@@skebaba918 I believe Solas said something along the lines that the spirits from the rifts were pulled into the world against their will, which is why they turn into demons
I fucking love that Sera warns you she’s going to absolute obliterate this guy and then she actually goes through with it. Absolutely phenomenal way to mess with the usual “Use every investigate option” conversation plan.
Yup. Some people get so salty she actually takes initiative on her own mission and interrupts you, but I love it. Even if I rarely see it because I nearly always stop and conscript him before that happens.
many got worried in the patreon channels too, luckily we cleared it up with mapo and he only searched "dragon age d-" in the searchbar so it would only say the title and didn't actually search the game.
@@pkuvincentsu he isn't looking into it, idk why you would think he would? All he said was that he knew dreadwolf was the title, as it's something relatively unavoidable and then he double-checked without searching anything
Seeing Mapo address the Merril situation with a different perspective and questioning what happened involving the Keeper and the Spirit always makes me smile. 🥂
Also regarding the elven language - the elves actually know only pieces of it - thats why the throw single words of elven into conversation. Solas is so far the character most versed in the elven we have seen. It actually seems more wrong that you can understand here rather than the other way around. Then again maybe he explained what he was saying off-screen. Anyways noone spoke the full elven language since the fall of Arlathan to Tevinter.
@@FuFightersStudio yup, it's a very unique way for elves to refer to one's partner too. It's heavier/important, not just a word one usually throws around or a pet name. Npcs slowly teach us that through the games, but it is easy to forget. Thanks for writing for those who don't know/don't remember
Yeah 😂 I'm surprised my body isn't comically shaking from trying to keep my inner thoughts... well, inner all haha. I'm very, very much looking forward to future episodes.
I always found these monuments to Andraste and the Chantry, all over the lands of the elves violently taken in the Exalted March, to be really chilling.
@@donyates7300 I mean, a better equivalent might be christian churches built over native american sites, since the point was an attempt to overwrite the culture of a conquered area. With Confederate monuments and ultimately lost-cause preaching, your target audience ARE the 'conquered' to do the opposite and prevent them assimilating into a new culture. This isn't meant to be a defence of such things, but they do serve very different purposes.
I always let Solas kill those bastards but I definitely see the thought process behind stopping him, especially since you made Cole more spirit I just LOVE seeing Solas show so much emotion and rage as he is usually so calm and collected
I would have loved the "don't kill" option more, if you could refer to Solas' friend being compassionate and not wanting Solas to kill them, or refer to Cole's situation (if you had done that before helping Solas' friend). That way it would be more grey what would be the "best" way to interact with Solas at the time...
@@MikeTotem yeah I agree. if Solas lets those mages go then they literally get no punishment. I wish there was an option to judge them or beat them up or scare them more or SOMETHING!
Or at least make them go back to Skyhold for punishment and be given the option for them to be made to provide “Accurate” training to mages on Spirits they summon and how making them do something against their WILL changes them!!
Also, Mapo, you missed out on a lot more spirit discussion with Solas when he returned from his walk. I hope you play again and get the option to ask him the other questions! You enjoy lore so much and hearing what happens to spirits when they “die” would have interested you!
“Ar lath ma vhenan” = I love you my heart The game was first made for humans only. They added other races later, that’s why sometimes you are “hey, I’m Dalish, I know!” These are the parts they forgot to adapt. There are perks that extend your vision in the fog. Oh and one of your sentences really made me laugh a lot 😂
51:23, I'm more convinced than ever than the mod that allows you to dash, is interfering with party banter by resetting the internal timer over and over. That and possibly also unchecked off inventory items has banter bugged as well. Something isn't right as companions are damn near SILENT which is so strange considering the mod fix installed.
The loitering at the dalish camp reinforces my suspicions. Banter occurred!!! Enough time passed without the internal timer banter being paused. Current Hypothesis; I think its a combo of the dash mod and opening up the menu to read codexes. Opening the menu may pause the timer and then dashing resets it. So large amounts off map exploration are never given the chance to have banter due to to the timer being paused and reset so often; made worse everytime fast travel occurs. The only way to confirm would be a) stay stationary for a few cycles of banter and time them. Like at the dalish camp. Confirm banter is firing on time if nothing else occurs. b) uninstall the dash mod, don't open the menu and roam while on a timer, don't fast travel. Does banter fire at the same frequency as it did while stationary?
We've all all been saying this for quite a while now, that the dashing mod messes up banter, haven't we? Not expecting it to change now since Mapo is not reading the comments. I feel since there are a lot of prejudices towards Inquisition, people recommended too many mods from the beginning, and ultimately did more harm than good.
I wish mods would forward him that message. Out of all the comments, this one is important to know. Maybe he does find out later, since he has made a bit of videos that are for patreons for now
He seems to have ruled it out because he got banter once or twice while dashing. Not sure what that's about, but his amount of banter is abnormally low for sure. I've been saying since he started DA2 that I wish he'd at least try playing the game unmodded at first. I know sometimes mods are nice for quality of life but since they're made by normal people and not the devs, they often have unexpected consequences. If it were my first game I think I'd be downright upset about the lack of banter at this point. It was a highlight for me.
@@octo448 Yeah I remember that. But didn't he get banter when he just stopped dashing, but misinterpreted it as not the mod's fault? I don't think he ruled it out definitively. Anyway the game's banter system is super wonky itself. I remember I roamed the Hissing Waste for hours doing nothing to get banters. A shame really since the banter is fantastic.
Regarding the elven language segments. I think they translated the scene with Solas’ spirit friend because you need it to understand the ending of the quest, but most of the time the spirit of the words is more important than the meaning and specifically in Solas case, the devs created a carefully crafted sense of mystery that you noted from the beginning. Us not knowing what the fear demon said to him is part of that.
the "Solas needs help" thing is so funny I love it 😂 it really does sometimes trigger when the health is not low, maybe when multiple enemies target him? tbh I think Inqui seems to care more about mages being attacked in general (maybe bc they are squishy?) but maybe being the love interest does add some hidden modifier? You need to test it with Solas and Dorian together in one party I think haha
@@EmoBearRights yeah that's why I haven't included her - I think the game kinda recognises she is basically a melee fighter? I think Solas + Dorian would be the cleanest comparison
“Ar lath ma, vhenan.” I love you, (my) heart. “‘The,’ a joke, he laughs to himself, imagining herds of cattle in fields of iron, but now he worries it fits.” This is about The Iron Bull. He said earlier that by using an article at the front of his name that it “makes it feel like [he’s] not even a person, just a mindless weapon.” Cole is saying that Bull is starting to worry that it’s less of a joke now-that it might actually be true.
As we slowly crawl to the second half I feel like I'm more and more holding myself to my chair to keep myself from jumping from it and pacing around the room haha. 😂
That scene with Solace is one of my favorites (my very first playthrough was also for the dalish mage, romancing Solas). The things he says are... so true.
Sera didn't miss the dagger. She throwed it so he bent over to pick it and then she kicked his hand as he was lifting it resulting in the dagger stabbing his balls
Solas' quest is interesting, The mage who summoned the Spirit was KIRKWALL'S master of Demonology, I would assume that any mage who even considered the thought of such study was either immediately made tranquil or executed under Meredith's reign of terror
Elf characters DON'T rly know most of the OG language, unlike Spirits who have existed since before the fall. At most they know some ritual-type sentences, and random words they have managed to recover from ruins etc. And this would generally be the most scholarly types of Elves for the most part
Though this does depend on the dalish tribe by a lot! Some tribes, especially their keepers seem to know a fair bit, Merrill is quite versed in it fex. Well not even the OG language I guess, but a passed down version.
This episode is a true test of my will to not screech like a banshee and spoil everything. Those who know, know. The lore is THICC in the Plains, and is visually stunning. Another amazing episode.
I love watching you play and enjoy Dragon Age. I love how you read every codex and pay attention to details. I love how perceptive you are sometimes and how completely wrong you can also be. Thank you so much for sharing your first playthroughs with us. Just so you know I made a meme for you since you love elven lore so much. I can't wait for you to finish Inquisition so I can show it to you safely.
We had a Dwarven Hero of Ferelden We had a Human Champion of Kirkwall We have a Elven Inquisitor/Herald of Andraste I think it would be fitting that Mapo would continue his Dragon Age adventure giving us a Qunari Protagonist in DA Dreadwolf to come full circle with the Races of Thedas. (SPOILERS BELOW) And it would be specially interesting to see a Qunari protagonist in it.... knowing that Dreadwolf will take place in Tevinter.
about the Rage demons and "immune" if you open tactical view, you can hover over the demon and see that it's resistant to Fire damage (I guess it's reduced?) but IMMUNE to Burning status effect. So every time you use the fire spells the game tries to apply the Burning but can't so it shows "Immune" but the regular fire damages still goes through
Did anyone else change the color scheme of their companions' outfits to green to match the Inquisition? I always used to do that, it was pretty cool pulling up with the squad color coordinated! 😅
I remember Cole acting really interesting in Exalted Plains in my first playthrough. He would randomly turn invisible, sneak up on hallas and spook them by making himself visible again. Never had that happen again in other playthroughs. Still wondering if it was a random thing or done on purpose.
Commenting half way through, but it's fun to hear you think if it would make sense to play an elf again in DA4. I mean playing an elf is always the right choice :D Elven lore really is the most interesting in my opinion too.
Yes, the Elven religion is very interesting in this game. I'm sure it will be even more so when Dread Wolf comes... or maybe that will make the Chantry more interesting.
Lets hope they don't drop the ball..I want to be excited but Im not because Andromeda excitement then the let down even though some of Andromeda was really good.
Yeah, when Mapo noted it was the Last Supper, I quickly came to the same conclusion. It's a very on-the-nose religious reference... though I'm not sure if that's in a good way, or a bad way, given Inquisition's opinions on religion.
You don't have to run around with a veil-fire torch- you find most times you can lit one right near where you'll need it. Look a bit closer. Your marathon in the Fallow Mire was not needed if you only had tried the other ones. BTW Rhys is the son Wynne got after her love affair with a Templar.
I hear about an elf as the Herald of Andraste because my Hero of Ferelden was an elf and a mage too. My Inquisitor was a dwarf and mostly no one minded - the exception well you'll see.
"I was one of the foremost experts in the Kirkwall Circle" Is not the flex that guy thinks it is. The Kirkwall Circle was a goddamn MESS! Also, don't look up what the Nightmare said to Solas in the Fade. You'll only find spoilers.
1:33:31 It is the difference between modern Elvish and ancient Elvish. When Solus speaks and you don't understand it is because he is speaking ancient Elvish.
I swear that in "All new faded for her" when Solas and spirit of wisdom talk you can get either elven* subs as if you don't understand, or sometimes translated once. It's been a while, but I have this memory in my head. Hm..
The way Fen'Harel was accepted by both the elven gods and the Forgotten Ones (according to Dalish myths) is very similar to Loki from norse mythology, being accepted by both Æsir and giants... and using that acceptance to trick both sides.
Also note that with cole spiritual he's more sure of himself now, so when you leave conversation with "we'll talk later" - he answers with "yes" instead of "how do you know?"
Gday mapo.. I’ve been playing dragon age again.. roughly around the same time as you, I think the running mod you have prevents party banter.. in my game no mods they seem to never shut up.. 😂 but your party is always silent..?
Been waiting for you to get to the exalted plains and prob later, the emerald graves, since you love the elven lore so much 😊 Thanks for another episode!
13:01 If you had the Nobilty Knowledge perk at this point you get a special dialogue option you can use to get his stuff and still keep Sera happy. Though, you still have to pick it before she snaps, lol.
In the Solas quest, about the elvish. Elvish is a "dead" language, not even the dalish speak it fluently. You understood what was said here because you are dalish - any other race would not have gotten the subtitles translated. What was said in the fade is an older dialect so to speak that your character, like so many other dalish, doesn't understand. Solas on the other hand speaks more elven than any other character we've encountered so far. So it makes sense that the Fear demon would mock him in that language. It's a very nice detail. And as someone who don't have way too much free time on her hands what Solas says after the kiss is "I love you, my heart".
MAN I love the story of Fen'harel, what a lil shit (at least from the elves perspectives? Do we know if there's like a "yeah but it didn't happen that way REALLY theory? I always love those)
It’s really interesting to see/hear your thoughts on some of the choices in game. I usually let solas kill the mages - if spirits are people/sentient beings then summoning and binding them to the point where they are so damaged they need to be “euthanized” is basically murder and most of my Inquisitors feel like capital punishment is fair in that case. Though in my current play through I’m doing an andrastian believer and she’s against it.
Sera is such a weird character. When I met her in my first playthrough I went from totally confused ("what the hell is she talking about"), through fairly annoyed ("oh my god please shut up") to almost romancing her. There was some glitch that had broken my romance with Iron Bull, so I tried to start one with Sera, but it didn't work. I did romance her in my second playthrough, when I played an inquisitor much more aligned with her goals and her views. There are a some issues, but I really like the approval system, because it has such an impact on how conversations with your companions go.
My theory is that you can understand what the spirit and Solas is saying because it is basic Elvish. While, the Nightmare demon and Solas were speaking in Ancient Elvish. EDIT: Weird seeig him liking Sera more than Vivienne. Usually you either hate both or like both.
"At this point you're making wine." I actually did a spit take first time I heard that. A moment of silence for the BioWare of yore. We'll not see the likes of them ever again. 😥
I believe they were speaking ancient elven compared to the elven they speak today. So that's why she could understand Solas later on when he spoke to his friend. Cause he was speaking today's stuff instead of Coryfyhshits ancient version.
Something definitely seems bugged about your dialogue imo. I remember getting dialogue way more than you seem to be getting it. I have heard tell that you can trigger more party banter by traveling to areas using the war table instead of the map. I have also heard you need to make sure you have no things marked as new in your journal/items/etc.
Also, as a reminder, Varric isn't suggesting you let Cole kill the man. He's just suggesting you let Cole process his emotions like a human. To confront the man, feel his anger, and get through it.
iirc, the demon that Merrill was bargaining with had been summoned and bound long ago. So someone came along, summoned and bound a spirit, corrupted it into a demon, and then sealed it away, and then X years later, Merrill stumbled across it and was tricked into helping it. Marethari then intervened to save her.
Cool to see you come around on Sera, I figured you would. She’s an interesting character and only truly insufferable when it comes to the elf stuff sometimes imo. I just love the characters in DA. **SPOILER** I love how you noticed the Last Supper similarities in the Inner Circle picture. In hindsight, it’s a somewhat “in your face” spoiler I guess.
Omg every time he thinks he has to bring the SAME veilfire torch halfway across the map, or forgets that he can pick it up if he drops it, it drives me NUTS.
...Sara's story, reactions and dialogs are really fun and interesting. I often come in conflict with myself when have to choose the answers! I love that the Lore is so connected and founded in good explanations. It feels like a "real" ancient world Lore! Interesting I have never really thought deeply about the titles on the gravestone in the Fade quest....I will remember from now on! :) BTW. does anyone know how the game or story react if you don't invite Vivianne to the Inqusition and/or kick Sara out of the Inquisition later. Anyone know??
Question: Do you allow information from the novels, comics, movies and shows? This world has so many huge things in it that the games allude to but never talk about but I don’t want to spoil if you’re planning on reading/watching them yourself.
We can only speculate what kind of a character we may be playing in Dreadwolf, and we don't even have a confirmation that we'd be able to pick the race of our character in the first place. Considering that adding different races to Inquisition delayed the game by a year and they barely made it to their deadline (we almost didn't get to romance Bull as a dwarf, and we can't romance Cullen with either a dwarf or a qunari, purely because they didn't have time to make the cutscenes work), I wouldn't be surprised if they end up locking us to one race or give limited options. _If_ they do give us all the races, I'm pretty sure all of them would be neat to pick for the next game lore-wise, but esp the non-human ones. I'm personally most interested in a qunari, but also torn on dwarves. I'll probably pick a qunari for my first run since I always play a mage first in my DA playthroughs.
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Not just Cole. "A spirit becomes a demon when denied its original purpose" applies to Justice as well. He was denied justice, and became Vengeance.
Why do so many Spirits materialize as Demons tho almost instantly when they exit Fade?
@@skebaba918spirits are like ideals once they touch reality it all goes to shit
@@tylerrussell9926damn, that's a good point
@@skebaba918 I believe Solas said something along the lines that the spirits from the rifts were pulled into the world against their will, which is why they turn into demons
@@The-Samuil But even before Inquisition, don't plenty of Spirits still convert into Demons? Even naturally randomly Fade exiting ones
Sara didn't miss with the knife throw. She was giving him a knife because she didn't want to kill an unarmed man.
I fucking love that Sera warns you she’s going to absolute obliterate this guy and then she actually goes through with it. Absolutely phenomenal way to mess with the usual “Use every investigate option” conversation plan.
It's so in character, I love it.
Yup. Some people get so salty she actually takes initiative on her own mission and interrupts you, but I love it. Even if I rarely see it because I nearly always stop and conscript him before that happens.
I don't like Sera all that much as a character, but I'll admit that this right here was the one time she earned a 'you go girl' and a respectful nod.
Yo when you googled if Dreadwolf is a relative name for the next game, I mean it when I say I squeezed my butt in fear for you being spoiled. Lmao
many got worried in the patreon channels too, luckily we cleared it up with mapo and he only searched "dragon age d-" in the searchbar so it would only say the title and didn't actually search the game.
@@GrayDeath2052 Geez, that's great. He really shouldn't look into the next game at all at this point. The risk is too high.
@@pkuvincentsu he isn't looking into it, idk why you would think he would? All he said was that he knew dreadwolf was the title, as it's something relatively unavoidable and then he double-checked without searching anything
@@NoName1462 Just googling the term dreadwolf spoils quite a lot. That's what I meant. And I don't think I was implying anything else. 😐
BY THE DREADWOLF I felt my heart skip a beat when I read that 😂 thank you patreon people for shielding him, it would've been a disaster
Seeing Mapo address the Merril situation with a different perspective and questioning what happened involving the Keeper and the Spirit always makes me smile. 🥂
Also regarding the elven language - the elves actually know only pieces of it - thats why the throw single words of elven into conversation. Solas is so far the character most versed in the elven we have seen. It actually seems more wrong that you can understand here rather than the other way around. Then again maybe he explained what he was saying off-screen.
Anyways noone spoke the full elven language since the fall of Arlathan to Tevinter.
For the record what Solas said after the kiss was "I love you, my heart"
@@FuFightersStudio yup, it's a very unique way for elves to refer to one's partner too. It's heavier/important, not just a word one usually throws around or a pet name. Npcs slowly teach us that through the games, but it is easy to forget. Thanks for writing for those who don't know/don't remember
all the elven lore... I am SQUEEING in anticipation for the future. I think Mapo's mind will be BLOWN 🤭
Yes!! And MULTIPLE TIMES🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
Yeah 😂 I'm surprised my body isn't comically shaking from trying to keep my inner thoughts... well, inner all haha. I'm very, very much looking forward to future episodes.
@@VesperNoControle waiting for every next episode is torture 😩
I always found these monuments to Andraste and the Chantry, all over the lands of the elves violently taken in the Exalted March, to be really chilling.
In the same ballpark as the confederate monuments, place all throughout the south, usually in areas with lots of activity.
We are the last elvhen, never again shall we submit
@@donyates7300that's absolutely not the same thing
@@Xeno_Solarus yes it is….most confederate monuments were put up decades after the war, in part to intimidate blacks.
@@donyates7300 I mean, a better equivalent might be christian churches built over native american sites, since the point was an attempt to overwrite the culture of a conquered area. With Confederate monuments and ultimately lost-cause preaching, your target audience ARE the 'conquered' to do the opposite and prevent them assimilating into a new culture.
This isn't meant to be a defence of such things, but they do serve very different purposes.
I always let Solas kill those bastards but I definitely see the thought process behind stopping him, especially since you made Cole more spirit
I just LOVE seeing Solas show so much emotion and rage as he is usually so calm and collected
I would have loved the "don't kill" option more, if you could refer to Solas' friend being compassionate and not wanting Solas to kill them, or refer to Cole's situation (if you had done that before helping Solas' friend). That way it would be more grey what would be the "best" way to interact with Solas at the time...
@@MikeTotem yeah I agree. if Solas lets those mages go then they literally get no punishment. I wish there was an option to judge them or beat them up or scare them more or SOMETHING!
Or at least make them go back to Skyhold for punishment and be given the option for them to be made to provide “Accurate” training to mages on Spirits they summon and how making them do something against their WILL changes them!!
Also, Mapo, you missed out on a lot more spirit discussion with Solas when he returned from his walk. I hope you play again and get the option to ask him the other questions! You enjoy lore so much and hearing what happens to spirits when they “die” would have interested you!
@@teresamorrow2459I wish there was a kill solas option
“Ar lath ma vhenan” = I love you my heart
The game was first made for humans only. They added other races later, that’s why sometimes you are “hey, I’m Dalish, I know!” These are the parts they forgot to adapt.
There are perks that extend your vision in the fog.
Oh and one of your sentences really made me laugh a lot 😂
Dragon Age Inquisition is serving you up a lore buffet. Glad to see you enjoying it!
51:23, I'm more convinced than ever than the mod that allows you to dash, is interfering with party banter by resetting the internal timer over and over. That and possibly also unchecked off inventory items has banter bugged as well. Something isn't right as companions are damn near SILENT which is so strange considering the mod fix installed.
The loitering at the dalish camp reinforces my suspicions. Banter occurred!!! Enough time passed without the internal timer banter being paused. Current Hypothesis; I think its a combo of the dash mod and opening up the menu to read codexes. Opening the menu may pause the timer and then dashing resets it. So large amounts off map exploration are never given the chance to have banter due to to the timer being paused and reset so often; made worse everytime fast travel occurs. The only way to confirm would be a) stay stationary for a few cycles of banter and time them. Like at the dalish camp. Confirm banter is firing on time if nothing else occurs. b) uninstall the dash mod, don't open the menu and roam while on a timer, don't fast travel. Does banter fire at the same frequency as it did while stationary?
We've all all been saying this for quite a while now, that the dashing mod messes up banter, haven't we? Not expecting it to change now since Mapo is not reading the comments. I feel since there are a lot of prejudices towards Inquisition, people recommended too many mods from the beginning, and ultimately did more harm than good.
I wish mods would forward him that message. Out of all the comments, this one is important to know. Maybe he does find out later, since he has made a bit of videos that are for patreons for now
He seems to have ruled it out because he got banter once or twice while dashing. Not sure what that's about, but his amount of banter is abnormally low for sure.
I've been saying since he started DA2 that I wish he'd at least try playing the game unmodded at first. I know sometimes mods are nice for quality of life but since they're made by normal people and not the devs, they often have unexpected consequences. If it were my first game I think I'd be downright upset about the lack of banter at this point. It was a highlight for me.
@@octo448 Yeah I remember that. But didn't he get banter when he just stopped dashing, but misinterpreted it as not the mod's fault? I don't think he ruled it out definitively.
Anyway the game's banter system is super wonky itself. I remember I roamed the Hissing Waste for hours doing nothing to get banters. A shame really since the banter is fantastic.
It’s interesting that, in the How Could You war table mission, Cullen’s the one who offers the diplomatic solution.
He's worked in two different circles and probably knows the mages' mindset better than either Josie or Leli.
Regarding the elven language segments. I think they translated the scene with Solas’ spirit friend because you need it to understand the ending of the quest, but most of the time the spirit of the words is more important than the meaning and specifically in Solas case, the devs created a carefully crafted sense of mystery that you noted from the beginning. Us not knowing what the fear demon said to him is part of that.
When it comes to Keeper robes it's drip > stats
I'm always guilty of keeping gear/armor with weak stats if they look better than the alternative.
the "Solas needs help" thing is so funny I love it 😂
it really does sometimes trigger when the health is not low, maybe when multiple enemies target him?
tbh I think Inqui seems to care more about mages being attacked in general (maybe bc they are squishy?) but maybe being the love interest does add some hidden modifier? You need to test it with Solas and Dorian together in one party I think haha
I don't think Inqy cares much about Viv - who in fairness isn't so squishy but Dorian would be an interesting test case.
@@EmoBearRights yeah that's why I haven't included her - I think the game kinda recognises she is basically a melee fighter? I think Solas + Dorian would be the cleanest comparison
"The" bit from Cole was about THE Iron Bull, of course ;)
I'm surprised you didn't pick that up, Mapo
“Ar lath ma, vhenan.” I love you, (my) heart.
“‘The,’ a joke, he laughs to himself, imagining herds of cattle in fields of iron, but now he worries it fits.” This is about The Iron Bull. He said earlier that by using an article at the front of his name that it “makes it feel like [he’s] not even a person, just a mindless weapon.” Cole is saying that Bull is starting to worry that it’s less of a joke now-that it might actually be true.
As we slowly crawl to the second half I feel like I'm more and more holding myself to my chair to keep myself from jumping from it and pacing around the room haha. 😂
That scene with Solace is one of my favorites (my very first playthrough was also for the dalish mage, romancing Solas). The things he says are... so true.
Sera didn't miss the dagger. She throwed it so he bent over to pick it and then she kicked his hand as he was lifting it resulting in the dagger stabbing his balls
Solas' quest is interesting, The mage who summoned the Spirit was KIRKWALL'S master of Demonology, I would assume that any mage who even considered the thought of such study was either immediately made tranquil or executed under Meredith's reign of terror
Ar lath ma Vhenan - I love you my heart.
Elf characters DON'T rly know most of the OG language, unlike Spirits who have existed since before the fall. At most they know some ritual-type sentences, and random words they have managed to recover from ruins etc. And this would generally be the most scholarly types of Elves for the most part
Though this does depend on the dalish tribe by a lot! Some tribes, especially their keepers seem to know a fair bit, Merrill is quite versed in it fex. Well not even the OG language I guess, but a passed down version.
The Ring of Doubt is the single best ring in the game - it basically allows you to have a consistent nuke on your first cast every fight.
"Ar lath, ma vhenan" - I adore you, my heart.
I am so glad for the Solas romance, you have no idea. Especially since you love elven lore.
This episode is a true test of my will to not screech like a banshee and spoil everything.
Those who know, know.
The lore is THICC in the Plains, and is visually stunning. Another amazing episode.
I love watching you play and enjoy Dragon Age. I love how you read every codex and pay attention to details. I love how perceptive you are sometimes and how completely wrong you can also be. Thank you so much for sharing your first playthroughs with us.
Just so you know I made a meme for you since you love elven lore so much. I can't wait for you to finish Inquisition so I can show it to you safely.
It's starting to get impressive how long he's overlooking the "odd things" conversation option for Cole.
Mapo, please talk to Gatsi the Mason regarding the mosaic, he is on the opposite side of Varric in the hall :)
We had a Dwarven Hero of Ferelden
We had a Human Champion of Kirkwall
We have a Elven Inquisitor/Herald of Andraste
I think it would be fitting that Mapo would continue his Dragon Age adventure giving us a Qunari Protagonist in DA Dreadwolf to come full circle with the Races of Thedas.
(SPOILERS BELOW)
And it would be specially interesting to see a Qunari protagonist in it.... knowing that Dreadwolf will take place in Tevinter.
about the Rage demons and "immune"
if you open tactical view, you can hover over the demon and see that it's resistant to Fire damage (I guess it's reduced?) but IMMUNE to Burning status effect. So every time you use the fire spells the game tries to apply the Burning but can't so it shows "Immune" but the regular fire damages still goes through
Did anyone else change the color scheme of their companions' outfits to green to match the Inquisition? I always used to do that, it was pretty cool pulling up with the squad color coordinated! 😅
that Solas kiss scene never fails to make me giggle kick my feet
I remember Cole acting really interesting in Exalted Plains in my first playthrough. He would randomly turn invisible, sneak up on hallas and spook them by making himself visible again. Never had that happen again in other playthroughs. Still wondering if it was a random thing or done on purpose.
Thank you for the playthrough, it's a pleasure share the love for the series.
Commenting half way through, but it's fun to hear you think if it would make sense to play an elf again in DA4. I mean playing an elf is always the right choice :D Elven lore really is the most interesting in my opinion too.
Yes, the Elven religion is very interesting in this game. I'm sure it will be even more so when Dread Wolf comes... or maybe that will make the Chantry more interesting.
I've never been more excited for someone to read the codex pages than I am for this area ~ the elven lore is just brilliant
With how successful Baldurs Gate 3 has been the next Dragon Age game will have a lot to live up to.
Lets hope they don't drop the ball..I want to be excited but Im not because Andromeda excitement then the let down even though some of Andromeda was really good.
I have said this so many time but I L OV E your commentary and your view on things in this series!!
Oooohhh I just spotted a really neat detail if you relate the painting in game to the actual Last supper painting. And that's all I'm saying on that.
Yeah, when Mapo noted it was the Last Supper, I quickly came to the same conclusion.
It's a very on-the-nose religious reference... though I'm not sure if that's in a good way, or a bad way, given Inquisition's opinions on religion.
Yup, I caught it too!
See, It's subtle details like these that make the game/story so damn special
And we'll have Dreadwolf in the summer 2024.......probably. Maybe early 2025, no one really knows.
Full reveal Summer 2024, hopefully release Fall 2024 🎉 I'd be so excited
Checking from the future: official release date is 10/31/2024 (:
You don't have to run around with a veil-fire torch- you find most times you can lit one right near where you'll need it. Look a bit closer. Your marathon in the Fallow Mire was not needed if you only had tried the other ones. BTW Rhys is the son Wynne got after her love affair with a Templar.
i laughed so hard in origins when you latched onto the story of fen'harel, looking forward to trespasser
Cole didn't have to kill that guy to become more human varric even said so😶🌫️
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I hear about an elf as the Herald of Andraste because my Hero of Ferelden was an elf and a mage too. My Inquisitor was a dwarf and mostly no one minded - the exception well you'll see.
"I was one of the foremost experts in the Kirkwall Circle" Is not the flex that guy thinks it is. The Kirkwall Circle was a goddamn MESS! Also, don't look up what the Nightmare said to Solas in the Fade. You'll only find spoilers.
I'm so sad Mapo didn't talk to Fiona while Alistair was around 😭
1:33:31 It is the difference between modern Elvish and ancient Elvish. When Solus speaks and you don't understand it is because he is speaking ancient Elvish.
I swear that in "All new faded for her" when Solas and spirit of wisdom talk you can get either elven* subs as if you don't understand, or sometimes translated once. It's been a while, but I have this memory in my head. Hm..
It translates if you're playing an elf.
Can confirm. I've been playing with a Trevelyan and he only got the untranslated elven. So cool to see even these minor differences!
The way Fen'Harel was accepted by both the elven gods and the Forgotten Ones (according to Dalish myths) is very similar to Loki from norse mythology, being accepted by both Æsir and giants... and using that acceptance to trick both sides.
Mapo: im not like other girls 😉
Also note that with cole spiritual he's more sure of himself now, so when you leave conversation with "we'll talk later" - he answers with "yes" instead of "how do you know?"
dangerous to look for DA4 infos, just sayin'.
If you type the title of the game in google... well at this point I'm sure somebody has already been spoiled.
"Spindleweed is getting scarce" there's literally a field of spindleweed right in front of her 😆
Gday mapo.. I’ve been playing dragon age again.. roughly around the same time as you, I think the running mod you have prevents party banter.. in my game no mods they seem to never shut up.. 😂 but your party is always silent..?
Been waiting for you to get to the exalted plains and prob later, the emerald graves, since you love the elven lore so much 😊 Thanks for another episode!
Bald elf boy = best boyfriend. Good job picking correctly! 😊
13:01 If you had the Nobilty Knowledge perk at this point you get a special dialogue option you can use to get his stuff and still keep Sera happy. Though, you still have to pick it before she snaps, lol.
In the Solas quest, about the elvish. Elvish is a "dead" language, not even the dalish speak it fluently. You understood what was said here because you are dalish - any other race would not have gotten the subtitles translated. What was said in the fade is an older dialect so to speak that your character, like so many other dalish, doesn't understand. Solas on the other hand speaks more elven than any other character we've encountered so far. So it makes sense that the Fear demon would mock him in that language.
It's a very nice detail. And as someone who don't have way too much free time on her hands what Solas says after the kiss is "I love you, my heart".
omg yes All New Faded For Her time!!! /runs to watch/
Me too! rarely clicked so fast on a video
The "...Ohh, no..." after hearing about the 48 copies of Hard In Hightown 💀😹
Playing catch up.... only because when I start I don't' want it to stop. So, I let it build so that I may watch two at a time!
Jade Empire is actually not bad, just different. An aside!
MAN I love the story of Fen'harel, what a lil shit (at least from the elves perspectives? Do we know if there's like a "yeah but it didn't happen that way REALLY theory? I always love those)
1:42:08 "Ar lath ma, vhenan" = "I love you, my heart"
It’s really interesting to see/hear your thoughts on some of the choices in game.
I usually let solas kill the mages - if spirits are people/sentient beings then summoning and binding them to the point where they are so damaged they need to be “euthanized” is basically murder and most of my Inquisitors feel like capital punishment is fair in that case.
Though in my current play through I’m doing an andrastian believer and she’s against it.
You only get translation of the most basic phrases in elven. Dalish elves don't know anything beyond that.
Sera is such a weird character. When I met her in my first playthrough I went from totally confused ("what the hell is she talking about"), through fairly annoyed ("oh my god please shut up") to almost romancing her. There was some glitch that had broken my romance with Iron Bull, so I tried to start one with Sera, but it didn't work.
I did romance her in my second playthrough, when I played an inquisitor much more aligned with her goals and her views.
There are a some issues, but I really like the approval system, because it has such an impact on how conversations with your companions go.
I love your playthrough x'D So glad you chose to romance Solas too.
My theory is that you can understand what the spirit and Solas is saying because it is basic Elvish. While, the Nightmare demon and Solas were speaking in Ancient Elvish.
EDIT: Weird seeig him liking Sera more than Vivienne. Usually you either hate both or like both.
"At this point you're making wine."
I actually did a spit take first time I heard that.
A moment of silence for the BioWare of yore. We'll not see the likes of them ever again. 😥
I feel like you, in your private time must have some sort of headrubbing fetisch. You do you mapo.
It's an old wives' tale that rubbing a bald head is good luck.
You know, there is an "attack my target" button on the hotbar
In Dragon Age canon, i am pretty sure even the Dalish don't have a complete mastery over the Elven language.
"You have done strange things"
Aaww, why didn't I do an elven woman as my charachter.. I would like some Solas.. 😅
It’s hard to turn away from the Megamind, same
I believe they were speaking ancient elven compared to the elven they speak today. So that's why she could understand Solas later on when he spoke to his friend. Cause he was speaking today's stuff instead of Coryfyhshits ancient version.
Something definitely seems bugged about your dialogue imo. I remember getting dialogue way more than you seem to be getting it. I have heard tell that you can trigger more party banter by traveling to areas using the war table instead of the map. I have also heard you need to make sure you have no things marked as new in your journal/items/etc.
Also, as a reminder, Varric isn't suggesting you let Cole kill the man. He's just suggesting you let Cole process his emotions like a human. To confront the man, feel his anger, and get through it.
He said: "Brush your teeth." :P
iirc, the demon that Merrill was bargaining with had been summoned and bound long ago. So someone came along, summoned and bound a spirit, corrupted it into a demon, and then sealed it away, and then X years later, Merrill stumbled across it and was tricked into helping it. Marethari then intervened to save her.
sera’s mission can have another outcome with Nobility knowledge
Pretty sure I told Sera to immediately kill the guy.
Translated elvish because more modern Elvish.
Cool to see you come around on Sera, I figured you would. She’s an interesting character and only truly insufferable when it comes to the elf stuff sometimes imo. I just love the characters in DA.
**SPOILER** I love how you noticed the Last Supper similarities in the Inner Circle picture. In hindsight, it’s a somewhat “in your face” spoiler I guess.
hell yeah✌
Omg every time he thinks he has to bring the SAME veilfire torch halfway across the map, or forgets that he can pick it up if he drops it, it drives me NUTS.
1:40:20 if you are a dwarf that's total mind fuck to Solas... for you are wise as hell to his eyes and are not even connected to the fade.
I hope he doesnt spoil himself by looking at the next game
I doubt that
Hi Mapo. I was just wondering if you had any plans to play Armored Core 6 any time in the future? The game is just nuts.
I'm sad he didn't do Sutherlands quests in the way where he forms the little band
...Sara's story, reactions and dialogs are really fun and interesting. I often come in conflict with myself when have to choose the answers! I love that the Lore is so connected and founded in good explanations. It feels like a "real" ancient world Lore! Interesting I have never really thought deeply about the titles on the gravestone in the Fade quest....I will remember from now on! :)
BTW. does anyone know how the game or story react if you don't invite Vivianne to the Inqusition and/or kick Sara out of the Inquisition later. Anyone know??
Mega Mind 🥚 ❤ 🧝🏽♀️
Solas romance, hehe boiii
Question: Do you allow information from the novels, comics, movies and shows? This world has so many huge things in it that the games allude to but never talk about but I don’t want to spoil if you’re planning on reading/watching them yourself.
Couldn't it be the attack did more than just one type of damage, Eg Explosive & fire, With the demon being immune to the fire component? 🤔
I am pretty sure rage demons are immune to the burning status effect end panic but still get regular fire damage but reduced
We can only speculate what kind of a character we may be playing in Dreadwolf, and we don't even have a confirmation that we'd be able to pick the race of our character in the first place. Considering that adding different races to Inquisition delayed the game by a year and they barely made it to their deadline (we almost didn't get to romance Bull as a dwarf, and we can't romance Cullen with either a dwarf or a qunari, purely because they didn't have time to make the cutscenes work), I wouldn't be surprised if they end up locking us to one race or give limited options. _If_ they do give us all the races, I'm pretty sure all of them would be neat to pick for the next game lore-wise, but esp the non-human ones. I'm personally most interested in a qunari, but also torn on dwarves. I'll probably pick a qunari for my first run since I always play a mage first in my DA playthroughs.