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Elvis Has Left The Building
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0
Oct 31, 2020 23:57:02 GMT
8,068
pessimistpanda
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Apr 18, 2017 15:57:34 GMT
April 2017
pessimistpanda
Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect Andromeda
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Post by pessimistpanda on Jul 26, 2018 2:51:48 GMT
DA wiki says she's a "spirit", but that she comes from the forest, not the Fade.
Does anyone know anything more about this? Or have any theories?
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Scribbles
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0
Apr 23, 2024 17:30:54 GMT
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Hanako Ikezawa
22,353
August 2016
hanakoikezawa
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Jul 26, 2018 3:54:25 GMT
Well, we know that some spirits can survive being in the physical world even without a host. Perhaps she was a spirit trapped on this side of the Veil when Solas erected it. Plus due to all the bloodshed in the forest making the Veil there thin she could have enough access to it to survive before being bound to a wolf by Zathrian.
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115
0
Apr 22, 2024 23:39:45 GMT
2,711
capn233
1,708
August 2016
capn233
Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age Inquisition, Mass Effect Andromeda
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Post by capn233 on Aug 7, 2018 21:57:50 GMT
Strange, I guess I never read the wiki, and possibly didn't pay close enough attention in game. I assumed when she said Zathrien bound her to the wolf he had summoned her from the Fade like where most spirits come from.
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813
0
Jun 26, 2019 23:40:38 GMT
5,054
thats1evildude
2,478
August 2016
thats1evildude
Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition
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Post by thats1evildude on Aug 7, 2018 22:32:23 GMT
She is an avatar of the Brecilian Forest itself. There was no individual spirit or "being" that existed prior to Witherfang/The Lady's creation; there was just life without consciousness, which Zathrian gave form and thought. Witherfang represents the ferocity of nature, while she represents its beauty.
The closest comparison I can think of is Ego the Living Planet, which had an avatar in the form of Kurt Russell. The difference, obviously, was that Zathrian’s curse created the Lady, whereas Ego created his own avatar.
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749
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Mar 10, 2024 18:44:44 GMT
3,653
Iddy
3,727
August 2016
iddy
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Post by Iddy on Aug 8, 2018 11:12:52 GMT
Thicc is what she is.
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2,011
Lazarillo
1,025
January 2017
lazarillo
Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, SWTOR
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Post by Lazarillo on Aug 11, 2018 4:30:02 GMT
She's not really different from any other Spirit. She was an ethereal being that represented an ideal in the Fade. It's just, rather than the ideal being something like "justice" or "desire", in her case it was "the forest". Then she was bound into a "real" form, but since it was one intended to represent her ideal, it didn't twist her into a monster like you see with demons.
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Champion of Kirkwall
1212
0
8,023
Sifr
3,737
Aug 25, 2016 20:05:11 GMT
August 2016
sifr
Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age Inquistion, KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire
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Post by Sifr on Aug 12, 2018 13:42:07 GMT
As others have said above, the Lady is a type of gestalt entity that compromised all life within the Brecilian Forest and personified every attribute that people had given the forest (beautiful, dangerous, etc). Witherfang existed because Zathrian bound the spirit of the forest within a great wolf. The Lady form and the Witherfang form therefore serve to reflect the duality of those afflicted by the werewolf curse, both man and beast, as well as humane and savage. If/when the curse was ended, the Lady disappeared because there was no reason for either form to exist anymore. Solas claims in Inquisition that "a spirit's natural state is of peaceful, semi-nonexistence", which we see reflected in the Lady's statements about having not possessed any consciousness or form until the curse. (Semi-related, in The Last Court, there's a similar entity in the forests of Serault called the Horned Knight.) |
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29
julian
32
Jan 23, 2019 16:51:26 GMT
January 2019
julian
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Post by julian on Jan 23, 2019 18:12:55 GMT
A spirit that took L.A.R.P-ing too far... and succeeded... She found love, joy, sorrow, understood what it meant to be mortal. And unlike Zathrian, she welcomed death, seeing it as just another journey, rather than the end.
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