A galaxy of shadows and stars.

• Solavellan • • Dragon Age • • Mass Effect • • Baldur's Gate 3 • • Tomb Raider •

[celesenova]

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My OC's:

DAI: Leilah Lavellan | Nydhalen Lavellan | DATV: Asaren Thorne 'Rook' | DAO: Salysa Surana | DA2: Lucia Hawke | FFXI/FFXIV: Luciana Corso

I mostly post about Dragon Age because it's my obsession but I'm human and my interests are bound to flop around. Though probably not for the foreseeable future.

Dividers: saradika

[eight-of-pentacles]

OC's Energy

Thank you for the tag, @celesenova! 💖

I'll be tagging: @sh00kspeared, @ashillayn, @crimsonphantasmagoria, @cryptid-catt-main, @swordsandshields99, and anyone else who would find this fun to do. No pressure at all to take part!

here is a link to the personality quiz used for these results!

Inquisitor Emmaera Lavellan

Elgaris "Rook" Aldwir (formerly Lavellan)

Funnily enough, the website says that Logical Silver's "bad match" is Vivacious Mango. Which lines up; these two do not get along when they meet face-to-face for the first time since Emmaera left.

[celesenova]

OC's Energy

Thank you for the tag @vhen-harel 💚

Gently and no pressure tagging: @galacticsparkles @amoaliquis @eight-of-pentacles @for-the-love-of-treviso

Leilah Lavellan

Asaren Arainai-Surana Thorne 'Rook'

I feel like Asaren and Dozer would either get along swimmingly or not at all. They're a little too similar, our chaotic boys. 🤣

I need more pictures of my handsome boy.

[nancy0412]

So! This is my first ever post in the 10 years since I've had this Tumblr. Mainly because this is the first time ever I actually have something to show for myself.

I've been dabbling with BG3 VP for a few months now and then I found a Solas head. *gasp* I just had to do something with it.

And so, I made a few practice shots and a head for my Inquisitor. Here's a few of them. I plan to screenshot their entire story from beginning to end. I already have several more shots that I will put up later. But bear with me, I am slow and go out of order a lot.

I do hope maybe someone will enjoy these brain bugs of mine.

[vhen-harel]

Fellow Solavellans - Solavellan Week is coming up (September I believe). Little update from the organizers on Bluesky. Give them a follow if you are there.

🌿 Solavellan Week 2025 🐺 (@solavellanweek.bsky.social)

Happy Friday, vhenans! Just popping in to say that we’re currently working on announcements for #SolavellanWeek2026! This year will be a b

[vhen-harel]

OC's Energy

Thanks for the tag @fadetouchedlurker. I'm quite pleased with the results for both Saethre and Dozer.

Quiz 'Find Your Energy' here.

I love that this highlights perception for Saethre - it's so connected to her owl theme. And surprisingly stubborn is spot on.

And I'm cackling - criticized for being too blunt! And Dozer is a chili! A hot, cantankerous red chili.

This was fun. For the following - any OC you want. @celesenova @melkeyway @swordsandshields99 @crimsonphantasmagoria @haezelnut @cryptid-catt @alithvea @thecourtofteeth @thebookworm0001 @darkchocola @wingedblack @zombiefishgirl @thedaswolves @hare-of-andruil @griffongrey

or anyone who sees this just do it and tag me with results!

[celesenova]

Finished day 2 😮‍💨

[rosieofcorona]

pov ur alistair theirin and u catch feelings at the end of the world :/

(wip)

[rosieofcorona]

[celesenova]

Honestly....Cole is way too low on everyones list of favorite dragon age companions and I think you all need to go into time out

[amoaliquis]

For the Domesticity Questions~

For whichever of your OC's you feel like answering for/or all of them. Whatever you want~ 💚

• Who flirts more?

• What do they do when they’re away from each other?

• What would they do if the other one was hurt?

Aha! I just got on my laptop and saw this.

MUWAHAHAHAHA. (I hope that came across as appropriately unhinged and devious.)

I really appreciate that you gave me the "go ahead, little gremlin, pick your ship" vibes. Especially knowing I never (or very rarely) talk about Asena. You did that for me, and I genuinely recognized the thought and personal consideration behind it. Seriously, thank you.

Now, I swear I'll answer for these two because I seldom get the chance to talk about them.

• Who flirts more?

Can they just play the "No, she did it!" "No, he did it!" blame game?

Solas started it over a decade ago. /laughs.

These days, though, it's entirely mutual, just expressed in their own wonderfully strange, poetic, intensely sincere ways. Sometimes they don't even need words; a lingering glance or the brush of a hand says everything.

...Unless they make it to the bedroom. Then all that beautiful, lyrical Elvhen gets very graphic.

• What do they do when they're away from each other?

Asena isn't very good at staying idle.

She's always had something to do ever since she was a child. (Trying to prove your Clan is, for lack of a better word, narrow-minded and fundamentally wrong takes a lot of work.) Then came saving Ferelden. Then leading the Inquisition.

She doesn't really know how to just... be.

So now that she finally has the time, she's devoted herself to understanding how her magic has changed. First after receiving the Anchor, and now once again after entering the Fade permanently. Every new discovery raises another question, and she's more than happy to chase every last one.

She also keeps in touch with Dorian and, through him, Iron Bull; the two people she grew closest to during her years as Inquisitor.

As for Solas? He's finally allowing himself to heal.

He's working on his own mental well-being, learning to understand the Fade and the Veil as they exist now rather than as they once were, exploring what his connection to them has become, and trying to forge a less antagonistic relationship with the Titans.

The dwarves deserve better.

Beyond that, both he and Asena spend much of their time exploring the Fade, sometimes together and sometimes apart, searching for answers on how best to soothe the Titans' anger. Asena is equally determined to understand how the Blight itself has changed and to ensure that the Grey Wardens no longer face shortened lifespans. This is fostered in no small part by her friendships with the HoF, Odessa Surana, and Alistair, as well as her connection to Fiona.

It is possible.

And with her and Solas working in tandem?

It's only a matter of time.

They'll also receive a future visit from one Senka de Riva, who eventually seeks out Emmrich's help reaching the Fade. (She's no mage, after all.)

Her motivation? She remembers Solas's offer to Lucanis. [HERE]

Who better to learn what she needs from than the man she reluctantly respects and who was, in fact, a spirit himself?

Ah, unintentional and slightly adversarial friends, thy names be Solas and Senka. /grins.

• What would they do if the other one was hurt?

Asena remembers the days of the Inquisition all too clearly.

On the rare occasions Solas fell in battle, panic would seize her before she even realized it. Her throat tightened. Her heartbeat seemed to stop. For the briefest instant, terror froze every thought in her mind.

Then her will shattered through that paralysis.

Determination.

No one falls.

She would gladly lay down her own life before letting him die.

Solas remembers something different.

The sharp curses that spilled from his lips in effortless Elvhen. The flash of white-hot fury whenever he saw the Inquisitor take a devastating blow.

Focus.

"You're not leaving me. Not like this."

Both instinctively reach for magic.

Solas, of course, possesses an almost unfathomable well of it to draw upon. Asena's healing, by comparison, was something she had to learn. She'd always favored protective wards and barriers over restorative magic.

But will is a powerful thing where magic is concerned.

The first time she healed him after a particularly brutal battle, the spell succeeded...

...and she promptly collapsed.

She had woven far too much of herself into the magic, exhausting her mana and nearly draining herself unconscious in the process.

Solas was not pleased.

If he couldn't stop her from worrying over him, and he knew he couldn't, then he would at least ensure she learned to heal without sacrificing herself each time she did it.

So he taught her.

How to close wounds efficiently. How to stop bleeding. How to stabilize someone before attempting anything more ambitious. Most importantly, how to gauge the limits of her mana instead of pouring every ounce of herself into a single spell.

After all, saving his life wasn't much comfort if it cost him hers.

[luzial]

WIP Wednesday

thank you for the tag @celesenova!! (and thanks also to @gefionne, @rattyhorrorpictureshow, @theriothag, @eight-of-pentacles, @quantumphoenixblue, @virshiral, @fadedsweater for recent-ish tags that i missed while i was neglecting tumblr. consider yourselves tagged back!)

i am hard at work on the next chapter of evergreen, but i've also been playing with a second project that suddenly forced itself to the front of my mind. a few of you have already seen this, but for the rest:

Summer was golden in The Dales, when the wheat fields swayed and shone in the late afternoon sun. The gold on Ellana's finger was duller — determined, it seemed, not to catch the light. She swallowed nervously as she stared at it, as she made a fist and dragged her thumbnail over the metal. Her husband of approximately one hour sat beside her in the small carriage. Like the family that owned it, the vehicle was in a state of decline — threadbare seats, loose strings at the seams, worn upholstery lining the interior. Through the narrow, forward-facing window, she studied a large patch that had been sewn into the back of the coachman's coat. The color of the fabric was a near match and the needlework tidy enough, but a servant of a house of this stature should have better. Servants in her house always did. Shabby, Ellana thought irritably. The white-gloved hand flexed suddenly against the knee where it rested, almost as if its owner had heard her complaint.

more to come, hopefully very soon :)

[rosieofcorona]

blood of calenhad

(frank dicksee study, 2026)

[celesenova]

WIP Wednesday

Thank you for thinking of me and for tagging me @mogwaei @pooyaaaaan & @crimsonphantasmagoria @rhoxxia 💚

Gently and no pressure tagging: @luzial @annahenriart @galacticsparkles @rosieofcorona

I've been working on DA Kiss Week so I've been a bit MIA, sorry. 🥲 I need to catch up with all the posts I've missed over the last few days.

Here's a sneak peak of Day 1 and Day 2. I'm hoping I can finish them in time. 🤞

[rhoxxia]

WIP WEDNESDAY

Whee! Thanks for the tag @mogwaei

Gonna tag @pooyaaaaan @celesenova @lanolynn @topaz-carbuncle

Here's a snippet from DA Kiss week Day 1 Camp

Solas nearly starts when he realizes he has walked to her in his unhurried watching and now stands only a foot away. He feels the dewy breeze across the tips of his cool ears and watches her hair flutter like dancing butterflies across the flesh of her neck. He envies it. 

“Well?” Elora asks and he blinks, forcing his eyes from the place where her pulse beats steadily in her throat- his lips tingling with the urge to press there and suck. Their eyes meet then and a smirk pulls one corner of her mouth higher than the other. Everything about her in the moment is relaxed and it aches him to know it is he who makes her feel this way. “Where is my morning kiss?”

[crimsonphantasmagoria]

WIP Wednesday

Tagged by @fadetouchedlurker and @eight-of-pentacles. Sadly I’m a bit writing blocked right now, but I’ve mostly been focusing on my DA Kiss Week art anyway, so here’s an update on that.

Looks weird with flat colour. Best get to rendering.

Tagging @haezelnut @galacticsparkles and @celesenova

[mogwaei]

WIPPI WEDNESDAY AGAIN?!!

jk thank you SO much for the tag @vhen-harel!!

tagging forward (either for today or next wednesday!) - @celesenova, @mooreaux, @endellyon-art, @rhoxxia, and ANYONE ELSE!!! tag me if you share, I WANNA SEEEE!! 💚

Dropping everything below the cut!

One of my new fav Solas(s) I've drawn :3

This Varric crack-ship I'll never post anywhere except on my patreon :')

I just posted two massive chapters (38k total💀) for Ouroboros and need a minute to catch my breath so here are some sillies from Resonance:

Bull saw him immediately and his grin widened, as if his night had just improved by his entry. Oh, no, not this. "Professor Solas," Bull purred. "Perfect." He set down his cup and turned to face Solas fully, assuming an expression of sensual intensity. "Has anyone ever told you that you have the kind of focus that makes a man want to be the only thing in the room?" Solas poured himself a glass of water. "No." "What about: you remind me of a fine whiskey. Takes time to appreciate, but once you do, you never want anything else." "Also no." Bull gestured expansively. "I've been working on him for two years," he said to Zjinn. "Two years. The man is immovable. Like trying to flirt with a wall." He looked at Solas with something approaching genuine admiration. "You're a masterpiece of deflection." "Thank you," Solas said. "'Course your smug ass would take that as a compliment." Bull turned back to Zjinn, bumping her hip, nearly knocking her over. "You should give it a try. Maybe you'll have better luck."

[pooyaaaaan]

WIP EVERYTHING

Thanks for tagging me, @kcwriter-blog 💚

Here’s today’s drawing—gonna finish it up fast so I can go play some games 🎮

Passing the tag on to @celesenova , @crimsonphantasmagoria , @exia-1 , @miraabellee and @rhoxxia ! No pressure, of course 💚