To those planning on buying the game, I wish you good luck and hope you make it through this sort of garbage relatively unscathed.
As for myself, I cannot imagine a more miserable way to spend my time. Hard pass.
What's with that phrase "maker's panties" ??
I'm guessing that's meant to be an expression analogous to old phrases like "God's wounds" etc (later contracted to "swounds"), but for this fantasy universe? What a weird choice, out of place even if you had world building around a female-god religion. I'm just going to guess that their deity here is some kind of nonbinary or transvestite fetish thing as well.
WAIT - okay I just went down the rabbit hole figuring this one out. They're 100% trans-ing the religion of the game.
In prior games, there was a religion of the "Maker" who is the creator god and male, and then there is Andraste, the woman who was his wife.
The Maker (also referred to as "The Maker of the World" and "The Wellspring of All") is the deity worshipped by the Chantry. He is referred to as a male, and the prophetess Andraste, who inspired the foundation of the Chantry, is considered to be His wife. While the Chantry believes that the Maker is all-powerful and created all things, they also believe that He has turned away from them. The Chantry believes this to be because of the faults of His creations. He will not answer prayers, grant wishes or do anything of the sort until humanity proves itself worthy of His attention again. As such, Andrastian religion in Thedas can be described as deistic in that the creator deity does not communicate with the created world.
And in prior games, there was an actual exclamation phrase used similarly to here, except it was "
Andraste's granny panties!"
So what they've done is to swap it up and refer to the Maker (male creator god)'s panties instead. It's absolutely an attempt to subtly trans even the religion of the game world.