#the bone pit

[becauseanders]

thinking about going to the bone pit in act 3, hawke seeing all this devastation and knowing everyone is dead, hawke contemplating all of their interactions with jansen and the other fereldans they personally told would be safe with them in charge, and all that could possibly be going through their mind wandering through the wreckage all the way up until they face the high dragon being “they trusted me…they trusted me”

[teine-mallaichte]

Been thinking about dragon adge 2 again... more specifically about the way slavers are used as the generic enemies and how that really could have been expanded upon...

so we have this city that's currently FULL of refugees, people are desperate, poor, destitute... they are living in slums in what used to be a sewer, their only access to health care is an illegal clinic ran by an apostate. They are traumatised, many have lost people, some may be alone, and it's clear that those in power do not care and this also happens to be a city known for its slave trade... people trafficking in that situation would thrive!!! then if we add in things like the Bone Pit, a place hwre only the most desperate work, a place that is so dangerous that on what feels like a weekly basis there is a disaster there, the workers constantly flooding Anders clinic. Also freaking DRAGONS It really feels like as well as the elves being kidnapped and shipped to Tervinter as slaves story line there was serious potential for something a kin to modern slavery and/or indentured servitude could have been explored so easily... the Bone Pit feels like the perfect set up for that, Hawke even gains 50/50 ownership, oimagine them finding out about the way the pit gains labour AFTER becoming part owner! Imagine Anders reaction! IMAGINE FENRIS'S REACTION!!!! I really wish I had the writing talent to do this concept justice as a fanfic... In fact if anyone wants to take this as a prompt and run with it go for it because this really feels like there's potential...

[dragonageconfessions]

CONFESSION:

I listened to the cut content from the Bone Pit quest in DA2 and it made me wish Hubert had gotten truly punished for what he did to the workers. At least Hawke gave the survivors the Bone Pit but I will always think Hubert deserved a punishment that fit his selfish actions.

Mod Note: This is the audio from the cut content in the Bone Pit Quest

[roguelioness]

At the Bone Pit

Merrill (who lives in the alienage, easily the crappiest place in all of Kirkwall): "You know, this might not be the nicest place in Kirkwall"

[curlykoalas]

Are you a problem solver or a problem maker?

[definitelyallergictohalla]

/dashcon voice/ who wants aN EXTRA HOUR IN THE BONE PIT

[non-toxicdragonageconfessions]

Confession: I invested in a mine, but dragons kept on killing my employees. Yeesh. Needed to get that off my chest.

[datubooty]

thinking about the opposite premise to fandom favorite concept “hunter finds the bone pit and gets re-re-re-traumatized” because, what if he can’t because it’s gone? what if he wasn’t driven to search by impulsivity but by a desire for closure that then becomes unattainable? what new shades of grief come about when he can’t mourn as expected? etc