Kintsugi Plays Dragon Age 2 (a winner is me!)

stab stab stab

> I refuse

 

demons seem bad news, especially if ANDERS is saying so.

 

Hey, Anders is firmly anti-demon! He's just pro-spirits, which are tooooootally different things really you guys.

>We refuse.

Spoiler: Codex - Demonic Possession

Why do demons seek to possess the living?

History claims they are malevolent spirits, the first children of theMaker, angry at their creator for turning from them and jealous of those creations he considered superior. They stare across the Veilat the living and do not understand what they see, yet they know they crave it. They desire life, they pull the living across the Veil when they sleep and prey on their psyche with nightmares. Whenever they can, they cross the Veil into our world to possess it outright.

We know that any demon will seek to possess a mage, and upon doing so will create an abomination. Most of the world does not know, however, that the strength of an abomination depends entirely on the power of the demon that possesses the mage. This is true, in fact, of all possessed creatures. One demon is not the same as any other.

Demons can, for instance, be classified. Enchanter Brahm's categorization of demons into that portion of the psyche they primarily prey upon has held since the Tower Age.

According to Brahm, the weakest and most common of demons are those of rage. They are the least intelligent and most prone to violent outbursts against the living. They expend their energies quickly, the most powerful of them exhibiting great strength and occasionally the ability to generate fire.

Next are the demons of hunger. In a living host they become cannibals and vampires, and within the dead they feed upon the living. Theirs are the powers of draining, both of life force and of mana.

Next are the demons of sloth, the first on Brahm's scale that are capable of true intelligence. In its true form, this demon is known as a Shade, a thing which is nearly indistinct and invisible, for such is sloth's nature. It hides and stalks, unaware, and when confronted, it sows fatigue and apathy.

Demons of desire are amongst the most powerful, and are the ones most likely to seek out the living and actively trick them into a deal. These demons will exploit anything that can be coveted—wealth, power, lust—and they will always end up getting far more than they give. A desire demon's province is that of illusions and mind control.

Strongest of all demons are those of pride. These are the most feared creatures to loose upon the world: Masters of magic and in possession of vast intellect, they are the true schemers. It is they who seek most strongly to possess mages, and will bring other demons across the Veil in numbers to achieve their own ends—although what that might be has never been discovered. A greater pride demon, brought across the Veil, would threaten the entire world.

--From The Maker's First Children, by Bader, Senior Enchanter of Ostwick, 8:12 Blessed.

I don't want any more odd dwarven relics!! I've had enough of those thanks!!!


Should I worry about the implications of this chest o'potions?

And now an autosave.

 

Are those weird spiky pillar things that are all over the place down here statues of anything, or are they just Weird Spiky Pillar Things?

 

Do you mean the lyrium trees?

 

No, the big spiky stone statues. There's one silhouetted in the background of the first screenshot after the autosave.

 

You know, I can't really tell - they MIGHT be dwarf shapes, or it might be pareidolia. :P I think there's a clearer look at one in this post?

 

...yeah I got nothing there.

 

Tip: sometimes the ancient rock wraith does this..

...at which point you should run your entire party behind a pillar...

... before this happens.

Tip: sometimes it summons other profane while being a creepy glowing skull-and-ribcage.


Tip: don't get distracted by podcasts and get everybody killed by magic rock punching.

 

So, question: how exactly are golems made in DA? I ask this in the service of trying to figure out what the hell profane/rock wraiths are.

 

well, basically, you get some volunteer (hopefully) dwarves, get the Anvil of the Void, put them in golem-sized suits of armor, pour molten lyrium through every hole, and then hammer out the armor before it cools or something? Then you make a control rod at some point.

 

Hey, guys. Look, it's a huddle!
Round two, huh?
I'm glad you made the right choice about that demon, Hawke. It's good to see someone who understands the difference between spirits and demons.
I'm a little busy right now, Anders.
Heh. Oh-
LEEEEEROY JENKINS!!!
Oh, Carver.





Why does it turn into a ball and explode?!
I don't knoooow
Hawke, don't you have a dog? Where's your dog?
Oh, I keep forgetting about her.
How?!



Hey, did you guys see I actually have a healing spell now?
Yes. I hope you're not trying to edge me out. :P
Wait, Pigeon -
OH GOD PIGEON GET BACK HERE

 

hawke's little smile and shrug.. god i love dragon age... god damn i love hawke and varric's friendship

 

Is... Is that Sauron flipping us the double bird? Rude, Sauron.

Oh that's easy it doesn't.

 

everybody is leveling up! wow, that was a huge amount of XP.

Spoiler: Codex - Rock Wraith

Twenty years in the Legion of the Dead. I've seen spiders larger than a bronto, broodmothers lounging in putrescence surrounded by their corrupted children, and unnamed things with flesh turned against itself. But worse, by far, was in an old mine shaft down from Heidrun Thaig.

We chased an emissary down there to a tunnel dead-ended in rubble. It was a vicious fight. He picked my men off until only four of us were left. When it seemed like we'd finally fulfill our oaths, our fight woke something long dormant.

What I thought was rubble gathered beneath my feet, taking a terrible form: a beast of stone surrounding the shattered skeleton of a man. A rock wraith. The spirit of a dwarf so foul the Stoneitself rejected him. One swing of its boulder-hand crushed the emissary, and then it turned its eyeless skull toward us. We fled back up the tunnel, its heavy footsteps thundering at our backs.

When we reached the thaig, we finally turned, knowing that out in the open, we had no cover and couldn't hope to outrun the wraith. But when it came to the exit, it struck the trusses holding up the ceiling of the shaft, closing itself in forever. Perhaps, in the end, it felt remorse. Perhaps it was one lost soul recognizing another.

—From the journals of Amrun, Legion of the Dead

@LadyNighteyes lore!

#r4dl00t

Spoiler: Codex - Valdasine

In the ancient days before the darkspawn, when dwarven cities wound through the roots of all the earth, House Valdasine single-handedly kept the empire supplied with lyrium.

One day the mining family shut the doors of their thaig. They spoke not to their noble patrons, nor their king, and not even a visiting Paragon. Days passed in silence before the doors to Valdasine Thaig opened. Anxious partners discovered it empty. Not one soul remained—no bodies and no sign of what had happened.

House Valdasine only left a staff of strange metal behind. It looked like lyrium and chilled one's heart like a remembered sorrow. The king sealed the staff inside the thaig, and no dwarf ever ventured there again.

—As recounted by Shaper Merta

Despite sounding like an acne medication, Valdasine.. is actually kind of creepy?





^Hawke


^Again, Hawke

...

(LAUGHS AWKWARDLY)

 

^Hawke yet again

^Varric

^Carver, swaying slightly.... uh?

>_?

 

And Anders is glowing even more than usual!

Also, I note that the variant Weird Spiky Statues outside the vault look a bit like dragons.

 

>we can stop for a bit

 

>We can stop for a bit.




(He falls.)



(He falls again, sideways.)







I should point out that the middle option has the diamond icon for charming, not the mask icon for humorous, so even if we pick purple!hawke we are probably not going to make fun of our dear brother.
>_?

 

> Why didn't you say something?