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Canadian animator and illustrator: picses, she/her. Main blog is Skeelonsuniverse, mostly for inspo. Welcome!

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Inquisitor during the sixth blight

Events move with tremendous speed. Much that we thought certain has turned out to be only wishful thinking, and every day we find ourselves pushed to our limits. I can't say with confidence that we'll win this war.

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The echo's of Solas's ritual and the escape of the gods ring across the South, and the smell of war is heavy in the air.

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I found it right around the time Solas' ritual failed - it's tied to the veil. To him. Somehow

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As always I am turning her over in my head like a rotisserie chicken

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remember when they were divorced?

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I guess I never put this here. Baby Lavellan + mentor stuff

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wizard posting hours

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Ancient Arlathan AU ponderings, Lavellan as a lyrium crafter/Eluvian tech for June who is persuaded to switch sides over to the Rebellion, at a great personal cost

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Beware the forms of Fen'Harel! He will offer advice that seems fair, but turns slowly to poison. Remember the price of treason, and keep in your heart the mercy of your gods.

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POV a magic knife you found sends you into the fade and you run into these two

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This is the real post-credit scene, to me

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Miss Bellara 💚🧡

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I am getting used to what my Lavellan will look like in DA4 and also letting her go off to become an NPC.... may all of our inquisitors return as total baddies at least. Here she is processing some News

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Time to plan my Rook heh heh heh

This guy is gonna try so hard to be good and be a hero and his anxiety is going to go through the ROOF with the pressure on him to make decisions. Noa will be an unrepentant ray of sunshine who is also completely terrified of everything going on around him that is *technically* all his fault. Solas' protégé who refuses to think and act like him and tries to desperately appeal to him to Just Do The Right Thing and not kill everyone by bringing the Veil down.

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Neri Lavellan

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Dalish | Artificer | ♡ Solas

explanations ⤵

Recruited mages as allies: Neri makes this decision early into her time as Herald and isn't running a big organization yet, so she makes this decision as mostly a gut-check. Fiona - a fellow elf - takes a chance and risks a visit to Val Royeaux to broker a mutual alliance, which seems careful and practical compared to her encounter with Seeker Lucius. The mage's aren't the side trying to justify killing an entire demographic of people, just survive. Neri's father was the First of Clan Lavellan, and it's given her a view of how magic can be handled outside of human circles, and nurtured as a valued role in a society. This all sums up to her siding with the mages without really giving the templars a second thought, for better or worse.

Left Loghain in the Fade: This felt like a fitting end for the disgraced once-commander of Fereldan. Also, the Inquisition pressured Varric to drag Hawke into this situation, and thus she feels somewhat more responsible for Hawke's survival than Loghain's,

Grey Wardens join the Inquisition: She's not really in a position to turn down allies, and she's wagering that the Warden's won't be manipulated by Corypheus successfully a second time before his defeat; from the information she has, it seemed this plot was a plan years in the making. Also, Neri loved to hear stories when growing up in Clan Lavellan, and her absolute hero of her childhood was Garahel - a part of her stills sees the Warden's as heroes who were mislead. Sentimentality rules her a lot more than she lets on.

Briala rules Orlais through Gaspard: Killing Celene was a decision that didn't settle easily on Neri, as it was the first time she had traded a life for political advantage and not necessity. It was also, however, a rare chance to make a difference for elves, and she knew of how Celene marched on Halamshiral - someone willing to cross that line once could be pushed to do it again. I like to think Neri and Briala collaborate a few times after she officially 'retires' as inquisitor - sometimes to check Gaspard's inevitable pushback - and she comes to see this as the right decision.

Inquisitor Drank from the Well of Sorrows: Neri respects Morrigan, and has a soft spot for kids. She was around Kieran's age when she lost her only parent. She sees how Morrigan taking the power - and consequences - of the Well could smash into Kieran's life as well. She sees it as a better choice for her to hold that risk than lay it at two people's feet, as she's already marked by strange magic anyway.

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Lost Clan Levallen

Hardened Leliana Divine

Disbanded the Inquisition

Vowed to save Solas

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Hidden depths

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Falling slowly/Eyes that know me etc etc

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Based on this tweet by Northgalis