Anyway, my takeaway from the Temple of Sacred Ashes and my World of Thedas and wiki research is that Andraste may be an Old God baby, just like Kieran.

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Songs in Dragon Age canon are so important; the lyrium sings, the Blight wails, Andraste's voice caught the ear of the Maker. We know about the Evanuris now, but there's still so much to question. It feels almost like a reference to something like the Ainulindale and the Silmarillion.

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It's just the amount of lore in the riddles. And also the fact that Dumat was slain in -203 Ancient - the same year the Chantry says Andraste was born. Could it have been Elgar'nan? Was he powerful enough to whisper across the Veil?

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Ok so yes I'm picking up this playthrough after a very long time but I'm just so lore brained right now...I know it feels almost canon/a really sound theory that Elgar'nan was the Maker Andraste spoke to/vice versa, but the riddle room in the Temple of Sacred Ashes has me wondering...

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Playing Origins with the lore drops from Veilguard in mind…I’m almost certain the mountain the Temple of Sacred Ashes was built into was a titan. Oghren saying the place is so full of lyrium he can smell it cannot be a coincidence.

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Guess who just noticed the eluvian in Soldier's Peak 👀

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I really do love Talvinder so much, she's special on a different level for me. My own character and also my comfort character.

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I have always loved the Lady of the Forest but this mod I installed for this playthrough finally makes her look like I have wanted her to lol

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Buckling back in for the evening and she looks so GOOD

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Alistair saying “I thought being a Grey Warden would make me happy, but it didn’t. This does.” In the Fade with Goldanna 😭

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Again I am having Thoughts about this since we learned about the Blight and the gods.

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This line is soooooo interesting after what we learned in Veilguard. Especially since Flemeth doesn't say anything about her own opinions, she's distancing herself from the story told by the Chantry about what Archdemons are.

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I just think they're neat 🩷

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Morrigan met and back to Ostagar we go.

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:3

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Every time Duncan and Talvinder are on screen together, I am thinking of this scene from my fic.

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I will die on the hill that Howe and Loghain had to have coordinated their efforts from the jump solely bc of Dad Cousland's line about the king. Howe acted when he did because he knew there would be chaos and there wouldn't be a king to petition for justice.

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I've played this soooo many times. But it always gets me.

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Back in the building again y'all (gonna use this as my playthrough thread so if you wanna mute that you can mute my ElfrootPlays tag)

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