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Post by OhDaniGirl on Jul 4, 2024 11:22:12 GMT
I need your help. I have read this on steam: "Elves originate from one single point of origin (Thedas)" But in my head we have seen the total size of the elven Empire. Have i forgot something? Some context might help. Was anything else said? Mind sharing where you saw that?
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Jul 4, 2024 11:26:42 GMT
Until we hear or see differently, I'm going to assume that it will be like Mass Effect, where we can only change at base. MEA had points where you could also swap things on the maps. But what happened is you set a 3-set that synergized together or that you liked and left it at that.
I actually expect something similar here.
Now I do really feel a bit self gas lit. When it comes to your active load outs in the trilogy you could change them out on the fly. At least from what I remember, by going into the wheel and ust changing up the hot keys on the controler. One for ME 1 and I believe 2 for 2 and 3. In the middle of the mission or any time you really wanted. In Andromeda not only did they have the profile system, which could also be swapped out at any time in between encoutners or even in the middle of combat. Though from there if you wanted to change out abilities in each profile you would have to go into the menu and mess around with it from there. The only thing you had to do in each ME game was respect on the ship which involved waiting between missions...but that does not seem to be what we are generally talking about here, though this could be what the devs mean by having to do it between missions because this still sounds generally odd. Heck in each DA game even though they do work a lot different from ME in this regard even there you could change up your hot keys out in the field, during a mission, with a few simple button clicks. Yeah in ME and DA th eonl ytime you can't chang epowers or leve lup is i fyou were in the middle of a fight once th efight was done though it would unlock again.
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Post by azarhal on Jul 4, 2024 11:30:05 GMT
Until we hear or see differently, I'm going to assume that it will be like Mass Effect, where we can only change at base. MEA had points where you could also swap things on the maps. But what happened is you set a 3-set that synergized together or that you liked and left it at that.
I actually expect something similar here.
Now I do really feel a bit self gas lit. When it comes to your active load outs in the trilogy you could change them out on the fly. At least from what I remember, by going into the wheel and ust changing up the hot keys on the controler. One for ME 1 and I believe 2 for 2 and 3. In the middle of the mission or any time you really wanted. In Andromeda not only did they have the profile system, which could also be swapped out at any time in between encoutners or even in the middle of combat. Though from there if you wanted to change out abilities in each profile you would have to go into the menu and mess around with it from there. The only thing you had to do in each ME game was respect on the ship which involved waiting between missions...but that does not seem to be what we are generally talking about here, though this could be what the devs mean by having to do it between missions because this still sounds generally odd. Heck in each DA game even though they do work a lot different from ME in this regard even there you could change up your hot keys out in the field, during a mission, with a few simple button clicks. Now that you mention it, you are right. It's weapon and companions that required the pods in MEA (or the exist window in the Tempest). Abilities could be swapped at any times.
But like I said, you rarely did it, you just setup profiles and done.
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Post by Unicephalon 40-D on Jul 4, 2024 11:36:01 GMT
Until we hear or see differently, I'm going to assume that it will be like Mass Effect, where we can only change at base. MEA had points where you could also swap things on the maps. But what happened is you set a 3-set that synergized together or that you liked and left it at that.
I actually expect something similar here.
I have usually used 2 sets, my traditional Sentinel with Energy Drain, Double Throw, Overload or Backlash. Another set had armor destroying skills like Incinerate etc. Changed either before or during the fights when needed.
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Post by gervaise21 on Jul 4, 2024 11:39:23 GMT
I need your help. I have read this on steam: "Elves originate from one single point of origin (Thedas)" But in my head we have seen the total size of the elven Empire. Have i forgot something? They probably mean they only originated in the continent for which we have the map. Technically Thedas is The Dragon Age Setting, so covers all the world but is generally regarded to mean the continent covered by the map. Both humans and kossith/qunari are said to have originated elsewhere and colonised the islands to the north first and then mainland Thedas, arriving by sea. It is assumed that dwarves came from underground but they navigated ships from a land across the western ocean so perhaps there they do live above ground. It was noted that whilst these ships had humans and dwarves aboard, there were no elves, suggesting they didn't exist outside of the continent of Thedas. That is probably what is mean by the "single point of origin".
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Post by fairdragon on Jul 4, 2024 11:57:56 GMT
I need your help. I have read this on steam: "Elves originate from one single point of origin (Thedas)" But in my head we have seen the total size of the elven Empire. Have i forgot something? Some context might help. Was anything else said? Mind sharing where you saw that? Quote:
"we have so much human racial diversity within Dragon Age because it was established that people migrated to Thedas which explains why the people there aren't homogenous because they came from all over the world, it doesn't make sense for the elven homogeneity to take after human diversity which is explained through migration when there's no such a concept like a "foreign elf" because it is established all elves come from Thedas. Vivienne's people are foreign to Thedas, it explains why she looks foreign compared to the people in Ferelden or Kirkwall, meanwhile Davrin and Bellara are supposedly native to Thedas but take after features of the migrants that came to Thedas. it makes sense for humans to have a wide range of racial diversity because (much like in the real world) people come from all sorts of climates and cultures, it explains characters like Alistair to Vivienne to Sutherland/Dorian because they weren't native to Thedas and instead came from all stretches of the world; Elves originate from one single point of origin (Thedas) but in Veilguard start exemplifying the same racial diversity found within humans without the underlying rationale that explains why elves are now diverse, they now just simply are for no explicable reason."
This was a disscusion i found interessting. Because of the persons understanding of DA lore.
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Post by fairdragon on Jul 4, 2024 12:00:47 GMT
I need your help. I have read this on steam: "Elves originate from one single point of origin (Thedas)" But in my head we have seen the total size of the elven Empire. Have i forgot something? They probably mean they only originated in the continent for which we have the map. Technically Thedas is The Dragon Age Setting, so covers all the world but is generally regarded to mean the continent covered by the map. Both humans and kossith/qunari are said to have originated elsewhere and colonised the islands to the north first and then mainland Thedas, arriving by sea. It is assumed that dwarves came from underground but they navigated ships from a land across the western ocean so perhaps there they do live above ground. It was noted that whilst these ships had humans and dwarves aboard, there were no elves, suggesting they didn't exist outside of the continent of Thedas. That is probably what is mean by the "single point of origin". Yes the person mean elves only exsisted in Thedas and no one else. Is that corrected? Because i remember it different.
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 4, 2024 12:02:07 GMT
Some context might help. Was anything else said? Mind sharing where you saw that? Quote:
"we have so much human racial diversity within Dragon Age because it was established that people migrated to Thedas which explains why the people there aren't homogenous because they came from all over the world, it doesn't make sense for the elven homogeneity to take after human diversity which is explained through migration when there's no such a concept like a "foreign elf" because it is established all elves come from Thedas. Vivienne's people are foreign to Thedas, it explains why she looks foreign compared to the people in Ferelden or Kirkwall, meanwhile Davrin and Bellara are supposedly native to Thedas but take after features of the migrants that came to Thedas. it makes sense for humans to have a wide range of racial diversity because (much like in the real world) people come from all sorts of climates and cultures, it explains characters like Alistair to Vivienne to Sutherland/Dorian because they weren't native to Thedas and instead came from all stretches of the world; Elves originate from one single point of origin (Thedas) but in Veilguard start exemplifying the same racial diversity found within humans without the underlying rationale that explains why elves are now diverse, they now just simply are for no explicable reason."
This was a disscusion i found interessting. Because of the persons understanding of DA lore.
Wow, that is a really confusing read. What's the word "Thedas" referring to? The entire world (i.e. the planet)? The continents we know so far, implying there are others that are on the same planet but not named "Thedas"?
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Post by fairdragon on Jul 4, 2024 12:06:25 GMT
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"we have so much human racial diversity within Dragon Age because it was established that people migrated to Thedas which explains why the people there aren't homogenous because they came from all over the world, it doesn't make sense for the elven homogeneity to take after human diversity which is explained through migration when there's no such a concept like a "foreign elf" because it is established all elves come from Thedas. Vivienne's people are foreign to Thedas, it explains why she looks foreign compared to the people in Ferelden or Kirkwall, meanwhile Davrin and Bellara are supposedly native to Thedas but take after features of the migrants that came to Thedas. it makes sense for humans to have a wide range of racial diversity because (much like in the real world) people come from all sorts of climates and cultures, it explains characters like Alistair to Vivienne to Sutherland/Dorian because they weren't native to Thedas and instead came from all stretches of the world; Elves originate from one single point of origin (Thedas) but in Veilguard start exemplifying the same racial diversity found within humans without the underlying rationale that explains why elves are now diverse, they now just simply are for no explicable reason."
This was a disscusion i found interessting. Because of the persons understanding of DA lore.
Wow, that is a really confusing read. What's the word "Thedas" referring to? The entire world (i.e. the planet)? The continents we know so far, implying there are others that are on the same planet but not named "Thedas"? Yes with Theads the person mean the continent we have seen so far. And he implying Qunari and human are from other continents on the same world (i.e. planet).
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Jul 4, 2024 12:10:37 GMT
I need your help. I have read this on steam: "Elves originate from one single point of origin (Thedas)" But in my head we have seen the total size of the elven Empire. Have i forgot something? They probably mean they only originated in the continent for which we have the map. Technically Thedas is The Dragon Age Setting, so covers all the world but is generally regarded to mean the continent covered by the map. Both humans and kossith/qunari are said to have originated elsewhere and colonised the islands to the north first and then mainland Thedas, arriving by sea. It is assumed that dwarves came from underground but they navigated ships from a land across the western ocean so perhaps there they do live above ground. It was noted that whilst these ships had humans and dwarves aboard, there were no elves, suggesting they didn't exist outside of the continent of Thedas. That is probably what is mean by the "single point of origin". Yeah that's how I view it too given th eamount of animosity there is between elves and humans over the destruction of Elvehnan and Arlathan. They had no idea that in truth it wa sSolas wh ocaused it reall yb ydoing what he did. They blamed humans as they jus thappened t omov ein at the same time. Which was a threa tthe ysaw the ydidn' tsee Solas. At least that's how I read that. Also even if anyone did see Solas they'd have seen him as on eo fthem seeing as he can pass off as an elf given he does have the ears
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Post by Gwydden on Jul 4, 2024 12:16:00 GMT
This was a disscusion i found interessting. Because of the persons understanding of DA lore.
It's a silly argument, because even if all elves originate in Thedas, Thedas is a massive continent. To give a real world parallel, native Europeans can look very different from each other. Compare these Icelanders with these Greeks. And Europe is relatively small; maybe someone can confirm it for me, but I believe Thedas is much larger. Natives to Asia or Africa can look even more wildly divergent from each other. So I think it's perfectly reasonable to have racially diverse elves. What's always weirded me out a bit about DA lore is that there are any elves at all at this point, considering humans have been demographically dominant for millennia and all mixed offspring turns out human.
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Post by Grog Muffins on Jul 4, 2024 12:48:52 GMT
Quote:
"we have so much human racial diversity within Dragon Age because it was established that people migrated to Thedas which explains why the people there aren't homogenous because they came from all over the world, it doesn't make sense for the elven homogeneity to take after human diversity which is explained through migration when there's no such a concept like a "foreign elf" because it is established all elves come from Thedas. Vivienne's people are foreign to Thedas, it explains why she looks foreign compared to the people in Ferelden or Kirkwall, meanwhile Davrin and Bellara are supposedly native to Thedas but take after features of the migrants that came to Thedas. it makes sense for humans to have a wide range of racial diversity because (much like in the real world) people come from all sorts of climates and cultures, it explains characters like Alistair to Vivienne to Sutherland/Dorian because they weren't native to Thedas and instead came from all stretches of the world; Elves originate from one single point of origin (Thedas) but in Veilguard start exemplifying the same racial diversity found within humans without the underlying rationale that explains why elves are now diverse, they now just simply are for no explicable reason."
This was a disscusion i found interessting. Because of the persons understanding of DA lore.
Thedas also goes across different climates and has a pretty large biodiversity. It goes from frozen wasteland/tundra in the south with the Korkari Wilds to tropical jungles in the north with Seheron and the Donarks, it has swamps, deserts, forests, wide flatlands, hills, mountains. The map of Thedas that we know is very diverse and large, it covers pretty much the entire southern hemisphere of whatever planet we're on, people often forget that. All the way in DAO it's implied that even Ferelden is pretty large because Ostagar is described as being very cold while Highever is warm. As for elves, yes, it's implied they exist only in Thedas. There is a port city on the western coast of the Anderfels, Laysh, that had ships coming from across the Volca Sea to the west with dwarves and humans but no elves. They didn't talk much about where they came from and only wanted to trade for lyrium. People from Laysh tried going across the Volca Sea to find the place where these people came from but none returned. Those visitors then stopped coming over for a few centuries and only recently started to come back to this port town, bringing stories of a strange calamity having happened. Humans and Qunari are also known in lore to have arrived from outside of the bounds of what we know as Thedas. There were also expeditions sent east, across the Amarathine Ocean, and those who returned were insane and traumatized, not really making sense of what they encountered.
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Post by fairdragon on Jul 4, 2024 13:02:10 GMT
As for elves, yes, it's implied they exist only in Thedas. Then i got it wrong in my head. Now i am more curios of Bellara. Because i think it was Gaider that said asian doesn't life in Thedas.
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Post by Grog Muffins on Jul 4, 2024 14:04:00 GMT
As for elves, yes, it's implied they exist only in Thedas. Then i got it wrong in my head. Now i am more curios of Bellara. Because i think it was Gaider that said asian doesn't life in Thedas. Yeah, Gaider did say that people of East Asian looks would be from another continent but whether that is still the case is unknown right now. It may have changed with Patrick being lead writer, if they wanted to make some changes for story purposes. DA is no stranger to lore tweaks. Or it hasn't changed but some of that mystery is left for us to discover in the game. There is definitely something funky with Bellara, given her vallaslin is unlike anything we've seen until now. It harkens back to the more elaborate designs in DAO but it doesn't look like any of those older ones. It will be interesting to see what it means. Not sure if any teases about it existed in the Game Informer 12 page cover article since I didn't read that one.
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Post by The Loyal Nub on Jul 4, 2024 14:24:24 GMT
Considering the lore for the game is only as old as 2009 they are kind of making it up as they go along and tweaking it. I could say more but it dips into contemporary politics, demographics, and how those affect BioWare's writers and the hive think within the company. I know how much this forum loathes politics (except when it does not) so I will refrain but everyone knows this anyway so the real point here is:
Roll with it or not. Your choice in 2024.
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Post by midnight tea on Jul 4, 2024 14:40:06 GMT
Quote:
"we have so much human racial diversity within Dragon Age because it was established that people migrated to Thedas which explains why the people there aren't homogenous because they came from all over the world, it doesn't make sense for the elven homogeneity to take after human diversity which is explained through migration when there's no such a concept like a "foreign elf" because it is established all elves come from Thedas. Vivienne's people are foreign to Thedas, it explains why she looks foreign compared to the people in Ferelden or Kirkwall, meanwhile Davrin and Bellara are supposedly native to Thedas but take after features of the migrants that came to Thedas. it makes sense for humans to have a wide range of racial diversity because (much like in the real world) people come from all sorts of climates and cultures, it explains characters like Alistair to Vivienne to Sutherland/Dorian because they weren't native to Thedas and instead came from all stretches of the world; Elves originate from one single point of origin (Thedas) but in Veilguard start exemplifying the same racial diversity found within humans without the underlying rationale that explains why elves are now diverse, they now just simply are for no explicable reason."
This was a disscusion i found interessting. Because of the persons understanding of DA lore.
Thedas also goes across different climates and has a pretty large biodiversity. It goes from frozen wasteland/tundra in the south with the Korkari Wilds to tropical jungles in the north with Seheron and the Donarks, it has swamps, deserts, forests, wide flatlands, hills, mountains. The map of Thedas that we know is very diverse and large, it covers pretty much the entire southern hemisphere of whatever planet we're on, people often forget that. All the way in DAO it's implied that even Ferelden is pretty large because Ostagar is described as being very cold while Highever is warm. As for elves, yes, it's implied they exist only in Thedas. There is a port city on the western coast of the Anderfels, Laysh, that had ships coming from across the Volca Sea to the west with dwarves and humans but no elves. They didn't talk much about where they came from and only wanted to trade for lyrium. People from Laysh tried going across the Volca Sea to find the place where these people came from but none returned. Those visitors then stopped coming over for a few centuries and only recently started to come back to this port town, bringing stories of a strange calamity having happened. Humans and Qunari are also known in lore to have arrived from outside of the bounds of what we know as Thedas. There were also expeditions sent east, across the Amarathine Ocean, and those who returned were insane and traumatized, not really making sense of what they encountered. The truth is that we have hints and clues, but nothing concrete - however, considering the existence of magic, and even known cases of people springing into existence seemingly from air (Cole), I'd say that how people look may be entirely unrelated to their origin. It may as well be that their origin is mostly supernatural, or not really subordinate to evolutionary/genetic pressures we have on good old planet Earth.
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Post by gervaise21 on Jul 4, 2024 15:09:53 GMT
Yes the person mean elves only exsisted in Thedas and no one else. Is that corrected? Because i remember it different. You have to remember they will always fall back on the unreliable narrator excuse when they seem to contradict previous lore. It is the Dalish who maintain that the elves always lived in Thedas (and by implication nowhere else) and it was the other races who were the invaders. However,it is entirely possible they were wrong about this. After all, up until Trespasser no one, no even mages like Vivienne, was aware there had ever been a time without a Veil but apparently there was and everyone seems to have suffered from collective amnesia about that and the titans, possibly a side-effect of the Veil, since the ancient elves don't seem to share it. (How did Abelas and his sentinels avoid becoming tranquil? Was it because they were in uthenera?) So, I wouldn't regard anything you read on line or in the lore books as set in stone. There may have been elves across the sea in other Continents; it is just the modern races don't remember that. (The Qunari priestesses may know but we have yet to talk with one of them)
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Post by azarhal on Jul 4, 2024 15:10:08 GMT
Considering the lore for the game is only as old as 2009 they are kind of making it up as they go along and tweaking it. I could say more but it dips into contemporary politics, demographics, and how those affect BioWare's writers and the hive think within the company. I know how much this forum loathes politics (except when it does not) so I will refrain but everyone knows this anyway so the real point here is: Roll with it or not. Your choice in 2024. BioWare started working on DAO around 2002 and created a mountains of lore before the first game even released (it's all in an interval wiki) including futures plot points and characters who didn't even show up in DAO or Awakening. By Awakening release, they had 4 more games planned with a good idea of what they wanted to do and reveal in each. They refined things over time, added things too, but they aren't making stuff as they go. Things like Flemeth being Mythal was always the plan and Gaider mention how long he waited to reveal it after DAI released.
That's why a good chunk of the fanbase act like detectives trying to find hints and how things go together. Also, why there is so much theories around. Also why who the two Solas's buddies were guessed correctly 2 years ago even if people act like it's a big spoiler now...
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Post by Grog Muffins on Jul 4, 2024 15:40:41 GMT
Also why who the two Solas's buddies were guessed correctly 2 years ago even if people act like it's a big spoiler now...
Hey look, theorizing when that's all you have is all well and good, but when it comes to confirmation, I personally want to be proven right or wrong when I play the game, not from marketing materials before the game is even out. That's why I'm avoiding anything about Dawntrail like the plague. I want to see things for the first time as I play the game, it makes the experience that much more gratifying to me. I don't want to enter a location or get to a plot point, shrug and go "oh yeah, I guess this is what I saw/read in that one video/article". I wanna be wowed and bamboozled and bounce in my seat in excitement. It's the little things.
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Post by q5tyhj on Jul 4, 2024 16:20:40 GMT
Some context might help. Was anything else said? Mind sharing where you saw that? Quote:
"we have so much human racial diversity within Dragon Age because it was established that people migrated to Thedas which explains why the people there aren't homogenous because they came from all over the world, it doesn't make sense for the elven homogeneity to take after human diversity which is explained through migration when there's no such a concept like a "foreign elf" because it is established all elves come from Thedas. Vivienne's people are foreign to Thedas, it explains why she looks foreign compared to the people in Ferelden or Kirkwall, meanwhile Davrin and Bellara are supposedly native to Thedas but take after features of the migrants that came to Thedas. it makes sense for humans to have a wide range of racial diversity because (much like in the real world) people come from all sorts of climates and cultures, it explains characters like Alistair to Vivienne to Sutherland/Dorian because they weren't native to Thedas and instead came from all stretches of the world; Elves originate from one single point of origin (Thedas) but in Veilguard start exemplifying the same racial diversity found within humans without the underlying rationale that explains why elves are now diverse, they now just simply are for no explicable reason."
This was a disscusion i found interessting. Because of the persons understanding of DA lore.
well but didn't the elves eventually got fractured from a sort of monolithic society to a bunch of nomadic Dalish clans and then city elves? This is how you get crazy biological diversity, by having populations that are separated from one another for long periods of time. And I'm a little hazy on the DA timeline, how long as passed since the Veil was raised? Probably hundreds of generations, right?
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Post by azarhal on Jul 4, 2024 17:03:34 GMT
Quote:
"we have so much human racial diversity within Dragon Age because it was established that people migrated to Thedas which explains why the people there aren't homogenous because they came from all over the world, it doesn't make sense for the elven homogeneity to take after human diversity which is explained through migration when there's no such a concept like a "foreign elf" because it is established all elves come from Thedas. Vivienne's people are foreign to Thedas, it explains why she looks foreign compared to the people in Ferelden or Kirkwall, meanwhile Davrin and Bellara are supposedly native to Thedas but take after features of the migrants that came to Thedas. it makes sense for humans to have a wide range of racial diversity because (much like in the real world) people come from all sorts of climates and cultures, it explains characters like Alistair to Vivienne to Sutherland/Dorian because they weren't native to Thedas and instead came from all stretches of the world; Elves originate from one single point of origin (Thedas) but in Veilguard start exemplifying the same racial diversity found within humans without the underlying rationale that explains why elves are now diverse, they now just simply are for no explicable reason."
This was a disscusion i found interessting. Because of the persons understanding of DA lore.
well but didn't the elves eventually got fractured from a sort of monolithic society to a bunch of nomadic Dalish clans and then city elves? This is how you get crazy biological diversity, by having populations that are separated from one another for long periods of time. And I'm a little hazy on the DA timeline, how long as passed since the Veil was raised? Probably hundreds of generations, right? Elven history post Veil went from: - infighting and then getting conquered and enslaved by those that became Tevinter
- Andraste Thedas-wide slaves revolt followed by Mefarath giving them the Dales in -165.
- 2:20 when the Dalish were kicked out of the Dales and went nomads or in alienages.
The Dalish nomads are descendants of the noble elven families technically (don't think it's totally true these days). The city elves were the commoners.
As for how long since the Veil went up, we don't know, it's not on the timeline, but it should be between the humans arriving and the "quickening" starting. So 1900 to 1650 years before Tevinter was a real thing...which means 2800 to 3100 before the 1st age and Chantry creation. So 3700 to 4000 years ago. And my math might be a bit wrong, lol.
Basically, the whole thing is like if someone was complaining about bringing back Sumer (the Akkadian Empire).
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Post by Sartoz on Jul 4, 2024 17:34:09 GMT
Also why who the two Solas's buddies were guessed correctly 2 years ago even if people act like it's a big spoiler now...
Hey look, theorizing when that's all you have is all well and good, but when it comes to confirmation, I personally want to be proven right or wrong when I play the game, not from marketing materials before the game is even out. That's why I'm avoiding anything about Dawntrail like the plague. I want to see things for the first time as I play the game, it makes the experience that much more gratifying to me. I don't want to enter a location or get to a plot point, shrug and go "oh yeah, I guess this is what I saw/read in that one video/article". I wanna be wowed and bamboozled and bounce in my seat in excitement. It's the little things.
LOL. I guess you buy a car without test driving it. Me? I don't want to be bamboozled and wowed by the turkey of a vehicle that I just bought.... different strokes.......
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Post by midnight tea on Jul 4, 2024 18:14:19 GMT
Elven history post Veil went from: - infighting and then getting conquered and enslaved by those that became Tevinter
- Andraste Thedas-wide slaves revolt followed by Mefarath giving them the Dales in -165.
- 2:20 when the Dalish were kicked out of the Dales and went nomads or in alienages.
The Dalish nomads are descendants of the noble elven families technically (don't think it's totally true these days). The city elves were the commoners.
As for how long since the Veil went up, we don't know, it's not on the timeline, but it should be between the humans arriving and the "quickening" starting. So 1900 to 1650 years before Tevinter was a real thing...which means 2800 to 3100 before the 1st age and Chantry creation. So 3700 to 4000 years ago. And my math might be a bit wrong, lol.
Basically, the whole thing is like if someone was complaining about bringing back Sumer (the Akkadian Empire).
In real world perhaps. In Thedas it's like bringing back Atlantis, or the mythical Golden Age. Or, well... our world, after some sort of disastrous event during which we lost most of modern technology. Thedas as it is now is a post-apocalyptic world that emerged after the fall of a highly technologically advanced* civilization. (*their technology involved magic, but it was high magical technology nonetheless. They also had a structure like the modern world - large aglomerations with little in between)
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Post by Grog Muffins on Jul 4, 2024 18:15:01 GMT
Hey look, theorizing when that's all you have is all well and good, but when it comes to confirmation, I personally want to be proven right or wrong when I play the game, not from marketing materials before the game is even out. That's why I'm avoiding anything about Dawntrail like the plague. I want to see things for the first time as I play the game, it makes the experience that much more gratifying to me. I don't want to enter a location or get to a plot point, shrug and go "oh yeah, I guess this is what I saw/read in that one video/article". I wanna be wowed and bamboozled and bounce in my seat in excitement. It's the little things.
LOL. I guess you buy a car without test driving it. Me? I don't want to be bamboozled and wowed by the turkey of a vehicle that I just bought.... different strokes.......
That comment isn't as smart as you think it is. I prefer to experience a piece of fiction as I go through it, therefore I must be completely irresponsible in every aspect of my real life. Truly one of the comments of all time.
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Post by Gwydden on Jul 4, 2024 19:12:42 GMT
The Dalish nomads are descendants of the noble elven families technically (don't think it's totally true these days). The nobility of the Dales? Sure. Of Arlathan? No way.
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