I Know Apostates Just Openly Wander Around W Staves In Da2 Because Game Mechanics But You Have To Imagine

i know apostates just openly wander around w staves in da2 because game mechanics but you have to imagine that realistically within kirkwall they’d just have to do a ton of bare-handed casting and fuck up their hands immeasurably. like when you meet anders in awakening and he’s visibly shaking out his hands and wincing bc the templars didn’t give him a stave to defend himself and so he burned himself frying the darkspawn. staves are at least partly a safety measure. it wouldn’t be surprising if his hands are absolutely littered in burn scars in da2 or if bethy’s lost a finger to frostbite or merrill doesn’t quite have the feeling in them anymore after too much entropy

researching parrying daggers as a fun little treat and i'm delighted by how much every single one of these things looks like it's designed to be as annoying as possible

re-reading through awakening banter and dialogue and nate really just says whatever the fuck is on his mind at the moment

of course bonus:

Y'all might've found this already, but I figured why not share it here as well?

I just found this post in r/acecombat where user ALDO113A made a google doc transcript of all of Ace Combat Zero, and I figured this would be super handy to also share here :)

(Within the doc, there's also a link to a google drive folder containing transcripts for other ace combat games)

(And I also found a shortcut(?) to a folder titled "Lore entries and resources", and there's a pdf of the 2019 Aces At War inside that folder)

i pin "reaver metaphorically and possibly literally consuming flesh and blood to use their powers" and "grey wardens eating darkspawn as a means of survival far below in the deep roads" then sticking a pink post-it note saying "hot & sexy cannibalism" followed by a question mark that's crossed out between them

Dragon Age: Origins maps