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Post by ellehaym on Mar 31, 2018 16:46:00 GMT
I wonder if Red Lyrium is the result of Elvhen experimentation? It has both the "benefits" of the Taint and Lyrium and ca be grown and farmed easier than Lyrium and probably the Taint in that you just need to a bit to infect people and just wait until the Red Lyrium takes over them. Imshael seems to be familiar with it.
Mythal seems to have regretted killing a Titan, so I wonder if she eventually banned the killing Titans and farming of their lyrium which probably made many of the Evanuris resent her even more.
The story about Andruil going to the Void and going mad sounds alot like the Blight. It's just that Elves and maybe Dwarves were stronger back then that they could prevent it from spreading too far.
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Post by ellehaym on Feb 18, 2018 22:27:31 GMT
I don't think that ancient dwarves were "mindless" as what the ancient elves thought. Take a look at Valta once she re-connected with a Titan. I do think that there's a bit of a hive-mind going on, but I think it's more complex than that. Perhaps it's closer to the Avatar's Na'vi, where they're still individuals, but can connected to a greater whole.
Solas and other ancient elves don't consider the people of modern Thedas as "real people" at least initially due to being cut off from the Fade. I am sure the Elves thought even less of Dwarves back then due to not being connected to the Fade, but also connected to a relatively unknown beings in the Titans.
In their good intention (or maybe they just wanted new slaves to mine lyrium), I can see the Elves thinking that cutting them off from Titans can atleast give them some sort of "real-ness"
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Post by ellehaym on Feb 3, 2018 20:58:05 GMT
I wonder how the Veil will be destroyed? Will destroying it burn the sky and thus most people on the surface while Solas and his crew wait it out in a safe location inside the Eluvian?
Or does he mean that the chaos of magic returning will cause everyone to panic and further war amongst themselves and will make it easier for a 3rd party (Solas and crew) to kill off the what remains. Much like when the Veil was 1st erected.
I am more concerned about the Forgotten Ones and the Evanuris returning. Solas claims he has plans for them, but I'm not so sure if it'll work
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Post by ellehaym on Jan 14, 2018 23:31:48 GMT
Assuming that awakened Titan-connected Dwarves had their own version of "anti-magic" similar to Templars, I can see them being a formidable force that needed something that could counter them. As Solas said: templars "reinforce reality" and makes it hard for a mage to manipulate the environment thus rendering most -if not all- Elvhen magic useless until they eventually adapted? If Zathrian could make Werewolf curse (and werewolves existed prior to Zathrian, too), I wonder if they could do something similar but be more dragon-like? That said, there are lizard-men mural paintings that can be seen in many Elvhen ruins and locations: vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonage/images/4/44/Scaled_One_-_Temple_of_Dirthamen.pngPeople have also pointed the Qunari insignia looking similar to Elvhen masonry (not sure what the proper term is) seen in their achitecture vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonage/images/e/ea/Qunari_Tide_heraldry_DA2.pngSo these creatures at least existed during the time of the Elvhen and were note-worthy enough to have been given murals within their temples and other locations.
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Post by ellehaym on Jan 14, 2018 4:18:18 GMT
I do believe that that modern Qunari (not sure about their predecessors) do have dragon blood. It has been said that those who drink too much dragon blood will give that drink draconic features such as scales and as well as uncontrollable rage. IF the Theirin bloodline is an indicator, then dragon blood can remain in the descendants and potent enough to be harvested and concentrated by Magrallen Maybe the Qunari were meant to be bred and harvested for their dragon blood? In order to circumvent Mythal's protection of the Dragons (they were her sacred beasts) I can see an Evanuris (Ghilan'nain) mix dragon blood to her elvhen slaves for more potent blood magic spells?
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Post by ellehaym on Jan 13, 2018 2:50:53 GMT
In the WoT it's said that magic exists naturally, but only few can manipulate it freely.
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Post by ellehaym on Jan 12, 2018 22:14:39 GMT
speaking of eyes, demons and seeing things, I do find it interesting how the Occularum is created. One needs to make a demon possess a Tranquil and quickly kill it and as a result they can use the skull to see those shard, potentially even more.
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Post by ellehaym on Jan 11, 2018 17:22:13 GMT
I had a similar opinion too about hair. That baldness is another way for the higher ups to control the slaves. Afterall, with hair you can at least have some freedom to shape it however you liked, but if everyone is bald then everyone looks the same at 1st glance and each lose individuality due to that sameness.
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Post by ellehaym on Jan 10, 2018 22:05:13 GMT
I wonder if Fen'harel only became anti-slavery shortly before or after Mythal's murder? While he was younger, he may have been closer to how Dorian was in that he didn't believe slavery was "that bad" and it took ___ to make him realize it was wrong, much like how he eventually started seeing how modern Thedosian are "people"
I think that things were brewing that the Evanuris eventually got tired of Mythal's meddling in everything and killed her
There was already strife between the People, so Mythal took upon herself to dole out Elvhen Justice since she knows Elgar'nan will destroy everything. When she showed hesitation and deferred judgment to Elgar'nan, I'd imagine that caused a chain reaction.
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Post by ellehaym on Jan 9, 2018 18:45:19 GMT
I am not sure how closely related it is but Solas has this to say:
Assuming that Vir Atish'an is involved in the healing arts (could be physical, emotional, spiritual healing?) then it does seem to be a difficult path to follow as the person needs to know and accept other's pain in order to heal them.
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Post by ellehaym on Jan 7, 2018 23:17:55 GMT
I always got the impression that Elves entering Uthenera successfully was an accomplishment. A successful Unthenera means that the body remains while the Elve's mind/soul goes to the Fade to do whatever and will return to his/her body whenever they feel like it.
Given what we know of the ancient Elvhen, Uthenera was only for those in power, at least prior to Solas' rebelion.
I wonder if the 1st of Elvhen-kind were Spirit turned physical form and that it was a pioneering Evanuris that "invented" procreation between Elves (by observing animals?) rather than the more complicated -if not risky- way for Spirits to gain physical form.
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Post by ellehaym on Jan 7, 2018 17:49:03 GMT
I wonder if there can be a 3rd option where there could be stable veil breaches/ portals where spirits can come and go freely while the rest of Thedas remain in tact? Kinda similar to The Avatar type scenario?
However, my greatest concern is not whether or not Solas succeeds, but if something worse arises due to his plans. Much like how Corypheus ended up being the bigger threat, so that the Mage-Templar war was put on the side; I fear that Solas plans will be put on the side due to one of the Evanuris (Falon'Din/Dirthamen?) being released.
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Post by ellehaym on Dec 30, 2017 23:10:03 GMT
My Warden grew disillusioned with politics and diplomacy in general, so she's now traveling the rest of Thedas to live out the rest of her (remaining) life
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Post by ellehaym on Dec 21, 2017 0:00:07 GMT
Being a Warden means that you (should) strip all of your previous titles assuming you have any. With that in mind, "Warden __name__" is probably the right way to address a Gray Warden.
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Post by ellehaym on Dec 3, 2017 18:56:20 GMT
After DA2 and the Dawn of the Seeker movie, I thought that I was not going to like Cassandra at all in DA:I, but she's now one of my favourites.
I liked Leliana in DA:O, but I became indifferent toward her by the end of DA:I. I don't need to see her.
I felt sorry for the elves in general, but now I only feel sorry for the city elves since they're just living their lives, but are discriminated against both humans and (depending on clan) Dalish elves.
The Dalish elves are very fragmented. I would say inconsistent based on what we knew from DAO and 2, but I guess they want us to know that each clan varies significantly on how they deal with stuff.
Red Jennies. I thought they would be this mysterious order dabbling many different things .... then we got Sera as their representative.
Now that it's been years since DA:I ended, I can say that the execution of the story/plot we not that great compared to DA:O and 2.
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Post by ellehaym on Nov 19, 2017 15:55:55 GMT
Wow I had no idea those trees existed!
I am guessing that they are the remnants of what the ancient Elvhen did? In World of Thedas book has a tree with a face in one of its art work in when talking about elves.
I wonder if it has to do with Mythal? Or maybe Forest Spirits?
After digging up on it there's only 1 (so far) codex entry that talks about faces imprints on trees:
According to Dalish lore, a spirit punished a clan for cutting a tree (that was host of a spirit?) in Brecilian Forest.
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Post by ellehaym on Nov 10, 2017 14:27:44 GMT
I wonder if the presence of the Veil is also affecting his immortality? It was said that the Veil made Elves lose the immortality due to cutting of their connection to the Fade and I would imagine something similar is happening to him.
I'm sure he knows of other ways to be "immortal" such as 1. Merging his spirit with a person ala Flemeth-Mythal 2. Possessing willing hosts like what Flemeth supposedly does 3. Using a dragon as a horcrux like Corypheus did, which he probably got from the ancient Elves 4. The Zathrian method by binding a spirit
Perhaps he just chooses not to do some of those methods and probably want to be as much of "himself" as possible as all of those methods require another person/ being.
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Post by ellehaym on Nov 8, 2017 17:05:15 GMT
I wonder if the Old Gods are what remains of the dragons prior to the rise of the Elvhen? Drake's fall is littered with "primordial" dragon bones that are similar to the Old Gods themselves:
The interesting thing about Drake's Fall is that the area was obviously important to the Elvhen. There was a Varterral guarding the area. The place with the Eluvian had upside-down buildings similar to the ruins of Vir Dirthara. Could the Evanuris have hunted these dragons to near-extinction until Mythal stopped them? Could Dragons have been the "sun" that Elgar'nan plunged deep into the Earth as punishment? Could these dragons be elf-turned-dragons?
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Post by ellehaym on Nov 7, 2017 18:03:39 GMT
If the World of Thedas vol. 2 is to be believed then an Old God prison exists just below Heidrun Thaig What else is in Heidrun Thaig? A structure similar to a "Claw of Dumat" which is similar to what we located in the Primeval Thaig. Also, didn't Kieran have nightmares regarding Lyrium? That said, I do think that the Old Gods were imprisoned. But was it done by the Evanuris or Solas?
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Post by ellehaym on Nov 7, 2017 14:32:35 GMT
I think that the Old God worship and as well as the political powers of their respective priests were waning by the time of Corypheus. It was still the religion of Tevinter. But it probably still continued well after the rise of Dumat.
I can see the remaining clergy trying their best to say something along the lines of "Dumat may have risen and gone crazy, but we still have the other Old Gods to help us!" or whatever propaganda they could use to still remain in power such as Dumat punishing them for __ reasons. It also doesn't help that the rest of the Old Gods went silent (not sure about the timeline either before or immediately after the rise of Dumat?) which brought panic amongst the clergy. Hard to actively worship something when they've all gone silent?
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Post by ellehaym on Nov 4, 2017 18:51:10 GMT
If we do go to Tevinter I do hope we'll see it in all it's glory. From seeing a slave market in the background to seeing a glimpse of it's high society. The same could be said about DA:I's Orlais It's kinda sad that the "darker" aspects of the Dragon Age world can be seen in full detail in outside works like comics and books. While I'd like to see Tevinter in full detail too, I'd just like to point out that it's way easier to draw a panel of a comic than arrange the whole set just for snapshots of Vint life like those above. The slave market does not need to have a whole plot line to it. It'll just be there in the background of a city or town; which further exemplify just how common and accepted such a thing is. The magic light show is a bit out there. But I imagine a gathering of Tevinter nobles the same way how they did the Winter Palace is the next best way to show Tevinter high society.
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Post by ellehaym on Nov 4, 2017 18:08:42 GMT
If we do go to Tevinter I do hope we'll see it in all it's glory. From seeing a slave market in the background to seeing a glimpse of it's high society. The same could be said about DA:I's Orlais It's kinda sad that the "darker" aspects of the Dragon Age world can be seen in full detail in outside works like comics and books.
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Post by ellehaym on Nov 3, 2017 20:17:35 GMT
Assuming DA4 takes place in Tevinter I wonder if "Magekiller" could be a future class in the game? It could maybe replace Templar for an anti-mage class due to Templars in Tevinter not being given lyrium nor truly trained to take down mages. I'm not really sure how it'll work out though since in the comics, the person (Magekiller) attacked using tools, trickery and fast movements.
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Post by ellehaym on Oct 30, 2017 23:18:09 GMT
Any chance things introduced in andromeda could make their way to da4 Flamethrower -maybe as a enemy weapon (descent dwarves do have something like guns) Cover-Ryder uses cover so is this something they use Implants-ai uses it to communicate with team. Maybe magic so say inquisition? Can do the same from outside of tevinter Well, I can maybe see (and hoping) the Inquisitor be temporarily controlled near the end of the game much like how we could control the sibling Ryder near the end of Andromeda. I especially hope we can control the Inquisitor's decision when deal with Solas rather than rely on the new protagonist's decision like they did with Hawke in DA:I In terms of long-distance communication, it's very possible. Dorian gave a crystal to the Inquisitor so that they can talk over long distance while he's in Tevinter. Such a crystal is mostly used in Tevinter due cost and it being magic related; although it was also used by a Seeker in DA: Dawn of the Seeker. Potentially a Spirit could help out too.
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Post by ellehaym on Oct 29, 2017 16:17:29 GMT
I always thought the Seeker Rite of Tranquility was a more "natural" and arduous way for one to "empty" themselves. And that lyrium branding was just a short cut and also forceful way to do the same thing, but used for mages.
Much like how Templars seem to have a shortcut to how Seekers did it via use of lyrium.
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