#wotv2

[dalishious]

I was looking something up in World of Thedas vol. 2 when I stumbled upon this ancient elven poem again.

I think an alternative translation is roughly this:

Without the eternal nothing/never heart tree (tree of the People), We cannot journey with spirits, without time's help. We have no purpose without our markings, We (?) inevitably become nothing within sad freedom. We do not believe, the way of war without glory. We do not grant/give the Wolf a home, the way of exile.

So basically, I think it is declaring Solas an enemy of the people for putting up the Veil and trapping the Evanuris?

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Fake World of Thedas Vol 2 pages for Amaris Lavellan

EDIT: You can now make your own if you’d like!

[dalishious]

Want to make your own fake World of Thedas vol 2 pages? Now you can with these handy templates! Everything you need is included. If you do use them and share though, please credit me as the creator of the page templates.

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Note: These are xcf files intended for the free program, GIMP. I personally use version 2.8.18, but it should work with newer versions just fine, too.

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Fake World of Thedas Vol 2 pages for Da’Renan Mahariel

[dalishious]

Hiya! Hope you're having an amazing day! If I recall correctly, all we know about what lies beyond the oceans, is that anyone who goes there, goes mad. Is there anything else known about that or do you have any personal headcanons as to what lies beyond?

From World of Thedas vol 2:

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“While the city of Seheron might have been a relatively safe post, the rest of the island was not. The Qunari lost scores of soldiers to skirmishes in the jungle. Tal-Vashoth, fog warriors, Tevinters, even the wildlife claimed lives. But those who escaped death still weren’t safe. An ailment the Qunari call asala-taar, or “soul sickness,” spread among the ranks of the survivors. Both older, experienced soldiers as well as new members of the antaam were equally susceptible, and for every soldier who fell in battle, two more had to be sent back to Par Vollen for treatment. Most of those were reassigned among the priesthood or the workers and never returned to combat.” —World of Thedas vol. 2, p. 95

The fact that the Qunari have an understanding and name for PTSD, and that name is so aptly put is really something. “Soul sickness.” I mean, holy shit.

[dalishious]

This is so funny to me, because literally none of these things are the fault of Tevinter.

Alienages? The Chantry created those in every nation under its control after the Exalted March of the Dales

Blood magic? We know the practice of blood magic predated the Tevinter Imperium

The Blight? Okay, this one is still just a theory, but I strongly believe that the Blight is just the Abyss, first discovered by the ancient elves... though Tevinter certainly does still deserve blame for opening it back up

[dalishious]

Do you know if there's any lore related to medical dissection in thedas? With the concern of corpses getting reanimated via spirits/taboo's abt how bodies should/n't be handled, I'm assuming tevinter would be the only place willing to openly allow it(tho probably only on slaves) or maybe the Qunari? (this originally came from me trying to decide if wax medical figurines could exist, but you'd need one for the other)

Some of the books in game have anatomic diagrams. 

“prp_bookgen_d” -

Additionally, WoTv2 has pieces from an in-universe book known as “Grim Anatomy,” studying possessed creatures with dissected diagrams. (Images under the cut, as they might be disturbing for some people.)