Dragon Age News Thread

Din'an Hanin?

Idk about you all, but I've been feeling edgy as heck since that dat solar eclipse though. Idk. I'm just saying.

As far as Giant Morrigan. It seems almost life size? At least the angle of the pic? Maybe Morrigan is actually a bit short? I thought you'd be taller.

No, but Idk if that would freak me out everytime I walked into my office. Or make me want to throw myself into her bosom and sob about the trials and tribulations of life. Only for Morrigan to say, "Suck it up".  Both prospects equally intrigue and unsettle me.

I'd also be constantly aware of my periphery in case an Eluvian portal flashed open. I watching you Morrigan...

Mike's getting ideas. Excellent.

I know this is going to sound goofy. I wanted to mention it before, but it's tin foil hat-y. I know Mike is making a joke, an evasive joke.

However, there's this part of me that wonders if something slipped, and that indeed the origin of the Blight was through some portal? Something buried deep in the..well, in the Deep Roads. 

A portal to what, though? Probably the Snake people, huh?  I remember Cory saying the Golden/Black city was already corrupted when he got there, and for some reason I believe him.

So, hypothetically, we remember the bits about the elves sealing something away in desperation, and that was long before Tevinter and the Magisters' attempts. It wasn't so much the wrath of the Maker as it was akin to....opening up a radioactive storage dump without understanding what radioactive waste was. And ofc I'm sure there was desire on part of the Magisters for power and immortality...we've always been looking for immortality. In a backhanded Xenon the Antiquarian way, they/he got their wish, but, oh, the fine print. 

They were beckoned, though. By something on the other side of the portal. Could be the locked away Evanuris? Maybe driven mad by their seeking the Red Lyrium for more power.  Or something else altogether?

Begs the question is the Blight's destructive nature an intent--like chemical warfare-or is it simply its nature? Is there someone or something on the other side that sees it as all good. Working as planned. Terraforming Thedas. You mad, bro?

I know I'm rambling. But that's what the tweet made me think of...that the Blight came through one of the forgotten Eluvians.

The feel I get about Tevinter has always been somewhat Transylvania.



No not that one. Or...well

But like one of those really old vampire, or Vincent Price movies. Our party getting trapped at some point in a spooky Tevinter castle/structure and having to somehow survive until dawn has to be in the game.

edit: oh, i forgot the magic words, "Make it happen, Bioware!" *clapsthreetimeanddoesthehokeypokeyandleavesthethread* for now.
(and don't be mad at me, BW. you know i still love you. nomnom, baba. nomnom your face.)

and why do i feel like i've just offended somebody by mentioning Romania in connection with dracula movies? i feel a disturbance. i understand Romania has a rich and varied history that goes far beyond any dracula movies. But tevinter makes me think of the setting of a dracula movie. 

that is all.

Oooo, I remember that now, "some doors should stay shut". I remember the way Cole said it. Interesting.

I love this lore. It's like beef jerky. You can just sit down and gnaw on it, flavor.

Mike: *I'm going to post this amazing building onto my Twitter feed, because this is cool*

BSN: OH MY GAWD, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN.

Mike:"Guys.. guys it's just a photo..."😑

Soooo, business as usual then?

This reminds me of something Cole says about Red Templars:

"They hear a different song. A song behind the door old whispers want opened. They are dead and dark and done."

Is the Blight alien to Thedas? Is it possible that it came from another world? It's interesting to think about.

Titanomachy!

But yea, and there are actually some parallels between Evanuris and Greek gods - being fickle, feuding between themselves, Solas basically being Prometheus, Mythal's signature statue being based on one of the most famous' Greek statues, Nike of Samothrace...

One of the big theories about the origin of the blight is that Andruil brought it through the void.

She used to go hunting there and it started to drive her insane. She crafted weapons and armor of the void and something began to plague her lands. I believed Mythal intervened at that point.

And when the evanuris began to wage war it is theorized that they were going to use the blight as their nuclear weapon.