Random Nonsense About Dragon Age

I'm Rosie, and this is my sideblog for Dragon Age. My main blog is @b1narysol0. Icon by: @seaglassmelody

[randomnonsensedragonage]

Hi! I’m Rosie. This is my sideblog for my Dragon Age obsession. Follows and asks come from my main blog, @b1narysol0

Stuff I Do:

On this blog, I mostly just reblog anything DA related I like. But I also talk and write about my OCs, as well as make playlists and very occasionally draw

Writing: Tag | Ao3 (archive locked)

Playlists: Tag | Spotify

Drawing: Tag

OCs:

These days, I most often talk about my Rooks, but I’ll sometimes talk about my older OCs too

Here are the OCs I most commonly talk about and/or have talked a lot about in the past:

Rooks: Runa Ingellvar (tag | about) | Aster Aldwir (tag | about)

Inquisitors: Aylwen Lavellan (tag | about) | Selana Lavellan (tag | about)

Hawkes: Ilora Hawke (tag | about) | Corin Hawke (tag | about)

Wardens: Rora Surana (tag | about) | Avenie Caron (tag | about)

World States:

I technically have four world states, but I mostly talk/write about two of them. You can find out more about them below:

World State 1 (“canon”) – Protagonists: Rora Surana -> Avenie Caron -> Ilora Hawke -> Aylwen Lavellan -> Runa Ingellvar

World State 2 (secondary canon) – Protagonists: Melia Tabris -> Corin Hawke -> Selana Lavellan -> Aster Aldwir

And just for fun, here are my other two, extremely underdeveloped, world states:

World State 3 (oops all sapphics) – Protagonists: Lya Mahariel -> Maura Hawke -> Elanor Trevelyan -> Antonia Mercar

World State 4 (oops all dudes) – Protagonists: Liam Amell -> Arne Hawke -> Maika Cadash -> Rook TBD

[seaglassmelody]

Floral Portraits: The Final

Adora with sweet pea and phlox for @ladyofcrowsandcoffee Boone with hibiscus for @postcardsfromheapside Aydenne with purple daisies and lily of the valley for @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai Finn with snapdragons for @lgvalenzuela Francesca with peonies and irises for @trashwithvariety Rowan with amaryllis for @maagisterpavus [Redacted] Mercar with purple alstroemeria for @biowaredisasterbisexual Giovanna with orange blossoms for @handsignals Rowena with black bearded iris for @booksncatsworld Runa with purple crocuses for @b1narysol0

And with that, this round of requests is done <3 Thank you so much to everyone who submitted a request! Thank you especially to my last little group for your patience!!

Your characters are all so lovely and I was thrilled to get to work on so many different ones!!

Dividers by pixopix

[flowersforthemachines]

Useless Veilguard fact of the day: Day 428

The possibility to romance Neve is not immediately cut off if you choose to sacrifice Minrathous. However, you still need to make certain choices in your interactions with Neve in order not to lock yourself out of a possible romance.

Those choices include:

Bringing Neve with you to Solas's ritual

Supporting Neve in choosing the careful approach towards looking for the gods during the first conversation in the Lighthouse (dialogue option: Neve is right)

Completing the Study of Dock Town

Encouraging Neve to accept the Threads blackmail at the end of the Cobbled Swan Case (Neve will accept the blackmail either way on the Treviso path, but will disapprove if Rook tries to dissuade her from the deal)

Each choice grants you 1 point in the "Rook Backs Neve" counter.

If you get two or more points, Neve will note that Rook has shown up for her multiple times before and the romance will be available:

Rook: I want to be someone who shows up for you. Rook: I don't want to lose… I worry I've lost something. Neve: Rook, you turning up today… it's not the first time. Neve: Maybe you're not that lost. More likely we both are. Rook: How do we get found? Neve: Maybe we'll figure it out.

If you only have one point, Neve will say that they hardly see eye to eye, but Rook will insist they want to get to know her better (and the romance will also remain available):

Rook: I don't want to lose… I worry I've lost something. Neve: How much could you lose? We barely see eye-to-eye. Rook: I won't pretend to know you. But I want to. After everything, I don't know if you'll let me… Neve: But maybe we'll see.

However, if you scored zero points, the romance will be cut off:

Rook: I don't want to lose… I worry I've lost something. Neve: Likely nothing good for you. Neve: You don't know me, Rook. We barely see eye-to-eye. Neve: But we're together in a fight against the gods. You need a friend, you know where to find me.

Check out the tag for more useless facts: #useless davg fact of the day!

[doctor-aceus-art]

As much as i appreciate this mans hands, he would be obsessed with his rooks hands as well,i dont make the rules

[gaysebastianvael]

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

Davrin Week | Day 5 | Wood

... and a bit of Turlum (Day 4). Or maybe lack thereof. 😅

You wake up Assan? You wake him up like he's not a baby? Jail for father! Jail for a thousand years!

I got inspired by this banter Davrin has with Bellara.

It made me think that he'd probably taken a beak in the butt at least once, and I knew what I had to do.

[queam]

Queen Anora

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

Curious about something

I love my blorbo I need to put them in a ……

Microwave

Blender

Jar

Hamster Wheel

Wood Chipper

Snowglobe

Sims Torture Simulation

Terrarium

Enclosure

Saw Trap

Tomodachi Game

Voting ended onJun 7

[broodwoof]

reblog if you are veilguard positive!

i've found my little zone in fandom that i'm comfortable in, but it occurs to me that others are still struggling to find the people who actually enjoy this game! and who talk about it!

so please do reply or reblog if you're veilguard positive and talk about it uwu

[storybookhawke]

Affectionately, which is your least favorite major location in Dragon Age Inquisition?

Forbidden Oasis

Hissing Wastes

Fallow Mire

Exalted Plains

Storm Coast

Hinterlands

Western Approach

Emerald Graves

Crestwood

Emprise du Lion

Bald egg / results

Voting ended onJun 2

I don't even ask this to be critical/negative, I'm just curious what region do you go "ugh..." when you reach it while playing DAI?

[randomnonsensedragonage]

Huge thanks to @seaglassmelody for drawing my girl! She looks amazing!!!

[leliwardens]

i do genuinely appreciate the fact that meredith as a visibly much older woman character that has 0 motivations to anything related to "lost" youth or younger women or god forbid some sort of love entanglement with a man and instead her character motivation and arc proves that fascism can also be a women-dominated field! 👍

[subwaybug]

More people should get into poly shipping. Both because polyamory is awesome and because it's really fun to make complicated ass diagrams

[vaguely-concerned]

Romanced Taash has an energy I can only describe as like…

Rook: …Taash would you still love me if I were a worm? 🥺

Taash: What? Why? Has anyone told you they’re gonna do that to you? ‘Cause that’s real fucked up. That’s Not Cool. I’ll beat them up for you if you want to so they can’t do that. Just tell me where they are. Oh shit. I gotta ask Emmrich if he can turn me into a worm so I can be a worm with you in case it happens anyway so you won’t be alone. He’ll probably need my blood or something and it’ll be real creepy and corpsy but that’s fine that’s a small price to pay. Wait. What do you mean would I still love you. Of course I'd still love you. With my whole also-worm heart if it came to it. Why would you even ask that.

[uchidachi]

Good News! If Taash was a worm they would have five hearts to love Rook with!

[blackwall-my-tiny-husband]

[neves-trouble]

[broodwoof]

idk what post it was of mine, but some vg positive post i made someone else reblogged like "i'm glad people enjoyed the game, but all us long term fans know what we lost..." and i just had to laughhh

i have literally been a fan for as long as it has been possible to be a fan. and veilguard is amazing. it is an amazing, lore-accurate, sound continuation of the series

and while i am quite tolerant of a lot of the grimdark stuff that dao especially dealt with, given the time it came out in and all, i'm very pleased by the ongoing shift in direction. i think it's a very conscientious change, one that shows an awareness of, y'know, the real world

and i feel that said shift is epitomized really beautifully in veilguard, which is a story rooted in hope - hard-won, hard-fought, which is true of hope: it's not something to be given in calm moments, but something to be clung to and defended under duress - during this political moment. and the fact that it's a deeply, fundamentally queer story? is so, so important

[frotees-corner]

I will never get over all the "they changed the lore!!!!" complaints. Never.

The only thing they *may* have changed is the origins / birth of the Darkspawn stuff, and even that might be explained with, y'know, evolution (and anyway, hardly anyone is actually complaining about that part).

Everything else is just unreliable narrator / biased historian /change in perspective level things that are not really changes at all.

And I personally am extremely glad thet we got out of the grimdark stage, because the world is depressing enough already.

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

I've been playing Dragon Age games for well over a decade and, honestly, I'm quite offended when some people act like you're not a Real Fan(TM) if you like Veilguard. I've been obsessed with these games forever, and I love Veilguard. I like the added lore. I think there's a lot to appreciate and enjoy there.

I love Origins to death and I've replayed it many times, but let's face it, a lot about it is just standard fantasy - humans, dwarves, elves, orcs, SORRY, darkspawn, mages, medieval Europe resembling design, social structures and political topics, dark fantasy tropes, dark magic sex rituals producing magic babies, etc. That's not to say that there's nothing unique there, of course. Origins is, next to Veilguard, one of my favourites, but still. It's clear that after the initial entry, the franchise had been looking for a unique identity. This is clear from how DA2 is designed, the art style, the changes they made to elves, etc. It's also clear from how each game in the franchise is so very different and has a different main focus.

I think Veilguard is a wonderful addition in this department. It ties into the lore Trespasser touches upon. It knows what it wants to be and is very distinct from your bog-standard fantasy in a lot of ways. Personally, I really love how it handles its fantasy, visual design, lore, how it comes up with new ideas and makes the world more varied and colourful. We're yet again in different parts of Thedas which allows for this to happen without clashing with what we know from the previous games.

I hate to say it but sometimes it honestly seems like some people can't handle multiple things existing at once. Instead of thinking about how things might work together, they think they erase each other. Like when Bellara says that her clan does funerals a certain way, so clearly, CLEARLY, it means that what the Dalish Warden says about planting trees on top of graves in Origins is no longer true, right? Right?? Or maybe it means that the Dalish aren't a monolith and have different burial rites. Rook can even ask about it!

Nobody says Veilguard is perfect, not even its fans, we're very aware of its shortcomings (just like with the other games in the franchise), but for fuck's sake. Pulling fandom credentials into it is so stupid and annoying. Maker forbid we had different tastes.

[ouroridae]

We need more Taash content.