Dragon Age: The History and Lore of Thedas. The Elves 

You mean the elf "gods" fighting the earth's Titans? I hope we'll get a flash back in the next game, even better, time travel back a be part of the battle and help Solas

@@kalabarringer3526 Solas mentioned during Trespasser dlc that the Evanuris became prominent after a war. He doesn't say if it was against the Titans and I don't think it was as well. When the Evanuris battled against the Titans they were already considered gods by that time and Solas said there was a progression for them after this eluded war. They went from Generals - Respected Elders - Kings - Then finally gods.

Titans that rule the land and live beneath the ground. Sounds like the old gods of the Teventer Imperium A.K.A. dragons who become arch-daemons during the blight

@@Mr.Incognito11 nah titans the creators "gods" of dwarves

I hope that the old writers who aren't with BioWare anymore make a prequel of sorts that shows the time of the Elvhen

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Dragon Age is great but it's a 70% straight up Tolkein rip

Nah, when I saw the alienages, tevinter slavers etc for the first time I felt some sympathy but the more I learned about their history the less I cared because they were royal fuck ups..

​@@Ragnarok6664 incorrect

How?

@@MalarikFilms, how are the incorrect?

@@ConnorLonergan they deleted their comment so I forgot

Because it's easier to get to the thing that you want to do next because of that one cutscene or interaction than reading a lot of tiny text

I have not, but I will get right too it! Thank you very much :D

true!

Lol the dragon age subreddit is terrible

Most of dragon age problems are based on real life i think. Religion, racism, fanatical view, etc. A safe way to talk about sensitive topic without any protest.

I agree, although it seems that there might be something strange going on with Andraste. Im thinking specifically about everything ablut her Ashes

You seem fascinating to talk to. Let me know. I live in Africa and I can speak to your claims. Really well said!

A little necro, but this is an absolutely ahistorical view of, well, 'history'. 'Slave' itself came from the supposed slavs, and 'saqaliba', which were often made-eunuchs of the royal courts, and even then, I've heard that connection is quite twisted. What you're referring to is the NOI, Nation of Islam, and how you potray is quite inaccurate, if even distortedly horrifying. Yes, the group itself originally was a seemingly twisted branch of the Sunni school of the Muslims, but it later grew into reforming itself into the so-called mainstream. One of it's prominent 'Ministers' was Malcolm X, and was the literal force that grew the group in the first place. Their being and forming was by the very civil-rights issues of America (i.e, RACISM and Jim Crow segregation laws) and out of some false sense of the Elijah Muhammad. What is very ironic is that you say the slave-tattoos of the Dalish are reflective of the members of NOI, when their names (their last names) WERE slave names given to them by their long-deceased white masters, thereby replacing it with an 'X', a sense of liberation from what they once were, a new start, to them. And this is mentioning little of Malcolm X's letter from Mecca, the very reason why he advocated for Islam was it's anti-racism, the delegations he met across the Muslim realm (Nkroma of Ghana, Faisal of Saudi Arabia), and... you know what, it sucks that ignorance like this is so widespread. I'll just give you a quote. ""Yes-I wrote a letter from Mecca. You're asking me 'Didn't you say that now you accept white men as brothers?' Well, my answer is that in the Muslim World, I saw, I felt, and I wrote home how my thinking was broadened! Just as I wrote, I shared true, brotherly love with many whitecomplexioned Muslims who never gave a single thought to the race, or to the complexion, of another Muslim. "My pilgrimage broadened my scope. It blessed me with a new insight. In two weeks in the Holy Land, I saw what I never had seen in thirty-nine years here in America. I saw all _races_, all _colors_,-blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans-in _true_ brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists-no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words."

@@hermitage6439 Not at any point did you refute not add to anything I said and your sloppy attempt to deflect the word slave to the slavs was out of left field at best and utterly wrong and not at all germane. The nation of islam was founded not for civil rights before the desired race war that Malcolm X and his cohorts wanted. They did not want equal rights but to kill those they saw as their enemies, not unlike communist groups actually. They latched onto islam while Malcolm was in prison actually where he converted to said religion. Lastly at no point did you even address the largest slave trade network in human history that predated the new world slave trade by centuries and it is still there to this day. The very world for people of African decent in Arabic literally translates to "slave." And it is specifically used for that group of people than anyone else even by the Ottoman Turks when they warred with the Slavics. It is clear you either know nothing of history or you actually subscribe to the ideals of the nation of islam. In which case carry on with your blind love of a religion that does not view you as a human and your vile hatred of your fellow man for things that were never done to you nor done by the people you hate today.

@@hermitage6439 I take it you’re a black nationalist

@@summerblossom4610 No, he’s ironically correcting the original point made, using the original point made. The history of Black nationalism was misquoted and is clearly misunderstood by the original commenter. It’s a fascinating point, but poorly attributed. This is a larger issue in America, where people that are misinformed assume that African and Arabic enslavement of Africans is not taught. That is incorrect.

Thank you so much, It means a lot to see how people really appreciate the content :D

P.S. English is not my first language but it was so easy to listen to you. I really enjoyed it 😊

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He did not go to sleep willingly. Creating the veil knocked the lights out of him. And he couldn't know the elves would get so confused. He probably assumed they will just rejoice at being freed from the evil god tyrants, not keep worshipping them and demonizing him. As for his followers, remember that the elves still worshipped the Evanuris as their gods, despite them being dicks. So they probably killed Solas's followers to appease their gods.

How do you love Dragon Age and resding all the text, but didn't realise the elven "gods" were just elves, and evil? Its literally all Solas bangs on about later in inquisition and the DLC

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@@loreuniversity895 Might be asking to much but can you make them an hour long? Really enjoyed listening to this on my car ride and at work lol

@@NRV0 Thank you, future videos will probably be around 1 hour long, if not longer :D

@@loreuniversity895 Awesome! I appreciate your efforts

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Thank you, I'm very glad you enjoyed it :D

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Thank you very much! Adrian is a truly wonderful composer indeed, I'm glad he let's people use his work as long as he is mentioned. I would like to use music from the DA games, and I have seen other content creators do so, but I am unsure if I will get copyright strikes or not if I do? So I went with the safe alternative with Adrians music :P

@@loreuniversity895 yeah I know Jackdaw uses the Inquisition soundtrack but I don't know if it can get you copyrighted :/ I still think it's better to use Adrian's music if you know you won't get copyrighted and bring more awareness to his music! ☺ oh and I look forward to your future videos! These first three have been great :)

Thank you, Im glad I could help! :D

@@loreuniversity895 you making more Dragon Age videos? I watched the (3) you have uploaded. They are really good!!! Hope you do more

@@joecaronna2450 I will be making more episodes, the next one will hopefully be out in the coming weeks :D

@@loreuniversity895 awesome man!! cant wait

Yeah but him creating the vail also kinda started this whole mess soooo.

He just wanted to undo what he did before.

Thank you very much, Im glad you enjoyed it! And you are in for a treat because the next video will be about the dwarves :D

Thank you! You are fantastic! 😁

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Tevinter used to occupy most of Thedas.

I expelled a shart

im actually wondering if they found titans

I think it makes sense time often wrap stories into myths. And every one has their own interpretation of the myth, also most of the elven knowledge and history Is locked behind the veil, so can't really fact check

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we know for a fact that The Blight originated from those seven Magisters that entered the fade but what we dont know is whether the Darkspawn originated from that too or did the magisters release them upon their return from the fade

@@wintertrooper7918 the 7 Magisters were said to have found the Golden City already blackened/blighted meaning the 7 original magisters who broke through the Veil were the original and first darkspawn. They contracted the now released sickness, and upon returning the the physical world brought it with them. Solas created the veil trap the Old Gods, but really I think he was afraid the Evanuris would destroy themselves by being too arrogant and using red lyrium/Blight instead of containing it or destroying it if possible. Solas ended up being true, and the Elves were lost but over the last 1000s years whose to say how corrupt everyone trapped in the now Blighted Fade has become.

@Sovannarama so no Solas created the Veil to punish the evanuris after they murdered Mythal as far as we know Solas only learned of the taint the datkspawn and all that much later in fact based on his comments I'd say that he has no clue what the old gods are nor has he seen an archdemon before

@@wintertrooper7918 the Old gods are the old Elven Gods. There were 9 Evanuris in total but Mythal was murdered and Solas didnt want to be a God, so 7 remain and align with the Old Gods of Tevinter. Punishment was partly why he created the veil, but if the Golden City was part of Arlathan then the Blight was already present before he sealed it away with the Gods and the Blight. Andruil who is one of the remaining Elven gods is the one to find the Blight and be corrupted by it, which codex entries state.

@Sovannarama we have zero evidence backing the "evanuris = old gods" theory it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense, especially given what we know of the evanuris now if the Old Gods are a group of 7 of the so called "Forgotten Ones" that has more weight to it