Dragon Age: The History and Lore of Thedas. The Tevinter Imperium 

I wanna kill solas

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That concept comes from the misdjudgement of other countries by fearing a magocracy. Both systems (north and south) have oppression and inequality. This shows that inequality is inherent to humanoids rather than just one society.

​​​@@jonyjonas I don't know what game you've been playing, but bioware has been pushing really hard to set up the imperium. What you say as shown is often only told, especially in DA2 when Hawk finds that elf girl who was enslaved. I remember Fenris was in my party and he was fuming, I had to persuade him to chill out because she was clearly traumatized and I hired her to be a maid when I got home. Her owner was distinctly nefarious and had the whole blood magic and deamon binding trip going on. It doesn't actually speak to Tevinter's character when they make you hit that kind of panic button. And there aren't many redeeming moments I can think of unless they're tucked away in the third game. That whole magocratic fear doesn't hold up either when considering how nations like Rivain or Nevarra do magic.

@@sheakennedy-ordway1156 hahaha have you seen the templars? The systematic abuse by the templars and the chantry doesn't exactly do them justice either. You sound completely biased, as there are nefarious blood mages there are exceptionally good mages from the Imperium and the Elven empire. Yes Fenris was right to be resentful but did you see the way that mage whose Cole took the shape from got murdered by the templar? Pfff, you are just giving your opinion from your own twisted world.

​​​​​@@jonyjonasThat's petty. It's a story, by its own nature It's political. The whole point is in personal narratives. All I'm pointing out is that you're claiming some grand societal implications that don't hold up to scrutiny. Even the Templar argument doesn't mean anything because the third game literally begins because of the annulment of the circle in a nation where the chant didn't have power. It's like if the spetznaz murdered their pope, of course it would result in international incident. I also never praised the acts or policies of the chantry, in fact Bioware clearly wrote religious contradiction into every Theodosian faith. If anything, orthodox religion itself is the villain in these games since they suppose bland mythologized simplistic explanations for how a society should be while turning blind or even supporting corruption. In fact, I cited nations that do have magical traditions that are peaceful and do have both diverse religions and tolerance for magic. I'd appreciate if you didn't put words in my mouth, and show don't tell is a sound writing principle.

​@@sheakennedy-ordway1156 go back to readit.

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Do you think Elves Gods made the Darkspawn to free them?

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Mages are probably quite rare, if Ferelden during DA:O is any indication of their few numbers. Consider that Duncan's branch of the Grey Wardens only ever had one mage at a time, and the mages are quite a small, tight-knit group, as you'll see if you play as a mage. So they're most likely not very common on the battlefield, and yes they can summon meteors but during the course of that game your party of 5 people is able to take down whole groups of mages. So a handful of mages on a battlefield would probably be insignificant compared to thousands of men-at-arms unless they were sent as a special squad to accomplish a particular magic-requiring task somewhere adjacent to the battle.

@@nick_at_knight dunno, but i think that summoning a rock from the fade, has some implications on morale. Especially is said rock is on fire.

The Blood will serve

Thank you very much! 😁Next main video will be about the Anderfels.

I guess if you don't care about the blood magic, slavery, and influence of the old gods, it was a great place to live

I have the same sentiments as you have. I dont think the Imperium was and is always teh badguy. I love how esoteric they are which makes them not a typical nation unlike those nation that surrounds them. It is the over-sensationalization of Blood Magic and Slavery that makes the rest of the nations hate them. Dorian already explained whats the pros and cons of the two. Tevinter did a huge favor to whole Thedas. Tevinter faved the way towards modernization of over everything in Thedas. I hope DA4 would would give us objectification about TE

Honestly I don’t. Generally think that the maker and the eleven gods are different. Solas seems to focused on destroying mankind to be the maker in my opinion

In time my friend, have patience. We save the best for last 😁

@@loreuniversity895 that's what I figured. Guess I'll have to watch all until that time comes 😆

That would be great, I like her work. Her channel was one of the main inspirations for me to make DA-lore vids.

Bro you literally live in The Tevinter Imperium

I think you have commented on the wrong video my man. I don't talk about any trailers in this video, this is a lore vid. Nothing of what you wrote here fits with what this video about Tevinter lore is about.