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I did a gigantic clean-up of the ShoutOut section. I run down of what I did and why I did it:
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* [[StarWars \\\"Thank the Maker!\\\"]]
The Maker is simply what they call their god. There\\\'s a limited amount of things to call a god that isn\\\'t God. The elves call their gods the Creators. And the Divine is what they call their Pope. Seriously, \\\"Thank the Maker!\\\" just parallels, with \\\"Thank God!\\\".
* Alistair comments on how weird it is to find out he has a sister and repeats it out loud a few times, the last of which sounds like Darth Vader.
I...don\\\'t even know what to say. I suppose his tone of voice sort of in a very vague way sounds Darth Vader-ish, but it\\\'s not like Dark Vader at one point ever hams out a really long SEEEESSSSTAAAAAAAAHHHHRRRR.
* You can buy light armor called [[ShadowsOfTheEmpire The Shadow of The Empire]] in the Dwarf Kingdom.
The Empire is the Orlesian Empire. The Shadow of the Empire is just a way of referring to an assassin. Read the item description and it\\\'s vague, saying stuff how weird it is that this thing bears the seal of the Empire. Nothing to reference StarWars.
* Might be a bit of a stretch, but Bodahn Feddic\\\'s BackStory, involving [[spoiler: A Noble Dwarf having him imprisoned]] and his comments on [[spoiler: Nobles being very touchy]] seem to invoke the same view of Nobles that players of DwarfFortress have (Since they basically go around doing the exact same thing, but in ASCII).
Yeah, it \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' a stretch...especially since the reasons nobles are touchy is because they operate a caste system that gives them a superiority complex. No hidden references to DwarfFortress.
* There are a few shout-outs to \\\'\\\'{{Dune}}\\\'\\\' in the Human Noble origin: your father calls you \\\"young pup\\\", your family is pretty much the only really decent noble clan around, and you have a shady rival family seeking your downfall, whose name begins with \\\"H\\\".
I didn\\\'t edit this one out, as I\\\'ve never read Dune...but it seems like it\\\'s a stretch as well. The Couslands aren\\\'t the one decent nobility, the Howes aren\\\'t like a shady rival family: Rendon Howe is a traitorous douche--he\\\'s actually the vassal of the Couslands...and the first letter shouldn\\\'t make a difference. I don\\\'t know what to make of the \\\"pup\\\" thing (they never call you \\\"young pup\\\", BTW), but I assume they call you that because it\\\'s gender-neutral and doesn\\\'t baby you the way \\\"sweetie\\\" might.
* Given Zevran has a Spanish accent, there\\\'s just no way his love of \\\"[[RicardoMontalban rich Antivan leather]]\\\" is a coincidence...
I\\\'m going to go with it being a coincidence because you wouldn\\\'t have said anything if he had a Russian accent. There needs to be more than that to make a ShoutOut.
* \\\"Return to Ostagar\\\" features a [[BlueDragon blue dragon]].
** That\\\'s a bit of a stretch...
...Yes it is.
* This one is probably stretching it, but worth mentioning anyway: Qunari is almost an anagram for [[{{MassEffect}} Quarian]], minus one letter.
I admit it\\\'s a funny coincidence, but since that\\\'s where the similarities end (end abruptly, at that), I don\\\'t think it\\\'s worth mentioning.
*The Chantry is a shout out to a middle age Catholic church, just ask them about Blood Mages.
It\\\'s not a ShoutOut, it\\\'s FantasyCounterpartCulture, yasee?
*Grey Wardens? Or [[TheDresdenFiles Wardens, who wear grey?]]
My brain hurts from trying to explain repeatedly that you need \\\'\\\'more\\\'\\\' than that to make a ShoutOut... ;P
*Flemeth is an old evil witch that lives in a swamp [[spoiler: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Disney/TheSwordInTheStone and turns into a big purple dragon]]]].
The dragons are just purple. And I don\\\'t really think Flemeth and...what was that witch\\\'s name? \\\'\\\'Must remember by myself\\\'\\\'...M...something...whatever...yeah, they aren\\\'t anything alike. Asides from crazy. And isn\\\'t that dragon pink?
The Maker is simply what they call their god. There\\\'s a limited amount of things to call a god that isn\\\'t God. The elves call their gods the Creators. And the Divine is what they call their Pope. Seriously, \\\"Thank the Maker!\\\" just parallels, with \\\"Thank God!\\\".
* Alistair comments on how weird it is to find out he has a sister and repeats it out loud a few times, the last of which sounds like Darth Vader.
I...don\\\'t even know what to say. I suppose his tone of voice sort of in a very vague way sounds Darth Vader-ish, but it\\\'s not like Dark Vader at one point ever hams out a really long SEEEESSSSTAAAAAAAAHHHHRRRR.
* You can buy light armor called [[ShadowsOfTheEmpire The Shadow of The Empire]] in the Dwarf Kingdom.
The Empire is the Orlesian Empire. The Shadow of the Empire is just a way of referring to an assassin. Read the item description and it\\\'s vague, saying stuff how weird it is that this thing bears the seal of the Empire. Nothing to reference StarWars.
* Might be a bit of a stretch, but Bodahn Feddic\\\'s BackStory, involving [[spoiler: A Noble Dwarf having him imprisoned]] and his comments on [[spoiler: Nobles being very touchy]] seem to invoke the same view of Nobles that players of DwarfFortress have (Since they basically go around doing the exact same thing, but in ASCII).
Yeah, it \\\'\\\'is\\\'\\\' a stretch...especially since the reasons nobles are touchy is because they operate a caste system that gives them a superiority complex. No hidden references to DwarfFortress.
* There are a few shout-outs to \\\'\\\'{{Dune}}\\\'\\\' in the Human Noble origin: your father calls you \\\"young pup\\\", your family is pretty much the only really decent noble clan around, and you have a shady rival family seeking your downfall, whose name begins with \\\"H\\\".
I didn\\\'t edit this one out, as I\\\'ve never read Dune...but it seems like it\\\'s a stretch as well. The Couslands aren\\\'t the one decent nobility, the Howes aren\\\'t like a shady rival family: Rendon Howe is a traitorous douche--he\\\'s actually the vassal of the Couslands...and the first letter shouldn\\\'t make a difference. I don\\\'t know what to make of the \\\"pup\\\" thing (they never call you \\\"young pup\\\", BTW), but I assume they call you that because it\\\'s gender-neutral and doesn\\\'t baby you the way \\\"sweetie\\\" might.
* Given Zevran has a Spanish accent, there\\\'s just no way his love of \\\"[[RicardoMontalban rich Antivan leather]]\\\" is a coincidence...
I\\\'m going to go with it being a coincidence because you wouldn\\\'t have said anything if he had a Russian accent. There needs to be more than that to make a ShoutOut.
* \\\"Return to Ostagar\\\" features a [[BlueDragon blue dragon]].
** That\\\'s a bit of a stretch...
...Yes it is.
* This one is probably stretching it, but worth mentioning anyway: Qunari is almost an anagram for [[{{MassEffect}} Quarian]], minus one letter.
I admit it\\\'s a funny coincidence, but since that\\\'s where the similarities end (end abruptly, at that), I don\\\'t think it\\\'s worth mentioning.
*The Chantry is a shout out to a middle age Catholic church, just ask them about Blood Mages.
It\\\'s not a ShoutOut, it\\\'s FantasyCounterpartCulture, yasee?
*Grey Wardens? Or [[TheDresdenFiles Wardens, who wear grey?]]
My brain hurts from trying to explain repeatedly that you need \\\'\\\'more\\\'\\\' than that to make a ShoutOut... ;P
*Flemeth is an old evil witch that lives in a swamp [[spoiler: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Disney/TheSwordInTheStone and turns into a big purple dragon]]]].
The dragons are just purple. And I don\\\'t really think Flemeth and...what was that witch\\\'s name? \\\'\\\'Must remember by myself\\\'\\\'...M...something...whatever...yeah, they aren\\\'t anything alike. Asides from crazy. And isn\\\'t that dragon pink?
