Damn, I didn't know that the Dwarves had issues with reproduction in Dragon Age. Makes me think that they're essentially DA's version of Krogan, but instead of a genetic disease, it's their societal structure that's slowly killing them off. That's pretty tragic. Nice video!
I would say it's also the constant threat of the darkspwan that also causes them to be stuck in that societal structure. They operate as a country constantly in war, only having reprives during blights, and even then, would supply aid if the grey wardens asked for it. Its also genetic as well since the constant fighting with the darkspawn,(their blood in particular) causes either death, turning into ghouls, or increased sterility; good example of this is grey wardens are known to have a lower viability of having children because of the joining involving darkspawn blood. If a grey warden does have children, it was usually before the joining, and children born after the joining is considered rare, take Fiona, for example.
I think they just have a low birth rate for the reasons explained in the video. If they were almost infertile in addition to all those things they would have went extinct by now. As for the no inter species mating tabboo, I suspect it's like incest for them for some reason and the children can come up like Sandal.
@@therainbowconnection6813 you're right, fertility and birth rate are different things. I was just joking tho 😂. Regarding the last thing you said, that's an interesting theory, although I prefer to believe Sandal talks weird because he has a special connection to Titans... As Valta. Who began to talk in a weird way as well after she was hit by the heart of the Titan.
Only 2 children? How Boring 😉 My Warden Willriker hast a child with Mardy, much Fun with Leliana, a God child with Morrigan and enough opportunities in Denerim (about 50 Souvereigns) , including a foursome with Isabella, Zevran, Leliana and myself 😏 A good Tribute to Commander Riker from Star Trek The Next Generation 😂
I really want a dragon age game focused on reclaiming Thaigs. I want Hawk but a dwarf and it’s focused on dwarves and your goal is to retake one of more thaigs and rebuild dwarf greatness. It will never happen but I want it to lol
This gives me a thought. If there's lyrium in the fade and the waking world then maybe the titans sleep because of the veil. Like being disconnected from it somehow puts them in this "coma". That would explain why the titan in Descent was stirred by the breach. And if dwarves are the children of titans that could also explain why they're currently disconnected from the fade. Also makes me wonder that if Solas tears down the veil maybe that will wake up the titans. It would make sense with what Solas says to Varric too: "Dwarves are the severed arm of a once mighty hero, lying in a pool of blood. Undirected. Whatever skill of arms it had, gone forever. Although it might twitch to give the appearance of life, it will never dream."
Descent DLC definitely did open some questions. Shaper Valta disappears after getting connected to the Titan, the Wellspring becomes blocked off, and from the war table operation that happens after the DLC Renn’s grave was disturbed and his remains taken. Hopefully the next game we get some insight to what Valta has done with his body and what she has planned
Sandal still scares the crap out of me, especially in Origins. You KNOW he can speak basic sentences because he already had shown he could but when you ask him why he's in a room full of dead Ogres and common Darkspawn, he just refuses to say anything that isn't his typical exclamation.
The Descent DLC left us with more questions than answers, what if they are preparing us for the next games' epilogue, where they will develop the Titans storyline for a DA5?
Dragon Age Origins is the only game I ever had a true Dwarven play through, I tend to dislike playing them in any other media, but in DA:O their story was just to good not to.
@@sarialue You mentioned your self in the video on the slavery section that you have dwarven cities in Tevinter meaning there is great opportunity to flesh out more of their lore and create great stories around them, I'm just worried about Bioware in general with so much great talent that helped create the Dragon Age universe having left the past decade and the new staff still having not proven themselves fully, just hope the writing stays at least on par with the "Trespasser DLC" level.
The deep roads and dwarves history is intensely interesting to me. I never fail to enjoy seeing more and more of the deep roads. I would love a whole game of just dwarves history and adventuring in the deep roads discovering Thaigs and their wonders.
I'm so glad you're finally back, it felt like years i couldn't find your channel or anything else online. Your The Problem With The Maker video is still one of my favorites and has one of my favorite quotes
ty alex, glad to be back. I'm sorry I don't have that video anymore, but my blog still has the script if you wanted to see it : sarialue.wixsite.com/home/post/the-problem-with-the-maker
Hopefully Bioware will expand what they started in the Descent DLC. the connection between the fade, titans and elves just added more questions than answers for me.
Noble dwarven houses have the right to take in concubines to increase the chances of producing heirs. The offspring will still be considered nobles. But the laws of succession are very strict. First come, first serve. So if a concubine gives birth to a son before the wife, that son is usually considered the First Son.
Wow. I didn't know any of this. When dwarves take their drink "dirty" or "on the rocks" it probably has literal dirt and rocks in it.🤢 Also. Hi, Saria.
OMG, I hope we finally see full on pronounced biracial features in DA: Dreadwolf. I love the thought of a slightly taller Sandal with pointier ears. 😍 I know Sera is probably all elven, but it was cool that she still had an elven face, but a human body type in Inquisition.
Really?! I didn't realize even after literally countless replay-hours, maybe because everyone but the Iron Bul look so small next to my qunari inky. Somehow I have picked only qunari to romance or bff Sera. Maybe next time someone else.
I had an interesting thought regarding red lyrium yesterday when playing through Dragon Age 2 and doing the Deep Roads expedition. There are those weird stone creatures with skeletons, and their codex entry said something about them starving and so, in turn, they ate the gods and now exist eternally as something different. What if Blighted Lyrium was created by infusing the life blood of a titan with some sort of primeval dwarf that's not really like dwarves are now? After all, when blighted lyrium is put into a person, it grows and feeds off of them. So maybe, when they ate a titan (they'd have to have been a form of dwarf to have had a thaig) it corrupted everything. And the other titans sealed away the corruption. At some point, the Elvehn slew another titan. Some time after this, Solas decided to throw up the veil, which, as one of the many unforseen consequences of his actions, messed with the containment of the blighted lyrium. Since lyrium is a connected energy source to the veil, it might have created a spot where the red lyrium was contained outside of the thaig (because red lyrium does grow, but it wasn't growing very quickly outside of the primeval thaig) in the fade. And when the Teventer Mages showed up to go to the golden city, they ended up landing right where the main source of red lyrium was located in the fade. The thing that was whispering to them were the beings corrupted by the red lyrium wanting to get free, which makes sense because red lyrium does "whisper" to people, as evidenced by the lyrium idol. We have no evidence of red lyrium before the blights, even Solas didn't seem to know anything about it. Honestly, it makes a lot of sense that there were some dwarves that existed before the current dwarves. And the split that's talked about has to be when the Profane (is that what the rock people are called? I can't recall), and then the veil being put up split them into halves into both realms.
Connection to Mass Effect: the Titans are like the Thorian. Due to Reapers advanve they went silent to prevent destruction. It may workef at first, but as we hit a desert planet in ME that got the same scared moon as seen in DA, it did not work out perfect and even DA civilisations are medieval, the planet ecosystem got destroyed by either Reapers, The Dreadwolf or other magic by the time ME takes place
Honestly in regards of the Titans I don´t really think it is a hivemind situation. We see that dwarves of that time kept diaries, something very private, what use would that be in a hivemind society? I think the Titans are 'connected' to the Dwarves but that the dwarves do maintain free will. We know they see the Dwarves as their children not as slaves, tools or thralls. In regards of the Sha-Brythol I think this was something they did to themselves when their Titan fell silent. Maybe as a act of desperation, hoping to form a connection with the Titan to wake it up. Then when it woke up it was shocked by these utterly changed dwarves and tried to find an normal dwarf to figure out what had happened. I also think that the reason why it attacks you even if you play as a dwarf may be because of the Mark. Lets not forget Titans bleed magic so they may feel the specific differences. So all it possible felt from the Inquisitor was the magic the Evanuris used and presumed they were an enemy.
A couple of honorable mentions re: unrevealed dwarven history. 1) in the ancient hissing wastes surface thaig there is mention of the need to escape or avoid a war while making mention of “winged lizards” as well as the presence of possibly a Mythal statue in the area of Fariels tomb-DAI 2) within the deep roads is a room with an altar to Dumat, between shackles, above descending pools outlined in runic decor. The room also happens to be the “western hall” of the particular area which it resides in heidrun thaig. (Direct references to the letter found in the raw fade during “Here Lies the Abyss” about The Claw of Dumat) -DAI, and Descent 3) there is a room further into the Heidrun thaig containing two room length pools of blood and some very intriguing art work on the walls. Namely a picture of a city or fortress (Skyhold?) high up in mountains, and either an empty throne or single tower with curious details above it. 4) another room in heidrun thaig containing two claw of Dumat statues as well as two statues which appear bird like (razikale?) -DAI, Descent 5) the “experts” are wrong about what lies deeper than the deep roads. Which corroborates the claim by corypheus that the historical account of breaking into the golden city per both tevinter and the chantry of andraste are wrong. -DAI, and Descent 6) dwarves can change the memories of the stone (like lyrium). Meaning they can rewrite history, as recorded in the stone itself (like lyrium) at will (memories claim fariel died in the deep roads, clearly untrue) -DAI, descent 7) the ancient dwarves of at least Kal Repartha (hissing wastes surface thaig) knew how to imprison demons and presumably benevolent spirits within stone. -DAI, Demons of the stone Both aforementioned thaigs are supposed to be from before the first blight. Which is before the story of tevinter magisters entering the golden city. Either the dwarves are hella good prognosticators, their history predates the veil (so as to be able to manipulate demons/spirits with no proclivity for magic. As well as having knowledge of large winged lizards, both seem unlikely) or they’re actively hiding something. Something big. These are just things that I’ve noticed and have been scratching my head over with my most recent nightmare play through of DAI.
@@sarialue Thank you so much haha! I first played it in high school several years ago and so I needed to play it again. Started a game as a human mage. Have you played the series several times?
I’ve always wondered why so few actually choose to play as dwarves in both Origins and Inquisition. Is it just how they look? In my opinion origins dwarves don’t look appealing but this was greatly improved in Inquisition so then the question remains. In both the games they have unique dialogue and a very advantageous passive ability in magic resistance. As for the dialogue in Inquisition, play as a dwarf and talk to Keeran and play The Descent, you’ll get some good bits of dialogue from your Inquisitor. Anyway what are the reasons really? I really can’t tell.
dwarves are usually less chosen in any rpg if you think about it. however, i love playing as a dwarf in origins, and inquisition also does them justice too. It could be aesthetics for sure, but i hope in da:d they make the dwarves more appealing to play (we shall see!)
Dragon Age: Origins was my first tactical RPG. But I never played a dwarf because I don't like caste systems. I did play a dwarven Inquisitor but he was a surface dwarf from House Cadash.
I'm looking forward to playing a dwarf in my first run thru of the next game--I have a feeling like the magic resistance will come in clutch in Tevinter!!
Idk if I'm looking too deep into this or was already explained somewhere, but how do genlocks obtain magical abilities if dwarves aren't capable of magic themselves? Does this mean the taint unlocks a hidden talent they once had?
So the titans are intellectual beings or are aware of of its surroundings and situations as it’s capable of showing it’s memories to the dwarves. So those this mean it knows who was responsible of severing the fade from their world? If so, then I think solas is going to have a colosal problem when it does awaken from its catatonic state. I know in the game DAI ends with the breach closed, but I don’t think it’s going to take long for Solas to break the veil. And if he does succeed, we either see the dwarves fighting the elves under the titans command or the dwarves extinction.
The world of Dragon Age is in Andromeda Titans are vaults. deep underground with plants life. Dragon Age Origin we take a pinch of Andraste Ashes, which activates the first Monolith. DA2 we take the Red Lyrium Idol, and activate the second Monolith. DAI The Well of Sorrows is the last, and it's when we awaken a Titan / Vault. I'm probably wrong, but there are similarity
It is because of their strict caste system that I always choose King Bhelen. He might rule as a tyrant, but he is the best hope for his people. I choose him even when I'm playing the dwarf Noble. The way I see it, his or her father was a coward for not supporting you when your falsely accused. I just wish you could have gotten payback on the other dwarf who was lying.
Everyone: We love dwarves! Make more videos about them! Saria: Hey, dwarves owned slaves. Enjoy! Jk, glad your channel stumbled into my recommended a few days back. Too few Dragon Age content creators out there.
"things bioware never told you about dwarves" proceeds to quote multiple bioware sources xD Had to say it, but I still love these videos and Dragon Age
Dwarves are not infertile. They have similar chances of pregnancies as other races. The reason there are so few Dwarves is because they are constantly fighting Darkspawn, so they lost more people than any other race and are constantly fighting them. Also the cast system is mostly to blame, like you said, as women don't typically date below their Cast and males only have concubines below their Cast. If a female is impregnated by a dwarf below their cast, they could risk becoming castless, with notable few exceptions, and males can not gain cast unless they accomplish some great deed. Most likely this deed would have to be so great the a promoted to Paragon.
Kal-sharok sounds awfully similar to other Qunari words. Most likely coincidence if anything. Edit: I'll add that Iron Bull remarks about a Dwarven burial ritual being, and i quote, "Downright Qunari" in inquisition. Take of that what you will.
Damn, I didn't know that the Dwarves had issues with reproduction in Dragon Age. Makes me think that they're essentially DA's version of Krogan, but instead of a genetic disease, it's their societal structure that's slowly killing them off. That's pretty tragic.
Nice video!
I would say it's also the constant threat of the darkspwan that also causes them to be stuck in that societal structure. They operate as a country constantly in war, only having reprives during blights, and even then, would supply aid if the grey wardens asked for it. Its also genetic as well since the constant fighting with the darkspawn,(their blood in particular) causes either death, turning into ghouls, or increased sterility; good example of this is grey wardens are known to have a lower viability of having children because of the joining involving darkspawn blood. If a grey warden does have children, it was usually before the joining, and children born after the joining is considered rare, take Fiona, for example.
"Dwarves are almost infertile" except my Warden, who had a child with Mardy and an Old God Baby with Morrigan 😂
I think they just have a low birth rate for the reasons explained in the video. If they were almost infertile in addition to all those things they would have went extinct by now. As for the no inter species mating tabboo, I suspect it's like incest for them for some reason and the children can come up like Sandal.
@@therainbowconnection6813 you're right, fertility and birth rate are different things. I was just joking tho 😂. Regarding the last thing you said, that's an interesting theory, although I prefer to believe Sandal talks weird because he has a special connection to Titans... As Valta. Who began to talk in a weird way as well after she was hit by the heart of the Titan.
Only 2 children? How Boring 😉
My Warden Willriker hast a child with Mardy, much Fun with Leliana, a God child with Morrigan and enough opportunities in Denerim (about 50 Souvereigns) , including a foursome with Isabella, Zevran, Leliana and myself 😏 A good Tribute to Commander Riker from Star Trek The Next Generation 😂
@@MrNickHavoc my warden did exactly the same LMFAO
Oghren and Gorim both had one child in certain gameplays. I'm hoping after Awakening the dwarves below enjoyed enough peace to have more offspring.
I really want a dragon age game focused on reclaiming Thaigs. I want Hawk but a dwarf and it’s focused on dwarves and your goal is to retake one of more thaigs and rebuild dwarf greatness. It will never happen but I want it to lol
This gives me a thought. If there's lyrium in the fade and the waking world then maybe the titans sleep because of the veil. Like being disconnected from it somehow puts them in this "coma".
That would explain why the titan in Descent was stirred by the breach. And if dwarves are the children of titans that could also explain why they're currently disconnected from the fade. Also makes me wonder that if Solas tears down the veil maybe that will wake up the titans.
It would make sense with what Solas says to Varric too:
"Dwarves are the severed arm of a once mighty hero, lying in a pool of blood. Undirected. Whatever skill of arms it had, gone forever. Although it might twitch to give the appearance of life, it will never dream."
Perhaps the Titans exist in the fade and the waking worlds at once, body is in the world and consciousness is in the Fade.
Descent DLC definitely did open some questions. Shaper Valta disappears after getting connected to the Titan, the Wellspring becomes blocked off, and from the war table operation that happens after the DLC Renn’s grave was disturbed and his remains taken. Hopefully the next game we get some insight to what Valta has done with his body and what she has planned
She better not be trying to fuck the corpse.
I'm picturing some type of golem
Sandal still scares the crap out of me, especially in Origins.
You KNOW he can speak basic sentences because he already had shown he could but when you ask him why he's in a room full of dead Ogres and common Darkspawn, he just refuses to say anything that isn't his typical exclamation.
The Descent DLC left us with more questions than answers, what if they are preparing us for the next games' epilogue, where they will develop the Titans storyline for a DA5?
Dragon Age Origins is the only game I ever had a true Dwarven play through, I tend to dislike playing them in any other media, but in DA:O their story was just to good not to.
the dwarf origin story is so amazing, i really hope to see more of that type of presence in da:d
@@sarialue You mentioned your self in the video on the slavery section that you have dwarven cities in Tevinter meaning there is great opportunity to flesh out more of their lore and create great stories around them, I'm just worried about Bioware in general with so much great talent that helped create the Dragon Age universe having left the past decade and the new staff still having not proven themselves fully, just hope the writing stays at least on par with the "Trespasser DLC" level.
"Orazammar ale tastes like dirt in comparisson, probably because they put dirt in it. Hmm go figure" -Oghren.
The fact that Oghren and Varric are the only dwarven companions in all 3 games is a crime
Edit: I FORGOT ABOUT AWAKENING
Tbh i never finished it
Sigrun is a pretty cool companion, a legion of the dead badass.
The deep roads and dwarves history is intensely interesting to me. I never fail to enjoy seeing more and more of the deep roads. I would love a whole game of just dwarves history and adventuring in the deep roads discovering Thaigs and their wonders.
I'm so glad you're finally back, it felt like years i couldn't find your channel or anything else online. Your The Problem With The Maker video is still one of my favorites and has one of my favorite quotes
ty alex, glad to be back.
I'm sorry I don't have that video anymore, but my blog still has the script if you wanted to see it : sarialue.wixsite.com/home/post/the-problem-with-the-maker
Hopefully Bioware will expand what they started in the Descent DLC. the connection between the fade, titans and elves just added more questions than answers for me.
I really liked the Descent DLC! I hope we see more of Shaper Valta, the implications of a dwarf doing magic??? AMAZING
I love that you're doing these shoutouts to smaller businesses!!
So glad to see you making videos again!
And wow the seed must be strong in House Aeducan since their king had three children in Origins
Noble dwarven houses have the right to take in concubines to increase the chances of producing heirs. The offspring will still be considered nobles. But the laws of succession are very strict. First come, first serve. So if a concubine gives birth to a son before the wife, that son is usually considered the First Son.
Wow. I didn't know any of this.
When dwarves take their drink "dirty" or "on the rocks" it probably has literal dirt and rocks in it.🤢
Also. Hi, Saria.
HELLO there FRIEND! ❤️❤️
@@sarialue 😊😊😊
your little dance at the end of your wolfquisitor playthru
😅😅❤
OMG, I hope we finally see full on pronounced biracial features in DA: Dreadwolf. I love the thought of a slightly taller Sandal with pointier ears. 😍 I know Sera is probably all elven, but it was cool that she still had an elven face, but a human body type in Inquisition.
Really?! I didn't realize even after literally countless replay-hours, maybe because everyone but the Iron Bul look so small next to my qunari inky. Somehow I have picked only qunari to romance or bff Sera. Maybe next time someone else.
Wasn't expecting that first fact ngl
neither was i 😳
I had an interesting thought regarding red lyrium yesterday when playing through Dragon Age 2 and doing the Deep Roads expedition. There are those weird stone creatures with skeletons, and their codex entry said something about them starving and so, in turn, they ate the gods and now exist eternally as something different. What if Blighted Lyrium was created by infusing the life blood of a titan with some sort of primeval dwarf that's not really like dwarves are now? After all, when blighted lyrium is put into a person, it grows and feeds off of them. So maybe, when they ate a titan (they'd have to have been a form of dwarf to have had a thaig) it corrupted everything. And the other titans sealed away the corruption.
At some point, the Elvehn slew another titan. Some time after this, Solas decided to throw up the veil, which, as one of the many unforseen consequences of his actions, messed with the containment of the blighted lyrium. Since lyrium is a connected energy source to the veil, it might have created a spot where the red lyrium was contained outside of the thaig (because red lyrium does grow, but it wasn't growing very quickly outside of the primeval thaig) in the fade. And when the Teventer Mages showed up to go to the golden city, they ended up landing right where the main source of red lyrium was located in the fade. The thing that was whispering to them were the beings corrupted by the red lyrium wanting to get free, which makes sense because red lyrium does "whisper" to people, as evidenced by the lyrium idol.
We have no evidence of red lyrium before the blights, even Solas didn't seem to know anything about it. Honestly, it makes a lot of sense that there were some dwarves that existed before the current dwarves. And the split that's talked about has to be when the Profane (is that what the rock people are called? I can't recall), and then the veil being put up split them into halves into both realms.
Connection to Mass Effect: the Titans are like the Thorian. Due to Reapers advanve they went silent to prevent destruction. It may workef at first, but as we hit a desert planet in ME that got the same scared moon as seen in DA, it did not work out perfect and even DA civilisations are medieval, the planet ecosystem got destroyed by either Reapers, The Dreadwolf or other magic by the time ME takes place
I’d love to see the Titans being close to the Reapers!
Honestly in regards of the Titans I don´t really think it is a hivemind situation.
We see that dwarves of that time kept diaries, something very private, what use would that be in a hivemind society?
I think the Titans are 'connected' to the Dwarves but that the dwarves do maintain free will.
We know they see the Dwarves as their children not as slaves, tools or thralls.
In regards of the Sha-Brythol I think this was something they did to themselves when their Titan fell silent.
Maybe as a act of desperation, hoping to form a connection with the Titan to wake it up.
Then when it woke up it was shocked by these utterly changed dwarves and tried to find an normal dwarf to figure out what had happened.
I also think that the reason why it attacks you even if you play as a dwarf may be because of the Mark.
Lets not forget Titans bleed magic so they may feel the specific differences.
So all it possible felt from the Inquisitor was the magic the Evanuris used and presumed they were an enemy.
there is no way alistair read up enough on dwarven infertility to shut me down like that in origins 😂😂dangit
Damnit reeling me in with one of my biggest weaknesses. Dragon Age talk.
Congratulations on becoming my new favorite channel! I've waited so long for a good Dragon Age channel, it's what GoT should have been
💕 happy to have u here!
A couple of honorable mentions re: unrevealed dwarven history.
1) in the ancient hissing wastes surface thaig there is mention of the need to escape or avoid a war while making mention of “winged lizards” as well as the presence of possibly a Mythal statue in the area of Fariels tomb-DAI
2) within the deep roads is a room with an altar to Dumat, between shackles, above descending pools outlined in runic decor. The room also happens to be the “western hall” of the particular area which it resides in heidrun thaig. (Direct references to the letter found in the raw fade during “Here Lies the Abyss” about The Claw of Dumat) -DAI, and Descent
3) there is a room further into the Heidrun thaig containing two room length pools of blood and some very intriguing art work on the walls. Namely a picture of a city or fortress (Skyhold?) high up in mountains, and either an empty throne or single tower with curious details above it.
4) another room in heidrun thaig containing two claw of Dumat statues as well as two statues which appear bird like (razikale?) -DAI, Descent
5) the “experts” are wrong about what lies deeper than the deep roads. Which corroborates the claim by corypheus that the historical account of breaking into the golden city per both tevinter and the chantry of andraste are wrong. -DAI, and Descent
6) dwarves can change the memories of the stone (like lyrium). Meaning they can rewrite history, as recorded in the stone itself (like lyrium) at will (memories claim fariel died in the deep roads, clearly untrue) -DAI, descent
7) the ancient dwarves of at least Kal Repartha (hissing wastes surface thaig) knew how to imprison demons and presumably benevolent spirits within stone. -DAI, Demons of the stone
Both aforementioned thaigs are supposed to be from before the first blight. Which is before the story of tevinter magisters entering the golden city. Either the dwarves are hella good prognosticators, their history predates the veil (so as to be able to manipulate demons/spirits with no proclivity for magic. As well as having knowledge of large winged lizards, both seem unlikely) or they’re actively hiding something. Something big. These are just things that I’ve noticed and have been scratching my head over with my most recent nightmare play through of DAI.
The titans need a hug 🥺✨️💕
Another well thought out theory. Thank you Saria, it's like you never left. 😀
This is one of my favorite series and I recently restarted Inquisition. Thank you for these excellent videos. ☺️
you are so welcome! i’m glad u enjoy the series, hope ur playthru is going well!
@@sarialue Thank you so much haha! I first played it in high school several years ago and so I needed to play it again. Started a game as a human mage. Have you played the series several times?
@@mcnlj24 i’ve played this game too many times lol!
Mage class is always a good choice 😎
@@sarialue I’m relearning Inquisition. I haven’t played it in years. I’m so used to Origins. Do you usually play as a mage or something else?
I’ve always wondered why so few actually choose to play as dwarves in both Origins and Inquisition. Is it just how they look? In my opinion origins dwarves don’t look appealing but this was greatly improved in Inquisition so then the question remains.
In both the games they have unique dialogue and a very advantageous passive ability in magic resistance. As for the dialogue in Inquisition, play as a dwarf and talk to Keeran and play The Descent, you’ll get some good bits of dialogue from your Inquisitor.
Anyway what are the reasons really? I really can’t tell.
dwarves are usually less chosen in any rpg if you think about it.
however, i love playing as a dwarf in origins, and inquisition also does them justice too.
It could be aesthetics for sure, but i hope in da:d they make the dwarves more appealing to play (we shall see!)
Dragon Age: Origins was my first tactical RPG. But I never played a dwarf because I don't like caste systems. I did play a dwarven Inquisitor but he was a surface dwarf from House Cadash.
Most players only play humans or elves because it's closer to humans in terms of how they look.
I'm looking forward to playing a dwarf in my first run thru of the next game--I have a feeling like the magic resistance will come in clutch in Tevinter!!
I am so happy I found your channel!
Idk if I'm looking too deep into this or was already explained somewhere, but how do genlocks obtain magical abilities if dwarves aren't capable of magic themselves? Does this mean the taint unlocks a hidden talent they once had?
My favourite race in dragon age
Given that we learned harding is gonna have some form of magical abilities in the veilguard I wonder if were gonna learn she’s a half dwarf
Love these videos!
Are you in any inspired by EpicNate315? You sound off similar to him.
ty Ryan!
And yes! I am inspired by those videos, and figured that there should be a Dragon Age edition to these!
So the titans are intellectual beings or are aware of of its surroundings and situations as it’s capable of showing it’s memories to the dwarves.
So those this mean it knows who was responsible of severing the fade from their world?
If so, then I think solas is going to have a colosal problem when it does awaken from its catatonic state.
I know in the game DAI ends with the breach closed, but I don’t think it’s going to take long for Solas to break the veil. And if he does succeed, we either see the dwarves fighting the elves under the titans command or the dwarves extinction.
The world of Dragon Age is in Andromeda Titans are vaults. deep underground with plants life. Dragon Age Origin we take a pinch of Andraste Ashes, which activates the first Monolith. DA2 we take the Red Lyrium Idol, and activate the second Monolith. DAI The Well of Sorrows is the last, and it's when we awaken a Titan / Vault. I'm probably wrong, but there are similarity
We need dwarf love interests!
Magic ist obtainable for dwarfs through titans -> As seen in the Deep Roads DLC in Inquisition.
It is because of their strict caste system that I always choose King Bhelen. He might rule as a tyrant, but he is the best hope for his people. I choose him even when I'm playing the dwarf Noble. The way I see it, his or her father was a coward for not supporting you when your falsely accused. I just wish you could have gotten payback on the other dwarf who was lying.
Everyone: We love dwarves! Make more videos about them!
Saria: Hey, dwarves owned slaves. Enjoy!
Jk, glad your channel stumbled into my recommended a few days back. Too few Dragon Age content creators out there.
The Dwarfs probably have the most interesting lore of the races in dragon age
I am *very* excited to see Kal Sharok.
Love this.
ty Saeybin!
This thumbnail in 2022 is a bold move. 😅
"things bioware never told you about dwarves" proceeds to quote multiple bioware sources xD
Had to say it, but I still love these videos and Dragon Age
lol! true, a lot of people just don’t read the sources tho. 💀
@@sarialue I love losing myself on wikis reading lore over and over
What about Qunari-Dwarf hybrids? ;)
Dwarves are not infertile. They have similar chances of pregnancies as other races. The reason there are so few Dwarves is because they are constantly fighting Darkspawn, so they lost more people than any other race and are constantly fighting them. Also the cast system is mostly to blame, like you said, as women don't typically date below their Cast and males only have concubines below their Cast. If a female is impregnated by a dwarf below their cast, they could risk becoming castless, with notable few exceptions, and males can not gain cast unless they accomplish some great deed. Most likely this deed would have to be so great the a promoted to Paragon.
Seductive aroma huh. 🤨
sus 😳
Why is this game is my Skyrim recommend this is not Skyrim hummm this game look good I will go do some research
No dwarven romance? Only highrank dwarves bear children? Did you play DAO starting as a duster - is Rilke and MC's mother high rank?
Anyone else notice how the thing with the Titans is pretty similar to The Owl House and, oddly enough, Bionicle?
Dwarves aren't breedable. Got it.
Kal-sharok sounds awfully similar to other Qunari words.
Most likely coincidence if anything.
Edit: I'll add that Iron Bull remarks about a Dwarven burial ritual being, and i quote, "Downright Qunari" in inquisition. Take of that what you will.