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aldruiel-scribbles · 10 months

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In this link there is definitely not a folder with every Dragon Age eBook, numbered in order of reading plus the two Encyclopedias about the world. Please do not use the link, there are not free books in there.

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sinizade · 1 year

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I made a little clothing guide for some Dragon Age regions

Some may not be exactly the same as the references that appear in the game or in the concepts, but I wanted to give a little of my vision to the guide.

Ferelden

Ferelden is close to the Frostback Mountains and Orlais and as Leliana and Zevran once said, Ferelden is cold, so I thought it would be a cool idea to put on thick clothes with a lot of fur so the Fereldans can protect themselves from the cold.

Tevinter

Dragon Age 4 is approaching and it's already evident that we're going to be in the Tevinter Imperium, so I discovered that a lot of Tevinter clothing was inspired by clothing from the Byzantine Empire

Orlais

We've already seen in the game and in the concept art that Orlais is all about being flamboyant and flashy and what's more flamboyant and flashy than mid-1500s fashion?

Antiva

Home to the two loves of my life, Zevran and Josephine, Antiva fashion is something I really love… The puffy arms, the breast-enhancing corsets, the leather vests, idk, I just like Antiva

Nevarra

I don't exactly have much to say about nevarra, but I did some research and found some concepts that I thought were interesting, I also saw in some places that said that the kingdom was inspired by the traditional culture of Spain

So I'll leave two references here

One for the traditional clothes and one for what I imagine might look like Nevarra dress

Frostback Basin

In Inquisition we can see that the clothes they wear are quite furry and well protected from the cold, so I think it would be a good idea to inspire some of their clothing in Inuit clothing

The Dalish (1/2/3/4/5)

Well, for the Dalish I had MANY ideas, among them think about adding traditional clothes from some tribes, native Brazilian/American, African, Hawaiian, Inca, Aztec and Mayan

Remembering that I made a great mix of traditional clothes from several tribes and not just one, and that I also have 0 intention of disrespecting any of them, if I have put something wrong or disrespectful you can be free to alert me

Orzammar

I knew little about Turkey, but when I went to research I ended up enchanted with some of the traditional clothes when I went to research about it and I thought that this style would go well with Orzammar

Par Vollen

For Par Vollen, I had a bit of trouble finding it, but I think clothing a little bit closer to the ancient Egyptian style would be something interesting. The light fabrics, the golden jewels adorning the body, idk, I like that idea

Rivain

I was doing some research again and found that part of Rivain's look was inspired by traditional clothing from Islamic Spain and Southeast Asia , so I looked around a bit for something to put here and add one more kingdom to the list

I hope you people enjoyed! Soon I will add more realms as soon as I finish my research

#dragon age fan art #dragon age 2 #dragon age origins #dragon age #dragon age awakening #dragon age inquisition #tevinter #orlais #ferelden #frostback basin #antiva #nevarra #Rivain

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kiivg · 10 days

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.A trip to Orlais.

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emptyshellofanillusionwizard · 2 months

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The Orlesian Warden is getting too old for this bullshit

#dragon age #my art #dragon age origins #dragon age awakening #da art #dao #da: origins #da awakening #orlais #grey warden #vauquelin andras #warden andras #elf mage #dragon age art #dragon age fanart #da fanart

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elfcollector · 9 months

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emprise du lion.

#daiedit #daedit #myda #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #orlais #emprise du lion #gamingedit #gamingnetwork #gameplaydaily #dailygaming #vgedit #videogameedit

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hannedraws · 4 months

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orlesian warden commander u will always be famous to me no matter how much bioware shoves u in the closet 😮‍💨 (wip, no one is surprised)

#her name is evanora andras and i would do anything for her #grey warden #dragon age #artists on tumblr #dragon age origins #warden commander #hof #hero of ferelden #except shes not #orlais #orlesian commander #dragon age awakening #the architect #elf #character art #oc art

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neb-art-zeke · 1 year

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...where did you say y'all were from again?

#dragon age #dragon age origins #loghain mac tir #ferelden #orlais

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anneapocalypse · 3 months

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I think the war table map in Inquisition kind of obscures just how much bigger Orlais is geographically than Ferelden, but if you look at them on a world map of Thedas (borders are wobbly but important to note is that Orlais unlike Ferelden extends north of the Waking Sea), it is... a lot bigger. It's probably around twice the square mileage, though I don't have exact numbers.

Granted, a lot of the land out west that Orlais technically controls seems to be unlivable blighted desert! But also in terms of population, Ferelden is rural. It has a few major cities, but most of it is farmland. Several of the most important holdings in Ferelden--Redcliffe, Gwaren--are still not even cities, they're just towns and villages that happen to be in important locations or essential for trade. Ferelden is not densely populated, is my point here. We do not have canon population numbers that I know of, and I won't try to estimate, but I do think it's safe to say that Ferelden is significantly smaller in population than Orlais as well, and this is part of the reason an Orlesian invasion is such a threat--they're simply bigger, they have more people at their disposal from which to levy troops.

#land and labor are power and orlais has a lot of both #sometimes i see meta predicated on the idea that they're basically comparable in size #and i think that's an easy assumption to make but they definitely aren't #ferelden #orlais #dragon age meta #blunders of thedas

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nucuk · 21 days

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Halamshiral ball extra scene 🕺💃🧝🤵🪩

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Cullen Rutherford & Dalish | Dragon Age Inquisition

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #fantasy #dai #cullen romance #cullen rutherford #dalish elf #dalish elves #dragon age fanart #dai fanart #orlais #thedas #wicked eyes and wicked hearts #dai cullen

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laurelsofhighever · 11 months

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Sometimes I just think about how dicey the relationship must be between the Chantry and Ferelden.

On the one hand, Ferelden was the birthplace of Andrastianism - the saviour of southern Thedas was an Alamarri barbarian too stubborn to fall under the yoke of her Tevinter masters, the only one worthy of getting the Maker to turn his gaze back to His children - but on the other hand, the Chantry has done so much to distance itself from those roots, from centring the faith in Val Royeaux’s Grand Cathedral to dismissing folk songs like “Andraste’s Mabari” as borderline heresy.

More than that, it had an active role in the subjugation of the Fereldan people. During the events of The Stolen Throne, the mages in Kinlock Hold are shown to be afraid of getting involved in the politics of the rebellion by harbouring Maric even for a single night because Circles are meant to remain neutral. AND YET mages from Orlais are brought specifically to Gwaren to help the Orlesians squash the rebels. Mother Bronach is there throughout Meghren’s reign legitimising his oppression as “the will of the Maker” and extracting tithes from the Fereldan people for the Chantry, while it’s strongly implied that Fereldans themselves are barred from serving any meaningful role in its hierarchy, if you pay attention to what Sister Ailis says.

So we have a source of national pride in Andrastianism itself, and we have a source of suspicion with how closely tied the Chantry as an institution is tied to Orlais, and possible resentment for the Chantry’s encouragement of indifference to the Orlesian Occupation. You can’t tell me the Rebel Queen Moira didn’t play into the imagery of Andraste the Liberator, fighting back against the tyranny of an unjust empire. You can’t tell me she didn’t use the people’s faith as a weapon to refute the idea of the Occupation being the Maker’s will. At the very least, you can’t tell me that after the war was done, nobody made that connection, given that she, too, met her end through betrayal.

And then we get to the Inquisition. There’s going to be a bit of a difference depending on who ends up on the throne after the Blight, because Alistair is far more outspoken than Anora both on his opinion of mage rights and his disdain for the Chantry in general (but he’s also an ex-templar so I’m sure there are headaches about how to square that away), but no matter who rules Ferelden, the actions of the Inquisition are the same. For the second time in living memory, a foreign power is giving itself free rein to tramp over Fereldan soil, seize its castles, and make decisions for its people. A foreign power with pretty strong ties to the Chantry (declared heretical or not), justifying their occupation through religion.

Just saying, Fereldans must have a complicated relationship with their majority religion.

And don’t get me started on my theory that the Chantry sanctioned the original invasion of Ferelden as a way to have an exalted march without spending money or effort or making other Andrastian nations nervous

#dragon age meta #dragon age #ansrastianism #the chantry #fuck the chantry #mage rights #orlais #ferelden

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fensyl · 1 year

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Orlesian court vs Ferelden court ft Fervanis

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aldanil · 7 months

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Two orlesian elven kids having some happy time.

So I drew my ocs Almael (white haired kid) and Tamril (brown haired one) during their childhood. They were best friends and grew up together. After Almael’s magic manifested at age of 9, he was sent to the circle of Montsimmard. After long time not seeing each other’s, they meet again (mostly by chance) in adulthood. At this time, Almael became a Mage working for the Inquisition (which allied with Mages), while Tamril became a secret Agent of Fen’harel.

#dragon age ocs #dragon age #dragon age dreadwolf #dragon age inquisition #orlais #Val roseaux alienage #almael #Tamril #elvhen

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darkest-hour10 · 6 months

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"You have your hunt, your highness, and I have mine"

#dragon age #dragon age oc #dragonage #Ophelia #orlais

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escalusia · 9 months

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Some outfit designs for Lucia!!! - I want to revisit her knight armor but I've been struggling with my art for a bit

#world of warcraft #dragon age #warcraft #da #orlais #art #illustration #character design #armor design #original character #character #knight #my art #lucia valmont

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inverswayart · 1 year

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On Orlais fashion

So, while i was trying to design an outfit for Julie, I stumbled upon a problem - what the hell was considered fashionable in Orlais during Awakening? I scanned through wiki and concept art and then got an idea for a big cool post about it, but my da high is closing in to an end so I'll just ramble for a bit instead.

It's evolving (and too fast)

So yeah, if we look at the concept art and what have appeared in Inquisition, Orlais fashion seems to change at break-neck speed - on par with modern fast fashion. Why is it a problem? Because modern fashion operates in a world of mass-production, which whole kinda alluded to in Thedas, is allegedly haven't been achieved yet. But still, in DAI we see at least 3 pretty distinct silhouettes of women's clothes that feel like different stages of one evolutionary line. I'm talking those beauties:

So, as we can see, one more-or-less consistent thing about all of them is waistline - fairly high one, like something out of 16th century Italy or first two decades of 19th century. But everything else is varied - the neckline from completely closed to pretty plunging, sleeve length and form, construction of skirt...

But looking at them in this order they do resemble a solid development line - tho for me it feels like there should be at least one more phase between first and second stages - no way such high and tight wheel ruffles would collapse without a trace of their existence... Otherwise, there's a couple of noticeable trends here - first, slight widening of skirts; second, slow rising of sleeves; descending neckline.

At third image it feels like someone suddenly invented the crinoline straight out of 1850's, completely foregoing farthingale and panniers (here's all of them for comparison, in the same order):

To be clear, neither panniers or farthingale are prerequisite for crinoline to appear - but considering the alleged time period Dragon Age was inspired by and the fairly 1770's like hairdo's Leliana alludes to in DAO (the "I like your hair" dialogue where she mentions a noblewoman incorporating entire birdcage with living birds into her hair) one would expect them rather then mid-19th century invention.

Still, to line up those dresses is to insert at the very least 5 or so years between them, maybe even 10 or 15 (once again, those high ruffled collars would have not dissapered so smoothly... Imagine orlesians with those huge-ass Elizabethan lacey standing collars, wouldn't that be sick?) But to be honest, at least i can see how Origins noble dress could've evolved into the first one.

All the prerequisites are there - standing collar ready to get taller and rufflier, kinda puffed up sleeves, little cape-like decoration at shoulders, waist accentuated by fairly wide belt ready to turn even wider and more decorative, fairly narrow skirt to expand... And it would've ecen work with the timeline we have - there's roughly 11 years between DAO and DAI, and the silhouette would've had time to change - but then the Inquisition dress would be the latest fashion, not the fairly outdated one we see.

There are also two distinct outliers - Florianne de Chalons and empress Celine with their dresses more or less out of common trends we saw before:

And while Celene's dress I can still place in the general climate we got - like yeah, she's the Empress, she can be the most fashion-forward one and outclass everyone around, and her dress does look like evolution of what we saw, it would be at least 5 more tears before crinoline would start to change it's shape (ironically getting closer to panniers) and while I can read her overdress as on of the exposed underdresses in a "I'm above your backroom dealings and behind the stage machinations and so I have nothing to hide" kinda gesture, it feels like a stretch.

Florianne, on the other hand, while being more in tune with others silhouette-wise... Why does she has those pagoda sleeves? Why the train when even the Empress does not have one? Mystery for ages.

A bit unrelated but one cool canon thing about Orlesian fashion is that codex in DAI that says that it's all about hiding the actuall contour of body behind augmented forms - shoulder pads, structured garments and so on. That actually is pretty close to Elizabethan conception of man as something completely separate from nature that found it's reflection in geometrical fashions of the era.

So yeah, in the end, while very pretty, Orlesian fashion is kind of a mess (as is every other fashion in Thedas we have seen. Can't wait for Dreadwolf to throw even more aestetics wrenches in here).

#tag for words #dragon age #dragon age origins #dao #dragon age inquisition #dai #orlais #fashion #fashion history #dragon age meta #i probably put way more thought into it that devs intended #but what are they gonna do about it?

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illusivesoul · 10 months

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Dragon Age 2 Scenery - Chateau Haine

Chateau Haine was constructed as a fortress in 4:90 by Lord de la Haine. He tried to seize power in the Free Marches and was sentenced to be executed. He fled to Fortress Haine, pursued by his enemies. The siege lasted for 100 days before the besiegers hired the services of the Antivan Crows. The Crows entered the fortress and slit the lord's throat while he slept.

The castle sat empty for 30 years before being used as a stronghold by the Grey Wardens during the Fourth Blight. Caves and an artificial lake were constructed under the mountain to house thousands of refugees from nearby Marcher cities.

After the Blight, Fortress Haine was granted to Ser Gaston de Montfort, a chevalier who distinguished himself by leading the cavalry at the Battle of Ayesleigh. It's the current vacation villa of Duke Prosper de Montfort.

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