#dagna

[zimbaubwa]

Dagna as Page of Swords tarot card for @dragonageannual

"Bright and alert, the Page of Swords is someone who never seems to run out of ideas. She is curious, always asking questions, and gifted with a sharp tongue and quick wit to match."

The perfect description for Dagna to my mind

[redlyriumidol]

why is dagna lowkey evil if you don't help her in DAO 😭

[sophiasartandgaming]

[troublesome-carver]

Dagna's first time in the Circle of Magi || for Dragon Age zine I'm not very proud of it, cause I knew I could do it better, but anyway!!! girl found her place!!!

[seracadash]

If you don't mind, can you help me figure out what a typical Orzammar dwarf's perception on magic would be? I'm trying to figure out what my Aeducan and Brosca's opinion on magic is, but I can't because I don't know what dwarves of Orzammar feel about magic. It is strange? Scary? Boring? Useful? Do they go "eww" at it? Would they approve of the Circles? What would Aeducan and Brosca feel about Morrigan? Any thoughts you can share?

Oh Anon I love talking about dragon age dwarves so thank you <3

I would say that probably they don't hate magic as much or are less afraid cause when Orzammar dwarves interact with magic is probably from a grey warden who came there to kill darkspawn, and in general they do like the wardens because of this. But also they are very traditional and magic is some weird non-dwarf surface thing. They are fine selling lyrium to templars in the south wich is the thing keeping the circles strong, but also they are fine selling lyrium to the tevinter imperium mages. So it's more a practical thing to them or how it benefits them, or a far away thing they don't care about, but it brings them money! So there is a lot to play with here.

Now, even if the Orzammar circle of mage is not canon anymore, it was once, and this was the epilogue if you helped Dagna to study magic.

“This inspired mages from other parts of Thedas to establish a new Circle of Magi in Orzammar itself, one that had ready access to dwarven lyrium... and lies outside the Chantry's power completely. The willingness of Orzammar to harbor apostates sparked outrage that began whispers that the Divine was contemplating a new Exalted March.”

I wished the Orzammar Circle of magic was still there cause thinking about all the possibilities of how that would had go are soooooo interesting to me....

We also know the carta hires apostates (we fight some of them). And we can check what Dagna, Oghren and Sigrun think of magic.

As we know, Dagna loves magic, but she is considered very weird for this... BUT also we never see anyone in ferelden or orlais that is a non mage half this passionate or curious about magic, so that shows in Orzammar is not this horrible horrible thing. We know she could read some books on magic that she could get in Orzammar, some from tevinter (so they will talk of magic favorably). And really, the main problem is that she wanted to go to the surface. If you talk with her dad, he says "Dwarves don't do magic. Dagna knows that. It's just a childhood fantasy that dies hard." Wich implies to me that is not weird for dwarf orzammar kids to fantasize about magic.

Sigrun ALSO finds magic cool and interesting. She ask Anders if he can set a bush on fire or freeze it in one of their banters, and Anders say magic isn't for her amusement.

Now, Oghren doesn't find magic that cool. He tells Morrigan out of the blue, "You couldn't hurt me if you wanted to, witch, you know that? (...) Dwarves resist magic, woman. There's nothing you could do." wich indicates there is a bunch of them who can be like "ah magic won't do anything to me <3 im resistant" but he is also wary of this strange outsider magical thing. He also has a conver with Morrigan where he ask if she can turn into animals, and how do they know she is really a human woman (so!! magic is strange -> so he is suspicious and defensive about it). With Anders, the talks of magic are always to tell him "you are not manly enough. Unlike me".

Dagna also makes some comments that sound a bit like... she says with pride she can do enchantment and mages can't, not even how hard they try. So you can also see in her and Oghren that dwarves can get a bit defensive about the non-magic thing.

So with all this you can see the opinions on magic may vary for each dwarf, but it would be more likely that they reject it way less than the people in the surface, and if they reject it, is less out of fear of demons and more of "this is weird and doesn't belong here".

[zombolouge]

if dwarves start mysteriously getting magic (as they hinted might be going on with Harding), then Dagna is gonna be fuckin running to Minrathous. She's gonna burst out of one of the sewers below Solas' feet like I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE, WHERE DO I SIGN? DO I NEED TO WEAR FALSE EARS? I'LL DO IT. I'LL WEAR WHATEVER YOU WANT JUST PUT THE FADE DIRECTLY IN MY VEINS.

[dragonagegallery]

Trespasser DLC. An earlier version of the story. Sten would arrive to arrest you for meddling with magic, but Dagna has reverse engineering their explosives. You leave a trap for when they return, sacrificing Skyhold in the process.

By Matt Rhodes

[johnnykitten]

It has come to my attention, that I've never posted my final piece for @loveacrossthedaszine on here. So let me change that.