![]() Dragon Age: Inquisition Trespasser reveals this to be incorrect. When this was discovered, they tried to cut off all contact with humanity, but it was too late, because in the shadow of their ancient cities, the Tevinter Imperium was born. Due to some unknown reason, contact with humans caused them to "quicken", lose their immortality, and become vulnerable to mortal diseases. The Ancient Elves, however, discovered to their horror that this came with a price. The Qunari, Dwarves, and even some Elves have stated that living with humans can become addictive if one spends enough time with them. Humanity Is Infectious: Played both positively and negatively.Gender Is No Object: Despite the fact that women were apparently restricted in past, by the time the games take place (the eponymous Dragon Age) most militaries, governments, and other organizations seem to not really care about gender, with the exceptions being the Chantry, where the ordained clergy is exclusively women, and Tevinter, which is patriarchal.Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Medieval Europe.Their treatment of dwarves and qunari aren’t much better, generally labeling the former as criminal exiles only useful for their ability to mine lyrium and enchant items, and the latter as violent heathens who force you into a role. Humans also typically throw race riots if elves so much as move into a human neighborhood, never mind gain a title of minor nobility. Elves are also low in secular society, being either slaves in societies that allow slavery or impoverished and second-class citizens in those which don't. Now that most of Thedas' elves have converted to Andrastianism, the Chantry still doesn't let them become priests. Fantastic Racism: Even though an elf was one of their Prophetess' greatest generals, the Chantry officially removed all verses of him after conquering the elven kingdom of the Dales.Due to the Dead: The Andrastian religion practices cremation, in memory of Andraste being burnt at the stake, although it's been suggested that it may have originally been to prevent Blood Mages raising or demons possessing corpses. ![]() It does its best to be a Saintly Church, but inevitably, its institutional faults often makes it a Corrupt Church. Led by the Divine and composed entirely of women. Still later, he shunned them again for the death of Andraste. Then they did that, and He shunned them harder. Though the first thing that caused Him to shun them was when they started worshiping dragons instead of Him.
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