Dragon Age News Thread

I just thought to myself that the new logo looks so generic that the only possible way to out-generic it would be typing BioWare's name in Paint in the Times New Roman font.

So I fired up Paint, typed "BioWare" in Times New Roman 20 pt bold, and it actually looked a bit better.

My Mum's out of surgery so I'm much, much relieved. I might be able to concentrate on work again, haven't been able to concentrate all day.

So last post before I leave the internet for a while and get some work done. The old Bioware logo took serifs and sorta butchered it. For those that don't know, serifs are those little lines on the end of letters that make them easier to read in print*, (san serif is preferred with digital). Bioware took these serifs and ... did weird things to them.

The new Bioware logo mostly does away with those serifs, which is the more modern touch. I'm doubting Times New Roman, a serif font, looks better than Bioware's new logo which is mostly san serif ... on the screen anyway

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You don't get the full experience because the text is too small to see the details. If you blow it up it looks like this:

Well, at least there is detail in that font, while the new logo is super-simplified. Except for the totally edgy B and W.

And with that, I apologize for the derailment and promise to not do it again any time soon.

where tf is that comic that calls Solas out for going

"my people"

"your people"

"my people"

"your people"

over and over?

This comic? 

Any chance that the elves Solas speaks about are not thedas elves.

When solas convinced the hinterlands elf to give us the amulet if power did he use a spell . Any translation of what he tells her.

Same with masked empire? Not much is talked about solas in this book (it is solas that appears?). He is much more ruthless in this book and vastly different than the trickster or apostate mage

The conversation with Abelas is the most telling. He specifically rejects Lavellan as one of his people and yet when Solas tells him "Your people yet linger", Abelas replies "Elvhen such as you?" and Solas replies in the affirmative. I don't know exactly what allows Abelas to immediately distinguish Solas from Lavellan unless he has actually met him before and knows he is the Dread Wolf. It is not the lack of hair since we've been told that is merely a design choice (fashion statement) on Solas' part. Can one Dreamer mage immediately spot another Dreamer mage? Possibly. Still whatever the case may be it is clear that Abelas and Solas regard themselves as different from the modern elves, whether Dalish or not.

In fact if the hidden codex we find is by Abelas, which it seems to be, he says how those born before the Veil feel trapped in the material world and those born after it was raised do not truly appreciate what was lost even among his own followers. So there is definitely something different about the post-Veil elves. My guess is that they are less spirit-like, just as Cole is if you choose to make him more human. This is why Solas seems to identify more strongly with spirits than with the modern elves. If he comes to admire Lavellan he says he specifically mentions their spirit. The warning of the Evanuris against Fen'Harel also says that he knows much of the People and their spirits so there is definitely some sort of spiritual connection that was lost on the raising of the Veil.

He says:
"Ma Halani. Ma Glandival. Vir Enasalin."

lose translation by me:
"Help me. Believe me. We will win(?)"   <-- not sure about the Vir Enasalin part, according to the Elven language page on the DA wikia, "Vir" translates to "Way" but also "we" and "Enasalin" translates to "Victory".

Abelas also distinguishes between Sera and Solas - he has different dialogues when we enter only with Sera ('you have someone in your team that resembles an elf' - similar if the only elf in the group is Dalish Inquisitor) and only really say that we travel with 'one of his own' if we enter with Solas. He also tells us that the Dalish are 'shadows wearing vallaslin', and also describes magic lodged in Inky's hand as 'familiar'.

I don't think it's a stretch to assume that ancient elves have ways of identifying one another - maybe not on the level of knowing exactly who one is, but enough to distinguish modern elves from ancient. And really, should we be surprised? We know that mages sense auras that non-mages don't, or that even modern elves see Crossroads differently from non-elves, or that spirits can see way more than mortals, plus there's a suggestion in Calpernia's short story that Corypheus sees people's internal auras and thus can measure one's power - so perhaps elves of old are like tetrachromats (those who can see more spectrum of light, like ultraviolet) in the world of trichromats or maybe even colorblind and thus see more - or see the lack of some sort in the world that most people have also lost ability to see or sense.

When Abelas says to Solas "Elven such as you?" he says it with a sarcastic, unimpressed tone. The same tone he uses when he tells an elven Quizzy "you are not my people." He, in my opinion, sees Solas as just another worthless version of elves that have lived outside their Temple and he doesn't have much faith in them. I don't buy that he recognizes Solas as another ancient elf.

I don't buy it. The way he says the word "elven" is derisive and dismissive. Which fits - he's a defeated elf, only fulfilling duty. He sees no hope beyond the Temple or with the remains of his people. It all fits. It's why he's so ready to destroy the Well. Sorry, we're just going to agree to disagree on this one.