Doing another small history talk on Twitter today in honour of @NeolithicSheep because there was some bs happening in her mentions yesterday and also because she likes these.
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In his homily "de falsis diis (on the false gods)", he says at the beginning: "There is one God, one faith, one baptism; one God, and the Father of all things, who is over all things and through all things and in us all."
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I don't know if whoever wrote those lines and that codex entry based it off of this or perhaps some other religious text, but when I play games like Dragon Age, or Skyrim, I see lots of references to history that shows to me that people did lots of reading.
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High Hrothgar: Hrothgar was the name of a king in Beowulf and Widsith, as an example.
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There is a Jarl Hrothmund in Skyrim, and there was a legendary king Hrothmund in the line of East Anglian kings.
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In Dragon Age, it's less names and more ideas/cultures that are really interesting to me. Like the Book of Shartan. In Christianity, there are many "apocryphal" texts that are not in the Bible, and what is in the Bible now wasn't how it always was.
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The Divine and the Black Divine: like Popes and Anti-Popes.
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The game has layers of history. You find old Tevene ruins and scholars studying them, very much like 18th and 19th century antiquarians, which was the beginning of the professionalization of history as we know it (in the West).
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History to the people in Thedas is difficult and dominated by the Chantry narrative, but you can help push against that in some places.
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