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Post by ladyiolanthe on Apr 15, 2017 1:21:36 GMT
My Keeper's probably dead, so... Nothing will get in my Lavellan's way!
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Post by arvaarad on Apr 15, 2017 1:24:35 GMT
Yesssss, the people who are right rogue!Lavellan* team grows! We may be small in number, but damnit, we're graceful. Also** we can do 10,000+ damage in a single swing. You better run, squishy (and objectively wrong) mages! Pew-pew-pew! --- *warrior!Lavellans welcome too. We need all the backup we can get. **with a mighty offense tonic and time to build up Pincushion stacks
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Post by NeverlandHunter on Apr 15, 2017 1:32:50 GMT
Yesssss, the people who are right rogue!Lavellan* team grows! We may be small in number, but damnit, we're graceful. Also** we can do 10,000+ damage in a single swing. You better run, squishy (and objectively wrong) mages! Pew-pew-pew! --- *warrior!Lavellans welcome too. We need all the backup we can get. **with a mighty offense tonic and time to build up Pincushion stacksWoah, woah, you don't get the warriors. The warriors are meant to work with the mages. It's the perfect tank and support match up. You can go take your fellow rogues and put your hunting skills to good use killing us some dinner. Meanwhile us mages will be using our skills of leadership and wise mage knowledge to figure the problem of how to divvy out one bald elf not god amongst many Lavellans. And guess who's going to be getting the smallest time slot! You, rogue! Edited to add: *Grumbles* Graceful my arse... I saw you tumbling down that ridge. You looked increasingly graceful the fifth attempt and fail!
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Post by Elessara on Apr 15, 2017 1:40:53 GMT
Yesssss, the people who are right rogue!Lavellan* team grows! We may be small in number, but damnit, we're graceful. Also** we can do 10,000+ damage in a single swing. You better run, squishy (and objectively wrong) mages! Pew-pew-pew! --- *warrior!Lavellans welcome too. We need all the backup we can get. **with a mighty offense tonic and time to build up Pincushion stacksWoah, woah, you don't get the warriors. The warriors are meant to work with the mages. It's the perfect tank and support match up. You can go take your fellow rogues and put your hunting skills to good use killing us some dinner. Meanwhile us mages will be using our skills of leadership and wise mage knowledge to figure the problem of how to divvy out one bald elf not god amongst many Lavellans. And guess who's going to be getting the smallest time slot! You, rogue! Edited to add: *Grumbles* Graceful my arse... I saw you tumbling down that ridge. You looked increasingly graceful the fifth attempt and fail! Team Rogue! You know, you should probably be nicer to the people you expect to provide you with food. Just saying! Also, I did not TUMBLE off of the cliff! I did a very graceful backflip over the edge, thank you very much! Played all classes .. preferred in this order: rogue (archer), mage (rift), warrior (I hate melee classes in DAI).
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Post by ladyiolanthe on Apr 15, 2017 1:56:03 GMT
Mages don't have a monopoly on leadership skills, as the entire DAI game illustrates! If they did, we'd all have had to play mages. I know it's traditional to follow the Keepers and they do deserve respect, but they're only human people and are not infallible, as demonstrated by Keepers Zathrian and Thelhen. (Double daggers rogues are my favourites.)
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Post by uirebhiril on Apr 15, 2017 1:56:37 GMT
Team Rogue! You know, you should probably be nicer to the people you expect to provide you with food. Just saying! Also, I did not TUMBLE off of the cliff! I did a very graceful backflip over the edge, thank you very much!My not-so-finest moment was backflipping away to get range in combat.... and falling right over the edge of a cliff. Onto a bear. It was a very mad bear.
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Post by arvaarad on Apr 15, 2017 2:00:17 GMT
You can go take your fellow rogues and put your hunting skills to good use killing us some dinner. Meanwhile us mages will be using our skills of leadership and wise mage knowledge to figure the problem of how to divvy out one bald elf not god amongst many Lavellans. Ah yes, because if there's one thing mages are known for, throughout all of Thedosian history, it's wisdom. We rogues have none of these mages' wisdom, which is why we've never started an elf-god war, caused the fall of Arlathan, sacrificed thousands of slaves to enter the Golden City, sacrificed thousands of slaves to royally mess up Kirkwall, brought the blight into the world, handed our orb to a darkspawn magister, killed Andraste, killed Mythal, blown up a chantry, or held any position of power in Tevinter. We bow before your clear judgment, o mages, secure in the knowledge that no mage plans have ever gone horribly awry.
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Post by Gwyvian on Apr 15, 2017 2:16:26 GMT
I was too concerned about what other people would think of me (probably still am) to do anything cool like have had a dark and edgy phase. I've adored fantasy (vaguely medieval/Victorian/urban, anything) for as long as I've loved reading, but I kept it, and my other nerd loves, to myself for years. The Twilight period... well I wish I could black that out from my memories. I despise everything about those books and all that was spawned from them now, so the memories of obsession for them hurt me. I don't know much about BioWare's older games, I remember my dad and my brother played Baldur's Gate and that was always fun to watch. Eventually, when I have a computer that won't catch fire and laugh at me for running anything more complex than chess on it, I'll have a go at their early games for myself. Origins will always be my perfect little gem that introduced me to romance in games, investment in characters, and a great story, though! As for your being an art snob, I understand completely. I'm an awful book adaptation snob. His hair is supposed to be parted to the right! Gah, this movie is terrible! And my teenage self obviously has to be the more embarrassing one. She liked Twilight! Hey, I used to get all mushy over movies like Sleepless in Settle and A Walk in the Clouds, after the first Twilight movie (which was how I was introduced to it) I actually... didn't think it was that bad. *shudder* I mean, pretty much everything beyond the first movie I couldn't sit through with a straight face, but in my opinion its sins go way beyond poor plot and mediocre characters. I'd give an academic review of it, but I've already burdened the Solas thread with that once before........ things got off topic very quickly. So, to make a long story short, it's just one of those things, I figured sometimes it just feels nice to not be 100% hardcore all the time. (Not that I was really that hardcore, though I suppose that depends on your perspective.) I think that knee-jerk reaction to Twilight is actually fairly common, I know my sister went through the same thing, she initially obsessed over it and now she would kill it with fire - then again, my sister is kind of turning out to be my clone, so maybe that has something to do with it. She's also going goth. It's kind of cute. And a little weird - she looks just like me at that age and has the same tastes and everything, and there I thought she was going to turn out to be a lollipop cheerleader type. Well, Neverwinter Nights is a pretty damn amazing game together with it's expansion packs. (Actually, the expansion packs are better than the main campaign.) I was utterly flummoxed and went instantly gooey when I was wandering around Halaster's dungeons and my totally evil sexy drow (a race of evil dark elves, if you're not familiar with Forgotten Realms lore) was wandering around slaughtering with his sociopathic voice ("I want to see... SUFFERING. Your remains shall decorate my home! I will take special pleasure in this!" Listen! ) and all of a sudden my bard henchman (err woman) Sharwyn confessed that she had totally fallen in love with me and I was like: "WHAT-- WHAAAT?!" and for reasons I can't quite explain I just automatically rejected her because pff, come on, EVIL CHARACTER, and also because I suddenly didn't know how to react. Then I got into it more and I totally fell head over heels for Valen Shadowbreath. Yeah, BioWare has corrupted me from waaaay back when. The rest is, as they say, history. Seriously though, that game has serious staying power. To this day with all the fancy awesomeness and animations we get with games like DAI and MEA, I can still launch a new NWN campaign and be totally satisfied with it, it's that good. Oh, man, it took me so long to stop myself obsessing over details like that. I started to disassociate books from movie adaptations on the whole and just view them as another expression of the same inspiration and that pretty much made my enjoyment skyrocket from 5% to 85% (well, I can't totally decimate my standards). Some I've actually come to like at an almost equal level - some of them pretty much live up to my expectations of absolute horror (see A Wizard of Earthsea movie adaptation, I don't think a single production has ever made me cringe so much in my life). Um... So, Solas! Team Rogue! Wait, I said that already. *weak attempt at being on topic*
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Post by NeverlandHunter on Apr 15, 2017 2:33:44 GMT
Woah, woah, you don't get the warriors. The warriors are meant to work with the mages. It's the perfect tank and support match up. You can go take your fellow rogues and put your hunting skills to good use killing us some dinner. Meanwhile us mages will be using our skills of leadership and wise mage knowledge to figure the problem of how to divvy out one bald elf not god amongst many Lavellans. And guess who's going to be getting the smallest time slot! You, rogue! Edited to add: *Grumbles* Graceful my arse... I saw you tumbling down that ridge. You looked increasingly graceful the fifth attempt and fail! Team Rogue! You know, you should probably be nicer to the people you expect to provide you with food. Just saying! Also, I did not TUMBLE off of the cliff! I did a very graceful backflip over the edge, thank you very much! Played all classes .. preferred in this order: rogue (archer), mage (rift), warrior (I hate melee classes in DAI). Haha, well, maybe you should be nicer to your future Keeper! This "fight" is actually giving me a sense of how growing up in a Dalish clan would go! And fine then! I'll hunt for my own dinner! *spends the next several hours chasing a nug around in circles, throwing fireballs at it* Okay, so it's a little charred... but still edible... I think. Hey, Arvaard, I got something for you to eat as a peace offering! (I go mage, rogue, and then maybe warrior for all my Dragon Age playthroughs) Mages don't have a monopoly on leadership skills, as the entire DAI game illustrates! If they did, we'd all have had to play mages. I know it's traditional to follow the Keepers and they do deserve respect, but they're only human people and are not infallible, as demonstrated by Keepers Zathrian and Thelhen. (Double daggers rogues are my favourites.) Rogues don't have a monopoly on hunting! *repeats above disaster* Yeah, but our Keeper seems pretty cool, and I know you know I'd make a brilliant Keeper! I'd be infallible and indomitable. I think I'm forgetting how to separate my Lavellan from myself! Team Rogue! You know, you should probably be nicer to the people you expect to provide you with food. Just saying! Also, I did not TUMBLE off of the cliff! I did a very graceful backflip over the edge, thank you very much!My not-so-finest moment was backflipping away to get range in combat.... and falling right over the edge of a cliff. Onto a bear. It was a very mad bear. I remember fade stepping off a cliff... I fell down a ways, my health low, and looked up at my companions in despair. "But, wait!" Thought, I, "I'll just body swap into someone up there!" So I became Varric, but he had already walked off after me, always willing to follow crazy into stupid situations. "Alright, no Varric, but look at Cassandra waiting patiently for me!" So I moved Cassandra, who had teleported to the very bottom of the cliff, lower even then Varric and my Lavellan. Cassandra did not want any part of our lunacy. I look up for Solas and notice him next to me. "Of course now you won't leave me." You can go take your fellow rogues and put your hunting skills to good use killing us some dinner. Meanwhile us mages will be using our skills of leadership and wise mage knowledge to figure the problem of how to divvy out one bald elf not god amongst many Lavellans. Ah yes, because if there's one thing mages are known for, throughout all of Thedosian history, it's wisdom. We rogues have none of these mages' wisdom, which is why we've never started an elf-god war, caused the fall of Arlathan, sacrificed thousands of slaves to enter the Golden City, sacrificed thousands of slaves to royally mess up Kirkwall, brought the blight into the world, handed our orb to a darkspawn magister, killed Andraste, killed Mythal, blown up a chantry, or held any position of power in Tevinter. We bow before your clear judgment, o mages, secure in the knowledge that no mage plans have ever gone horribly awry. Heyy, I said knowledge not wisdom! And you rogues ain't no paragons of virtue either. You just lack our destructive capabilities. So you even even fail at being infamous! Edited: To change piece to peace, of to off (whoops), and to fix a broken quote
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Post by arvaarad on Apr 15, 2017 2:48:29 GMT
Team Rogue! You know, you should probably be nicer to the people you expect to provide you with food. Just saying! Also, I did not TUMBLE off of the cliff! I did a very graceful backflip over the edge, thank you very much! Played all classes .. preferred in this order: rogue (archer), mage (rift), warrior (I hate melee classes in DAI). Haha, well, maybe you should be nicer to your future Keeper! This "fight" is actually giving me a sense of how growing up in a Dalish clan would go! And fine then! I'll hunt for my own dinner! *spends the next several hours chasing a nug around in circles, throwing fireballs at it* Okay, so it's a little charred... but still edible... I think. Hey, Arvaard, I got something for you to eat as a piece offering! (I go mage, rogue, and then maybe warrior for all my Dragon Age playthroughs) Mages don't have a monopoly on leadership skills, as the entire DAI game illustrates! If they did, we'd all have had to play mages. I know it's traditional to follow the Keepers and they do deserve respect, but they're only human people and are not infallible, as demonstrated by Keepers Zathrian and Thelhen. (Double daggers rogues are my favourites.) Rogues don't have a monopoly on hunting! *repeats of above disaster* Yeah, but our Keeper seems pretty cool, and I know you know I'd make a brilliant Keeper! I'd be infallible and indomitable. I think I'm forgetting how to separate my Lavellan from myself! My not-so-finest moment was backflipping away to get range in combat.... and falling right over the edge of a cliff. Onto a bear. It was a very mad bear. I remember fade stepping of a cliff... I fell down a ways, my health low, and looked up at my companions in despair. "But, wait!" Thought, I, "I'll just body swap into someone up there!" So I became Varric, but he had already walked off after me, always willing to follow crazy into stupid situations. "Alright, no Varric, but look at Cassandra waiting patiently for me!" So I moved Cassandra, who had teleported to the very bottom of the cliff, lower even then Varric and my Lavellan. Cassandra did not want any part of our lunacy. I look up for Solas and notice him next to me. "Of course now you won't leave me." Ah yes, because if there's one thing mages are known for, throughout all of Thedosian history, it's wisdom. We rogues have none of these mages' wisdom, which is why we've never started an elf-god war, caused the fall of Arlathan, sacrificed thousands of slaves to enter the Golden City, sacrificed thousands of slaves to royally mess up Kirkwall, brought the blight into the world, handed our orb to a darkspawn magister, killed Andraste, killed Mythal, blown up a chantry, or held any position of power in Tevinter. We bow before your clear judgment, o mages, secure in the knowledge that no mage plans have ever gone horribly awry. Heyy, I said knowledge not wisdom! And you rogues ain't no paragons of virtue either. You just lack our destructive capabilities. So you even even fail at being infamous! That's right, we're not infamous. We actually know how to make a clean getaway. This is giving me flashbacks of all the times Solas stomped in with his loud mage feet and got us into fights. Cole, Sera, and Lavellan were all permastealthed, enjoying the scenery, and in he rolls like a big ol' puppy trying to make friends with spiders. This was before mages got that invisibility ring. I... may have left him to die, when that happened. Once or twice. Or maybe a dozen times. Who's counting? He'd rez on his own, of course, because of his ancient mystic powers none of the other party members were in combat.
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Post by uirebhiril on Apr 15, 2017 3:11:06 GMT
This is giving me flashbacks of all the times Solas stomped in with his loud mage feet and got us into fights. Cole, Sera, and Lavellan were all permastealthed, enjoying the scenery, and in he rolls like a big ol' puppy trying to make friends with spiders. This was before mages got that invisibility ring. That was Cassandra for me. She really hated druffalo. Which made me really hate her every time one of the buggers mowed us over. For reals, Cass, they're just standing there eating grass. Leave them alone!
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Post by NeverlandHunter on Apr 15, 2017 3:14:18 GMT
Rogues don't have a monopoly on hunting! *repeats of above disaster* Yeah, but our Keeper seems pretty cool, and I know you know I'd make a brilliant Keeper! I'd be infallible and indomitable. I think I'm forgetting how to separate my Lavellan from myself! I remember fade stepping of a cliff... I fell down a ways, my health low, and looked up at my companions in despair. "But, wait!" Thought, I, "I'll just body swap into someone up there!" So I became Varric, but he had already walked off after me, always willing to follow crazy into stupid situations. "Alright, no Varric, but look at Cassandra waiting patiently for me!" So I moved Cassandra, who had teleported to the very bottom of the cliff, lower even then Varric and my Lavellan. Cassandra did not want any part of our lunacy. I look up for Solas and notice him next to me. "Of course now you won't leave me." Heyy, I said knowledge not wisdom! And you rogues ain't no paragons of virtue either. You just lack our destructive capabilities. So you even even fail at being infamous! That's right, we're not infamous. We actually know how to make a clean getaway. This is giving me flashbacks of all the times Solas stomped in with his loud mage feet and got us into fights. Cole, Sera, and Lavellan were all permastealthed, enjoying the scenery, and in he rolls like a big ol' puppy trying to make friends with spiders. This was before mages got that invisibility ring. I... may have left him to die, when that happened. Once or twice. Or maybe a dozen times. Who's counting? He'd rez on his own, of course, because of his ancient mystic powers none of the other party members were in combat. You're just sidelined by the greatness of mage power! I've never taken out that many rogues in one go. My most common party was my mage Lavellan, Cassandra, Solas and Cole. We'd be fighting something big, like a giant or even a dragon and I'd be zoning into the fight before I'd go "wait, where's Cole?" before noticing his body. "Poor, Cole, but he can't really die, right?" *goes back to fighting* Solas is probably too busy keeping me from dying-- since I don't let being a mage and wearing robes keep me from jumping right into the thick of things-- to answer. Meanwhile Cole continues using fingers to make a little bridge for ants to cross a ravine.
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Post by midnight tea on Apr 15, 2017 3:15:02 GMT
That's right, we're not infamous. We actually know how to make a clean getaway. This is giving me flashbacks of all the times Solas stomped in with his loud mage feet and got us into fights. Cole, Sera, and Lavellan were all permastealthed, enjoying the scenery, and in he rolls like a big ol' puppy trying to make friends with spiders. This was before mages got that invisibility ring. I... may have left him to die, when that happened. Once or twice. Or maybe a dozen times. Who's counting? He'd rez on his own, of course, because of his ancient mystic powers none of the other party members were in combat. ..Welp, nevermind that one infamous Ultra-Rogue Andruil who liked to go to forbidden places so much that she came back crazy and was hunting her own people and peers (and *cough*... tying certain wolves to trees and trying to blackmail them into sexual slavery >_>''' Very... graceful, that.) Anyway - aside from hilarious ill-timed cliff jumps, the one time I remember was turning on friendly-fire and Iron Bull killing most of my (melee) party each time he used one of his attacks Another was Solas deciding to use his last desperate barrier not on himself but his battered party (the timing was perfect, almost looked like I watched a scripted scene), saving them in result while he got swarmed by demons - aw, that's almost fanfic-worthy.
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Post by arvaarad on Apr 15, 2017 3:47:40 GMT
That's right, we're not infamous. We actually know how to make a clean getaway. This is giving me flashbacks of all the times Solas stomped in with his loud mage feet and got us into fights. Cole, Sera, and Lavellan were all permastealthed, enjoying the scenery, and in he rolls like a big ol' puppy trying to make friends with spiders. This was before mages got that invisibility ring. I... may have left him to die, when that happened. Once or twice. Or maybe a dozen times. Who's counting? He'd rez on his own, of course, because of his ancient mystic powers none of the other party members were in combat. You're just sidelined by the greatness of mage power! I've never taken out that many rogues in one go. My most common party was my mage Lavellan, Cassandra, Solas and Cole. We'd be fighting something big, like a giant or even a dragon and I'd be zoning into the fight before I'd go "wait, where's Cole?" before noticing his body. "Poor, Cole, but he can't really die, right?" *goes back to fighting* Solas is probably too busy keeping me from dying-- since I don't let being a mage and wearing robes keep me from jumping right into the thick of things-- to answer. Meanwhile Cole continues using fingers to make a little bridge for ants to cross a ravine. This is going to sound insane, but if the rogue is dying, the solution is to bring 1-2 more rogues. Dead stuff can't hurt rogues, and rogues are exceptionally good at turning alive stuff into dead stuff. My mage!Adaar, who usually traveled with a balanced party, sweated his way through combat on the skin of his teeth. Meanwhile Lavellan was tearing through rifts, soloing dragons, and kissing her daggers theatrically after each kill.
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Post by NeverlandHunter on Apr 15, 2017 4:33:18 GMT
You're just sidelined by the greatness of mage power! I've never taken out that many rogues in one go. My most common party was my mage Lavellan, Cassandra, Solas and Cole. We'd be fighting something big, like a giant or even a dragon and I'd be zoning into the fight before I'd go "wait, where's Cole?" before noticing his body. "Poor, Cole, but he can't really die, right?" *goes back to fighting* Solas is probably too busy keeping me from dying-- since I don't let being a mage and wearing robes keep me from jumping right into the thick of things-- to answer. Meanwhile Cole continues using fingers to make a little bridge for ants to cross a ravine. This is going to sound insane, but if the rogue is dying, the solution is to bring 1-2 more rogues. Dead stuff can't hurt rogues, and rogues are exceptionally good at turning alive stuff into dead stuff. My mage!Adaar, who usually traveled with a balanced party, sweated his way through combat on the skin of his teeth. Meanwhile Lavellan was tearing through rifts, soloing dragons, and kissing her daggers theatrically after each kill. That does sound insane! But I'm willing to try it I'd be able to hear Sera/Cole/Varric banter for a change, too!
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Post by NeverlandHunter on Apr 15, 2017 5:40:45 GMT
Okay, guess what I completely randomly just discovered? Go ahead and guess, I'm patient... okay I'm gonna tell you! I found a very old (like two or three years, so eons, really) document that involves the Blanketfort! I was just going through my One Drive for an account I never use and there was something titled "Dragon Age" saved, so I wondered what that could be, and what it was, was the started, but never finished project of mine for a survey I put out on the original thread many moons ago. For everyone that doesn't remember (so everyone), I wrote an in depth questionaire for everyone and how they played their Lavellan x Solas play throughs. My plan was to then tally up answers and pick favorite quotes, and then share the results with the Fort! Unfortunately, I barely started doing that before I got really sick in real life (naturally, can't really get sick online, anywho) lost motivation, and stayed away from the Fort for a month or so. By the time I was revitalized the thread was moved on, so I put my project on the way too large shelf of "Never to be completed, but good idea, anyway" where it collected dust until today! Now I'm going to share the minuscule data I had the chance to collect. For those who answered my questionaire, these are the names of fellow Blanketforters' Lavellans: (I did not have the foresight to put usernames next to character names, so let me know if anyone on today answered my questionaire way back when and recognizes their Lavellan so I can edit you in next to their name!) Ithilia- mine! Clariel Cari Shany Ellana (5 Ellana's) Revera Atisha (2 Atisha's) Gwenhyfar Yara Kani Tala Niera Jessica(LinkInSpirit) Tiger Festival Laraniel Aliyah Laurelin Lucinia Athanaea Eluvia Rahasya Nimue Raime Aeoryl Rahel Arianna Gwynn Seren Aithne Inera Fennel Anriel Hildrana Skuld Minavi Anya Kyriel Mylini Ithilwen Niamh Verlaine Korhyne Elinan
As for answers to questions: When I asked what class you chose for your canon Lavellan; 13 people said rogue, 2 said warrior, and 34 said they chose a mage.I also picked a favorite quote, which was SleepyBird's: "Stabby Rogue. Stabby Stabby Stabby." When I asked which gods' Vallaslin your Lavellan wore; 1 person said Elgar'nan, 6 said Dirthamen, 12 said June, 21 said Mythal, 6 said Sylaise, 3 said Ghilan'nain, and none for Andruil or Falon'Din. The quote I picked here was Arlee's: "Ghilan'nain, I just liked the design the best but it fit because ima animal lover. Still annoyed about how many wolves I was forced to kill in this game " I also asked your Lavellans' ages. The only information I have down is that only one Lavellan was younger than 20 and only one was older than 40. The last bits of information I have on this document, yes I barely got anything done on it before I stopped, was a quote by arybobary : "Nope, faithful Cullenite here. Blame fade-tongue... " which I think was for the question of whether Solas was your first romance, but I'm not sure, and some numbers under Yes (15), No (3), Undecided (4), and Cullenite (4). I believe the question was whether your Lavellan and Solas romance play through would be your canon... I know, I'm an inept information archivor This actually made me a little sad for the Blanketfort the First and all the old friends that never made the long journey to our new home.... But, even after losing fellow forters we're still going strong with new members, no like limits, and a whole lot of pages of debate!
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Post by Elessara on Apr 15, 2017 5:57:21 GMT
I think my best not-so-finest-moment was doing the aforementioned graceful backflip off the edge of a cliff ... to land with very low health in front of a cave ... after which I heard footsteps and I turned around to see a deepstalker. It killed me b/c my companions were still stuck up top and it hit me before I could react and my health was that low.
Oh the shame of being killed by a single deepstalker.
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Post by fylimar on Apr 15, 2017 5:59:03 GMT
The conversations between Cole and Solas are interesting and I get the impression that at times Cole is one step away from revealing all. He talks about Solas' inner pain and on another how he may still be able to find happiness. That last one leads into Cole talking about what Solas once did and when the Inquisitor asks what they are talking about, Solas says it was the mistake made by a much younger elf who thought he knew everything. In fact there are lots of exchanges between them that only start making sense after Trespasser. It is also interesting that I believe Cole is the only companion who approves if the Inquisitor declares "We must save Solas" after the Viddasala has confronted us and left to find him. I found that out by taking that option with my romanced Lavellan with Cole in the party. I like to think it was Cole who gave her the courage and determination not to give up on Solas after he reveals his master plan. That sounds promising . I'll make sure, to take Cole often with me in that playthrough.
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Post by fylimar on Apr 15, 2017 6:11:45 GMT
I knoooow! *wails* I shall throw myself off a cliff for the sacrilege! It is indeed one of the comedies - in general I'd say that's what I love most from Shakespeare, although his tragedies are breathtaking and I can always count on the romances to be delicious, but I just love a good laugh. As for going to plays - I happened to luck out when I was young because there was a Shakespeare troupe who did amazing and authentic stuff, but later on I didn't go nearly as much as I wanted to. I made a few visits to the opera and one or two school trips but the latter were such a disappointment; in general, I loathe plays that incorporate flighty pop music into classical pieces, but then I'm a total art snob. Hey, I get that totally, I mean I'm a hardcore goth for the most part and I very emphatically rejected girly stuff for a very long time. Though, medievalism, romanticism, tasteful and elegant Victorian style were my thing (with heavy overtones of occasional steampunk/cyberpunk/etc. - OK, so I mixed it up a lot) so I suppose I'm the uh... dark version of a girly girl? That sounded so terrible. *shudders* Twilight is my anathema, I'm a huge fan of old school vampires, I was into that stuff when it was still weird and sect-like and it lost you friends. I had a similar literary evolution, though, I had some guilty pleasures where romances were concerned and since I am a romantic I am unashamed to admit that BioWare basically stole my heart and ran away with it from the moment they introduced RPG romances to my world (I remember the shock, it was so unexpected! This was Neverwinter Nights). But romances for me must have a killer plot. Preferably lots of depth, sometimes angst but definitely serious tones and drama - I was a really introverted melodramatic teenager. It's embarrassing. I agree, true love has never been a smooth ride, as it should be. ...My gods I LOVE Much Ado About Nothing! And also: *team rogue* Hey - a fellow goth and steampunker - plus I too love Shakespeares comedies more than his tragedies and hate Twilight with passion (in fact all those fantasy-romance-novels that came out after) To be on topic: I'm team rogue too. I play rogues and mages, but teh Lavellan, I'm doing the Solas romance with is an archer artificer - very fun class combo. My mage Lavellan went for Iron Bull. arvaaradAnd now I know, what you mean with class specific flirts. I never saw that as a real flirt, my characters take most flirt lines at the beginning of a game (apart from Blackwall, you get so easily locked into his romance by accident and I did his romance already, it was good, but I like to try different romances to see all the content at least once), because some of them are pretty funny. So I totally forgot about that Solas line. And yeah, I too jumped graceful down cliffs before - very embarrassing . The most awful one was on the Stormcoast, above that spider infested cave, where you find the reward for the astrariums. It was with my little Cadash (Solas best friend), she did that backflip and tumbled over the cliff into a bunch of giant spiders. SoOlas saved the day, because he stayed at the top and I could just switch to him and thus got all the companions to the top again ... unluckily followed by said spiders.
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Post by NeverlandHunter on Apr 15, 2017 8:12:08 GMT
If anyone is noticing my giving out likes for very old posts (from August, nearly ancient), I decided to read the entirety of this thread, so old posts being liked will be a thing for awhile I am on page 10!
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Post by Gwyvian on Apr 15, 2017 10:01:25 GMT
I knoooow! *wails* I shall throw myself off a cliff for the sacrilege! It is indeed one of the comedies - in general I'd say that's what I love most from Shakespeare, although his tragedies are breathtaking and I can always count on the romances to be delicious, but I just love a good laugh. As for going to plays - I happened to luck out when I was young because there was a Shakespeare troupe who did amazing and authentic stuff, but later on I didn't go nearly as much as I wanted to. I made a few visits to the opera and one or two school trips but the latter were such a disappointment; in general, I loathe plays that incorporate flighty pop music into classical pieces, but then I'm a total art snob. Hey, I get that totally, I mean I'm a hardcore goth for the most part and I very emphatically rejected girly stuff for a very long time. Though, medievalism, romanticism, tasteful and elegant Victorian style were my thing (with heavy overtones of occasional steampunk/cyberpunk/etc. - OK, so I mixed it up a lot) so I suppose I'm the uh... dark version of a girly girl? That sounded so terrible. *shudders* Twilight is my anathema, I'm a huge fan of old school vampires, I was into that stuff when it was still weird and sect-like and it lost you friends. I had a similar literary evolution, though, I had some guilty pleasures where romances were concerned and since I am a romantic I am unashamed to admit that BioWare basically stole my heart and ran away with it from the moment they introduced RPG romances to my world (I remember the shock, it was so unexpected! This was Neverwinter Nights). But romances for me must have a killer plot. Preferably lots of depth, sometimes angst but definitely serious tones and drama - I was a really introverted melodramatic teenager. It's embarrassing. I agree, true love has never been a smooth ride, as it should be. ...My gods I LOVE Much Ado About Nothing! And also: *team rogue* Hey - a fellow goth and steampunker - plus I too love Shakespeares comedies more than his tragedies and hate Twilight with passion (in fact all those fantasy-romance-novels that came out after) To be on topic: I'm team rogue too. I play rogues and mages, but teh Lavellan, I'm doing the Solas romance with is an archer artificer - very fun class combo. My mage Lavellan went for Iron Bull. arvaarad And now I know, what you mean with class specific flirts. I never saw that as a real flirt, my characters take most flirt lines at the beginning of a game (apart from Blackwall, you get so easily locked into his romance by accident and I did his romance already, it was good, but I like to try different romances to see all the content at least once), because some of them are pretty funny. So I totally forgot about that Solas line. And yeah, I too jumped graceful down cliffs before - very embarrassing . The most awful one was on the Stormcoast, above that spider infested cave, where you find the reward for the astrariums. It was with my little Cadash (Solas best friend), she did that backflip and tumbled over the cliff into a bunch of giant spiders. SoOlas saved the day, because he stayed at the top and I could just switch to him and thus got all the companions to the top again ... unluckily followed by said spiders. Yessss! We should totally form a goth/steampunk/rogue Solas team! We can recite Shakespeare and eviscerate Twilight with eloquence that matches academic poetry!
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Post by silvain on Apr 15, 2017 14:18:10 GMT
I have a whole story for Melothari Lavellan that involves her being pregnant when Solas left, and her son, Revasfennas, quickly becomes the most important thing in her life- so yes, she'll kill Solas if she has to, but she really, really wants a better option than having to kill her son's father just so there'll still be a world for the kid to grow up in.
If it weren't for Rev, though, I don't think she would. She'd know she ought to, but the depth to which she's affected by her feelings for him... she'd never be able to actually do it without the need to protect someone she loves even more, and without a kid, she just isn't close enough with anyone else.
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Post by arvaarad on Apr 15, 2017 15:29:39 GMT
I have a whole story for Melothari Lavellan that involves her being pregnant when Solas left, and her son, Revasfennas, quickly becomes the most important thing in her life- so yes, she'll kill Solas if she has to, but she really, really wants a better option than having to kill her son's father just so there'll still be a world for the kid to grow up in. If it weren't for Rev, though, I don't think she would. She'd know she ought to, but the depth to which she's affected by her feelings for him... she'd never be able to actually do it without the need to protect someone she loves even more, and without a kid, she just isn't close enough with anyone else. Not to harsh on anyone's magic, but if any of us ever find ourselves in Solas' situation, we should probably be reeeeeally sure about birth control. If he made even one or two babies while he was sowing wild oats in Arlathan, the chances are high that every modern elf is his direct descendant. Yes, I really mean every modern elf. Assuming replacement birthrate, each generation roughly doubles your number of direct descendants. So if someone has 2 kids, that's 2 direct descendants. They each have 2, and the next generation contains 4 direct descendants, your grandkids. Then there are 8 great-grandkids, 16 great-great grandkids... you get the idea. Let's assume that all elves have kids at about 100. This is far too old for modern elves, and possibly too young for ancient elves. After only 1000 years, one elf could expect to have 10 generations of descendants, which would be something on the order of 2 x 2 x 2 x ... x 2, ten times. 2^10 is 1,024. If we wait for two millennia, then it's 2^20, which is 1,048,576 direct descendants. The elves are said to notice the quickening in -2850 Ancient, which means the Veil likely predates that year. It probably even predates -3100 Ancient, when humans arrived on the continent. Add about another 1000 years for the nine Ages that have happened since 0 Ancient, and that's about 4 millennia. If we multiply 2 by itself 40 times, we get 2^40, which is over 1,000,000,000,000 (a trillion). That is way, way more than the number of elves in Thedas, which means (1) every individual elf is almost certainly a direct descendant of Solas and (2) many of his direct descendants have had kids with each other. Now, all that said: after that many generations, the DNA similarities would be so diluted that he wouldn't have to worry about inbreeding. But man would the family tree look strange. On the other hand, maybe he was very careful in Arlathan and had 0 kids. So I guess the real lesson is, if you find yourself in an ancient magical civilization, make sure you wrap it up.
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Post by gervaise21 on Apr 15, 2017 15:47:09 GMT
I was over posting on the Kieran thread and it reminded me of something that I would really have liked to know. What Solas thought of that whole business or would have done if he knew about it?
What would he have thought about Morrigan "rescuing" the old god by having a baby with its soul? Would he consider this more acceptable than the Wardens killing the arch demon? (Since he was beside himself at the idea of the Wardens killing the last two old gods, I'm thinking the answer to that one might be yes). What about what went on there between Flemeth and Kieran? Would he have been amused to discover that Morrigan was now stuck serving her mother?
The fact is on my first run there was no Kieran but even there I wanted to ask him what he thought about Morrigan having a working eluvian and having met Mythal at her altar, which he should have seen since he surely wasn't standing that far off. So I ran round to see him when we got back to Skyhold but there was no reaction whatsoever; he didn't even mention it. That seemed odd in itself. However, if you have just used the eluvian to step back into the Fade (allegedly), met Mythal there and seen that whole business with the old god soul, that is something I'd really want my expert on the Fade and ancient elves to comment on, but once again there was no possibility to raise it at all.
That business with Kieran altering the destination of the eluvian was something I would have liked explained by someone, even if it was only Flemeth who admitted that actually it was her doing. Corypheus had been trying the whole story to get into the Fade and everyone is warning me against trying anything like that again with the anchor and then Kieran only has to do some OGB hand waving and boom, we're right there.
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Post by arvaarad on Apr 15, 2017 16:05:28 GMT
I was over posting on the Kieran thread and it reminded me of something that I would really have liked to know. What Solas thought of that whole business or would have done if he knew about it? What would he have thought about Morrigan "rescuing" the old god by having a baby with its soul? Would he consider this more acceptable than the Wardens killing the arch demon? (Since he was beside himself at the idea of the Wardens killing the last two old gods, I'm thinking the answer to that one might be yes). What about what went on there between Flemeth and Kieran? Would he have been amused to discover that Morrigan was now stuck serving her mother? The fact is on my first run there was no Kieran but even there I wanted to ask him what he thought about Morrigan having a working eluvian and having met Mythal at her altar, which he should have seen since he surely wasn't standing that far off. So I ran round to see him when we got back to Skyhold but there was no reaction whatsoever; he didn't even mention it. That seemed odd in itself. However, if you have just used the eluvian to step back into the Fade (allegedly), met Mythal there and seen that whole business with the old god soul, that is something I'd really want my expert on the Fade and ancient elves to comment on, but once again there was no possibility to raise it at all. That business with Kieran altering the destination of the eluvian was something I would have liked explained by someone, even if it was only Flemeth who admitted that actually it was her doing. Corypheus had been trying the whole story to get into the Fade and everyone is warning me against trying anything like that again with the anchor and then Kieran only has to do some OGB hand waving and boom, we're right there. In fairness to Solas, anything related to Mythal is an insanely risky topic for him. He knows way too much about it and gets emotional (i.e. sloppy) about it. In my head, I imagine he makes himself scarce after the Inquisitor's eluvian journey, and tries to steer conversations away from it when possible.
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