Russell Crowe Film Uses Dragon Age Icon For Spanish Inquisition

I haven’t seen The Pope’s Exorcist, the horror film starring Gladiator and Stunning Thoughts actor Russell Crowe out in theaters proper now, but it surely sounds just like the movie is fairly middling, and that Crowe can’t elevate the poor tackle supernatural demons within the Catholic church. Frankly, I hadn’t heard of it earlier than as we speak, and the rationale I lastly did is definitely fairly hysterical. See, the movie, which by the way is billed as being “impressed by the precise information” of the Vatican’s chief exorcist, sees Crowe’s character studying some chilling issues a few founding father of the Spanish Inquisition. And in line with individuals who have seen the movie, it makes use of artwork from Dragon Age: Inquisition when referring to the real-world, Spanish one.

The Inquisition in BioWare’s fantasy collection is the faction the participant instructions within the 2014 RPG, and it has a logo it makes use of to characterize the group all through. It exhibits an eye fixed with a sword behind it, which is a reference to 2 in-universe constellations known as Visus and Judex. You see the sigil on armor units, flags, and different props all through Dragon Age: Inquisition. On prime of exhibiting up within the sport and on merchandise, it additionally exhibits up for those who search “Inquisition image” on Google, and it looks like that’s what the Pope’s Exorcist staff did for a scene within the movie, as a result of they use the Dragon Age iconography in a scene the place it’s speaking in regards to the Tribunal of the Holy Workplace of the Inquisition, the real-world non secular establishment that was answerable for centuries of violence towards non-Catholics from the 1400s to the 1800s in Spain.

I chortle via the ache as a result of it seems like we gained’t get Dragon Age: Dreadwolf anytime quickly, since writer EA’s earnings report earlier this week mentioned the sport wouldn’t be out in 2023. It’s been virtually a decade since Dragon Age: Inquisition launched in 2014, so followers have been ready an extended whereas to see the conclusion to the Solas storyline launched on the finish of that sport’s Trespasser DLC. Although the collection has had some indicators of life via initiatives like Netflix’s anime collection Dragon Age: Absolution, now the newest factor I’ve seen of Dragon Age has been in a non secular horror film slapping its iconography right into a scene and not using a second thought. Dorian Pavus, I miss you. Name me.