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natalie. introvert. 30. writer. book lover. cat mom. current wips: Half a Creature from the Sea, my COD/Pirate AU. ☠️ Hunter's Mark, my DA:Veilguard Dav Rook long-fic. ⚔️ pfp: DavRook from Hunter's Mark. credit goes to Rowan.

[redhairedmuses]

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Davrin/Rook (Dragon Age), Lucanis Dellamorte/Original Female Character(s), Lace Harding/Taash, Neve Gallus/Bellara Lutare, Rook & Varric Tethras, past Illario Dellamorte/Rook - Relationship, Dragon Age: The Veilguard Companions & Original Female Character(s) Characters: Rook (Dragon Age), Davrin (Dragon Age), Lucanis Dellamorte, Neve Gallus, Bellara Lutare, Emmrich Volkarin, Taash (Dragon Age), Lace Harding, Various Dragon Age Characters, Female Lavellan (Dragon Age), Solas (Dragon Age), Tarquin (Dragon Age), Ashur | The Viper, Charon Mercar, Viago de Riva, Andarateia Cantori, Illario Dellamorte, Isabela (Dragon Age), Strife (Dragon Age), Irelin (Dragon Age), Antoine (Dragon Age), Evka Ivo, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Compliant/Adjacent, Follows Dragon Age: The Veilguard Events, but with some twists and changes, Canon-Typical Violence, Pre-Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Shadow Dragon Rook (Dragon Age), Trans Male Rook (Dragon Age), Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:

Rook and company have made themselves allies to the Veil Jumpers and have recruited Bellara to their cause. However, taking down the gods will take more than just the four of them. It's time to bag themselves a deadly assassin in a city filled with Crows and Antaam. Friends, we're going to Treviso!

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Hear ye, hear ye - it is PriceGaz Weekend 2026!

As per the vote from the survey, PriceGaz Weekend will be held 18th-20th September. The prompts will be suggested and voted by you, the surveys will be put up in August!

[imrowanartist]

It’s a proven fact that certain Grey Wardens look more and more handsome with age

[nightmarist]

A COMINT !!

[inthevoidzone]

Hey so I really love how Davrin's vallaslin is handled in Veilguard and how it ties into not only his arc, but his internal conflict between two halves and the choice at the end of his character quest.

First of all, I'm gonna say god/Creator rather than Evanuris for this post because I'm not talking about the actual historical elves with all the associated baggage and atrocities, but the maybe-false but still culturally meaningful constructs the Dalish created out of ancient half-remembered history to be their gods. In reality and even most fantasy, Gods aren't literally real, but are always meaningful. In universe, vallaslin are unique. In opposition to the default set that a player character gets to choose between and is also applied to generic NPCs, Dalish characters with bespoke facemorphs have unique vallaslin designs. Identifiying a particular Dalish elf's vallaslin in-universe isn't so much checking a chart for an exact match as it is studying the design elements and recognizing the symbology of a given Creator. Elgar'nan is represented by a play of light and darkness. Mythal by the boughs of a great tree. Falon'din by a design that is "as above, so below." And Andruil and Ghilan'nain are represented by a bow and horns respectively, as the hunter and the mother of halla. Writers have confirmed that Bellara and Cyrian's vallaslin honour Dirthamen, god of secrets, mysteries, and lore. And of course they did! It's pretty obvious where these two truth-seekers would be aligned. But the same writers were cagey about answering who Davrin's tattoos represent, and I think this is on purpose, because Davrin's vallaslin are meant to be ambiguous.

Assume they're for Andruil, the hunter who loved testing herself against stronger and stronger foes, who was revered by the Dalish as a warrior and a protector and who could never bear to remain at home. You can see the curve of the bow, the point of the arrow. Now, assume they're for Ghilan'nain, the nurturing creative spirit who created the gentle halla and then cared for them as if they were her own children. Now you see the delicate lines curving up into the shape of horns, crowned by a second set at the top.

(Davrin's mentor, Eldrin, wearing Ghilan'nain's vallaslin, alongside a render of the player character's options for Andruil's Vallaslin.)

You see where I'm going, right? This is Davrin's character arc! His internal conflict! The brave and fearless warrior ready to throw himself into the arms of death vs the caring and soft-hearted surrogate father to a magical creature. The young man who couldn't bear to stay with his clan vs the boy who sang to the halla. And the choice he and Rook make together at the end of his quest, where Davrin's conflict is reflected onto Assan and the other griffons. Brave fighter or nurturing caretaker? The hunter or the shepherd? Schrodinger's vallaslin. Devs won't clarify which it's intended to be because it's intended to be both.

[redhairedmuses]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Illario Dellamorte/Rook, Lucanis Dellamorte/Original Female Character(s) Characters: Illario Dellamorte, Rook (Dragon Age), Shadow Dragon Rook - Character, Lucanis Dellamorte, Original Female Character(s), Rook: Lennox Mercar, Original Characters Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence, Pre-Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Explicit Sexual Content, Past Relationship(s), One Night Stands, Action/Adventure, Tragic Romance, Prequel to Hunter's Mark, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Trans Male Character, Trans Rook (Dragon Age), Trans Male Rook (Dragon Age) Summary:

the prequel to the events of Hunter's Mark

What was supposed to be a one-night stand turns complicated as Rook finds himself reluctantly allying with an Antivan Crow by the name of Illario... who is every bit alluring, charming, and dangerous as he claims to be. The tension between them only grows whilst navigating the viper's nest of blood magic, cults, and masquerade parties. So, will the two find a simmering solace or will it all go up in flames?

[redhairedmuses]

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Davrin/Rook (Dragon Age), Lucanis Dellamorte/Original Female Character(s), Lace Harding/Taash, Neve Gallus/Bellara Lutare, Rook & Varric Tethras, past Illario Dellamorte/Rook - Relationship, Dragon Age: The Veilguard Companions & Original Female Character(s) Characters: Rook (Dragon Age), Davrin (Dragon Age), Lucanis Dellamorte, Neve Gallus, Bellara Lutare, Emmrich Volkarin, Taash (Dragon Age), Lace Harding, Various Dragon Age Characters, Female Lavellan (Dragon Age), Solas (Dragon Age), Tarquin (Dragon Age), Ashur | The Viper, Charon Mercar, Viago de Riva, Andarateia Cantori, Illario Dellamorte, Isabela (Dragon Age), Strife (Dragon Age), Irelin (Dragon Age), Antoine (Dragon Age), Evka Ivo, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Compliant/Adjacent, Follows Dragon Age: The Veilguard Events, but with some twists and changes, Canon-Typical Violence, Pre-Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Shadow Dragon Rook (Dragon Age), Trans Male Rook (Dragon Age), Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:

or alternatively known as "the life and times of one chaos gremlin and Shadow Dragon, Lennox "Rook" Mercar"

What begins as a quest for Solas soon unravels into a grand adventure of saving the whole world. And while this may not be what Lennox signed up for, someone has to do something, right? Thankfully, he won't do it alone. Assembling the Veilguard (along with old allies and new), Lennox and company strive to defeat the gods, battle ghosts of the past (including his own), travel all across Thedas and yes, even find love in the most unlikeliest of places.

[eurodynamic]

Dragon Age: Origins (2009) Dragon Age II (2011) Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014) Dragon Age: The Veilguard (2024)

[ratbagjasper]

Charon Mercar and baby Dawes sketch because I'm fucking evil

[d7kyoshi]

Elfroot. Crystal Grace. Brona's Bloom. Andraste's Grace. Lilja Thorne and Lace Harding.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for this wonderful commission @acwhiteart (acwhite (@acwhite) | VGen)!!! I am in complete awe at how beautiful everything is! And look at them!! Surrounded by so many gorgeous flowers! AUGH! LOVE!

[seaglassmelody]

So Davrin hasn’t been back to his clan since he left, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

Because Davrin clearly cares a lot about being elven. He’s the first to point out how the actions of Solas and the Evanuris will negatively impact elves. He talks about how important the halla are, and the Way of Three Trees is core to his approach to life. It’s heavily implied that HE named Assan.

And yet he’s never gone back home. He didn’t fit in with clan life, and he’s obsessed with finding a purpose. I wonder if he feels guilty, like he needs to have an ultimate justification for why he left to “redeem” the choice. Because otherwise he’s betraying his people, his culture, to become part of the world at large— the world that harms elves and persecutes them. Is he afraid he’ll be scolded? That he won’t fit in anymore? That he won’t be seen as “really elven”?

This is why the scenes with Eldrin are so important. When Eldrin says “I’m glad you took the road less traveled” essentially, he’s giving Davrin permission to not feel guilty for his choices. He’s telling Davrin that he doesn’t have to Be A Specific Way to still be Dalish. He’s allowed to be himself and ALSO a Dalish elf— which goes hand in hand with the conflict between being a hunter and being a caretaker.

Technically Davrin’s arc starts when you meet him, but his character progress starts when he survives Weisshaupt. He’s been forced to face the fact that the world isn’t what he thought it was, which means he doesn’t have to hold himself to these strict rigid standards between categories. And that’s what Assan teaches him over the course of the game as well. He’s allowed to be many things, and he can accept all parts of himself without fear or shame.

[d7kyoshi]

Lilja "Rook" Thorne

You can see why Lace Harding fell in love with her.

[ladiemars]

do you guys think assan gets to sleep in davrin’s bed

[tempesthawke]

We know who you are, Isseya. A Grey Warden who lost her way: you blighted the griffons, you doomed them.

[mirufiyu]

Onward, dweller. Veilguard virtual backgrounds available on my Ko-fi!

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the warden

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