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[rofa1309]

art by @prof-peach

[clairedelune-13]

Someone: How can you forgive Illario? He’s a monster!

Me: If I can forgive the egghead, who is like 8000 years old and has committee far worse crimes, I can totally fix The Other Dellamorte, who’s only, like, 35.

[doctormur]

Yup.

[woundedsoul12]

I support Illario's rights and Illario's wrongs

[lustaniasaxon]

He did nothing wrong but yeah 💍

[thimblings]

kind of a polycrow continuation, in an alternate universe w/ @lustaniasaxon’s Rook, Lust, also existing alongside Marisol.

was joking in chat about Marisol continuing to be the Crows’ “get along Rook” uwu

[lustaniasaxon]

Marisol the Polycrows get along Crow

[ao3-shenanigans]

The struggle of every ff reader ToT

lol!

[randomness-in-motion]

So canon 🙆✍️

[paxvoik2]

Illario's face after he leaves to get the ashes. Actually he doesn't leave right away, he stops and stands there for a few seconds looking back at Lucanis. 💔

[lustaniasaxon]

MY SHAYLA

[pingo1387]

having a headache while hydrated is so unfair. you were supposed to protect me.

[rofa1309]

Farmer Secrets To Beating The Heat

[dalishious]

If anyone needs me I'll be busy thinking about this dialogue for the rest of the night, thanks

[dalishious]

hello! now that you've finished lucanis' personal quests, what are your thoughts on illario being the traitor? i'm having hard time reconciling the illario who worries that caterina's demands will result in lucanis' death (wigmaker job) to with the illario who well, arranges for lucanis to be killed. sure, illario's ambitious in both and as you've already pointed out, resentful of caterina, but when it started to become obvious that illario was the traitor i legit thought it was a red herring at first

I think Illario really truly did care for Lucanis, and I think he truly did mourn him in "The Wake" short story, too. But unfortunately he also saw Lucanis as being in the way of what he wanted, and decided what he wanted was more important.

When Zara went off script though, and Lucanis turned out to be alive, I think the assessment provided in-game that he panicked is probably correct. Elgar'nan and the Venatori offered a quick "solution", and things really spiraled out of control from there. At that point, I think he lost sight of anything except power.

I wonder though, if he ever questioned his actions at all while charming Zara, or if he was already at that point purely goal-oriented. Like, did he ever stop and think "what the fuck am I doing here?"

[dalishious]

Girl they could never make me hate you

[suppenzeit]

illario babygirl you did nothing wrong

[dalishious]

Illario's ending dialogue if you don't imprison him oh my god

"We've come too far to die now, don't you think? Go. Fulfill my cousin's final contract. Treviso will have its revenge. The First Talon will see it done. He… he never fails, does he? Lucanis… I wanted him dead all that time. And now… I see only lost time. Fighting through a city run by Venatori. It's what Treviso could have been, but worse. (Laughs) Was that suitably self-absorbed? Go win again, Rook."

He may be a hot mess but you can't claim he's incapable of self-awareness!!!

[dalishious]

I’d like some of your thoughts on that Lucanis and Illario scene! I was confused why Lucanis is so dismissive of Illario. While I know he was groomed by Caterina to be her heir so he’s no doubt in that mindset that he’s more skilled than Illario, Lucanis and Illario trained together under her and Illario is a skilled assassin. Why does Lucanis think otherwise? And outright say so to Illario?

Okay! I will do my best to keep this coherent but no promises because the Dellamortes truly make me insane...

The thing you gotta remember about Lucanis is, as evidenced from both The Wigmaker Job and the DATV quest where you enter his head, he is the type of guy who is very good at bottling up any emotions that are too complex to easily deal with. That is especially the case when it comes to his family. He'd rather try to organize them into simpler boxes, and the thing is... the thing is... the box he's got for Illario is (to steal Illario's own words) "Dellamorte the lesser."

Lucanis can do know wrong. Illario can only ever do wrong. That is the dynamic Caterina has set up for them, by making it so clear-cut that Lucanis is the favoured heir. It's so ingrained that Lucanis, who doesn't even want to be the heir to the House, still feels he is the superior. Illario is meant to follow, not lead. And I honestly and truly do not think that Lucanis sees pointing this as being mean-spirited, but rather it is just the way things are. He's afraid that Illario breaking out of this pattern that's been established since boyhood will get him killed. And Lucanis loves Illario dearly! He - to his knowledge at the time of this scene - just lost Caterina, the only other blood-relation he had left, and believes that there is someone targeting his family. Of course he has every reason to think Illario is in danger. But instead of simply saying "he my cousin, my brother, I worry for your wellbeing," he's gotta keep that pattern going because it's the only way he knows how to keep Illario from getting killed. It's the only way he knows how to treat Illario.

Like idk man if I was Illario I would have crashed so much sooner.

[elvisqueso]

Fine. Have it your way, cousin.

[dalishious]

In working on my Illario outfit mod, I just learned two things:

There is an unused(?) nail polish shader

Illario's appearance preset uses said nail polish. With glitter even. The base colour is #0A0B4D (indigo blue) with #8D8D8D (silver) glitter.

[theheartmold]

"All that effort training and grooming us, and the old woman still won't step aside." Beneath the bitterness in Illario's tone was something rotten.

“Three Poems” Ruth Stone / Supernatural / The Oresteia / “The Cruel Prince” Holly Black / “White Oleander” Janet Finch / "The Wigmaker Job" Courtney Woods / Screenshots from Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Bioware)

My Submission for the prompt of "First Talon" for Illario Appreciation Week :)

[dalishious]

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