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@pyeitme508

Жыл бұрын

Meh 😑

@hummanaffectearthscience7004

Жыл бұрын

Malazan empire please!

@brokenbridge6316

Жыл бұрын

This video was nice. But when are you doing your next Star Wars video. How long are we going to have to wait before you air that video.

@redxhand

Жыл бұрын

Me still waiting for Arslan series or Altair record of battles xD

Andraste went out for a walk. A very enthusiastic walk

@oranganewton

Жыл бұрын

“Bullshit!”

@Colonelspicyweinr

Жыл бұрын

Ah a man of culture I see

@zevalastlegion4228

Жыл бұрын

First of all I was a chick in the 40s and maybe also that one time in thedas

@reffa2858

Жыл бұрын

She was probably high.

@VvodeAn

Жыл бұрын

With phonk music

The Bioware employee that came up with the name Andraste deserves a medal. It's a beautiful, striking name.

@Truewooper

Жыл бұрын

They apparently were fans of the Icenic war goddess. Andraste, also known as Andrasta, was, according to the Roman historian Dio Cassius, an Icenic war goddess invoked by Boudica in her fight against the Roman occupation of Britain in AD 60. She may be the same as Andate, mentioned later by the same source, and described as "their name for Victory": i.e., the goddess Victoria.Thayer asserts that she may also be related to Andarta. The goddess Victoria is related to Nike, Bellona, Magna Mater (Great Mother), Cybele, and Vacuna-goddesses who are often depicted on chariots. Her name has been translated as meaning "indestructible" or "unconquerable". Many neopagan sources describe the hare as sacred to Andraste. This idea seems to be extrapolated from the passage in Dio Cassius in which Boudica releases a hare from her gown: "Let us, therefore, go against [the Romans], trusting boldly to good fortune. Let us show them that they are hares and foxes trying to rule over dogs and wolves." When she [Boudica] had finished speaking, she employed a species of divination, letting a hare escape from the fold of her dress; and since it ran on what they considered the auspicious side, the whole multitude shouted with pleasure, and Boudica, raising her hand towards heaven, said: "I thank you, Andraste, and call upon you as woman speaking to woman ... I beg you for victory and preservation of liberty."

@MrGouldilocks

Жыл бұрын

@@Truewooper Great post! Thanks for educating me.

@wolfmauler

Жыл бұрын

@@Truewooper Superb friend 🙂. I thought they were veering into new territory with this one: I didn't know that Andraste's name had been used in fantasy fiction.

@cburg6383

Жыл бұрын

@@Truewooper Sounds remarkably like the Phoenician 'Astarte'...

@moutsatsosa

Жыл бұрын

ΑΝΔΡΑΣΤΕΙΑ(ΑNDRASTIA) is the daughter of Zeus and Need and is the divine aspect inside the human soul (or the Goddess if we address to children) that fuels the fire of vengeance.Andrastos is the male reference to the name and we have recorded kings and heroes with that name that date back to bronze era for example a king of Argos and the son of king Midas of Frigia. Nemesis is often refereed to by poets and writers as Andrastia. Andrastia's references in myths are recorded long before the creation of the city of Rome just in case someone rushes to demonstrate their historical Roman knowledge. None bioware employ came up with anything.

The art, the editing, the script, the narration, the research is so well done. You guys are really the best on youtube when it comes to this type of content. Nothing comes close.

The games have several moments where you discover Andraste’s entourage or people involved with her that seem to in some ways counter the Chantry’s rhetoric. Not to mention it’s always really cool to discover lore that contradicts what the people in the world believe. The games have always had a wonderful story and amazing lore, even if gameplay has been wonky throughout. I do think 3 has the best mix of old school RPG and new school, though I still miss the insane tactical nuances of Origins.

The Chantry when people start asking about the timing of Andraste's birth: ANNULMENT

Its funny to think how Andraste was brought to tevinter in chains with her crusade failed yet left the city its victor as the Archon Hessarian found something in her words. Yet even with his turn around he helped lay foundations that would simultaneously doom and saved tevinter with the course theyd take their Chant with. The event surrounding Andrastes rise certainly have their own adventure to them that id like see first hand. Though it always runs into the problem of taking that interesting mystery behind it.

Andraste was almost for sure a dreamer (Somniari), mage, or most likely, both Or if you want to go even further in theory land, she was a previous vessel of Mythal

@mr.bottle

Жыл бұрын

I once saw a theory that she was to Dumat what Kieran is to Urthemiel, which certainly has its own intriguing implications

@99Bobson

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.bottle Yeah, that's also one viable option, for sure. I just personally don't put that much stake in it because the Dark Ritual that gets the Old God Soul is a very specific thing, and seeing how the First Blight ended only after the founding of the Grey Wardens, it kinda implies to me that the hero who killed Dumat died while killing him But, on the other hand, Andraste was born in the same year the Blight ended, so.... Would be very cool!

@theliato3809

Жыл бұрын

Ive heard theories that she became a vessel for Dumat.

@CatastrophicDisease

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.bottle I always felt that this was obvious, actually. She was born literally just after the end of the First Blight. Either she is the Old God Baby of Dumat, or it’s one hell of a coincidence.

@khalduras784

Жыл бұрын

Personally i dont like how everything and everyone has to somehow tie to the elves.

I absolutely love dragon age lore. It’s some of the best out there.

@RSFaber-nk6lh

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's such an accidentally good lore because it mirrors our world quite well

@Garoslol

Жыл бұрын

@@RSFaber-nk6lh Most of fantasy lore is based on real wolrd events. Calling it accidental is an insult to the writers.

@RSFaber-nk6lh

Жыл бұрын

@@Garoslol pfff. Touchy. I mean making a Joan of Arc correlation doesn't seem like groundbreaking storytelling tbh. Also I'm using the word accidental here because game lore stories are often an amalgamated mess of different plots fused into one world. There's some great ones, but it usually takes a while before it happens. The Halo is a perfect example of a random shooter accidentally becoming a great story.

@Garoslol

Жыл бұрын

@@RSFaber-nk6lh Halo was never popular for the lore. It was probably one of the greatest shooters of that time. The gravemind lore is dumb af. Joan of Arc was already a sketchy story from the middle ages. She wasnt the first woman to be burned either. Lore is only as great as the writers are capable of making it interesting.

@RSFaber-nk6lh

Жыл бұрын

@@Garoslol Yeah but the similarities between Andraste and the Joan are so strong, to the point that the Chantry has such a strong Catholic connotation that I had trouble playing inquisition. Also about Halo, you shouldn't underestimate how big that lore has grown, there's tonnes of books and dedicated lorekeeps, but yeah I agree. That lore is still so riddled with plotholes it's ridiculous. But still halo in turn inspired mass effect, which in my opinion is one of the best lore driven games

As a long time fan of dragon age, I'm getting goosebumps watching this

One interesting thing I noticed in the lore in DAO that might just be a complete coincidence: Andraste was born in the same year that the first Archdemon Dumat was slain months after his death. Just a wild theory but maybe it’s possible Morrigan wasn’t the first to perform that ritual.

After playing all the gams and reading all the lore...I do believe there is more to Andraste's story than we currently know. Hopefully DA4 will touch on this too...Solas must know more about this also

@Revanchist

Жыл бұрын

Like some other comments pointed out she was most likely a dreamer, mage or a vessel for one of the old gods.

@ChristianAuditore14

Жыл бұрын

How would he know? He was asleep

@emilydaniel5494

Жыл бұрын

Personally I think Solas was Shartan.

@caernyralim2745

Жыл бұрын

@@ChristianAuditore14 He was asleep indeed. While sleeping however he could visit places in the fade and spirits that took a liking to a certain event or region. While not entirely 100% accurate, It allowed him to know major events and happenings. Only when he woke up did he start to use agents to get a clearer picture of the physical world around him now.

@khalduras784

Жыл бұрын

​@@caernyralim2745well technically he was completely out cold during his hibernations. Him dreaming about current events happened after he awoke in the more recent years.

I love these series. I only wish that more people would care about them.

Wuhu more Dragon Age. I said it last Video and I have to say it again: Thedas (The Dragon Age Setting) is one of the most faceted and interesting fantasy worlds I have explored in the last one and a half decades. The games have their strong and their weak points of course. But its the world itself, the myths, cultures and factions within in it, that draw me back in so often

And now we get to the true beginning of Thedas, cannot wait to see the foundations of the Kingdoms and especially the Qunari Wars eventually 😉

I am loving these Dragon Age videos so much! Can't wait for more.

Thank you a lot for the best lore videos on KZread and for dragon age

You guys honestly keep me going, thank you guys so much 👍

Loving the Dragon Age series! Keep up the great work, folks!

Oh my god, I literally just started Dragon Age Inquisition and was consuming all of your Dragon Age lore!! Thank you so much for another one!❤️

@Knight1029

Жыл бұрын

I hope you are enjoying the game and series!

@rethomore

Жыл бұрын

Oh. The very first video in the series has huge spoilers for the Inquisition. That's too sad.

@epicazeroth

Жыл бұрын

You might want to hold off, there's a lot of spoilers for Inquisition in these.

@foxracing8973

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the Dragon Age family!

This is probably my favorite of your Dragon Age videos. It does a really good job telling the story of Andraste.

Ty again so much to your team for doing more videos on my favorite game series! They are top notch and well scripted. Ma serannas!

I hope you guys keep making Dragon Age lore videos, you did a phenomenal job. Such awesome lore

Great job. Can't wait until the next.

Good work. Looking forward to the next. I replayed DA Origins and DA II with their DLC's several times over back on the Xbob360. All of the lore came flooding back while watching all of these. Thanks for the efforts guys

I'd be interested to see a video about the underground fortresses the archdemons are being kept in. Who built them and how?

@eastbow6053

Жыл бұрын

elves... archdemons are seals of a magical barrier that keeps the source of the blight deep underground and when a blight happened in their time they killed the archdemon took the soul and create a new vessel for the seal to hold hence why solas is so mad with the grey wardens

@MrSilz-jb4ik

10 ай бұрын

​@@eastbow6053do know have a reference for this information i can read. I did not know this since i only reaæly know about lore from DAO

Dont know a thing about dragon age but will still watch this because I know you guys are cool!

Raziel Redeemer, and Destroyer. Pawn, and Messiah. Welcome, time spanned soul. Welcome to your destiny. Now that sounds like an epic opening to a Wizards and Warriors episode to me.

Love your dragon age videos!!

These Dragon Age videos are super addictive, keep it up guys!

Looking forward to the next video! 😀

Fascinating! Thanks.

Hello! Holly Molly, you are amazing this Lore animations! Keep going and good work!

Please do lore videos on warhammer 40K. Your take on the series would be incredible. And with the upcoming Holywood 40k. It would be just at the right time as well

Great video, loved to know more about Andraste. I appreciate you giving perspective on his husband actions, saving your army from destruction, your life and giving you the opportunity to consolidate your new empire does sound like a pragmatic solution but selling your wife and prophet of your realms new religion doesn't seem like a thing that would happen or work in a real context.

@theliato3809

Жыл бұрын

He felt betrayed by the fact the maker was considered her true husband. I imagine that didnt sit well with him and helped contribute to his descision. Had that not been an issue who knows what might have happened.

Praise the Maker.

hyped for further videos

Funnily enough I am chasing down Andraste's Ashes in Origins.

can't wait for the next episode

I love learning about DA lore!!

thank you so much for that

Thank for your video

Please don't stop making these 🤩

Yes, more Dragon Age content!

Nice!

Loving the dragon age lore

Very cool

Praise Andraste and Praise the Maker 🙏❤️

When will you resume the "What if the Mongols Attacked Central Europe" series?

The tevinter imperium is basically thedas version of the Roman empire

Awesome

I wasn't expecting dragon age content here A more than welcome surprise

I look forward to the next episode. The lore is so good and is only scraped by the games.

Lovely

love it😍

My money is still on her being a mage.

@theliato3809

Жыл бұрын

Well if magic is a gift of the maker it’s certainly possible

The more I read about Andraste, the more I'm convinced she was an Old God Baby. Also, side fact: Andraste is also the name of a Celtic war goddess.

Ребята, вы - супер!💥

Maferath did give the Dales to the Elves so he is redeemed, to me.

@Revanchist

Жыл бұрын

In the game he does appear quite petty, at least his ghost. He regrets his decision but he says that he was very jealous of her.

@DarkKing009

Жыл бұрын

@@Revanchist yep

Its all fun and games until "Bar bar bar" spouting barbarians start speaking french and riding horses.

The blade of Hessarion, the Blade of Mercy, has been copied by many a smith in Thedas, especially in Tevinter, and you can give such a gift in Dragon Age 2, if you so choose, to the former Tevinter elf slave, Fenris.

The way that tevinter deals with magestars marching into the black city, I wonder how Romans, after Constantine in particular, felt about them killing Jesus

Will you guys continue to the mongol invasion alternate history? Please man it was so damn good

I hope they do a series on the First Inquisition and the formation of the Seekers of Truth and the Templar order

6:09 Actually the Chantry claim the Dwarves are not part of the Makers creations. Edit: found it Dragon Age: the World of Thedas page 143. The subjects was about the fade, from the Chantry point of view: "A dwarf entering the Fade is a rare thing. The underground dwellers do not dream, and ages of lyrium exposure have made them largely immune to its power. Because no dwarven souls are found in the Fade, the Chantry claims that the dwarves were not created by the Maker."

Makers breath!!

In maker we trust

Dragon Age day is best day

While I'm loving the Dragon Age content, I do hope we get to conclude the alternative history series on the Mongol invasion of Europe. I'm itching to watch Part 3!

Knowing how the spirits and gods work in the world of dragon age im kinda afraid of what the maker could actually be. For all we know he could be some lovecraftian soul devouring monster "soul reaver" style

Just a poor man's Lady Aribeth de Tylmarande.

I bet in the modern era of Thedas, a human named John Wallace (a reference to Mel Gibson’s ‘many roles) will direct a movie called “Passion of Andraste” which is a snuff film of Andraste being tortured by the Tevinter Imperium and the Elves are depicted in a negative way (Similar to how the Jews were depicted in Passion of the Christ).

Omg why am I so early

Oh damn, I thought you lot were doing a piece on the goddess Andraste: I had no idea the name has been used in fiction! 🤔

@bryanjames7528

Жыл бұрын

Lotta Dragon Age fans don't know that Andraste was also the name of a Celtic goddess

Please any one know the music at 1.01

The music at 1:01 and the music at the end

Can someone please tell me if Andraste was an elf or part elf (I always notice that in most depictions her ears are at least partially obscured.)?

Love this content, can someone tell me if this period is covered in the games, I'd prefer to avoid spoiling the games which I'd Love to play before coming back to watch the rest (I have a gift for missing lore in games 😂)

It's shame they took away any of the mystery about Andraste or the chance of her being genuinely divine and instead just connected it back to elves. That's a problem with a lot of DA lore after II, way too much emphasis on elves and elven gods.

@ConnorLonergan

Жыл бұрын

Erm the only connection Andraste has to the elves is that she allied with them to end their enslavement, and that is not even a central detail.

@bismarck5537

Жыл бұрын

Andraste might actually be divine. Remember that her ashes genuinely have healing powers. Elven gods and her might or might not have a connection but she definitely is related to Maker or someone like him.

@simonsimons1252

Жыл бұрын

@@ConnorLonergan According to one of the books the elves are what saved her exalted march, which would've otherwise lost.

@ConnorLonergan

Жыл бұрын

@@simonsimons1252 ok, but that is still not the elves havbing an overshadowing link on the matter that is in line with what I said, that the link was just an alliance and the detail wasn't the central point of the event.

@sveipr6516

Жыл бұрын

Andraste currently doesn't have any direct connection to the Evanuris or Arlathan. The only direct connections she has is with Shartan.

This channel is great parody to history content origins

You know what? I think the Tevinter gods were actually elven gods who whispered to the magisters so that they release them from their prison and it's possible ... That the maker is something similar, perhaps another elven god or maybe something else?

"God will return only if *everyone* believes" sounds like a good recipe for massacres.

How have you guys not done warhammer yet 👀 so much content

Before veil was enforced and earth and fade where one, Elves had flying cities in the sky(fade) So Golden City was actually already there, it shouldn't represents a place of God but possibly some high spirit or maybe old and original Elven capital? And lore never said anything about Elven flying cities and what happened to them after Elves started colonizing the earth.

is the maker in the fade?

Magic will serve man. Not rule over him!

For the Algorythm!!

What if Andraste WAS a mage? What if when she met with "the Maker" it was actually the first, or the alpha Spirit of faith? Maybe Andraste became the first & most potent Seeker. Or, perhaps it wasn't "The Maker" at all... What if it was Geldauran?

This video could have been 5 seconds long..... “she is fantasy Joan de Arc”. Nevertheless this was a great video as usual. I hope they take this series all the way up to DA Origins!

Try 10 of asking the channel to (for April fools) cover the paintball war from community

Is it just me or does the maker sound like the elven dide who created the veil?

Aryan Angel Super Goddess makes the best Exalted Marches!

So does the maker really exist or was it all a dream or it was Mythal's deception ? or something else ?

Didn’t shartan try to save andraste before they burned her, I wonder if her husband thought that they were having an affair so he betrayed her

@sveipr6516

Жыл бұрын

Andraste and Shartan being lovers I think is an in world theory/rumor as well. One that the chantry vehemently denies and ignores lol

@pewpewplasma3793

Жыл бұрын

@@sveipr6516it would actually be quite interesting if it turned out to be true. Would really fly in the face of a lot of Chantry rhetoric. Honestly, there’s always been a part of me that’s wanted to see the Chantry just absolutely fall apart like how Tevinter did when the first Blight started. Especially after Inquisition. I think it would be really interesting to explore and an interesting mirror to the collapse of the Old Gods religion of Tevinter

Andraste is for Thedas what Boudicca would have been for our world if she defeated the Romans.

@bryanjames7528

Жыл бұрын

More like Joan of Arc to France.

@teyrncousland7152

Жыл бұрын

@@bryanjames7528 That's the popular idea, but that doesn't mean she was the only person that inspired Andraste. Bear in mind that Andraste is a Celtic goddess and in game's lore she is a barbarian warlord.

1:01

There is no way that Andraste is not a mage

@MrHat.

Жыл бұрын

And the Maker being the most powerful pride demon

so most of us agree that Andraste was a mage or most likely or a previous holder of Mythal probably

@simonsimons1252

Жыл бұрын

In Dragon Age as it is now, not even resembling what it used to be, sure. In old Dragon Age, most likely not.

@ConnorLonergan

Жыл бұрын

@@simonsimons1252 No, even in the old Dragon Age, because Origins presented the theory of Andraste being a mage. And if you mean the Mythal connection, chill, as that idea is fan theory and of the speculative level at that.

@simonsimons1252

Жыл бұрын

@@ConnorLonergan Origins presented multiple theories and left it up to you to decide which, if any, was true. Inquisition all but tells you what's true, and what's true is Andraste is not only a fraud, but elves are responsible for most of Thedas's history and magic. It's bad writing to me.

@ConnorLonergan

Жыл бұрын

@@simonsimons1252 Or it is getting confirmation of what the truth is. That is not bad writing that is just Dragon Age not being a Warhammer 40k or any other franchise you can think of that is light on the continuity. Also no Andraste was not shown to be a "fraud." yes there is evidence to suggest that indeed she is not the Bride to an omnipitant god, but that was something always in doubt since ORigins. Further no the Elves are not shown to be behind most magic and history, they are just proven to indeed be the first race on the surface of Thedas, again something that was already suspected (or rather known.) since Origins.

Didn't Shartan and some of the elves made a last-ditch effort to free Andraste, but was killed?

don't tempt me to play dragon age 3 😍😍😍