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 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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