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Chapter 4: First Meetings
Summary: Ezner Shepard is always ready for a fight. Is she ready to meet her match?
Shepard stretched from her seat. The alcohol had numbed some of her senses. She hadn’t stopped drinking even when she was talking to Elionel, who hadn’t stopped chastising her for it.
“You have to stop drinking.”
“Not ‘till I’m dead.”
“At the rate you're going, you may as well be.”
yeah i dont talk about modding much anymore, for two main reasons; one being that i worked insanely hard to get into college at the ripe old age of [redacted but older than 25] and i dont want to fuck this up now when im a hs drop out with a long history of mental illness & hospitalizations behind me and will probably never get another chance at this (so no, i cant take a break from school work just to do some light modding. and also never was just light modding to me), and the other being the fact that i cannot help resenting the ME fandom for reasons no one rly gives a fuck about anymore but it definitely does not motivate me to make mods for this game anymore outside of my own interests.
PUT A SHIRT ON!
picking up zevran right after alistair finally gets a good flirt line in is so brutal. poor boy
there’s this girl you like who’s kind of been flirting with you, and you stumble a little through that but you manage to keep your cool and be funny and ask her if she would hypothetically like to be courted properly by a gentleman, and overall it goes really really well. you’re doing great. you’re getting a good grade in talking to girl. the very next day some elf who just tried to kill her calls her a deadly sex goddess and straight up offers to warm her bed and fend off unwanted suitors etc and you’re like “she’s not listening to this rubbish. is she listening to this rubbish?” but then she does recruit him so you’re like well clearly she was listening to some of that rubbish so what does it mean. is this whole thing actually doing something for her that being a gentleman doesn’t?? you can’t compete with that! at this point being able to make her laugh is all you have going for you. and then the elf immediately makes her laugh. one shot kill. haunting. devastating
It's hard to compete with THAT smile 😏
The collection is complete!!! This series of portraits took so long 😭 but I am happy with how they turned out 🥲💕
These will all be available as prints when my shop launches on Friday! And, if you’re interested in a giveaway for the whole set, check out my instagram (same username!) where we’re celebrating 15k 🥰
These are all taken from the toolset (mostly under “cuss” in the soundsets, but also from various bits of dialogue), organized for your convenience.
These are Dragon Age: Origins ONLY. There are no files that are human-readable for DA:A, DA2, or any DLC or expansions.
Not English the King’s Tongue
Pretty normal
Elves
Invocations of Andraste
Andraste’s clothing
Andraste’s ass
The Maker
Paragons
Ancestors
Dwarf culture
The Blight
The Fade
Racial epithets
Pee and poop
Dogs
Food
Fereldan culture and history
Animals and insects
what is this i dont even
How much canon info is there about Highever? I haven't been able to find much apart from: It has an alienage, is by the coast and makes a signature kind of cloth (wool industry?). How big is the city? Is it near/around Castle Cousland? Does it have a harbour? How big is the alienage and what is it like?
(Alright, for you I’m going to make this into an official lore post, because this is actually small and specific).
Disclaimer: All of this is completely canonical knowledge. Nothing headcanoned, there are sources for it and I’ve gathered from every source that I could. This includes: Codice (Highever, Construction Report: Brickmarks, ), Dragon Age Origins Ultimate/Collector’s Edition Prima Guide, Dragon AGE Core Rulebook. Nothing is headcanon and nothing is taken from an unreliable sources (i.e. Wikipedia).
Location
Highever is a Teyrnir in northern Thedas, one of the few that set on the Coastlands. It sets on the coast of the Waking Sea, west of Amaranthine, across the sea from Kirkwall and the Vimmark Mountains, and North of The Bannorn.
In the very center of the Highever Teyrnir, is Harper’s Ford, this area used to belong to the Howes of Amaranthine. However, during the Orlesian Occupation, Tarleton Howe sided with the Orlesians, Harper’s Ford was marched upon by the Couslands and Howe hung.
Highever is the name of a village in the Teyrnir along the coast, as well as being the name of the Teyrnir (all lands, holdings, and bannorns within in area).
Castle Cousland is located in the Highever Teyrnir, the exact location is unknown.
Highever possesses an Alienage, though the location of it is unknown.
There was a Silver Temple in Highever where Andraste’s Ashes were first held, before being moved to a secret location. Whether the Temple still stands in unknown.
History
In -165 Ancient, Andraste’s “sons” (Maferath’s sons were adopted by Andraste, though many tried to claim to be her birth son in order to earn leadership of the Alamarri tribes) sought to steal Andraste’s ashes from Highever’s Silver Temple and strengthen their claim to Chief of the Alamarri. The ashes were moved to Haven, but the location was never revealed and eventually lost.
Castle Highever, eventually known as Castle Cousland, was built in the Divine Age and was considered no more than an outpost to the Amaranthine Bannorn. The oupost was held by the cousins of the Howes, the Elstans until the Tower Age.
In the Age of Towers, Bann Conobar Elstan was murdered by his wife, Flemeth, leaving no heir behind. Cononbar’s Captain, Sarim Cousland, stepped up and took the land instead.
The Couslands would declare themselves an independent Bannorn from Amaranthine and start a 30 year war, until Highever was freed and owned southwest Amaranthine as well.
It wasn’t until the Black Age that Highever would be named a Teynir under Haelia Cousland, who would unite the nearby lords against the werewolves and earn herself the title along with their fealty.
4:80 Black, Orlais tried to take Highever in hopes to conquer Ferelden, in the first Orlesian Invasion. They would use Highever to supply their troops by sea. However, Redcliffe stood strong against the Invasion and Orlesian was forced to retreat, unable to pass into Highever.
During the Exalted Age, Eletha Cousland would fight Ferelden’s future king, Calenhad, to remain independent. She would lose, but Highever would remain one of two Teynirs and Eletha would remain their teyrna.
However, in the Dragon Age, the Couslands would be betrayed and Castle Cousland would be stormed by Arl Howes forces, the Cousland family almost completely wiped out. The only to survive would Fergus Cousland, who would be lost in the Korcari Wilds until after the Fifth Blight ended.
(Conditional: The youngest Cousland would also survive the attack and go on to become a Grey Warden, swearing vengeance on Howe.)
Highever would be relinquished after Howe’s death by the Warden and returned to the Couslands.
Fergus Cousland is the current Teyrn of Highever.
Heraldry
Highever has two major Heraldry, The Cousland Heraldry (Left) and The Highever Heraldy (Right).
Known People from Highever
Facts
Updated: 05/2024
I find it delightful and fits into the feral and desperate need I have for Thedas to be experiencing mega fauna and flora. Important note, the only height that is canon is Bull's as it is mentioned in the lore books World of Thedas vol. 2. The rest are based off scaled models and dev words; the latter up to personal preference on how canon that is.
I've also updated these since the last post as wonderful people reached out and gave me their numbers as well as updating Dorian's height to what his character model height is based on Gaider's tweet.
Going from shortest to tallest we have this:
okay, this isn't quite what anon asked for, by which i mean not at all, but unfortunately they activated my interest in some of my favourite lore. it should hopefully contain a lot of the relevant stuff and i’ll try to branch out to less fereldan specific information in other posts!
okay, let’s start with the hierarchy. there’s four kinds of noble in ferelden
royalty: you know who these guys are. except for during the orlesian occupation, ever since ferelden became one kingdom, it’s been ruled by the theirin family. which i think is for 388 years, i really hope that’s right, i got out a calculator
teyrns: these are super powerful lords, basically banns so powerful that other banns swear fealty to them. they’re second only to the king, who is essentially just the most powerful one of them. there used to be a lot of them, but with one dynasty in power for so long, that kind of opposition has been eroded away. there are only two remaining: the couslands of highever in the north, and the mac tirs of gwaren in the south
arls: these are extra special banns. they answer to a teyrn or king and hold a strategic fortress for them. we know of six—amaranthine, south reach, denerim, redcliffe, west hills, and edgehall—but i’m unsure if that’s because they are only six or because there are unnamed others
banns: these are your common or garden noble, the lowest ranking and most common. this is your local lord type. they seem to vary the most in power, though, with some banns having big speaking roles in the landsmeet
but i kind of should have written that list in the opposite direction. what do i mean by that? well, in your standard medieval hierarchy, and in a lot of the rest of thedas, power comes down from the king, who lets you hold the land. but in ferelden, most of the land is owned by freeholders: commoners, well-off enough to own their land but still not by any means nobles.
how does that work? well, let’s say i’m a freeholder.
In this link there is definitely not a folder with every Dragon Age eBook, numbered in order of reading plus the two Encyclopedias about the world. Please do not use the link, there are not free books in there.
the ultimate GreedFall challenge : one companion Vasco
Two years?! I’m in!
why not
I’ll try it
Double your nana, double your yum
give me luck double banana
No fucking joke, I was offered 4 days of film-set marshalling and I told him I was unavailable for one of the days but I could cancel. And he told me he’d potentially found someone else.
I reblogged this.
And not 20 mins later, he came back to me and said if I really want it, let him know now. So fuck. Wow.
Please, please, please
I need something good to happen in my life so badly right now
Hi, hello GreedFall fandom!!!
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I adore how clean and detailed they all are! If you have twitter give them some love there (as the work is being shared on behalf of Lin 😊)
hey dragon age fandom, you know leliana isnt a lesbian right. shes not a lesbian. like shes a bisexual woman and not a lesbian. u know this, right.
No, she is romanceable by both men and women in Dragon Age: Origins. That's how we know she's bisexual.
greedfall scenery - new sérène
( thank you so much to @flaine1996 for helping me with the camera tools 🤗🤗 )
greedfall scenery - sérène
