F Yeah, Qunari

Shanedan. We hear you. This is a Tumblr for the appreciation of the Qun and its peoples: converted or born, horned or not. All posts will be sourced to the best of our ability. If we slip up, let us know! Your friendly mods are on standby to answer miscellaneous questions about the Qun. Contents may not be completely canon, because we are two women building upon what has come before us.

[gravedigg]

i couldn't stop thinking about Adaar and Iron Bull doing each other's vitaar

[larena]

Heres the most untapped companion dynamic that I am BEGGING BioWare to use in Dreadwolf: Viddathari companion, and Tal-Vashoth companion.

The arguments would be legendary. Here you have someone who has actively chosen to convert to the Qun despite being born outside of it, and I think for the tastiest conflict would have to believe in it with their full chest. And then someone who was born into it and left.

"Why would you ever LEAVE the Qun! I spent my whole life searching for purpose and didn't find it until I met a Tamassran, no one gave me ANY respect until I found the Qun."

"Why would you CHOOSE to submit yourself to that dogmatic bullshit? Dont you have any self respect, you were FREE"

Its just... theres so much good shit you can do there with two people who are both converts, but in the exact opposite direction.

[nateeseart]

[discomboblo]

Bull is big and intimidating to most, and he can be the brute everyone assumes he is to get what he needs (Ben'Hassarath, remember?). But he is also gentle. He files his nails (Qunari’s tend to grow like claws–sharp and curled) to small stubs and keeps them clean, though sometimes his Kadan likes them a little sharp for scratching. His fingers are thick but nimble for tying rope and even more so when he does small, intricate braids in his Kadan’s hair before the long day ahead of them. In the morning when he’s awake before his Kadan, he’ll find himself counting their breaths, tracing their scars with his nail stubs and silently guessing where each is from with pride in how far they’ve come.

He laughs from his belly, which is full from the food he indulges in (even if the Qun doesn’t allow one to indulge oneself), and hard from the years of fighting and protecting. Sometimes his leg aches from too much walking and his metal brace will creak from over-exertion, but he’ll be okay. It’s nothing new. He gets headaches around his missing eye and horns that he passes off with a elfroot potion, maybe a drink too. Some days he feels old when he’s stuck with his memories, and he doesn’t realise the tight grip his hands form when his mind travels a little too far back. Some days he feels young, but also new. When he fights a dragon with the others, and they walk back to camp with singed hair and bloody weapons, smiles and panting breaths–pride. When Krem and his boys celebrate a successful mission like when they went giant-baiting, or helped Krem’s stuffed nugs fly. When the night is quiet and it’s just him and his kadan, skin on skin with sweat gluing them together after heavy breaths and roars. Some days his Kadan reminds him it’s okay to be Iron Bull, and some days he reminds himself he is Iron Bull. 

[bonksoundeffect]

Sten has always been one of my favourite Dragon Age characters and I'm glad I got commissioned by BioWare to draw him for this year's DA Day.

Happy DA Day! 💜

[tikattu]

kulo adaar, the inquisitor

“how do you see me?” “it’s strong and pure. and loud. you ripple like water when the stone is dropped.”

a tarot card for my rift mage inquisitor in da:i’s style

[chrideart]

Herah Adaar, the Qunari Knight Enchanter 💜

Second of three @unofficialdragonageday 2021 charity commissions, this one of a stern Inquisitor for Dymme 

[yuhimebarbara-deactivated202206]

Today it’s one and only Sten, or should I say The Sten? Or is he Arishok now? In my games he is. But he’s no longer Sten - he’s Arishok - not to confuse with the Arishok from DA2.

Qun needs to start using names, so I won’t be getting headaches each time I try to explain who is in the picture.

[sweethawke-deactivated20201003]

every day i have to life without the option of giving sten half of a dragon’s tooth. how is this supposed to be feasible

[asparklethatisblue]

After an entire life time of being literally branded as an outsider and as lesser, it must be quite the culture shock for the Warden to meet somebody from a people where the circumstances of your birth don’t matter

⭐️ Commission Info ⭐️ Ko-Fi ⭐️

[legionofpotatoes]

Vector quickie for my favorite horny man and his trusted warrior buds ♥️

[hattedhedgehog]

My art from the fic “A Cat’s Tenth Life,” a collaboration between me and @asparklethatisblue. A misfired necromancy spell leads to the surprise adoption of a previously-deceased kitty, and pet shenanigans ensue. Bull takes…a while to adjust. 

Read the fic HERE.

[delulluart]

Inquisitor Adaar

[dalishious]

is there anything in faces of thedas about Sten, or the qunari in general?

Sten is one of the characters with a whole piece, yeah! A lot of it is nothing that isn’t stated in WoTv2, but here’s a couple points:

Sten was always immediately recognizable among the qunari people for not having any horns, something that often indicates someone who is Tal-Vashoth, as apparently that is something they frequently do after escaping from the Qun.

Sten joined the Beresaad after gaining the favour of the Arishok, who the Beresaad report directly to, and are his personal representatives.

Sten of course becomes Arishok after Hawke kills the one in Kirkwall, and is “a good ruler, albeit a traditional one.”

The reason Sten loves cookies is because they were never discovered by the qunari, since they’re often made using excess dough, and there is no such thing as excess anything under the Qun.

There’s a big piece all about the Qun in Chapter 2. I don’t want to just copy and paste the entire thing though, so again, here are just some points of interest:

The #1 theme of the Qun is “Asit tal-eb,” which translates as “It is to be;” meaning duty comes before everything else.

There is no actual recorded way of telling one Arishok from another throughout history, as the minute one dies, another sheds their old self and assumes the role as the previous one did. This is in contrast to the rest of Thedas, where historical periods are divided by rulers.

The Battle of the Nocen Sea between Tevinter and the Qunari that led to the treaty between them was the largest battle ever fought in Thedas.

The role of Arigena–overseer of merchants and craftsmen and the treasury–is considered a sacred one, as every member of the Qun has a tool that contains their soul for eternity. She is permanently on Seheron as a tactical decision to allow her to deploy weapons to the front lines.

Children under the Qun receive their new title/role by the Tamassrans who raise them at age twelve.

Ben-Hassrath re-educators are separated by gender (remembering that the Qunari believe in gender binary). Only men handle other adult men, and only women handle other adult women and children.

[kazabava]

Adaar

[tropicoola]

inquisitor adaar.

[qwib]

Various tarot-style artwork I made a few months back that I never uploaded. Anxiety’s a bitch and now I’m using the bit of energy I’ve worked up to release these into the world.

I’ve intentionally left out which artwork references which card for personal reasons, but anyone with any knowledge of the arcana can probably figure it out.