#the deep roads

[dragonagegallery]

Map of The Deep Roads

By Warren Heise

[hoiist]

Region Tarot Cards from Dragon Age: The Veilguard

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[vhen-harel]

WIP Wednesday

Thank you for tagging @cryptid-catt @elfyroot @crimsonphantasmagoria @exia-1 @dirthera15 @daylinlavellan @fadetouchedlurker!d

I got accepted into writing for the @dragonageannual digital zine and can share a little part of my WIP. The theme is Locations and I'm writing about the Deep Roads in DA2. I'm also pumped because @ruxandralache is creating art for it!

Absence. Emptiness. A lack of life, of sound, and certainly of hope. The Deep Roads had become a great chasm of decay and despair, a place crowded with ghosts where no living voice remained to speak for them. What sound remained was cruel. Far off, darkspawn shrieked in the black. Somewhere deeper still, a Warden screamed as the taint overcame them, the sound cut short by the wet snarl of a hurlock. But once in awhile, a gentler sound, the curious squeaking of a nug.

Tagging @lagunapoint @haezelnut @taschaka-blog @teamdilf @foxeareddevilish

[elfcollector]

DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION (2014) — the descent

[illusivesoul]

That line that Corypheus says after being released in the Legacy dlc while he's all confused "Be these some dream I wake from? Am I in dwarven lands? Why seem their roads so empty?" highlights how in his time, the Deep Roads really were the commercial and trade arteries of Thedas, and how they must have been constantly bursting full of people and merchants trading and going from one corner of Thedas to the other.

Tevinter controlled most of Thedas, but below the surface, the dwarven empire was what truly connected it, all the distant Thaigs and cities bringing lyrium and other things all over the continent, and even trading with the Chasind and the Avvar as far south as Ferelden (and according to Bianca, its possible the Deep Roads might have gone beyond Thedas itself)

And then Corypheus wakes up a thousand years later and assumes he's on the Deep Roads and is puzzled as to why it all seems so empty and lifeless. And the irony is that, even though he doesn't know it yet, thats what the Deep Roads and all the dwarven lands except for Orzammar and Kal'Sharok have become. A dead, lifeless carcass filled with darkspawn, with decaying statues, crumbling Thaigs and a few squads of the Legion of the Dead representing the fading memories of the glory of the past that once was and will never be again, and slowly fading into history like the dwarves themselves.

[fashionablyfyrdraaca]

On the way to the Primeval Thaig

[cartethyia-fleurdelys]

Valammar.

[blighted-elf]

Dragon Age 2 Scenery - Primeval Thaig