AaronMacK

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Aye.

Pictured is the sea passage to Kirkwall in Dragon Age 2, a narrow stone pass adorned with enormous bronze statues of weeping slaves. The Waking Sea is so narrow at this pass that the city needed only to raise an enormous boom chain across it to blockade all movement, as many cities of the real world (most notably the Great Chain of the Golden Horn in Istanbul) have in the past.
linked image to a higher quality of the scan in previous post depicting a scene storyboard for the film Knives Out
In time, the chill winds here will bite most sharp In long sear'd age, unkindly it does surge Though learn'd augurs argue truths that warp Hell’s fury they see in the dark winds' urge Safe rimeways'd melt 'neath Vulcan's fell flame Forgefire leaveth the Naiad's realm more fair Wilt thou too feel this seething wrath the same Ne'er shall I weary of this game we share Once did a friend beg aid in shifting pelf 'pon his home soil found he no quiet rest Staid though I am, I did shift it mineself No virtues lie in ceasing, lacking zest Ken neither flame nor frost can soil gilt true Divine Exhalation, thou wilt break through