Dragon Age, as a wildly popular role-playing fantasy video game with progressive politics that first came out in 2009 — the same year that RaceFail happened — has unsurprisingly provided fandom with over a decade of intense and often completely batshit wank.

A major theme of the game that drives a lot of political and interpersonal tension is that uncontrolled mages can be extremely dangerous, but the Chantry, the dominant religious institution in that world (Thedas), persecutes and abuses mages. Thus, the two characters who seem to draw a disproportionate share of wank are:

* Fenris, an elven ex-slave who escapes his master and shelters for months with the Fog Warriors, freedom fighters whom he admires them greatly. When his master finds him again, he commands Fenris to kill them, and Fenris obeys. * Anders, a human mage whose traumatic experiences under Chantry control have turned him into an activist for “mage rights” and for the oppressed in general. He eventually uses his magic to blow up Chantry headquarters. As fandom puts it, “Anders did magic 9/11.”

Meme has extensively discussed major namespace DA wankers like Elfyourmother and Dalishious. Others who have come up on meme include millenniumfae, orsino, and the late grandenchanterfiona. In addition, there was “wankofthedas” on Dreamwidth, another anonmeme whose mods deleted it several times and which still exists but as barely a shadow of its former self.

DA discussion on meme has likewise been anywhere from fraught to just plain awful.