Many, many times it’s pointed out “The Dalish Clans are all unique and different to each other”, “they develop differently as they grow apart, inspired by the cultures around them”.
Well yes, they should. Aside from a shared base culture and a focus on the retrieval, protection and reconstruction of lore and a loyalty to each other and such the Dalish should be different. Proximity to other cultures and local environment should shape them differently.
Pity there’s basically no difference between any of the clans we’ve met in game.Admittedly we haven’t actually seen that much of Dalish culture in a day-to-day type of thing, but aside from a little difference in opinion on city elves and outsiders the clans have all been basically the same. They even dress the same! But still everybody says “they’re all different!”
So I started thinking about maybe it’s because the clans we’ve met have all roughly been in the same areas and environments as each other.
Antivan clans are violent. Why? Nevarran clans, despite that we know they exist, are apparently unknown to Nevarrans themselves. Why?
So I came up with headcanons about Dalish cultures based on region.
Please note that I may have fucked up or missed things regarding the biomes mentioned.
Guess what, it’s another long post!If anybody wants to read these but has difficulty reading them let me know and I’ll make separate posts.
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I very much want to see your elven stuff :) especially because I just realised I have two more elves to name for my fic
Alrighty by surprisingly popular request, here are 103 modern elven* names.
I’ll post the grammar and such later because it turns out it’s kinda hard to articulate long complex things in your brains in a way people can understand without being telepathic.
Hope these are useful!:
- Aisea – Dragon
- Aiselen – Child of fire
- Aiselan – Daughter of fire
- Aiselin – Son of fire
- Alira – Longing
- Amelath – The One who Loves
- Amesam – The One who smiles
- Anahlmi – Dancing Blades
- Anahlmien – Dancing Blades
- Andaryalana – She of the Flowers
- Andaryalena – Of the Flowers
- Andaryalina – He of the Flowers
- Assanbora – Arrow’s flight
- Ashasule – She who is strong
- Ashanahl – She of the dance
- Avellan – She is Home
- Avellen – They are Home
- Avellin – He is Home
- Avhenlin – Born of the people’s blood**
- Banuvenin – Wants for nothing
- Belsamahl – Plentiful Laughter
- Belanuva – One who sees much
- Belenaun – Worth everything
- Borshirea – Flight of the Birds
- Dareth – Be safe
- Darsulin – Be Strong
- Dahl’anahllan – She who dances among the trees
- Dahl’anahllen – One who dances among the trees
- Dahl’anahllin – He who dances among the trees
- Dahlviran – Paths of the Forest
- Dahlyalena – Tree Blossoms
- Daisea – Little Dragon
- Danea – Little bird
- Desenlath – Embraced in Love
- Doansal – Taker of victory
- Donoahl – Born of music
- Donorevas – Born of freedom
- Dirthlathir – Knows much love
- Ethera – Dream in Safety
- Ethall – Enter Safety
- Etharavas – Journey in Safety
- Elgaralen – Star
- Elgaralan – Star (female)
- Elgaralin – Star (male)***
- Eluvhenan – Soul’s reflection
- Enaunaste – Greatest Gift
- Enuhanin – Glorious leader/ruler
- Enuvarenaste – Gift of the Gods
- Fendruil – One who hunts the wolf
- Ghilanvar – One who guides us
- Ghilariel – Patience
- Ghillelen – Child of Fate
- Ghillelin – Son of Fate
- Ghillelan – Daughter of Fate
- Halshiral – Runs with the deer
- Hanassan – Glorious archer
- Haninlan – She is Glorious
- Haninlen – They are Glorious
- Ishasule – He who is strong
- Ishanahl – He of the dance
- Lasera – Storyteller
- Lassam – One who makes us smile
- Lahnera – Music of Dreams
- Lathghi’lan – Love is hers
- Lathghi’len – Love is theirs
- Lathghi’lin – Love is his
- Miashalle – She of the blades
- Mieshalle – Of the blades
- Mishalle – He of the blade
- Misulahn – Blade’s Song
- Mirthadralan – Honourable (f)
- Mirthadralen – Honourable
- Mirthadralin – Honourable (m)
- Nanaharel – Rage of our enemies
- Noadahlen – Life of the Forest
- Rasavel – Here is Home
- Revasnaine – Fights for Freedom
- Renhan – Glorious voice
- Rensi’irahl – Voice raised in song
- Riyal – New beginning
- Ruilhan – Glorious hunter
- Salinas – Victorious
- Seviranloth – Finder of the lost paths
- Shals’etha – Safe from destruction
- Shiraleth – Walks in safety
- Shiruanehn – Walks in beauty
- Shivanis – Dutiful
- Si’irlen – One who rises
- Si’irlan – She who rises
- Si’irlin – He who rises
- Taradahl – Forest Canopy
- Tarasyllan – Daughter of the Skies
- Tarasllen – Child of the Skies
- Tarasyllin – Son of the Skies
- Thenai – Beyond Harm
- Sulahnsyl – Wind’s Song
- Sylanahn – The Wind that Dances
- Uthalai – Long Memory
- Uvanehn – One who watches in joy
- Varueth – Our protector
- Varidar – Our future
- Varlathma – Our love is yours
- Yalarevas – Source of Freedom
*Modern elven as in I based this on the idea of a reconstructed language made by and unique to the elves of the Dales, so they’d be used by city elves and Dalish, but you can ignore that and use them for ancient elves if you want.
**Inspired by the headcanon that the chevalier Aveline was a Dalish elfblood. Probably a common name for efblooded children raised by their elven parents
***The male variant is the literal word for star, incidentally. “The sun’s blood”.
NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN “Ghost” Octopus
pigment-less octopus found via remote operated vehicle northeast of Hawaii’s Necker Island by NOAA scientists on the Okeanos Explorer on 2/27/16 at a depth of 4,290 meters.
bull makes a totally convincing ghost what are u talkin about krem
snakesnakesnake
you have no idea how much strange joy this video just brought me
oh my god
Bloody brilliant
I HAVEN’T WATCHED THIS IN MONTHS
snake snake snake
I’m in love
That was not what I expected at all, it was 1000x better!
Do you ever have passive OTPs
Like, you don’t read fic, you don’t look for art
but whenever something turns up you’re like hell fuckin yea

Michael Cinco Couture Spring/Summer 2015
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I would like to extend a special thanks to @weremagnus for their expertise on the Goregi identification.
