Running in circles

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[inverswayart]

man, it's been a while...

anyway, i've picked up baldur's gate 3 again and seemingly closing in on actually ending at least one playthrough! so it seems like the good time to introduce my main Tav (because of course I've made a whole gaggle of them ahah), Vertigo!

so, basically - Vertigo is a captain of a small, but precious ship and leader of adventuring party (that also happens to be his crew) and he's been roaming the Sword Coast for the last 50 years or so. Before that, he was many things - runaway, sailor, bounty hunter, spy, bodyguard and many more - but it's all in the past now, and life is finally good...

Except for the moment his ship gets attacked by passing Nautiloid, crew either killed or kidnapped and then killed by mindflayers and Avernus locals, and his beloved swarm of feywild spirits being seemingly lost to him, leaving Vertigo heartbroken, grieving and infected by illitid tadpole.

Lost and, for the first time in half a century, completely alone, Vertigo stumbles into bunch of people in the same boat with him, and now would have to deal with all that - but at least he knows how to be a captain, so captain he'll be - even if it's the last thing he'll ever do.

(so yeah, act 1 is kinda rough for him :.D)

[abyssal-ilk]

wait im nosy. for people's inquisitors who did IHW, how much did they talk about that timeline to their companions/advisors? did they keep it to themselves? did they try and keep it as need to know as possible? or were they open about the experience?

[inverswayart]

sometimes you get overcome with blorbo feelings about ocs you mentioned exactly once and you can do nothing about it

anyway baby pics of my inquisition ocs Flint Cadash (back in his dusttown era) and Elllas and Harea Lavellan (and probably magical toad)

[stonesense]

question for in the tags!! how did ur dragon age mage ocs’ magic first manifest, what was their first instinctive spell? who saw it and what were their reactions?

[inverswayart]

Look out, look out! Pink skeletons on parade! so my most self-indulgent headcanon for Faust is that they, being an incarnated spirit, are able to form a small localised Fade bubble every time they cast sufficiently strong spell, and every time it happens the insides of those bubbles turn into a musical number that kills you with dancing undead. they were a spirit of Joy after all :D

[inverswayart]

baby pictures! feat. Faust's mentor and father figure Gottlieb Ingellvar!

He was one of the Watchers that found Faust in the depths of Necropolis and the one to take them in after they showed magical aptitude at very young age. Gottlieb was obsessed with spirits and had spent countless hours trying to find out if one's soul can turn into a spirit without an outside intervention (i.e. random other spirit just copying person's image), and Faust was especially interesting to him - at some point during Faust's youth Gottlieb figured out that they were a spirit incarnated in a physical body and so they became part-student and part-test subject for him. Of course, having spent so much time together, Gottlieb couldn't help but get attached to them, but it didn't help Faust much in the end

also a fun fact from fashion history - did you know that during regency era those one- or two-piece costumes for little boys were called skeleton suits? I simply had no choice but to put baby Faust into one. and they look so cute in it!

another fun fact - Gottlieb was my very first rook ingellvar idea before veilguard came out proper and i realised that he wouldn't work as a rook. spent quite some time in my concept pile before i realised that i can use him in Faust's backstory.. so ofc i had to make him in cc just to see what could've been

[inverswayart]

seems like i got something in the works rn so meanwhile have an entire spread of Faust doing ballet moves in my hc even outside of dancing they move and act in very graceful animated fashion (kind of like Aurora from Sleeping Beauty) to the point that it looks a bit eerie at times, like they aren't entirely there (being an incarnated spirit would do that to a fella)

[inverswayart]

a handful of companion pieces!

Lucanis in his natural habitat

lords' of fortune coolest B)

Neve stimming and thinking (feat very helpful wisp)

[inverswayart]

cw body horror

i actually had to restart Juno's playthrough because at one point irealised that Oda simply would not be a nice helper to her :.D not with all the stuff she's been pulling as the inquisitor

long story short, Oda took Solas' revelations and loss of arm very hard and very much not gracefully. no mater what she did, she'd been losing relevance and falling into obscurity after dealing with Corypheus and turning Inquisition over to the Chantry. the fact that she could no longer use her bow as before weighted heavily on her, not to mention her clinging to the belief that she was still Andraste's chosen and was meant to enact Maker's will in Thedas (that made now Divine Cassandra try to keep her away from any serious action and Chantry activity even harder - especially after Oda arranged for Cullen to be killed in the dark alley rather than deal with the fact that she drew her lover to addiction and begging on the streets)

so when Elgar'nan and Ghillan'nain jumped out of the Fade and started amassing their following, it didn't take that much to convince Oda that they were actually Maker and Andraste in the flesh; and so when proposed with opportunity to once again become Andraste's Herald, but this time for good, Oda jumped in Immediately. So Ghilan'nain gave her a new arm.. and a lot of other parts to go with it.

I imagine that Orlesian cultist ring mentioned in Inquisitor's letters would've been led by her; in an ideal world she would've been a mid-game bossfight, an unholy lovechild of Broodmother and a Harvester or at least something in that area

all and all, rather spectacular end for a girl whose Fade tombstone has "becoming Mother" on it

[inverswayart]

and now we switch to Kinslayers timeline!

pre-game Juno and her twin sister Lais seeing some cute guy at a party they attended - shortly before Lais left for Nessus to study and Juno stayed behind in Minrathous (neither knew their next meeting would be their last)

[inverswayart]

hawkes in semi-accidental personality gradient - red Marinette, purple Harrier and sadly yet unplayed blue Halliserre (the theoretical Meredith/Amelia Stannard lookalike) i also have another hawke in the works but alas i haven't got to designing him yet

[sapphim]

Dragon Age fans: What type of demon would your Warden be most susceptible to?

Desire

Despair

Envy

Fear

Hunger

Pride

Rage

Sloth

Other / Results / Warden is bald

Voting ended onJan 19

[sapphim]

What type of demon would your Hawke be most susceptible to?

Desire

Despair

Envy

Fear

Hunger

Pride

Rage

Sloth

Other / Results / Hawke is bald

Voting ended onJan 19

[sapphim]

What type of demon would your Inquisitor be most susceptible to?

Desire

Despair

Envy

Fear

Hunger

Pride

Rage

Sloth

Other / Results / Inquisitor is bald

Voting ended onJan 19

[sapphim]

What type of demon would your Rook be most susceptible to?

Desire

Despair

Envy

Fear

Hunger

Pride

Rage

Sloth

Other / Results / Rook is bald

Voting ended onJan 19

[inverswayart]

a bit of Davrin for tonight

[inverswayart]

a rare moment of respite

[inverswayart]

sometimes your guy just has to bear this curse on top of everything else

[inverswayart]

Girls and their best boys <3

[inverswayart]

for quite some time i wasn't sure what exactly pushed Hyacinth to reject the ritual from Morrigan but now that i'm thinking about it again being possessed a traumatized suicidal spirit fragment who's answer to every problem before her is "i suggest eutanasia" on top of everything else she's got going on might've played a role here