Andraste

"The heavens wept, and yet no rain could extinguish the flame."

[asteriaishere]

hiiiii

Asteria here

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[cherrydj-l]

loghain duel any %

[queam]

Queen Anora

[shurlock]

imagine making a character who's a spirit of compassion. his first scene is plunging a dagger through a young mage's heart. it says so much that a spirit of compassion who took the appearance of a mage who died in the circle decides that the only way to help other mages like him is by killing them. because it takes away their pain. because it makes him more real. crazy!! and then inquisition decided to make him say pop culture references and use him to make cullen and solas more sympathetic

[drawsshits-inactive]

And there will be no Templars to tear them apart.

Original Version

[felderwin]

*dreamily* god it is so awesome that anders is a horrible nasty hypocrite

[unsettlingcreature]

Please i had to bring this here im mcfreaking losing it

[ryann-44]

there will never be another character like Oghren

[doraingrid]

My contribution to @dragonageannual 2025 ✨

I was lucky to get assigned none other than the holy prophet Andraste herself 😊

[queam]

Carver Hawke

[mul-tik]

Lily girl... run....

[gad-a-oc-deactivated20250110]

[stonesense]

Would you mind if I asked what the overall, like, thoughts and plot stuffs you have on a 'the inquisition as antagonists' story? Honestly sounds really interesting as an AU. Is it built off (the scant bits we have) of the cancelled Exalted March? Like the Inquisition redeclared and exalted march enacted on the Free Marches while the Qunari attack from the north and Hawk (or some other hero) trapped managing it all in the middle along with the growing red lyrium crisis? Or something entirely different?

there i was, banking on my explanations of how cool and hot the female characters would be, sure no-one would ever ask me to come up with a plot or logic... foiled...

so. loosely. as we established in da2, the mage circles are in rebellion. the divine gave cassandra one chance: to find hawke, discover the truth about kirkwall, and string them up as an example with all the blame pinned on their shoulders. (remember cassandra’s certainty that hawke and their allies planned everything from the start? i really think this makes more sense than the idea they always wanted to recruit hawke.) the mages would then have a chance to return peacefully to the circles, graciously forgiven for either being swayed by hawke’s lies (supported the mages) or being forced to react to hawke’s crimes (supported the templars). it was supposed to bring things back under control & prevent the divine from having to take more drastic measures. but varric lies, and cassandra fails. given that the rebellion is not centralised in one place anymore, an exalted march isn’t suitable. the divine declares an inquisition. and from then on, nowhere in southern thedas is safe from catching its eye

my intention was that the protagonist would still be the herald of andraste, because i think that’s the most compelling thing dai has going on. i think i’m keeping a lot of the plot with corypheus too. so: after an incident (still figuring out exactly my take) at the temple of sacred ashes, rifts pop up everywhere, and you’re the only one with the mysterious power to close them. in a time when both chantry and mages are doubted and feared, common people mark a sudden saviour as the herald of andraste who is going to bring everything back to rights. their beliefs get you help you can’t afford to refuse, as this time you’re really a prisoner and underdog in every way possible, no army of scouts here. but it also paints a target on your back. the inquisition doesn’t believe in corypheus; it’s obvious to them that these rifts are the work of the loose rebel mages everywhere, taking their vengeance on ordinary people. and you yourself must have dealt with demons to have such power, yet you dare to operate under andraste’s name. whether or not you want to be, whatever you were before, you immediately become the inquisition’s enemy #1

kind of similar structurally to how dao has loghain and then the archdemon, the inquisition would be the enemy you can deal with in multiple ways and corypheus would be the ultimate threat. i wish i could say i have something more solid than that but i really don’t, i haven’t put in a lot of work on this and there are lots of inquisition characters & subplots i don’t consider myself an expert in at all. but that’s sort of the direction in my head

[biancadavri]

Templar: I can't believe Most Holy would truly want to listen to the pitiful excuses of these abominations

Mage: one more word and I'll show you how little help I require from demons to destroy you

Cadash in the other room:

[felassan]

Dragon Age Deep Lore (in the internal wiki): Connor Guerrin is actually the son of Bann Teagan [source, two]

[anneapocalypse]

Dwarf inquisitor escaping Haven

Cadashing through the snow

[v-arbellanaris]

you're laughing. chancellor roderick was facing sexism in the workplace, and you're LAUGHING

[v-arbellanaris]

@zevsurana thx for pointing out that cassandra calls him a glorified clerk but that's literally the glass ceiling of his career in the chantry

[v-arbellanaris]

rare footage of chancellor roderick presenting an inspirational tedtalk <3