Dragon Age: The History and Lore of Thedas. The Humans
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ม.ค. 2022
- In the series fifth lesson, Professor Absalom explores the humans of Thedas: their history, religions, culture and languages.
Sources:
-Dragon Age: The World of Thedas (2013)
-Dragon Age wiki: dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Dra...
-Codex entries from Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II and Dragon Age Inquisition.
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-TeknoAXE's Royalty Free Music: / @teknoaxe
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This is EXACTLY what I wanted when I searched up DA lore. I'm a history nerd irl and this just scratches the itch to understand the foundation of DA.
Do you like Elder Scrolls? I love dragon age, but as a history nerd Elder Scrolls is the best place for insanely deep lore :)
I've played DA Origins way too much. The moment you said, "The Chantry teaches...," The intro from the game started going through my head in Duncan's voice.
The story of humans in DA is so intricate that it's easy to get lost sometimes, so this video was a good refresher. I loved the way you remark the nuances of the religion and the myths vs the actual history. Thank you so much for working on these videos even when you are so busy!
And thank you so much for enjoying them :D
I recently just discovered this channel, and the videos you put out are absolutely awesome, they're well put together, informative and interesting, thanks for these
Thank you for the kind words and welcome! :D
Great vid as always. I would LOVE to see a video on the demons and spirits of the fade (or maybe a video for each)
Thank you! I talk about spirits and demons a little bit in my vid about Magic and the Fade, but a dedicated vid about that subject is not a bad idea. Maybe it will pop up in the future. 😁
I believe dragon age should make a couple of prequel games , such as the first blight and the civil war of ferelden
Theres a book detailing the events of Maric's rise
I am a fresh subscriber and I just started playing Inquisition properly so this content is as if it was sent by the Maker himself. Fantastic job, can't wait for more!
Fantastic, you're continuing to be my favorite dragon age lore channel
Thank you kindly :)
This channel is so cool, I love the longer lore videos and Dragon Age is so interesting. I love the calm vibe. I play just the audio for this content while I drive, it's relaxing and has good information.
Welcome back!
I just started replaying Dragon Age from 1 and this channel is great. Thank you for sharing and spreading the love of this game and its world.
Massive props to this guy 🤘💪 got me hooked lol. This was always the best series as far as history given and lore. Your bringing life back to my love of the games.
I really enjoy your videos. They build on the material in an effect way that makes the whole picture vivid.
Another great lore video! Thank you for making these :) they really help with waiting for more DA4 updates
49:20 this map is pure nerdy dope! Great video, love this amazing game.
I'm so glad you're still working on this series!
I love that I founf your channel this year because binge watch your DA lore videos. I hope you got more in the making. DA lore is very rich and fantastic. Thank you for all your effort and great work.
Thank you for making this. Very nicely done. Helped me calm down in between final exams. You are an excellent speaker.
Thank you, my friend, for the content! You always do a nice job ♥️
Many thanks, friend :D
Has anyone pointed out already that the Neromenians, said to be the first human tribe sounds very similar to the Numenoreans from J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium? Kinda cool if you ask me haha.
Ok. Now I am officially addicted to this channel! Excellent job!
Channels like yours are the reason I enjoy content creation. So well put together and delivered! Love your videos! ❤
Yet another incredible video. I love the in-character aesthetic to your channel. If you ever need an extra hand with the script for future content or with lore research, let me know. Your work is amazing.
Thank you! :D
Great stuff man! These videos are great! If you're ever looking for another voice to add to these videos for reading I have a great mic that I don't use enough lol. If not then all good, going to be looking forward to your next videos!
Best dragon age lore channel so far. Great upload!
Thank you very much :D
Thank you for your amazing work, professor. It is very much appreciated.
Fantastic channel man! Love the videos
holy shit for a minute I thought I was watching real life history, amazing video brother
do you think you could do a lesson on the languages of the world? i also love the channel because you're structuring things in a really understandable way and doing in depth explanations :D
Thank you. :D The languages might be future lectures, that's not a bad idea.
That’d be great!
The channel Ghil Dirthalen, which exclusively does DA lore, has a video on this topic.
Subscribed. Thank the maker I founs your channel
YESSS you're back!
has anyone thought of the possible link between 'The Old Gods' and the old Elven mage 'Gods'? 7 of the 9 fell when Solas created the veil, and there are 7 archdemons - is the Archdemon the physical reincarnations of those beings? Were humans lead by the old gods down the blood mage route to allow them to return to the physical realm and rule? Or to exact some sort of revenge on the remaining elves?
I wondered if they were the Titans, corrupted and given new form. After all, the Archdemons are found deep beneath the earth.
I personally think the 'old gods' are powerful ancient spirits that sought to take over the power vacuum in the world following the fall of the elven gods when solas made the veil and because of the way things existed prior to the veil their mortal forms were stuck in the mortal world while their powerful spirits were in the fade
Bro dragon age has some of the best lore I've ever seen
Thanks for the lore videos. You do the writing justice.
Thank you very much!
These videos are awesome! I never played the games but we are doing a dragon age based dnd campaign and this has been such a helpful crash course!
That is awesome. How has the campaign gone over the last year? I am a DM so I really am interested in how you did it
@bradfordrobinson568 it's gone really well! We had to put a pause on it because a few of our players were out of the country, but we are picking it back up here in a couple of months. We basically used the lore for back grounds. my character is a human paladin but I am playing him as a Templar which has been very fun! My husband DMs and he set it post inquisition so we have some creative freedom with the world.
Gotta say I’m so glad there is someone out there doing deep lore dives into the history of Thedas. We get this for FromSoft games but Bioware has some of the most deep world building and lore in their games as well.
So take my sub.
Thank you, diving deep into lore is what I do best. 😁 Glad you are enjoying the content, welcome.
Dwarves learn to live with problems.
Elves make _new_ problems.
Qunari _replace_ problems.
Humans _are_ problems.
Humans are all of the above and adaptation.
Been looking for a channel that put focus on DA lore and history.
Thank you for another lesson.
Humans dominate cause they have decentralized themselves into smaller nations for easier governing. When they did the same thing as the Elves and Dwarves with one large nation like Tevinter Imperium, it showed just how weak they become when large coordination is needed, stifled bloated bureaucracy, and the lack of creative diversity. They are also able to quickly adapt and evolve depending on the situation and environment, where Elves and Dwarves are slow to change their ways. Qunari are an oddity cause they showcase all the capabilities of humans (and then some), but are nerfed by their punishing system of governence, culture, and control of the populace.
Very nice analysis 😁👌
dude you rock for this
Something's not right with the Maker. If the Evanuris were actually just powerful Elven Mages, why can't the Maker be a human mage?
Maybe. Some followers of the Imperial Chantry goes so far as to say that while the Maker is a God, Andraste was just a really powerful mage who, inspired by the Maker, used magic rather then miracles.
@@loreuniversity895 that’s pretty interesting. Personally I think that could be true. Though I like the idea that the idea that the maker is an actual god, who created the world
You have a point there, Andraste was married and the "Maker" was like "leave all that and come with me to be my wife" lol
@@robertoleary5470that idea is pretty lame, we've been uncovering what truly happened with the Elves and their Gods, we're also getting Dwarven lore with the Titans
The "Golden City" now Black city that is in the Fade as the seat of the maker, now we now that the Fade was never a separate plane or dimension, it was created when the Veil was created by Solas. So the "City" was already part of the world.
What if Humans are spirits that resisted the veil when it was first created and so they fashioned themselves bodies or what if Elves closer to where the Veil begab, skyhold presumably, lost more than their immortality and became Humans?
The skyhold is in the north if i recall
Skyhold is in the mountains separating orlais and ferelden it lies south of orzammar but north of haven
So humans were around before the Veil, as Dwarves. So why do a large portion of fans believe everyone besides elves are going to die when the Veil falls (not if, when. It's probably degrading anyway)?
It sounds like of the veil is torn down, it'll be akin to a natural cataclysm that's gonna destroy the world, like a dam breaking. It sounds like Solas is going to protect his people (the elves that join him) while it happens so they don't get hurt. I would assume the elves that don't join him would also suffer.
I just wanted to say how entertaining these videos are, and thank you for creating them. This is the second I've now seen, the previous having to do with the elves, and I look forward to watching the the ones on the other races histories.
Human is my favorite race in DA for some reason.
Same :)
This would be a good movie, heck dragon age origins would be a great movie
I'd like to know if the codex about mythal appearing from the sea and calming elganon by placing her hand on his forehead, is the first act of making a mage tranquil. Any thoughts anyone?
Unfortunately as with literally all of elven lore, new revelations bring all of it in to question
@@wintertrooper7918I would say fortunately. We are getting actual truth now from firsthand beings like Solas who is thousands of years old
@SmartAss4123 we also have to take Solas's word with a grain of salt he is biased and it's been thousands of years since he went to sleep, but yes his word is far more reliable than the old elven tales
@@wintertrooper7918 For a human mind that would make sense. But his kind are naturally immortal before he created the veil. And when he went to sleep its not like our sleep. He doesnt lose memories like humans would. Even the immortal elves in the Temple corroborated Solas's account and they didnt damn him. And they have been awake and asleep on and off for however many many Thousands of years that they've been there
@@wintertrooper7918 He might be biased but everything we've seen seems to be correct. You can be biased and still be giving accurate facts. He has a personal bone to pick with the Evanuris for slavery and stuff so I'm going to give him a pass for bias lol
Keep at it, when DA4 starts hyping this channel is gonna blow up
You know I'm watching this one the verry lastday of 2022 when he sais happy new year.
What are the odds XD
talk about conveniant. Happy NEW YEAR EVERYONE happy 2023
Almighty algorithm, hear my plea
Small note, the Imperial Chantry was actually first, established by Archon Hessarian himself a few years after Andraste's death and ran unopposed for a few hundred years before Drakon's Orlesian Chantry. The Orlesian Chantry was a splintering, taking the exact wording of the Chant much more literally. The Chant states that magic should serve man and not rule over him. The Imperium takes this to mean that mages should always serve the interests of the people.....as politicians and "public servants". The Orlesian Chantry took it more literally, that mages should never hold powerful positions. They also took Andraste's warning about men being "too emotional" more literally and banned them from holding high offices in the Church. This is also why many countries in Thedas don't have a lot of hangups about female rulers. Since the Imperial Chantry was the original Chantry, they saw these new rules as direct attacks against their culture and disavowed the Orlesian Chantry, installed their own MALE and MAGE Divine, and as Dorian says "we've been feuding cousins ever since".
Incorrect the imperial chantry didn't exist till the split but hessian did create one of the first andrastian cults that would later become the chantry
What's the name of the music from the start to 3:00 ?
Great content brk, ill be playing inquisition again soon because of this going through all your videos now x
I haven't seen any theories like this but what if the Elvhen who travelled the Fade met with some early Parvolan humans there, and influenced them to migrate to mainland Thedas through their dreams? I'm not sure for what reasons. Power, slaves, blood magic, hate, or something else maybe.
great!
I stopped playing at the beginning of DA2. Bin thinking of doing a new play through of Origins and the expansions for a while because I really like the world. Lore vids like this sure make me miss Morrigan and Flemeth and their great voices from Claudia and Kate. Thanks for inspirations.
A question to the community: Is Inquisition any good?
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The Chantry...purge it with fire! Nobody needs those greedy oppressors (they only keep mages around to milk them for all they are worth, via selling enchanted goods, renting out their services as healer - and WMDs during war! A mage is after all worth more than 100 soldiers, if not even more!) and their tin-doggies (templars - who make great canned food once you've roasted them in their armor and no, as an elf that isn't even cannibalism :D)
ok
Humans are also taller than the elves only by a head I've measured my female elf next to Cassandra
So there are 6 old god dragons and they lead the blights as Archdemons. What will happen when all of them are killed?
History of humans: History of the Chantry
Interesting... The female dragons were actually dragons, the male species were drakes. But in the Tevinter old God's religion, all of them were dragons. They had only one female dragon because of name? It seems that they started to study dragons very late and didn't know that male dragons are drakes
I keep reading theories humans are elves cut off from the fade o.O
I really prefer the idea that humans came from across the sea and there's others still back there
There is a lot of Thedas not revealed to us, so the origin of Humans and Qunari is still not known to us.
Soo the old gods are dragons, i did not remember that, i tough they bcome highdragons when awakened
The Maker made his own creation into his bride. Sickening. If the maker made everything then he is at fault, the 1st push is always the Cause. And yet the Maker is Male.
The chantry is very biased
I thought this was lore on humans and not lore on the chantry
Well, the chantry was created by humans and is a significant part of their history and culture. I've done the same thing with the other races, highlighting their respective religions as well in their videos.
is this guy swedish?
Kanske... :P
14:30 because humans are like hornets... See what they do to each other? It will be just as bad for an outsider, and then some...
Human race is the only one I play in DA Origin. I tried playing the other races, Dwarves, and Elf, but did not like them. DA 3 I could not play it, tbt I do not like DA 3. Hopefully DA 4 is way better than 3, and they stick with what made DA 1 & 2 work
Humanity is the best race fight me.
It always was, it always has been. Without humanity, there is no Dragon Age
Agreed 100%
@@dominicp9296anyone who isn’t pro-Humanity is too far out of touch imo, like.. we’re all humans irl? Why wouldn’t you be pro-humanity I don’t get it lol
Sure, at least, our ancestors were...
Us? Not so much.
Ogres are superior!!! 🧌
reminds me of the Catholics.
That was definitely the inspiration for the chantry and Andraste. Think the devs mentioned that she was meant to be burned on a cross but removed it because it was too "on the nose"
Humans. The source of all woes in fantasy settings. Hence why I do not find them fantastical nor interesting enough to play one. Maybe I’ll give the humans of DA a chance.
You should, I for one am the complete opposite. Even if elves and dwarves are fascinating, the way humanity exists in a fantasy context is one of my favorite aspects to explore in RPG's or fantasy settings. And I really think DA gives a wide variety when it comes to the humas, culturally, nation-wise etc.
@@loreuniversity895 interesting perspective. Green is always best.
Except they arent the source of all woes. Elves created the Veil and messed with magic, Dwarves related to the Titans and lyrium, humans just "inherited" a lot of the things Elves and Dwarves started. Qunari also are an equally budding race through the Qun system.
my most hated race .. thanks for the video.
@nathan smith yeah.. so sharp it should cut your life in half. blocked, not get lost.
Your being mega cringe dude leave the real world politics out of our dragon age game
@@williammclaughlin8205
pardon but my screen is REEKING from your filth! it's a post from 1 year ago! if you don't accept it, ignore it! or leave it be!
your existence here is not welcome! bye!
Humans are also taller than the elves only by a head I've measured my female elf next to Cassandra