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normal day at the ocean

normal day at the ocean

the crashing waves rose to fill my ears. i hear them still.

dredge | 2023, black salt games

the crashing waves rose to fill my ears. i hear them still.

dredge | 2023, black salt games

i do think you can interpret the warden as having been deliberately sabotaged in being made warden-commander (and that is my interpretation). they've been warden for a year. they've met a grand total of 3 wardens, possibly adding avernus if you do soldier's keep. they've been given shall we say a rudimentary overview of what being a warden entails. at least one big reveal is locked behind the alistair romance. none of the origins except maybe but quite-frankly-not-rly aeducan and cousland are well equipped to handling a territory as large as amaranthine pulling double duty as arl/essa and warden-commander. warden-commander for all of ferelden, when duncan seemed to kind of just be freelancing it.

weisshaupt is reluctant to send more than riordan after having a bunch of wardens turned away. they're all of a sudden v confident abt filling vigil's keep w orlesian wardens in a way that's weird even taking into account loghain being out of the picture. even if the darkspawn hadn't slaughtered anybody, that's kind of provocative! that's kind of a huge mess for the new fereldan commander of the grey to manage! and if your hof dies, then they just straight up send an orlesian to be commander! this is bad diplomacy even if the wardens and ferelden have historically been on good terms, which they have not!

but then everybody gets slaughtered DAY ONE and................no reinforcements are sent? it's just 'well you better recruit some more!" the first warden sends woolsey DIRECTLY, and she is, as far as i can tell, just sort of there to manage money and observe how the wardens having legitimized control over an arling impacts their influence. i think she's also reporting back, tho this is conjecture on my part. her presence is bizarre, esp given that varel is local, gable has been working in the area for a while, and garevel is ambiguous but at least willing to go toe to toe w woolsey.

i think, esp in a worldstate where the warden-commander is the surviving hof, that weisshaupt makes them warden-commander with the intention of forcing them to either resign in disgrace or otherwise be removed. humble the person who survived the unsurvivable! ensure their legacy crumbles before it has time to set! make them inconsequential so that all the other wardens aren't asking 'well how'd THEY survive. it's possible to survive killing the archdemon??' i think weisshaupt isn't interested in curing anybody but they certainly have huge archives and resources with which to conduct that kind of research. but curing the taint does create a scenario where wardens could just up and leave, and that weakens warden power.

a surviving hof warden-commander starts performing joinings straight away. they potentially don't know wardens are infertile. they've had zero training. AND they're expected to balance the needs of a hard-hit arling as well as building the fereldan branch of the order from the ground up. if i am the warden i'm going hey it kind of seems like i'm being set up to fail.

i do think you can interpret the warden as having been deliberately sabotaged in being made warden-commander (and that is my interpretation). they've been warden for a year. they've met a grand total of 3 wardens, possibly adding avernus if you do soldier's keep. they've been given shall we say a rudimentary overview of what being a warden entails. at least one big reveal is locked behind the alistair romance. none of the origins except maybe but quite-frankly-not-rly aeducan and cousland are well equipped to handling a territory as large as amaranthine pulling double duty as arl/essa and warden-commander. warden-commander for all of ferelden, when duncan seemed to kind of just be freelancing it.

weisshaupt is reluctant to send more than riordan after having a bunch of wardens turned away. they're all of a sudden v confident abt filling vigil's keep w orlesian wardens in a way that's weird even taking into account loghain being out of the picture. even if the darkspawn hadn't slaughtered anybody, that's kind of provocative! that's kind of a huge mess for the new fereldan commander of the grey to manage! and if your hof dies, then they just straight up send an orlesian to be commander! this is bad diplomacy even if the wardens and ferelden have historically been on good terms, which they have not!

but then everybody gets slaughtered DAY ONE and................no reinforcements are sent? it's just 'well you better recruit some more!" the first warden sends woolsey DIRECTLY, and she is, as far as i can tell, just sort of there to manage money and observe how the wardens having legitimized control over an arling impacts their influence. i think she's also reporting back, tho this is conjecture on my part. her presence is bizarre, esp given that varel is local, gable has been working in the area for a while, and garevel is ambiguous but at least willing to go toe to toe w woolsey.

i think, esp in a worldstate where the warden-commander is the surviving hof, that weisshaupt makes them warden-commander with the intention of forcing them to either resign in disgrace or otherwise be removed. humble the person who survived the unsurvivable! ensure their legacy crumbles before it has time to set! make them inconsequential so that all the other wardens aren't asking 'well how'd THEY survive. it's possible to survive killing the archdemon??' i think weisshaupt isn't interested in curing anybody but they certainly have huge archives and resources with which to conduct that kind of research. but curing the taint does create a scenario where wardens could just up and leave, and that weakens warden power.

a surviving hof warden-commander starts performing joinings straight away. they potentially don't know wardens are infertile. they've had zero training. AND they're expected to balance the needs of a hard-hit arling as well as building the fereldan branch of the order from the ground up. if i am the warden i'm going hey it kind of seems like i'm being set up to fail.

three nice gentlemen

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three nice gentlemen

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ESPIRIT DE CORPS

Somewhere in Revachol, year 35`, a young juvenile corrections officer blows cigarette smoke into the cold night. His one-a-day. The flash of a friend's camera takes him off guard. Maybe if he knew he was having a picture taken, he would have smiled. Or maybe not.

ESPIRIT DE CORPS

Somewhere in Revachol, year 35`, a young juvenile corrections officer blows cigarette smoke into the cold night. His one-a-day. The flash of a friend's camera takes him off guard. Maybe if he knew he was having a picture taken, he would have smiled. Or maybe not.

also in an era where games like bg3 are patching its characters to be less mean so they can be more fuckable, or games like veilguard are ignoring the series' previous nuance in favour of a feelgood found family narrative, i will ALWAYS support a game's right to let its characters be unpleasant to each other and argue about politics

also in an era where games like bg3 are patching its characters to be less mean so they can be more fuckable, or games like veilguard are ignoring the series' previous nuance in favour of a feelgood found family narrative, i will ALWAYS support a game's right to let its characters be unpleasant to each other and argue about politics

"ohhhhhh harrykim is toxic because harry idolizes anyone who is nice to him!!" maybe this is a hot take but i think kim would LOVE to be idolized by his own partner after over four decades worth of being viewed as inferior because he's not White Enough™

"ohhhhhh harrykim is toxic because harry idolizes anyone who is nice to him!!" maybe this is a hot take but i think kim would LOVE to be idolized by his own partner after over four decades worth of being viewed as inferior because he's not White Enough™

was left wanting after not feeling satisfied with the last piece so i felt eager to draw more before bed

was left wanting after not feeling satisfied with the last piece so i felt eager to draw more before bed

I want the Lizzie vs. Evrart drama SO bad. I want to know if Evrart was trying to get her to come back before the tribunal or if he really was going to put her in harm’s way like that. I want furious survivor Lizzie. I want her to go apeshit! Because like even if it wasn’t intentional it happened! To her! And Evrart put her in that powder keg with men he set up to die.

I want the Lizzie vs. Evrart drama SO bad. I want to know if Evrart was trying to get her to come back before the tribunal or if he really was going to put her in harm’s way like that. I want furious survivor Lizzie. I want her to go apeshit! Because like even if it wasn’t intentional it happened! To her! And Evrart put her in that powder keg with men he set up to die.

theres something here, about the Claires making a power play by trying to bend the company's violence in their favor against their own people and it backfiring in them losing Lizzie's loyalty and trust and in worst case scenarios her life

and like I will say again: they knew that the krenel mercenaries were violent white supremacists. they knew that at least one of them was a rapist, and that in all likelihood they all were. the case against Lely was built on that. the Claires knew how much danger Lizzie was in. the question is did they throw her to the wolves on purpose?

the most charitable reading of the situation is that they were trying to get her back before the tribunal broke out. that the Hardies were on the plate and she wasn’t. and even then it shows a real misunderstanding of Lizzie's character from the Claires, I think? Lizzie can’t stand them but she isn’t going to turn her back on the guys when the cops are in town

so in their perfect scenario they were counting on the RCM falling back out of Martinaise once they were unable to arrest the Hardies. Lizzie wouldn’t have been around if she wasn’t defending them

@yellow-yarrow

Good point!