THE DEMON OF VYRANTIUM

[crowmorte]

❝ The Antivan Crows were assassins not freedom fighters. Back home, people liked to romanticize, but Lucanis knew what he was. ❞

{ CROWMORTE } , an independent &. selective rp blog for LUCANIS DELLAMORTE from bioware's dragon age franchise. this highly headcanon reliant portrayal is lovingly crafted by mel ( she/her, 25+ ).

𝐈. carrd.                                        𝐈𝐈. prompts.   

[crowmorte]

i'm putting this blog in an indefinite hiatus 🫡

[nerd-elf]

They would have been such a great couple...

[crowmorte]

she stares at the coffee cup that’s been handed to her. the crows own cafe pietra, and she knows lucanis wouldn’t slip anything into her drink (if only because teia would kill him), but there is still a whisper in her mind that it might be poisoned. it could be her last drink. ferona knows how easy it is, how quickly someone can pour a powder or vial into a drink when someone isn’t looking, and she did not see this drink be prepared.

she also didn’t bring alessio, for whatever reason, and she regrets it as the nausea in her stomach rears its head. the thought of drinking makes her sick. but she trusts lucanis. and lucanis would understand if she…

“will you.. take a sip? please?” her cup is gently pushed towards her fellow crow. it is a huge show of trust on cantori’s end. only alessio is usually allowed to touch her food before her. “humor me, please?”

When all you know is death, it becomes easy to see its shadow everywhere.

One did not survive as Crow without learning how to best sink a knife in a target for a quick death, how to cut to make it painful, how to make strangling look like an accident. Throughout the years, one would get intimate with myriad ways of killing — myriad ways of dying. They were not invulnerable; and what one Crow knew likely was known by many others, who could easily turn those lessons against a colleague.

It is natural, perhaps, that they all grow a bit… mistrustful. It manifests differently, his discomfort with too-open spaces one example of many. One had to fear the unseen shadows not to be caught unaware.

Poison is, admittedly, not his greatest concern. Lucanis knows Master Poisoners such as Viago to be able to deal lethal doses unnoticed, easily making death seem accidental or natural. He knows one of the Fifth Talon's caliber to have a vial for every occasion and to hold in his hands the choice of an easy or painful death without ever having to wield a blade.

No Master Poisoner himself, Lucanis nevertheless knows the basics, having made use of poison on occasion. Careful though he may be with most of his meals, however, the risk of poisoning is hardly ever considered unless the environment gives itself to it. Somewhere safe, like Café Pietra, in the company of someone as trusted as Rook, poison could not be further from his mind.

Not until Ferona pushes her cup towards him.

He knew, of course, Alessio would test her meals with a diligence he seemed to have inherited from the head of his House; yet Lucanis had not considered her fear making itself manifest here, not when his fellow assassin had so readily agreed to come with him. Oversight, perhaps. Not something that cannot be corrected, hopefully.

"Of course," Trusting, again, to easily agree to be her tester in more practical a manner than vials and alchemical components. But he trusts her. There are not many people Lucanis can say that about with conviction, yet he does not doubt Ferona in the slightest. Another may condemn her behavior as odd, but there is no sign of reproach in his answer. Cup picked up, he brings it to his lips and takes a sip as requested. It is a few moments before he pushes the cup closer to Ferona again, brown eyes warm as they seek her gaze. "I hope this helps put your mind at ease."

[pret-boy]

"Would you still love me if I-" I would still love you if we reincarnated a million times and you killed me in each and every one of them. And I would be grateful that your face is the last thing I get to see before I die in every lifetime. Next.

[crowmorte]

i thought i'd also update lucanis' page bc i'm looking at every blog rn and i am going back in what i said the other day but i also said i wasn't sure. so. i think i am now.

past experiences with writing male muses make me a bit wary of people just wanting to write for a ship (and never being interested in interacting with my female muses, for example). i'm tentatively open to shipping if chemistry is there, but i do ask that we interact a bit before shipping.

mains are not exclusives! i'm very open to interacting with multiple portrayals of the same character.

[crowmorte]

"I'm pretty sure that means we have to......Do a contract together." -shivana

ARE YOU LUCANIS' TYPE?

a blackout... i guess that does mean they have to do a contract together

[crowmorte]

speechless tbh

ARE YOU LUCANIS' TYPE?

not being a crow is ok. the family drama is just going to happen whether or not they're ok with it though

either way, flo pls call him

[crowmorte]

wyvern appreciator in the sense of she appreciates all natural creatures.

ARE YOU LUCANIS' TYPE?

that's enough to count as a wyvern appreciator. that's almost everything though!! an not being a crow he can also forgive however not being a coffee lover is a difficult one

[not-so-blue]

Lucanis "don't worry about me" Dellamorte

[vorashvan]

@crowmorte from here

Lucanis was a bit of a mystery to Bellara. He was often reserved and hovered on the fringes of the group, although they did share a mutual love of cooking (and not eating potato stew, thanks to Harding). She has noticed his plethora of scars many times before and yet did not think it appropriate to ask. She thought of it in the same vein as her arm; such a thing was a sensitive subject for some people, including herself.

That still doesn't stop the part of her brain that insists on blurting out the questions anyways. Luckily, Lucanis seems to be amenable to explanation.

"Spider-y?" She gasps, and automatically squints to investigate the scar further, like there would be some sort of proof of the shape. "Gods. And you lived?" She asks incredulously, her voice rising in pitch. "How did you escape? Where did you go? Was Illario there? You lived?" Bellara repeats.

Somewhere in the back of her mind, there is a pencil writing very vigorously. She is both inspired and horrified.

[crowmorte]

The outpouring of questions almost makes him laugh, an amused smile not held back. With everything they are to face, Lucanis doesn't think a deadly spider abomination made of razor-sharp hair to be so unbelievable a foe to face and live. Gods are certainly higher on the scale ( though the surviving part of this contract is, admittedly, not a certainty ).

❝ Spiky hair made the eight legs. The abdomen was a mix of whatever was left of the man, more hair, and the usual mutations abominations are made of, ❞ He describes simply, painting the most vivid picture he can, given Bellara's enthusiasm on the subject. ❝ And as the scars show, it was not an easy fight. ❞

❝ Illario was with me for part of the job — and he would gladly point out to you I made the job harder than it needed to be. We had the chance to kill the target before it became a fight, ❞ A simple admission, despite how it goes against the core of his job. His blood still boils at the horrific actions of the wigmaker, nonetheless, even now, years later. Death had been a kinder fate than he deserved — though the assassin likes to think seeing his precious work ruined and being turned into an abomination makes up for it. ❝ But we could not leave his victims to suffer. ❞

❝ Illario led the slaves to safety while I was left to end their former master, ❞ Despite his cousin's wish to argue, Lucanis knew Illario could be trusted to do it, as he had. Then all that was left was to finish the contract. ❝ It took me several wounds and at least three broken ribs, climbing on the roof and cutting open the part that had once been the Venatori to kill it. ❞

❝ I knew my cousin probably headed to some fancy tavern, so that was where I went after. ❞ A natural conclusion, to him; enough that he does not consider the possibility another may find it too casual. ❝ I do not think the owner appreciated me bleeding all over the table, though I tried to give him a generous compensation for that. ❞

[crowmorte]

if he's talking about things he likes (see: wyverns) or work lucanis will happily yap

[bedoflo2lo2-deactivated20250531]

Big huge fan of the way people eyes soften when looking at people they love it’s like they can’t help but let their guard down and open their hearts up

[kmarx]

[pausegame]

Didn't you tell me he was basically your brother and your closest childhood friend?

[crowmorte]

i think it's interesting to compare the way lucanis talks to illario (or about illario) in game ('you think i'm not god enough?' 'are you?') vs how it is in the wigmaker job. from the start, he's actually not that critical; when illario alludes to his unhappiness at caterina not passing on the seat of first talon, lucanis reassures him illario will still have his moment.

and when illario questions that saying people talk and lucanis is the favorite, he reassures him further and compliments his skill.

and later on he states outright, again, that it's illario who's suited to become first talon

one could argue the way lucanis treats him in regards to telling illario about the plan (which is not telling him anything) is demeaning; he doesn't trust him with anything, only to go along with whatever he decides to do. maybe the implication is there that lucanis just takes the lead without bothering to keep illario in his shadow; even demeaning in the sense he clearly finds himself more competent than his cousin.

it's never about illario's skill as much as it is his attitude, though. because from his point of view, illario doesn't take it seriously enough.

but illario doesn't help his case considering lucanis wrote a whole dossier on their target that illario never bothered to read

lucanis does criticize illario; he feels very critical of illario's approach being seduction (though it could be more about illario wasting time enjoying his targets than about seduction in itself, i'm not sure). he outright ignores his refusal to save the slaves until illario agrees to go along with what he wants. but it's not questioning his skill or how suited he is to be the dellamorte heir. it's not... antagonistic? in a way i feel he's portrayed to be in datv. there's even an illario line in game about how lucanis would say his talent is to make a mess of everything, which doesn't feel at all like the sort of criticism lucanis would make in twj. he picks on illario, sure, but it's never to a malicious extent.

what i do think is true regardless is the damage he unknowingly does and the room to breed resentment because of his attitude. by taking the lead and expecting illario to just go along with everything he decides, he is actively pushing his cousin to second place, which must feel sore for one already concerned lucanis will be chosen to be first talon. by criticizing his methods or willingness to work, lucanis could be making illario feel he's saying he's not competent enough.

i do think lucanis does it without realizing it. it's... more part of their dynamic? like illario might criticize him for being too serious, as illario does, or how illario says his attitude will get him killed. and that taking the lead is probably just something that comes naturally after years of working together and it always has worked that way, except for illario it starts to feel different considering what his goal is and how he might be made to feel second to lucanis. by which i mean to say i think he felt as if trading unserious barbs was happening on even ground or that illario was fine with how things between them worked but in truth he was hitting some sore spots without knowing.

it definitely isn't meant to demean. lucanis actually consistently thinks of illario fondly and complimentarily. he never thought illario came second to him, and i think that's part of what blinds him to seeing it that way.

and then post ossuary i think it makes sense that he'd be a little harsher, both because of what he went through but especially because of illario's attitude since his return. even if he isn't certain illario betrayed him (even if he doesn't want to believe it) the suspicion would be there, and illario trying to push him away definitely doesn't help.

[sky--phantom]

oh 🥹