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the live chat streaming video that happened yesterday with Mike Laidlaw and Chris Priestly (I think that was him anyway, only saw his hand) confirmed that if you get the Black Emporium in DA2, you get your very own Mabari War hound, who becomes a fifth party member akin to a Ranger summoning an animal. Lying Memories (talk) 20:34, February 12, 2011 (UTC)
Mabari Plush[]
Where can one find it? --Bingbangpoe (talk) 05:36, November 1, 2014 (UTC)
Inquisition Involvement...[]
NONE!!! Oh so pissed!!! Shadizar666 (Ruck Rules) 07:09, December 8, 2014 (UTC)
~ Not an issue, really, given the Inquisitor is not a Ferelden--BUT, what's worse, those that are around (aside from those with the Blades of Hessarian), are "feral", directly contradicting known lore (see Tabletop game). ~ Bethgael (58.107.28.231 (talk) 23:52, January 22, 2015 (UTC))
Variation[]
Just killed a Hessarian Hound on The Storm Coast and it gave me Codex entry: Mabari, so I'm going with it being a variation of the mabari. Not sure if other hounds/dogs in the game are also classified as such, though. --♫ Kelcat Talk 04:35, January 2, 2015 (UTC)
I thought the hessarian hounds were just armoured mabari. Aren't they?
henioo (da talk page) 10:22, January 2, 2015 (UTC)
- Most likely, from looking at them a second time. The use of "hound" instead of "mabari" threw me off. I wasn't sure if all hounds in Thedas are automatically considered mabari. --♫ Kelcat Talk 23:16, January 2, 2015 (UTC)
Mabari bred by Formari?[]
Does anyone have a source that state the mabari were bred by the Circle of Magi's Formari? Because I don't remember that ever been stated.(Sports72Xtrm (talk) 07:18, August 16, 2020 (UTC))
Citations Missing[]
There's a few incidences of uncited information within the background section of the article. I have been working on an edit in a google doc for the time being because I don't want to shift things around without discussion, but I think it's time to double check both references and reduce the repetition of information. The repetitions are clear enough I believe, but these are the instances of uncited information I found.
Unsourced Information:
"Mabari are huge mastiffs with a touch of wolf blood that stand as tall as a dwarf and just as wide"
- Has no citation and none of the references already present account for it. I don't know if we have an actual in-lore size comparison for a Mabari other than based on in-game models they'd qualify as a 'large breed.'
"Their masters (or “partners” as many of those paired with Mabari prefer)"
- Has no citation stating those working with Mabari prefer the term partner.
"-will often choose a distinct style of war paint to mark them with so that they can better pick them out from other Mabari at a distance in the midst of combat."
- There's also no mention, as far as I've been able to find, that Kaddis paint is used to visually distinguish a hound from a distance although I grant it could be implied/inferred?
"Correspondingly, many Fereldans that frequently fight alongside Mabari will scent themselves with distinctively pungent body paint called “kaddis” which allows the dogs to easily mark them as allies."
- There's no direct reference to kaddis being pungent that I could find, though it could be inferred that it is scented in some way.
"The ability of normal dogs to detect a werewolf-"
- I'm not sure about the inclusion of this lore since it's more generally about dogs and why Fereldans like them, versus adding any information about Mabari in particular.
"Since more than half the noble families of Ferelden claim to be descendants of Hafter...therefore also have a kinship with mabari."
- While this is cited, the reference does not say this, only that "half of Fereldan nobles claim descent from Hafter" and therefore believe they have a distant kinship with wolves so it behooves them to be polite to wolves/dogs, not that they're blood related to Mabari. May be a bit of a moot point if the section about why Fereldans like dogs doesn't stay but caught my attention for lack of textual support. Maxbroforce (talk) 05:49, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
Update: In trying to find an updated Core Rulebook page number for the RPG information I discovered basically everything I mentioned above is copy-paste from the RPG book. I've moved the slightly more relevant/interesting information to the RPG section. I took out the section that discussed why dogs are liked in Ferelden because I don't feel it's particularly relevant to the mabari and thus also removed the citation about Fereldans feeling they're related to dogs. If those seem relevant they can be restored. Maxbroforce (talk) 00:31, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
- Hey Maxbroforce, maybe post your topic on DA:Discord, there might be a few members able to assist you with finding the missing sources. Zj24 (talk) 01:19, 22 August 2022 (UTC)