything Luce pretends to be: claiming power not for herself but to have the strength to support those who cannot fight for themselves. All the while losing parts of who she once was.
She's essentially a historical figure, a saint in her setting. Chimeras are rare, she was born a chimera (but not as much as she ended up, just like sheep and some other animal) and claimed the power of more animals becoming even more monstrous in her appearance.
thinking about coptic mummy paintings and weeping
like. i know these people
Vultures are holy creatures.
Tending the dead.
Bowing low.
Bared head.
Whispers to cold flesh,
“Your old name is not your king.
I rename you ‘Everything.’”
fun fact!
Vultures are also responsible for keeping diseases at bay.
Vulture stomach acid is so powerful that it can kill anthrax and many other deadly diseases.
So when they consume the carcass of a creature that has died of disease, they actually destroy the disease within it too!
So yes vultures are 100% holy creatures because they not only eat the dead, but protect the living from death.
what if. rather than them all being associated with crows/ravens, leliana was associated with actual messenger birds, lucanis was associated with an actual bird of prey. and morrigan was associated with. idk. a bird that actually lives in the swamp.
Throughout the history of Thedas, there had been multiple attempts to set the Litany of Adralla to music, both to serve as a memory aid and to have the melody provide a sense of comfort to the petitioner, in addition to the protection from demonic forces the litany itself provides.
None of these compositions have quite managed to rival the popularity of the rather controversial Mother Nicana version, which will be presented to you shortly.
Born in Jader in 7:56 Storm, Revered Mother Nicana was a figure as beloved by her faithful as she was inconvenient to her superiors.
Ever practical, as well as a fierce advocate for following the spirit of the Chant, regardless of the politics of the time, she faced criticism from peers in the Chantry for choosing the original Tevene text as the basis for her composition. When pressed, she simply answered that if she could find a single translation that fit the original's metre, she would consider it.
In spite of this short-lived controversy (or perhaps because of it), this version became popular especially among those who had need of the litany for practical uses, such as the Mourn Watchers of Nevarra.
The following are two performances of Mother Nicana's Litany of Adralla. One was performed by the lay sisters of the Tantervale Chantry. The other was heard sung in Kirkwall's Lowtown by an initial survivor (presumed to have been a minstrel employed in the Hanged Man tavern) of the catastrophic fallout of Anders' destruction of the Kirkwall Chantry in an attempt to protect himself and several others from the demons that surrounded them.
Lyrics (vowels in brackets are those that undergo elision; translation follows):
Auctor meus, miserere mihi,
Auctor mundi, avert(e) iram tuam.
Orig(o) omnis, miserere mihi,
Orig(o) animarum, avert(e) iram tuam.
Andraste, spons(a) Auctoris, audi me,
Andraste, sancta prophetis, audi me.
Redemptrix omnium, exaudi me,
Domina maeroris, exaudi me.
Ne patiamini animas piorum corrumpi,
in hor(a) aterrim(a) adiuvate servum vestrum humilem.
In nomin(e) Andrastes, fiat ita.
In nomin(e) Auctoris, fiat ita.
My Maker, have mercy on me,
Maker of the World, avert Thy wrath.
Origin of Everything, have mercy on me,
Wellspring of Souls, avert Thy wrath.
Andraste, Bride of the Maker, hear me,
Andraste, Holy Prophetess, hear me,
Redeemer of All, hear my prayer,
Lady of Sorrows, hear my prayer.
Let you not suffer the souls of the faithful to be corrupted,
in this darkest hour, aid your lowly servant.
In the name of Andraste, so let it be.
In the name of the Maker, so let it be.
Note: In the English version, "you" is used in the older sense of "you two" or "you all", while "thou" (or rather the possessive "thy") is used for the singular. Therefore, when asking for the Maker to avert His wrath, the penitent is addressing the Maker only. Later on, though, when asking for protection against corruption, they are addressing both the Maker and Andraste.
This distinction is also present in the Latin text.
Had to take a crack at making my warden a DA card
