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Inquisition version of this poll can be found by clicking here!

It'd be interesting to see who your wardens/hawkes actually romance vs. who you'd romance in the tags if you wanna share!

#zevran would not date me but listen. listen. i love that man #bonus: the people who i think would be the best to date are Alistair and Merrill #but alas zevran was an option so he won by default #tumblr polls #da2 #da:o

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I am a bg3 fan too hehehehe

My man deserves flowers and a kiss

#the prettiest tav #tav (baldur’s gate) #gale dekarios #gale x tav #fanart #bg3

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I’m taking his boon every time

#OH WOW #the art style! the colour palette! the everything! #so cool #gale dekarios #fanart #hades game #crossover #bg3

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If Dragon Age II is about being doomed by the narrative, Dragon Age: Inquisition is about being devoured by the narrative. From the very beginning the Inquisitor is slowly being devoured by their mark. Being devoured by this organization they did not ask to join and are not allowed to leave. Begin devoured by the titles they can't reject and the story that swells around them, out of their control. Uncovering the tragic story of the first Inquisitor who tried to appease the same monster, and was devoured by it anyway--his nation, his culture, his very name and identity. And then watching the Inquisition, grown too large to be safe, begin to devour itself while Orlais watches it hungrily and Ferelden (remembering what it means to be devoured) asks how to put down the beast before it eats them all. The Inquisitor now fighting physically not to be devoured, trying to free themselves from the monster's teeth without losing more than an arm. Do they succeed?

#wow #dragon age meta #da:i #the inquisitor #text post

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ok so the point i was going to make re: the circle tower and ferelden geopolitics was that the fact that all of ferelden only having one single circle, is CRAZY. orlais, a country of similar size, has FOUR; each(!!) marcher city has their own. antiva and the anderfels also have 1 circle each and they are respectively #1 a nation the quarter of the size of ferelden and #2 a barren wasteland of a place. and this is pre-blight! and i can believe that ferelden has a lower population than orlais, but i struggle to accept that ferelden has a quarter the population that orlais does. even nevarra, by all accounts an old and dying state, has 2.

there are clearly templars stationed at many chantries throughout ferelden, but the idea that they could possibly find every single mage in the country and send them to the tower is preposterous. ferelden simply does not have the infrastructure for that, neither to spread out over the whole country to hunt apostates nor to contain them all in one place. (how many people can that tower handle???)

this suggests that ferelden is generally more lax about apostates than elsewhere, which is reinforced both in da2 and inquisition when we get word that alistair (in da2) offered refuge to escaped kirkwall mages in ferelden and that alistair and/or anora (in inquisition) allowed the mage rebellion quarter in redcliffe. you could argue that alistair's decision might have been influenced by the events of dao but anora is (i say this lovingly) a bit of a hardass! rather than being moved by mage assistance in dao i would suggest instead that she is reflecting a larger ferelden attitude towards mages, which is less harsh than orlesian or marcher attitudes

we know that mages in the circle can be called upon in times of war to assist their country's army (i think that was mentioned in dao but it's stated several times in the novels). something to consider, then, is that circles are not only for containing mages and protecting people from them; but they are also for the consolidation of magic as a military power. orlais and the marcher states are creating armies. ferelden, with its sort of implicit acknowledgement that the tower doesn't hold all the mages in the country, lacks that military resource. even in the stolen throne there's only one single mage working on the ferelden side in contrast to quite a few on the orlesian side

which is why it's #1 crazy that the fereldens successfully liberated themselves from orlais #2 crazy that they defeated the blight and, most importantly, it's why you should NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A DOG LORD!!!!!

#dragon age meta #lmao they’re doing all of that with the power of spite #ferelden #da:o #text post

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dwarven wardens share the nightmares broadcast out by the old gods, right, but also, after the joining oghren has a real, weird, normal dream, right? dwarven wardens dream?

every night you go to bed and a few hours later you wake up as if no time has passed, and that's normal. and if you've never met any surfacers who might talk about their dreams, maybe you never question if your experience is universal. but there are dwarves who lead lives that bring them into experiences not shared by their kin.

a dwarven inquisitor dreams, because the anchor tethers them to the fade, and perhaps as well because the veil is so thin in skyhold. dwarves, too, can be pulled from consciousness directly into a dream realm inhabited by a powerful demon of the fade, and there they can dream.

everytime one finds oneself in the fade, does it wear down that barrier a little bit more?

does cadash still dream, even after the anchor is removed? has varric found himself in the fade so often that sometimes he might dream? does he sometimes sit up late at night with indigestion, rubbing his chest and knowing that he's about to have one of those strange dreams again? did bartrand dream, plagued by the terrible tainted song of the idol? when he slipped into unconsciousness, were the visions there waiting for him, with no reprieve in sight?

#dragon age meta #dreams are so wacky in dragon age i love it #da:o #da:i #inquisitor cadash #oghren (dragon age) #text post #varric thetras

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oh I have so many feelings for them

#handers #hawke (dragon age) #anders (dragon age) #fanart #da2

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putting my oc sawyer into the little meow meow category. can’t wait for them to go apeshit and do bad things with good intentions. can’t wait for them to alienate their friends. can’t wait for them to have to deal with future knowledge and with their own hybris. can’t wait for someone to yell at them and for them to realise that they’re beginning to loose themselves in their pain and grief and anger.

#oc: sawyer costa #they’re a da2 oc but i kind of want to make them inquisitor as well just to see what happens #da2 #text post #yes it’s a mcit oc - listen i love foreknowledge and portal fantasy let me live

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everyone says “i can’t believe we’re doing chantry explosion discourse in 2024” well i wasnt there in 2014 or whenever you guys were talking about this i was busy being 12 so you have to let me have my shot. its my turn

#i was busy being 11-15 as well but i will NOT be engaging in discourse #harker you have never had a wrong dragon age opinion tho #da2 #text post

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A love unheard of before

#oh wow this is so cool #male hawke #hawke (dragon age) #fanart #da2 #I love the hands

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“source?” divine intuition, gut instinct, and cryptic symbolism from my dreams

#every isekai inquisitor who doesn’t tell the truth #oc inspo #in general not just for isekai #da:i #text post

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is she... you know... a friend of red jenny?

#da:i #text post #sera (dragon age)

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i can NEVER decide on warrior!hawke handers or mage!hawke handers. like theyre both SO good in such different ways and i cant commit to anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#i’m a big fan of warrior!hawke x anders #text post #handers #da2

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Literally went from:

“Why would I ever trust the word of an Oathbreaker?”

“It’s unwise to trust a bloody Sharran”

To:

“Why hello, Lover, that sounded more debonaire in my head, I admit”

“I am yours, my Heart”

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Aaaand I’m finally in Act 3 (fucking finally) with my Oathbreaker Paladin Durge run. I can only wish I’m talented enough of a writer to write a fic for these two I swear-

#oh 🥺 #dark urge #shadowheart #bg3 #fanart

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a quick Dorian

#so pretty #dorian pavus #fanart #da:i

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Daily affirmations

#oh i love this #my bard tav charade is like this #oc: tav #text post #oc inspo #bg3

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baldur's gate 3 is just. break the abuse and trauma cycle. being forced to believe a certain way is wrong. there is more outside of the small window that i perceived the world to be. i will create my own identity. maybe the people i thought loved me did not, in fact, have my best interests at heart. i need to find the clown's body parts so the drag queen can resurrect him. my destiny is not written in stone.

#bg3 #text post #love how this is both meta and humour - the range