Ryn's Dragon Age Yelling

somewhere to put the all the feelings and art and maybe fic? that my friends and family don't want to hear. she/they pronouns, main blog @akedhi

[ruuari]

my dragon age charms that I forgot to share!!! you can get them here ✨

they are inspired by tarot cards

[voltaical-art]

*Davrin carving his 30th wooden figure of the day* I'm fine.

[dalishious]

[Viago Approves]

[dalishious]

Listen. I say this as someone who romanced Lucanis first and overall still finds him an enjoyable character. But my god, fandom is kidding itself to say his romance writing is anywhere near good. It's just not finished and blatantly feels that way. And he would not have nearly as many fans if he wasn't a conventionally attractive guy they can fetishize.

[usipukha]

[dijon-mayonnaise]

Davrin comm :)

[seracadash]

[dalishbee]

monster hunter

[looz-y]

davrin sketches!

while i was romancing lucanis, davrin REALLY tugged at my heart and i regretted NOT committing to a romance with him. my renewed save tho, I LOCKED TF IN!!!! he's such an amazing companion wtffff my rook is Smooching him 🙏❤️

[queam]

Hania Mahariel and Ashanti Lavellan

[bonksoundeffect]

Vivienne my beloved

One of dragon age's most underappreciated characters

[ikarons]

andersjustice should have been reclassed as a warrior in the fade. btw

[ikarons]

um. i think it's interesting bc da2 is possibly the game that's most willing to be critical of the templars, that presents the most unpleasant view of them in the series, but it's also a game with Notably quite a few "good" templars, who are shown to go out of their way to try to be kinder to mages than their peers — thrask, emeric, and samson (who is no longer a templar when we meet him because he was fired for his transgression. of. passing love notes.) & of course carver's namesake.

& the thing that they all have in common is that they subvert their orders. the "kind" templars in da2, across the board, all defy orders and expectations— thrask comes to you behind his superiors' backs to plead for you to stop his own colleague from catching up to some runaway mages for fear of what he'll do to them, emeric begs you to help investigate a series of murders of young women after both the city guard and his own superiors have already expressly told him to drop it, and. samson passed love notes between mages. (and when you meet him he may also ask for money in exchange for information on feynriel, but iirc he expresses hope that you're successful). maurevar carver helps malcolm escape.

and pretty much all of them suffer immensely for it! thrask and emeric are both ultimately killed. samson spends the entirety of the game homeless and suffering lyrium withdrawal before ultimately breaking, turning on you and returning to meredith.

& i think these characters and their actions and the consequences they suffer for their, let's be real, Basic Decency... really highlight what it is to be a templar who is still comfortably employed. like. the existence of these "good" templars, and the specific things they do in order to be "good," highlights how the only Good, kind, compassionate actions in this position are to Refuse To Do what templars do, especially in kirkwall. because these acts — stopping mages from being slaughtered, even passing harmless notes between them — are fireable offences. so, like, the templars that remain employed, that are Not going behind their commander's back... what are They doing?

[ikarons]

@bleedthebeat no exactly lmfao like none of these people succeed in changing anything. but it is telling that they tried. and from a writing/intent perspective i think it’s telling that they’re Brand New characters being written to try while a returning character is Not!

[dalishious]

Corypheus fight is gonna take 2 seconds flat when I get to it lol

[leliwardens]

i think you can do whatever you want forever but i saw a post that said divine leliana would make anders some kind of saint or whatever to push her pro-mage agenda and like.....no she wouldn't she'd HATE the guy fdskfdfsdf

[leliwardens]

if YOU'RE a heavily coded-andraste stand-in and I'M a heavily coded-andraste stand-in , then who's driving the plane????????

[dalishious]

SHE HAS ARRIVED~ 😍

[conchobarbarian]

it's really funny that when you're going through the gauntlet at the temple of sacred ashes, the figure you meet based on your origin is:

(human noble) your father, who you had to leave to his death along with your mother

(dalish elf) your best friend, who was dragged off by darkspawn to become a ghoul you later have to kill

(city elf) your cousin, who you were unable to save from being beaten and (implied) raped

(dwarf commoner) your best friend, who you thought you were leaving to die but instead end up having to kill

(dward noble) your brother, who your other brother murdered

and then

(mage) your piece of shit roommate jowan who, however sympathetic you may be to him, is fully & completely responsible for you having to leave the tower & join the grey wardens