#elandrin

[the2ndkiddo]

So I started my first *actual* dnd campaign, and naturally took to drawing the members of our party. Meet the Serendipsticks, the eclectic crew who stumbled upon an interstellar adventure across the Astral Sea.

[tricksterpale]

Mistletoe asks: 2 or 8 with Caspian and my angrii tiny salad son Elandrin, if they spark joy? 👀

This sparks joy.

[ken-do-attidude]

New D&D character deserves new art

[lairofdragonagelore]

DAI: Ancient Elven codices; Din'an Hanin– Elgar’nan Bastion

Codices that have a good degree of certainty, closer to the truth of what happened in the time of the Evanuris. I’ve collected all the codices in the said area and I’ve summarise them in bullet-points and implications. Since everything requires Context, some of them will be accompanied with the current location in the game, in order to give us an extra bit of understanding. I usually add my thoughts at the end of the bullet-point list.

This building was an old elvhen ruin that the Emerald Knights took as their own, for this reason I believe the codices we find in here have little value for us to understand the elvhen lore. However, it allows us to understand the time of Ameridan, and how the world was more mixed when it came to Humans and Elves, producing a cultural blending  that will be reflected in the Religion. The information we find here is mostly a romantisation of the Elvhenan culture that the Dalish could rebuilt, filling it with inaccurate concepts and explanations. I compile them here just to see the contrast with the other posts.

This post contains the brief analysis of the following codices/notes

Arlathan: Part One

Arlathan: Part Two

The Emerald Knights

Epitaphs for the Lost

The Death of Elandrin

In this ruin we find Arlathan: Part One and Arlathan: Part Two. Both codices are written by Gisharel. Like all related to Dalish knowledge, we know there is little of truth in it, and it’s hard to determine what part belongs to the History and what part is just a romanticised version of the past.  These codices can be summarised as:

Elves were immortal and never-changing. Which is one of the true pieces that the Dalish managed to kept.

As immortals, worshipping and taking decisions would last centuries. 

They would sleep in Uthenera to walk the Fade. [This seems to be false. Elvhenan used Uthenera with another purpose, they did not need to enter Uthenera to walk the Fade, they lived in a state where the world and the Fade were one.]

Arlathan was in the center of the world, a place of knowledge and debate, where the best of the ancient elves would go to trade knowledge, greet old friends, and settle disputes that had gone on for millennia.

The humans came from Par Vollen, and they were creatures that died fast and were brash and warlike. Not like the elves who were unhurried and diplomatic [last part is clearly not  true considering how much the Evanuris fought each other]

The humans  “tainted” the elves that were in more contact with them., becoming ill and ageing.

Arlathan was closed off from humans to avoid that effect.

The Dalish don’t know what happened with Arlathan.

Tevinter was created and with it, the conquer of the lands of Elvhen started.

Tevinter breached Arlathan with magic, demons and dragons and captured each elf that became mortal as a consequence.

Tevinter forced the ground to swallow Arlathan, so it’s now buried deep down.

The elvhen asked to their gods for help, but there was no answer because Fen’Harel had trapped them.

Dead elves claim that Fen’Harel still roams the Fade keeping watch of the gods so they won’t escape, [which seems to be true so far we can interpret Solas’ actions].

The Emerald Knights. There is not much to say about this codex in my opinion. It translates pretty well the sentiment of the Elves of the Dales, during a time before the Second Blight, when they developed an Empire in the lands that Andraste had given to them.

Epitaphs for the Lost. It makes a more detailed description of how the names in the previous codex died.

The Death of Elandrin explains the truth about Red Crossing, the last straw that triggered the Exalted March of the Dales. As Solas has said in the beginning of this region, both sides, human and Dalish, had been quite brutal. A detail worth noting is that Elandrin did not care about the elven gods. It shows now, explicitly, not only through the architecture, that these Dalish were a lot more flexible in their beliefs, even sceptical. We only see one of these Dalish in DA games: Ameridan, who had no problem in asking for help to Ghilan’nain and Andraste at the same time before facing Hakkon.   

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[darantha]

“Rest now as our honored brother once more. A wreath of daisies at your brow, the letter she carried in your hand. Whoever guides you, whoever guides her, may your souls meet once more in the beyond.“ - Elandrin and Adalene

Dear Bioware, when I said to my friend that I wanted to know the truth about what happened at Red Crossings prior to DA:I’s release, I didn’t mean it was alright for you to rip my heart out with some Starcrossed Lovers and a huge misunderstanding.

[inquisitormaiwe-blog]

Faded blood stains the letter:

Adalene,

What care have I for gods I have never seen, for a Maker I do not know? Let others distract themselves with such lofty concerns. I know only this life, I have seen only this world, and I care only for you.

Perhaps your priestess distrusts the sincerity of "uncivilized" elves. If she must hear me say I will follow the Maker, so be it. Your god intercedes as much as ours. My life will not change.

I will return in two weeks' time. My heart longs for you 'till then, and will remain with you forever after.

Elandrin

[milulya]

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_The_Girl_in_Red_Crossing

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_The_Death_of_Elandrin