#denerim

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

"I hate the fade." "I hate the deep roads." Well I hate fucking Denerim. Run around getting jumped every four minutes. There's a fucking plague nobody is dealing with. Some blind templar is the only one doing his job. Terrible layout. Ass of a city.

[ohmyarda]

"All I need to know is if there might be some future for us, some possibility of... I do not know what. [...] I still have the earring. I would like to give it to you... as a token of affection. Will you take it? [...] Then that is enough for me."

Dragon Age: Origins themed Valentine Day commission by the wonderful @quibbs 💕in which Zevran turns the camp into a makeshift tattoo parlor because my Tabris doesn't have her ears pierced. maker she's going to get sepsis.

[tommieglenn]

In truth, for the chance to be by your side, I would storm the Dark City itself. Never doubt it. (c)

I still remember that playthrough of DA:O like a decade ago (third at least), where I decided this time I'm gonna sacrifice my Warden at the end. I think at that point I knew how it goes. You kill the hellish dragon and you die. What I didn't expect - to suddenly be broken at those moments where everyone at my party speaks, like the Warden is gonna come back, like there's gonna be an "after" the battle.

Like Alistair saying that we'll talk about the "him being the king" situation after.

And like Zevran saying this in the middle of the battle for Denerim.

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[seratlantisite]

Denerim flycam

i am so in love with the city they designed but dont actually let us see.

so the city is essentially a bowl, built up both sides of the valley around river drakon. as in it's not just the fort and the palace that are higher than the rest of the city but it curves back up again across the river. all of ferelden's coast really is mountain, no wonder its so hard for orlais to invade.

here's the market district. its just the market itself and the distant ring of the city's edges at the highest points.

i understand Why they made the walls so tall, to save on rendering, but i wish we could see ANY of this its SO cool. I love how dense and alive this city looks. every other place we see is so sparse and empty

here is a close up on some of the prop filler buildings. while every human building we see up close in game is covered in crumbling debris that would make living in them almost impossible (why bioware. ancient ruins weren't ancient AT THE TIME) these look like functional medieval towers AND what i want to call tudor-ish town homes, mansions and apartments. love the mix side by side, shows a functioning but ancient city

here's fort drakon and its tiered approach. MUCH more realistic than the concept art's thousand meter mesa or whatever the hell they drew.

i'll be kind and put all the panoramas under a read more

as you play through the battle of denerim and move closer and closer to drakon sometimes they delete the mountain, so you can see the tower silhouette better. if you get flycam i suggest exploring from the alienage map because every denerim map has just the location and that distant outer ring of stuff. but because the alienage has an open side for the bridge its got a lot more filler in between.

the view out and around the alienage bridge

now i'll attempt to convey the full panorama, again from the alienage. this city is SO much bigger than the map they gave us im gnawing at the bars of my cage. look at it!

hopefully those are in order lol. i'm running out of pictures so i will save analysis of the river for a second post, and instead leave you with ferelden's ridiculously tiny palace and the palace district up to fort drakon

top: the palace (?) itself on its tiers (its so small??). bottom left: the view over the front side wall. bottom right: the view over the back gate up to drakon. there's so much city between the palace and fort, wow

[delyriumred]

It was a generous art-gift 🎁

"On the outskirts of Denerim, Fenris stumbled forward, his feet dragging after yet another fight he had sought out. When he reached the riverbank, he let his sword fall and lowered himself beside it. He sat on the cold ground, his knees drawn to his chest, elbows resting heavily on them as he stared at the water. The sky above was clear after a light rain, the stars mirrored in the river flowing through all of Ferelden. But lost in thought, Fenris couldn’t see the beauty of the night.

The constant fights were draining him. Day after day after day, he pushed on, his body and mind battered. He was caught in a relentless loop, each struggle keeping him just alive enough to face the next."

The story behind it

[loustica-lucia]

Alistair Week Day 7 — Victory

Day 1 ✦ Day 2 ✦ Day 3 ✦ Day 4 ✦ Day 5 ✦ Day 6 ✦ Day 7

For @alistairweek💖

Dealing the last blow against Urthemiel, ending the Fifth Blight, witnessing a brand new dawn upon Denerim💖

This entire week has been doodled on paper with pencils first, then edited digitally and rendered using Clip Studio Paint🎨

[shewolfofvilnius]

so a couple weeks ago I decided that my Rook in Veilguard was going to be a little girl who grew up in the Denerim Alienage and remembered Tabris from when she was a little kid and looked up to her. And I decided to replay the female City Elf origin since it'd been six years Y'ALL THERE ARE A LITTLE BOY AND GIRL PLAYING IN AN ALLEY. AND YOU CAN INTERRUPT THEIR GAME AND TELL THEM A STORY OF A HEROIC ELF AND IF THE KIDS BUY IT THEY GET SO EXCITED AT A STORY OF A HEROIC ELF.

Y'ALL this little girl is absolutely, positively, my Rook.

YOU CAN ALSO TELL HER (and the boy with her) THAT A ROGUE HERO TOOK FROM THE RICH (ie nobles and leaders) TO HELP THE POOR, AND THAT WHEN THE TIME CAME, SHE TURNED HERSELF IN IN ORDER TO HELP PEOPLE AGAIN.

That is QUITE LITERALLY Warden Rook's backstory minus darkspawn. Rook helped people, nobles and Warden brass got really REALLY mad about it, Rook stood in account but also stood proud and defiant.

I swear to the Maker I didn't KNOW about the kids when I planned this out but WOW WOW WOW.

[illusivesoul]

Queen Anora's speech during the Battle of Denerim