Is red lyrium World Of Darkness material?

It's not even fucking clear what lyrium actually is.

>From what Bianca says lyrium is alive
>Red lyrium has existed from before the first blight so it's not just tainted or maybe it is, somehow
>If it is corrupted by the taint then there's the whole blight magic thing
>Also dwarves being resistant if only so little
>And dragons being very resistant to it
>Something about a void that it apparently comes from
Fuck the Descent DLC to hell.

Yes, but not as it is since it's unsure what the fuck it actually is.

> Caring about Inquisition plot
Dragon Age has been shit since Awakening. Shame about it, I would love to see a good sequel to Origins.

>>51492969
It's actually one of the cooler things in Dragon Age. Like a creeping crystal

>>51492969

Isn't like the blood of some undergrown Titans? I believe the dwarvens from antediluvian times are their spawn.

>>51492790
>Crystal anything
I'm sorry, whenever some macguffin thing or special whatever is in the form of a crystal or jewel I can't help but find it tacky, especially from an aesthetic level. I'm not sure why.

Just make it a rock or ore or something, why does it have to be a gawdy jewel? Is it because Tolkien? Is it remnants from new-agers associating crystals with magic? Is it something older? Where did this trope come from?

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>>51492790
No its shit. Its Bioware´s newest McGuffin that will get a shitty explanation in the end just like the Fade and the Golden City or the what happened to the Elves.

>DA2
>woOOOOoooooo spooky super rare lyrium that drives people insane
>DA3
>Its everywhere
>Every bad guy uses it
>Only explanation as to why its everywhere TIMEY WIMEY WIBBLY WOBBLY

I legit cant tell why anybody would find ANYTHING about the DA-Lore interesting.
I also cant tell if all the decent writers left Bioware or if there never were any decent writers at Bioware and I was just to young and dumb to notice that.

>>51497543
They definitely left. There is a noticeable drop in quality after a certain point.

>>51497304
>Just make it a rock or crystal or something, why does it have to be a precious metal? Is it because Tolkien? Is it remnants from hermeticists associating metals with magic? Is it something older? Where did this trope come from?

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>>51492790
>It grows insanely fast. for a rock.
How fast? More than flowstone and certain RL crystals?

Lightning bolts fuse sand into glass instantly, but I don't recall if it is truly amorphous glass or it has a crystalline structure.

>>51497608
I would suggest that the crystal mcguffin trope is much more common in modern fiction. I was being genuine though, are there older instances of the magic crystal thing?

Magic or special metal has been an ancient myth for a long, long time. Probably one that grew as metallurgy advanced.

>>51497543
The woman that wrote the Orzammar part of Origins left the industry after nonstop death and rape threats, threats against her children, and repeated vandalism of her home. You can thank Gamergate and their tireless quest for integrity in journalism.

>>51492993
Dragon Age was never good. You're on /tg/ have some fucking decorum.

>>51500196
Go Home Gamer Girl

>>51500196
None of that shit happened.

>>51500196
>The woman that wrote the Orzammar part of Origins left the industry

Good, Orzammar is an abortion of fiction

>>51497543
It's the blood of Titans infected with the DarkSpawn taint. The taint was probably invented by elves to kill Titans.

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>>51501142
>elves once again demonstrating their need to be put to the sword

knife ears, not even once

>>51501142
the words you posted look very stupid together

>>51500196
Really? I don't recall anything particularly offensive about Orzammar. The dwarves were idiots with their heads stuck up their heads, but they're autistically traditionalist politicians so that's to be expected.
Also who the fuck gets THAT mad about a part of a game plot? People who post an angry rant about it on the internet are already pretty out there.

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>>51500196
Laziest attempt at trying to rewrite history I have ever seen.

Is this how Biodrones see the world?

>>51503411
>Is this how Biodrones see the world?
Yes. If you have the stomach for it, spend 5 minutes on the bioware forums to really see some autism.

>>51500543
By decorum, I suppose you mean 'loudly and incessantly suck dick of these games I played when I was 14, and preach how nothing that isn't an exact copy of them can be acceptable'.

Fuck you, DAO was good.

>>51500543
Origins was solid. Not especially original, but with enough differences from standard Tolkien to make it interesting, enough plot customisation to give you a real sense of player agency, and good character development.

I'm not sure what complaints you can have outside of the genre being a bit generic and grimdark.

>>51504564
Didn't have enough zany quips and filler combat.

>>51497543
What happens to the Fade and the Golden City ?

>>51500196
>Gamergate is the reason why games are shit
>intstead of Gamergate being a backslash against shitty games

shiggy diggy doo duh

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>>51500196
Are you talking about Hamburger Helper?

Because if that's Hamburger Helper, well, there's some lies to your sentence.

>The woman
Ham beast.

>that wrote the Orzammar part of Origins
Small part of it, thanks god.

>left the industry after nonstop death and rape threats
Well, she was a shitty writter, too. Probably quitted the industry because she was frankly not very good.

>threats against her children
Well, that's one way to see reality. Another way is Helper's hysteria and paranoia.

>repeated vandalism of her home
Little lies~~

>You can thank Gamergate and their tireless quest for integrity in journalism.
You really should, unironically so.

>>51505525
The fade used to be part of reality until the Elven Trickster God locked it away after trapping all his fellow gods there. These elven gods weren't actually gods either, but immensely powerful mages. The Golden City was probably either constructed by the exiled gods after they got put there or was built and then ended up being on the wrong side of the Veil. The probable reason for the Tevinter magisters becoming the first Darkspawn after going there is because the Elven Trickster god locked them up there with the original version of the Taint, which they had created to kill Titans.

>>51492790

Sounds like fantasy Tiberium.

Hey my thread expanded!
I thought it would die from obscurity...

>>51498109
In six months...
It infested an the frozen waste of sarnia.
>Sarnia.
Really original bioware...

>>51492790
No, because people will recognize it as a thing from a video game. Make something kind of similar but with clear differences and a different name

>it's elve's fault the plot
DA franchise turned into a fucking shitshow after Origins

>>51503503
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9C9OKMyZng

>>51502097
You mean, other than being a massive WOW ripoff? It's Ironforge with a caste system.

>>51492790
Reads like a description of hate republican memes propagated by the Russian hacker known as 4chan, memelord par excellence, final boss etc.

Anyone's brain infected by the dememelirium turns into a meme-spewing memester of hate

>Dragons are immune
because a rightwing dragon would be too op
>Bioware
of coursh

>>51497543
It seems to me that the current Bioware-devteam consists of second rate short story-writers with not a single actual gamedesigner among them.

>>51506808
Sorry...
I'm a "newfag" that is the term yes?
How is your post relevant?

>>51506764
That's still above Bioware's average.

>>51506864
Trying to turn the thread into a shitstorm.

>>51505744
Gamergate was a backlash against colluding journalists and paid reviews as far as I'm aware.

>>51506864
It's how fantasy writers who are forced to live in the real world, are affected by events in it and get their ideas from there produce material, by taking ideas, abstracting them a little and wrapping them in fantasy tinsel paper and jargon. It's how metaphors are made. The OP even asks a question on delirium's origin, instead of expecting the metaphor to come up with an answer, undercut the writer by pinpointing the signifier then wrapping the appropriate fantasy metaphor for it.

>>51506896
Then you should try hating on the fact that inquisition has two straight romances.
Instead of outnumbering or being equal to the number of gay romances.

Like this. >It's to leftie.

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>>51503411
My gods what the fuck did I just read.

I...

The part she hates most about games is playing games.

Why is she there. What is she doing there. WHY. WAT. WHY

>>51506972
I don't understand how it isn't immediately obvious that one unit of (dy)lyrium is a in-world euphemism for what a cultural iota--a meme--is.

>>51503411
https://youtu.be/IEGo41443iI
https://youtu.be/RZg1c3BAjbk
Heresy!!!
I enjoy doing all that shit!
You can't skip non-subtitled dialogue!
Play both links at the same time!

>>51506876
Is this the woman who was quoted as not liking video games and just wanting to write fiction? Because I could believe it. The Orzammar branch was they worst balanced, most linear part of the game. If you chose that path before leveling up, you got railroaded into nearly unwinnable fights with no way to backtrack and no warning.

>>51506972
All I read in the other post was basically this.
https://youtu.be/TXCUenE0b5A
Is it weird that I want the link to be a game?

>>51507133
This thread is a game, and so is language.

>>51507219
I meant it like this.
>Skaven conspiracy lasers simulator 2017.

>>51506986
I'm not him. I have standards in my trolling.

>>51507114
Hamburger Helper did not write ALL of Ironforge. She wrote parts of it and parts of the two dwarf origins. And whether she didn't have the last say in anything, or had an editor breathing down her neck, or was hit by lightning and got a temporary buff to creative output, Orzamar is fairly well written and I'm not going to hate it just because it's fashionable on /v/ to do so.

>>51507391
>Professionals 'ave standards.
Sorry about that...

>>51505831
Wow that is shit

>>51507586
I dunno, I think it's alright. What's more shit is the fact that the Qunari are probably just half-elves half-dragons instead of just being there own race.

>>51504564
the setting is just warhammer but without the cool visual design

>>51507608
If this were written by my 6 year old cousin it would be alright. But it wasn't written by my 6 year old cousin. It was written by adults in the age when the combined literary wealth of mankind is one internet search away.

>>51507608
Fen'harel put the other gods there because of flemeth.
I don't remember anything about the taint being there....
Although that would explain why there is lyrium in the fade...

>>51507740
https://youtu.be/KjHclWPVij0
>Tfw I cant have ogrehn to act like this to all dalish.
>Fukken knife-ears.

>>51507873
It's just an inference. The first darkspawn came from the Black City, but Corypheus claims it was already all fucked up when he got there. So the taint must have already been there, and the only way it could have got there was with the Evanuris.

DRIVEN FROM THE INDUSTRYYYYYY

>Believing anything Hamburger Helper says
>Or any of the SJW crew
>Current year

>>51508142
Bloody hell....
>Solas saved the world from darkspawn.
>By fucking it over.
>He's going to save the world again.
>By fucking it up again.

That's another thing. if corypheus knew of the eluvians why didn't he use one all those ages ago?

To breach the golden city of course.

>>51508206
Exactly. Though, reading some stuff regarding the Black City and the Veil, it seems more likely that the Evanuris had the Taint under control but somehow the magisters unleashed it. Which is what really ruined the city. At least going off this one Cole quote "They still remember when they were higher, before it woke up and everything fell." That's kind of a wild assumption though, but it's currently my theory about it.

>>51497304
Characteristic and iconic form, which is also rare enought that you can't really mistake it for something else. Also the transparency and shine. It makes it ideal when you want something that is instantly recognizable.

Make red lyrium a red crystal and everybody instantly will recognize it. Nobody will mistake it for a natural formation of red Quartz. If you do the same with ores and rocks you run into the problem that it will be easy confounded with something else.

>>51508255
>The taint and lyrium are used as wards to stop the god's from escaping.
>Anti-magical.

>Demons are scared and disgusted by darkspawn.
>They won't possess darkspawn corpses.

>Demons are worried of Templars.
>They find it hard to possess their corpses.

That... would be a little cool actually.

>>51508308
Well, Lyrium is the blood of Titans. Who are the Pillars of the Earth. The Fade is the Sky, so spirits are from the Sky. Makes sense the Sky is fearful or at least averse to the Earth.

But that's also just speculation.

>>51508336
A shame DAI never properly explained what cole was.

Or where the crossroads lead.

Or Kieran.

Or why solas absorbed flemeth.

That Seeker book quest was a huge twist though.

>>51508398
The unanswered questions are the only reasons I'm interested in the next game. The actual game mechanics get worse every game, and so does the writing overall, but the metaplot and lore get more interesting with each addition.

>>51508411
Same.

Is the DA keep worth it?

>>51508398
>never properly explained what cole was
Isn't he just a spirit of Compassion?

>>51500196

You mean Hamburger Helper? Good. She was a pox on Bioware.

>>51508479
I assume he's a spirit that's somehow managed to partially go back to how spirits were when they were a regular physical part of the real world.

>>51508445
I'll be honest, I don't even know what that is.

>>51508479
Possessing the previous cole. yes.
But only demons can usually possess.
Except in a seekers case.

>>51508523
Actually, wasn't it that only demons WANT to possess? Good spirits could theoretically, but they never feel compelled to? Or is wanting to the trigger to become a demon?

>>51508512
This.
https://youtu.be/w3mq6citF9I

>>51508537
Oh that. Naw I never really bothered with it except for setting up my characters at the beginning of Inquisition.

>>51508534
Now I want demons to possess magic using characters if they fail their will saves.
And turn them into abominations.

>>51508552
And Templars as characters

>>51508534
All negative emotion's are demons.

>>51508591
But isn't the justification that any spirit that gets obsessed with being corporeal ends up becoming a demon? Kinda like the Dark Side in Star Wars?

>>51508631
Yes. That's how envy was the first demon.