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Catt. DA and BG3 mostly. Artist and baby writer, gamer, cat parent, chronically tired, Demi-Pan, They/She 🏳️‍🌈 18+ Been around Tumblr since the early days (I'm an old fuck)! ao3: cryptidcatt bluesky: @cryptidcatt.bsky.social Expect original art and crafts, reblogs, discussion and occasional shitposting.

[cryptid-catt]

Young Solas plus some Art Nouveau comb designs ft. Wisdom and Benevolence and some design process.

There’s been so much gorgeous Art Nouveau inspired DA fan art lately, I had to try my hand at the theme. It spiced up my wip and was a lot of fun to figure out!

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[thedascaptured]

[tzedekarchive]

                                                  what’s a mirror worth to you?

[wickedsnack-art]

WIP Whatever Day!!

I've been tagged in a few that I haven't been able to participate in, so please enjoy this sketch of Dhavi and Solas making out that i'm intending to be for DA Kiss Week

[garygoldenbignaturals]

What matters in life is tagging posts as your ocs

[ashillayn]

After about six and a half months, I finally finished it! I'm going to be framing it this afternoon. (Some close ups under the break)

Pattern is Solas Base Tarot by 99CentCrossStitch

Second pattern is Solas Cross Stitch by KassiopeDesign

One more to go!

[ashillayn]

And now, after all that work, I've got a fun new wall hanging!

[alexsrandomramblings]

"I claim no secret wisdom." Says the physically embodied wisdom spirit/pride demon with alllllllll the secrets.

[ashillayn]

I'm keeping the times on here because I think it's funny how quickly he went from "we need to break up" back to "please, vhenan." Barely even made it ten seconds and he's right back to calling her his heart.

Which really reminds me of a conversation he has with Cassandra, when she asks him why he always refers to her by her title. And he responds that "I say what I believe to be true"

He can't not call her his heart, because she is. He just can't stop himself.

[senseandaccountability]

Will never be normal about this theme of how war and subjugation destroys you, crushes your spirit and not only dehumanizes others in your eyes but yourself in your own eyes.

[dragon9ggerea]

[dirthara-mahvir]

In the Trespasser DLC, we see a rather large spell decimate unknown enemies in a rather extravagant fashion. 

Apologies for no video or gif. 

Now, this effect reminds me, and I’m sure a few others, of mind blast.

Mind Blast, across all games, has an area of effect with a five meter diameter, or about sixteen feet. This means that only enemies within a somewhat personal bubble of yours are thrown onto their asses. 

By using a highly sophisticated series of measurements… 

… and an even more exquisite use of math…

… I have determined the distance between the tower and the Inquisitor to be roughly 2.8 miles, or 4.5 kilometers. The effects of the spell are still felt even at that distance.

In comparison to the five meter spell casting of the above-average mage, this would be 900 times more powerful

This ‘unknown assailant’ is 900 times more powerful than a mage Inquisitor, Champion, or Warden.

[rhunae]

Someone say gif?

Here’s 2. The second is slowed down.

Mind blast, and the yellow explosions are gatlock.

[crimsonphantasmagoria]

@cryptid-catt

[dirthara-mahvir]

In the Trespasser DLC, we see a rather large spell decimate unknown enemies in a rather extravagant fashion. 

Apologies for no video or gif. 

Now, this effect reminds me, and I’m sure a few others, of mind blast.

Mind Blast, across all games, has an area of effect with a five meter diameter, or about sixteen feet. This means that only enemies within a somewhat personal bubble of yours are thrown onto their asses. 

By using a highly sophisticated series of measurements… 

… and an even more exquisite use of math…

… I have determined the distance between the tower and the Inquisitor to be roughly 2.8 miles, or 4.5 kilometers. The effects of the spell are still felt even at that distance.

In comparison to the five meter spell casting of the above-average mage, this would be 900 times more powerful

This ‘unknown assailant’ is 900 times more powerful than a mage Inquisitor, Champion, or Warden.

[rhunae]

Someone say gif?

Here’s 2. The second is slowed down.

Mind blast, and the yellow explosions are gatlock.

[crimsonphantasmagoria]

@cryptid-catt

[cryptid-catt]

I'm running around Tumblr to ask some questions I'm curious about from fellow Solavellan lovers. Answer all or one, up to you!

What does your Lavellan understand about Solas that makes forgiveness possible without excusing what he’s done?

Is there something your Lavellan fundamentally misunderstands about Solas, and that Solas fundamentally misunderstands about your Lavellan? What finally allows them to understand each other more clearly and how does that understanding come?

What is the dynamic between your Lavellan and your Rook?

If your Rook comes to know Solas primarily as an adversary, while your Lavellan’s experience is coloured by their love and history together, where do their interpretations of him overlap - and where do they differ?

Hey Vhen, thanks for thinking of me!

1. Well Ilaan went through a microcosm of what happened to him during DAI. For one thing, she feels incredibly responsible for the death of her own clan because of actions she chose to take. She harbors a lot of guilt over it, regardless of how much time passes. She also understands being thrust into a leadership role and then treated like a divine object of worship when she had no experience or desire to do so. So she understands the pressure and the weight of responsibility and sacrifice. When she finds out he was a rebel trying to fight for his people and his own actions led to tragedy and obsession she does empathize with him. Of course she doesn't agree with what he tries to do as a result, but to her that is more reason to forgive and stop him, help him see sense.

2. I think Ilaan doesn't understand how he can be so bull headed and inflexible. She learned the value of searching for different solutions when something isn't working, while he is thousands of years old and still hasn't, not really. She also doesn't understand how he can hate her people (read his *own* people) for trying to do the best they can with their situation. She can't relate to doing sometime so drastic to save a way of life she has never known. As far as Solas, I don't think he fully understands Ilaan's value is a flesh and blood, concrete, living Dalish woman who is a collection of her experiences living in the Thedas he created and wishes doesn't exist. He'd like to think there is more to her, something that sets her apart as special and the only one worthy of him placing value on. Because that would be easier. In truth she is one of thousands and thousands of people worth knowing and caring for, if he only took the time and opened his heart to them. He'd see his people are intelligent, tenacious, adaptable, loving, and many more things. Things they were before the Veil and have always been. Deep down he probably knows this, but unlike Ilaan who is always close by it is easier for him to block others out. Ilaan does enough alone to derail his plans.

3. Daw and Ilaan meet in Arlathan when she works with the Veil Jumpers and they spend a fair amount of time together on the road. They have a mentor/mentee relationship with tinges of a growing friendship. In my headcanon Daw never hated Solas as much as the game portrays because Ilaan spent hours recounting tales of all the good he did during DAI, her relationship with him, and the history she learned during Trespasser of what he did for their people. Daw comes to respect Solas for who he was (emphasis was). Like Ilaan they believe it may be possible to bring him back from the brink, but they do not trust him during VG and are ready to kill him if that plan isn't working.

[which-ocs]

Which OC?

[aalduin]

Skyrim Scenery 111/∞

[okthisway]