This is Why The Maker Left Us

R.M.D Kurnya

[benefaris]

Andraste, the Blight and the Stone, spirits and Old Gods galore: a massive lore breakdown and theory post

possible explanations for how the various major forces throughout Thedosian history fit and predictions for future plot

DISCLAIMER: This is a giant summary of major events to explain a few big potential outcomes of these games. It’s my subjective opinion and not fact. It’s also a bunch of what-ifs, that’s the fun of theorycrafting. But if that’s not your thing, scroll on. Have a good time!

Now, I’m pretty sure all of the religions and organizations in Thedas are somehow connected and I’ve been puzzling it out for a while. While I’m sure I’m missing some important tidbits because Bioware still hasn’t answered some very important questions, there’s no denying a lot of the shenanigans in Thedas’s history are suspiciously attached.

So bust out the squiggles and red lines, y’all, we’re drumming up a conspiracy theory. It goes without saying this is a long post with spoilers and wild speculation. It also assumes you have a basic knowledge of the world of Thedas to help keep the length down but it’s still pretty long. There’s a point at the end I promise. Stick with me.

I have a theory for inquisition DLC at the end of this too, but we’re going to focus on the overall first. Based on all the codex hints and such, I think I can guess what the next games might be covering.

There’s going to be a showdown of epic proportions between Mythal and the elven gods.

Which will be eclipsed by a battle with the mysterious collective spirit source of the Blight (and red lyrium).

Why do I think this? Well let’s start with…

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[turkeyhawk-blog]

treeprince:

when u tryna be cheesy but everyone around u is laughtose intolerant

[teamrocketing]

proudly shouting the wrong answer to a question in class

[drawingden]

[drawingden]

drawingden:

drawingden:

*UPDATED VERSION SUMMER 2015*

Digital Painting and Drawing

Autodesk SketchBook Copic Edition - This is the limited edition of SketchBook Pro with 72 Copic colours to choose from

Krita - Krita offers CMYK support, HDR painting, perspective grids, dockers, filters, painting assistants, and many other great features

GIMP - GIMP is a well known free alternative to Photoshop with similar features 

Mischief Free Version - With six essential brushes, a basic palette of colors and an infinite vector canvas, Mischief-Free is perfect for hashing out ideas, life drawing, and endless doodles

MyPaint - MyPaint is a fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters, and comes with 39 different brushes

Verve Painter - Verve is a small painting application that uses fluid dynamics and brushes to push the paint around, though it is still in development.

Inkscape - Inkscape is an open-source professional quality vector graphics software with sophisticated drawing tools with capabilities comparable to Adobe Illustrator.

FireAlpaca - A similar program to Paint Tool Sai that offers features such as a snap feature which creates a variety of perspective overlays.

MediBang Paint - A free lightweight painting program for Windows, Mac Os and Android with cloud saving to allow users to easily switch between platforms.

SpeedyPainter - Basic painting program with a simple layout and features such as perspective grids and reference view mode

3D Modelling  

Google Sketchup - Drawing-based tool for architects, designers, builders, makers and engineers who design for the physical world. SketchUp Make is a free version and SketchUp Pro is a paid version with additional functionality.

Sculptris - A free, introductory digital sculpting tool, a great stepping stone for digital sculptors, created by the makers of Zbrush.

Blender - A powerful application with full-fledged professional tools, Blender has a wide community and resources to help you learn.

SculptGL - This handy modelling program works online in your browser and is compatible with wacom tablets

Animation

Synfig - Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.

EmoFuri - EmoFuri is a new animation software that helps artists easily animate photoshop illustrations in a 2D-3D style.It uses PSD files of character illustrations to animate them. 

Pencil2D - Pencil2D is an open-source animation/drawing software that lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation using both bitmap and vector graphics.

Live2D - This increasingly popular 2D-3D animation software is similar to Emofuri with sample models available to experiment with, and is also available in english.

Pixel Art

Piskel - An online pixel art app that lets you animate pixel art with a live preview of your work.

Piq - While it doesn’t have the best looking layout, this online tool has lots of interesting features including a colour-drift tool that’s great for making colour palettes.

Etc

Thisissand - An online fun and unique playground for creating colourful sandscapes, also comes in an app version

Flame Painter - A free demo of the full program, it allows you to try out the flame generator and change different brush settings and paint your own flame paintings

Silk - An online interactive generative art program that creates bright silk-like patterns, with options to change colours and rotational symmetry.

Bomomo - This interesting program has a group of dots that move around the screen in the pattern you choose, then paint the canvas according to when you click the screen.

Drawpile -  Drawpile is a software collaborative drawing program that allows multiple users to sketch on the same canvas simultaneously.

[turkeyhawk-blog]

Sera: So, Inquisitor... is it true what they say about Fereldens?

Quiz: ...What do they say abou--

Sera: DO THEY REALLY LIKE IT DOGGY STYLE?!!

Sera: *hysterical laughter*

Cullen: If you answer that, I'm quitting.

[fenharelheartburn]

inquisitor: okay so blackwall is a liar, Cullen is a lyrium addict, sera is a racist, cole was a murderer, iron bull is a fUCKING SPY-

iron bull: but I told you that boss

inquisitor: okay iron bull is excused but does ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANYTHING TO TELL ME!??????

solas, shoving breadsticks in his satchel: I have to go to the fade like right now, immediately

[priderising]

This is out of control

[ar-lath-ma-vhenan]

love it

[disneymoviesandfacts]

According to the animators for Flynn, he’s meant to be 26 years old, thus making him 8 years older than Rapunzel, who is 18 in the film - the largest age gap between any other Disney couple.

[itsxandy]

Kida’s 8,800-ish with Milo’s 32, that’s… an 8,768 year age gap?

[orlandobloomers]

me: stop being racist please

family:  listen… liberal hippie trash ….u dont know anything abotu the world….

[ooc-lucien-lachance]

It’s a cold and it’s a broken “hail sithis”

[vanitas-rex]

you know what? don’t fucking replay oblivion and the dark brotherhood questline. it’ll hurt just as much as it did the first time and your crush on Lucien will be even worse

or is it just me?

[littlebirdofprey]

“I remember Skyrim from my youth, and the glistening crimson on fields of white.”

The Spectral Assassin’s comments on several of the hold capitals

[luciennochance]

Lucien does the Black Sacrament.

Lucien LaChants

[rita-sanderson-deactivated20161]

[janeeyrepdf]

Date a boy with black hair. Date a boy that is passionate about his job. Date a boy with a big family. Date a boy that loves his mother. Date a boy that listens to his father. Date a boy that woke you up in the dead of night when you first met and offered to initiate you into the Dark Brotherhood. Date Lucien LaChance.

[dearcorvo-deactivated20170506]

nightmares-prince asked: Corvo Attano + winter colours ( ϟ )

[turkeyhawk-blog]

I have grown overly attached to Lucien lachance..... Again....

[swevani-deactivated20170107]

dragon age inqusition could’ve been huge expensive castles with lavish rooms and a million things to interact with and see and do

it could’ve been gorgeous landscapes with all kinds of area-specific flora an fauna and villages spotted throughout with lively and unique characters that make you feel like you know their whole story in the brief little minutes you spend with them

it could’ve been watching the sun set over the waking sea and taking a ship to wycome to rescue a dalish clan that offers a link between humans and elves for the first time in history, a chance at an end to the dalish being forced to wander as they prove that humans and elves can live together peacefully

it could’ve been seeing “big bad tevinter” up close and personal, experiencing its culture and all the good and dark bits that go with it, meeting the archon, kicking some slaver ass

it could’ve been exploring the deep roads so far you have to worry about stumbling over an old god, finding treasures and demons and darkspawn nobody’s even seen

it could’ve been dragons of different shapes and sizes all across thedas, not just a handful of high dragons nesting in remote nooks of the world

it could’ve been those huge elven spiders guarding the temple of mythal, fighting water wyverns in the emerald grave’s riverways, meeting a huge clan and seeing how the dalish live firsthand instead of being told about it in codex entries and one-liner dialogue

it could’ve been an entire night of solving mysteries and mingling with interesting nobility in the winter palace, meeting all the important people of thedas and actually caring about them, wearing something that ISN’T a sin against nature disguised as a suit

there was so much that could’ve made inquisition such a beautiful, interesting game, the kind that makes you sit your character on top of a mountain and just look at the scenery because it’s gorgeous and lively, but instead we got a lot of point a to b’s, empty treetop views, and terrible hats.