So I just finished up with a complete playthrough of the three games, Origins and 2 for the first time and been perusing some theories. I like seeing how everyone interprets the games, but honestly a lot of the ones I see also leave out a LOT of conflicting details.
I actually think the Black City is Arlathan. In DAI there’s several different pieces of various lore that describe both as being “in the heart of the world” and I picked that up on my last play through (which I just finished, trying to get all the codex entries), and several pieces of elven lore that suggest Arlathan was sealed in the Beyond along with the Evanuris.
The Black City sits in the Fade’s “center” where all points are equidistant. I believe the only way to GET to the Black City is if the Veil is thinned enough for the material world to “anchor” (get it?) the Fade so it’s possible to traverse distance using the rules of the real world rather than the rules of the Fade.
I believe that’s how the Magisters did it in the first place at the Old God’s urging, which explains the entirety of Kirkwall and why the Veil is said to be paper thin there, as well as the backstory uncovered that it was built to resemble magic symbols, and have grooves in the lowest parts of the city to syphon blood if you get the right codexes. The magisters building Kirkwall were also said to slaughter slaves in the thousands every year, and the Band of Three wondered rightfully why they would even need so much power. I think Kirkwall is where the Magisters entered, and it left a metaphysical scar there. (Another Codex described Kirkwall’s name means “black wall”)
That’s probably how Solas sealed the Evanuris away, and probably why the “Old Gods”, aka the Forgotten Gods (why is Geldauran’s secret chamber right underneath where the Tevinters dedicated Razikale’s reach?) wanted the Magisters to go there.
There’s also heavy implications the Evanuris started the Blights. If the Evanuris did, that would explain why the Golden City had been corrupted as Corypheus said.
Anyway, that’s enough rambling for now. Maybe when I get the last few codices I missed I might have a few more thoughts.
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Been a while
Well, you can’t really blame me!
Well, okay, you could but it would be kind of unfair.
That health problem I was speaking of last year, the one I had surgery for, came back and they warned me if it did I would have to have the more invasive surgery. So that gets into a whole mess about how nobody apparently accepts my insurance and searching for a surgeon that does and blah de blah blah. And at this rate I may end up having to go to the ER again because I think it may be affecting my liver and stomach now. If it was a reasonable health problem, it should have done that bursting thing and gone away already, but like everything in my life it is not reasonable.
Anyway, back in June, I got married, so I’ve been preparing to move in with the hunkster and that’s been a lot of frustrating struggles with cars that won’t start and passport renewals. Meanwhile that health problem thing has been getting increasingly worse.
Alas, that is life. On the other hand, my roleplay group has sort of disbanded with the end of the game, so I found myself with actually more free time and the other problems are sorted for the moment. I got into the Fate/Stay Night/Zero/the millions of offshoots series, and I’ve been poking my head back into modding for a bit. And it’s rather strange because I haven’t really been much interested in anime the last few years. I think it’s because of the legends involved in the Fate/ characters. My favorite legends have always been ancient European ones, whether Norse, Greek, Roman or Celtic…
That means updates should start happening again, especially considering I have a whole bunch of posts I was working on before things got bad, like the Dwemer language translation. I’m checking into keeping the Kenzeft thing going but it’s hard to pick up from where I left off since it’s been over a year and I had no idea what I was doing. Something about creating the new worldspace and trying to fix it where you couldn’t actually see the edges of the worldspace on the map. At least the LODs were working right and I wasn’t getting that really weird Salvadore Dali floating chunks thing going on. In fact I may have started to populate the island with trees. I was going to update my Stars texture mod, too, with the brighter versions so people could pick based on if their ENB or whatever darkened the stars so they couldn’t be seen, but I have no idea where the dds files I’d saved are, so that may take a bit to happen, too. I swear I had a new zip file with an installer that included the constellations with lines and the brighter galaxy but I can’t find it anywhere.
I think I will be discontinuing the Eldritch Tamrielic Lore posts though as I’ve poked about the fanbase forums and found to my intense shock they were being discussed (I honestly had no idea people actually came to read my blabbing) and a lot of people seem to misinterpret the post series for what they are; opinion pieces. Well, the problem boils down to if they were going to be academic pieces I would have actually cited a lot more stuff and did a better job of it, but considering this ain’t college and I don’t have to pander to a tyrannical English 102 teacher that has it in for me… Yeah, I don’t really care if you don’t agree with me, but for god’s sakes be less insulting about it when you pick apart an opinion piece or at least ask if I do have sources. :P That’s what comments are for. I wasn’t sure to be amused or just grumpy about it. I think I was shocked and grumpy. At the very least, try TVTropes’ articles on Eldritch for some good ideas. I don’t know. I’m not particularly bothered to go back and redo the posts. Maybe someday when I get enough energy. At least I know to make sure I got my posts labeled for the future. But if it will help, I encourage everyone visiting to read the disclaimer so they get a better idea of what my blog is about.
Also, hilariously, people think I’m a dude. I wonder whatever could have given them that idea…
Medical
I know I’ve sort of promised a lot of posts back there in August/September and it’s now November, but here’s what happened.
I got sort of busy in September and then I got sick at the end of the month, and it continued right into November. Well, not really ‘sick’ but a physical condition that was greatly hampering my ability to live (it was classified as urgent but it was still a gigantic pain in the ass) and I wound up in the hospital and had to have surgery. I’m sure nobody wants to hear the details, but I’m trying to slowly coming back to full steam here, Also, yes, it was slightly hilarious in retrospect.
Looking forward to more yakking about things! Maybe I’ll finally get that… increasingly non applicable post about SDCC…
Return of the Zombies
And the indomitable warrior returneth. I have a full post on Comic Con, a review on DuckTales: Remastered, and some more analyzing of the Dwemer passage coming up here soon.
I did not come back unscathed, though. In the last few days of my vacation I somehow managed to acquire a severe case of sun poisoning that burned right through 100 spf while I was out surfing. I hadn’t been surfing (or on the beach) in years, but I’m glad to know I can still time a wave. After 28 years I know how to handle sunburns and to apply lotion. I’ve had bad sunburns before, but never that severe, and after only one day. For Talos’s sake, I used to surf in Myrtle Beach, SC! A few hours on the beaches of Orange County and I fry like a fricasseed fish. How the hell do people do it day after day?! It made the train ride north extremely uncomfortable over the 36 hours I was on it. By the time I arrived home, I had thousands of blisters over my shoulders and back, and the next few days after that was spent alternately groaning and screaming whenever one of the cats decided to visit me and sit on my back. I suppose I really should have gone to the hospital, but I’m a stubborn person, and seriously, there was nothing they could have done that couldn’t at home.
The next time I took a shower, it put to shame the Walking Dead night at ComicCon. Cuz, you know, the flesh falling off my back was real.
Anyway, I’m still peeling, still extremely red (why is it not turning to tan?!) and plenty sore, but glad to be back. Stay tuned for more Tales from the Surfing Zombie.
Goodbye, Posterous
Well, with the closing of Posterous, the last bastion of interesting blogging platforms that I like to use is now at an end. So here’s to the grand opening of “Arrow to the Knee,” because seriously, some days I feel like I took an arrow to the knee.
Anyway, unlike my previous blog, I figure I’ll just talk about whatever I have on my mind at the time, with the exception of Politics. I think there’s quite enough mudslinging in that arena to drown out anyone yelling “Use your damn brains!”
So, first order of business. Why are there not more tutorials for Nexus Mod Manager? Not how to use it, god knows there’s plenty of those out there, but actually making the scripting for a mod. I had to dig into the forums. When I have to dig into forums to answer any question… yeah, there’s that look. It’s not documented well enough. It seems these days that more and more websites are relying on forums like this, and to me that’s really annoying. Half the time, they require you to register in order to see it. Then there’s the routine purging of forums, losing whatever link you had relied on.
And with that I sound off the race.