For the Grey Wardens!

A low-activity RP blog for Alistair Theirin. Penned by Merc. Slightly canon-divergent.

[nobroth]

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This will be a low-activity blog for Alistair Theirin featuring verses in Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Guidelines will be the same as they are on @valorcorrupt. Shipping will be based on plots and interactions, please don't assume there's a ship.

Blog canon. | memes. | Bio.

Portrayal notes specific to this blog below the cut:

Alistair is 21 when the Fifth Blight begins. He has a whole bunch of trauma, religious and otherwise, to handle. He's got a complex about other people making choices for him. He will not find it cute or romantic for a Cousland to decide that they can rule together when he has repeatedly expressed that this is something he does not want (without prior discussion, prior meaning before you get to Denerim).

This portrayal will not lean towards the more serious portions of Alistair's personality. I do not see him as a light, happy himbo. Yes he's very happy and very loving when in a relationship. A good friend, a smile and a shoulder when needed. But Shale nails it when she says that he hides behind a "veil of jocularity", but he's not an idiot.

I will have verses for all outcomes from Origins, King drunk and Warden. Obvious cws apply.

Alistair's relationship with Eamon is... complicated but I won't pin it on Isolde. Isolde was also one of Eamon's victims, and though she did bad things Eamon is the one responsible. Misogynistic comments about Isolde won't fly, though there's nothing wrong for naming her as the abuser she is.

The boy is bi. Sorry, but he's not straight.

This Alistair portrayal will see him as brown with slightly pointed ears. I'm probs not gonna have icons bc I'm old and tired, but that's what he is.

[sevibun]

the ambassador’s not so secret collection

[harlequinides]

dorian, of house pavus! most recently of minrathous

[muepin]

Sketched Iron Bull from references to practice for a commission

[featherfangart]

The Oath

[nobroth]

The letter arrives in a fine envelope, emblazoned with the symbol of the Inquisition and sealed with a matching pad of wax. The paper it is written on is thick, bearing another watermark to match the envelope. The handwriting is clear and careful—Dhavihal took pains to ensure as much, even as her control slips further and further away. (Although the address is clearly someone else's handwriting, that of one Josephine Montilyet.)

To His Majesty Alistair Theirin, King of Ferelden, Warden of the Fifth Blight From Her Worship Dhavihal Lavellan, Inquisitor of the Second Holy Inquisition

Your Majesty,

I bear grim tidings as well as good news from Adamant Fortress. I am sure you have heard much of it already, but knowing of your history with the Grey Warden Order and one Loghain Mac Tir, I thought something from me personally was only appropriate.

The Grey Warden Order had long been stationed in Adamant Fortress in Orlais' Western Approach. The Inquisition troops stormed it a few days ago, as I'm writing this, and discovered that a Tevinter Magister by the name of Livius Erimond had manipulated Warden-Commander Clarel and the Wardens in her charge. Many Wardens had already fallen to the blood magic he encouraged them to commit, but we were able to save many, as well. In the end, Warden-Commander Clarel died in defiance of Livius Erimond, giving her life in service of the Order and in defense of her people.

What I write next will seem unbelievable, but I describe it only to best explain the fate of Loghain Mac Tir.

Some members of the Inquisition's forces found ourselves within the Beyond itself. We traversed the foreign landscape, finding it both entirely new and eerily familiar. An enormous and unfathomably powerful malign spirit named Nightmare greeted us there, and when we came face-to-face with it, we knew there would be no way for us to defeat it. Loghain Mac Tir bravely faced it alone as the rest of us fled from the Beyond altogether.

Truly, we have no way of knowing what has become of him. It is possible he managed to subdue it, but it is just as likely that he fell to it. Either way, he is lost to us now.

Normally, this would be the end of one of my letters to a—well, I shall not say "loved one," as I am given to understand there will be little love lost for you as a result of Loghain's demise. Regardless, this would normally be the end. However, I am also writing to request a private audience with you.

After celebrating our victory at Adamant Fortress, the Hero of Ferelden imparted to me some knowledge she said would be of interest to you that she received from Loghain Mac Tir. I confess I do not know you well, but I believe that the knowledge she has shared with me would not only be of interest, it is in fact imperative that you know it, sooner rather than later. But it is something I believe you ought to hear in-person.

By the time you read this, I will be well on my way to meet you. I hope that I will be welcome when I arrive. I'll try to leave most of my army at Skyhold, so that we aren't mistaken for occupying anything.

Cordially, Inquisitor Dhavihal Lavellan

Alistair has read the letter so many times that the parchment has become more the texture of cloth at the creases, after all the folding and unfolding. It puzzles him, how anyone could confuse him with someone who gives a solitary, singular damn about the fate of Loghain Mac Tir.

He has entertained the notion that his being married to Anora Mac Tir has muddied the Inquisitor's impressions. Even then, though, he'd think perhaps the concern about Loghain's fate would be directed to Anora directly. But the letter is to him, and not his Queen. He's checked. Several times.

And then... like a knife, like poison hidden in the ink, they've slipped in the mention of her. For what purpose? What could the Hero of Ferelden possibly have learned from Loghain that she'd want shared with such urgency? And why couldn't she share it herself.

Still. There's hardly anything to be done about it; by the time he's reading it again, they've announced the Inquisitor's arrival at the city gates. He had hoped some vain hope that the Inquisitor might bring the Grey Warden of note with her; but nobody reports a sighting.

He is conflicted when the doors open. Should he stand to greet the Inquisitor? Eamon tells him to remain seated. But when the Landsmeet Chamber doors bang open and the woman strides in, her head held high, he feels the itch to stand. His legs shift, and his boots scrape against the stone.

But he does not stand.

"Lady Inquisitor," he greets, and feels rude as his ears redden. "I can only hope that this meeting will be less... exciting than our last."

And involve less mages. Though, he notes, she's a mage. Okay. Less Tevinter mages, at least.

[nobroth]

DAMN LOU

[siriusdraws]

early morning war room set up

[pomegranateruin]

my first alistair vs how i draw him now / 4 month art difference

[brambeag]

hehe

[sitoric]

old sketch with king alistair i don't think i'll ever finish

[oblivionscribbles]

Part of a reward I drew years ago for my supporters on P@tr3on. I decided to add a bit of ground so Alistair wasn’t floating in the ether lol

Commissions are open!

[nerd-elf]

I’ve been away from posting because of work, but I saw this text and I couldn’t help myself 🤣🤣🤣

Poor man just wants a hug (and some gossip) ❤️

[loustica-lucia]

Alistair Week Day 3 — Reunion

Day 1 ✦ Day 2 ✦ Day 3 ✦ Day 4 ✦ Day 5 ✦ Day 6 ✦ Day 7

For @alistairweek💖

The fact they meet again in Inquisition, and Fiona never told Alistair that she's his mother... I understand why she keeps it secret, but here I wanted to draw that reunion 💞

This entire week has been doodled on paper with pencils first, then edited digitally and rendered using Clip Studio Paint🎨

[pomegranateruin]

bastard turned king

this might be a crop of a request on my priv twt but the crop is innocent enough :)

prints here!

ps. earring as king is from zevran . his earring scenes live in my mind forever

[pomegranateruin]

the king’s favourite way to spend his mornings

crop :) full on priv!

[shirmart]

Preview of my work to one of the fan projects