#wot2

[whisperofthewaves]

I hate the concept damane with passion

[ageofdragon]

Lore question: is it ever established that fenris’ lyrium tattoos are unique to him or is it something that other people (presumably slaves) have received in Tevinter?

Fenris’ lyrium markings are incredibly unique and he is the only known person in all of Thedas to currently have these marks. Lyrium was a favored subject of Danarius’ studies in Tevinter, he found he could “power up” a being by implanting lyrium into their skin from an ancient text. Danarius and Danarius alone (though maybe with some help of his apprentices) studied years to figure out how to do it correctly, since the original text wasn’t extremely clear.

Leto was the first and only person Danarius ever performed the process on.

Interestingly enough and just my own speculation, looking at the tattoos, Merrill was correct that they seem elven in origin. When compared to vallaslin they appear to mostly match up with Andruil, June, and/or Sylaise. Andruil in particular seems the closest to me and the fact he has spots of three in his tattoos, which make me more likely to lean towards her (Andruil’s Three Trees).

[whisperofthewaves]

oh no, Liandrin.

I forgot about her too.

when I was first reading the books I couldn't forgive jordan for hitting bull's eye with her hair/eyes/skin combo and also giving her a nicely sounding name, but making her this character.

[ageofdragon]

The Death of Cole

I never realized how ambiguous Cole’s reveal is. when you go to hunt down the thing blocking his amulet and it turns out to be the ex-templar that killed him (well the real Cole). I mean you know Cole died of starvation, but it doesn’t really tell you how. I think it is mentioned in a codex, maybe?

But ultimately you aren’t told within the game, which I only noticed after seeing comments of how malicious that particular templar was.

And I mean all templars suck, but surprisingly that one in particular didn’t actually mean to kill Cole.

The story goes, that templar was a recruit just starting out in White Spire. He had no idea what he was doing. Cole had arrived at the Circle and it was his job to process the mage. Now, the reason Cole had been brought to the Circle in the first place was because magic was suspected in the death of his family. It is mentioned his father abused him and the rest of his family, until Cole’s magic finally flared up against the man. In such cases, those mages are to be imprisoned until the Circle can prove to some degree they were not intentionally or wholly responsible for the crimes they’ve been accused of. However, this rather green templar did not understand the paperwork that was to go along with the process and marked Cole as being a prisoner being held for crimes, rather than a new mage who needed to be investigated for crimes. As such Cole was overlooked.

When such paperwork is issued, a mage is supposed to be taken care of by the assigned templar as far as survival goes. All other contact is restricted with the prisoner.

The outcome is obvious from there. Cole was forgotten, no one was allowed to try and help him, and he eventually starved. The templar recruit felt extreme guilt over his error, but received no punishment as the Knight-Commander chalked it up to a clerical error that only hastened the inevitable outcome for "a possessed abomination waiting to happen”.

So yeah, just another post on how Bioware leaves things out of the main games, so only those who have gone to Dragon Age college knows the full story on things.

[ageofdragon]

The good thing about Dragon Age lore when it is that broken too, is that it can be so easily fixed with “headcanon” and inferences. It’s like how people explain away mechanics/design flaws in Dragon Age 2 using Varric.

Because we already have an unreliable narrator, we can have magically appearing enemies and repetitive maps. Because Varric is too lazy or over-exaggerating or just not very creative. 

like when he describes boats visually by being “made out of wood and shit”...like that’s a legitimate canon thing he does almost word for word. He says “and shit” and then “it was just a really nice boat okay?”

The Celia/Maeve thing isn’t that big of a deal, just yeah her name is now totally Celia Maeve Loghain Mac Tir. A cabinetmaker/cabinet’s daughter who verbally shut down the Hero of River Dane.

Or how one thing says the Blight lasted 100 year, but another says 192 (with 192 being correct) and can be attributed to the very real shortening/generalization of time that happens in books.

Like honestly if you have the chance, go to the end of the World of Thedas Volume 2 and look at the Errata list for World of Thedas Volume 1. It is one of the best things I have actually ever read in a Bioware book and perfectly represents what is so great about the fluidity of Dragon Age lore. For example:

[ageofdragon]

Could I get a source on Anora and Cailan killing a giant? Because that's fucking awesome

Hell Fucking Yeah It Is!

Source is Anora’s section in the World of Thedas Vol. 2 Lore Book

In 9:23 Dragon a farm in the West Hills Arling claimed it was being attacked by 100 giants. This was to be handled by the Royal Guard, eventually. However, Prince Calian Theirin offered to run off the giants himself immediately, but was shut down by the guard captain.

Though the next day the Prince was found missing. Nine days later Calian AND Anora were found together in Crestwood in the West Hills Arling. Both drinking heavily, covered in battle wounds, and smelling of cheese.

There are several accounts in WoT Vol. 2 that piece together, but essentially a giant had been eating a farmer’s dairy cows. 

Only one giant of course, because the farmer had exaggerated due to grief. A scout looking for the giants, for the King’s guard, ended up being chased down by this single giant and she dove into a root cellar to hide. She waited, hoping for the giant to eventually lead and so she waited for days as the giant held her there.

Until finally she was found by the Prince and Lady Anora, though when she left her cellar there was no sign of the giant or the cattle. The air tasting of ash.

Later scouts would find a burned corpse of said giant. And finally my favorite excerpt of this whole ordeal.

[whisperofthewaves]

oh. another thing I forgot.

Sheathing the Sword

[dawriting]

Sigrun’s ‘autobiography’, from WoT2