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iam motaz a nurse from Gaza .. married to fedaa a pediatrician .. father of 3 lovely children ..
writing to you these words with tearing eye and a heavy heart ..
. as it may be our last hope of survival !
it is not easy for me to ask for help from other but being a father of these lovely kids makes me very responsible for their safety and protection so i have to do any thing to keep them safe ..
we lost every thing because of this violent war !
Life here became unaffordale and unsafe for any human ..
please please help me carry my children to safety ..
i wish my words could explain even little abit of what i am carring in my heart
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Hi,
I hope you're doing well and I am sorry in advance if I sent you this message before. We are very close to the goal and I really need your help.
I'm writing to you with a heavy heart and an urgent request for help. My family is in a very danger situation due to the ongoing war, and I've launched a GoFundMe campaign to save them.
Could you please rebblog my campaign post from my profile?🙏 Feel free to share it in any other social media platform if you would like.
Our campaign has been verified ⭐️ by operation olive branch, and is entry number 26 on their spreadsheet. Also with ⭐️ Project watermelon,line 249/(212) on their spreadsheet.
From the bottom of my heart I want to thank you in advance for all of your support and kindness.
People coming for Mary Kirby for clarifying that Lucanis is demisexual panromantic and a virgin is crazy. A character does not need to turn the the camera and say "I'm this sexuality." Sometimes it can just be in the subtext. Personally, I could tell that he was written as a demisexual character and it's nice to see Mary confirming it on Bluesky.
Poking around in the game files. lines pertaining to Spite's habit of narrating smells.
"(Inhales) Smells like... Lucanis."
"(Inhales) Smells like... Rook."
both self-explanatory.
"(Inhales) Smells like... jam and brimstone. "
jam - Harding, brimstone - Taash?
"Smells like tears. And lying."
Solas.
"Smelled like strawberries and blood."
a lady at the market who was selling ribbons and who was into Lucanis.
"(Inhales) Smells like... melon and woodsmoke."
Taash?
"(Inhales) Home? Smells like dust and linseed oil."
Villa Dellamorte.
"(Inhales) Smells like blood. Ashes. Not done. Not yet."
After killing Calivan in the Ossuary.
"(Inhales) Smells like... incense. Old meat. And starched linens."
Necropolis (it has triggered in the Memorial Gardens).
"(Inhales) Smells like... old teeth and burial spices."
triggered when getting to the door before the Fade tear on the Grey Warden island in the Crossroads, where there are some skeletons and urns.
"(Inhales.) Smells like... fear. Sweat. And frustration."
unsure.
"Spite says the magic smells like oil on water."
unsure.
pls correct me if I'm wrong with any of these or if I missed any. ◕‿◕ some I know I've heard in-game but can't recall where they were placed or recall for sure.
edit: thankyou sm to users @violetwreck, @symphorine and @quilleth for sharing info in the notes below :) post has been updated.
The full alphabet was found and has been made into a font.
Some notes:
Elvish uses a symbol for spaces between words.
They do not use punctuation.
K and Q are the same Elvish letter.
The elvish writing in DA4 is a 1:1 mask of English and can be decoded! The pic below is out of date, as the whole alphabet was found. In addition, Tevene, Anderfels, Antivan, and Nevarran alphabets can be linked to each other!
English, Elvhen, Tevene, Anderfels, Antivan, and Nevarran alphabets!!!
I've already updated on Bluesky but thanks to this info and some shared work from others over there I've been able to make what I think is the most complete Nevarran alphabet from current resources.
The general template of letters seems to follow three concentric hexagonal shapes: A major outer hex, minor middle hex, and major central hex.
Dots also occur in text on outer hex vertices not touched by lines though this is more noticeable in carved text than in handwritten examples.
Carved text seems to follow a linear pattern left-right (or up-down in some examples).
This is my Rook's name "Dinaelya" written in the carved text format:
Meanwhile, handwritten Nevarran seems to follow a zig-zag pattern going up-down and left-right like so:
Alright, here is the Inquisitor Import trick in action! (post by @felassan which has the OG BSky post)
Make sure to match your Inquisitor's gender & lineage up for the one you want to import, and to change a couple of things about the Inquisitor's appearance so it's registered as a custom one, and then import your Rook.
This covers all the new foods mention in the game, unless noted otherwise, these foods are considered universal as they don't have a specific place of origin mentioned.
New Ingredients:
Alubia carilla - Antivan, aka blacked eyed peas
Antivan Lemon Thyme
Apricot
Cheese Curds
Chocolate, Dark
Clinging Morsel - a hearty fungus that is common in rural cuisine
Cow Heart
Cream, Heavy
Dragon's Bounty - known for its health benefits, it has tough green skin that opens and reveals dozens of tart arils.
Dragon Pepper - Rivain
Dragon Root
Dwarf Spice Collection - contains eight different spices.
Flax Seed
Figs, Purple
Ginger Root - a popular ingredient in Qunari cuisine
Gingerwort Truffle - common in the Anderfels and the Arlathan forest. When made into a tea it can have some magical side effects.
Green Cabbage
Horned Melon
Human Spice Collection - a collection with two spices
Kale
Lineseed
Mangos - Tevinter
Melon
Nocen Bass - a hearty denizen of the Nocen Sea
Nocen Shrimp
Olive Oil - Antivan
Pineapple - Tevinter and Rivain
Potatoes, New
Potatoes, Sweet
Pumpkin, Warty
Rialto Trout - a fish featured in both Antivan and Rivaini cuisine
Rivaini Pitaya - a colourful fruit with a sweet, delicate flavor. Though pitaya refers to dragonfruit family, the fruit doesn't look like dragonfruit.
River Salmon
Saffron
Sea Bass
Seere Peppers - Rivaini
Short-grain Rice - Antivan
Spearmint
Spicy Spice Collection - contains fourteen jars
Spring Onions
Striped Cod
Sugar, Brown
Sweetmelon
Tomatoes, Cherry
Vinegar, Dark
Vinegar, White
Walnut
Yam
New Foods:
Aged Antivan Cheese
Antaam Provisions
Antivan Dressing
Antivan Seafood Soup - uses sea bass, nocen shrimp, striped cod, squid, saffron, and salt
Apple Cake - Fereldan
Apple Cheesy Butter Noodles - Fereldan, a recipe made by Harding
Apple Dumplings - Fereldan
Apricot Liqueur
Armada Special - a Rivaini sandwich comprised of meat and cheese, it can have greens, pineapple, and more meat and cheese added. Or one can make it "Nevarran" meaning vegetarian.
Bran Cookies
Breaded Cheese Wands - Rivain, sticks of cheese breaded
Breadstick
Bronto Steak
Bug-cakes
Candied Sage Leaves - a popular Nevarran snack
Carta Fries - a Riviani dish, served as a side
Cheesy Toast
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Churro - Antivan
Cider Porridge
Citrus Bagna Cauda - Antivan, a citrus sauce with anchovies
Coffee Ice - a frozen Minrathous treat, served with cream and toffee sauce on top. It is "like snow" but tastes of coffee
Cucumber sandwich
Dalish Seafood Soup
Deep Roads Crispers - a Rivaini dish
Demon-hair pasta
Eel Soup - Qun
Elderberry Pie - served in Ferelden and Tevinter
Elfroot Jelly
Fish Head Stew - Qun
Fish of the Day with Pear Slaw - Tevinter
Fish-fry
Free Marches Mash-up - a Rivaini dish
Fried Bread
Fried Bread with Herbs
Fried Leeks and Potatoes
Fried Peppers
Fry-bread - Tevinter
Gooseberry Pie
Gravy on Fish
Greens - salad
Greens with Antivan, Orlesian, or House Dressing
Griddle Cake
Grilled Fish Kebab
Grilled Halla - Dalish
Grilled Skewerd Squid
Grilled Treviso - Antivan, a fish named after the city
Grilled Treviso with Citrus Bagna Cauda
Hal's Fried Fish - Tevinter
Halla Cakes - Dalish
Ham and Herbs
Ham and Jam Slam - a Fereldan sandwich comprised of toast, butter, ham, and jam. Made by Harding.
Hazlenut Torte - Nevarran
Honey Cake with Figs - Tevinter
House Dressing - a Rivaini dressing
Isskap - a Qunari dish, that uses melons
Jam Pudding - Fereldan
Jam Tart - Fereldan
Jam, Apple
Jam, Cherry
Jam, Strawberry
Khachapuri - Tevinter, there is a three cheese variety
Lavender Cream - Antivan
Mince Pie
Mutton Stew - Fereldan
Mystery Stew
Nevarran Tomb Cheese
Non-Seafood Paella - Antivan
Noodles and Gravy
Nordbotten Cream - made of brined sheep's milk from Nordbotten
Orange Liqueur
Orlesian Dressing
Orlesian Sauce
Pasta Made of Peppers and Oil
Peanut Butter and Sausage Special - Tevinter
Pear Slaw - Tevinter
Peppered Steaks
Poached Crustaceans - Tevinter
Pork Dumplings - Fereldan
Pork Hand Pies with Fresh Herb Sauce - Tevinter
Potato Stew
Poutine
Rarebit - Nevarran
Raw Oysters on Ice with Lemon and Mint - Tevinter
Rhubarb Pie - Tevinter and Fereldan
Roasted Cabbage
Roasted Cabbage and Gravy
Roasted Chicken
Roasted Chicken Salad
Robust Loaf - a crusty, wholesome brown bread
Rolled Noodles
Salted Meat, Halla
Sauced Eels - Qunari
Sausage Sauced with Nut Butter Stuffed in a Bun - Tevinter
Savory Pie with Spinach - Tevinter
Scorpion Pasta - Tevinter
Scrambled Eggs
Scrambled Eggs and Gravy
Sea Monster Kebab - Rivaini
Seafood Paella
Seleny Ham - Antivan
Smoked Trout
Souffle
Spiced Fried Lentils - Tevinter
Spiced Porridge
Spit-Roasted Nug - Tevinter
Strawberry Tart
Street Meat
Sugar-biscuit Candy
Tarta de Limon - Antivan
Taste of Ferelden Bread and Cheese Spread
Tentacle Salad - Tevinter
The Divine's Hat - An Orlesian soft cheese molded to resemble the Divine's crown.
The Revered Mother's Knickers - Fereldan
Treviso Ham - Antivan
Turnip Stew - Fereldan
Vanilla and Nutmeg Tart
Venison Souffle
White Sauce
Wild Meat and Mushrooms - Dalish
Yam and Jam Slam - a Fereldan sandwich comprised of toast, butter, yam, and jam. Made by Harding.
Zeff's Fried Fish
New Drinks
Andoral's Breath - a type of coffee common in Treviso
Antivan Heritage Brandy
Antivan House Wine
Aromatic Coffee - Antivan
Assembly Ale - Dwarven
Cioccolata Calda - Antivan
Daisy Fun-Time Lemon Gin - Antivan, a juniper spirit flavoured with local flowers and fruit.
Dew of the Dales - Elven, Antivan. Spirits for the spirited, an elven elevation of the brewing arts only sold in Antiva.
Dock Town Homebrew - Tevinter
Dragon Piss Ale
Dwarven Stout - an Orzammar recipe, brewed by the dwarven Ambassadoria
Fire Brandy - used to flambé desserts
Ginger Tea
Gingerwort Truffle Tea
Grappling Hook - a white liqueur with hints of elderflower. Served with three coffee beans
Halla Milk
Kirkwall Select 9:36 - after the Kirkwall Rebellion, few barrels survived.
Lavender Tea
Lemon Gin - Antivan
Minrathous Red - hints of plum and spices
Minrathous White - a light and refreshing drink for humid Tevinter summers
Nevarran Red
Pomace Brandy - Antivan, brandy made from the pomace leftovers of wine making
Qun on the Rocks - Antivan, rum is matched with salt water and presumably seasonal fruit from Par Vollen.
Rivaini Moonshine - home-distilled Rivaini moonshine not for the faint of heart or stomach
Starkhaven Lager
Teven Lager - popular Dock Town amber brew
Vint-6 the common Red - thick and sweet, it is served by the sip. Tradition says that the more who partake, the greater the fortune
The way the dragon age fandom treats the devs is genuinely fucking concerning. I have my own gripes and disagreements both with veilguard and the ama but never in my life would I have even considered harassing and hating on the devs to any degree.
Any
And yall sent Epler so much deeply toxic hate he quit social media entirely. And I've seen some of whats been said to him and the others. You're acting like entitled fucking toddlers.
Are people willfully ignoring that the devs said part of the reason Davrin was one of the two for that choice was bc of him surviving at weisshaupt?
Bc I've seen three people saying the devs said him just bc of assan and while I agree that comment was in poor taste that... isn't what the whole statement was. At all.
It's because he's a Warden who has lost 3/4 of his Order. It's bc he survived killing an Archdemon, which he was trained for years to sacrifice himself to kill.
Davrin's whole story isn't just about Assan. It's about resolving yourself to live past what you thought was your 'expiration date' and how to come to terms with surviving what you thought would kill you.
It's about growing to be more than you'd ever imagined or allowed yourself to be (A Warden destined to die in the Blight, the griffon bodyguard, to the hero who helped save the veil and kill gods, to the hero who saved the griffon species anew, to the hero who survived the killing of an archdemon- a fear only ever (possibly) completed by the HoF, granted they fulfilled Morrigans ritual.) He even starts to reconnect with his Dalish roots and heritage and family. To grow upwards like tree branches and to reaffirm his roots.
It's about accepting that you are more than what you thought were more and that you can have and be more. And then, depending on Rooks choices- after he has accepted that he could have a future, that he could do and be more, that he's allowed to want and to be more... he loses that future. To save the world. To give his team a chance they would never get again.
Davrin has always been more than just Assan and yet half the people I see complaining about his arc 'just being about Assan' are the very ones.. reducing his arc to that.
(I'll never ever be able to sacrifice him, but... yeah)
Like I have my own issues with some of what the devs said (like 90% of what was said about Solas, the Assan vs Harding comment instead of recognizing Davrin's importance as DAVRIN)
But like. At least be accurate in what you're criticizing
theres something very sinister about the way datv views solas and his redemption.
when i imagined a happy ending for him (in my wildest dreams) there was always something for him to //do// to begin the process of healing the blight and helping the spirits beyond the veil. i, too, view inaction under such circumstances as unbecoming, even if he makes things worse in the process. the alternative is worse. it has to be worse.
but it very much isnt. time and time again solas is portrayed as evil for doing anything. his regrets are all about choosing action over inaction. it's kind of insane that the game doesnt punish rook in a similar way.
when my character foil lets blight loose upon the world that's just a heroic quest for them to go on, but when i, solas dragonage...
and in the end it all comes down to forgiving him for attempting to fix his mistakes without offering any alternatives, and it's about his moral and ethical failings, not the actions themselves.
and through revealing that it was solas all along, with him gone we are blissfully free from asking questions such as why was there slavery in a society with abundant magic?
because the world has been saved. or minrathous, i guess.
