Down by the river

Cherry || 26 || BG3 and DA sideblog || follows from care-lords

[feyspeaker]

ache🩸 (print club mini this month, few days left to join! links in bio!)

[ales-art]

Apparently, I had some gestalt linked with Fenris. So here is another one, with a comb from the new comic strip.

[telumendils]

it's me, i'm dragon age fans.

[pyomatic]

stargazing leliana. ✨

I've started doing another comic and this one big panel works really nicely on its own <33

[gyrovagi]

no matter how weird or bad of a time you're having remember there's always someone in the dragon age fandom choosing to fight battles and die on hills that are stupider and more vitriolic than you can even imagine

[dragonagepolls]

If you started playing Dragon Age when multiple games were out, did you go back and play previous games?

I haven't played Dragon Age

Started when only Dragon Age: Origins was out

Started when Dragon Age 2 was out but played Dragon Age: Origins first

Started when Dragon Age 2 was out, played it first, then Dragon Age: Origins

Started when Dragon Age 2 was out, have not played Dragon Age: Origins

Started when Dragon Age: Inquisition was out but played previous games first

Started when Dragon Age Inquisition was out, played it first then previous games

Started when Dragon Age: Inquisition was out, have not played previous games

Started when Dragon Age: The Veilguard was out but played previous games first

Started when Veilguard was out, played it first, then played previous games

Started when Dragon Age: The Veilguard was out, have not played previous games

Other

Voting ended onOct 8, 2025

[vonspe]

glad to announce i've contracted hysteria again

[angelicdewdrop]

[sunlight-shunlight]

anyway i really do think arlathan should be..... ecologically and ethically and artistically and magically Insane. wdym there's these immortal, pretentious, amoral tyrants, with the ability to literally morph life itself to their own desires? and it just looks sepia and a bit foggy? CRINGE!! boring!! it should be beautiful and horrible!!

they evanuris can spend a thousand years just getting artisans to tile the floor of their palace with a mosaic, and then use magic to make it move or glow or react to people's presence - this might require a few blood sacrifices, but that's ok. after all, this art will last for thousands of years, so a small sacrifice is nothing in comparison.

they could selectively breed an entire forest into having blossoms on the trees that match their eye colour, just to look cute while going on walks there. what was the forest like before-? doesn't matter, it's better now!

they could domesticate a species of beetle, just to make it cling to their dress and add a cool iridescent shine and beading effect. is it now an invasive species that's becoming a hazard? maybe, but that's ok, ghilan'nain will make a new type of bird of paradise to hunt it, and everything will be ok <3

they could quite literally turn people into infrastructure - do you want public transit? well, you now have a... very strong beast of burden, provided by the genius inventor ghilan'nain, that has the capability to pull a bus-sized cart. and also has unsettlingly intelligent eyes, and an aura of despair, while being extremely punctual. gladiatorial coliseums as entertainment? oh boy. if condemned criminals are fighting to the death in there... may as well be interesting? give them some cool flashy features that emphasize the drama! andruil wants to hunt something new? well, now there's a creature that's sapient, feels fear, and can make plans enough to be a challenge, and has whatever assortment of traits she wants to test her weapons on that day - and even has a cool colourful pelt to keep as a souvenir later.

[lamusebrune]

I cannot stress enough how important it is to do silly, frivolous things that serve no other purpose than making you happy.

[001x456]

feeling not normal. I need to. put my blorbo in a jar. and shake.

[himbopunk]

cyrano homoerotic sparring aka zevrans favorite tv show

cyril tabris belongs to saturjaysunjay on tiktok/bsky !

[crunchyncrumbly]

art study turned zevran

[feluka]

isn't 'dangerous crow boy' that guy from dragon age origins

[sky--phantom]

I didn't even know about this dialogue lol

[ikarons]

and if i said that the emasculation of the (mostly-male) templar order through being positioned as subservient to an all-female order of nonviolent chantry sisters in a setting in which men (and warrior men in particular) are otherwise expected to dominate the social hierarchy incentivises violence (including sexual violence) against the mages in their care, a class that is culturally seen as feminine and subservient through subjugation & the Only other kind of person a templar regularly sees, in order to reclaim dignity. which the non-violent order of chantry sisters is conditioned to disdain. which itself drives the need to reclaim dignity too. would that be something that made sense

[ikarons]

ok hang on that’s not all though . because as a few people have mentioned (and a core idea behind this post) the relationship between templars and chantry sisters is actually like…. A Bit Complicated

because chantry sisters are positioned as hierarchically Superior to templars… the templar order answers to and exists to protect the clergy, and the knight commander outranks (and is directly within the chain of command of) the grand cleric. but outside of the chantry, andrastian nations are usually patriarchal, and andrastian men culturally understand themselves as Above the woman around them (and furthermore, templars are Warriors, and in many andrastian nations (think: battling for the throne in ferelden, tourneys in orlais) the Warrior role is also held in esteem; by comparison, the clergy is explicitly nonviolent and at least theoretically preaches peace and compassion). so that creates some dissonance in the chantry, where that dynamic is flipped and the new dynamic is strictly enforced, which might create resentment… which might lead a templar (who is likely to be a man) to want to put chantry sisters in their place. except that they Can’t. because chantry sisters are untouchable and violence against them will not be forgiven by the chantry.

but nobody cares what happens to a mage. and mages are completely under the templars’ power.

and from that perspective it’s understandable that chantry sisters and templars don’t always get on— templars because chantry sisters are symbols of their emasculation, their frustrated entitlement, their impotence (#lyriumimpotence mentioned)… and chantry sisters because as *women who are *specifically taught to see violence as sometimes necessary but also terrible… well. maybe they don’t always (or even usually) sympathise with mages, but it would be hard to watch the way templars treat them and not wonder if that violence is actually intended for You.

& this is like. text a bit also. i don’t have game screenshots but here’s some ambient dialogue from DAI:

in conclusion.

[ikarons]

and of course violence against mages as a way to reclaim dignity and gendered pride creates the implication that it is a mage’s responsibility to support that dignity and that pride to begin with; that a templar’s violence can be defused by a mage who is Meek enough, Subservient enough, Solicitous enough to soothe that injured pride.

which makes it the mage’s fault when it doesn’t work.

[localwarlockunion]

Sorry I'm late, I got added to the Wild Hunt last night and ran and reveled with them for what felt like 100 years plus a day until I landed the killing blow on a stag with bronze antlers then suddenly woke in my bed, willow leaves in my hair, a nameless song echoing in my ears, and my hands still bloody, so yeah, totally missed my alarm and stuff.