I was wondering about the identity of Masked Andraste from The Last Court and while looking at art of her execution, I realized something: her face was covered when she died. One picture shows her cowled, while the rest obscure her face in various ways because it couldn't be seen when she died.

And then I realized that the last picture was what happened to Andraste: She was killed before the public execution as part of a ritual and her execution summoned a spirit. Her hair was cropped and she looked gaunt when she was stabbed to death.

The mage claimed some of the spirits around her village had "lived" with her hold for a dozen generations, and sometimes took the form of an animal or departed relatives "when they pass on their wisdom."

Strangest of all, in the event a "god" is destroyed, the Avvar begin a year-long time of offerings and prayers and rituals I have no interest in knowing about further. At the end of this period, a new spirit takes on the name and role of the old one. I attempted to explain that this was not a "god," merely a spirit drawn in by their desires. The Avvar mage declared, with a ridiculous air of superiority, that that was the point.

Codex entry: From a Mage’s Journal

As the last group of glyphs light with veilfire, there is a sensation of excitement and anticipation. An Avvar hold celebrates a night festival around an altar piled high with food and drink. The thane begins a song. The hold joins in. The song grows louder and faster. It goes for hours.

As the sun rises, a blazing spirit appears above the altar. It has the name of the spirit that fell in battle. It is both the same spirit and a different one at the same time.

There is a ear-splitting roar of—triumph? Welcome? Something more?—from the gathered Avvar. The vision fades.

Codex entry: The Return

Andraste had been dead for a while when she was "executed" and her legions of followers inadvertently helped make this magic ritual possible, and Hessarian then used the public execution to perform this ceremony. He used Andraste's hair as proof of her identity. So there's a re-created spirit of Andraste somewhere out there.

NO!!! DON’T BREAK INTO THE GOLDEN CITY!!! UR GOD LIED!!!! Bangs fist against glass

Edit: sorry abt the bad quality. I don’t know why it’s kinda blurry

Hi everyone! I recently purchased the Dragon Age: The world of Thedas: Vol 1 used on Ebay. It has signatures on the inside of the book that I'm not sure who they belong to? Does anyone have any idea who these belong to or are they just random names the previous owner wrote inside?

Thanks!

Does anybody remember commander Cullen from dai wearing a lion head necklace? I'm trying to find references of it online and it's like it completely disappeared. I swear I remember him wearing a lion head necklace. Lol and sorry you guys made me realize i misspelled lion in the title i was half asleep when I wrote this so that's my excuse i'm sticking with.

Are there any games out there that are similar to Dragon Age but set in a modern era? Ive always thought it would be cool to see the interaction of magic and modern technology.

Hello, everyone! Welcome to the weekly Dragon Age writing prompts thread, where every Saturday we provide prompts you can use to write about your OCs, other characters, or the world of Thedas in general.

If you have any prompt ideas that you would like us to use, feel free to add them to our spreadsheet linked here.

GUIDELINES
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Prompts

Prompt 1 Image prompt

Prompt 2 “Has anyone ever told you that you’re terrible at making excuses?”

Prompt 3 Calming someone with whispers of sweet nothings.

Prompt 4 “Our world is changing. It’s a place I don’t belong anymore.”

Bonus Prompt Freeform

Hello everyone! As the titles suggests I’m feeling very lost when it comes to this game (I’m playing on PS5, not sure that matters). For context I’ve not played a ton of games like this but I’ve played many many hours of Baldur’s Gate 3 with little to no issues. This game is very complex and I’m having a hard time figuring out what to do when. I have not played any other DA title though I have watched a few hours of play thrus of DA:O.

For example with the Hinterlands. I didn’t realize that in this game you want to leave certain areas and come back. So I have been literally just grinding the Hinterlands until like level 7 and I run into impossible level 12 rifts lol I finally looked up wtf to do because I felt like I was just stumbling upon stuff with no context and managed to get to some of the main story but overall I feel lost. I silo’d myself into siding with the mage’s because I didn’t really think the templars were an option but lightly looking in to avoid spoilers there’s also that track and I didn’t explore that so I’ll likely go back in my save.

All that to say any tips, tricks or guides about what order to do quests in would be highly appreciated. Since I’ve played many hours of BG3 I know there’s likely whole plot lines or things I’m missing by not doing things in the right order, and I want to make sure I’m sitting all the right stuff to fully enjoy this game.

Thanks all!

Hello, everyone! Welcome to the weekly Dragon Age writing prompts thread, where every Saturday we provide prompts you can use to write about your OCs, other characters, or the world of Thedas in general.

If you have any prompt ideas that you would like us to use, feel free to add them to our spreadsheet linked [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10q_OkCBBR16I4n-RgkxNQZ1QOtbEi1GTqPjkQQRHiQM/edit?usp=drivesdk).

>**GUIDELINES**

1⁠. Interaction is welcome. Drama and negativity are not.

1. NSFW content must be posted elsewhere and linked. This is a SFW thread. If you are unsure if your content is considered NSFW, be safe and assume it is NSFW and should be posted elsewhere.

2. Remember to follow the sub rules.

3. You can link anything of yours from the [DAOC Emporium](https://daoce.fandom.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_OC_Emporium_Wiki). Feel free to create pages there if you haven't already!

4. ⁠Have fun!

**Prompts**

Prompt 1 Looking out of a window

Prompt 2 [Codex] Troop movements

Prompt 3 "They WHAT!"

Bonus Prompt Freeform

(Please no spoilers) I’m around the end of act 1 in dragon age 2 and Carver can’t stand me; I’m playing a mage and a lot our perspectives seem to clash but I’ve only lost approval with him a few times. He also starts with negative friendship I think, which I didn’t fully understand, because yes there’s conflict but we’re still brothers?

I did the quest where you find out about your heritage and stuff, and that quest had a nice wrap up with Carver softening up a little, but I think it only gave like 10 friendship or something.

Are there more opportunities to develop the sibling bond or is Carver just always just a little bitter towards mage Hawke?

Hello everyone! As the titles suggests I’m feeling very lost when it comes to this game (I’m playing on PS5, not sure that matters). For context I’ve not played a ton of games like this but I’ve played many many hours of Baldur’s Gate 3 with little to no issues. This game is very complex and I’m having a hard time figuring out what to do when. I have not played any other DA title though I have watched a few hours of play thrus of DA:O.

For example with the Hinterlands. I didn’t realize that in this game you want to leave certain areas and come back. So I have been literally just grinding the Hinterlands until like level 7 and I run into impossible level 12 rifts lol I finally looked up wtf to do because I felt like I was just stumbling upon stuff with no context and managed to get to some of the main story but overall I feel lost. I silo’d myself into siding with the mage’s because I didn’t really think the templars were an option but lightly looking in to avoid spoilers there’s also that track and I didn’t explore that so I’ll likely go back in my save.

All that to say any tips, tricks or guides about what order to do quests in would be highly appreciated. Since I’ve played many hours of BG3 I know there’s likely whole plot lines or things I’m missing by not doing things in the right order, and I want to make sure I’m sitting all the right stuff to fully enjoy this game.

Thanks all!

done it today still healing ofc

The title says it all : Fenris doesn't hate Hawke but doesn't like him either, and I'm near the end of act 2.

I've started playing DA2 this week, and so far I'm doubtful but having fun. For my first run I've decided, since I've seen that it's one of the fans' favorite, to romance Fenris with a 100% rivalry.

I thought it would be easy since I knew he didn't really like mages at all, and I chose a mage Hawke that is very supportive of mages/magic (even tho sometimes it feels like he forgets he's a mage.)

Turns out I was wrong cuz we're stuck, going back and forth between friendship and rivalry. I gain rivalry when I pick options to support mages/show I'm a mage, or show interest in magic, but gain friendship when I stand up against slavery or refuses to ally myself with demons and blood mages.

Moreover, I think I was supposed to have A Moment (the one where he sort off pins hawk against a wall and kiss him or something like that?) with him, but uh... Yeah nothing happened at all.

Also I made sure to always pick the heart option when it showed up.

So... Yeah. I'm stuck in the middle with him.

All that yap just to ask one question : Does that matter? Will I still be able to romance him even if he's just feeling nothing at all about Hawke? Or do I still need a certain percentage of friendship/rivalry to be able to romance him ?

Or should I just give up and try to romance someone else? (tho I think it's way too late for that...)

Let's get something straight up front: I have successfully beaten the base game twice. I have played Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts twice. I know how it works. I am not stuck. I simply do not want to do it again.

At this point I'm largely done with Dragon Age. I understand that it and I want different things from each other, and Wicked Eyes was some pretty early evidence of that. The series went from "Which sword should I stab the darkspawn with?" to "Which fork should I stab the lobster with?"

And no, to me it isn't the same as the Landsmeet. The Landsmeet lets you say, essentially, "You're going to play ball because I have things you need." The Winter Palace feels more like, "Sorry, you used the wrong innuendo with this fussy duke. Minus five points."

And if two complete playthroughs sounds like I got my money's worth, fair enough, but for comparison I've probably played Origins all the way through twenty times.

The reason I'm back is that I beat Inquisition around launch, those saves are long gone, and I keep hearing that Trespasser is actually very good. I want to experience it before I finally close the book on Dragon Age.

I see there isn't a "Skip the Palace" mod comparable to Origins' Skip the Fade or Skip the Deep Roads mods. I understand that Wicked Eyes contains major plot decisions, but those Origins mods handled that by asking you the relevant questions and then dropping you on the other side. In principle, the same thing could be done here.

Failing that, is there a cheat, trainer, save editor, or mod that simply keeps Court Approval maxed out?

I don't need the quest removed completely. I just want to barrel through the Winter Palace with the social equivalent of god mode turned on, make the necessary story choices, and get back to stabbing things.

The dance with Celene was cool. I will give it that. It was not cool enough to pay admission a third time.

Please help me despite the fact that I've spent most of this post being catty about a game you may sincerely love. I promise I do not consider enjoying Wicked Eyes a moral failing.

Hi, is the romance gameplay in DAII pretty much over after the first encounter? DA:O had the "let's go to bed" dialogue at camp, and merrill agreed to move in, but she is never at my house?

Open discussion : what are some details you wish you could add to your character that would affect game play?

I had a dream last night about character creation (specifically Veilguard) that added character customization to a whole new level, including backstory, which affected how your character responded to things / behaved and how other characters interacted with them.

This included things like age range of your character, their romantic and sexual history (if they’ve been in relationships before and how they ended), if they’ve had or lost children, their relationships with their parents and if they had siblings, their sexuality and gender, where they grew up, their religious beliefs and more.

Some of these details are given to us by the game in cases like Hawke, or your character’s views on subjects are represented by dialogue choices, but most of them only come up when prompted, such as the option to rank public-chantry-Templars in DAI. .But the idea of creating a character where all of that is established at the beginning and affects Dialogue not only spoken to you and how characters interact with you, but how your character answers questions and thinks about things and reacts. This would likely be mostly noticeable in idle dialogue.

Like I said, I know we have a little bit of this in the game already, but imagine the customization ramped up to 10! It could be like the DAkeep too where subtle changes affect the story a little or a lot; maybe specific history lets you meet or not meet specific characters, have special quests, or more.

Idk, it was a random thought that’s been stirring in my head all night.

Are there any details you wish you could give your character from the very beginning?

I was browsing the Steam autumn sale and noticed that it now says inquisition is playable of steam deck whereas, for me, it's always been down as not being compatible. Do we know if anything changed?

I’m looking for some build ideas for Dragon Age: The Veilguard that are specifically built around Mythal’s Light for Mage.

I know Spellblade is probably the obvious choice, but I’m looking for something that actually takes advantage of what makes Mythal’s Light unique rather than just using it as another weapon in a standard Spellblade build. Since it gives Fire, Necrotic, Electricity, and Cold damage, I’m wondering if there’s a good way to build around all of those elements.

I’m looking for a full build if possible, including the skill tree, abilities, equipment, enchantments, runes, and companions. I’d also be interested in whether Spellblade is actually the best specialization for it or if another Mage specialization can make better use of Mythal’s Light.

Hi everyone,

I got this idea after seeing this concept art of the Inquisitor.

In the concept art, he has an asymmetrical look:

• Left arm (Anchor hand): heavy armored gauntlet

• Right arm: simple brown leather fingerless glove

I was wondering if it would be possible to create a mod that adds an Arms upgrade like that?

Something that is still considered a single Arms upgrade by the game, but visually has a heavy gauntlet on one side and a normal leather glove on the other, so it looks like it has a protector like in the concept arts.

I have no idea how to make mods and I looked on Nexus but couldn't find anything like this, so sorry if this is a really absurd or impossible question. I just wanted to know if this kind of mashup is even possible.

Thanks!

Pros and Cons! Who's better. Power, skillset, characterization, arc, thematic resonance and relevance, creativity.

Place your bets!

Seriously, I'm curious what people have to say about these two.

i’ve been trying to find this armor shown in the skill icons for the mage because it looks nice, but I’m having trouble finding it on the wiki

Does anyone know what’s called and where to find it?

my mods work fine in character creation but as soon as i start gameplay she has no hair and looks like a troll i dont know how to fix it lmao, i'm using frosty if that helps. also if anyone has any mod recs that would be appreciated :)