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The Child of Dust and Ashes: Chapter 38

Summary: The group splits up again. Helsi's past comes to haunt her. Alistair struggles with purity culture. Read on A03 Read From the Beginning

#dragon age #dragon age origins #warden brosca #dragon age fanfic #dao

greywardenzine

⚔️Contributor Reveal - War Artists and Writers ⚔️

Introducing Ephermeres, @plisuu, @stealingpotatoes, Rivvetgunn, Ali, @zazrichor, Manu, @lastofthegrey, @fattylime, @hajima-7, @awhekate, @littleshinymoth, @sun-marie, @elvengraces, @ammoniteflesh, @melisusthewee, Lysmune, our artists and writers for the In War section!

Socials under the cut!

#I see some familiar names from Wotv3 #they do great work #Excited to see how this zine turns out!

chimaerakitten

idk if this is controversial or not, but I really like when non-professional writing like fic has hints of author bleedthrough when it comes to like, what different people assume is common knowledge. Like sometimes I’ll be reading a fic and it’ll just be obvious that the person writing it is either obsessed with medicine or has been to medical school, because they’ll use terms that are just a shade too technical without explaining them. It’s never the super specific stuff that they’d know other people are unaware of, it’s always the things that once you’ve known it for a while you forget it’s niche knowledge. It’s fun because as a fanfic reader it reminds me of how this is a fun hobby community, where everyone has their own thing going on outside of fandom. Everyone’s got their own specialties and they can’t help but write that into their work sometimes

chimaerakitten

…well this post sure took off

bamsara

new ask game; what do you think my hobby, skillset or knowledge or any other details of me based off my writing

edgar-allan-possum

#For anyone who's read any of my fics #I am wildly curious

The Child of Dust and Ashes: Chapter 37

After the ambush on the western road, Helsi and Ser Hadley need to put together a new route to the circle.

Read on Ao3

Read from the beginning

#dragon age #warden brosca #dragon age origins #dao #dragon age fanfic

broodwoof

I want everyone who sees this to stop and think for a moment and come up with (at least) one thing you loved about veilguard

feel free to share if you wanna! but this is really a reminder to bask in what we enjoy

(pls refrain from saying you hated everything or adding caveats about what you enjoyed, thank you!)

#rogue gameplay #my main Rook is an archer and that gameplay is so satisfying #also the ways you can just crack your build in half in fun and creative ways #The combat is so fun and I genuinely have such a blast with it #I was able to turn Tirhysias into the most cracked self-healing tank mage #and it just felt like a reward for exploring and experimenting with equipment #also letting my characters be explicitly trans feels so nice every time #the warmth I felt when I got to talk to Maevaris as another trans person

dwarvesofthedaszine

Who is your favorite dwarf character from Dragon Age II?

Tell us why in comments or tags!

Contributor applications for Isatunoll Anthology: Dwarves of Thedas zine are open until July 1.

direct-from-orzammar

Okay so I'm going to NOT say Varric because that's the easy answer. And I'm also not going to say Bodhan, because he's a DAO character originally.

Hear me out...I do actually like Bartrand as a character. I don't think he's pleasant and I don't wish he could have been a companion or anything. But damn If I didn't love how much of a shit he is. Also the whole betrayal with the idol is such a genuinely good twist. Even when I know it's coming, I love that part of the story. Him getting corrupted by the idol and having to decide whether or not to kill him is also such a fun decision imo. Especially since it makes all the casual roasting of the man through the first part of act 2 hit so different.

I appreciate a character that's effective in who they need to be for the story. He's a good first-act antagonist for before the stakes really ramp up later in the game. He's fun to hate.

So yeah, while he's a smaller doses kinda person, I do genuinely kinda like Bartrand.

#bartrand tethras #meta

girl-blorbo-polls

Would your girl blorbo ever shave her head?

Yes, fully

Maybe partially

No, not a chance

She’s already bald/hairless

Canonically willingly shaved her head

Canonically unwillingly shaved her head

Other/nuance/[obvious I’m bald joke]

Voting ended onJun 11

#Helsi's a solid....maybe?#if she had to she could live with it #but growing her hair out is a gender affirming thing for her so she would avoid it if possible #Hissera? Fuck yeah.#She keeps her hair short anyway so if she doesn't like it she can just wait a couple months

dalishious

Among these "cishet" Dragon Age men, who would you make queer?

Alistair

Loghain

Sebastian

Cullen

Blackwall

Solas

Someone else (leave in tags)

Voting ended onJun 6

#a bisexual awakening could fix Blackwall #or #dare i say #cracking of an egg

flowersforthemachines

I recently stumbled upon people discussing headcanons on this topic under another post and now I'm Curioise. (rbs for reach are appreciated!! and please share details in the tags I'd love to know!)

if you have multiple Rooks, vote for whoever is your main/favourite!

so why does *your* Rook wear that shoddy starting armour?

they literally just dress like that. it's their style (or lack thereof)

sold their old armour to get money while on the road

trying to look inconspicuous (of their own volition)

trying to look inconspicuous (varric and/or harding made them)

act of fashion defiance towards whoever kicked them out/solas/varric/the world

I headcanon/mod them into wearing something different (like what?)

Secret nth thing/Rook is bald/etc

Voting ended onMay 28

#He's trying to be inconspicuous #but he's always trying to be inconspicuous when he's working #can't be too flashy when you're smuggling slaves through the catacombs #So for Faustus it's a combination of two answers #But he knows how clothes can affect peoples' perception and how to take advantage of that

hceinarchive

a daisy and a captn

#cool art #merrill #isabela #I cannot stress enough how much this art rules

messeretrevelyan

#these games are all unique disasters and i love them.

sluttyquarantinetheory

Fun Fact: If you change the lighthouse theme you can have Solas's tragic backstory presented by nugs.

thewardenisonthecase

honestly whoever at bioware had the idea to connect the brosca and aeducan origins via rica and bhelen was so genius. playing aeducan and finding this redheaded woman in your brother's room who's title in game is 'mistress' only to then go play brosca and learn that woman is your sister and rica mentioning she potentially caught someone's eye but not saying whom but you know its bhelen, and then how that later affects the bhelen/harrowmont option on a more personal level for brosca. great stuff

#warden brosca #warden aeducan #AND the aeducan origin giving you a general timeline for when the Brosca origin happened!#You hear about someone messing up a proving “last week”

dragon-age-tournament

Ship Tournament — Round #2 / Match 26 of 44

Aveline/Donnic

"Aveline spends so much time being responsible, guarded, and focused on everyone else that seeing her become flustered and uncertain around Donnic is incredibly endearing, and Donnic himself has this quiet, genuine appeal that suits her well."

"aveline/donnic is soooo dear to me sorryyy. like they are both so awkward about it in the most lovable way possible?? no game no swagger just two people standing there like um. hi. hello. and somehow that is MORE romantic to me than half the dramatic dragon age ships lmao. i love that with them it’s all about the slow burn and the fumbling and everyone around them being like oh my god just kiss already. they’re cute!!! let awkward adults find love!!!"

vs. Branka/Hespith

"The toxicity, the doom, the way Branka's voice cracks when she admits she's sacrificed even Hespith for the Anvil and thus cannot turn back. Hespith, all alone, lamenting what was done to House Branka and not explaining until the end that, no, the worst part was that Branka allowed it. She enabled all that. And it seems like she left Hespith for last, possibly hoping that it wouldn't come to that. I just wonder how that would have gone if Branka had reached the Anvil before it was Hespith's turn. I can't see this working out well, even if they managed to return to Orzammar. And even before all this, the way Branka wasn't even trying to hide the fact that she was cheating on Oghren (why would she? She's a Paragon) with HIS COUSIN. The way she and Hespith spent hours researching the Anvil. They could have been so good if Branka wasn't driven mad by her search."

Which is the better ship?

Aveline/Donnic

Branka/Hespith

Voting ended onMay 1

#they both make eachother worse #But Branka and Hespith are so uniquely fucked up #Tfw the toxic ship is toxic in new and exciting ways #polls