#drakestone

[sylviadragon]

thanks to whoever rebloged that humble bundle deal for corel painter. Decided to draw this bad boy to help me make the change from Gimp to the new program. I can already see improvements! 

(you can find more of my art on art blog, Drakestone) 

[dragonfartart]

Hi I'm Anders and this is Jackass

[catinthesewing-blog]

Possibly the creepiest atmospheric bit in DAI

So, y’know that resource gathering bit?  One of the minerals in the first section of the game, the Hinterlands, is Drakestone.  It’s spiky, red, and sticks out of rock surfaces.

It looks just like red lyrium.

Think about that.  Some poor schmuck is just trying to mine some level 1 cheapo minerals to fix their plough or something, thinks they’re grabbing a chunk of Drakestone, and instead gets red lyrium.

Hell, any templars who questioned this “new, improved lyrium” could have been told some genius alchemist just discovered combining lyrium wiht other minerals improved its performance, and its totally believable because no one knows what lyrium is excepts it’s mined by dwarves, and hey, Drakestone is mined and is that color.

In other news, yep, still sick, I’m just trying to be awake for at least a few hours a day.  I’ve played DAI so many times that I can do it pretty much on auto-pilot, which is good, cause that’s about as much brain as I have right now.  But when I’m spaced out like this, apparently my notice-things-and-tie-them-together-in-a-pattern meter is completely unfettered by little stuff like living, so stuff like this happens.

[chroniclerwabba]

Is drakestone exists in the Dragon Age universe, does that mean joshstone exists as well?