In Dances, they’re on a very limited time schedule to work in, and I needed to know just how limited and if the time constraints set were even possible. Ultimately the endeavour to work out the Deep Roads then actually came from a need to get my timescale right. I feel like there’s maybe something weird with that. I guess it takes about as long to Redcliffe, and contrary to people saying you can sail to Kinloch Hold from Redcliffe in 2 days (one there, one back) in game, I’m not sure how that’s really possible unless you account for boats being amazing, and Templars not being angry at people sailing directly from Redcliffe to their Tower. I have no idea if my timescale is correct for Dances in Darkness, but I use Dagna’s two weeks from Orzammar to the Circle Tower as a guide, so all my times in story come from that generalized figure (I count this as two weeks walking or slow riding). You visit a lot of locations, and have to fight your way through some fairly large areas. This is the longest portion of the bloody game, and tedious in parts. The Warden uses it to reach the Anvil of the Void and yay, all is happy. It’s absolutely not even remotely complete, and yet it has a lot of information there for us. Only Orzammar survives.ĭuring the Paragon of Her Kind quest in Dragon Age: Origins, we are given a “map” by whichever person you choose to support, which is ultimately a rough work-up of what their team has discovered so far. We know that the dwarven empire once spanned almost all of Thedas. So, back in one of the earlier books of Dances in Darkness, I mentioned I had taken awhile writing because I was trying to work out all the locations of the Thaigs and Deep Roads relative to the surface.

Dragon age map of ferelden