#blind men

[loustica]

DATV — Raiders at the Cobbled Swan

I'm not sure I like the way the Raiders of the Waking Sea/Felicisima Armada's heraldry can be found as far as in Dock Town's Cobbled Swan…

In Inquisition, we learned in Crestwood that some of them were selling slaves to Tevinter...🫠

Please, be a mere alcohol commerce and not a shady business🙏

(It's Tevinter, OF COURSE it's shady business asdfghjk)

And then people dare to say Veilguard has forgotten the past-games lore???

[navarresimp]

I may have gotten a thermal printer the size of my palm

[lairofdragonagelore]

The Crossroads [DLC Trespasser]: Abandoned Chateau

One of the many eluvians in the crossroads allows us to reach an abandoned Chateau without name which location is unknown to us. It’s only hinted that the eluvian they had acquired used to be placed in Tevinter.

[This is part of the series “Playing DA like an archaeologist”]

[Index page of Dragon Age Lore]

We find an Andraste statue around the corner of the statue of the Sun-head creature which introduces us to a chamber decorated like an Orlesian Chateau. It has an active eluvian. Cole says that we are going to head to a place that “is not” anymore; this is Cole’s style to say “abandoned”. But it’s also curious to think that this eluvian used to give access somewhere in Tevinter. In that case, the decoration around the eluvian should have been more Tevinter, if this hypothesis of the reflection around the mirror is correct, of course. Unless it changed when the eluvian was transported to this abandoned Chateau. So, if all these hypothesis are correct, the Crosroads are not like the Fade in the sense that it reflects the waking world entirely, but maybe they do it around the eluvians.

The inside of this Chateu reminds me a lot to the Chateau D’Onterre, which library looked very similar [of course, this must be just a reuse of assets and configurations of environments]. In this place we have several codices: Book of Butterflies, which seems to be a present from Dutchess Lutetia to someone who liked butterflies.

In the corridor, there is A Faded Letter, unsent and written a month before the Breach, where we learn that Yoan, a collector, acquired an eluvian found in Tevinter after an earthshake uncovered an elven ruin. This explains why this eluvian sends us to an Orlesian Chateau. This also makes us aware that there are more elvhen ruins in Tevinter underground.

This place is now abandoned due to the War of the Lions. The author of the faded letter said he would recover the mirror once he was established in Val Royeaux, but since Trespasser occurs two years after the inquisition, it seems safe to assume this noble may have died along the road or simply forgot to recover it.

When we reach to the end of the corridor, we find this chamber with ancient andrastian statues, the stylised orlesian dog statues, and what tells us a bit of story: the symbol of the blind men. We know this symbol appears where smuggling is done. We find it in Hissing Wastes as well as Crestwood and Storm Coast, in places where smuggling by pirates has been done. So, it’s seems safe to assume this Chateau is now used by smugglers.

The room presents the typical over decorated style of Orlais: eluvian-esque doors and windows, patterns in gold on the wall, extremely decorated tables that have been used in elvhen ruins and Ferelden fortress too, so this is more a reusable asset.

In a corner, we see a lot of objects that may have belonged to the Chateau and they are being smuggled, or simply this is the activity of the smugglers who had piled up all the elements they have so far.

The patterns on the wall are quite interesting. We have the mask inspired in the  Dalish mask, and arabesques in gold, that, ironically, represent a thorny vine.

Close to the old andrastian statues, we find Illustrated Periodical, where some orlesian family will marry another family from Denerim, and therefore the heraldry and the fashion of the families and their chevaliers has to change. A lot of more orlesian boring stuff, lol. Lore-wise is telling us that the marriage between families modify the symbols and the heraldry of the original ones. This is not a minor detail.

When we open the chest, we fight arcane horrors and undead. At the end, we gather one of the parts of the codex Notes on Methods of Enchantment and an item of the set The Taken Shape. I analyse these items and codex in its corresponding post.

[canonlgbtcharacters]

The canon LGBT+ character of the day is

Hunter from Blind Men, who is MLM!

[cannondisabledcharacters]

Today’s disabled character of the day is Keegan from Blind Men, Who is visually impaired

[Image Description: Drawing of a man with medium black hair. He has a blue button up shirt with golden shoulders and buttons. He has an eye patch over his right eye and his left one is black. He is folding his hands in front of himself.]

[julieschulerart]

Museum for the Blind. The Duel 11" x 14". https://www.etsy.com/listing/190788825

[reginleif-valkyrie]

Keegan from the dating game Blind Men.

I ❤️ him. He's so adorable!

[billionyenmen]

Keegan from Blind Men (by @monstrousloversevn) re-imagined as a Morioh resident~