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25ish she/they/he enby, sad sack enjoyer and equal opportunist superfan | main @cyber-harpie

[bladeoffrontiers]

it never fails.

[bearchuckles]

Solas/Dread Wolf from Dragon Age Origins

(Please do not take, save, use for AI training or repost- Thank you! Reblogs are fine ♥ )

Joined in on another Sunday draw-along with @thehangedmancreatives and this picture started out very different. Then while I was looking through my screenshots for references I had an epiphany and this was born. Sort of an examination of "what if Solas won-- at what cost?" and "what if he became what he hated/fought against?" (and 'what if bringing down the veil only broke things more')

Stayed up late to finish it and upon waking up realized I forgot to tint the final layers around the throne (meant to have it match the wolves a bit better) but eh, still very happy with how it came out. I hope I never paint another mosaic again though. That throne was miserable to do lol. (also bonus eyebrow waggles to whoever can guess what I referenced from the game for the initial design of the throne arms. Actually I'm quite proud of the design in general.)

Here, some close-ups before I return to sleep 😄

[childofthestone]

cadash being able to dream because of the anchor, not knowing how to dream, even, and solas, visiting her in these dreams in harmless forms to see what it is exactly she will dream about--- an experiment of sorts. what will a dwarf conjure up in their sleeping hours when they can? where will they go?

and then he is confronted with the fact that among the visages of the people she has met so far, he is in every one of them. that, more often than not, her dreams are simply images of his eyes while he looks to the sky, or the way his ears catch the sunlight on the plain, or the movement of his hands when casting a spell, all surrounded by echoes of his words, his voice poignant and precise. beautiful recreations of moments stolen when he wasnt paying attention, each one more reverent than the last. a creature that has discovered escaping to the Fade in their sleep for the first time, having the opportunity to explore its rich environments and histories, and yet she is content merely to bask in the memories of him.

[childofthestone]

[queam]

Queen Anora’s full armor from my last drawing

Based on Loghain’s armor here and Anora’s dress with the ferelden sigil on the chest

[sandetigerrr]

okay real talk DA fandom, i know it's fun and cool and popular to use Solavellans as the fandom whipping boy (gn) and it has been since 2014 and especially since 2015, and i know that there are indeed a lot of Solavellans that are extremely cisheteronormative and do/say insane things that absolutely should be dunked on, and I also know that the writers opted to make Solas mechanically a straight romance because they were erroneously of the opinion that it would be bad and wrong for him to be a bisexual villain and that does have some really unforch implications, and i know it's frustrating that Solavellans seemingly got a fuckload of bones thrown to them in the festering shit sandwich that is Veilguard, esp when considering how bipoc and more openly queer characters and their romances were treated narratively which is absolutely a problem, but like. you gotta stop throwing solavellans under the bus. esp the solavellans that have been in the trenches with you over how bad veilguard is and also how stupidly neoliberal the series is in general. we could all be getting hammered in the forum and having beautiful discussions about lore and politics and and and but the infighting is so ugly. the real enemy is the fucking cullen tradwife shortbread mfers and i-never-bothered-to-examine-my-penchant-for-antiblackness mfers and also bioware. amen.

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

if you ever find yourself using “solavellans” in the same way redditor use “females ruining our hobby”#maybe it's time to think about that a little bit :')

[thedaswolves]

From Bioware blog from february 2016.

A series of Inquisition-themed pulp fiction covers. Illustrations by Hannah Friederichs

These are so good omg never saw them before 😅❤️

[the-second-moon]

on the use of the word "okay" in thedas

So, "okay" is a word that doesn't appear much in DA dialogue through the first three installments, though it's become quite common by Veilguard.

Likely not an intentional evolution, but a symptom of the fact that the language used in DAV is generally more contemporary than the other installments. Still. Let's play in the space. Because it's not that no one uses "okay" before then. It's actually a relatively common Varric word -- he says it in both DA2 and DAI.

Obvious conclusion: "Okay" is dwarven slang.

(Corollary headcanon: Increased contact with the surface has spread dwarven slang more widely. Perhaps even helped by the popularity of Varric's books...)

Over my breakfast this morning I stared into space wondering what the origins of "OK" could be in the dwarven context. Orzammar is the obvious O. So... Orzammar Kingdom? Orzammar King?

Of course. "OK" is the seal that Orzammar's king uses to express that a document has his approval.

Don't worry everyone. It all makes sense now.

[therivercrow]

"OK" being stamped on crates of dwarven crafts that are traded with other countries, so if its OK its legit, good workmanship. Love this and immediately accept it as canon!

[appropriatehole]

i was gonna get this as a tattoo but instead its now blanket

[mirufiyu]

I asked Nick Boraine for a scientific ranking as Professor Emmrich of who breasts the most boobily in Thedas, and the results were stupendous. Never have I heard the words "chesting pectorally" uttered with as much gusto as he has. 💀🖤💚 🚫 Do not repost.

[ashillayn]

Just love the whole "god of lies is a terrible liar' thing Dragon Age has going on

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Avexis' whole story drives me crazy

[triaelf9]

Finished the Veilguard faction design series and have them up in a number of places!

You can get them now in my Threadless store on a number of items: https://artofelainetipping.threadless.com/

And I now have a "fandom" collection there where you can find all my fanart merch now! https://artofelainetipping.threadless.com/collections/fandom

There's also a digital set in my Ko‑fi store (with bonus wallpapers): https://ko-fi.com/s/11829275b0

 Or as a printed postcard set there as well! https://ko-fi.com/s/fef7a8d286

The previous DATV chibi set is also up as a postcard set option as well ^_^

Check them out, share them with your DA friends, and please enjoy!

[fadesense]

a young Vesperian scion gets reprimanded by Divine Urian Nihalias for his...free thinking

credit to @bendingwind who was working on a fic (still unfinished) and shared this idea and dialogue and i immediately went ‼ and they let me panel it

[eye-of-yelough]

mourn watch rook being my favourite lil crypt baby weirdo for a minute and a half

ingellvar: h-

everyone: 😐😐😐

[anemonetea]

Arlathan 🍃 Minrathous 🐉 Treviso 🐦‍⬛ The Grand Necropolis 💀

Prints

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[albaharu]

Shout out to @sofyunalt thats doing a very cool comic of the half elf from da2 called Obscura Somnia + mega cool ANIMATION u should check it out

Because im doing inquisitor maddox i was like omg,,,same hat,,, we love minor charas in this house