Dragon Age: Absolution (Netflix Animated Series)

E3&4 down.

This is why Tevinter can’t have nice things. Even the ‘good ones’ are petulant children with nuclear warheads when they don’t get their own way.

The ‘animeness’ is wearing on me - giant back flips in full armour, two handed weapons twirling like they were made of paper, for examples - but I was prepared for that, and made allowances. Beyond that, I’m quite enjoying it.

I ‘feel’ for Miriam, without exactly ‘liking’ her. I think Qwiddion and the dwarf are currently my favourites.

I am having trouble understanding the Tevinter chain of command, though.

I would agree with this with the following caveat:

indeed

I honestly loved the Netflix series. I didn't want to watch it, but I'm happy I did!
I liked Miriam, but also the dynamic between Razaren and Tassia.
I would have liked to see more about Qwydion and her backgournd.

And... now I'm replaying Inquisition again (without doing many side quest beacause I'm old now and I don't have time to be a completionist lol)

E5 & 6



That was…a lot.

Qwiddion was definitely my favourite character, but the whole ‘team’ were good.

Overall, worth my time, but can’t help but feel that it was written for a very, very niche group; i.e. the people here (and in places like here) which won’t have done it many favours with the viewing hours, I’d have thought.

I’m glad they went the route of focusing on existing fans rather than trying to reach as broad an audience as possible. We’ve seen video game shows that do the former succeed while those that do the latter fail.

Maybe that’s the secret…. You’re right that it is hard to put myself in a newbies shoes. But even if you don’t know the little nods, they’re still there and you just keep on watching.

Venatori are unlikely to be able to control darkspawn even with red lyrium (even if you could; red lyrium was only recently discovered and became available in Thedas substance, thanks Bianca), as the only creatures capable of doing it in the series were specific types of darkspawn and archdemons (who are tainted old gods). Magisters Sidereal seemingly can also do it, but so far, correctly, only Corpheus is said to have the power to wield a portion of the archdemon horde after its death (the codex alludes to multiple such darkspawn), while the Architect has little control over actual darkspawn (loss of memory could play a part in that). Mind you, darkspawn like Corypheus aren't merely ghouls (which didn't demonstrate such power), which is what you get if taint infects a normal person, they are full-blown darkspawn emissaries, so merely infection with taint will be insufficient here.

Even Avernus, who spent 200 years researching the potential of the taint and awakening it (albeit, to be fair, he was very constrained by circumstances), didn't manage to attain the power that would allow the grey warden to control darkspawn. Aside from the fact that red lyrium is allegedly tainted lyrium, there is no evidence that it provides power comparable to being tainted and allows the user to use blight magic. After all, blood magic is a separate school of magic, and many of its abilities are locked even if you have Lyrium, as not every power is simply a matter of a high enough mana cost that you can overcome with a sufficient amount of Lyrium. Blight magic seems to be a cousin of blood magic, if the power of blood that the warden can attain by awakening the potential of their taint is any indication.

Since Corypheus ability to control grey wardens and darkspawn wasn't really tied to red lyrium and more to being darkspawn, I'm skeptical of the notion that using red lyrium would be of much help, unless maybe venatori corrupted themselves with taint in the process, but then it ends very poorly for those venatori very quickly. If it's through red lyrium consumption, it doesn't appear to infect you with taint, as if this were the case, red templars would end up as ghouls or dead via taint rather quickly (which doesn't appear to be the case). Even Meredith, with her red lyrium sword, was not infected by it in span of of couple years.

I really don't get that feeling. Unless a certain someone shows up in Dreadwolf then the group is heading in the opposite direction.