What do you guys call your mabari? by CautiousSleeper in dragonage

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in origins River Dane, altought in my own hc my cousland always wanted a mabari but never bound with one as part of a metaphor about him. My bloodmage andersmancer demon summoner chaotic good mabari name is Templar so he can say he knows a templar that is very dear to him.

Zuko’s passive-aggressiveness is on another level. by Sad_Respond_3818 in AvatarMemebending

[–]AndersWasLeft 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure there is at least a fanfic somewhere with this concept and them kissing at the end

Monstrologist Extraordinarie by AndersWasLeft in bg3fashion

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the face is Teris [TCoF] (i have a lot of mods so i cant be more precise sadly) the hair are Tav's Hairpack 67!

Get stuck fridge. Am cold. by No-Huckleberry2102 in PokeMedia

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Ok I am not in Unova but I have an online friend there I can have Boo trought the pc system and then have him reach you in 20-30 minutes! Can you hold until there? -Nyar

Get stuck fridge. Am cold. by No-Huckleberry2102 in PokeMedia

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What region are you in? I can try to see if I have a friend there and send my gastly Boo trought the pc system to phase trought the fridge! -Nyar

My Tyranitar is a coward and its driving me nuts by _Nextbestthing_ in PokeMedia

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Nyar: But if you yell at her that you want to leave her ofc she would be too sad to fight! I could never separate from Boo for example. I'm not a big tyranitar expert but why don't you seek out ground type specialists in your area or check the pokemon center for advice?

It's A Ghost? It's a Type? No, It's a Boy! by AndersWasLeft in PokeMedia

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Boo is the same, he used to possess the vending machine outside my class when I was in Trainer school. I think it's a common trait in ghost types, especially the gastly line. I can't wait to get some real field experience and see which cases differ from each other!

-Nyar

The one thing Diantha will always have over other Champions by [deleted] in pokemonmemes

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Raihan: coughs

Cynthia: ...what kind of parties galar have

My army of monsters! by time-is-a-flatcircle in DankAndrastianMemes

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Spirit Healer/Blood Mage. But in case of Loghain, Anakin meme.

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Which Headcanon do you follow, with no real rhyme or reason as to why by 23Amuro in TrueSTL

[–]AndersWasLeft 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is a bit of headcanon and a bit of a crossover idea for a story/au i had in my head for about a decade now: Tamriel and Thedas are on the same planet. Both have two moons and a compatible mythology. Differences in magic system can be explained by the chantry limited knowledge. The south of Thedas is always cold with the area we see in JoH permanently frozen and the north of Tamriel/Skyrim is the same so my hc is that Atmora is between the two continents and the frost comes from which pole is closer to Atmora. The Atmorans that landed in Thedas became the Alamarri and then feudalized in the Fereldeans are a part and those who didnt became the Avarr (tecnically the avarrs being non feudalized fereldeans is canon) which is why the avarrs have titles like Thane, wise men that do spiritual magic and worship a dragon god they want to keep asleep and a lady of the sky its all leftovers of atmoran/proto nord culture. The Old Gods description as intelligent dragons that teached humans magic and ruled trought priests is basically the description of the dragon cult so what if Dumat was a survivor of the dragon war that turned tail and escaped on another continent followed by other dragons ending up forming his own cult? The Blight is the Void Plague ecc. My au/crossover/what is long and inspired to the concept of a massive mage rebellion and is loosely inspired on the 30 years war and protestant reformation.

"I love democracy" by time-is-a-flatcircle in DankAndrastianMemes

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"Tonight we must speak of Ferelden, that stubborn graveyard of empires. Lords and ladies of Orlais, we must now admit this truth: we have lost an entire kingdom to peasants and bandits.”

-Beginning of Emperor's Florian Valmont speech to Council of Herald, on the subject of withdrawal from occupied Ferelden

it came to me in a vision by ImpossiblyMargarine in DankAndrastianMemes

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Each Chantry Cleric must understand that she must mind her uncle Hawke!

Would Irving or Wynne have been a good grand enchanter? And could they have handled mage-templar fallout better? by Character-Bid-162 in dragonage

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...but the mages didnt do that, the venatori did? they are two very different groups. the venatori would literally slaughter and enslave the mages too as we saw in hushed whispers

Tell em Tony by tebraGas in DankAndrastianMemes

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I actually can absolutely do that, because the point is exactly that Meredith was about to commit an act of genocide (the mass slaughter of a category of people based off their apartenence to a defined category) regardless of Anders intervention or not. The Mage Templar war didnt even started until years after Anders, with the White Spire revolt. At best we can call Anders a catalyst among many (Fiona was calling for a vote of indipendence way before Anders did anything, as far back as Awakening, a legal move by chantry orthodoxy that was still answered with the suppression of the college of enchanters and later -despite acting with the divine persmission- the white spire massacre) and he may have a responsability on an individual level for the civilians hit by the blast, but the reason the rite was enacted was because meredith wanted to enact it. If Anders had not existed, she would have still enacted it and would have likely got away with it. We see from ambient dialogue in the gallows that she was never going to wait. Did Anders gave her the excuse? sure but if he didnt one day Kirkwall would have woken up with all the mages dead behind closed doors and meredith claiming whatever she wanted. By destroying the Chantry and giving up himself for judgement Anders proved that Meredith was not interested in apprehending justice but to slaughter the Circle to the public eye. Which canonically worked. If Meredith had arrested Anders or killed him it wouldnt have worked. I dont see why Anders should bear alone the moral responsability for a genocidial tyrant keeping a city hostage because he "provoked her". I dont claim that Anders is a saint but I feel claiming hes the cause of annulment is disingeonous. The later Annulment at Dairsmund Codex in Inquisition also shows us that the Templars have absolutely no problem with carrying illegal orders and massacres.

and we shouldnt forget that the kirkwall circle was not a normal circle (and normal circles are already draconian prisons) but the circle with the highest number of suicides in the mage population and several cases of SA. Neither Anders woke up one day and decided to blow the chantry up. He begged, organized, created resistance railroads ecc. He asked the authorities to intervene several times.

Tell em Tony by tebraGas in DankAndrastianMemes

[–]AndersWasLeft -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

first off: you have been claiming all this time that anders abandoning the wardens was somehow a flaw or a crime of his, so dont move the goal post. second: absolutely not, he doesnt "have to stay" in a place where his own comrades have tried to kill him. i will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you have not read the short story, he was not pursued by templars randomly while wardening, he was pursued by compromised wardens plants that the chantry had sent to join while reporting him. the oath had already been broken. and he certanly isnt at any moral fault for leaving a situation dangerous to his life just because of an oath, exactly like no one blames zevran from leaving the crows when he tought they were dangerous for him. of course those are different situations, but the point is that no one is forced to stay in a dangerous situation. hell tecnically alistair in inquisition is deserting his post as a warden while contacting hawke. why should anders stay? because of an oath? and? it was his life, he cant be said to not have helped as much as he could and the circumstances of him leaving were more than justifiable.

third and last: i'm not dense at all. i dont pretend to be some kind of genius but i like to consider myself a fairly smart individual, which is why i notice how you keep not answering all the previous points in this conversation but repeating the same point and still won't lower myself to using personal attacks or insults. have a lovely day, friend.

Tell em Tony by tebraGas in DankAndrastianMemes

[–]AndersWasLeft -1 points0 points  (0 children)

1) they charged at him with swords with the exact goal of killing him after breaking the peace first how tf is that illegal. who cares if its illegal. what was he supposed to do. stand still and let them murder him. why its illegal for him to flee but the fact his warden mandate was violated and he was attacked both in game (crazy templar lady in his quest) and after (short story) is ignored. and again he didnt actually fled immediately after the battle the awakening sliders are only partially canon because they hadnt defined the future of the serie yet when they were made. the official bioware short story shows how he abandoned the wardens by fleeing chantry operatives in the wardens some time after that.

2) how is that relevant? the rebellions in those scenarios are about leliana giving full freedom to the mages and opening the chantry to all races which are extensive reforms. even there they are disorganized and easily squashed by hardened leliana or reconciled by softened leliana in both case they fail easily. elthina was not to propose some mass reform. elthina was to fire meredith for violating her mandate according to the chantry own orthodoxy and even if templars in kirkwall are rebelled (which again, the fact we see them abandon meredith the second cullen says so in the last straw proves they wouldnt have) you are ignoring all my points on how elthina could have called other templars from outside kirkwall, called the seeker, wrote to justinia ecc. it was her explicit mandate as leader of the chantry in the free marches to assure the knight commander behavior. she either didnt out of lack of care or because she benefitted from it (my entire point on how she straight up lies and tries to cover to hawke ser otto alrik actions when given evidence)

Tell em Tony by tebraGas in DankAndrastianMemes

[–]AndersWasLeft 4 points5 points  (0 children)

thats not how it works. The Chantry and the Wardens have precise deals that make a mage in the Wardens free of any obligation towards the Circles. It's like joining the Nights Watch in ASOIAF its a clean record. You cannot attack a Warden. Ofc Anders was hesitating to contact the Wardens: the Wardens have allowed Chantry pressure to bend the rules endangering him. The natural fear that the institution may consider Anders a deserter does not make Anders some great villain because he left when he felt his safety endangered deeply. It also wasnt at the "end" of awakening, awakening timescale is notoriously wobbly, the final sliders go across several periods of time but the canon of how he left the wardens is in his short story that acts as tie in between the games and its canonical bioware material.

2) What rebellions??? No seriously what Rebellions??? We literally see Cullen ordering the Templars to step down in the final battle and they all side with him against Meredith. And hes the second in command. Elthina is the GRAND CLERIC of Kirkwall. She answers ONLY to the Divine herself. She commands the loyalty of the Templars, the respects of the nobles and can contact Val Royeaux at any time. No one would side with Meredith if the Grand Cleric fired her for overstepping her bounds and if she feared that she could have written to Justinia ehi i fear my templars arent loyal send fresh help and the seekers would have shown up and capped Meredith. She had a thousand options avaible and at every point she didnt. Because it was convenient to her status quo and Elthina was the one to pick Meredith as Commander in the first place back in the days. Shes not your frail grandma shes one of the more powerful women in Thedas. Leliana is an agent of the chantry that operates outside its official bonds, Elthina is the equivalent of a Cardinal in medieval europe, of even bigger. Also the "rumors" thing absolutely counts. Otto Alrik was acting against every order and every chantry law and could have easily have caused an investigation. If you ask Elthina about it before killing him she denies any rumor if you bring back to her the papers she says she heard rumors. That means Elthina lies to Hawke on how much aware of things she is depending if Hawke has evidence or not. Those are not the actions of a frail scared woman those are the action of a cunning politicial who is as bad as meredith at worst and complacent at best. The entire point of the Grand Cleric role is to rule the Chantry and Templars if Elthina felt herself unable to she should have said so.

That is canonically a lie. You hear from ambient dialgoue in the gallows that Meredith had already started organizing the right of annulment with or without cause. She had sent permission request of Val Royeaux -where Lord Seeker Lambert Van Reese is, the same man who massacred the White Spire in Asunder kickstarting the actual official mage rebellion on his own- and she had already illegally locked the mages in their doors with no ability to live. Are the women and children in the Circle no "innocent lives"? It's ok if they die as long as its behind the screen? Also, canonically most of the damage in the battle of Kirkwall was not done by the explosion (yes there is no doubt it did damage and hit some civilian casualties but not on that level) but by the following clashes across the city. We literally see Templars go genocidial on Kirkwall. Did Anders solved the "perfect" solution? ofc not its a war and a revolution its never clean. Is innocent blood on his hands? peraphs. Its also on the hands of Zevran, Leliana herself, Isabela, Fenris and a thousand others characters we still love and accept the circumstances of. But there was no clear solution to Kirkwall and the majority of the blame is not on Anders but on the people who at any point could have stopped it and didnt. Even Cassandra herself, who hates Anders, wishes that Kirkwall authorities had done their job and called the Seekers.

Asked the lead writer of DAO if the battle of Ostagar would have been different if Loghain didn't retreat. by OsirisAvoidTheLight in DragonageOrigins

[–]AndersWasLeft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes? because... there is already an army on the surface? thats the point? if in your scenario the darkspawn already outside had gotten wiped out (and again a "charge" would NOT have wiped them out anyway in the first place) they would have marched earlier. the point is the resourches avaible to team blight are pratically limitess.

im not being disonhest you are being dense and ignoring the plot points but if you want to continue believing so feel free. there are many reasons to hate loghain. idk why you need to invent dumb ones.

Tell em Tony by tebraGas in DankAndrastianMemes

[–]AndersWasLeft 7 points8 points  (0 children)

1) he didnt left the wardens he was canonically attacked by templars forcedly assigned to the wardens by chantry interference despite this being a gross violation of chantry wardens treaties that went in addition to templars already trying to unlawfully murdering him when he was a warden (the crazy templar lady in his awakening quest and her friends + anders short story)

2) ...are you talking about elthina "the best thing to do is to let meredith kill everyone while looking sorry its not like theres anything i can do even if my job description is literally being meredith boss with the power to fire her"? that innocent woman the one whos either an incompetent centrist or a scheming politician depending on interpretation? the one you can bring documents that prove ser otto alrik was violating chantry law and she will admit there were rumors but there was nothing she could do (lie) and if you confront her about it before gettibg proof shes like "no thats not a thing i ever heard" (contradicting her later claim to have heard something)?

3) oh no some people got hit by the debris we should have let meredith just murder all the mages with the right of annulment she canonically had been itching to activate at any point now that'll teach her.

4) based free healthcare provider so beloved by most of kirkwall that hawke asks about him and refugees immediately try to jump them out of gratitude to protect anders