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pumpkincalico · 10 months

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The Maker smiles sadly on his Grey Wardens, as no sacrifice is greater than theirs.

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where-dark-and-light · 1 month

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#dragon age origins #dragon age #warden surana #dragon age duncan #dao duncan

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lexsssu · 2 years

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#lexsssu memes #dragon age origins #dragon age meme #dragon age memes #dao memes #dao meme #dao duncan #grey wardens

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bluerose5 · 2 years

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Imagining a scenario where, after they've defeated the archdemon and are drunkenly celebrating in the aftermath, Darrian offers to do that tattoo that Alistair has been asking Zevran about. Pulls out the puppy eyes and everything. Ali agrees begrudgingly.

Alistair, watching Darrian squint at his shoulder: So, uh, where did you learn to do this?

Darrian: A... book?

Alistair: Ah, that's nice. At least you have some exp— Wait, what?!

Darrian: Hold still! I'm focusing.

Alistair: Dar, buddy, old pal, please tell me that you know what you're doing with those needles.

Darrian: Pfft... Of course I do. You need to calm down and let me focus. I got this.

Duncan, narrating from beyond the grave about his dumbass recruits: He most certainly did not have this.

Darrian: Gonna make the most badass griffin ever!

Alistair: Ouch! Careful.

#dragon age #dragon age origins #alistair theirin #darrian tabris #dao duncan #bluerose shitposts #alistair gonna have a bunch of black squiggly lines for his first tattoo

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helgship · 1 year

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#my art #dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age 2 #dragon age inquisition #zevran ariani #cullen rutherford #merrill #duncan #dao #da2 #dai

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shivunin · 1 year

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the fact that you start the Tabris origin by literally stepping into your mother's shoes. the fact that what you get is a wedding outfit and your mother's worn boots, kept carefully intact for years, tucked away for this exact moment. the fact that you then immediately take the path she never could, leaving behind the alienage and the wedding and following Duncan (who would have recruited Adaia first, if not for baby!Tabris) to what ought to have been death.

And Then!! instead of fighting and falling as she did, cheating death and becoming the fighter she always intended you to be instead??? Reliving and simultaneously subverting the story of her life??

#okay no i'm not done actually #the way it feels like destiny for you to die on the alienage's behalf (soris is still in the dungeons in other origins when you get there)#and not only is that fate averted by duncan's presence #but what feels like the fate laid out for you by adaia's death is shifted too #this makes the ultimate sacrifice ending so much more awful imo #because it almost feels like a final destination-esque reckoning #you thought you escaped? no. this city will eat your bones and spit out a golden savior #who tabris actually *is* was always irrelevant and i am!!!#eating this #excuse me i am just writing baby arianwen and adaia right now and i am Feeling Things #i just!!! her boots!! is anyone listening? is this thing on?? her *boots*!#*buries face in crossed arms and sobs*#dixeram #dao #tabris origin #warden tabris #arianwen tabris #adaia tabris #oh shit oh god i just realized also #you free adaia from the dungeon in leliana's song right #and then in turn escape from the same dungeon #and when imprisoned at drakon's rise you break free from that too?#now it's tastier if you free yourself from the dungeon but #the possibility of leliana freeing you from there as well?? not the same dungeon but the same danger??? ouch. ouch!

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sirguyofdykesborn · 2 months

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Can we (the common folk) hear a little about yr surana? Like where the burn scar came from and what kinda choices they made through the game. I think you mentioned a while ago that both they, alistair and leliana wound up dead (VERY epic)

she's a tabris [pointed finger emoji].... oghren apparently named a child after her and only zevran went to her funeral. sad! well there are other wardens

#dragon age #dao #warden tabris #leliana #alistair theirin #duncan #in my mind shes brought back by the taint to lesbian sex ressurected leliana in dai #love wins #art tag #ask tag

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stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage · 11 months

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I need to gush about Origins and discuss Duncan okay, listen- DAO is so good for a plethora of reasons but it’s the origins, the thing that it’s literally named after. Which origin you play is the important decision on the players part that has an impact on everything you do, especially if you go hard into the roleplaying of it all, it makes me want to scream. I adore it so much.

So Duncan, right? Great character, love that dude. I read The Calling and he's one of the best parts of that book. If you haven't read it, I recommend it just for Duncan alone.

I enjoy reading opinion pieces on Duncan, especially when the poster mentions which origin their warden is. I find it so interesting because your origin can change your entire perception of him.

Playing as Aeducan or Brosca? Duncan has great respect for dwarves just as the dwarves do for the wardens. Duncan’s your hero. He saved your life. You would’ve been executed or left to rot in the Deep Roads if not for him. And since the wardens are so respected, it’s honestly an honor to join them, no?

Playing a Cousland? You’ve lost everything. Duncan not only does what he can to keep your father alive long enough for you and your mother to find him, but he saves you and gives you a shot to avenge your family by becoming a warden.

Playing as Amell or Surana? Your best friend lied to you about being a blood mage and chances are you tried to help him escape rather than turn him in, and now he’s gone and Greagoir demands you be punished. But here comes Duncan to conscript you, to take you away from the prison known as the Circle of Magi.

And I know this can vary depending on how you play or what kind of character you’ve created, but I believe you’re waaaay more likely to have a better opinion of Duncan in these origins… but if you play as Mahariel or Tabris?

Mahariel’s more obvious, here. You’re Dalish, and odds are, you and Tamlen are on the same page about humans. Duncan, a human, dragged your ass back to your clan after the eluvian gave you the blight, and sure, that was nice of him… except when you go looking for Tamlen and Duncan destroys the mirror, he’s so dismissive. He doesn’t care about Tamlen. There’s no point in going looking for him, he’s dead. Also you have the blight and Duncan’s taking you away from your family to make you a warden and no, you have no choice in the matter. He'll force his hand if he needs to. Say goodbye, forget about Tamlen, you’ll never see your family again, you’re a warden now. Hope you have fun involving yourself in all these human affairs while everyone points out how different you are!

First off, I think most Mahariel players would agree that they’re still not over Tamlen. How many of you had the thought, “If we look just a little longer, we could find Tamlen and make him a warden, too!” only for Duncan to ruin that? I don’t blame any Mahariel for throwing a fit when he and the Keeper agree you need to go, nor do I blame them for any ill feelings toward him.

And Tabris? This one is personal; my canon warden is a female Tabris, Rosalie, and Duncan really gets to me.

Rose's already being made to marry a man she's never met, some human nobles made their first attempt to crash the wedding, and now here’s this other human waltzing in. Duncan is such a little shit here, too. When you try asking him to leave, he actively tries to push your buttons just to see what you’ll do. But that’s nothing. When Rose and the other women are taken by Vaughan and his buddies, Soris and Nelaros go to Duncan who pulls his bullshit “wardens can’t get involved, they must remain neutral, best I can do is give you a sword and crossbow, good luck.”

Duncan KNOWS what will happen to those women but nope, can’t get involved. Wardens must remain neutral, can’t upset the nobles. I firmly believe that if Duncan had gone with them, Nelaros wouldn’t have been killed and maybe they could’ve made it to Shianni in time, and that infuriates me.

And yeah, in the end it’s Duncan who saves Rose from the guard, but you expect me to be okay with going with him? Alone? After everything that just happened?

It almost feels like Duncan was more interested in testing you, to see if you COULD get out of that situation or what you’d do when the guard showed up. That gives me a lot of complicated feelings about Duncan, and the way the Grey Wardens do things in general. Because let me tell you, Rose hurls that “Wardens must not involve themselves, they must remain neutral” out the fucking window, even post DAO after the blight is over and things return to “normal” for the wardens.

Side note, I like to think that the wardens out at Weisshaupt or wherever contact Alistair at some point like "What the hell is Warden-Commander Tabris doing over there??? She's breaking every rule we have??" and Alistair's just shrugs like "My wife killed an archdemon to end the Blight and survived, she gets to do whatever she wants forever and honestly, I love that for her."

But anyway-- I get it, Duncan. The Grey Wardens were booted outta Fereldan once before and we don't want a repeat of that. Sure. Fine. Makes sense...but also Rose doesn't give a shit about that? She may come to understand it eventually but that doesn't mean she accepts or forgives it, or would ever be willing to adapt the same attitude.

And I'm not even going to get into everything with the Joining and Ser Jory, because oh my god.

Everything Duncan does influences Rose's views on the Grey Wardens and their duty, like if there was ever anything she and Alistair have straight up argued about, it's Duncan and the concept of "being a warden is an honor."

And I think that's neat. Duncan's a consistency in every origin and even though he dies so early on, his influence remains with the warden no matter who they are.

#dragon age origins #dragon age #dao #duncan dao #alistair theirin #warden rosalie tabris #i love duncan as a character but rose has mixed feels at best #she's probably only as kind as she is about him because that's alistair's father figure #and rose can sympathize with that given her relationship with her own father and nearly losing him

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aesfocus · 3 months

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Remember, you are both Grey Wardens. I expect you to be worthy of that title.

#was this worth all the effort? idk #my footage is so jittery #duncan #dragon age #dragon age: origins #daedit #daedits #videogameedit #vgedit #gamingedit #gameedit #edits24 #myda #mydao #mygif #mygif(da)#mygif(dao)

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notebooks-and-laptops · 1 year

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Irving: Duncan this mage has assisted a maleficar!

Duncan: neat!

#dao #dragon age #i love duncan so much

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where-dark-and-light · 1 month

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#dragon age origins #dragon age #dao duncan #dragon age duncan #warden cousland #cailan theirin

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kaltacore · 11 days

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do you guys ever think about fiona dragon age. at this point she has outlived most of her former comrades with whom she had gone through joining. there's a good chance she'll outlive her son no matter king or not because no crown can stop the taint in his blood. do you think about her being the only one who got lucky among her squad and the order as a whole. do you think about her getting free both as a warden and then a mage but still never escaping that one curse of watching people she cared about slowly fade away

#hey guys. do you think about duncan's axe names fiona you guys #do you think about her asking about alistair but never approaching him even if he's a warden and hangs out next door #do you think about her leaving skyhold if he dies in the fade. do you ever #btw all this thought process was provoked by replaying dao and speaking with riordan once #im very normal about grey wardens once again #dragon age #fiona

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commandermorgan · 2 years

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