Back on my bullshit

possibly the most issala line I've ever written

 

you know what
in honor of hitting 40k on my inq nano, Hit Me

 

Honey

 

Stars

 

chicken

 

you two are SOL, unfortunately, apparently I am not a Loving Description Of Meals writer lmao, try again?

 

also, compiling here the fragments of Syncretized Elven Dawn Will Come, bc I Will forget exactly where in chapter 2/4 both hinterlands and ihw turned out to need 2 chapters instead of one don't look at me I slapped them-

haven't decided whether these would be intentional Exalted March-era rewrites/contrafacta in one direction or the other, cultural holdovers from the... I don't want to call it interregnum bc it's really not, but the time split between 'collapse of the Imperium' and 'destruction of the Dales', is there an in-universe name for that? I feel like it spans more than one Age. (Edit: it does, technically, the second Exalted March isn't called until 2:10, so it'd be all of the Divine and the bare start of the Glory Age.) That Time(TM) anyway, or straight-up holdover from the Elvhen empire and clung to as one of the few intact hymns (see also In Uthenera Revas) and repurposed intentionally during Andraste's rebellion via the alliance with Shartan's rebels

 

HRM.

'red'

 

uhhhhhh 'rock'

 

things I have learned today: how common that collection of letters is in other, random words

I still don't actually have 'rock' lmao but 'rockfall' is close enough, probably

 

body product makers stop putting lavender in everything challenge

 

i know im five years late with starbucks but i FEEL your pain on inon zur. DA:O and DA2 have such a STRONG sounddesign identity and im mad bc with DA:I going the way of Generic High Fantasy Music Score the only AAA fantasy rpg with Music That Slaps Real Hard is the witcher series now and as much as that DOES slap not everything needs to be slavic folklore tradition inspired music with the occassional extremely sick guitar riff

 

anyway, got bored and went through my screenshots from Curiosity/Aridhel's run so far

Spoiler: many babey

looking the most like samahl I've ever caught them
bioware let me stay in that ~scout armor~ instead of the beigejamas challenge


gentle deer face


this one I call 'solas make the wet stop I don't like it'

I have "increasingly Bad Idea wildlife photography" shots of vinsomer but apparently they're too big to upload lmao
this is as close as I got before she killed the giant and flew off

Spoiler: Big

(ft solas, turning to walk away from this pile of geniuses Literally Poking Dragons)

 

also, Suspicious Art ref/dump

Spoiler: hinterlands

there's a painting of what appears to be ghilan'nain and possibly andruil? or a servant of andruil? in the apocalypse cult fort

Valammar Vault has gilded statues of at least two, possibly four evanuris in it. Fen'Harel 'defending' (this is the same pose showed for the warding statue of Fen'Harel in origins) and Falon'Din's owls are both clearly present, as well as half a winged woman in what seems to be the same pose as the other dragon-woman-Mythal statues we see... but her wings are feathered. There are also some of 'Kirkwall's' ravens, but given every other non-dwarven piece in this room is elvhen (if we do count the winged woman as Mythal) I'm squinting hardcore at what might very well be repurposed symbols of Dirthamen... esp considering the most numerous statue in the room are his twin/boyf/moirail/whatever's owls, there's like eight more of the things scattered around.

Spoiler: redcliffe chantry

the stained glass windows in the apse, which match those shown as the background for the Chantry-focused war table missions; presumably the tale of Andraste's Exalted March, possibly also including Shartan???

and then there's two of these ones opposite each other just in front of the apse, where transepts Would go if chantries were cross-shaped. Not too sure what imagery is going on here; it might be Redcliffe-specific, with the central castle and the flanking dogs, but that circle at the top seems to match the Golden City depiction? idk m8

also fun fact, they didn't bother modelling a not-wrecked Redcliffe Chantry! if you go in there before starting the first meeting with the alexiuses (alexii??) the wrecked statue plinth is still wrecked, but there's no rift and obviously no dorian

Spoiler: storm coast

one of mirrors' kirkwall conspiracy statues made itself to one of the warden camps in Wardens Of The Coast, somehow. forget which journal page this was.

 

oh i love ghilan'nain makes out with giant fucking bear murals

 

man. man. I normally put Ghilan on harts for Dalish Theme™, but now I'm considering them and Dorian on the zombie horses instead
terrible spiritworker boyfs datemates
(Issala, gently horrified in the background: that's....... great....... honey.....)

 

going back through maraas' screenshots for armor ref and man, this endgame shot of him is pretty

Spoiler: lorg

 

good news: I have an autosave from ihw still available, so I can go back and check that dialogue option
bad news: I have to fight Alexius AGAIN

 

cat dad sketch....... compleat

 

me: eating would probably help alleviate brainscrem
also me: paints for 2 hours instead
anyway lu has a face now