@shoutydwarf / shoutydwarf.tumblr.com
Advertising mine and @vhenad4hl’s discord server again bc dragon age is so back
We’re small and cozy and welcoming round these parts. Dedicated places to share art, fic, & news ✨ plus a critical channel for bitching and channels for other games like ME, BG3 & TES. join or else
Dwarf Rook 🤝 Qunari Rook --- both being absolutely shafted in the narrative. I'll still hand it to dwarf Rook for winning the prize of most underutilized though, even though it pains me as a qunari fan. Dwarf Rook /did/ have so many opportunities for narrative importance/expansion that were simply not given to them. They ARE relevant to the main plot and story here. Qunari on the other hand... idk, I guess we just had another game of 'they're big bad brutes with no nuance' lol. Yay.
I feel you 🤝 qunari fans are my light in the darkness I feel like we’re one and the same of always getting the short ends of the stick lol. Like you said it’s just killing me because they actually, shockingly, DID set the dwarves up to be narratively important only to just… dash my hopes.
There was a lot of crumbs hinting at the next game taking place across the sea. Something about an adversary that led to the creation and ultimate migration of the qunari (kossith?). I hope yall get that game 🫡
it's genuinely very funny watching a certain corner of fandom descend into "mythal was an abuser responsible for all of solas's crimes" vs "mythal was the best of them and she was trying her best."
they are both absolute monsters who committed crimes against humanity we don't even have names for. they magic-lobotomized a whole people&culture for the crime of "not wanting to be killed and have their blood stolen." they did this after inventing the crime of magic-lobotomy in the first place. any time you attempt to call them on this in the modern era, they immediately lash out and become obstinately defensive if not actually violent. they remain extremely bigoted, self-centered, and incapable of accountability. if they were ever wise and benevolent it must be in the art book somewhere because it's not anywhere in the games.
"they're both so morally complex" okay rad show me a single action they took out of genuine compassion or concern for others that was 1) not intended primarily or solely to chauvinistically benefit elves/spirits 2) not a means to advance their own power and 3) not an attempt to salve their guilty conscience by fixing the outcomes of the very crimes they committed. and no, "I have imagined that her slave markings don't actually count as slave markings" wouldn't count even if it was true.
Probably the funniest (and saddest) thing about DAV is that... I feel no urge or desire to replay it. There is just no point.
I can't go back and make different choices. Cuz there is none
I can't go back and look how my decisions from the previous games might change the world state. Cuz they won't
I can't start a new "evil" playthrough, making the worst decision possible. Cuz there is no evil decisions to begin with
I can't go back and not recruit some of my companions. Cuz it's literally impossible!
The only changeable thing this game has is a fucking romance and even romance somehow sucks ass!
- juggernaut lore retcon for no reason. They were supposed to be golems.
- one singular line for a dwarf rook to confront the evanuris about what was done to the titans. That line is @ mythal, not solas, the one that created the dagger to commit the genocide with.
- white man casually commits genocide on said titans but the part he regrets about it is the blight that strikes back at him. not the inconceivable pain, death and horror he inflicted on an entire race to cause it.
- you cannot talk to him about it.
- dwarf!rook holds that dagger the entire game without once remarking on what it did to the dwarves.
- we went to kal sharok and still know nothing about it. All dwarf content is restricted to harding’s quests.
- you can establish that you believe in the maker or the elvhen stories, but not the stone. There is not a single line where a dwarf rook can express that they have dwarven faith.
- on the other singular time you can mention the titan genocide, it’s just one minor part of a list of reasons you still don’t trust him. To which weekes’ mouthpiece, morrigan in this case of all people, insists you should forgive him because he is very very sad about it.
- harding, the single dwarf mouthpiece, also insists on forgiving him and having compassion for him. This is AFTER I chose to have her honor the titans anger.
- this is all while every other villain in the game is 100% one dimensional and unforgivable.
- all dwarf dialogue options you get with harding are variations of “im not connected” “i dont know what you’re talking about” “i dont get it”
- not a single Ambassadoria mention.
- Orzammar is thrown away in a codex entry in which harding says they’re purposely suppressing the titan reveals in order to uphold the caste system. Because having corrupt society like every other nation in the world means they’re undeserving of the truth. Doesn’t matter that the king I and most people selected has been working to undo that system for 20 years now. It could have had to do with the fact that they’ve been selling their peoples blood to survive for the past thousands of years but yeah let’s strip away the nuance and paint Orzammar as the bad version of kal sharok.
- dwarves can apparently dream now except they can’t because rook tells harding they can’t except they’re contacting solas in their dreams every other night and it’s never elaborated on and they’re never particularly weirded out about it
- I counted 6~ special dialogue options in the entire game, the bulk of which happened in a single cutscene. I got more than that in act 1 alone for my elf.
I’ll write out more on why all of this specifically feels like shit later. But tldr: dwarves are pitted as the first victims of the evanuris, which you expect to be a big deal, and then it is Not. Combining this with an utter lack of ability to clock weekes’ mouthpiece characters when they’re trying to convince me to forgive the man that committed genocide on my people, because he’s so very very sad about it you see, the game’s entire thematic message is dogshit
oghrenspawn in end game can u tell the horrors have got to her
guess who her dad is
chat is dis accurate
also this is a big rambly vent. You can argue with ya mama if you disagree cuz I’m not hearing from any solas apologist ever again
Eh I'm bored so lets stir the pot a bit.
Habits (Stay High) feat. Mika Thorne p3 with an appearance from @shoutydwarf 's Fiona Aeducan.
please can we do inbox trick-or-treating this year. can we make that a thing on tumblr. please please please please please
literally all it entails is sending people "trick-or-treat" asks and people answering those asks with pictures of candy or those silly spooky plastic toys or whatever else you would give a trick-or-treater. please. please can we have some whimsy
Don’t forget trick or treating this year everyone!
"this shows how little they care about their long time fans"
lowest stakes website for people to be mad at you on bc nobody can drive or make phone calls or come up with insults that dont read like slam poetry from a presbyterian
I love the Mourn Watch background so much
