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* ReligionIsMagic: Averted. Although the dwarves, the elves, and the humans all have their own faiths, none of these faiths are actualized with their own magics. The Chantry's templars, for instance, merely wield anti-magics. While [[spoiler:the Urn of Sacred Ashes]] is capable of performing miracles, Oghren suggests the possibility that the large, unusually pure [[AppliedPhlebotinum Lyrium]] vein not too far away inside the rock [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may be responsible for its powers]].
* RunningGag: A variation. In every ''Dragon Age'' game so far, someone can (possibly) die by taking an ogre to the face. Cailan dies this way in ''Origins'', Varel can die this way in ''Awakening,'' and Bethany or Carver in ''DragonAgeII''.
** Another gag is foreign characters commenting that Ferelden "smells like wet dog", to which the player character can respond in variants of "It does not smell like dog!"
--->'''The Warden''': And garbage!
--->'''Sten''': Yes, I was trying to forget that.
* SacredScripture: The Chant of Light is the holy text of the Chantry.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: The Qunari have a very strict caste system and don't really understand or like the idea that there might be other, equally viable, social organizations.
--> '''Sten''': I don't understand your people. Your smiths want to be merchants, your merchants want to be nobles, and your nobles want to be royalty. Why is no one happy in their station?
* ScrewYouElves: And ''how''...
* SecondComing: Mostly within the lore of the game series itself: The Maker is prophesied to return and make his world a paradise once the Chant of Light has been sung from all the corners of the world.
* SevenDeadlySins: Condensed into the main five types of demons encountered in the Fade: Rage (wrath), Hunger (gluttony), Sloth (also, according to the codex, envy), Desire (greed and lust), and Pride. Just as in real-life Christianity, Pride is considered the most evil of all by the Chantry because they are the most likely to gain full sentience and therefore more freely amass power.
* TheSoulless: The darkspawn. Except for the Archdemon, since it was formerly an Old God, and "essence" is apparently synonymous with "soul", since there's no room for both in one body.
* SpeaksInShoutouts: The Chanters, who can only speak in quotes of the Chant of Light.
* SpiderSense: Once a person becomes a Grey Warden, they can sense the darkspawn -- and vice versa. Your character may even say "Warden senses tingling!" Mages all have the ability to detect disruptions in the Veil that can, with practice, allow them to detect spirits and especially powerful spells.
* SpiritWorld: The Fade.
* StandardFantasySetting: As [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] emphatically called it; just compare the setting elements to the trope title.
** Dwarves/Elves/Humans -- other races are present, but these are the provided player character options.
** OurMonstersAreDifferent -- Thedas's demons and werewolves are different. Dragons seem to occupy the same role in Origins, but backstory reveals more and more differences.
** FunctionalMagic and MagicAIsMagicA -- as per necessity, when magic is a game mechanic.
** LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards -- a single Templar to execute a potentially dangerous Mage early will save dozens of Templar lives later.
** TheEmpire (Orlais) and several {{The Kingdom}}s, with StandardRoyalCourt, modeled off of [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy historical feudal]] and imperial societies. And then there's TheHorde (darkspawn).
** FantasyCharacterClasses - FighterMageThief
* StrongerWithAge: Dragons function this way.
* TautologicalTemplar: The Templars will execute anyone who is a mage but not a member of the Circle of Magi because there is a chance that they may know forbidden magic. However, they are revered as heroes since they are the militant wing of the setting's dominant religion.
* TechnicalPacifist: The Dalish are nomadic and never stay in one place too long to avoid conflict. The Keeper even says that they ''could'' destroy a nearby Human village who are rallying a mob to drive them out, if they so wished, but that would only cause King Cailan to send soldiers next time, thus it is wiser to simply move on.
* UnEqualRites: A long time ago, a powerful nation called the [[TheEmpire Tevinter Imperium]] once conquered nearly all of the known world by using an extremely dangerous sorcery called Blood Magic, which allowed them to broker deals with and summon demons as well as use a powerful form of MindControl. Eventually, their reign was toppled by the appearance of [[TheCorruption the Blight]], which struck the Empire from nowhere and left them crippled. Most of the world's nations were formed by barbarian clans that rebelled against the weakened Empire, and the followers of those early rebels quickly formed a religion called the Chantry. The Blight continues to plague the world to this day, and the Chantry teachings blame magic for unleashing it. Because of this, mages in general are treated as worse than dirt, and any mage that is not under the direct control of the Chantry is labeled as an apostate which is to be killed on sight. Worse than them are the "Maleficar", which are simply apostates who use the hated Blood Magic which unleashes demons and once enslaved the world.
* UnreliableExpositor[=/=]WrittenByTheWinners: Basically, there is no InfallibleNarrator in this series. Everything, from the opening voiceovers to the Codex entries are written/spoken by in-universe characters. For nearly every major (or even minor) event in the history of the game, there are multiple contradicting accounts with absolutely no indications as to which is the right one. So, rule of thumb for this series: if someone is telling you about something or someone you haven't seen for yourself? Take their opinion into consideration, but don't put too much stock in it.
* VestigialEmpire:
** The Tevinter Imperium, which never recovered from the First Blight, Andraste's rebellion, and the Qunari invasion.
** The Dwarven empire is even worse. It's down to two city-states that hate each other, and the darkspawn are slowly but surely encroaching on their territory. Fortunately, if you're playing a Dwarf Warden, [[spoiler:in the epilogue you can convince the ruler of Ferelden to send military aid to Orzammar, and they begin reclaiming a lot of lost territory.]] Even a non-dwarf Warden can [[spoiler:put Bhelen on the throne; he militarizes the casteless and lets the dwarves begin to push the darkspawn back.]]
* TheVirus: The Blight is a taint carried by the darkspawn that poisons the lands they inhabit. People tainted by this go crazy and die, or become decaying ghouls in the thrall of the Archdemon -- or worse, [[spoiler:if they're women, become broodmothers]].
* WalkingWasteland: The darkspawn spread a curse/disease called "the taint" wherever they go that slowly kills everything around them.
* RunningGag: A variation. In every ''Dragon Age'' game so far, someone can (possibly) die by taking an ogre to the face. Cailan dies this way in ''Origins'', Varel can die this way in ''Awakening,'' and Bethany or Carver in ''DragonAgeII''.
** Another gag is foreign characters commenting that Ferelden "smells like wet dog", to which the player character can respond in variants of "It does not smell like dog!"
--->'''The Warden''': And garbage!
--->'''Sten''': Yes, I was trying to forget that.
* SacredScripture: The Chant of Light is the holy text of the Chantry.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: The Qunari have a very strict caste system and don't really understand or like the idea that there might be other, equally viable, social organizations.
--> '''Sten''': I don't understand your people. Your smiths want to be merchants, your merchants want to be nobles, and your nobles want to be royalty. Why is no one happy in their station?
* ScrewYouElves: And ''how''...
* SecondComing: Mostly within the lore of the game series itself: The Maker is prophesied to return and make his world a paradise once the Chant of Light has been sung from all the corners of the world.
* SevenDeadlySins: Condensed into the main five types of demons encountered in the Fade: Rage (wrath), Hunger (gluttony), Sloth (also, according to the codex, envy), Desire (greed and lust), and Pride. Just as in real-life Christianity, Pride is considered the most evil of all by the Chantry because they are the most likely to gain full sentience and therefore more freely amass power.
* TheSoulless: The darkspawn. Except for the Archdemon, since it was formerly an Old God, and "essence" is apparently synonymous with "soul", since there's no room for both in one body.
* SpeaksInShoutouts: The Chanters, who can only speak in quotes of the Chant of Light.
* SpiderSense: Once a person becomes a Grey Warden, they can sense the darkspawn -- and vice versa. Your character may even say "Warden senses tingling!" Mages all have the ability to detect disruptions in the Veil that can, with practice, allow them to detect spirits and especially powerful spells.
* SpiritWorld: The Fade.
* StandardFantasySetting: As [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] emphatically called it; just compare the setting elements to the trope title.
** Dwarves/Elves/Humans -- other races are present, but these are the provided player character options.
** OurMonstersAreDifferent -- Thedas's demons and werewolves are different. Dragons seem to occupy the same role in Origins, but backstory reveals more and more differences.
** FunctionalMagic and MagicAIsMagicA -- as per necessity, when magic is a game mechanic.
** LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards -- a single Templar to execute a potentially dangerous Mage early will save dozens of Templar lives later.
** TheEmpire (Orlais) and several {{The Kingdom}}s, with StandardRoyalCourt, modeled off of [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy historical feudal]] and imperial societies. And then there's TheHorde (darkspawn).
** FantasyCharacterClasses - FighterMageThief
* StrongerWithAge: Dragons function this way.
* TautologicalTemplar: The Templars will execute anyone who is a mage but not a member of the Circle of Magi because there is a chance that they may know forbidden magic. However, they are revered as heroes since they are the militant wing of the setting's dominant religion.
* TechnicalPacifist: The Dalish are nomadic and never stay in one place too long to avoid conflict. The Keeper even says that they ''could'' destroy a nearby Human village who are rallying a mob to drive them out, if they so wished, but that would only cause King Cailan to send soldiers next time, thus it is wiser to simply move on.
* UnEqualRites: A long time ago, a powerful nation called the [[TheEmpire Tevinter Imperium]] once conquered nearly all of the known world by using an extremely dangerous sorcery called Blood Magic, which allowed them to broker deals with and summon demons as well as use a powerful form of MindControl. Eventually, their reign was toppled by the appearance of [[TheCorruption the Blight]], which struck the Empire from nowhere and left them crippled. Most of the world's nations were formed by barbarian clans that rebelled against the weakened Empire, and the followers of those early rebels quickly formed a religion called the Chantry. The Blight continues to plague the world to this day, and the Chantry teachings blame magic for unleashing it. Because of this, mages in general are treated as worse than dirt, and any mage that is not under the direct control of the Chantry is labeled as an apostate which is to be killed on sight. Worse than them are the "Maleficar", which are simply apostates who use the hated Blood Magic which unleashes demons and once enslaved the world.
* UnreliableExpositor[=/=]WrittenByTheWinners: Basically, there is no InfallibleNarrator in this series. Everything, from the opening voiceovers to the Codex entries are written/spoken by in-universe characters. For nearly every major (or even minor) event in the history of the game, there are multiple contradicting accounts with absolutely no indications as to which is the right one. So, rule of thumb for this series: if someone is telling you about something or someone you haven't seen for yourself? Take their opinion into consideration, but don't put too much stock in it.
* VestigialEmpire:
** The Tevinter Imperium, which never recovered from the First Blight, Andraste's rebellion, and the Qunari invasion.
** The Dwarven empire is even worse. It's down to two city-states that hate each other, and the darkspawn are slowly but surely encroaching on their territory. Fortunately, if you're playing a Dwarf Warden, [[spoiler:in the epilogue you can convince the ruler of Ferelden to send military aid to Orzammar, and they begin reclaiming a lot of lost territory.]] Even a non-dwarf Warden can [[spoiler:put Bhelen on the throne; he militarizes the casteless and lets the dwarves begin to push the darkspawn back.]]
* TheVirus: The Blight is a taint carried by the darkspawn that poisons the lands they inhabit. People tainted by this go crazy and die, or become decaying ghouls in the thrall of the Archdemon -- or worse, [[spoiler:if they're women, become broodmothers]].
* WalkingWasteland: The darkspawn spread a curse/disease called "the taint" wherever they go that slowly kills everything around them.
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* KnightTemplar: Unsurprisingly, the Templars themselves fit this trope perfectly. While they do hunt down bad mages, many of them have a hard time differentiating a bad mage from a perfectly good one, and are all too willing to completely purge the Circle if anything goes wrong. This has happened ''at least once per century'' for the last seven hundred years. According to the Codex, candidates for the order are chosen first and foremost for religious conviction and martial aptitude. They're administered lyrium in order to assist them in fighting evil mages -- but a conversation with Alistair implies that the entire purpose of the lyrium is to get them addicted, ensuring their loyalty. They track and destroy dangerous rogue mages -- but a conversation with Wynne implies that many mage-hunters take a sadistic pleasure in their work. Whether the Templars are ''necessary'' is a matter of debate in-game as well as among the fandom.
* LegionOfLostSouls: The Dwarven Legion of the Dead, who will accept anyone into their ranks no matter their background and hold a funeral for the new recruit upon their induction.
* MageKiller: Templars. Although they have shown on multiple occasions they aren't too competent in their job.
* MageTower: The Circle of Magi is housed in one. First Enchanter Irving [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the trope when he grumbles about all the stairs that it necessitates. (Unusually, the tower itself predates the Circle.)
** A tower seems to be a mage's natural habitat in this setting. The Tevinter magisters are said to have lived in towers since long before the Chantry was founded, and Wilhelm, Avernus, and the Mad Hermit all either built or claimed towers as their homes after slipping the Circle's leash.
* MagicalSociety: The Circle of Magi, naturally. Unlike some instances, not all mages are happy to belong to it.
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: Mages risk demonic possession.
* TheMagocracy: The Tevinter Imperium, of course.
* LegionOfLostSouls: The Dwarven Legion of the Dead, who will accept anyone into their ranks no matter their background and hold a funeral for the new recruit upon their induction.
* MageKiller: Templars. Although they have shown on multiple occasions they aren't too competent in their job.
* MageTower: The Circle of Magi is housed in one. First Enchanter Irving [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the trope when he grumbles about all the stairs that it necessitates. (Unusually, the tower itself predates the Circle.)
** A tower seems to be a mage's natural habitat in this setting. The Tevinter magisters are said to have lived in towers since long before the Chantry was founded, and Wilhelm, Avernus, and the Mad Hermit all either built or claimed towers as their homes after slipping the Circle's leash.
* MagicalSociety: The Circle of Magi, naturally. Unlike some instances, not all mages are happy to belong to it.
* MagicIsAMonsterMagnet: Mages risk demonic possession.
* TheMagocracy: The Tevinter Imperium, of course.
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* MeaningfulName: The [[ProfessionalKillers Antivan Crows]]. A group of crows is referred to as a [[IncrediblyLamePun murder.]]
* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: With some alterations, of course.
* MedievalStasis: As explained [[http://greywardens.com/2010/04/dragon-age-technology-and-the-passage-of-time/ here]], magic pretty much prevents progress, while the Qunari, who are squeamish at best with regard to magic, have access to gunpowder. The dwarves, completely unable to use magic, are advancing too, but slowly. The smokeless fuel they use was invented within living memory, and the ancestral Shield Of Aeducan is pretty much identical to early-game junk shields.
* MysticalPlague: The Blight disease spread by the darkspawn is said to be a curse by the [[{{God}} Maker]] upon the Tevinter Magisters, who turned into the first darkspawn themselves under its influence.
* {{Mythopoeia}}
* NGOSuperpower: The Grey Wardens.
* NoBiologicalSex: Spirits of the Fade are technically genderless. Even [[HornyDevils Desire Demons]] only appear to be female to make tempting mortals easier.
* TheOrder: The Grey Wardens, the Templars, the Circle of Magi, the Legion of the Dead...
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: They've got a few of the standard [[DemonicPossession traits]] and [[DealWithTheDevil tactics]], but rather than being diabolical monsters, they're merely the evil half of the population of spirits inhabiting the Fade, the setting's SpiritWorld.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Dragons in ''Dragon Age'' are quite a rare sight overall, having only recently reappeared after they were long believed to be extinct -– heck, the present Dragon Age was only named as such ''because'' of the dragons' reappearance! Most of them are fairly small juveniles and drakes; only impregnated female dragons get huge like the beasts of legend and grow wings, and are ''extremely'' rare. [[spoiler:(In ''Origins'', there's a single true dragon, in the classical fantasy sense, in the game; there are at least two other winged females, but they're much younger and smaller.)]]
** [[spoiler:There's one in ''Awakening'', or two if you reawaken the Queen of the Blackmarsh.]]
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Subverted. Although they still possess a few of the standard traits, their rigid caste society and customs make them very different from Tolkien-esque dwarves. One of the classics is completely avoided: dwarven beer is ''horrible'' because it is brewed from ''lichen''. The human king acts like that isn't true, but he's kind of a moron. The dwarves also have American accents, as opposed to the traditional Scottish ones. Only a third of them have huge beards as well.
** They also seem to be quite sexual for standard fantasy dwarves. "Noble hunting", which is a nice way of saying "gold digging", is openly encouraged in dwarven society. There are as many dwarven prostitutes at the Pearl as there are elven prostitutes. And tellingly, the PC can get shagged in only two of the six origin stories, but only the Dwarf Noble origin lets the main character have a three-way with two noble hunters. [[spoiler:Oh, and it produces an heir. So good luck with that...]]
* OurElvesAreBetter: Subverted. Elves are discriminated against, have lost their immortality (according to ''elvish'' folklore), and were enslaved for a thousand years. The slavery may have ended, but the discrimination, segregation, and second-class citizenry certainly didn't.
** This is so in terms of stats, too. Instead of having superior physical grace like typical fantasy elves, ''Dragon Age'' elves only have bonuses to Willpower and Magic--meaning humans are physically superior to elves in every way; larger, stronger, tougher, ''and more agile!''
* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Darkspawn fit the classic Tolkien Orc criteria enough to fit and look enough like Orcs as well. Indeed, they're closer to Tolkien Orcs than most of the ProudWarriorRace Orcs now in fantasy. The Deep Roads is Moria, and [[spoiler:the Broodmother hints at the idea in ''The Silmarillion'' that orcs are corrupted elves.]] Due to the very real threat they pose to entire nations, they're closer to Tolkien's orcs than most standard fantasy orcs you find these days. They get a whole lot worse when you meet the first [[NightmareFuel Broodmother]]. And it manages to [[SerialEscalation get even worse]] when you meet The Mother in ''Awakening'', who [[spoiler:is different from broodmothers in that she is 1) fully sentient, 2) capable of commanding other darkspawn, including broodmothers, and 3) cacklingly insane.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They're people possessed by hunger demons. Since hunger demons are barely sentient, they're not as cunning as traditional vampires.
** NotUsingTheZWord -- they're never referred to in-game as vampires. Indeed, they're counted more as walking corpses, rather than their own kind of undead, though they are among the most powerful of the walking dead.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Said to be the result of demonic interference [[spoiler:which may be true, but the ones you meet are the innocent victims of an indiscriminate RoaringRampageOfRevenge who were brought back to sanity by the very spirit who was forced into it. [[DarkIsNotEvil They can even join you]].]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: There's two kinds of zombies in the ''Dragon Age'' franchise. The first are corpses possessed by hunger demons that don't spread a virus of any kind, but they are still hostile and will devour people alive if given the opportunity. Second ones are ghouls, which are people who contract the [[TheVirus Darkspawn Taint]] and instead of dying become indoctrinated by the Archdemon. Most of the ghouls are docile, mindless husks that just shamble around and are unable to spread the Taint, but a number of them become darkspawn themselves.
* ProudWarriorRace: The Qunari; to a lesser extent, the Warrior and Noble Caste Dwarves. Although we've only seen the Qunari invasion vanguard and rogue Qunari mercenaries in game. It's strongly suggested Qunari who fulfill a non-warrior role in Qunari society according to the Qun are also respected... except mages.
* PubertySuperpower: Though not a hard and fast rule, mages generally come into their powers at the onset of puberty. (Some do get them earlier; [[spoiler:Connor Guerrin]] is one example, and Wynne remarks in party banter that she entered the Circle of Magi at the age of nine.)
* ThePunishment: According to the Chantry, the mages who tried to usurp heaven were turned into the first darkspawn by the Maker and that the darkspawn taint is the physical embodiment of their sin. Considering everything that happened afterwards, it makes one wonder why the Maker simply didn't smite them with lightning instead. Because he ''wanted'' their punishment to be all of humanity's punishment as well. One thing the Chantry's lore (if accurate) makes perfectly clear about the Maker: he's a real bastard.
* MedievalEuropeanFantasy: With some alterations, of course.
* MedievalStasis: As explained [[http://greywardens.com/2010/04/dragon-age-technology-and-the-passage-of-time/ here]], magic pretty much prevents progress, while the Qunari, who are squeamish at best with regard to magic, have access to gunpowder. The dwarves, completely unable to use magic, are advancing too, but slowly. The smokeless fuel they use was invented within living memory, and the ancestral Shield Of Aeducan is pretty much identical to early-game junk shields.
* MysticalPlague: The Blight disease spread by the darkspawn is said to be a curse by the [[{{God}} Maker]] upon the Tevinter Magisters, who turned into the first darkspawn themselves under its influence.
* {{Mythopoeia}}
* NGOSuperpower: The Grey Wardens.
* NoBiologicalSex: Spirits of the Fade are technically genderless. Even [[HornyDevils Desire Demons]] only appear to be female to make tempting mortals easier.
* TheOrder: The Grey Wardens, the Templars, the Circle of Magi, the Legion of the Dead...
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: They've got a few of the standard [[DemonicPossession traits]] and [[DealWithTheDevil tactics]], but rather than being diabolical monsters, they're merely the evil half of the population of spirits inhabiting the Fade, the setting's SpiritWorld.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Dragons in ''Dragon Age'' are quite a rare sight overall, having only recently reappeared after they were long believed to be extinct -– heck, the present Dragon Age was only named as such ''because'' of the dragons' reappearance! Most of them are fairly small juveniles and drakes; only impregnated female dragons get huge like the beasts of legend and grow wings, and are ''extremely'' rare. [[spoiler:(In ''Origins'', there's a single true dragon, in the classical fantasy sense, in the game; there are at least two other winged females, but they're much younger and smaller.)]]
** [[spoiler:There's one in ''Awakening'', or two if you reawaken the Queen of the Blackmarsh.]]
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Subverted. Although they still possess a few of the standard traits, their rigid caste society and customs make them very different from Tolkien-esque dwarves. One of the classics is completely avoided: dwarven beer is ''horrible'' because it is brewed from ''lichen''. The human king acts like that isn't true, but he's kind of a moron. The dwarves also have American accents, as opposed to the traditional Scottish ones. Only a third of them have huge beards as well.
** They also seem to be quite sexual for standard fantasy dwarves. "Noble hunting", which is a nice way of saying "gold digging", is openly encouraged in dwarven society. There are as many dwarven prostitutes at the Pearl as there are elven prostitutes. And tellingly, the PC can get shagged in only two of the six origin stories, but only the Dwarf Noble origin lets the main character have a three-way with two noble hunters. [[spoiler:Oh, and it produces an heir. So good luck with that...]]
* OurElvesAreBetter: Subverted. Elves are discriminated against, have lost their immortality (according to ''elvish'' folklore), and were enslaved for a thousand years. The slavery may have ended, but the discrimination, segregation, and second-class citizenry certainly didn't.
** This is so in terms of stats, too. Instead of having superior physical grace like typical fantasy elves, ''Dragon Age'' elves only have bonuses to Willpower and Magic--meaning humans are physically superior to elves in every way; larger, stronger, tougher, ''and more agile!''
* OurOrcsAreDifferent: Darkspawn fit the classic Tolkien Orc criteria enough to fit and look enough like Orcs as well. Indeed, they're closer to Tolkien Orcs than most of the ProudWarriorRace Orcs now in fantasy. The Deep Roads is Moria, and [[spoiler:the Broodmother hints at the idea in ''The Silmarillion'' that orcs are corrupted elves.]] Due to the very real threat they pose to entire nations, they're closer to Tolkien's orcs than most standard fantasy orcs you find these days. They get a whole lot worse when you meet the first [[NightmareFuel Broodmother]]. And it manages to [[SerialEscalation get even worse]] when you meet The Mother in ''Awakening'', who [[spoiler:is different from broodmothers in that she is 1) fully sentient, 2) capable of commanding other darkspawn, including broodmothers, and 3) cacklingly insane.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They're people possessed by hunger demons. Since hunger demons are barely sentient, they're not as cunning as traditional vampires.
** NotUsingTheZWord -- they're never referred to in-game as vampires. Indeed, they're counted more as walking corpses, rather than their own kind of undead, though they are among the most powerful of the walking dead.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Said to be the result of demonic interference [[spoiler:which may be true, but the ones you meet are the innocent victims of an indiscriminate RoaringRampageOfRevenge who were brought back to sanity by the very spirit who was forced into it. [[DarkIsNotEvil They can even join you]].]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: There's two kinds of zombies in the ''Dragon Age'' franchise. The first are corpses possessed by hunger demons that don't spread a virus of any kind, but they are still hostile and will devour people alive if given the opportunity. Second ones are ghouls, which are people who contract the [[TheVirus Darkspawn Taint]] and instead of dying become indoctrinated by the Archdemon. Most of the ghouls are docile, mindless husks that just shamble around and are unable to spread the Taint, but a number of them become darkspawn themselves.
* ProudWarriorRace: The Qunari; to a lesser extent, the Warrior and Noble Caste Dwarves. Although we've only seen the Qunari invasion vanguard and rogue Qunari mercenaries in game. It's strongly suggested Qunari who fulfill a non-warrior role in Qunari society according to the Qun are also respected... except mages.
* PubertySuperpower: Though not a hard and fast rule, mages generally come into their powers at the onset of puberty. (Some do get them earlier; [[spoiler:Connor Guerrin]] is one example, and Wynne remarks in party banter that she entered the Circle of Magi at the age of nine.)
* ThePunishment: According to the Chantry, the mages who tried to usurp heaven were turned into the first darkspawn by the Maker and that the darkspawn taint is the physical embodiment of their sin. Considering everything that happened afterwards, it makes one wonder why the Maker simply didn't smite them with lightning instead. Because he ''wanted'' their punishment to be all of humanity's punishment as well. One thing the Chantry's lore (if accurate) makes perfectly clear about the Maker: he's a real bastard.
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*** FridgeBrilliance: Fridge Brilliance: The Borgias, whose purported methods appears to be popular in Antiva, lived in Valencia, which was part of the Crown of Aragon and later of Spain itself, which at the time included many parts of Italy (like Naples).
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* FantasticRacism:
** Humans look down on elves.
** Dalish elves themselves pity the Alienage elves and are mystified why they remain in the human cities. Meanwhile, the Alienage elves also look down on "flat-ears", elves who have left their walled ghettos and attempt to integrate themselves further within the human settlements, believing they are abandoning their community.
** The higher castes of Orzammar treat the casteless as lower than dirt.
** Dwarves also look down on humans and elves, considering themselves to be superior. And they also hate "surface dwarves", fellow dwarves who have left Orzammar for the surface world, who are officially considered casteless and exiles.
* FantasticRankSystem: The Qunari have one; see the trope page for details.
* FantasyCharacterClasses: Warrior/Rogue/Mage.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture:
** Featuring fantasy counterpart ''personages'', too. Leliana –- a French-accented young cleric who firmly believes that [[CrystalDragonJesus The Maker]] told her to aid you. Can we say "Joan of Arc"? (Which is weird, given Andraste...)
*** Notable is that during one conversation with her, she will talk about her "unique" beliefs about the Maker: While most clerics of the Chantry believe that they are "chosen" by the Maker, and only they will achieve salvation, she thinks that the Maker loves ''everyone''. Sounds a lot like Martin Luther (no, [[CivilRightsMovement not that one]]) to me.
*** Or like Paul, on that note. "Pauline Christianity" is when the words, though not the spirit, of Mosaic law was retired and salvation was proclaimed to gentile and Jew alike. Before, the Messiah was commonly presumed to be for the benefit of only the nation of Israel. Paul re-interpreted Israel to mean "Christian" (and anyone can be baptized a Christian) rather than just "a son of Abraham" (a matter of lineage one can do nothing about). This "love all men" approach of course generated controversy in the early Church.
** Speaking of Andraste: she's the legendary saint who inspired the major religion of Ferelden, so she fits even better. Having been spoken to directly by The Maker, she raised an army and led a holy crusade against the Tevinter empire. In the end, she was captured, and burned at the stake.
*** Aside from being the Maker's prophet, Andraste was put to death by Rome -- err, the Tevinter Empire for her teachings. Her mortal remains (in this case, her ashes), are contained in [[HolyGrail an urn, which is a sacred relic rumored to have miraculous powers]]. Sound like anyone you know?
*** Also, Andraste is captured by the Empire thanks to her backstabbing husband, Maferath. Like Judas, Maferath's name has become synonymous with betrayal. [[http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_The_Canticle_of_Maferath There are also apocryphal holy books which imply that the Maker ''made'' Maferath betray her, and so he should be revered for enabling her transcendence, similar to the real world "Gospel of Judas".]]
*** She also seems to be a partial expy of Mohammed: a mortal chosen to reveal the teachings of the Maker and the only (or at least the final) person who will ever be spoken to, according to the Chantry; warrior prophet leading an outmatched army against a pagan Empire and picking up an army of converts; the Chant (in its origins, at least) is essentially a counterpart to the Qu'ran, and there is a similar impetus for it to be heard at all corners of the globe. Of course, the key difference that separates her from Mohammed is that she is worshipped, but, even then, excessive devotion to Andraste rather than The Maker is shown to be a bad thing.
** Orlais was originally going to be called Arles, which was the name of an actual city in France. Orleans is a French city associated with Joan of Arc.
** At one point, one of the Dalish refers to the Chantry's "Exalted Marches" as [[ShapedLikeItself crusades...]]
** Ferelden is basically "Scotland/Anglo-Saxon England" as a foil to the whole high medieval "Plantagenet England/France" thing Orlais has going. Ferelden also has Irish influences, mostly in the names.
** Redcliffe [[RedCliff is aptly named]].
** The Free Marches represent the mess of micro-states that Germany was until the 19th century. Kirkwall on the otherhand is more of a melting pot, giving us such things as Elfs in turbans.
** Somewhat confusingly, the Anderfels have German parallels as well, although more along the lines of the Teutonic Order and Prussia, with some Mongolian influences (their territory consists mainly of large, sparsely populated steppes) thrown in.
** The DragonAge [[WikiRule wiki]] says that Nevarra was originally just one of the larger Free Marches before becoming a major power. So... Austria?
*** The Pentaghast clan, who united the Free Marches under Nevarran leadership in a loose confederation, are very similar to the Habsburg dynasty, similarly suggesting that Nevarra is based on Austria.
** Antiva is "a fictionalized version of a medieval Italian city-state like Venice"... where everyone has a Spanish accent for some reason.
*** FridgeBrilliance: The Borgias, whose purported methods appears to be popular in Antiva, lived in Valencia, which was part of the Crown of Aragon and later of Spain itself, which at the time included many parts of Italy (like Naples).
** WordOfGod says that the Tevinter Imperium is based off the Byzantine Empire, complete with a schismatic version of the Chantry. (Ancient Tevinter was clearly Rome, without a doubt. Modern Tevinter is much smaller, and has converted to Andrastism, but is in religious schism with the other Andrastian nations, and thus...)
*** The schism itself takes on other flavors, too, with the White and Black Divines resembling rival popes in Catholic history.
** The Qunari philosophy resembles militant Confucianism; they have been described in WordOfGod as, socially, resembling "militant Islamic Borg".
*** The "Islamic" part is because they clearly play the role the Caliphates did in early medieval Europe: an expansionist, advanced civilization with an evangelical religion pressing on the borders of the Andrastian nations/Christian Europe, particularly Tevinter/Byzantium.
*** Their theme from [[DragonAgeII the sequel]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-WIX856EZ4 is deliberately Islamic-sounding]].
*** To the extent that they are a technologically advanced people who left their home continent for religious purposes and proceeded to attempt to conquer the indigenous folk of their new home, they could also be compared to the early English settlers of the Americas.
** The Chasind Wilders are clearly based on Celtic tribes from Pre-Roman Britain.
** The Dwarves, despite the fact that their armor, weapons, fighting style, and art style all have an Anglo-Saxon/Viking feel, ([[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame like most dwarves]]) have a social structure and political system that is actually quite Roman. The assembly, like the Roman Senate, isn't elected but inherited, and only the wealthy nobility can hold office. Their kings are elected by the assembly, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPTIGLj2LCE as was the case during the Pre-Rebublic era.]] The Caste system brings to mind the Patrician/Plebeian divide, the Paragons are similar to when the Roman Senate would vote to have men raised to the position of living god, and of course, they practice gladiatorial combat in the form of the provings. On the other hand, their buildings actually look [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Saint_George Lalibela Ethiopian]], believe it or not. An understandable choice, as both carve their buildings directly out of stone rather then using brick.
** Dalish Elves as Gypsies, UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}, or UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers.
** City Elves are based on pre-World-War European Jewish culture. Once a powerful nation, they were overpowered, their homeland destroyed, and forced into slavery by the Tevinter imperium. (cf. Roman Empire). Eventually, they were freed, and built up a new culture, only to be again overpowered, this time by Fereldans and the Chantry. They now live in walled-off ghettos, try to keep up as many of their old customs as possible, can only find menial works among the humans, and are treated as second-class citizens. They have arranged marriages ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shidduch "Matchmaker, Matchmaker..."]]), and even the ambient [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbHdxflCgCU soundtrack]] for the elven "Alienage" (ghetto) has a distinct Klezmer/Schindler's List style, complete with mournful clarinet solo à la Giora Feidman.
*** The custom of having a great tree in the center of a village is a Basque tradition; for example, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernikako_Arbola Oak of Guernica]].
*** Some inspiration might also be Native American, as they struggle to keep their old culture and language which is slipping away, and were the original people of Thedas before humans came.
*** City Elves also personify the anti-Irish sentiment that pervaded much of North America and Great Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. They were denied all but the most menial of jobs, had a reputation as boozers and mooches and were also forced to live in ghettos. In fact it would not be all that odd to hear the phrase [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Need_Not_Apply Elvish Need Not Apply.]]
*** Last but not least is the comparison with blacks in the United States, pre-Civil Rights but post-Civil War.
** The nation of Rivain is a place where the Qunari (Muslims) and the Elves (Jews) live in peace and general equality with the humans. Sounds a lot like Moorish Spain. The fact that the only person we ever meet from there is a pirate named Isabela makes this comparison even more apt. (Piracy being the other thing the Moors were known for after religious tolerance and being a center of learning.)
* FantasyGunControl: Dragon Age's society has the engineering capacity to produce smokeless coal or build entire cities underground, but only the Qunari have invented gunpowder. Dwarves know a little about explosives, but Qunari assassins have been known to hunt down and kill anyone who looks like they might give the secret of controlled explosions to those not of the Qun.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Averted, mostly. While there are plenty of standard fantasy creatures about, the writers did a decent job in coming up with [[OurOrcsAreDifferent alternate]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent backstories]] [[OurOrcsAreDifferent for]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent each]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent of]] [[OurGryphonsAreDifferent them]] that explain coherently how they can all exist in the same setting.
* FemmeFatalons: Desire Demons.
* FunctionalMagic: A person has to be born with the ability to use magic. Magic is performed by drawing power from the Fade. Device magic is also present in enchanted items created by the Tranquil as well as most of the items you create with higher-tier poison-making and trap-making.
* FunWithAcronyms: The name of the game's world, Thedas, comes from the general working name "THE Dragon Age Setting."
* {{God}}: The Maker has a lot of similarities with the Abrahamic God. Even comes with his own [[CrystalDragonJesus Jesus]], who also doubles as Mohammed.
* HereThereWereDragons: Griffons have died off, the elves have been subjugated and lost their immortality and most of their cultural heritage, magic is rare, dragons were thought to be extinct until a very few were seen at the start of the age, the Tevinter Imperium fell in all but name long ago and its gods were turned into Archdemons, and perhaps the most fantastic thing is the advent of an apocalyptic horde led by said Archdemons and hellbent on destruction. Oh yeah, it's the sticks all right. Of course, main characters being what they are, they'll uncover plenty of special things that are still in the world.
** TheMagicComesBack: The game is actually called "Dragon Age" because that's the age the story takes place in. Each age is named at the end of the previous one based on portents and signs. It's called the Dragon Age because dragons just recently started reappearing after being nearly hunted to extinction. Hell, one of the endings has [[spoiler:Morrigan setting up an old god to be reborn, uncorrupted, as a human]]. However, [[spoiler:no griffons... yet]].
* GreenRocks: As if the green-blueish veins of Lyrium itself weren't enough, Dragon Age also has lifestones, a rare rock that has existed in close proximity to lyrium ore, and as such, they have absorbed some of its traits. Crushing a lifestone gives the user a small bonus to nature resistance for a short time -- reasonable enough. But in addition, lifestones enhance the natural properties of other materials used in item creation, and how! These magic rocks are used as natural property 'enhancers' in all sorts of antidotes, salves, poisons, and grease traps, of all things, conveniently making things more healing, more deadly, more acidic, or more greasy just by mere presence, it seems.
* HarmfulToTouch: Lyrium.
* TheHorde: The darkspawn. They especially like to leave people completely burned, hanging on display, or stuck in the ground with a large object lodged in the body.
* HornedHumanoid: Desire demons. The Qunari also have horns -- although the rare ones without horns are actually considered special in their society.
* HornyDevils: Desire demons, whose idle animations during conversation include acts such as feeling themselves up.
** Humans look down on elves.
** Dalish elves themselves pity the Alienage elves and are mystified why they remain in the human cities. Meanwhile, the Alienage elves also look down on "flat-ears", elves who have left their walled ghettos and attempt to integrate themselves further within the human settlements, believing they are abandoning their community.
** The higher castes of Orzammar treat the casteless as lower than dirt.
** Dwarves also look down on humans and elves, considering themselves to be superior. And they also hate "surface dwarves", fellow dwarves who have left Orzammar for the surface world, who are officially considered casteless and exiles.
* FantasticRankSystem: The Qunari have one; see the trope page for details.
* FantasyCharacterClasses: Warrior/Rogue/Mage.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture:
** Featuring fantasy counterpart ''personages'', too. Leliana –- a French-accented young cleric who firmly believes that [[CrystalDragonJesus The Maker]] told her to aid you. Can we say "Joan of Arc"? (Which is weird, given Andraste...)
*** Notable is that during one conversation with her, she will talk about her "unique" beliefs about the Maker: While most clerics of the Chantry believe that they are "chosen" by the Maker, and only they will achieve salvation, she thinks that the Maker loves ''everyone''. Sounds a lot like Martin Luther (no, [[CivilRightsMovement not that one]]) to me.
*** Or like Paul, on that note. "Pauline Christianity" is when the words, though not the spirit, of Mosaic law was retired and salvation was proclaimed to gentile and Jew alike. Before, the Messiah was commonly presumed to be for the benefit of only the nation of Israel. Paul re-interpreted Israel to mean "Christian" (and anyone can be baptized a Christian) rather than just "a son of Abraham" (a matter of lineage one can do nothing about). This "love all men" approach of course generated controversy in the early Church.
** Speaking of Andraste: she's the legendary saint who inspired the major religion of Ferelden, so she fits even better. Having been spoken to directly by The Maker, she raised an army and led a holy crusade against the Tevinter empire. In the end, she was captured, and burned at the stake.
*** Aside from being the Maker's prophet, Andraste was put to death by Rome -- err, the Tevinter Empire for her teachings. Her mortal remains (in this case, her ashes), are contained in [[HolyGrail an urn, which is a sacred relic rumored to have miraculous powers]]. Sound like anyone you know?
*** Also, Andraste is captured by the Empire thanks to her backstabbing husband, Maferath. Like Judas, Maferath's name has become synonymous with betrayal. [[http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Codex_entry:_The_Canticle_of_Maferath There are also apocryphal holy books which imply that the Maker ''made'' Maferath betray her, and so he should be revered for enabling her transcendence, similar to the real world "Gospel of Judas".]]
*** She also seems to be a partial expy of Mohammed: a mortal chosen to reveal the teachings of the Maker and the only (or at least the final) person who will ever be spoken to, according to the Chantry; warrior prophet leading an outmatched army against a pagan Empire and picking up an army of converts; the Chant (in its origins, at least) is essentially a counterpart to the Qu'ran, and there is a similar impetus for it to be heard at all corners of the globe. Of course, the key difference that separates her from Mohammed is that she is worshipped, but, even then, excessive devotion to Andraste rather than The Maker is shown to be a bad thing.
** Orlais was originally going to be called Arles, which was the name of an actual city in France. Orleans is a French city associated with Joan of Arc.
** At one point, one of the Dalish refers to the Chantry's "Exalted Marches" as [[ShapedLikeItself crusades...]]
** Ferelden is basically "Scotland/Anglo-Saxon England" as a foil to the whole high medieval "Plantagenet England/France" thing Orlais has going. Ferelden also has Irish influences, mostly in the names.
** Redcliffe [[RedCliff is aptly named]].
** The Free Marches represent the mess of micro-states that Germany was until the 19th century. Kirkwall on the otherhand is more of a melting pot, giving us such things as Elfs in turbans.
** Somewhat confusingly, the Anderfels have German parallels as well, although more along the lines of the Teutonic Order and Prussia, with some Mongolian influences (their territory consists mainly of large, sparsely populated steppes) thrown in.
** The DragonAge [[WikiRule wiki]] says that Nevarra was originally just one of the larger Free Marches before becoming a major power. So... Austria?
*** The Pentaghast clan, who united the Free Marches under Nevarran leadership in a loose confederation, are very similar to the Habsburg dynasty, similarly suggesting that Nevarra is based on Austria.
** Antiva is "a fictionalized version of a medieval Italian city-state like Venice"... where everyone has a Spanish accent for some reason.
*** FridgeBrilliance: The Borgias, whose purported methods appears to be popular in Antiva, lived in Valencia, which was part of the Crown of Aragon and later of Spain itself, which at the time included many parts of Italy (like Naples).
** WordOfGod says that the Tevinter Imperium is based off the Byzantine Empire, complete with a schismatic version of the Chantry. (Ancient Tevinter was clearly Rome, without a doubt. Modern Tevinter is much smaller, and has converted to Andrastism, but is in religious schism with the other Andrastian nations, and thus...)
*** The schism itself takes on other flavors, too, with the White and Black Divines resembling rival popes in Catholic history.
** The Qunari philosophy resembles militant Confucianism; they have been described in WordOfGod as, socially, resembling "militant Islamic Borg".
*** The "Islamic" part is because they clearly play the role the Caliphates did in early medieval Europe: an expansionist, advanced civilization with an evangelical religion pressing on the borders of the Andrastian nations/Christian Europe, particularly Tevinter/Byzantium.
*** Their theme from [[DragonAgeII the sequel]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-WIX856EZ4 is deliberately Islamic-sounding]].
*** To the extent that they are a technologically advanced people who left their home continent for religious purposes and proceeded to attempt to conquer the indigenous folk of their new home, they could also be compared to the early English settlers of the Americas.
** The Chasind Wilders are clearly based on Celtic tribes from Pre-Roman Britain.
** The Dwarves, despite the fact that their armor, weapons, fighting style, and art style all have an Anglo-Saxon/Viking feel, ([[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame like most dwarves]]) have a social structure and political system that is actually quite Roman. The assembly, like the Roman Senate, isn't elected but inherited, and only the wealthy nobility can hold office. Their kings are elected by the assembly, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPTIGLj2LCE as was the case during the Pre-Rebublic era.]] The Caste system brings to mind the Patrician/Plebeian divide, the Paragons are similar to when the Roman Senate would vote to have men raised to the position of living god, and of course, they practice gladiatorial combat in the form of the provings. On the other hand, their buildings actually look [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Saint_George Lalibela Ethiopian]], believe it or not. An understandable choice, as both carve their buildings directly out of stone rather then using brick.
** Dalish Elves as Gypsies, UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}, or UsefulNotes/IrishTravellers.
** City Elves are based on pre-World-War European Jewish culture. Once a powerful nation, they were overpowered, their homeland destroyed, and forced into slavery by the Tevinter imperium. (cf. Roman Empire). Eventually, they were freed, and built up a new culture, only to be again overpowered, this time by Fereldans and the Chantry. They now live in walled-off ghettos, try to keep up as many of their old customs as possible, can only find menial works among the humans, and are treated as second-class citizens. They have arranged marriages ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shidduch "Matchmaker, Matchmaker..."]]), and even the ambient [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbHdxflCgCU soundtrack]] for the elven "Alienage" (ghetto) has a distinct Klezmer/Schindler's List style, complete with mournful clarinet solo à la Giora Feidman.
*** The custom of having a great tree in the center of a village is a Basque tradition; for example, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernikako_Arbola Oak of Guernica]].
*** Some inspiration might also be Native American, as they struggle to keep their old culture and language which is slipping away, and were the original people of Thedas before humans came.
*** City Elves also personify the anti-Irish sentiment that pervaded much of North America and Great Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. They were denied all but the most menial of jobs, had a reputation as boozers and mooches and were also forced to live in ghettos. In fact it would not be all that odd to hear the phrase [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Need_Not_Apply Elvish Need Not Apply.]]
*** Last but not least is the comparison with blacks in the United States, pre-Civil Rights but post-Civil War.
** The nation of Rivain is a place where the Qunari (Muslims) and the Elves (Jews) live in peace and general equality with the humans. Sounds a lot like Moorish Spain. The fact that the only person we ever meet from there is a pirate named Isabela makes this comparison even more apt. (Piracy being the other thing the Moors were known for after religious tolerance and being a center of learning.)
* FantasyGunControl: Dragon Age's society has the engineering capacity to produce smokeless coal or build entire cities underground, but only the Qunari have invented gunpowder. Dwarves know a little about explosives, but Qunari assassins have been known to hunt down and kill anyone who looks like they might give the secret of controlled explosions to those not of the Qun.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Averted, mostly. While there are plenty of standard fantasy creatures about, the writers did a decent job in coming up with [[OurOrcsAreDifferent alternate]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent backstories]] [[OurOrcsAreDifferent for]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent each]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent of]] [[OurGryphonsAreDifferent them]] that explain coherently how they can all exist in the same setting.
* FemmeFatalons: Desire Demons.
* FunctionalMagic: A person has to be born with the ability to use magic. Magic is performed by drawing power from the Fade. Device magic is also present in enchanted items created by the Tranquil as well as most of the items you create with higher-tier poison-making and trap-making.
* FunWithAcronyms: The name of the game's world, Thedas, comes from the general working name "THE Dragon Age Setting."
* {{God}}: The Maker has a lot of similarities with the Abrahamic God. Even comes with his own [[CrystalDragonJesus Jesus]], who also doubles as Mohammed.
* HereThereWereDragons: Griffons have died off, the elves have been subjugated and lost their immortality and most of their cultural heritage, magic is rare, dragons were thought to be extinct until a very few were seen at the start of the age, the Tevinter Imperium fell in all but name long ago and its gods were turned into Archdemons, and perhaps the most fantastic thing is the advent of an apocalyptic horde led by said Archdemons and hellbent on destruction. Oh yeah, it's the sticks all right. Of course, main characters being what they are, they'll uncover plenty of special things that are still in the world.
** TheMagicComesBack: The game is actually called "Dragon Age" because that's the age the story takes place in. Each age is named at the end of the previous one based on portents and signs. It's called the Dragon Age because dragons just recently started reappearing after being nearly hunted to extinction. Hell, one of the endings has [[spoiler:Morrigan setting up an old god to be reborn, uncorrupted, as a human]]. However, [[spoiler:no griffons... yet]].
* GreenRocks: As if the green-blueish veins of Lyrium itself weren't enough, Dragon Age also has lifestones, a rare rock that has existed in close proximity to lyrium ore, and as such, they have absorbed some of its traits. Crushing a lifestone gives the user a small bonus to nature resistance for a short time -- reasonable enough. But in addition, lifestones enhance the natural properties of other materials used in item creation, and how! These magic rocks are used as natural property 'enhancers' in all sorts of antidotes, salves, poisons, and grease traps, of all things, conveniently making things more healing, more deadly, more acidic, or more greasy just by mere presence, it seems.
* HarmfulToTouch: Lyrium.
* TheHorde: The darkspawn. They especially like to leave people completely burned, hanging on display, or stuck in the ground with a large object lodged in the body.
* HornedHumanoid: Desire demons. The Qunari also have horns -- although the rare ones without horns are actually considered special in their society.
* HornyDevils: Desire demons, whose idle animations during conversation include acts such as feeling themselves up.
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* JerkassGods:
** The Chantry treats the Maker with absolute reverence and makes the quest for His forgiveness of mankind's sins its primary goal, even though their canon makes the Almighty sound like a fickle, rather short-fused deity with a penchant for DisproportionateRetribution, lack of any actual love (or even vague sense of parental responsibility) for His creations, and no problem playing favourites for a girl in ways even Zeus might have called out of line. The Chantry preaches that He is God, but doesn't really make a very good job of painting Him as a ''good'' god. Ironically, it's the less orthodox if not borderline-blasphemous interpretations like Leliana's that attempt to paint the Maker as a God who someone may actually want to revere.
** If the Old Gods of the Tevinter Imperium didn't fit this trope before, they definitely do after they become insane Archdemons that lead the darkspawn in a bid to kill everything.
** The Chantry treats the Maker with absolute reverence and makes the quest for His forgiveness of mankind's sins its primary goal, even though their canon makes the Almighty sound like a fickle, rather short-fused deity with a penchant for DisproportionateRetribution, lack of any actual love (or even vague sense of parental responsibility) for His creations, and no problem playing favourites for a girl in ways even Zeus might have called out of line. The Chantry preaches that He is God, but doesn't really make a very good job of painting Him as a ''good'' god. Ironically, it's the less orthodox if not borderline-blasphemous interpretations like Leliana's that attempt to paint the Maker as a God who someone may actually want to revere.
** If the Old Gods of the Tevinter Imperium didn't fit this trope before, they definitely do after they become insane Archdemons that lead the darkspawn in a bid to kill everything.
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* AerithAndBob: The names of the four main types of darkspawn: genlocks, hurlocks, sharlocks, and... ogres. This also applies to character names to an extent. There are a lot of real-world names mixed in with the more fantastic fare. Justified in the codices: [[spoiler: Genlocks, Hurlocks, and Sharlocks (labeled in-game by the nickname "Shrieks") are the ancient terms for Blight-mutated Dwarves, Humans, and Elves respectively. But Ogres come from blighted Kossith Qunari, who are newcomers to the region, so Ogres apparently didn't exist until recently.]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The darkspawn (except for the Architect and the Messenger, who are morally ambiguous). Demons as well, though some appear to be simply amoral. Plenty are pure evil though, and even the nicest ones are totally indifferent to the suffering they and their ilk cause.
* AndManGrewProud: According to the Chantry, it was men trying to conquer the "Golden City" in the heart of [[SpiritWorld The Fade]] that first drew the darkspawn, and caused The Maker, their creator deity, to shun them. However, the first thing that caused Him to shun them was when they started worshiping dragons instead of Him. Then they entered the Golden City, and He shunned them harder. Still later, he shunned them again for the death of Andraste. He is a very passive-aggressive deity.
* AntiHero: The Grey Wardens' mission statement is to "protect the lands from the Blight, no matter the cost". They are expected to sacrifice themselves without a second thought. They'll sacrifice others just as easily. Let's just say that no one will look twice at Duncan for [[spoiler:killing Jory]]... In gameplay terms, this means that no matter what action you take, it's the right one if it helps you in stopping the Blight. Hence the lack of KarmaMeter.
* AntiMagic: The Glyph of Neutralization does this. Templars, who are trained to fight mages, have higher resistance to magic and can dispel status effects and glyphs. Dwarves have a very high magic resistance as well, a trade-off for not being able to use magic themselves.
* BlackMagic: BloodMagic is considered this due to its ghastly power source, ability to take control of people (like, say, a king or a noble [[spoiler:which Avernus admits he did to help the Grey Wardens in their rebellion long ago]]), and just being creepy in general. Due to the Chantry's constant preaching against the very real dangers of magic, almost everyone in Ferelden who isn't a mage (and one mage NPC) considers ''all'' magic BlackMagic. The Qunari have an even harsher stance against magic, and just ''cut out the tongues'' and ''chain to leashes'' any potential mages born to them to prevent them from ever casting spells.
** What's important about Blood Magic is that it is pure life force, and can thus provide plenty of energy. And it isn't limited to Mages, either. Anybody can learn how to tap into it, even a warrior (exemplified by the Reaver, who uses a different path, but one which still uses the power inherent in blood as energy). Since it was originally taught by an Old God (demons are the only ones who still remember it in most cases, however), it may not even be evil. The ''Soldier's Peak'' DLC introduced Avernus, who had worked out how to change blood as the fuel source for the Taint. And then there are the Chantry Templars, who gain their abilities from the energies within lyrium (apparently - that it is possible to wield what is essentially Templar-created magic without using lyrium might speak to some other source), all without being Mages. Even Spirit Healers can draw power from benevolent Fade spirits to augment their own abilities. While the Fade is probably the easiest source to learn how to use (and the one with the least reliance on an outside source to power one's spells), it's definitely not the only source. Indeed, it might be that ''anybody'' could learn how to use magic, as long as they were willing to use something else as fuel (absent a Mage's connection to the Fade). The problem, of course, is that unless you're willing to use your own life force, Blood Magic needs the contribution of somebody else.
* BlackSpeech: While it never shows up outside of cutscenes, the appearance of the Darkspawn is frequently heralded by an ominous whispering. Possibly this is meant to indicate that the Warden is sensing them.
* BlessedWithSuck:
** Being a mage pretty much means you have a big neon sign reading "POSSESS HERE" in the eyes of Demons. This isn't ''quite'' as great a danger as the Chantry makes out, however, so long as you're properly trained. Of course, everyone religious you encounter would pretty much gladly burn you at the stake if they weren't terrified by your powers -- the first thing they usually assume is that you'll turn them into frogs.
** It's not easy being a Grey Warden either. The first test of your mettle is the Joining: fail it and die horribly. Succeed, and die horribly too -- only this time it takes a decade or two for the darkspawn taint to eat you alive from the inside, eventually turning you into a monster, if you don't commit suicide-by-darkspawn in the Deep Roads first. In the interim, you'll have insane dreams about the Archdemon talking to you: if you're lucky, you, too, may be able to understand it one day! Unless a Blight is happening. Then you can throw yourselves against the Archdemon, hoping to slay it in a process that completely annihilates your soul! Of course, if there's no Blight, that means you basically sacrificed your life and sanity for ''nothing''. Oh, and one more teeny tiny detail: Ever wanted to have a kid? [[LawOfInverseFertility Good luck with that,]] especially with another Grey Warden. And in this game, the Grey Wardens are composed of two new recruits who are being hunted down as criminals.
** Being a mage and a Grey Warden makes the disadvantage of each null and void: since you're a Grey Warden, you're free to leave the Circle tower without the Templars hunting you down ([[TooDumbToLive legally, at least]]) and you're even free to learn the forbidden art of blood magic thanks to the "anything that helps us kill darkspawn is allowed" exemption of the Grey Wardens. As for the problem of the taint, [[spoiler:as Avernus demonstrates]], a mage can cheat with its effect for a couple of ''centuries''. Sure, you're still supposed to risk your life against the darkspawn, but if you're as broken as the Warden-Commander of Ferelden, chances are that nothing short of an Archedemon will pose any threat to you past the first decade or so.
*** And [[spoiler:Avernus]] was able to live for that extra few hundred years while in a near constant war with the demons occupying the same building as him, including [[spoiler:the reanimated bodies of his Gray Warden comrades, and the possessed corpse of his former commander.]] All that, and he seems to have aged about thirty years.
** Being a Reaver and Grey Warden also nullifies most disadvantages; they cannot die by loss of energy since the taint always provides energy (or they would not have been able to survive the infection with it to become dakspawn), they can steal life force so that the taint would affect them less or even make them immortal, they age far slower because their blood is both darkspawn and dragon. The worst case scenario is once you've lost like 500 years of life energy, there is no one around you to slaughter and you transform into something as or even more powerful than a Old God/Archdemon (human) or like The Architect (elf) while still staying yourself with maybe questionable sanity.
** Being a Grey Warden means you can sense the darkspawn, giving you adequate warning of when they are near. The downside, that very ability also allows the darkspawn to find ''you''. Even if you try to run away, the darkspawn ''will'' find you... they ''always'' find you!
* BloodKnight: Qunari, as part of their culture, take pride in their class, so soldiers and warriors want nothing more than to be soldiers and warriors. Also, the dwarven Legion of the Dead, who take dedication of their life to battle to its logical conclusion, and get a head start on the inevitable, by holding their funerals right after they take their vows. Dwarven warriors in general display a positive attitude towards prospects of combat, though it may be more complicated in their case; as victory in battle leads to greater social standing in their profession. And one's degree of social standing is very important to how one is perceived in Dwarven society.
* BloodMagic
* BondCreatures: Mabari hounds imprint on a single master until death (either their own or the master's, whichever comes first).
* ChildSoldiers: The Antivan Crows prefer to recruit orphans for training, though it is unclear whether they are actually employed in assassinations. In any case, many of them die during training, and those that make it out alive are usually completely detached from their emotions or conventional morality.
* TheChurch: The Chantry
* ChurchMilitant: So very, very many. The Templars are an entire order of Church ([[CallARabbitASmeerp well, Chantry]]) Militants. The Qunari also have some.
* TheCorruption: Grey Wardens drink darkspawn blood during their Joining ceremony, which (if they survive) dooms them to a slow death but gives them the power to sense darkspawn, among others.
* CrapsackWorld: Let's face it: It's a fun world to ''visit'' via this video game, but none of us would want to ''live'' there.
* CrystalDragonJesus: Andraste, who is basically Jesus + Joan of Arc. [[spoiler:There's also a ''literal'' dragon named Andraste, but that's [[PathOfInspiration not the same individual]].]]
* TheDarkSide: Demon magics.
** DarkIsNotEvil: Not all maleficars are evil. [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch Just most of them.]]
* DeadlyDecadentCourt:
** Dwarven noble society ain't a very nice place. In fact, it almost qualifies as ''drow'' noble society, only reskinned with dwarves. Which, given the mythical origins of drow, is kind of appropriate.
** Orlesian society is even worse. This seems to be the only purpose ''to'' their nobility in the first place. They call it "The Game."
** Antivan society fits as well. Zevran pretty much spells it out for you.
** Ferelden is a nobles' republic with elected kings (that have traditionally descended from a single bloodline nonetheless). Thus, under [[spoiler:Loghain]], to secure the throne requires a mix of intrigue, murder, and brute force.
* DeadManWalking: All Grey Wardens, due to the Taint. Also, the entire purpose of the Legion of the Dead, to the point of ''holding a funeral for them when they join up''.
--> "Since we're dead, we can give our all in the fight against the darkspawn. We have nothing to lose."
* DeathOfTheOldGods: The Old Gods of the Tevinter Imperium were struck down by the Maker. Most of the world now worships the Maker and his prophet Andraste, and the Old Gods slumber beneath the Earth until they're awoken, one at a time, to lead the corrupted darkspawn in a Blight. One imagines they are not too wild about this arrangement, given that "awoken" means being [[TheVirus tainted]] by the darkspawn and more or less forced into being their leader. It was the Tevinter Imperium searching for the Old Gods in the first place that caused the creation of the darkspawn. This version of the story, primarily [[UnreliableNarrator promoted by the Chantry]] is at least partly true: according to the former Tevinter Mage (now Darkspawn Emissary) Corypheus in ''Dragon Age II'', he and a number of other Tevinter magisters did in fact enter the the mythical Golden City. However, his account differs from the Chantry's in his claim that when they entered the City, [[HaveYouSeenMyGod it was already the twisted, blackened hell that can be seen from anywhere in the Fade]].
* DeathSeeker: The Legion of the Dead are dwarves who all did something they feel must be atoned for with their lives. The moment they join the Legion. they are considered dead to the rest of dwarven society, and they spend the rest of their lives fighting darkspawn in the Deep Roads. When Grey Wardens sense that the taint will soon overcome them, they follow the Legion of the Dead's example and go into the Deep Roads to die while taking as many darkspawn with them as they can. Most of the Legion have at least some grudging respect for Wardens for this.
* ElementalPowers: The primal schools revolve around this.
* TheEmpire:
** The Tevinter Imperium was once this before [[spoiler:the first Blight wiped most of their territory out.]] This is mirrored by what happened to the dwarves.
** The Orlesian Empire fits this trope the best in the backstory, as it is the biggest and most powerful nation on Thedas and had no qualms with invading and pretty much enslaving Ferelden. They've (mostly) mellowed out by the time of the events of the game, but relations with Ferelden are still a bit rocky. [[spoiler: It's his paranoia about King Cailan requesting aid from Orlais that drives Loghain's madness.]]
* EmptyShell: The Tranquil are one of the more pleasant versions. Cursed to never feel emotion, the Tranquil themselves do not express any discontent with their condition. They also do not express any other feeling about any other subject. They are conscious and rational, but not capable of "feeling" as emoting beings understand it. If you accuse them of not being people, they merely provide a polite counter-argument.
* EnslavedElves: The elves used to have a highly advanced society and culture, complete with immortality. Then humans showed up, and everything went to hell. Modern elves rank just above slaves in society (and ''are'' slaves in some parts of the world), and most don't even know they used to be a powerful race. Even the Grey Warden can do only a little to improve their lot.
* EvilDetectingDog: The codex on werewolves states that mabari became popular in Ferelden due to their ability to sense werewolves, a necessity in an age where packs of werewolves roamed freely across the landscape and anyone you invited into your home could be afflicted with the curse. Dog demonstrates this ability a few times in-game, and not just with werewolves.
* EvilSorcerer: The Tevinter Magisters.
* AerithAndBob: The names of the four main types of darkspawn: genlocks, hurlocks, sharlocks, and... ogres. This also applies to character names to an extent. There are a lot of real-world names mixed in with the more fantastic fare. Justified in the codices: [[spoiler: Genlocks, Hurlocks, and Sharlocks (labeled in-game by the nickname "Shrieks") are the ancient terms for Blight-mutated Dwarves, Humans, and Elves respectively. But Ogres come from blighted Kossith Qunari, who are newcomers to the region, so Ogres apparently didn't exist until recently.]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The darkspawn (except for the Architect and the Messenger, who are morally ambiguous). Demons as well, though some appear to be simply amoral. Plenty are pure evil though, and even the nicest ones are totally indifferent to the suffering they and their ilk cause.
* AndManGrewProud: According to the Chantry, it was men trying to conquer the "Golden City" in the heart of [[SpiritWorld The Fade]] that first drew the darkspawn, and caused The Maker, their creator deity, to shun them. However, the first thing that caused Him to shun them was when they started worshiping dragons instead of Him. Then they entered the Golden City, and He shunned them harder. Still later, he shunned them again for the death of Andraste. He is a very passive-aggressive deity.
* AntiHero: The Grey Wardens' mission statement is to "protect the lands from the Blight, no matter the cost". They are expected to sacrifice themselves without a second thought. They'll sacrifice others just as easily. Let's just say that no one will look twice at Duncan for [[spoiler:killing Jory]]... In gameplay terms, this means that no matter what action you take, it's the right one if it helps you in stopping the Blight. Hence the lack of KarmaMeter.
* AntiMagic: The Glyph of Neutralization does this. Templars, who are trained to fight mages, have higher resistance to magic and can dispel status effects and glyphs. Dwarves have a very high magic resistance as well, a trade-off for not being able to use magic themselves.
* BlackMagic: BloodMagic is considered this due to its ghastly power source, ability to take control of people (like, say, a king or a noble [[spoiler:which Avernus admits he did to help the Grey Wardens in their rebellion long ago]]), and just being creepy in general. Due to the Chantry's constant preaching against the very real dangers of magic, almost everyone in Ferelden who isn't a mage (and one mage NPC) considers ''all'' magic BlackMagic. The Qunari have an even harsher stance against magic, and just ''cut out the tongues'' and ''chain to leashes'' any potential mages born to them to prevent them from ever casting spells.
** What's important about Blood Magic is that it is pure life force, and can thus provide plenty of energy. And it isn't limited to Mages, either. Anybody can learn how to tap into it, even a warrior (exemplified by the Reaver, who uses a different path, but one which still uses the power inherent in blood as energy). Since it was originally taught by an Old God (demons are the only ones who still remember it in most cases, however), it may not even be evil. The ''Soldier's Peak'' DLC introduced Avernus, who had worked out how to change blood as the fuel source for the Taint. And then there are the Chantry Templars, who gain their abilities from the energies within lyrium (apparently - that it is possible to wield what is essentially Templar-created magic without using lyrium might speak to some other source), all without being Mages. Even Spirit Healers can draw power from benevolent Fade spirits to augment their own abilities. While the Fade is probably the easiest source to learn how to use (and the one with the least reliance on an outside source to power one's spells), it's definitely not the only source. Indeed, it might be that ''anybody'' could learn how to use magic, as long as they were willing to use something else as fuel (absent a Mage's connection to the Fade). The problem, of course, is that unless you're willing to use your own life force, Blood Magic needs the contribution of somebody else.
* BlackSpeech: While it never shows up outside of cutscenes, the appearance of the Darkspawn is frequently heralded by an ominous whispering. Possibly this is meant to indicate that the Warden is sensing them.
* BlessedWithSuck:
** Being a mage pretty much means you have a big neon sign reading "POSSESS HERE" in the eyes of Demons. This isn't ''quite'' as great a danger as the Chantry makes out, however, so long as you're properly trained. Of course, everyone religious you encounter would pretty much gladly burn you at the stake if they weren't terrified by your powers -- the first thing they usually assume is that you'll turn them into frogs.
** It's not easy being a Grey Warden either. The first test of your mettle is the Joining: fail it and die horribly. Succeed, and die horribly too -- only this time it takes a decade or two for the darkspawn taint to eat you alive from the inside, eventually turning you into a monster, if you don't commit suicide-by-darkspawn in the Deep Roads first. In the interim, you'll have insane dreams about the Archdemon talking to you: if you're lucky, you, too, may be able to understand it one day! Unless a Blight is happening. Then you can throw yourselves against the Archdemon, hoping to slay it in a process that completely annihilates your soul! Of course, if there's no Blight, that means you basically sacrificed your life and sanity for ''nothing''. Oh, and one more teeny tiny detail: Ever wanted to have a kid? [[LawOfInverseFertility Good luck with that,]] especially with another Grey Warden. And in this game, the Grey Wardens are composed of two new recruits who are being hunted down as criminals.
** Being a mage and a Grey Warden makes the disadvantage of each null and void: since you're a Grey Warden, you're free to leave the Circle tower without the Templars hunting you down ([[TooDumbToLive legally, at least]]) and you're even free to learn the forbidden art of blood magic thanks to the "anything that helps us kill darkspawn is allowed" exemption of the Grey Wardens. As for the problem of the taint, [[spoiler:as Avernus demonstrates]], a mage can cheat with its effect for a couple of ''centuries''. Sure, you're still supposed to risk your life against the darkspawn, but if you're as broken as the Warden-Commander of Ferelden, chances are that nothing short of an Archedemon will pose any threat to you past the first decade or so.
*** And [[spoiler:Avernus]] was able to live for that extra few hundred years while in a near constant war with the demons occupying the same building as him, including [[spoiler:the reanimated bodies of his Gray Warden comrades, and the possessed corpse of his former commander.]] All that, and he seems to have aged about thirty years.
** Being a Reaver and Grey Warden also nullifies most disadvantages; they cannot die by loss of energy since the taint always provides energy (or they would not have been able to survive the infection with it to become dakspawn), they can steal life force so that the taint would affect them less or even make them immortal, they age far slower because their blood is both darkspawn and dragon. The worst case scenario is once you've lost like 500 years of life energy, there is no one around you to slaughter and you transform into something as or even more powerful than a Old God/Archdemon (human) or like The Architect (elf) while still staying yourself with maybe questionable sanity.
** Being a Grey Warden means you can sense the darkspawn, giving you adequate warning of when they are near. The downside, that very ability also allows the darkspawn to find ''you''. Even if you try to run away, the darkspawn ''will'' find you... they ''always'' find you!
* BloodKnight: Qunari, as part of their culture, take pride in their class, so soldiers and warriors want nothing more than to be soldiers and warriors. Also, the dwarven Legion of the Dead, who take dedication of their life to battle to its logical conclusion, and get a head start on the inevitable, by holding their funerals right after they take their vows. Dwarven warriors in general display a positive attitude towards prospects of combat, though it may be more complicated in their case; as victory in battle leads to greater social standing in their profession. And one's degree of social standing is very important to how one is perceived in Dwarven society.
* BloodMagic
* BondCreatures: Mabari hounds imprint on a single master until death (either their own or the master's, whichever comes first).
* ChildSoldiers: The Antivan Crows prefer to recruit orphans for training, though it is unclear whether they are actually employed in assassinations. In any case, many of them die during training, and those that make it out alive are usually completely detached from their emotions or conventional morality.
* TheChurch: The Chantry
* ChurchMilitant: So very, very many. The Templars are an entire order of Church ([[CallARabbitASmeerp well, Chantry]]) Militants. The Qunari also have some.
* TheCorruption: Grey Wardens drink darkspawn blood during their Joining ceremony, which (if they survive) dooms them to a slow death but gives them the power to sense darkspawn, among others.
* CrapsackWorld: Let's face it: It's a fun world to ''visit'' via this video game, but none of us would want to ''live'' there.
* CrystalDragonJesus: Andraste, who is basically Jesus + Joan of Arc. [[spoiler:There's also a ''literal'' dragon named Andraste, but that's [[PathOfInspiration not the same individual]].]]
* TheDarkSide: Demon magics.
** DarkIsNotEvil: Not all maleficars are evil. [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch Just most of them.]]
* DeadlyDecadentCourt:
** Dwarven noble society ain't a very nice place. In fact, it almost qualifies as ''drow'' noble society, only reskinned with dwarves. Which, given the mythical origins of drow, is kind of appropriate.
** Orlesian society is even worse. This seems to be the only purpose ''to'' their nobility in the first place. They call it "The Game."
** Antivan society fits as well. Zevran pretty much spells it out for you.
** Ferelden is a nobles' republic with elected kings (that have traditionally descended from a single bloodline nonetheless). Thus, under [[spoiler:Loghain]], to secure the throne requires a mix of intrigue, murder, and brute force.
* DeadManWalking: All Grey Wardens, due to the Taint. Also, the entire purpose of the Legion of the Dead, to the point of ''holding a funeral for them when they join up''.
--> "Since we're dead, we can give our all in the fight against the darkspawn. We have nothing to lose."
* DeathOfTheOldGods: The Old Gods of the Tevinter Imperium were struck down by the Maker. Most of the world now worships the Maker and his prophet Andraste, and the Old Gods slumber beneath the Earth until they're awoken, one at a time, to lead the corrupted darkspawn in a Blight. One imagines they are not too wild about this arrangement, given that "awoken" means being [[TheVirus tainted]] by the darkspawn and more or less forced into being their leader. It was the Tevinter Imperium searching for the Old Gods in the first place that caused the creation of the darkspawn. This version of the story, primarily [[UnreliableNarrator promoted by the Chantry]] is at least partly true: according to the former Tevinter Mage (now Darkspawn Emissary) Corypheus in ''Dragon Age II'', he and a number of other Tevinter magisters did in fact enter the the mythical Golden City. However, his account differs from the Chantry's in his claim that when they entered the City, [[HaveYouSeenMyGod it was already the twisted, blackened hell that can be seen from anywhere in the Fade]].
* DeathSeeker: The Legion of the Dead are dwarves who all did something they feel must be atoned for with their lives. The moment they join the Legion. they are considered dead to the rest of dwarven society, and they spend the rest of their lives fighting darkspawn in the Deep Roads. When Grey Wardens sense that the taint will soon overcome them, they follow the Legion of the Dead's example and go into the Deep Roads to die while taking as many darkspawn with them as they can. Most of the Legion have at least some grudging respect for Wardens for this.
* ElementalPowers: The primal schools revolve around this.
* TheEmpire:
** The Tevinter Imperium was once this before [[spoiler:the first Blight wiped most of their territory out.]] This is mirrored by what happened to the dwarves.
** The Orlesian Empire fits this trope the best in the backstory, as it is the biggest and most powerful nation on Thedas and had no qualms with invading and pretty much enslaving Ferelden. They've (mostly) mellowed out by the time of the events of the game, but relations with Ferelden are still a bit rocky. [[spoiler: It's his paranoia about King Cailan requesting aid from Orlais that drives Loghain's madness.]]
* EmptyShell: The Tranquil are one of the more pleasant versions. Cursed to never feel emotion, the Tranquil themselves do not express any discontent with their condition. They also do not express any other feeling about any other subject. They are conscious and rational, but not capable of "feeling" as emoting beings understand it. If you accuse them of not being people, they merely provide a polite counter-argument.
* EnslavedElves: The elves used to have a highly advanced society and culture, complete with immortality. Then humans showed up, and everything went to hell. Modern elves rank just above slaves in society (and ''are'' slaves in some parts of the world), and most don't even know they used to be a powerful race. Even the Grey Warden can do only a little to improve their lot.
* EvilDetectingDog: The codex on werewolves states that mabari became popular in Ferelden due to their ability to sense werewolves, a necessity in an age where packs of werewolves roamed freely across the landscape and anyone you invited into your home could be afflicted with the curse. Dog demonstrates this ability a few times in-game, and not just with werewolves.
* EvilSorcerer: The Tevinter Magisters.
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The ''Dragon Age'' franchise started with ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', a WesternRPG released in 2009 by the Canadian game developer Creator/BioWare and a SpiritualSuccessor to their own ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''-based ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series. When ''Origins'' became a runaway success, the series was quickly expanded with further video games and other media:
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!!Tropes common to the series:
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Before anyone in Thedas could catch their breath, another Darkspawn horde rose from the Deep Roads, led by another corrupted Old God. Although only half as long as the First, the Second Blight had far-reaching consequences. One of them was the rise of the Orlesian Empire and the spread of the Andrastian faith, even into the Tevinter Empire remnant. Another was the [[FantasticRacism popular resentment against the elves]], who, despite having been granted rights and land again for their support of Andraste, did little to help other nations defeat the new Blight. And perhaps the most significant event was the formation of the [[MagicalSociety Circles of Magi]] as a compromise between the public distrust of mages and the benefit of having them fight the Darkspawn. Ostensibly a [[WizardingSchool place of learning]], all Circles were controlled by the Chantry and closely guarded by the paranoid {{Mage Killer}}s of the Templar Order.
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Before anyone in Thedas could catch their breath, another Darkspawn horde rose from the Deep Roads, led by another corrupted Old God. Although only half as long as the First, the Second Blight had far-reaching consequences. One of them was the rise of the Orlesian Empire and the spread of the Andrastian faith, even into the Tevinter Empire remnant. Another was the [[FantasticRacism popular resentment against the elves]], who, despite having been granted rights and land again for their support of Andraste, did little to help other nations defeat the new Blight. And perhaps the most significant event was the formation of the [[MagicalSociety Circles of Magi]] as a compromise between the public distrust of mages and the benefit of having them fight the Darkspawn. Ostensibly a [[WizardingSchool place places of learning]], all Circles were controlled by the Chantry and closely guarded by the paranoid {{Mage Killer}}s of the Templar Order.
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The Tevinter Empire survived the Blight, if only barely, but soon thereafter, a massive barbarian invasion from the south, led by the [[JeanneDArchetype lady warrior and prophetess Andraste]], dealt it the final blow. After Andraste was betrayed and executed by the Tevinters, her followers compiled her teachings into the Chant of the Light and formed the [[TheChurch Chantry]] to spread it. The newly-founded southern kingdoms were quick to embrace the new religion, eager to cut ties to Tevinter, whose reputation was forever soiled. By association, magic itself became ostracized and viewed as pure evil by the Andrastian congregation.
Before anyone in Thedas could catch their breath, another Darkspawn horde rose from the Deep Roads, led by another corrupted Old God. Although only half as long as the First, the Second Blight had far-reaching consequences. One of them was the rise of the Orlesian Empire and the spread of the Andrastian faith, even into the Tevinter Empire. Another was the [[FantasticRacism popular resentment against the elves]], who, despite having been granted rights and land again for their support of Andraste, did little to help other nations defeat the new Blight. And perhaps the most significant event was the formation of the [[MagicalSociety Circles of Magi]] as a compromise between the public distrust of mages and the benefit of having them fight the Darkspawn. Ostensibly a [[WizardingSchool place of learning]], all Circles were controlled by the Chantry and closely guarded by the paranoid {{Mage Killer}}s of the Templar Order.
Before anyone in Thedas could catch their breath, another Darkspawn horde rose from the Deep Roads, led by another corrupted Old God. Although only half as long as the First, the Second Blight had far-reaching consequences. One of them was the rise of the Orlesian Empire and the spread of the Andrastian faith, even into the Tevinter Empire. Another was the [[FantasticRacism popular resentment against the elves]], who, despite having been granted rights and land again for their support of Andraste, did little to help other nations defeat the new Blight. And perhaps the most significant event was the formation of the [[MagicalSociety Circles of Magi]] as a compromise between the public distrust of mages and the benefit of having them fight the Darkspawn. Ostensibly a [[WizardingSchool place of learning]], all Circles were controlled by the Chantry and closely guarded by the paranoid {{Mage Killer}}s of the Templar Order.
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The Tevinter Empire survived the Blight, if only barely, but soon thereafter, a massive barbarian invasion from the south, led by the [[JeanneDArchetype lady warrior and prophetess Andraste]], dealt it the final blow. After Andraste was betrayed and executed by the Tevinters, her followers compiled her teachings into the Chant of the Light and formed the [[TheChurch Chantry]] to spread it. The newly-founded southern kingdoms were quick to embrace the new religion, eager to cut cutting ties to Tevinter, whose reputation was forever soiled.soiled by their role in starting the Blight and Andraste's execution. By association, magic itself became ostracized and viewed as pure evil by the Andrastian congregation.
Before anyone in Thedas could catch their breath, another Darkspawn horde rose from the Deep Roads, led by another corrupted Old God. Although only half as long as the First, the Second Blight had far-reaching consequences. One of them was the rise of the Orlesian Empire and the spread of the Andrastian faith, even into the TevinterEmpire.Empire remnant. Another was the [[FantasticRacism popular resentment against the elves]], who, despite having been granted rights and land again for their support of Andraste, did little to help other nations defeat the new Blight. And perhaps the most significant event was the formation of the [[MagicalSociety Circles of Magi]] as a compromise between the public distrust of mages and the benefit of having them fight the Darkspawn. Ostensibly a [[WizardingSchool place of learning]], all Circles were controlled by the Chantry and closely guarded by the paranoid {{Mage Killer}}s of the Templar Order.
Before anyone in Thedas could catch their breath, another Darkspawn horde rose from the Deep Roads, led by another corrupted Old God. Although only half as long as the First, the Second Blight had far-reaching consequences. One of them was the rise of the Orlesian Empire and the spread of the Andrastian faith, even into the Tevinter
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Although initially friendly, the relationship between elves and humans, particularly the Tevinter tribe, rapidly deteriorated when the elves realized than prolonged contact with the [[WeAreAsMayflies "quicklings"]] cost them their {{immortality}}. By then, however, the Tevinters already learned the secrets of elven magic and, turning on their teachers, crushed the Elvhenan culture. The surviving elves were reduced to nomadic outcasts or slaves, a shadow of their former glory. The dwarves fared better, especially since they supplied the Tevinters with [[AppliedPhlebotinum lyrium]]--outcroppings of the Fade in mineral form that they used to power their magic.
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Although initially friendly, the relationship between elves and humans, particularly the Tevinter tribe, rapidly deteriorated when the elves realized than that prolonged contact with the [[WeAreAsMayflies "quicklings"]] cost them their {{immortality}}. By then, however, the Tevinters already learned the secrets of elven magic and, turning on their teachers, crushed the Elvhenan culture. The surviving elves were reduced to nomadic outcasts or slaves, a shadow of their former glory. The dwarves fared better, especially since they supplied the Tevinters with [[AppliedPhlebotinum lyrium]]--outcroppings of the Fade in mineral form that they used to power their magic.
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Eight thousand years ago, the continent of Thedas belonged to the Elvhenan, a culture of [[OurElvesAreBetter a race of beautiful immortal creatures who called themselves "elvhen" or "elves"]]. They worshiped their pantheon of gods, traversed into the Fade, and mastered the art of magic. BeneathTheEarth, meanwhile, the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]] forged a great empire of the underground cavern cities called "thaigs", connected by a vast tunnel network known as the Deep Roads. For over six thousand years, their civilizations flourished--until the first humans arrived from across the north-eastern sea.
Although initially friendly, the relationship between elves and humans, particularly the Tevinter tribe, rapidly deteriorated when the elves realized than prolonged contact with the [[WeAreAsMayflies "quicklings"]] cost them their {{immortality}}. By then, however, the Tevinters already learned the secrets of elven magic and, turning on their teachers, crushed the Elvhenan culture. The surviving elves were reduced to homeless vagabonds, a shadow of their former glory. The dwarves fared better, especially since they supplied the Tevinters with [[AppliedPhlebotinum lyrium]]--outcroppings of the Fade in mineral form used to power magic.
With their knowledge of the Fade and extensive use of the BloodMagic, the [[TheMagocracy Tevinter Magisters]] forged an [[TheEmpire Empire]] that spanned all of Thedas. But man grew proud and eventually set out to commit the ultimate sacrilege: enter the Fade in the flesh and set foot into the Golden City itself. By spending most of the world's lyrium (and [[HumanResources slave blood]]) supplies, a group of Magisters infiltrated the City--and were cast out by the Maker, cursed and irreversibly corrupted. They became the first Darkspawn, mindless creatures existing only to exterminate all other life. The City itself was corrupted, as well, henceforth known as the Black City, and the Maker abandoned His second children, just as He did with the spirits before.
The Darkspawn fled underground and it wasn't long before they grew in number, using the Deep Roads as their breeding ground. Soon, they also found and corrupted one of the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent draconic Old Gods]] of Tevinter, Dumat, in the underground prison where he was locked by the Maker for millenia. The first to face the assault of the [[TheHorde Darkspawn Horde]] led by Dumat were the dwarves, who managed to hold on for a few decades, thanks to the invention of {{golem}}s, but when the secret of the latter was lost, the dwarven civilization largely collapsed, losing all but a few thaigs. Meanwhile, on the surface, the Horde laid siege on all of Thedas, splintering the Tevinter Empire into many disjoint enclaves. After almost two centuries of continuous strife, TheOrder of the Grey Wardens led the combined armies of Thedas to victory over Dumat and his Horde. The entire conflict became known as "the Blight".
The Tevinter Empire survived the Blight, if only barely, and soon thereafter, a massive barbarian horde invaded it from the south. Led by a [[JeanneDArchetype lady warrior Andraste, guided by the Maker Himself,]] the barbarians swept through the southern Tevinter, dealing a death blow to the old Empire. Although Andraste was eventually betrayed and executed by the Tevinters, her followers compiled her teachings into the Chant of the Light and formed the [[TheChurch Chantry]] to spread its word. The newly-founded southern states were quick to embrace the new faith, cutting cultural ties to Tevinter, whose reputation was forever soiled. By association, magic itself became ostracized and viewed as pure evil by the Andrastian congregation.
Before anyone in Thedas could catch their breath, another Darkspawn horde rose from the Deep Roads, led by a different corrupted Old God. Although only half as long as the First, the Second Blight had at least just as far-reaching consequences. One was the rise of the Orlesian Empire and the spread of the Andrastian faith, even into the Tevinter Empire. Another was the [[FantasticRacism popular resentment against the elves]], who, despite having been granted rights and land again for their support of Andraste's rebellion, did little to help other nations defeat the new Blight. And perhaps the most significant event was the formation of the [[MagicalSociety Circles of Magi]] as a compromise between popular resentment of mages and their usefulness in fighting the Darkspawn. Ostensibly a place of learning, all Circles were controlled by the Chantry and closely guarded by the paranoid {{Mage Killer}}s of the Templar Order.
The hostilities between Orlais and the new elven homeland of the Dales finally boiled over after an attack on an Orlesian town. In response, the Chantry called for an [[TheCrusades Exhalted March]] that crushed the Dales and forced their residents to either relocate into the [[FantasticGhetto Alienages]] or return to a nomadic lifestyle. The rift between the "city elves" and the "Dalish elves" grew ever wider in the following centuries. The Third Blight had come and gone, serving only to deepen the conflict between the two empires, Tevinter and Orlesian. Eventually, even the Chantry itself was split along these lines when the "Imperial Chantry" of Tevinter broke off (notably taking a much more liberal stance on magic) and the Orlesian Chantry called for not one but four Exhalted Marches against it. All of them, however, failed to complete their objective before the Fourth Blight put an end to them.
Almost as soon as the Fourth Blight was repelled, a new invasion swept from the north-east: the Qunari, followers of the religion/philosophy of Qun, crossed the sea and captured a bulk of northern Thedas (including most of Tevinter), converting the locals by force. The Chantry called for more Exalted Marches, which finally beat the Qunari back from the mainland. A truce, limiting the Qunari presence to the northern islands, was signed by all human nations except Tevinter, who continued to wage a ForeverWar for their old lands. Meanwhile, trouble stirred in the south again, where the Orlesian Empire conquered and installed a puppet on the throne of Ferelden, birthplace of Andraste. Lasting for half a century, the Orlesian occupation was resisted by the local nobles and finally overthrown some thirty years before the start of ''Origins''.
Although initially friendly, the relationship between elves and humans, particularly the Tevinter tribe, rapidly deteriorated when the elves realized than prolonged contact with the [[WeAreAsMayflies "quicklings"]] cost them their {{immortality}}. By then, however, the Tevinters already learned the secrets of elven magic and, turning on their teachers, crushed the Elvhenan culture. The surviving elves were reduced to homeless vagabonds, a shadow of their former glory. The dwarves fared better, especially since they supplied the Tevinters with [[AppliedPhlebotinum lyrium]]--outcroppings of the Fade in mineral form used to power magic.
With their knowledge of the Fade and extensive use of the BloodMagic, the [[TheMagocracy Tevinter Magisters]] forged an [[TheEmpire Empire]] that spanned all of Thedas. But man grew proud and eventually set out to commit the ultimate sacrilege: enter the Fade in the flesh and set foot into the Golden City itself. By spending most of the world's lyrium (and [[HumanResources slave blood]]) supplies, a group of Magisters infiltrated the City--and were cast out by the Maker, cursed and irreversibly corrupted. They became the first Darkspawn, mindless creatures existing only to exterminate all other life. The City itself was corrupted, as well, henceforth known as the Black City, and the Maker abandoned His second children, just as He did with the spirits before.
The Darkspawn fled underground and it wasn't long before they grew in number, using the Deep Roads as their breeding ground. Soon, they also found and corrupted one of the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent draconic Old Gods]] of Tevinter, Dumat, in the underground prison where he was locked by the Maker for millenia. The first to face the assault of the [[TheHorde Darkspawn Horde]] led by Dumat were the dwarves, who managed to hold on for a few decades, thanks to the invention of {{golem}}s, but when the secret of the latter was lost, the dwarven civilization largely collapsed, losing all but a few thaigs. Meanwhile, on the surface, the Horde laid siege on all of Thedas, splintering the Tevinter Empire into many disjoint enclaves. After almost two centuries of continuous strife, TheOrder of the Grey Wardens led the combined armies of Thedas to victory over Dumat and his Horde. The entire conflict became known as "the Blight".
The Tevinter Empire survived the Blight, if only barely, and soon thereafter, a massive barbarian horde invaded it from the south. Led by a [[JeanneDArchetype lady warrior Andraste, guided by the Maker Himself,]] the barbarians swept through the southern Tevinter, dealing a death blow to the old Empire. Although Andraste was eventually betrayed and executed by the Tevinters, her followers compiled her teachings into the Chant of the Light and formed the [[TheChurch Chantry]] to spread its word. The newly-founded southern states were quick to embrace the new faith, cutting cultural ties to Tevinter, whose reputation was forever soiled. By association, magic itself became ostracized and viewed as pure evil by the Andrastian congregation.
Before anyone in Thedas could catch their breath, another Darkspawn horde rose from the Deep Roads, led by a different corrupted Old God. Although only half as long as the First, the Second Blight had at least just as far-reaching consequences. One was the rise of the Orlesian Empire and the spread of the Andrastian faith, even into the Tevinter Empire. Another was the [[FantasticRacism popular resentment against the elves]], who, despite having been granted rights and land again for their support of Andraste's rebellion, did little to help other nations defeat the new Blight. And perhaps the most significant event was the formation of the [[MagicalSociety Circles of Magi]] as a compromise between popular resentment of mages and their usefulness in fighting the Darkspawn. Ostensibly a place of learning, all Circles were controlled by the Chantry and closely guarded by the paranoid {{Mage Killer}}s of the Templar Order.
The hostilities between Orlais and the new elven homeland of the Dales finally boiled over after an attack on an Orlesian town. In response, the Chantry called for an [[TheCrusades Exhalted March]] that crushed the Dales and forced their residents to either relocate into the [[FantasticGhetto Alienages]] or return to a nomadic lifestyle. The rift between the "city elves" and the "Dalish elves" grew ever wider in the following centuries. The Third Blight had come and gone, serving only to deepen the conflict between the two empires, Tevinter and Orlesian. Eventually, even the Chantry itself was split along these lines when the "Imperial Chantry" of Tevinter broke off (notably taking a much more liberal stance on magic) and the Orlesian Chantry called for not one but four Exhalted Marches against it. All of them, however, failed to complete their objective before the Fourth Blight put an end to them.
Almost as soon as the Fourth Blight was repelled, a new invasion swept from the north-east: the Qunari, followers of the religion/philosophy of Qun, crossed the sea and captured a bulk of northern Thedas (including most of Tevinter), converting the locals by force. The Chantry called for more Exalted Marches, which finally beat the Qunari back from the mainland. A truce, limiting the Qunari presence to the northern islands, was signed by all human nations except Tevinter, who continued to wage a ForeverWar for their old lands. Meanwhile, trouble stirred in the south again, where the Orlesian Empire conquered and installed a puppet on the throne of Ferelden, birthplace of Andraste. Lasting for half a century, the Orlesian occupation was resisted by the local nobles and finally overthrown some thirty years before the start of ''Origins''.
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Eight thousand years ago, the continent of Thedas belonged to the Elvhenan, a culture the civilization of [[OurElvesAreBetter a race of beautiful immortal creatures who called race calling themselves "elvhen" or "elves"]]. They worshiped their own pantheon of gods, traversed into the Fade, and mastered the art of magic. BeneathTheEarth, meanwhile, in the meantime, the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]] forged built a great empire of the underground cavern cities called cities, or "thaigs", connected by a vast tunnel network known as the Deep Roads. For over six thousand years, their civilizations flourished--until the first humans arrived from across the north-eastern sea.
Although initially friendly, the relationship between elves and humans, particularly the Tevinter tribe, rapidly deteriorated when the elves realized than prolonged contact with the [[WeAreAsMayflies "quicklings"]] cost them their {{immortality}}. By then, however, the Tevinters already learned the secrets of elven magic and, turning on their teachers, crushed the Elvhenan culture. The surviving elves were reduced tohomeless vagabonds, nomadic outcasts or slaves, a shadow of their former glory. The dwarves fared better, especially since they supplied the Tevinters with [[AppliedPhlebotinum lyrium]]--outcroppings of the Fade in mineral form that they used to power their magic.
With their knowledge of the Fade and an extensive use ofthe BloodMagic, the [[TheMagocracy Tevinter Magisters]] forged an [[TheEmpire Empire]] that spanned all of Thedas. But man grew proud and eventually set out to commit the ultimate sacrilege: to enter the Fade in the flesh and to set foot into the Golden City itself. By spending most of the world's lyrium (and [[HumanResources slave blood]]) supplies, a group of Magisters infiltrated the City--and City but were cast out by the Maker, cursed and irreversibly corrupted. They became the first Darkspawn, mindless creatures existing only solely to exterminate all other life. The City itself was corrupted, as well, henceforth known as the Black City, and the Maker abandoned His second children, just as He did with the spirits before.
The Darkspawn fled underground and it wasn't long before they grew in number, using the Deep Roadsas their breeding ground. to breed a horde. Soon, they also found and corrupted one of the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent draconic Old Gods]] of Tevinter, Dumat, who was locked in the an underground prison where he was locked by the Maker for millenia. millenia ago. The first to face the assault of the [[TheHorde Darkspawn Horde]] led by Dumat were the dwarves, who managed to hold on for a few decades, thanks dwarves. Thanks to the invention of {{golem}}s, they managed to hold on for decades but when the secret of the latter golem-making was lost, the dwarven civilization largely collapsed, losing all but a few handful of thaigs. Meanwhile, on the surface, the Horde laid siege on all of Thedas, splintering the Tevinter Empire into many disjoint disjointed enclaves. After almost two centuries of continuous strife, TheOrder of the Grey Wardens led emerged to lead the combined armies of Thedas to victory over Dumat and his Horde. The entire conflict became known as "the Blight".
The Tevinter Empire survived the Blight, if only barely,and but soon thereafter, a massive barbarian horde invaded it invasion from the south. Led south, led by a the [[JeanneDArchetype lady warrior Andraste, guided by and prophetess Andraste]], dealt it the Maker Himself,]] the barbarians swept through the southern Tevinter, dealing a death blow to the old Empire. Although final blow. After Andraste was eventually betrayed and executed by the Tevinters, her followers compiled her teachings into the Chant of the Light and formed the [[TheChurch Chantry]] to spread its word. it. The newly-founded southern states kingdoms were quick to embrace the new faith, cutting cultural religion, eager to cut ties to Tevinter, whose reputation was forever soiled. By association, magic itself became ostracized and viewed as pure evil by the Andrastian congregation.
Before anyone in Thedas could catch their breath, another Darkspawn horde rose from the Deep Roads, led bya different another corrupted Old God. Although only half as long as the First, the Second Blight had at least just as far-reaching consequences. One of them was the rise of the Orlesian Empire and the spread of the Andrastian faith, even into the Tevinter Empire. Another was the [[FantasticRacism popular resentment against the elves]], who, despite having been granted rights and land again for their support of Andraste's rebellion, Andraste, did little to help other nations defeat the new Blight. And perhaps the most significant event was the formation of the [[MagicalSociety Circles of Magi]] as a compromise between popular resentment the public distrust of mages and their usefulness in fighting the benefit of having them fight the Darkspawn. Ostensibly a [[WizardingSchool place of learning, learning]], all Circles were controlled by the Chantry and closely guarded by the paranoid {{Mage Killer}}s of the Templar Order.
The hostilities between Orlais and the new elven homeland of the Dales finally boiled over after an attack on an Orlesian town. In response, the Chantry called for an [[TheCrusades Exhalted March]] that crushed the Dales and forced their residents to either relocate into the [[FantasticGhetto Alienages]] or return toa the nomadic lifestyle. The rift between the "city elves" and the "Dalish elves" grew ever wider in the following centuries. The Third Blight had come and gone, serving only to deepen the conflict between the two empires, Tevinter and Orlesian. Eventually, even the Chantry itself was split along these lines when the "Imperial Chantry" of Tevinter broke off (notably taking a much more liberal stance on magic) magic and slavery) and the Orlesian Chantry called for not one but four Exhalted Marches against it. All of them, however, failed to complete their objective before the Fourth Blight put an end to them.
Almost as soon as the Fourth Blight was repelled, a new invasion swept from the north-east: the Qunari, followers of the religion/philosophy of Qun, crossed the sea and captured a bulk of northern Thedas (including most of Tevinter), converting the locals by force. The Chantry called for more Exalted Marches, whichfinally eventually beat the Qunari back from the mainland. A truce, limiting the Qunari presence to the northern islands, was signed by all human nations except Tevinter, who continued to wage a ForeverWar for their old lands. Meanwhile, trouble stirred in the south again, where the Orlesian Empire conquered and installed a puppet on the throne of Ferelden, birthplace of Andraste. Lasting for half a century, the Orlesian occupation was resisted by the local nobles and finally overthrown some thirty years before the start of ''Origins''.
Although initially friendly, the relationship between elves and humans, particularly the Tevinter tribe, rapidly deteriorated when the elves realized than prolonged contact with the [[WeAreAsMayflies "quicklings"]] cost them their {{immortality}}. By then, however, the Tevinters already learned the secrets of elven magic and, turning on their teachers, crushed the Elvhenan culture. The surviving elves were reduced to
With their knowledge of the Fade and an extensive use of
The Darkspawn fled underground and it wasn't long before they grew in number, using the Deep Roads
The Tevinter Empire survived the Blight, if only barely,
Before anyone in Thedas could catch their breath, another Darkspawn horde rose from the Deep Roads, led by
The hostilities between Orlais and the new elven homeland of the Dales finally boiled over after an attack on an Orlesian town. In response, the Chantry called for an [[TheCrusades Exhalted March]] that crushed the Dales and forced their residents to either relocate into the [[FantasticGhetto Alienages]] or return to
Almost as soon as the Fourth Blight was repelled, a new invasion swept from the north-east: the Qunari, followers of the religion/philosophy of Qun, crossed the sea and captured a bulk of northern Thedas (including most of Tevinter), converting the locals by force. The Chantry called for more Exalted Marches, which
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The story goes that in the beginning, TheMaker created the [[SpiritWorld Fade]], an ever-changing realm populated by never-changing creatures, the [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent spirits]]. Over time, however, He grew displeased with His first children and created the material world--a new, immutable realm separated from the Fade by the Veil. He populated the new realm by the ever-changing mortals, who only saw the Fade in their dreams and whose [[OurSoulAreDifferent divine souls]] returned to His Golden City in the middle of it upon death. Some spirits (particularly [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the ones associated with negative emotions]]), however, found a way through the Veil, spreading [[FunctionalMagic the secrets of magic]] and DemonicPossession into the material world.
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The story goes that in the beginning, TheMaker created the [[SpiritWorld Fade]], an ever-changing realm populated by never-changing creatures, the [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent spirits]]. Over time, however, He grew displeased with His first children and created the material world--a new, immutable realm separated from the Fade by the Veil. He populated the new realm by the ever-changing mortals, who only saw the Fade in their dreams and whose [[OurSoulAreDifferent [[OurSoulsAreDifferent divine souls]] returned to His Golden City in the middle of it upon death. Some spirits (particularly [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the ones associated with negative emotions]]), however, found a way through the Veil, spreading [[FunctionalMagic the secrets of magic]] and DemonicPossession into the material world.
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The story goes that in the beginning, TheMaker created the [[SpiritWorld Fade]], an ever-changing realm populated by never-changing creatures, the [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent spirits]]. Over time, however, He grew displeased with his first children and created the material world--a new, immutable realm separated from the Fade by the Veil. He populated the new realm by the ever-changing mortals, who only saw the Fade in their dreams and whose divine souls returned to His Golden City in the middle of it upon death. Some spirits, however, particularly [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the ones associated with negative emotions]], found a way through the Veil, spreading [[FunctionalMagic the secrets of magic]] and DemonicPossession into the material world.
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The story goes that in the beginning, TheMaker created the [[SpiritWorld Fade]], an ever-changing realm populated by never-changing creatures, the [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent spirits]]. Over time, however, He grew displeased with his His first children and created the material world--a new, immutable realm separated from the Fade by the Veil. He populated the new realm by the ever-changing mortals, who only saw the Fade in their dreams and whose [[OurSoulAreDifferent divine souls souls]] returned to His Golden City in the middle of it upon death. Some spirits, however, particularly spirits (particularly [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the ones associated with negative emotions]], emotions]]), however, found a way through the Veil, spreading [[FunctionalMagic the secrets of magic]] and DemonicPossession into the material world.
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Although initially friendly, the relationship between elves and humans, particularly the Tevinter tribe, rapidly deteriorated when the elves realized than prolonged contact with the [[WeAreAsMayflies "quicklings"]] cost them their {{immortality}}. By then, however, the Tevinters already learned the secrets of elven magic and, turning on their teachers, crushed the Elvhenan culture. The surviving elves were reduced to homeless vagabonds, a shadow of their former glory. The dwarves fared better, especially since they supplied the Tevinters with [[AppliedPhlebotinum lyrium]]--outcroppings of the Fade leaking into the material world in mineral form, necessary to power magic.
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Although initially friendly, the relationship between elves and humans, particularly the Tevinter tribe, rapidly deteriorated when the elves realized than prolonged contact with the [[WeAreAsMayflies "quicklings"]] cost them their {{immortality}}. By then, however, the Tevinters already learned the secrets of elven magic and, turning on their teachers, crushed the Elvhenan culture. The surviving elves were reduced to homeless vagabonds, a shadow of their former glory. The dwarves fared better, especially since they supplied the Tevinters with [[AppliedPhlebotinum lyrium]]--outcroppings of the Fade leaking into the material world in mineral form, necessary form used to power magic.
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!!A [[NarrativeFiligree "brief"]] introduction to the setting
->[[AC:Note that the summary below is based on in-game information, which has proved to be [[UnreliableNarrator unreliable in certain aspects before]], especially in regards to the parts before the Second Blight.]]
The story goes that in the beginning, TheMaker created the [[SpiritWorld Fade]], an ever-changing realm populated by never-changing creatures, the [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent spirits]]. Over time, however, He grew displeased with his first children and created the material world--a new, immutable realm separated from the Fade by the Veil. He populated the new realm by the ever-changing mortals, who only saw the Fade in their dreams and whose divine souls returned to His Golden City in the middle of it upon death. Some spirits, however, particularly [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the ones associated with negative emotions]], found a way through the Veil, spreading [[FunctionalMagic the secrets of magic]] and DemonicPossession into the material world.
Eight thousand years ago, the continent of Thedas belonged to the Elvhenan, a culture of [[OurElvesAreBetter a race of beautiful immortal creatures who called themselves "elvhen" or "elves"]]. They worshiped their pantheon of gods, traversed into the Fade, and mastered the art of magic. BeneathTheEarth, meanwhile, the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]] forged a great empire of the underground cavern cities called "thaigs", connected by a vast tunnel network known as the Deep Roads. For over six thousand years, their civilizations flourished--until the first humans arrived from across the north-eastern sea.
Although initially friendly, the relationship between elves and humans, particularly the Tevinter tribe, rapidly deteriorated when the elves realized than prolonged contact with the [[WeAreAsMayflies "quicklings"]] cost them their {{immortality}}. By then, however, the Tevinters already learned the secrets of elven magic and, turning on their teachers, crushed the Elvhenan culture. The surviving elves were reduced to homeless vagabonds, a shadow of their former glory. The dwarves fared better, especially since they supplied the Tevinters with [[AppliedPhlebotinum lyrium]]--outcroppings of the Fade leaking into the material world in mineral form, necessary to power magic.
With their knowledge of the Fade and extensive use of the BloodMagic, the [[TheMagocracy Tevinter Magisters]] forged an [[TheEmpire Empire]] that spanned all of Thedas. But man grew proud and eventually set out to commit the ultimate sacrilege: enter the Fade in the flesh and set foot into the Golden City itself. By spending most of the world's lyrium (and [[HumanResources slave blood]]) supplies, a group of Magisters infiltrated the City--and were cast out by the Maker, cursed and irreversibly corrupted. They became the first Darkspawn, mindless creatures existing only to exterminate all other life. The City itself was corrupted, as well, henceforth known as the Black City, and the Maker abandoned His second children, just as He did with the spirits before.
The Darkspawn fled underground and it wasn't long before they grew in number, using the Deep Roads as their breeding ground. Soon, they also found and corrupted one of the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent draconic Old Gods]] of Tevinter, Dumat, in the underground prison where he was locked by the Maker for millenia. The first to face the assault of the [[TheHorde Darkspawn Horde]] led by Dumat were the dwarves, who managed to hold on for a few decades, thanks to the invention of {{golem}}s, but when the secret of the latter was lost, the dwarven civilization largely collapsed, losing all but a few thaigs. Meanwhile, on the surface, the Horde laid siege on all of Thedas, splintering the Tevinter Empire into many disjoint enclaves. After almost two centuries of continuous strife, TheOrder of the Grey Wardens led the combined armies of Thedas to victory over Dumat and his Horde. The entire conflict became known as "the Blight".
The Tevinter Empire survived the Blight, if only barely, and soon thereafter, a massive barbarian horde invaded it from the south. Led by a [[JeanneDArchetype lady warrior Andraste, guided by the Maker Himself,]] the barbarians swept through the southern Tevinter, dealing a death blow to the old Empire. Although Andraste was eventually betrayed and executed by the Tevinters, her followers compiled her teachings into the Chant of the Light and formed the [[TheChurch Chantry]] to spread its word. The newly-founded southern states were quick to embrace the new faith, cutting cultural ties to Tevinter, whose reputation was forever soiled. By association, magic itself became ostracized and viewed as pure evil by the Andrastian congregation.
Before anyone in Thedas could catch their breath, another Darkspawn horde rose from the Deep Roads, led by a different corrupted Old God. Although only half as long as the First, the Second Blight had at least just as far-reaching consequences. One was the rise of the Orlesian Empire and the spread of the Andrastian faith, even into the Tevinter Empire. Another was the [[FantasticRacism popular resentment against the elves]], who, despite having been granted rights and land again for their support of Andraste's rebellion, did little to help other nations defeat the new Blight. And perhaps the most significant event was the formation of the [[MagicalSociety Circles of Magi]] as a compromise between popular resentment of mages and their usefulness in fighting the Darkspawn. Ostensibly a place of learning, all Circles were controlled by the Chantry and closely guarded by the paranoid {{Mage Killer}}s of the Templar Order.
The hostilities between Orlais and the new elven homeland of the Dales finally boiled over after an attack on an Orlesian town. In response, the Chantry called for an [[TheCrusades Exhalted March]] that crushed the Dales and forced their residents to either relocate into the [[FantasticGhetto Alienages]] or return to a nomadic lifestyle. The rift between the "city elves" and the "Dalish elves" grew ever wider in the following centuries. The Third Blight had come and gone, serving only to deepen the conflict between the two empires, Tevinter and Orlesian. Eventually, even the Chantry itself was split along these lines when the "Imperial Chantry" of Tevinter broke off (notably taking a much more liberal stance on magic) and the Orlesian Chantry called for not one but four Exhalted Marches against it. All of them, however, failed to complete their objective before the Fourth Blight put an end to them.
Almost as soon as the Fourth Blight was repelled, a new invasion swept from the north-east: the Qunari, followers of the religion/philosophy of Qun, crossed the sea and captured a bulk of northern Thedas (including most of Tevinter), converting the locals by force. The Chantry called for more Exalted Marches, which finally beat the Qunari back from the mainland. A truce, limiting the Qunari presence to the northern islands, was signed by all human nations except Tevinter, who continued to wage a ForeverWar for their old lands. Meanwhile, trouble stirred in the south again, where the Orlesian Empire conquered and installed a puppet on the throne of Ferelden, birthplace of Andraste. Lasting for half a century, the Orlesian occupation was resisted by the local nobles and finally overthrown some thirty years before the start of ''Origins''.
->[[AC:Note that the summary below is based on in-game information, which has proved to be [[UnreliableNarrator unreliable in certain aspects before]], especially in regards to the parts before the Second Blight.]]
The story goes that in the beginning, TheMaker created the [[SpiritWorld Fade]], an ever-changing realm populated by never-changing creatures, the [[OurSpiritsAreDifferent spirits]]. Over time, however, He grew displeased with his first children and created the material world--a new, immutable realm separated from the Fade by the Veil. He populated the new realm by the ever-changing mortals, who only saw the Fade in their dreams and whose divine souls returned to His Golden City in the middle of it upon death. Some spirits, however, particularly [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the ones associated with negative emotions]], found a way through the Veil, spreading [[FunctionalMagic the secrets of magic]] and DemonicPossession into the material world.
Eight thousand years ago, the continent of Thedas belonged to the Elvhenan, a culture of [[OurElvesAreBetter a race of beautiful immortal creatures who called themselves "elvhen" or "elves"]]. They worshiped their pantheon of gods, traversed into the Fade, and mastered the art of magic. BeneathTheEarth, meanwhile, the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]] forged a great empire of the underground cavern cities called "thaigs", connected by a vast tunnel network known as the Deep Roads. For over six thousand years, their civilizations flourished--until the first humans arrived from across the north-eastern sea.
Although initially friendly, the relationship between elves and humans, particularly the Tevinter tribe, rapidly deteriorated when the elves realized than prolonged contact with the [[WeAreAsMayflies "quicklings"]] cost them their {{immortality}}. By then, however, the Tevinters already learned the secrets of elven magic and, turning on their teachers, crushed the Elvhenan culture. The surviving elves were reduced to homeless vagabonds, a shadow of their former glory. The dwarves fared better, especially since they supplied the Tevinters with [[AppliedPhlebotinum lyrium]]--outcroppings of the Fade leaking into the material world in mineral form, necessary to power magic.
With their knowledge of the Fade and extensive use of the BloodMagic, the [[TheMagocracy Tevinter Magisters]] forged an [[TheEmpire Empire]] that spanned all of Thedas. But man grew proud and eventually set out to commit the ultimate sacrilege: enter the Fade in the flesh and set foot into the Golden City itself. By spending most of the world's lyrium (and [[HumanResources slave blood]]) supplies, a group of Magisters infiltrated the City--and were cast out by the Maker, cursed and irreversibly corrupted. They became the first Darkspawn, mindless creatures existing only to exterminate all other life. The City itself was corrupted, as well, henceforth known as the Black City, and the Maker abandoned His second children, just as He did with the spirits before.
The Darkspawn fled underground and it wasn't long before they grew in number, using the Deep Roads as their breeding ground. Soon, they also found and corrupted one of the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent draconic Old Gods]] of Tevinter, Dumat, in the underground prison where he was locked by the Maker for millenia. The first to face the assault of the [[TheHorde Darkspawn Horde]] led by Dumat were the dwarves, who managed to hold on for a few decades, thanks to the invention of {{golem}}s, but when the secret of the latter was lost, the dwarven civilization largely collapsed, losing all but a few thaigs. Meanwhile, on the surface, the Horde laid siege on all of Thedas, splintering the Tevinter Empire into many disjoint enclaves. After almost two centuries of continuous strife, TheOrder of the Grey Wardens led the combined armies of Thedas to victory over Dumat and his Horde. The entire conflict became known as "the Blight".
The Tevinter Empire survived the Blight, if only barely, and soon thereafter, a massive barbarian horde invaded it from the south. Led by a [[JeanneDArchetype lady warrior Andraste, guided by the Maker Himself,]] the barbarians swept through the southern Tevinter, dealing a death blow to the old Empire. Although Andraste was eventually betrayed and executed by the Tevinters, her followers compiled her teachings into the Chant of the Light and formed the [[TheChurch Chantry]] to spread its word. The newly-founded southern states were quick to embrace the new faith, cutting cultural ties to Tevinter, whose reputation was forever soiled. By association, magic itself became ostracized and viewed as pure evil by the Andrastian congregation.
Before anyone in Thedas could catch their breath, another Darkspawn horde rose from the Deep Roads, led by a different corrupted Old God. Although only half as long as the First, the Second Blight had at least just as far-reaching consequences. One was the rise of the Orlesian Empire and the spread of the Andrastian faith, even into the Tevinter Empire. Another was the [[FantasticRacism popular resentment against the elves]], who, despite having been granted rights and land again for their support of Andraste's rebellion, did little to help other nations defeat the new Blight. And perhaps the most significant event was the formation of the [[MagicalSociety Circles of Magi]] as a compromise between popular resentment of mages and their usefulness in fighting the Darkspawn. Ostensibly a place of learning, all Circles were controlled by the Chantry and closely guarded by the paranoid {{Mage Killer}}s of the Templar Order.
The hostilities between Orlais and the new elven homeland of the Dales finally boiled over after an attack on an Orlesian town. In response, the Chantry called for an [[TheCrusades Exhalted March]] that crushed the Dales and forced their residents to either relocate into the [[FantasticGhetto Alienages]] or return to a nomadic lifestyle. The rift between the "city elves" and the "Dalish elves" grew ever wider in the following centuries. The Third Blight had come and gone, serving only to deepen the conflict between the two empires, Tevinter and Orlesian. Eventually, even the Chantry itself was split along these lines when the "Imperial Chantry" of Tevinter broke off (notably taking a much more liberal stance on magic) and the Orlesian Chantry called for not one but four Exhalted Marches against it. All of them, however, failed to complete their objective before the Fourth Blight put an end to them.
Almost as soon as the Fourth Blight was repelled, a new invasion swept from the north-east: the Qunari, followers of the religion/philosophy of Qun, crossed the sea and captured a bulk of northern Thedas (including most of Tevinter), converting the locals by force. The Chantry called for more Exalted Marches, which finally beat the Qunari back from the mainland. A truce, limiting the Qunari presence to the northern islands, was signed by all human nations except Tevinter, who continued to wage a ForeverWar for their old lands. Meanwhile, trouble stirred in the south again, where the Orlesian Empire conquered and installed a puppet on the throne of Ferelden, birthplace of Andraste. Lasting for half a century, the Orlesian occupation was resisted by the local nobles and finally overthrown some thirty years before the start of ''Origins''.
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The ''Dragon Age'' franchise started with ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', a WesternRPG released in 2009 by the Canadian game developer Creator/BioWare and a SpiritualSuccessor to their own ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''-based ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' series. When ''Origins'' became a runaway success, the series was quickly expanded with further video games and other media:
!!Core role-playing games
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' (2009)
** ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening]]'' (the official ExpansionPack to the original game)
** ''The Stone Prisoner'', ''Warden's Keep'', ''Return to Ostagar'' (additional DLC levels to ''Origins'')
** ''Darkspawn Chronicles'', ''Leliana's Song'', ''The Golems of Amgarrak'', ''Witch Hunt'' (standalone DLC campaigns)
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' (2011)
** ''The Exiled Prince'', ''Legacy'', ''Mark of the Assassin'' (DLC)
** ''Dragon Age II: Exalted March'' (a canceled expansion pack)
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeIIIInquisition'' (2013?)
!!Novels
->[[AC:Note that due to a large freedom of choice found in the games and the fact that save games (including all story-relevant choices) are [[OldSaveBonus transferred between games]], the canonicity of the official novels set after ''Origins'' is a murky matter. It is best to think of the novels and comics as part of the "[=BioWare=] canon", which complements but does not override a player's personal game canon.]]
* ''Literature/TheStolenThrone'' (2009; prequel to ''Origins'')
* ''Literature/TheCalling'' (2009; ditto)
* ''Literature/{{Asunder}}'' (2011; bridges the gap between the second and third games)
!!Comic books
* ''ComicBook/TheSilentGrove'' (2012)
* ''ComicBook/ThoseWhoSpeak'' (2012?)
!!Other media
* ''Dragon Age Legends'', originally a Facebook strategy RPG app, now available offline.
* ''Dragon Age Journeys'', an AdobeFlash game.
* ''TabletopGame/DragonAge'', a TabletopRPG adaptation.
* ''DragonAgeRedemption'', a WebVideo series starring FeliciaDay.
* ''WebVideo/WardensFall'', a WebVideo series explaining the backstory of Kristoff, a PosthumousCharacter in ''Awakening''.
* ''Anime/DawnOfTheSeeker'', an {{anime}} movie explaining the backstory of Cassandra Pentaghast, a minor character in ''[=DA2=]''.
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!!Core role-playing games
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' (2009)
** ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening]]'' (the official ExpansionPack to the original game)
** ''The Stone Prisoner'', ''Warden's Keep'', ''Return to Ostagar'' (additional DLC levels to ''Origins'')
** ''Darkspawn Chronicles'', ''Leliana's Song'', ''The Golems of Amgarrak'', ''Witch Hunt'' (standalone DLC campaigns)
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' (2011)
** ''The Exiled Prince'', ''Legacy'', ''Mark of the Assassin'' (DLC)
** ''Dragon Age II: Exalted March'' (a canceled expansion pack)
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeIIIInquisition'' (2013?)
!!Novels
->[[AC:Note that due to a large freedom of choice found in the games and the fact that save games (including all story-relevant choices) are [[OldSaveBonus transferred between games]], the canonicity of the official novels set after ''Origins'' is a murky matter. It is best to think of the novels and comics as part of the "[=BioWare=] canon", which complements but does not override a player's personal game canon.]]
* ''Literature/TheStolenThrone'' (2009; prequel to ''Origins'')
* ''Literature/TheCalling'' (2009; ditto)
* ''Literature/{{Asunder}}'' (2011; bridges the gap between the second and third games)
!!Comic books
* ''ComicBook/TheSilentGrove'' (2012)
* ''ComicBook/ThoseWhoSpeak'' (2012?)
!!Other media
* ''Dragon Age Legends'', originally a Facebook strategy RPG app, now available offline.
* ''Dragon Age Journeys'', an AdobeFlash game.
* ''TabletopGame/DragonAge'', a TabletopRPG adaptation.
* ''DragonAgeRedemption'', a WebVideo series starring FeliciaDay.
* ''WebVideo/WardensFall'', a WebVideo series explaining the backstory of Kristoff, a PosthumousCharacter in ''Awakening''.
* ''Anime/DawnOfTheSeeker'', an {{anime}} movie explaining the backstory of Cassandra Pentaghast, a minor character in ''[=DA2=]''.
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