oh my GOD Varric!!! You're willing to do MONTHS of research into Orleasian fashion (not that I blame you, Vivienne is SCARY) but you can't be arsed to put in five MINUTES of research into ships! You're lucky this isn't Isabella's kind of book, or she'd have shived you for that paragraph in chapter nine on principle.
I should have realised that "Marielle" was Marian. Also, Fenris as a bartender makes me happy in strange and unusual ways. Thanks for narrating this! I never got around to reading it properly myself.
Anyone else notice aside from "greyish skinned, heavily scarred Ander" there's no Anders analogue in the cast of the novel? Varric's way of snubbing Blondie post Act III perhaps?
This was really good! I never had the patience to sit down and read them myself! So thank you! I like your voice too, it's very expressive! I'll definitely watch more videos if there are longer ones like this one! 😁
This is delightfully cheesy and I can’t believe I skipped over codex entries in these. I’m usually all over that kind of thing. Thank you for making these audio versions!!
That was absolutely wonderful, thank you so much! I wish you read books for us all the time, very soothing to listen to and you have such a good voice for it!
Female Hawke, especially the sarcastic version, is soo like Miss Phryne Fisher from the murder mystery series. The actress that plays her on tv even kinda looks like her if you squint enough.
That was really nice! I loved it and the different voices you gave to the different characters. I'm curious if we are going to see and hear more about the Executors in DA4 at all.
OKAY, HOW ABOUT THIS -- the last entries are written BY the person who gets left behind. After the Nightmare is defeated, they might be bleeding out, waiting to die or something like that and a spirit of compassion, protection or another kind virtued spirit comes to them and knowing that the warden/Hawke is going to die, tries to ease their pain by talking and let's just imagine that they have all read Hard in Hightown because why not, all of them have had some encounter with Varric and they ask the spirit to inform the people back home that even tho they are dying, they are at peace and the spirit takes those powerful peaceful emotions and writes this note and drops it down a breach. AND that's what we find and Varric has no idea who wrote it because the person left in the fade did, as a letter of them finally being at peace, looking over the setting sun, while waves echo softly in the background. OKAY I AM GOING TO GO CRY NOW, BYE
That's actually a pretty solid theory. Especially since spirits don't have any imagination/creation within themselves to make something new or original.
I was just playing and read a codex on demons (according to the chantry) and that got me thinking, what are spirits and demons really? How did they live before Fen'Harel formed the veil? the world and the fade were one, so the current explanation is somewhat lacking.
So as we know time moves differently inside the fade from the real world? (I say it as a question cause apparentlyly the fade and the world was once one and the same.) Is it possible that whoever was left inside the fade somehow managed to get out or return to a point in the past? As we know the hero of ferelden (hf) is looking for a cure to the calling. We also know that the flight is somehow tied with the fade. Now this is where things get a little wierd and and pure hypothetical depending on what happens in da4. What if he is able to find the cure and somehow either goes into the fade, or both worlds combine once more, and gives the cure to allister, and also somehow frees him from the fade. Now without a physical body tying fade representative (fr) to the fade, once fr exits the fade they could get thrown backwrads in time. They know everything is going to work out without them being involved because they both saw it and already lived though the events of dai. Therefore either fr or possibly even varric after/during the events of da4 could have wrote the mystery chapter of hard in hightown. If it was fr then maybe it's their way of telling varric that they are ok and not to worry to much and maybe they even left a clue on where to find them. If it was varric during the events of da4 it could be possible that he wrote it once the fade and the real world was back together as one before being split back apart possibly? (Again no idea how da4 is going to turn out.) But if so then the book somehow fell out of a rift during dai and into current time for the events of dai. This would also explain why corrypheus never died of old age seeings as when he exited the fade he states that the world had changed especially the fact that tevinter is no longer as large as it once was. Elves also have long lives and it has been theorized before that lyrium runs through both the real world and the fade. It has also been theorized that the tattoos the elves wore were also laced with lyrium, which we saw on fenris. While yes the markings were supposedly the mark of a slave it never is stated whether or not the non slave elves had some sort of markings themselves that was possibly laced with lyrium. So if they did that would mean they have part of the fade inside of themselves, thus prolonging their lives. And maybe the amount of markings one had just meant how much lyrium one needed in order to thrive. The ones with less marking were more powerful and therefore didn't need much lyrium inside of them. Either way though having lyrium inside of them meant that they no longer aged. They could still die from battle but not from old age which is why they had what was called the eternal sleep. They technically didn't die but their brain functions decreased to the point where all that it could do was keep the body living. Now I know what your saying, 'but solas removed his markings.' Now se also have no idea how long the lyrium was inside of solas nor are we aware if any lyrium is still embedded inside of him. If you have ever gotten a pencil jammed inside of you, even if you remove the graphite, you will always (or at least for a long time, 14 years and counting for me) have a mark of where you got stabbed with the pencil. So if lyrium is like that, in a sense you can remove the marking, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the lyrium fully left the body. Anyways that's my theory if you have more questions just ask and I'll try to explain better
I know your wall of text is a theory (one that sounds almost inpossible), but one makes a theory hoping you actually answer the mystery, yet you are using a lot of things that get a variable in game. For instance, you are using the HoF and Alistair for this theory, remember that a warden is not the only candidate that you can leave behind in the Fade. There is Hawke too. You are using the HoF and the Calling's cure into. It is obvious one is not related to the other, and also this part is very unlikely, because not every HoF is alive. For this kind of theories you cant use any option that has a variation, but established lore more than anything. Also, how could the HoF have gotten physically into the fade to save Alistair in the first place, and travelled through time? It is just so out of place. More than anything a more possible answer is just that the mysterious chapter is a fan fic written by a spirit that expressed the last moments of the person who was sacrificed in the fade. And that person wanted you to know that he/she has no regrets with their sscrifice.
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I liked how the spirits wanted Loghain to be happy in death so they reunited him with his childhood mabari
ooooohHHHHHH THAT'S WHY THE MABARI IS THERE.
I swear someone was cutting onions when I discovered it
I have nothing but anger towards loghain, but somehow I got chills and a little misty eyed when his version came up
Now Just waiting for Swords and Shields to be read... for a friend of course...
oh my GOD Varric!!! You're willing to do MONTHS of research into Orleasian fashion (not that I blame you, Vivienne is SCARY) but you can't be arsed to put in five MINUTES of research into ships! You're lucky this isn't Isabella's kind of book, or she'd have shived you for that paragraph in chapter nine on principle.
I should have realised that "Marielle" was Marian. Also, Fenris as a bartender makes me happy in strange and unusual ways. Thanks for narrating this! I never got around to reading it properly myself.
So... is the Chapter ??? fanfiction written by spirits??? That's so cute! I just never put it together before.
I love how Varric wrote all of his friends into the book 😂 DA II has its faults but the characters are still my favorite of the entire series
The Alistair ending. Ooof. My heart.
loved that you added the hanged man song in the background at 26:33, i was listening to this while dozing off n thought i imagined it for a moment
Gotta love how the characters are riffs on various members of Hawk's band.
Anyone else notice aside from "greyish skinned, heavily scarred Ander" there's no Anders analogue in the cast of the novel? Varric's way of snubbing Blondie post Act III perhaps?
Anders is supose to be the healer in chantry oddly enough
This was really good! I never had the patience to sit down and read them myself! So thank you! I like your voice too, it's very expressive! I'll definitely watch more videos if there are longer ones like this one! 😁
This is delightfully cheesy and I can’t believe I skipped over codex entries in these. I’m usually all over that kind of thing. Thank you for making these audio versions!!
I'm sorry but your attempt at a starkhaven accent made me giggle, mainly because I'm scottish so I admire your attempt 😂
That was absolutely wonderful, thank you so much! I wish you read books for us all the time, very soothing to listen to and you have such a good voice for it!
Gotta say, just having you read all the book's chapters, in order, is worth the sub. :) Epic job.
Female Hawke, especially the sarcastic version, is soo like Miss Phryne Fisher from the murder mystery series. The actress that plays her on tv even kinda looks like her if you squint enough.
That was really nice! I loved it and the different voices you gave to the different characters. I'm curious if we are going to see and hear more about the Executors in DA4 at all.
Thank so much I've heard this book name dropped in dialogue but I never got around to reading it so thanks love your channel hope it keeps growing
My Chapter ??? is either Loghain or Stroud. Don't have the guts to get the others, lol
That was great. Thank you so much for posting this, I loved how you read it
thank you for this reading, your voice gave justice to the story.
This was so enjoyable thank you!
Masterfully done! Thank you Ghil Dirthalen!!!!!
Amazing reading, you use your voice really well and control your breathing. Interesting accents though :D
I love how the entire team of DA2 has analogues in Hard in Hightown. Varric really does love his friends
OKAY, HOW ABOUT THIS -- the last entries are written BY the person who gets left behind. After the Nightmare is defeated, they might be bleeding out, waiting to die or something like that and a spirit of compassion, protection or another kind virtued spirit comes to them and knowing that the warden/Hawke is going to die, tries to ease their pain by talking and let's just imagine that they have all read Hard in Hightown because why not, all of them have had some encounter with Varric and they ask the spirit to inform the people back home that even tho they are dying, they are at peace and the spirit takes those powerful peaceful emotions and writes this note and drops it down a breach. AND that's what we find and Varric has no idea who wrote it because the person left in the fade did, as a letter of them finally being at peace, looking over the setting sun, while waves echo softly in the background.
OKAY I AM GOING TO GO CRY NOW, BYE
😭😭😭😭😭😭
That's actually a pretty solid theory. Especially since spirits don't have any imagination/creation within themselves to make something new or original.
you are awesome for reading these, thanks
I was just playing and read a codex on demons (according to the chantry) and that got me thinking, what are spirits and demons really? How did they live before Fen'Harel formed the veil? the world and the fade were one, so the current explanation is somewhat lacking.
Probably they coexisted with the elves (and everyone), that is why Solas was so used to coexist with them.
Interesting how Varric puts female Hawke into the book but not the male one. He's also very complimentary to her, huh?
Wow that story was really just brought to life.
The amount of "it's just donnic now,... My time in the city guard is over" kills me 😂😂
I actually bought this book at Barnes and Noble on clearance for 3 dollars. My third best cheap book ever
So as we know time moves differently inside the fade from the real world? (I say it as a question cause apparentlyly the fade and the world was once one and the same.) Is it possible that whoever was left inside the fade somehow managed to get out or return to a point in the past? As we know the hero of ferelden (hf) is looking for a cure to the calling. We also know that the flight is somehow tied with the fade. Now this is where things get a little wierd and and pure hypothetical depending on what happens in da4. What if he is able to find the cure and somehow either goes into the fade, or both worlds combine once more, and gives the cure to allister, and also somehow frees him from the fade. Now without a physical body tying fade representative (fr) to the fade, once fr exits the fade they could get thrown backwrads in time. They know everything is going to work out without them being involved because they both saw it and already lived though the events of dai. Therefore either fr or possibly even varric after/during the events of da4 could have wrote the mystery chapter of hard in hightown. If it was fr then maybe it's their way of telling varric that they are ok and not to worry to much and maybe they even left a clue on where to find them. If it was varric during the events of da4 it could be possible that he wrote it once the fade and the real world was back together as one before being split back apart possibly? (Again no idea how da4 is going to turn out.) But if so then the book somehow fell out of a rift during dai and into current time for the events of dai. This would also explain why corrypheus never died of old age seeings as when he exited the fade he states that the world had changed especially the fact that tevinter is no longer as large as it once was. Elves also have long lives and it has been theorized before that lyrium runs through both the real world and the fade. It has also been theorized that the tattoos the elves wore were also laced with lyrium, which we saw on fenris. While yes the markings were supposedly the mark of a slave it never is stated whether or not the non slave elves had some sort of markings themselves that was possibly laced with lyrium. So if they did that would mean they have part of the fade inside of themselves, thus prolonging their lives. And maybe the amount of markings one had just meant how much lyrium one needed in order to thrive. The ones with less marking were more powerful and therefore didn't need much lyrium inside of them. Either way though having lyrium inside of them meant that they no longer aged. They could still die from battle but not from old age which is why they had what was called the eternal sleep. They technically didn't die but their brain functions decreased to the point where all that it could do was keep the body living. Now I know what your saying, 'but solas removed his markings.' Now se also have no idea how long the lyrium was inside of solas nor are we aware if any lyrium is still embedded inside of him. If you have ever gotten a pencil jammed inside of you, even if you remove the graphite, you will always (or at least for a long time, 14 years and counting for me) have a mark of where you got stabbed with the pencil. So if lyrium is like that, in a sense you can remove the marking, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the lyrium fully left the body. Anyways that's my theory if you have more questions just ask and I'll try to explain better
I know your wall of text is a theory (one that sounds almost inpossible), but one makes a theory hoping you actually answer the mystery, yet you are using a lot of things that get a variable in game. For instance, you are using the HoF and Alistair for this theory, remember that a warden is not the only candidate that you can leave behind in the Fade. There is Hawke too. You are using the HoF and the Calling's cure into. It is obvious one is not related to the other, and also this part is very unlikely, because not every HoF is alive. For this kind of theories you cant use any option that has a variation, but established lore more than anything. Also, how could the HoF have gotten physically into the fade to save Alistair in the first place, and travelled through time? It is just so out of place. More than anything a more possible answer is just that the mysterious chapter is a fan fic written by a spirit that expressed the last moments of the person who was sacrificed in the fade. And that person wanted you to know that he/she has no regrets with their sscrifice.
Those hawk endings
This is great!!
off you go stroud or loghain. i will never sacrafile hawke
So does chapter??? Prove that whoever's left in the face lives or not?
Is Donnic dead as well? If so poor Aveline.
I really do love all your videos I wish I had found them sooner and bc of you in gonna go reply Dragon age lol elf mage supreme
Can't believe that Bioware almost have my name in the codex just remove l in Jevlan and that's my name
I am sorry but this performance is barely 2 stars. Very bad reading.