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For Dragon Age newcomers, this comprehensive volume brings you up to speed on everything you need to know about the regions, religions, monsters, magic, and more! For dedicated fans, never before have the secrets of BioWare's epic fantasy been revealed so completely and so compellingly!
* Filled with never-before-seen art by the creators of the games!
* New Dragon Age game coming in 2013!
* From the writers and artists of the Dragon Age games.
The definitive guide!
- Sales Rank: #59436 in Books
- Brand: Dark Horse Comics
- Published on: 2013-04-16
- Released on: 2013-04-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 12.40" h x .78" w x 9.26" l, 2.90 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 184 pages
- *A definitive guide from the writers and artists of the Dragon Age games
- *Filled with never-before-seen art!
- *Hardcover, measures 9" x 12"
- *184 pages, full color
- *Brand new For Dragon Age newcomers, this comprehensive volume brings you up to speed on everything you need to know about the regions, religions, monsters, magic, and more! For dedicated fans, never before have the secrets of BioWare"TMs epic fantasy been revealed so completely and so compellingly!
About the Author
The Marvel and Other Short Stories is a collected anthology of six short stories written by the winners of the Austin Macauley World Book Day short story competition.
David Gaider lives in Edmonton, Alberta, and works for video game developer BioWare. He is the lead writer on the "Dragon Age: Origins" role-playing game and has also worked on such titles as "Baldur s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn ", "Star Wars (r): Knights of the Old Republic ", and "Neverwinter Nights ".
"Caulk Boots and Marlin Spikes" feautures Robert Swanson, Howard White, Peter Trower, Bill Moore, and Paul Murphy. With special guest Bus Griffiths and music by Roy Ashdowne.
David Gaider lives in Edmonton, Alberta, and works for video game developer BioWare. He is the lead writer on the "Dragon Age: Origins" role-playing game and has also worked on such titles as "Baldur s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn ", "Star Wars (r): Knights of the Old Republic ", and "Neverwinter Nights ".
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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
"Ruthlessly fact checked" is an overstatement but it's beautiful
By Valerie DeBill
Edited 5 Jun 2013 to add that there is a World of thedas errata sheet (written by Brother Genitivi, of course) available now on the BioWare blog. I can't put a clickable URL in the review but it is located at
blog DOT bioware DOT com /2013/06/05/world-of-thedas-volume-1-an-errata
I bought the Collector's Edition through Bioware as well as the regular hardcover from Amazon and both of those get four and a half out of five stars. Five for art and design, four for content and accuracy. The Kindle version gets one star, for reasons enumerated in the last paragraph.
For a book that Mike Laidlaw claims is "ruthlessly fact checked" it has a number of obvious errors, and John Green's review already covered many of them.
Examples of a few timeline inconsistencies that John didn't cover:
- Dragon Age: The Calling covers the events of King Maric's return to the Deep Roads in the company of some Orlesian Grey Wardens including Duncan. Someone editing the World of Thedas timeline got very confused and decided that the events at the end of The Calling took place in 9:10 and the ones that make up the bulk of the book took place in 9:14.
- The timeline claims that Empress Celene was born in 9:6, but the body of the text says she became Empress at age 16 in 9:20.
- Early in the timeline the Avvars split off from the Alamarri in -1815 Ancient and the Chasind split off and move into the Wilds in -1415. In 1:50 Divine they combine forces and Hafter holds them off, becoming the first teyrn in the Ferelden valley. In 5:42 Exalted, the timeline says that Calenhad united Ferelden. In the body of the text, on page 26, there's a description of human tribes that claims that Avvar and Chasind only split off because they resisted the unification of Ferelden under Calenhad.
On the plus side, the book is absolutely gorgeous and it is really nice to have all of the information in one place and so well-organized. The lore isn't all brand-new stuff we didn't already know, but some of it is a really interesting look at parts of the world we would never get to see in-game: there's an interesting bit about the sexual mores of different cultures, a bunch of sidebars by various Thedosian personalities, lots of notes and letters, and quite a lot of detailed information. The chapter on Thedosian races and the one on the various nations of Thedas are both excellent and do a great job of giving a more vibrant picture of life in Thedas.
The Kindle version is essentially a low-res scan of the books I already paid over $100 for. It doesn't work on my Mac, doesn't work on my actual Kindle device, and doesn't work on my iPhone. It only works on the Kindle app on my iPad. The text is not searchable or selectable, and navigating the book uses the comic book interface of the Kindle app much like Dark Horse's own comic reader. Unlike the Dark Horse reader, I can't view parts of the book in significantly better detail by zooming: you get the full-page and the frame nav, and that's it. Given the choice between it and any other available format, choose the other format.
86 of 96 people found the following review helpful.
World of Thedas Kindle Edition - w/NO KINDLE FEATURES - What!
By Melysande
The hardcover gets 5 stars - lets be very clear - this review refers ONLY to the Kindle Edition:
1. not searchable
2 can not enlarge type or enlarge the page - this makes the book unreadable even with Dalish eyes
3. can not highlight, make notes in the book, look up words, etc
4. only viewable as portrait
Bottom line: NO KINDLE FEATURES are available with this book - 0, zip, nada, none
There is way - even thought the magnifying glass doesn't work: When you first open the book - a pop up will instruct you on how to use Kindle Frame reader (for comics usually) - it does work. double tap the section you want enlarged (so you can read it) SHARPLY. Read or appreciate the art work. Double tap SHARPLY on the enlargement. Awkward, but better than nothing. Wimpy taps will not work, btw, or ones that are too long. Quick and sharp.
I bought this book on Kindle to use the features. I have the hard copy. I went through the Kindle entry and found nothing warning me that no Kindle features worked on this book. If I had been warned I wouldn't have purchased it. It did warn that it was only available on Kindle and not the PC reader, but I thought that's OK.
I feel quite scammed. If Kindle features will not be available on a book the entry should say so to allow the buyer to make an INFORMED decision. Shame on you Amazon. Shame.
31 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Touring Thedas
By John Green, NCGBT
This is one of those books that's long overdue, given the success of the franchise. World of Thedas Vol 1 doesn't expand all that much on the Dragon Age universe and falls short in key areas.
Chapters include: Legend, Map of Thedas, Races, Nations, Magic, Religion, The Fade, The Blight, Bestiary and Glossary. It reads like an RPG sourcebook; granted it's derived from an RPG so that's hard to avoid, but I felt like I should have some dice handy while I was going through it. The layout is gorgeous- some stunning artwork from familiar names like Joy Ang, Fran Gaulin, Jae-Keum, Steve Klit, Caspar Konefal and Nick Thornborrow. Simply beautiful.
There's cameos from some old friends- Varric, Leliana, Morrigan, Anders, and even Flemeth and Corypheus. Brother Genitivi acts as the resident scholar, often supplying commentary on the entries as well.
Much of the information presented is not new, simply fleshed out. And that's where the problems come in: while there are some interesting nuggets and pearls, too many times you'll see either a contradiction to the established canon or something so lacking you wonder why they even bothered with it. And others just leave you scratching your head.
Here's a few examples:
Endrin Aeducan is stated to be mourning the loss of his eldest and youngest sons (it's supposed to be his eldest and middle child). Seems small but it's a huge error if you know the franchise... and how'd they miss it?
Noble ranks in Ferelden- the place we're all most familiar with- are also off, listing an arl as the equivalent of a mayor. Really? Isn't an arl supposed to be an earl or something? Heck, the Bioware chatrooms have better and more detailed info than this 'official' release.
New details about Wardens and the Calling are also confusing: the book states that they must first serve alongside dwarven troops for a year before going off on their own. Since when? And what's the point of it if they're not going to even last that long anyway? Also no new information about the Joining Ritual or how it was discovered.
The chapter on Religion is where it really drops the ball in my opinion. The section on the Old Gods is sketchy- no surprise there- but something about them would've been appreciated. Were they vessels for powerful extra-planar beings or just dragons with powers and abilities far beyond those of other flying serpents? The Elven Gods get a little better treatment- they're supposedly all trapped in the Black City. How? Why?
Humanity is the newest race on Thedas; apparently they all came from somewhere else... But as they make up nearly all of the Maker's worshipers, what was he doing all that time, let alone before Andraste showed up? Who were his followers?
Kossith (Qunari) are said to have migrated to Ferelden in ages past, giving rise to ogre darkspawn. But then why hasn't anyone ever seen any ogres before the Fifth Blight?
World of Thedas is nice enough to have; you get lots of data conveniently packaged for your enjoyment. But there's precious little new information provided in it so it's a toss up as to whether it's worth your while or not.
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