by talos this can’t be happening is a mandela effect because the actual phrase is by the gods this can’t be happening and i’ve never heard anyone say the former in game
Imagine if eldritch giants attacked your village, massacred the entire population, your family, your friends, cooked and ate their corpses in front of you and then one of them found you cowering in its oversized belongings and went "Aww cute little creature, I'll keep you."
There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation
beating breath of the wild in under 40 minutes is an incredible feat and also fucking excellent in the context of the game. ganon spends 100 fucking years preparing this onslaught, building energy, getting ready to tear the world apart, and one elf twink wakes up butt-ass naked in a cave and legs it to the castle and kicks ganon’s ass apart in under an hour with a sword he found along the way
I love drawings of Alistair where he’s visibly half-elf, but I can only think of it as an AU, since, considering what Ali’s story line in da:o is, if he was visibly of elven heritage it would DEFINATELY have come up. So, it wouldn’t work in canon.
BUT.
Oh man an au where Alistair looks elven is so much fun to think about.
So he was told his mother was an elven servant right? which adds layers to the idea of a human noble being the one to get her pregnant, and even more emotional nuance to Goldanna’s whole deal.
Isolde’s dislike of him as a child would almost certainly have racial under(over)tones, and him being accepted into the templars would have been highly unusual (perhaps a bribe was involved), and the way his fellow trainees treated him would for SURE support his hatred of the whole affair.
The Grey wardens with their more laissez-faire attitude towards anything not darkspawn related would have been such a relief.
And the LANDSMEET. For me it was always pretty cut and dry that Anora should be on the throne, Alistair had no interest and she was obviously a more effective politician, plus girl power or whatever. She was somewhat of the underdog once Alistair’s name was put in the ring.
But if Ali was a known half-elf? That would complicate the HECK out of things. Not only is there more incentive to put him on the throne because imagine an elven ruler of Fereldan and what that could mean, but it would also be harder and involve more work. It would put Ali and Anora on more even footing in the race for the throne. It would just be so cool.
Aaaaa anyway. sorry. rambling. Point is visibly elven Alistair is a really cool concept and I wish it was in the actual game. thank you and goodnight.