Kathraak - Bastion

You have the power to emulate sounds that you've recently heard, perfectly mimic voices, animal calls, gun fire, as long as it was within about an hour.

You also absorb light on contact, you do not reflect. In shady or dim conditions you may become almost invisible, in direct light it has much less effect.

What is it?

Personally it's my belief that Sid grew up seeing all the other Turians with colony markings and ran up to Vetra "I wanna paint my faceplate too!"

And of course Vetra being the best big sister ever agreed and helped her. Then let Sid paint her markings too. Every so often they repaint the markings, even after Sid found out what they mean. It just became a thing for them.

Why do Vetra and Sid have colony markings?

If they left before Vetra went to basic and presumingly Sid was very young? If their sisters wouldn’t they have the same markings? When is a Turian given their markings? I guess you can keep them if you are no longer apart of the colony… I’m in Turian hell talk to me about Turians….

Caesar

Light and wonder, knowledge sought. To glory and adventure drawn. What's earned is better than what's bought. Say the children of the Dawn. Righteous passion, warriors heart. Mind and form as molded clay. Greatest master, boldest art. Say the children of the Day. Calm and quiet, gentle mind. Wisdom, far from thoughtless husk. Every word, with knowledge signed. Say the children of the Dusk. Silent cunning, rarely seen. Darkened frown, mind of light. Actions, thoughts, precise and clean. Say the children of the Night

I, the Dark

Do not fear, my child of light You might not understand

Why the world grants you no right Rewards you naught but sand

Haughty is the greatest might Claiming itself grand

I, the dark, will aid your fight If you’ll but take my hand

I’ve considered this at some length before. The Minotaurs were a proud people that were reduced to little more than beasts on the edge of society by a fanatical religion. There’s certainly a regal nature to them that is sadly lost in the games.

As the whole ‘dragon blood’ thing goes, it’s hard to say because Alessia’s bloodline were the original Emperors. They were eliminated only to be replaced by the Septim line. Both were able to wear the amulet, both may have consisted of Dragonborn.

So then is Dragonborn an inherited trait at all?

Okay weird lore observation. Heirs of the dragon blood are capable of wearing the amulet of Kings. Traditionally that refers to the heirs of the imperial throne. It's been inferred by some that all of the heirs of dragon blood are technically dragon born and could absorb dragon souls. One of the first (if not the first) MINOTAURS was an emperor and the son of Alessia no less. Thus it would stand to reason that not only could a minotaur wear the Amulet of Kings, but could also absorb dova souls?

it hasn’t been clarified whether the dragonborn who can wear the amulet of kings are the same as the dragonborn who can absorb dragonsouls. nonetheless the idea of minotaurs being able to wear the amulet of kings is… very interesting ngl 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SENSEI

Frasier and Niles Become Demon Lords

After the absolute fiasco that the Mass Effect books culminated in, I had no interest in remembering anything from the otherwise wonderful and illuminating literature.

the lack of attention the comics and novels get from not only the fans but bioware themselves makes me really sad cause everyone assumes nyreen was the first female turian ever but that’s not entirely true

nyreen was first in-game, yes, but the first visually depicted turian in the whole franchise was lieutenant abrudas, from the comic mass effect: evolution:

and even before abrudas, ambassador orinia [link] has the distinction of being the first female turian in the franchise anywhere, from the novel mass effect: retribution, in which she’s actually a major character.

like idk man i love nyreen but she’s not the first female turian, and it makes me sad that other awesome characters fall by the wayside just because bioware cares so little about its supplementary material it doesn’t even bother letting people know it exists after it’s published

I've always held the belief that Khajiit honor was built around different qualities. Where the Nords favor heroes of strength, wisdom, and bravery to the degree of foolhardiness, Khajiit's greatest figures were cleverer, more agile, and sly. Khajiit don't lack honor, their honor system just stems from different qualities of the individual.

This is why they seem to revere thieves to a great extent. In Nord culture every young adventurer says they're going to be a hero just like 'blablabla of old'. Among Khajiit it's similar, as their youth desire to be the most clever and successful.

I'm not so sure about them adapting to another system of honor, but I'm sure they understand it. And being clever as they are, they'd understand how to attain rank and status within it.

Nords would probably hate khajiit because they don’t share the notion of honor, but at the same time it’s canon that they do admire the figure of the Nord hero in wulfharth - and their story does include the ones without honor being punished. I think khajiit are very communitary, and if the notion of honor is often overlooked, it’s because they’d put “flee for your life it’s important” over “defend your name”. The only loopholes being : leaving someone of your community/someone of trust (in wulfharth’s story, the khajiit that sided with his enemy and left dro'zira alone to support him where shunned); second loophole being defending your homeland and keeping elsweyri culture going strong. I think that second​ point could be applicated with the khajiit presence in Skyrim : khajiit are very clever and immigrating as individuals living in Nordic society would be accepted and easy (like j'zargo), but they still keep on their nomadic caravan lifestyle at the risk of being kicked out