#da2 arishok

[miar-art]

another redraw

[shadowfaxgeraet-cosplay]

"Their actions are merely symptoms. Your society is the disease."

Hello there, Arishok!

This Cosplay was so much fun but also sometimes so frustrating to make.

I'm very proud of the horns/wig though. :D

(Now I only need to learn how to stop smiling and look like a big bad angry dude.🙃)

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Wonderful photographer @no-other-cosplay / @no-other-username-was-free

[randomness-in-motion]

Fenris is such a supportive life partner, advocating for me to duel with the Arishok, so I can look absolutely silly running my mage arse in a figure eight 🥴

Carver, you fckin secret sap. Cullen, please stop eating your armour.

[vraehan]

The duel that borne Kirkwall’s Champion.

[asphy7]

Dragon age October 13, favourite enemy

Arishok got done dirty

[queen-baezel]

Let me mix fandoms here for a moment, but if Larian forces me to fight my Queen then it better be like fighting the Arishok in DA2.

[crystalbull]

The Qun

On the surface, the Qun seems ideal. Everyone has a purpose, everyone knows what they will be for the rest of their lives. Sex is casual, like going to see a healer. It answers a lot of questions for a lot of people. However, it is oppressive. Extremely oppressive. Personal choice is stripped from it's followers. Their ability to choose their own path is non-existent. If you're a woman, you become a priest or Tamaasran. You cannot choose anything else. If you do not fit that role, but in fact fit the role of a man, you are forced to live as a man and called a man. The Qun's societal roles are based heavily on gender stereotypes. The Qun's roles are based on skill as well, but please tell me, when have you ever only been good at one thing? Sten is very confused to see someone who sounds like a woman and looks like a woman fighting. He is confused as to why a woman wants to choose the role of a man. Sten is a warrior, as all men under the Qun are meant to be in some way. Sten struggles with the notion of choice, almost refusing to believe people would want to choose. Sten is so indoctrinated that he panics so much over a lost weapon that his anxiety results in murder. The weapon that still identifies him as Qunari and not Tal-Vashoth means so much to him that he's willing to cross Fereldan several times to find it. Sten fears what would happen to him without that weapon. Bull talking about the Qun is not a good example of Qunari life. He is Ben-Hassrath, he lived as an undercover Tal-Vashoth for years in Orlais because he couldn't think of a reason to continue doing his original job in Seheron. He refused to turn his back on the Qun, so he turned himself into the re-educators. Let me say that again. /He turned himself in to the re-educators, who torture people into re-learning the Qun, or kill those who don't break/. Bull spent more time with people outside the Qun than most other Qunari. He developed a personality and affection for others. Bull doubts the Qun, despite wanting desperately to follow it for purpose. He's happier if he's Tal-Vashoth. He admits the Qun has issues and he's questioning it, constantly struggling with himself. The Arishok is a prime example of how fucked up the Qun is. A man who thinks living outside the Qun is abhorrent. A man who believes the Qun solves all problems. A man who is more concerned about whether or not a Saarebas kept to the Qun rather than if he died or not. A man who advocates for a "deny and die" philosophy. A man who believes that glory is assured under the Qun. The Qunari tie up mages, bind them, make them mute, treat them as animals. The Qunari treat their own kind as savages and animals if they deny the Qun or leave it. The Qunari murder dissenters. The Qun is not ideal by any means. Its a cruel, collectivist ideology. Its members know very little of the Qun itself. Its members are blind to reality, refusing to accept that people are not mindless sheep that play follow the leader. They loathe individuality. The Qun has selective breeding for ideal traits, like Tevinter. It chooses two people with ideal traits and makes them produce a child, which is then taken by the Tamaasrans to be raised. The Qunari do not have relationships. The Qun is oppressive and strips it's members of all freedoms they may have had otherwise.

[sirianhewigv]

Dragon Age 2 : Arishok by Wild-Theory