Dragon Age Lore: The Qunari
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- Join True Masters & Morons as we go over the Qunari, horned "giants" of the Dragon Age franchise.
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Seems like a healthy mindset to have for a society if you can ignore the fact that they sew mages mouths shut and use them as dogs in war
Like iron bull would say, not so different from methods used in circles
@@aderyn7600 Very different. Much more extreme.
@@epileptictrees5213 there’s the tranquils tho
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I was about to say the Tranquil would like to have a word with you. But they lack the capacity to "like" anything
this was after the retcon
I wish I would've been notified about this cause this whole video taught me a ton about the topic an I appreciate that you made it ^_^
I really wish the female qunari looked like the character in the race portrait
or get more muscles. I'm tired of this buff men/sexy female thing in the fantasy genra.
Tbh the only thing I don't like about the qun is their view on magic
It clearly can be mastered, and would be of great utility to them if mages were given proper mage jobs instead of used as war engines
Could you do a video about the Chantry, please? Its origins, who Andraste was, where the temple of Ashes and its guardian came from, how the circles were established etc.?
Damn, they looked a lot better in Dragon Age 2
Separating children without exception will always be a problem.
Which the Chantry also does for mage children, or the children of mages in circles.
Like Tevinter does with its slaves.
There is no group in Thedas that is innocent.
They're likr mandalorian communists, cool
I think they are an alegory for communist China.
I see them more as An Islam Allegory
@@johannesvonmalos7505 Yes, because islam is all about gender freedom and equality and lack of godly presences. No, the Qun is a Marxist utopia.
@@johannesvonmalos7505Or the ottoman turns especially when you consider the Tervinter Imperial as a stand in for Byzantine/eastern roman empire, only for the TI to survive unlike the real world counterpart.
I think i would join the qun
Me to
Qunari are fantasy communists. There. I shortened your explanation.
From some of the in-game comments I'd heard I came up with this idea. What if the Qunari giants are what's left of the humans on the original human continent? We know that the continent of Thedas was originally only inhabited by Elves and Dwarves who mostly ignored each other and that the humans including the Tevinter Empire came from another continent. We also learn that people who have used the dragon-blood ritual pass on some of that power to their offspring. I think we also know that the original human continent had a lot more dragons than Thedas and that there were barbarian tribes that had figured out the dragon-blood ritual and who hunted dragons. My thought is that the Qunari Giants are descended from these human barbarians who introduced dragon blood into their lineages over and over until the dragon blood started to transform them into the Qunari Giants as we now know them. It's been suggested that this may have been on purpose; but we don't know who initiated the idea except that obviously they knew about the dragon-blood ritual and taught it to the native barbarian mages. The specialized breeding the Qunari do is in part to strengthen their draconic ancestry by breeding those with the strongest draconic blood with each other. The Qunari Giants adopted their culture because the dragon blood combined with the wildness of their barbarian cultures made them too wild and chaotic so they developed an extremely tightly structured culture to combat that chaotic nature.
From my understanding (and from what I infered from ingame comments and refrences) I assume the Quanari are basically an ancient band of elven slave expiriments with Dragon blood?
Or maybe not even elven slaves but maybe humans?
Its not clear but they clearly were a "created" race bred specifically to be big and strong and as warlike as possible.
Ya, the original race is unknown, but between comments from all over, (specifically Solas and Corypheus) it definitely seems like they, at least in their current form were engineered in some way. Presumably using Dragon blood or some other form of draconic essence?
I think it’s worth noting Iron Bull’s taught fear of going mad without the Qun to guide him, something that may be related to their possible origin.
Although it’s one of the many things in dragon age that is still technically theory as a lot is left a mystery.
Yeah, judging from what some characters have said, the qunari are almost certainly artificial in origin.
@@Shadybish if they were created artificially, who created them anf why were they largely unknown?
Late comment but I believe that the qunari are a mix of elf and dragon and was probably an experiment from ancient elves and maybe the viitar is a substitute as the valleslin maybe wouldn’t work with them and as with the elves as time went on their history was blurred and obscured, probably not true but just food for thought
Nah thats a good head canon i either belive that or the qunari are just made by god to reflect dragons for some reason
You guys are great! Thank you for joining the dragon age lore community and adding so much to it!
I wonder why people take offence with the word 'Kossith' so much? Qun is a religion, and the people who believe it are Qunari, to my understanding. The majority of Qunari are Kossith yes? Those "horned-headed oxmen?" That's what their race is called. Is it the way it sounds? Is the name unlikable? Qunari sounds more elegant than Kossith... I can't wrap my head around this.
We've never seen anyone be offended, so we couldn't say. As far as we know you're right though, most of the citizenry that follows the Qun, by species percentage would be the Kossith. We think the major distinction is just that everyone, human, dwarf, elf, kossith, that follows the Qun, call themselves Qunari, as part of that whole "everyone is equal under the qun" thing. So distinctions like Kossith have fallen so far out of use as to be all but erased from their society. Presumably if the Qunari reached their goal of controlling everything, then a few centuries down the line there wouldn't even be distinctions between the other races, EVERYONE would just be called Qunari... hope that's useful?
They don’t seem to value their past, going so far as to try and erase it. Maybe?
What happens when a Dystopia and a Utopia make a baby? Mistopia.
The Gray Wardens or the legion of the dead
Wardens
Can you do a video describing every Major Kingdom in Dragon Age from Ferelden to Par Vollen ?
Why are they considered by 'Corypheus' a mistake? That's a question I want answered. Mainly because why are they a mistake? And the implication being, they aren't a naturally risen race like the others.
Between comments from Cole, Bull, Corypheus, and the legends of Reavers from Cassandra's family, I am heavily leaning to the Qunari ingesting Dragon's blood.
@8:10 Like the Inquisitor, if the player creates a Qunari character. Technically, Inquisitor Adaar is a "Vashoth, "or "grey one," rather than a Tal-Vashoth," or "true grey one. Vashoth - Qunari who were born outside of the Qun - are viewed like humans, elves, or dwarves because they never accepted a place in the Qun and then abandoned it like the Tal-Vashoth. That's why Qunari will do their best to kill any Tal-Vashoth they find, but will treat Vashoth with the same formality and coldness as non-Qunari
Can you guys do a video about B.J. Blazkowicz?
Horrifying dystopia aside, knowing i’d be a painter because I’m good at hue distinction makes me at least content with the concept of the Qun, but jesus fuck woe unto thee if you like working put or something
Prefer the Tal-Vashoth probably but I love them either way, kinda thought that the ”Kossith” were the ”originator race or at least something the existed long before the Qunari became what they now are
Tal-Vashoth is yet another commonly misunderstood word. Tal-Vashoth is the term from the Qun for those that have fallen away from the Qun and refused it's teachings. Meaning that much like how an elf, dwarf or human are Qunari if they follow the Qun, an elf, dwarf or human would be called Tal-Vashoth if they once followed the Qun but turned away. As with all things in Qunari culture they don't believe in a race/species. They are a people. As for Kossith that's just the word for the "Base" race that most people associate with Qunari. But it has fallen out of use much like humans are technically Homo sapiens but we go more often by human, or for a lot of people even more often by religion, creed, geographical location etc. People saying "i am a christian, I am an american, I am japanese, korean, german, russian, etc." :)
True Masters and Morons Aye, I guess Qunari(following the Qun) are more sensible then Orlais & Ferelden but I still prefer tal-vashoth, unless they are frothing blood rage savages..
REEEEEEEEEEE😨 it's Communism😹
You call this a lore video? It isn't even 2 hours long 😂
Is their a real life equivalent to the vitar war paint which hardens skin
... not to our knowledge....?
@@TrueMastersandMorons groovy man
My favorite Race/culture
Coming back to this, gotta say... The Qun isn't wrong, specifically. About the whole world being an organism. Kinda at least, if the Inqusition DLC hit it right. The Qun could be quite correct in the assumption and could be something that developed from some idiot stumbling across a different heart of a dwarven god and getting told by the god what to do and what to be, and didn't become a murderhobo from the connection. It would even explain the idea of the Qun being this densely complicated subject as it could be the direct conversation of a God to a mortal.
Taken further, maybe the Kissith race were created to interact with said heart in some capacity? Maybe to resist corruptive influences or whatever fucks with the minds of people who approach and go insane. They were experiments, though I don't think Tevinter experiments since the Tevinter were situated on Thaedus and while powerful in the past, doesn't seem to have left their continent?
Like most philosophies, there's a lot about the Qun that's good, and the world is very interconnected in any fiction and in real life. Personally we're not sure about any relation to the Kossith and dwarven gods, but yes they're definitely engineered in some form, and they came to Thedas looking like that, so we know they're not a Tevinter creation.
@@TrueMastersandMorons Depending on when the creators of the series came up with the Titans, if they had them in mind on the outset with Dwarves, or if it was later they came up with that. It would probably help to pin down on that. Since the DA:I DLCs do lead pretty hard that the next one will be focused on the old Elven Gods and exploring past just what the Chantry have drummed up to explain things. And with the fact that the Kossith are engineered, then lorewise and for the authors of it all. They'd probably want to tie things together to make a circle for it. Since that does seem to be an overall good tool for world building "Everything has a place in the circle of life of your world". The Kossiths have been in the game since the beginning, too though differently. And like the Titans, figuring whether the idea of "dragoning" them came later or early on. Likely also would explain the depths they were thinking. Though if it is true too, that they didn't expect Dragon Age to blow up, then more likely explanation is that from 2 onward they were trying to link shit together.
A Legend of Legaia lore video would be awesome!
My problem with Qunari is, how did they sleep? With horns like that, how can you sleep?
On your stomach. Or by sitting in a recliner.
What about the mages 🧙♂️ in qunari culture? Saarbas?
They’re just chained, controlled, and lose the ability to speak. They will literally never have a demon problem
I know we kind of breezed over it, but RainPhantom is correct. Qunari mages have their mouths sewn shut, they walk around in essentially armored/chained prison outfits. They're bound to a non-mage caretaker who watches over them to ensure they never get possessed, and the standard Qunari cultural instillation is still present, so they themselves are taught to fear and control their magic, lest they be possessed. In fact if their handler ever dies or they are separated from their handler for too long, they're automatically sentenced to death, and many will take their own lives. The automatic assumption being that the mage was possessed in the interim. For all of that though, the Qunari honor their mages, recognizing them for the incredible courage it takes to shoulder their terrible burden.
True Masters and Morons oh ok awesome! Thank you. I only asked because in DA2, they treated them poorly.
the odd thing originally the qunari weren't so excepting of other races or female warriors will you ever go into that history before the retcon?
So I would like to know why in the call of duty modern warfare series why they killed off ghost and roach in mw2 like just why them so early in the game
Race of qunari and tal vashoth is actually kossith
Could you guys please do a lore video on Cheshire/Luka from the Bayonetta video games please?
I always felt like the qunari are underdeveloped in the dragon age series they can do so much more with them it seems like developers want them to be mysterious instead they made them come across as weirdos
I mean the first game sets them up decently with swen and second game they are the second biggest (or biggest) conflict in the game but yeah third game doesnt use them much outside iron bull but still iron bull does give a lot of info
I'm planning to make a video on my other channel about Qunari gender :) Theirs is so interesting since it's firmly based in roles above all, which means those born male can and will be seen as women if they take on roles Qunari assign solely to women, and vice versa. Also the fact that roles among the Qun can, in fact, change, if deemed necessary or if the initial one is ill-fitting, means that a Qunari bred and raised into the army, who are all "male", can become a Tamassran [teacher/scholar/doctor/historian/mother figure/sex therapist/role assigner] and thus "female".
Your content is great
Can do a video on the Blade of the Archfiend Solo
please do a lore video on sam fisher from splinter cell
Great video!
Can you do a video on the cyberdemon
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