One Of The Many Forms Of Daemon Prince Isaac. Something More Human Looking To Use When He Doesn't Want

One of the many forms of daemon prince Isaac. Something more human looking to use when he doesn't want to be a screaming void with too many limbs or maybe none at all

My second Rook, Noelle. They are an antivan crow and a master impersonator. Yeah, I know antivans aren't white, they're actually orlesian. Their wig collection will give Lucanis a heart attack and I think that sums them up pretty well.

What are the girlies gossiping about?

Volas and Krethaq for Dilara and Talenthiel

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Replaying the game with heretic RT. I like how you become the bigger red flag in relationships with Marazhai and somehow manage to make a drukhari even worse.

How the Chantry (and Orlais) Turned Kirkwall into a Police State

One aspect of the Dragon Age series that I’ve always found odd is the way in which rather crucial political and historical context surrounding major conflicts the player must decide tends to be relegated to codices, outside materials (e.g., books), and optional dialogue with minor characters… meaning that many if not most players don’t seem to end up actually seeing it.  Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts (Dragon Age Inquisition) in particular has become somewhat notorious for what it left out, but it’s far from unusual.

With regard to Dragon Age II, there’s a popular perception among fans that the troubles in Kirkwall can be attributed almost entirely to rogue behavior on the part of Knight-Commander Meredith and various evil blood mages.  This is understandable given the overall narrative framing and Bioware’s aforementioned problem of making key context very easy to miss.  But once we take a look at the full picture, it ought to be clear that the Chantry did not simply “fail” in their responsibilities towards the mages or towards the citizens of Kirkwall more broadly — they actively created and maintained the very nightmare they later professed to be dismayed about.

Moreover, despite the running Mages vs. Templars theme, the mages were hardly the only one’s who suffered under Meredith’s rule. Indeed, Kirkwall endured a brutal 16-year-long dictatorship (9:21-9:37 Dragon) that came into being courtesy of the Chantry and the Orlesian empire and only fell due to the mage rebellion.

Here I’ll describe in detail (with sources and citations) the story of how the Chantry turned Kirkwall into a police state and one that ultimately descended into what the writers themselves termed “genocide.”  

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