#(fairels tomb haunts me)

[mabaris]

honestly tho i think the fallow mire is the best map in inquisition. the rest of them try to be TOO big because they’re chasing the open world feel and. plenty of other people have spoken, better than i could, about how it makes them feel empty and like they’re just fluff for fetch quests to pad out playtime hours

but the fallow mire is still PLENTY big and feels much more dense because there’s less empty space and overall just. less Going On. i know it’s the dragon age protagonist’s job to get involved in every problem, but i do like how most of the quests seem tighter, related to each other and the overall plot. and it feels more true to the scale of like, kirkwall and og redcliffe and haven

#i honestly adore the journal entries you can pick up from villagers who have left or died #it’s the map with no people but it feels the most lived in yknow #like. i love the parts of the world we see but i also feel like a lot of it is redundant?? #exalted plains overlap with emerald graves. western approach overlaps with the hissing wastes #do not get me started on emprise du lion. labyrinthine skyrim knockoff #it’s just. focusing on the aspects that i feel like people don’t care as much about lmao #5 interrupted minutes of sand just for the chance to hint at interesting lore that is just. there #and they do nothing with #(fairels tomb haunts me) #but also like. the first two or three times i played i never found widris so it still feels like the same level of Hidden. to me #and that quest is actually. relevant to the themes of the rest of the game?? #idk the whole thing definitely feels like it’s the first level they made when they were still on the fumes of the first two games #and imo it’s better for that #mine