Polka Dot Foxx

Well, hello. I'm a 27 year old human being with an intense love for Tolkien, British History, and Henry Tilney. Victorian Mod Stylist. Still in college, pursuing a History degree, and most likely never leaving..

[okthisway]

highkey obsessed with illario stretching words when he talks

[point-maitimo]

Fifth Talon watches his protege tensely during the battle. What a man!

[toritelling]

... - But in a good way? ... - Promise? ... - Just don't leave ...

[dragonagegallery]

Antivan Crows

[wheels-of-fire-goes-tumblin]

Is it not extremely obvious to everyone else that Lucanis and Davrin would OF COURSE be doing the Gimli and Legolas kill count competition?!?!??!

Davrin saunters up to Lucanis after a big battle, proud and cocky.

D: "Final count: 42."

L: "42? That's very good for a Grey Warden. I myself am sitting pretty at 43."

D: *fumes, stabs the hurlock Lucanis is sitting on.* "43."

L: "It was already dead, cabrón!"

D: "It was twitching."

L: "It was twitching because it has my 4 knives in it's spinal column."

Also Assan would kill a guy and Lucanis just, sing song from the other side of the battlefield, "Doesn’t count! 😈😈"

And Davrin would just shriek back. "IT DOES COUNT."

[suchafrickinkayce]

I'm so damn tempted to set up a fund to get Zach Mendez, Brian Bloom, and Leonardo Santaiti to read the Wigmaker's Job aloud.

I don't know what it'll cost but I need to hear it.

[rin-hanarin]

I love Viago, he's so funny for no reason.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[that-assassin-ninja-stuff]

Realizing that Viago doesn't need words, his face is all the subtitles we need 😂

And then realizing this is probably how I look at work when my boss tells me to stop talking.

Me: Like ok but I can't turn the subtitles off my dude.

Boss : the what????

Me : 🤨😒🙄😮‍💨🫠

[liaragaming]

Out of all the demons in Dragon Age, I think I hate the Despair demons the most.

Like, they look like sad decrepit little old ladies. Their clothes all in rags and the hood over their heads and their spindly little limbs.

And you might think, "Aw. So sad. I wish I could help it."

But then they hit you with that ice attack from a gazillion miles away that's like a laser beam aimed at your very soul.

And they have these mouths that are just the absolute fucking worst. Like, under their hood, there's no eyes! No nose! Just the worst mouth with too many teeth that is here to devour you! Yuck!

And, oh! Oh? They got a redesign in Veilguard, you say?

Fuck off!

I'd rather go fight a broodmother.

[witchyseasees]

These dicks--they bitch slap you and then magical transformation girl twirl 50 miles away and THEN laser beam you.

[liaragaming]

"magical transformation girl twirl" 🤩🤣

[badwolf626]

okay I just need to do this...

can we please take a moment to appreciate this mans face and the animation of his expressions because they are absolute perfection and I am dying....

[niofo]

the thing about dav is that once november comes i'm never ever leaving treviso. i'm sorry about the end of the world, i found my calling as viago's court jester.

[illusivesoul]

Some upscaled shots of DA2 cutscenes and loading screens. More under the cut.

[rachelamberish]

One of the craziest things about Dragon Age (and this might help those of you who don’t go here kind of understand what people are yelling about in the coming months) is its lore. But I don’t mean that in the way you’re probably thinking.

I mean, quite literally, the way it presents its lore to you. In picking up notes and books as you go along and sifting through the codex, the game effectively asks you to act as an anthropologist. You’re met with a host of primary and secondary sources, some many hundreds of years apart from one another, written by anyone from the highest Chantry scholar to John Farmer, and you’re meant to constantly be questioning every piece of information you’re given. What biases are present in what I’m reading? What is fact and what is complete fabrication and what is, potentially, a slightly twisted version of a fact? How does one source potentially contradict another? The lore is one giant mystery-puzzle that you get to piece together across three games, and what conclusions you draw are going to be entirely different from someone else’s, and so on.

And yet, the series still does something even cooler than any of that. You realize, at a certain point, that this idea you have been engaging with on a meta-level — this idea that history is biased and fallible, that it’s written by colonizers and conquerers, genocidal racists and religious zealots, that the ability to control historical narrative is the prize you win for spilling the most blood — that idea is one of, if not perhaps THE most important, overarching theme of the series. The way that we remember history — what we remember and what we don’t, and why — and the impact that has on people on a sociological, political, cultural and psychological level, on both a macro and micro scale. It’s the entire thesis of the series’ main villain’s whole motivation.

And there’s gonna be a lot of people that don’t care about all that but me personally it makes me want to gnaw on a cinder block and scratch at my walls

[spekkios]

so, what now?

bonus:

[callmedaisy]

Old book covers

[jack-of-blades]

‘It’s good to have companions that compliment the character build strategy you want’

Okay my strategy is which two companions I find the most interesting and/or funny