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the blood mage

My absolute favorite way to view the Inquisitor is as someone who is still a prisoner the whole game. Because there is never a clear moment that ends. You're given titles, but you still can't leave. You're given power to judge, but only the cases the advisors hand off. You are occasionally allowed to make a decision when the advisors can't agree among themselves. Three years after you finish what was supposedly your only job, they still haven't let you leave.

#CHEWING ON IT #inquisitor #da:i

aralshiral

slow arrow & spymaster

#felassan #briala #the masked empire #elves #fanart

sino-666

Demon Possession

#yessssss #anders #justice #fanart #da2 #love the Teeth

brambeag

evanuris

#eyezoomin in on june like #sir. SIR. LYRIUM BRANDS??? DETAILS SIR AT ONCE #evanuris #fanart

dragonagegallery

Karasten

Art: Fernando Furukawa / Background Ink: Sebastian Heinz / Colors: Michael Atiyeh

#yes the shoulder spikes could just be how that particular artist has chosen to draw qunari. but consider.#FULL REAVER SQUAD #official art #qunari #vashoth

fenrelmercar

I pulled you from the Fade you loved and sent you into war.

Solas Appreciation Week 2025, @thelighthouse-server Day 1: Fade/Dreams

#solas #mythal

persistentgore

hi, here is an argument that felassan's name actually means bomb.

1. the story felassan tells briala about the origin of his name — a slow arrow the dread wolf shot into the sky so it fell when the beast's mouth was open and the beast was vulnerable — obviously isn't literal. one explanation is that felassan was sneaking around while solas "left" so they could catch the "beast" at a vulnerable moment, and in future retellings the name felassan was reinterpreted as a real arrow. personally i like this! but that still leaves the question of why he was called felassan in the first place, especially when felassan was an alias.

2. in tevinter nights ("half up front") there's an ancient device that absorbs magic from the surrounding area, then uses the absorbed magic for a town-leveling explosion. this device uses a rune that someone activates while saying "felassan" over and over. there are a lot of possible explanations for that, but one is that it is just what the thingy is called, because the ancient elves were poetic nerds who totally would have named a bomb in a metaphorical way like that.

3. in the veilguard artbook, the depiction of solas's rebellion features a bombing, too.

4. a device that requires time to collect power (and leaves those around it vulnerable, since it also absorbs magic and turns enchanted objects into dust in the process) before exploding slots pretty neatly into the general shape of a story about solas walking away while leaving something behind that killed a threat, albeit not as quickly as people wanted or perhaps with some collateral damage.

5. the ancient elvhen word for something that lowers defenses before inflicting big damage would also be a great nickname for a spy/saboteur/anyone both charming and ruthless. or someone who was routinely sneaking around to leave timebombs ticking on solas's behalf.

6. this could have allowed ancient elvhen dynamite-in-bed jokes.

#felassan #lore discussion #elvhenan #arlathan #NEAT #*files away as horror fodder immediately*

albaharu

The adventures of Inquisitor Maddox : Part 50

#YOOOOOOO #maddox #leliana #cassandra pentaghast #josephine montilyet #cullen #da:i #comic #fanart

aspiscean

Solas for everyone I say

#oh the HAND. ON THE BACK OF HIS NECK. the piercing stare the color palette the slightest smile #(the buttcrack)#inquisitor x solas #adaar #inquisitor #solas #fanart #da:i

half asleep thought which is at least partially supported by canon but like.

is the iron bull considered aqun-athlok under the qun

bc he's ben hassrath. ben hassrath are part of the priesthood. the only other part of the priesthood we know (tamassrans) are all female, while the 3rd branch next to the military (all male), craftspeople & co, can be men or women so

i mean apparently the boss of the priesthood can be a man or a woman while the boss of the craftspeople is always female??? so presumably other priesthood jobs could be for men as well

but that feels ODD considering, like i said, craftspeople are the only group we know that Doesn't have gender restrictions, aqun-athlok-ness notwithstanding? and again, tamassrans being Such a huge part of the priesthood and being obligatorily female like

#i mean maybe the tamassrans and the antaam Are the only gender-restricted groups in the qun??? but again given how much of a Fuss #has been made about qunari gender (roles) being weird or v specific in like. all the games etc. i'm like. HM.#yes doylistically this is p clearly a case of the culture evolving over the years and bioware trying to be more inclusive #but Watsonianly. it's INTERESTING #saar being like. mobius strip aqun athlok in the baby au. iron 'my gender is SPY and also WEAPON' bull getting a headache trying to parse i #it would be so funny #god i gotta make them talk about it #qunari #the ramble edda

crunchyncrumbly

zevran first meeting my beloved

#incredible #zevran arainai #da:o #grey warden #alistair theirin #leliana #fanart

estramor

even in the darkness there's hope and beauty. have faith.

#da:i #da:o #da2

kanis-things

lead them or fall

#da:i #ensemble #fanart #oh i adore that style it's so Crisp #also the dedication to the in-game armors damn……could not be me tbh

serault girl wtf

Someone somewhere has def lost their minds already about this but uh

the serault wartable missions in da:i if you've completed the last court are unhinged what is happening in that place

like, okay, if you go the leliana-route (listen to the people) you get nothing big, only something vague and threatening (in josie's it's "perhaps there is more to its age-old troubles than we understand. We will leave Serault to its mysteries" and in cullen's "For some reason, they are wary of something in the deep woods")

ominous, yes, but like What Isn't, honestly, in this setting

BUT THEN

if you pick josie in the beginning and send an emissary to serault, they and the marquis straight up GET LOST and you have to search for them and

Leliana

Our scouts located a strange hut in the deep woods. Entering, they found the marquis and the emissary, sitting across from each other, playing a game of chess. Upon seeing our scouts, the emissary balked and fled. The report described his eyes as 'inhuman.' Our agents took off in pursuit, but were unable to capture him. Though the marquis showed appreciation for the rescue, he was unable or unwilling to provide us with answers about the fate of our emissary. A token of Serault has been gifted to the Inquisition, in gratitude and sympathy.

Cullen

We found the emissary in the deep woods, but not the marquis. Our man was shaken and could not find his voice, but he was able to lead our soldiers to a strange hut. It was recently occupied, but whoever lived there had escaped before we got there. Perhaps they heard our soldiers coming through the woods. Not the most ideal of outcomes. However, the soldiers discovered groves of medicinal herbs in the deep woods──a minor consolation.

LIKE FOR ONE. FOR ONE. the marquis straight up disappears in one version and you have no idea what happens to serault after that like!!! i'm p sure there's no ProperTM heir around so!

BUT ALSO DID THE EMISSARY GET POSSESSED. and/or the marquis, depending on the version???? like what the everloving fuck happened here