Ten Shining Towers

Big Rain World, Wings of Fire, Hollow Knight, and more fan. Also like cats

[sharingneedles]

IVE BEEN WAITING ALL YEAR TO POST THIS YOU DONT EVEN KNOW

[fuckyeahpaganism]

I’m crying. 

[for-fox-sakess]

i scheduled this a year ago..

[madasross]

Scheduling for every year

[memeuplift]

[lilybug-02]

The moth heard you <3

[rioblitzle]

working retail

[ten-shining-towers]

Dorian when you first get him in Inquisition /hj

[bdafic]

get his ass

[jack-of-blades]

Close enough welcome back Sera banter

[rachelamberish]

One of the craziest things about Dragon Age (and this might help those of you who don’t go here kind of understand what people are yelling about in the coming months) is its lore. But I don’t mean that in the way you’re probably thinking.

I mean, quite literally, the way it presents its lore to you. In picking up notes and books as you go along and sifting through the codex, the game effectively asks you to act as an anthropologist. You’re met with a host of primary and secondary sources, some many hundreds of years apart from one another, written by anyone from the highest Chantry scholar to John Farmer, and you’re meant to constantly be questioning every piece of information you’re given. What biases are present in what I’m reading? What is fact and what is complete fabrication and what is, potentially, a slightly twisted version of a fact? How does one source potentially contradict another? The lore is one giant mystery-puzzle that you get to piece together across three games, and what conclusions you draw are going to be entirely different from someone else’s, and so on.

And yet, the series still does something even cooler than any of that. You realize, at a certain point, that this idea you have been engaging with on a meta-level — this idea that history is biased and fallible, that it’s written by colonizers and conquerers, genocidal racists and religious zealots, that the ability to control historical narrative is the prize you win for spilling the most blood — that idea is one of, if not perhaps THE most important, overarching theme of the series. The way that we remember history — what we remember and what we don’t, and why — and the impact that has on people on a sociological, political, cultural and psychological level, on both a macro and micro scale. It’s the entire thesis of the series’ main villain’s whole motivation.

And there’s gonna be a lot of people that don’t care about all that but me personally it makes me want to gnaw on a cinder block and scratch at my walls

[freelanceplatypus]

[wetsocksinbed]

Rook, bursting into the fade: why the FUCK are there so many alters to you scattered around? Why do I have to go through such elaborate steps to reach the wolf statues???

Solas: the Inquisitor made me run around the Hinterlands for a month. It’s only fair you experience even but a shred of that pain for ruining my ritual

[theyvegotnobreeches]

Rook: *punches the first warden*

Bellara and Emmrich: what the fuck-

Everyone else: *cheerful clapping*

[winter-wise]

DATV has barely been out a week and people are already arguing over if it's better/worse than BG3 but I'm just out here saying 'yay two cakes' because now I have TWO graveyard dates to go on, TWO gentleman professors of magic to romance, TWO elven hunks who love animals to tenderly gaze into the eyes of. I can pet the owlbear cub AND I can pet Assan. I'm sandwiched between Taash and Karlach's abs as I speak.

[cykelops]

world’s kindest demon award goes to spite for hearing rook say “mortals don’t work like that, we can’t just stop being traumatized” and he was like oh my bad then I thought he was just stupid

[ten-shining-towers]

Spite is essentially movie series Venom, and I love them for that

[gwinaesfer-deactivated20251120]

"The Veil Guard didn't actually care about Rook" the Veil Guard was so desperate to get Rook back from the prison they tried to make a ritual dagger of their own to rip the Veil apart and look for them

Rook wasn't their boss, Rook was their home

[apostatefeverdream]

going absolutely fucking insane over solas dragonage. he used to be a spirit. he was meant to be bisexual. he hates tea but still drinks it. he murdered the two people he loved most in the world. he pissed magic once (maybe). he pondered an orb. he played strip poker with blackwall. he sundered the fade from the waking world. he created the blight. he sent bitchy letters to elgar'nan. he's great at chess but then lost to a random named after a chess piece. he co-parented a spirit. he murdered the other co-parent. he speaks in iambic pentameter. he imagines the sight of you being dominated would be fascinating. he ghosted his ex for a year and then yanked their arm off. he loves frilly cakes. his greatest fear is dying alone. he's bald.

[spicyalgebra]

anyone else think this too

[bioware]

who said anything about spooky, scary skeletons in the Necropolis?

[citree]

More older Kieran!! He’s still figuring things out 🥹

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

I find it really funny that the last two Dragon Age games have advisors to guide them through the game. Like the Hero of Fereldan got a brief introduction and a slap on the ass before being immediately placed in charge.

[prettyandsarcastic]

One of my fave things about the DA games is the parallels of characterization between the protags.

The Warden and The Inquisitor both have a kind of dignity and honor about them. They're both like "I absolutely did not want to be in this position, but here I am and we'll get this done one way or another." They both force people to work together for a greater good and unite under their banner and both are reasonably competent at their jobs.

Hawke and Rook on the other hand... things are just going wrong constantly for them, they are both consistently on their 13th reason, and their main defense is a "the horrors persist but so do I" attitude. They also did not want to be in the position they're in but they're "DOING MY FUCKING BEST CUT ME SOME SLACK I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE STEPPING UP" and if one more thing goes wrong they're both going to just start biting people.