Sera’s journal + romance in Trespasser (Inquisition)

I’ve never seen this, and it is amazing! <3 Sera

So in Trespasser you find these “Torn Notebook in the Deep Roads” Codex entries made by an elf who is with the Qunari. 

In the First Torn Notebook Page, the elf notices that the statues of Fen’Harel in the Deep Roads aren’t ones where he is being honored, but ones depicting that he is an attendant to Mythal, one who guarded her. (There is much more evidence of him being her attendant.)

In the Second Torn Notebook Page, the elf wonders about why the elves were in the Deep Roads, and what they were mining for. (We know they were mining for “lyrium, and something else.” and that it gave them great power.)

The Third Torn Notebook page is the most interesting one to me. The elf was trying desperately to remember (and translate) an old bedtime song about Mythal that they remember from their childhood. 

I think the elf translates a key line of the song wrong. 

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@corseque, your analysis is, as always, priceless.

On The Shape Of Thedas

Or, Falling Into The Sky: Why The Dwarves Aren’t So Wrong After All

“You can’t go outside! You’ll fall into the sky!” Orzammar dwarves cry, in defiance of countless surface dwarves, Grey Wardens, and other surfacers repeatedly telling them that they won’t. And, indeed, in defiance of the fact that they themselves aren’t all glued to Orzammar’s ceiling. Falling up just happens out there, okay? Gravity doesn’t work right with all that sky messing things up.

As superstitions go, it’s an understandable one. Leaving Is Bad, for reasons that I doubt even the Shapers fully understand any more (maybe you shouldn’t have wiped the Titans from the Memories, guys). But there must be a reason, and what does the surface have that Orzammar doesn’t? Sky! So clearly the sky is dangerous. Perfectly logical. You know, I heard lightning comes from it sometimes. And the Fade is in the sky! The Fade has demons. Demons are in the sky. They’re probably the ones throwing lightning down at surfacers! Wow, that sky thing sounds terrible, I’m so glad we don’t have it down here!

Yeah, uh. That was before The Descent and Trespasser came out. Putting together the information we have now, I think there might be a more solid foundation to that superstition than we thought. And as with anything Trespasser, it all comes down to the nature of the Veil.

Sorry, dwarf fans, but this means that once again, we have to start with the elves.

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Sera and Dagna!!!

DA fic: Hunting

Post-Trespasser fic. Spoilers for DAI and Trespasser.

Summary: The Inquisitor may not be willing to take certain steps. Surana is.

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Re-playing through Trespasser yesterday, a thought crossed my mind while I was in the 'chase down Solas’ part. “What if the mark killed the Inquisitor right before they made it to Solas?”

And this happened. I’m so sorry.

fen’harel’s old spice omg

“Hello, Lavellans.

Look at your elves, now back to me.

Now back at your elves, now back to me.

Sadly, they are not me.

But if they stopped believing in old Dalish fairy tales and started listening to the truth they could sound like they’re me.

Now look down, now back up.  Where are we?

You’re in the Fade with the elf your elves could sound like.

What’s on your hand? Now back to me.  I have it.  It’s your hand bearing a mark that can warp the Veil.  Look again.  Your hand is now… gone.  As am I.

I’m on a Hart.”

^^^^^ oh my goD

Okay, so, I stepped into the Iron Bull tag, which given my current introspective mood (I’ve been drafting parts of Prodigal and it always leaves me thinking about Bull’s nature when I do that) was probably a mistake.

Because now I’m gonna write what I’ve been trying to put into words since the Bull tag started exploding.

Obs. beyond this point are spoilers for Trespasser. I realise my blog hasn’t been spoiler-free at all these past few days (I’m excited dammmit!) But I’ve been trying to tag and warn everything, and keep it solely to the text post. That said, if you do not want to be spoilt, do not read this post.

Okay, here we go.

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DA:I ficlets: Worse and Better

Trespasser fics!

I wrote the first of these while I was playing, before I got to the last segment where things get a lot worse. The second I wrote after finishing.

1. Worse

Her hand’s been getting worse.

Nobody says anything, but Branwen thinks they all know it. She wears gloves all the time now, has for over a year, ever since the sickly green glow became visible all the time, darkening the veins in her skin, pulling the skin itself taut.

It hurts, too. It hurts so constantly that she forgets about the pervasive ache until someone asks about it, or it recedes for a moment. Sometimes it gets worse, and feels like the bones in her hand are coming apart. She wasn’t raised to complain. Her mother used to jolly her out of her childhood sulks and remind her that there’s always someone somewhere carrying a heavier load.

There have been poultices and salves and spells and foul-tasting potions, but none of the remedies anyone has devised have worked.

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How Trespasser should have ended

saintlavellan:

SO HERE’S THAT OPTION I MENTIONED that, I should reiterate, I’m fairly certain I DID NOT HAVE on previous playthroughs, so it must come from having a pretty low approval rating with Solas

I’m sorry I’m unable to put this under a cut, but hopefully tagging it like crazy will keep it off the spoiler lists.

HOWEVER if you have finished the endgame, then you must watch this. It’s what you get if you never finished one of Solas’s investigate hubs (asked him questions), and it is the most hilarious thing I have ever seen.

SOLAS OUT