#Redcliffe castle

[galasgamingcorner]

Dragon Age Inquisition | Redcliffe Castle

#dragonageedit #daiedit #gamingedit #dailygaming #gameplaydaily #dragon age #dai #scenery #redcliffe castle #mygamegifs

[nimthirielrinon]

Dania’s Tale

Chapter 20: The Mage in the Dungeon

Chapter 20 is up!!! The long-awaited continuation of Dania’s Tale, where they reach Redcliffe Castle, meet an imprisoned mage, and learn a bit more about what is happening with the whole undead rising thing.

And Dania just keeps finding more reasons to hate Lady Isolde.

#Dania’s Tale #dragon age #dragon age fic #dragon age origins #dragon age oc #jowan dragon age #alistair theirin #Redcliffe castle #ao3 fanfic #dragon age fanfiction #my art

[enderevynne]

DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION ➤ GIFS: Solas

↳ In Hushed Whispers >>> Future!Solas

#daiedit #solasedit #gamingedit #Solas #Future!Solas #Dragon Age #Dragon Age Inquisition #My gifs #My stuff #In Hushed Whispers #Redcliffe Castle #Solas appreciation #solasgifs #Companions #Mages #dai men #da men #inhushedwhispers** #redcliffecastle** #My edits #I would've loved to have this outfit for the entire quest but it glitched way too much sighh

[mizua]

#dragon age #dragon age: inquisition #redcliffe castle #trevor morris #2014 #music #ost #soundtrack

[emmavakarian-theirin]

ISOLDE.

#oh the essay i could write on how much i DESPISE her #alistair started talking about her and all the hatred i had for her came back in force #and now i'm face to face with her and i'm starting to think it's morally and logically correct to sacrifice her #first for being a child neglecter and second for enabling all the chaos and death and destruction to redcliffe #all so she wouldn't disappoint her fereldan daddy who is ALSO a child neglecter but she's worse and i can't kill him tragically #but even fucking. about to enter the castle after saving the village after SEVERAL NIGHTS OF DEATH BECAUSE OF THIS #and she scoffs at alistairs mere presence?? bitch he was 8 when you saw him last and sent him away! EIGHT!! #fuck you and the noble you rode on #dragon age origins #and as for logically correct: if you leave the village at all before battle everyone (except teagan) is killed. EVERYONE. and that's 1 night #after several days of attacks! no one else is left!! but the demon is still alive in the castle and anything can happen #and it takes 1-2 days to get to the circle to get the mages. leaving for up to 4 days to get more help to *possibly* stop more deaths? #and it's clear arl eamons life takes priority over all else.... #so yeah time to kill a bitch i guess 💅

[rosykims]

ive played dao like 9 times at this point and still. and STILL the isolde/connor decision has me tearing my hair out gnawing my keyboard stomping around the house ready to lie down and never get up

#tay plays dao #in saying all that: i had an epiphany and im now at peace with elspeth killing this kid :) JKFJGKFG #I HATEEEEE IT I HATE THIS CHOUICE. AND YET. AND YETTTT #oc: elspeth #sigh. the things we do for rp........ #so my reasoning is : she's the most moral/lawful/goody-good character you can find and lawful good in the truest sense of the term #so blood magic just isnt an option for her #also she does lothering > circle > redcliffe so she's seen what blood magic is capable of and its way too fresh in her mind #and as a noble with literally zero experience or understanding of magic... what shes seen of blood magic is SO bad she isnt abt to risk it #(i also dismiss the circle mages option outright because she wont risk redcliffe and the castle all dying while shes out wasting time) #but still its like... when she walks into that room prior to making the Choice she's so ADAMANT that she wont be killing a child #and upon leaving she still feels that way. again she doesnt rly know that much about demons so shes still like ok maybe i can just #incapacitate him?? reason with him?? #bc thats what would happen to a hero in a story. they would find a way. there would be a happy ending. and she believes in happy endings #and she rly does see herself as the hero lol. #and then it doesnt happen and shes forced to make the choice and it absolutely destroys her sense of self. bc heroes dont DO that #and the story wasnt supposed to turn out this way !!!!!! and realizing this isnt some story and shes actually going to have to do #Horrific things. its a turning point for her #also a turning point for alistair and her relationship w him. bc he'd also put her on a pedastal this whole time #and now hes like. oh. all that honor and bravado is just something youre making up as you go huh #and then they have to get to know each other as flawed complicated people. not just.... ideals that they created of each other??? #WHEW. THIS IS LONG. SORRY. #DRAGON AGE SEASON BABEY LETS FUCKING GO LOL

[vigilskept]

realizing quickly that things can really only go downhill for a blood mage warden trying to stay unnoticed… literally wherever they go they will be put in situations that have them feeling under the microscope

#brecilian forest? keeper zathrian is a blood mage #kinloch hold? the templars are literally planning to annul the circle because blood mages have taken control #redcliffe castle? ur bestie the blood mage is in the dungeon bc he also can’t help getting into situations #fairly sure the ONLY main quest where u don’t get confronted by blood magic discourse is in orzammar #sadly this whole party would get curbstomped by branka/caridin this early in the game so….. situations it is

[came-out-of-the-coffin-desisted]

writing dragon age fanfiction is so so so so hard for me because every time i spot another historical inaccuracy that’s like “i don’t care that it’s fantasy they have the same level of technology this is WRONG” i have to have a moment of like. “kaed NO ONE ELSE will EVER care about this. you watch ‘ranking period dramas on corset accuracy both in construction and writing’ videos on youtube for entertainment normal people simply do not give a FUCK about medieval castle layouts!”

and yet this cycle continues, because the dragon age devs so so so so clearly DID research but they did BAD research and it HAUNTS me. like WHYYYYY is there only one courtyard that isn’t even really a courtyard in castle cousland WHY is the “main hall” huge with no furniture while the great hall “dining room” is tiny as fuck and in a horrible to access spot WHY are there no ovens in the kitchens where the FUCK do they bake the breaaaad!! like ok fine cool servants get beds in thedas i’ll bite. that fucks hard, actually! but WHY are there more servant rooms than rooms for visiting nobles do you honestly think anybody in the middle ages fucking had servant rooms???? they slept on the FLOOR in the GREAT HALL! and WHY is there a fucking library and a ‘treasury’ (which what the fuck is THAT there should be a DON-JON in there you locked your valuables in the TOWER at the TOP, not in ONE room centrally located on the first floor with TWO guards!!) like i KNOW it was for level design i KNOW it was but oh my fucking g-d it’s gonna KILL ME to write out creeping through corridors when there WERE NO CORRIDORS! like look at this. look at this.

castle cousland: stupid, awful design, honestly they kinda asked to be coup’ed with their garbage unsurvivable castle that supposedly nobody sieges regularly even though it’s literally a death trap. there is ONE main exit, no way to trap your enemies, and only one official guard post that i can see. fuck awful.

harlech castle in wales: it took 115 years for someone to successfully take this castle, and it’s withstood COUNTLESS sieges, you can go visit it right the hell now if you go to wales (not at all getting into the evilness of the english building castles in wales, that’s not the point i’m trying to make.) see how the outside makes it so that even if your enemies breach the walls, to actually reach anyone important they have to survive the volleys of arrows from the ramparts? and then presumably kill everyone ON the ramparts, or the minute you go to open a door or try to drag someone out, you’re going to get shot full of arrows. that’s after breaching TWO heavy doors (which would require a battering ram both times) which would wake up the entire castle LONG before they got anywhere NEAR the heir to the castle’s wife and child.

and before somebody says “oh well kaed maybe you just don’t know your castle building periods very well” think again. i know my castle building periods. that style above is concentric (harlech castle’s initial construction was finished in 1289 and was one of the first finished castles in england in this style,) which came after the keep and bailey style, which came after the motte-and-bailey style, which came after the burh (which arguably WASN’T a castle but whatever,) etc. there are no fortified castles in english history that look like castle cousland, because it’s fucking indefensible. now, this does lead to the question of “oh, well, what is the timeline for the game, maybe there’s something you missed!” so let’s examine the time period of origins:

at the very, very latest, origins could be based off of the BEGINNING of the british “wars of the roses” (the civil wars between the various members of the house plantagenet) which began in the 1450s— this is personally what /i/ think origins is based off of, for a couple reasons. 1) trevelyan was a real person— g.m. trevelyan was a british historian who wrote about the wars of the roses, and in one instance there’s a quote of his the devs almost verbatim used for the design of the free marches: “the Wars of the Roses were to a large extent a quarrel between Welsh Marcher Lords, who were also great English nobles, closely related to the English throne…” they ixnayed the part about the marcher lords being ferelden nobles, i imagine because it was too complicated, but trevelyan? marcher lords? a close relationship with this country? (i.e. like somewhere that might take in their refugees after a catastrophe?) cmon. 2) because ferelden is fucking huge and the histories are kinda weird, because they aren’t 1 for 1, i’m gonna say that we have to use the norman conquest of england as our unification date. in other contexts i wouldn’t try to argue this, but in this one, i’m saying 1066 is the unification date of the anglo-saxon kingdoms into england. calenhad gives us a hard unification date for ferelden— the first landsmeet was in 5:42 exalted, ergo origins is 388 years later. the wars of the roses started in 1455, 389 years after the norman conquest ended. 3) the wars of the roses happened because of a succession crisis— admittedly, these two succession crises are very, very different, but there are definitely parallels between loghain and henry vi and alistair and edward iv. henry vi was crowned at a young age (loghain largely ruled for maric at various points in his life, starting when he was very young,) and was very ineffectual— he suffered from an unknown mental illness which made him extremely unstable and unable to rule for large periods of time. loghain, on the other hand, ruled when the /theirins/ weren’t stable, so you argue he had the opposite— meanwhile, his policies WEREN’T sustainable, whatever you might think of him. loghain is too shaped by his own experiences to be a truly good leader, and by the time his rule/anora’s rule is threatened by cailan, he’s sacrificed enough of his principles that he’s willing to commit atrocities (notably, margaret of anjou ruled during the worst parts of her husband’s mental instability, which again could apply to loghain OR anora, as they ruled fairly jointly after a certain point.) edward iv was the son of richard of york, who was eligible for the throne at a very young age (18 to alistair’s 19) because his father was dead. he was coaxed and led into battle by his cousin, the earl of warwick (also known as the kingmaker— sound like a protagonist you might know?) that’s about where the similarities end, but that’s largely because alistair is a grey warden— if he weren’t, he’d probably be able to have kids and end the question of succession. but he can’t, which, assuming the devs eventually remember, WILL lead to another civil war. hence why i say this is at the BEGINNING of the wars of the roses.

another option that could be argued but makes much less sense and i have no evidence for is that alistair has similarities to edward ii (second son who only became king because his brother died, married a more powerful woman to consolidate power, not very good at ruling, no offense to alistair,) but that still puts origins at like 1307-1327. in either case, they would have been using concentric castles— and given what time period castle cousland was originally built in, it would have been built as a motte-and-bailey, which would NOT have lasted four hundred years. so the castle had to have been rebuilt, and bryce cousland would have had to update that rebuilt castle, because no one lived in it during the orlesian occupation. so where the hell does this winding, weird multi-level design come from?

i GUESS— and this is SO charitable— they could have designed castle cousland based off of a country house design from the mid 1500s, but none of them look like that, either. they’re exclusively rectangular, for one thing, and one of the huge bragging rights of owning one was that they weren’t fortified— they came into fashion during a period of relative stability under the tudor rule, when it was considered guache and maybe even treasonous to build a fortified castle. ferelden is NOWHERE NEAR a period of stability, if anything at the end of origins they’re entering their greatest period of INstability, given what happens in inquisition, and that no matter who ends up on the throne, there’s no way for them to have children. so there’s NO way this castle is a country house, or inspired by one.

leaving us with the final conclusion that a) the game devs definitely did do research into the time period because i can fairly directly trace a line between the event i think inspired origins and the plot, but they didn’t do enough research to figure out what the everloving fuck the BUILDINGS looked like. so these castles make no fucking sense and can’t possibly be called historically accurate even with the fantasy defense, and b) i care WAAAY too much about this for somebody who isn’t even a medieval historian. my area of expertise is the paleolithic, i have no clue why this bugs me so bad i spent four fucking hours writing this post.

#anyone: so what are you getting up to on spring break? me: uhhhhhhhhhhh *spends four hours writing a bioware calloit post about their #historically inaccurate castles* Normal Things #it took me four hours bc i had to pare it down like 8 times btw. i could have kept going #btw there are image descriptions on the maps #dragon age origins #dragon age #long post #actually i take it back i DO know why it bugs me and it’s because they made this g-dawful design part of the plot on every single occasion #like highever? would never have been sacked if not for this design. redcliffe? whole story is about infiltrating this castle through these #extensive dungeons they never would have fucking built bc there’s no use for them. the palace in denerim (which doesn’t even have a name) #is so so so fucked. we can’t even get into it but i HATE it. denerim is a city small enough that not all the banns arls and teyrns can have #their own estates in the city meaning they would need rooms in the palace dedicated to them. where are those rooms??? if’s tiny as hell. all #they needed to do was to put up some extra wings you can’t go into that’s all they needed. i’m so so so annoyed by this it’s such a pet #peeve of mine. especially since skyhold is SOOOOOO good if’s the pinnacle of dragon age buildings no one else will ever be her #there’s multiple courtyards. there’s a garden. there’s the stables centrally located there are concentric walls there’s that weird palace #thing in the center with the world’s hottest great hall. there’s a FORGE there’s a keep there’s a guest wing there’s a tabern there’s #ANOTHER tower you can build there are sentry posts there’s a gatehouse there’s a bridge no one will ever replace her in my heart i know this #skyhold baby you are so so so sexy and delicious and everything a fantasy castle in a video game should be MWAH

[fergus-cousland]

the palace in Denerim isn’t haunted btw. she’s fine and well-adjusted.

#castle redcliffe is haunted and trying to forget about it

[blightbear]

Last Line Tag

me showing up late to this but I was tagged by @fenharel-apologist94 for this, thank you <33 (and yeah, I do write, it just mostly ends up on my main 😅)

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

Red, red everywhere. red on the walls, red on the floor, red in his eyes. Eyes that were once blue, now tainted. Their friend, dying a slow and painful death.

Simply because I don’t want to (and don’t have enough people to) tag 30 people, this is going to be an open tag :)

#writing #tag game #I’m playing around with Redcliff castle because that whole section would be nightmare and trauma inducing haha #(but also I’d love to become mutuals if you wanna message me :3)

[nimthirielrinon]

Chapter 19 is up!

The numbering changed slightly because chapter 1 is now the title page, so I beg your pardon for that.

The fight was brutal, but the having two Grey Wardens and a mage on their side seemed to boost moral enough that it went far better than anyone had anticipated. In the end, all the villagers survived the night and, when dawn broke over the lake, a cheer went up from its people.

***

The pyre that morning was the smallest they’d had to make since the attacks began, Murdoch told them, and he thanked the visitors for their help. They went to the steps of the chantry where Teagan met them and presented them with breakfast.

#Dania’s tale #dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age fanfiction #fanfic #fanfiction #lady Isolde #Redcliffe castle #ferelden #dragon age Isolde

[enderevynne]

DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION ➤ SHIP GIFS: Solavellan

GWANI LAVELLAN x SOLAS

↳ In Hushed Whispers >>> Future!Solas

#daiedit #dragonageedit #solavellanedit #gamingedit #Solavellan #My ocs #dai ocs #My gifs #My stuff #Gwani Lavellan #Solas #Dragon Age #Dragon Age Inquisition #In Hushed Whispers #Redcliffe castle #inhushedwhispers** #redcliffecastle** #Future!Solas #solanigifs #I will have to redo this scene cause Solas's clothes mod was malfunctioning #Not that it matters that much since Gwani's hair messes up a bunch other other mods specifically hair mods lol

[mizua]

#dragon age #dragon age: origins #redcliffe castle #inon zur #2009 #music #ost #soundtrack

[kaltacore]

dragon age choices are so silly sometimes. you can travel to the circle from redcliffe then solve its whole mess and return with mages which would take a couple of days for sure but you suffer no consequences for it. no harm done. that's the best outcome. meanwhile you can't leave the fade without senseless sacrifice which could have been easily avoided if hawke warden and inquisitor had fucking run instead of arguing about who's gonna be left for good for half an hour

#sorry but i'm going crazy every time i remember how badly i fucked up in my first dao playthrough #when i genuinely thought that if we go to the circle everyone in the castle will fucking die #i sacrificed isolde just to find out that there was NO consequences for seeking mages' help #i was so devastated and mad and had to replay like the whole redcliffe questline because i didn't make any saves in between #and then dai and hlta happened. man. #i was sitting in front of my tv shaking and screaming and crying for half an hour because i just couldn't decide #and now it is so fucking funny because there was no time limit for that choice #my inky was just standing here for 30 minutes instead of fucking running and nightmare patiently waited for its dinner #these games are so silly. i love them. i hate them. i can't take them seriously sometimes #dragon age

[wardenmages]

for all the time and effort spent on leading up to Astarion's act 3 quest, the fact that you get there and the palace is just Some Building that blends in with everything else (despite being told it stands out - Tav can comment on it saying they know exactly which building it is, just that they didn't know it was full of vampires, and Astarion's response is "subtle, isn't it"!!) and then once you're inside it's just Some Guy's House

I didn't realize how mad this made me so under a cut for the rest because I love Astarion so much and I love his growth and genuinely the scene of him killing Cazador and then breaking down sobbing is one of the best in the entire game, but so much of this quest annoys me from the limitations it has and I get it has to have limitations but they spent so much more time building it up than on the other companions (like how little they gave Wyll in comparison!) then it ends like This?

like I get he's been pretending to be a normal rich dude but this is the night of his grand ritual, and only one room in the house has any blood or violence happening? the only dead bodies are the chamberlain (who took himself out) and Victoria, who was killed by either Violet or Dalyria, not even related to the ritual, since Cazador's original plan was to make her a spawn as well. the kennels are SPOTLESS. maybe it was just my game but it's super bright in there as well, I was expecting it to be at least a little dark and gloomy. then it doesn't take long to figure out that despite us being told he's a mastermind and genius, Cazador is a fucking idiot. he needs Astarion to be there, 100%, it literally will not work if he's not there, but then he LOCKED THE DOOR, and ordered everyone to keep anyone out, INCLUDING ASTARION? Astarion & Tav/Durge can openly say "he needs Astarion down there so open the door" and everyone's like nope, oh well! nothing we can do about it! guess he'll just have to figure something else out. after TWO CENTURIES OF PLANNING.

then you get down there, and before you walk up and start the cutscene, Cazador is complaining that Astarion isn't there! AFTER LOCKING HIM OUT? he honestly puts very little effort into getting Astarion back - a lot of people don't even know that if Astarion falls during the long rest scene with all of his siblings they take him back to the castle and he wakes up with Godey

#connor plays bg3 #hello I have a lot of feelings about this game #redcliffe castle was well-lit but it had VIBES!! it was covered in CORPSES AND GHOSTS!! #the szarr palace has nothing but WEIRDOS PACING AROUND!!

[sky-fire-forever]

Why did my whole team get destroyed by dogs four times in a row 😭😭

#the dogs in redcliff castle... #dragon age #dragon age origins #dao #mabari