almost to the moon

˗ˏˋ ꒰ jasmine — she/her. ꒱ ˎˊ˗ we are couslands, and we do what must be done.

[castlecousland]

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[senorapintora]

Morrigan

my hot queen

[castlecousland]

replaying inquisition addie lavellan i missed you so bad

[castlecousland]

used this picrew to make my canon quartet

eloriel cousland • hero of ferelden

norali verlena • warden-commander

audrey hawke • champion

adhlea lavellan • inquisitor

[rylandgraces]

I’ll admit I’ve sent a 👍 in my time

[viktopia]

a weird urge to draw anders with long hair 

gotta shake that rust off…!

[ot3]

the nasty trick is that making friends is pretty easy but managing to keep in touch with everyone is next to impossible

[castlecousland]

the eloriel cousland x nathaniel howe brainrot simply never ends.

[castlecousland]

hello

[seracadash]

idk how to explain this properly but like. for me meredith works better as main villain than loghain not for how they are writen (cause indeed loghain has more content with the Power of being a companion) but for the themes in their stories. meredith is a templar with strong opinions about mages in a game thats full of strong opinions about mages and templars, companions npcs and missions included. You even got options to see who you support. Meanwhile loghain has the very very interesting conflict of orlais/ferelden wich is so cool but like. he is the only single character who cares about this. Like to a point that is ridiculous. He truly is like "am i going crazy im the only one who remembers the orlais ocupation??" and every single character just completelly ignores that topic. No one has opinions about it, not your companions, not the npcs, you can seen fereldan nobles marrying orlesians and no one comments on it. You know if that noble was dating a mage everyone would be like "omg the scandal!!!" but if it's an orlesian they just got an accent and not worth commenting. So it's like so fucking weird cause unless you read the book or recruit loghain you don't know how deep that shit goes. and then they never talk again about it in the next games except maybe a very misseable codex entry and like cmon this should be. A big main conflict. Like they talk about it a bit in dao but not as much as they should imo...

[seracadash]

Reply by @pissedoctahedron

The Ferelden-Orlais conflict feels so baffling and disappointing to me as someone from a country that was occupied during ww2 and experienced the long-term effects of that history well into the early 2000s, shaping everyday life, politics, generational prejudice and mistrust. What do you mean those who lived through the occupation didn't pass on knowledge to their children and raised them with that painful history and hate?? What do you mean that there wasn't stronger backlash against Fereldans marrying Orlesians? No violence toward commoners from Orlais? In a medival-like setting that history should be still fresh. It so obvious that no one at Bioware seriously explored how occupation affects culture and collective memory. Thirty years is not a long time in that context. There are still elders who lived through the occupation, adults who remember it from their childhood and a new generation raised by them.

[castlecousland]

i miss my ocs i need to lock in

[spikespiegell]

*hears one second of sound from a lotr movie* are you watching lord of the rings

[artist-rat]

thought abt this guy for too long (0.3 seconds) and cried

[sherrickmads]

fun fact he is my very favorite character ever (not hyperbole)

[chamomile-teabag]

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

[housederiva]

I just saw a post talking about the circle and I have no idea what that is? Maybe it's only because I've played Veilguard but is it like mage school?

In the northern half of Thedas it's a mage school yes, in the southern half it's a prison and its full title is the Circle of Magi, the wiki page for it is here if you want to give it a gander and this is the one for tranquility while we're at it

[carnationinstantbutch]

[housederiva]

I had the same thought as a de Riva because why would I need to do a thesis project as an Antivan Crow? Why would Viago make me put this orb together, is it a poison orb?

And you're right, it shoulda been more Harrowing (see that's a play on words Veilguard players won't understand and now I'm light headed with that realization)

[faeryfrogs]

[jagalart]

Apostate