When you first arrive at the Cantori Diamond, there are no banners hanging. But as you progress through the crows questline, they appear. Moreover, the cut conversations with Fletcher reflected each state.
Before A Slow Poison quest is completed, there's no banner hanging there.
If A Slow Poison quest is completed, Fletcher's banner can be seen next to their store. If the player saved Minrathous, it'll disappear later, along with Fletcher themselves.
After completing For the Love of Treviso quest, three banners of de Acutis (Neri and Noa's house) appear in the casino. I think it's because they were actively involved in that quest earlier.
And after completing A Time to Kill quest, the final two banners of Egrativi (Jacobus' new house) are hung.
Unlike Fletcher's banner, the city choice doesn't affect the others.
There's still some space left in the hub, but I don't know if that means there was supposed to be another banner here, or if it's just to make the crow statue at the entrance visible.
In the game, conversations with Fletcher are disabled, although there's still a change in the environment.
Much like in my Evil Rook AU, Abel is captured by Venatori mages and slowly transformed into a perfect weapon and sleeper agent through blood magic, torture, and isolation.
This time, however, Rook has the chance to save him before the worst can happen.
By the time you rescue him, the experiments have already begun, so his recovery becomes the central focus of his personal quests.
If Abel is never recruited (you can pick that option), he will later return as an enemy that you must kill. This will earn you an uncomfortable dialogue with Viago.
Little trivia about him as a companion...
-He will greatly approve of you punching the First Warden
-Abel will have a mean verbal altercation with Solas during the final battle. He resents him for using blood magic on Rook
-If you don’t romance him he will not romance anyone
-You can gift him a perfume
-If you are a De Riva and you killed Abel, you will have a more personal dialogue with Viago, who will openly reprimand you for it
-He has physical tics and they get worse if you don’t bond with him. They decrease when you progress in his questline.
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the fact that cassandra can burn the lyrium in someone's blood to torture them and we don't even get to see it?? bioware why load the gun if you're not gonna let it go off
Harding was the first to arrive, and that meant she was alone.
In the original scenario, Lace dies on Tearstone Island, and that tragedy had to repeat itself in this AU...
In every universe, Abel looses a friend because of his choices. It’s essential to his story, even if, this time, it isn’t truly his fault. He will blame himself all the same, should he ever be freed from this nightmare. Lace was a friend.
If you had to pick a character, from any universe, what would their dream house be?
I picked my Dragon Age character Alessa, and she would retreat to “their place.” I can’t decide what the scenery would be, but I know it gives me Rivain vibes. The trio would love this place.
I bring you a Dragon Age Map with the OFFICIAL distances calculated in miles! Higher rez version here for the regular map and here for the map with extra large boxes to help with reading larger distances.
Details under cut.
So I had been on the hunt for a Thedas map that actually had any distances calculated on it for years. There's some fan maps, but none were official.
Well, imagine my shock when I opened my dragon age ttrpg book to find a map at the back that DOES include official distances!! If you have the book, check the back, it's glued in there.
I found no one had uploaded this map online, though. So I took a photo, lined it up as best as I could with a map I found online of the same style, and then pasted in the distance calculator in the corner. I then added a grid on top. I couldn't find a better way of doing it than 5 squares for every 70 miles, which means each square is about 14 miles. I thought that'd be easier to calculate than trying to break a 70 mile chunk down.
Then I realized by looking at the map that trying to calculate longer distances using that map will suck cause they're such tiny squares... so I added another grid on top to make it so the large grid is 70 miles. I included both versions of the map for anyone to use.
According to this map and some online calculators, Varric was wrong that it took Hawke 2 weeks to get to Kirkwall from Gwaren. it should have taken closer to 20 days. But eh, not too big an error and 2 weeks sounds neater. Plus, we know he's an unreliable narrator.
The funny thing is, it takes nearly (edit: MORE than) 2 weeks to get across Ferelden. On horseback. Warden was walking. Warden... how far did you walk... How many miles did you cover...
Anyone feel free to spice up the map however you'd like! I hope this is helpful for anyone out there!
Never realized that this wasn't already done by someone, I think just because I've seen so many versions relying on the other "official" scalings. Really cool to see this done!
I love (and lament) the variations of scaling across the different versions of the Thedas maps. So here are some fun facts about the scaling of this map because they're are just kinda neat.
Note: I'm putting official in quotes because there is next to no consistency and the ttrpg scaling actively contradicts most of the other canon travel times that it is definitely not the one being used by anyone in BioWare. Though sometimes used by novels and other 3rd party material. Officially for the ttrpg, they made some decisions that BioWare says is canon as long as it isn't directly contradicted by the games - which this is so really up to you.
- This is one of the "official" scales, there are actually about four or five depending on how you want to decide “official”. This scaling contradicts about 8 canon time travel points.
Dao’s scaling - where it is a week to travel from Orzammar’s entrance to the circle one way - Two weeks round trip.
One of the more common ones that OP probably saw was based off Varric’s statements of travel times at the start of DA2. This person did a wonderful round up of distances that if you want to use the scale in this post you can convert.
Asunder asserts it takes a month to get to Adamant from the White Spire.
Last Flight’s assertion that on horseback it takes 2 weeks to cross the Anderfels from Weisshaupt to the Wandering Hills. Which contradicts all scaling lol
Dai’s scaling that says you can traverse all of Southern Thedas in a year. Which is 3 1/2x the size of Ferelden which is also traversal in a year (barely).
Dai also asserts it take a week for a letter (and Barris) to get from the Free Marches to Skyhold.
The official cookbook that says you can travel the entirety of Thedas in a year by carriage/on-foot. Which contradicts both dao and dai, as well as Varric's statement of travel times and all the novel travel times.
- This interactive map uses the scaling of a couple theories based on canon travel times. Which I think is neat and could be helpful for any map shenanigans you all may have.
- The printer map is about a half inch off from if you were to print out the WoT map (a version of the map op put the grid on, though that might vary depending on the image source. When making my consolidated map of Thedas there seems to be about a 1/2 to 3 inch wobble across any official map that can be found online or supplied through digital copies of the books. This is where my lamenting of the scaling variations comes from lol)
- Officially it is stated that Ferelden is the size of England. The ttrpg contradicts that. Which I saw somewhere in the reblogs that this scale puts it on par with Poland, which is about 2.35x bigger than England. 312,696km (poland) vs 132,932km (england)
- According to the ttrpg scale, Anders swam 13 miles / 20.92km to get to the docks when he escaped. It also makes it so the horizon for Thedas is further than that of earth by I believe by nearly triple the distance, which is super interesting. 13 miles / 20.92km vs the 4.97 miles / 8km
I think at this point the fandom as a whole said the warden had to walk a week or 2 to get across Ferelden, and it’s a month to sail to Antiva 🤣 it’s good to know there’s a map with distance now but a lil late lolol
I continue collecting cut pieces. A little Spite during A Murder of Crows this time.
Rook: Are you sure you're ready to face Illario?
If Lucanis chose to save Caterina during the Inner Demons:
Lucanis (Spite): We agree. He is nothing. We seek. Caterina.
Default:
Lucanis (Spite): He will hurt. As we hurt. On this. We agree.
Lucanis (Spite): Them! The jailors! We will cut. Their hearts. Still beating. From their chests.
Lucanis (Spite): Too much. Walking. Where. Is our prey?
I tried to doodle this twice. First during the gameplay trailer and ended up deleting that file in a rage. I managed to try again after some time, with a squished egg.
Dragon Age: Veilguard × Sailor Moon × Cinderella vibes fan animation.
This night is sparkling, don't you let it go
I'll spend forever wondering if you knew
I was enchanted to meet you.
Instagram link
Credits after the jump
Animation credits: (all tags refer to instagram)
First wide shot: @catren.tvpp
Mid shot: @ladybugbells
Close up: Ikea Hotdog
Animatic / storyboards: @isawiitch
Ghilan'nain rough animation: Chrischapman2d on Twitter
Backgrounds: @thuanphuynh
Compositing:
Lead comp: @ladypoulpy
Clean up and comp: @lachlanpini
Close up comp: @starrydice
Concept and colour: @hijennyt
I posted a full write down on instagram, but basically...
Earlier this year I peer pressured lovingly commissioned my talented friends to animate my dragon age fanart. This started as an experiment in building a small, indie style pipeline for fan projects. While I couldn’t find enough animators to fully finish what I had in mind, what did come together, I absolutely loved.
Edit to add: in a time where ai slop has been becoming more prevalent, I think collabs are a way to combat it.
If you love the animation please check out the animators, they are incredible and gave me a fairytale moment that went way polished than it had to. I'm also still keen to do future animation experiments, so if you know of any available experienced anime styled animators hit me up.