Periodically, it hits me like a ton of bricks that this scene exists:

With the windows framed as their wings, the hand fluttering to the back, the most emotionally devastating kiss ever to be filmed...

I am still not well.

@honey-sunsets YOU ARE SO RIGHT

ofmd officially over everyone :((((((

ofmd officially over everyone :((((((

My brother sent this to me. I want to strangle him.

For someone who claims to love books I spend a heck of a lot of time not reading them

*points 2 my heart* when will the xkit guy fix….this….

Fenris will one day die of lyrium poisoning. His marking will just get to be too much for his body.

There seem to be a lot of people in the notes to this post saying that they don’t think this is possible, but for your angst-inducing consideration, have some theories that are semi-backed up by canon!

As is stated in various codexes and writer interviews, Fenris was a test case, the first man to be experimented on with lyrium, and long-term effects could not have been predicted. However, the lyrium has been stated to be slowly poisoning him (the following article is fan speculation, but some interesting canon facts here), and without constant ‘maintenance’ (David Gaider has specifically used this word a number of times (one here), though hasn’t elaborated on what it might mean - he has also stated that Danarius was the one ‘maintaining’ it up until Fenris’s escape) it will eventually drive him insane.

The poisoning has already started to show symptoms by the events of DA2 - the brands cause active discomfort (Bethany: Does it hurt? Fenris: You do not want to know the answer to that.) and have begun to discolour it (see links above). Further down the line, symptoms will likely include a sensitivity to light, insomnia, shaking, memory impairment, loss of appetite, emotional spikes and kidney dysfunction, leading eventually to insanity and an early death. These symptoms, including the skin discolouration, are based on the effects of mercury poisoning, which David Gaider has compared lyrium to in the past. There are obviously some large differences in the lyrium/mercury comparison – with direct mercury poisoning, effects generally start to show within hours and death within days; even with small-scale poisoning, symptoms develop within a few weeks and death can come within a year: for example in the case of Karen Wetterhahn, who was exposed to only a few drops of mercury and died in under twelve months. Considering that Fenris (by the end of DA2) has survived around a decade without ‘maintenance’, and the number of lyrium-addicted Templars prevalent in Thedas, it’s possible to presume that lyrium poisoning must be more drawn out, but there’s no substantial evidence to place a real time limit on it (in Asunder, chapter 14, it’s stated that symptoms from withdrawal begin to show within 1-2 months, but this is withdrawal and not general lyrium poisoning).

Edit: I’ve just recalled two Templar guards in Denerim that guard the Chantry doors – one is pretty much incoherent from lyrium exposure and talking to them unlocks the Templar codex. I can’t find their dialogue online anywhere, but if anyone’s playing and could try and guess at the rambling Templar’s age, that might be a possible indicator?

Beyond the poisoning, it is possible to presume that the lyrium must also make Fenris highly sensitive to mana and, by association, being in close proximity to mages. This would give another dimension to his dislike for being around mages, and his aversion to magical healing. Since lyrium is a conduit to natural magic (and the Fade besides), spells must affect him more deeply than they do others; this applies to healing magic just as it does to destructive magic, as the magnifying effect of the lyrium may make it an unpleasant sensation.

It could also be assumed that Fenris may be susceptible to the magebane poison. He has been exposed to lyrium for so long that he would be dependent on it in the same way that many Templars are, and so the sapping effects of magebane on the lyrium would likely leave him suffering withdrawal; alternately, it could be presumed that he’s become so accustomed to ‘walking with one foot in the fade’ that, with the lyrium’s energy temporarily removed from his body, he would be both weakened and disorientated by it in the same way that a mage would.

The lyrium could, in theory, be removed from his body. However, the process would require huge amounts of healing and would leave great scars in its wake, and my thinking is that Fenris would likely be left with lyrium addiction from the constant exposure, and would then become reliant on it in the same way that templars are.

Only adding something about the Denerim templars since I screenshoted that dialogue fairly recently, and it was requested:

Dialogue (templar 1 is on the left; 2 is on the right) Warden: What’s wrong with your friend? Tem 1: He should have retired to Val Royeaux years ago, but he wanted to stay and serve the remainder of his days in his homeland. It’s the lyrium that does this. Warden: Lyrium did this to him? Why doesn’t he stop taking it? Tem 1: He wouldn’t be a templar anymore. Tem 2: “Blessed are they who stand before the corrupt and the wicked and do not falter.” Tem 1: He doesn’t forget who he is, even if he can’t remember anything else.

Agatha Christie’s poem from And Then There Were None adapted for Dragon Age II.

I’m excited to see where we’re gonna pick up the next season, with what happens in the finale. I don’t wanna give to much away but it’s a, you know, it was a bit of an eye-opener. 

i’m not saying demon eyes but DEMON EYES

"For some reason, you’re much more likable here in Storybrooke;