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[starlit-rook-shadowbanhell]

Round 3 Electric Boogaloo Edition

So! The DA sideblog I had to make because this one is trapped in the shadow realm got nuked recently. Don't know how long that'll take to fix/if it'll actually ever get fixed

Thus, in the meantime, I remade myself again because the fixation will not be stopped

Find me here-

[shadowed-rook]

I shall (slowly) start using this for the time being

[magicsewerman]

He curious, testing the waters, learning

[sunlight-shunlight]

Didn’t flemythal die in dai? /gen

well, sort of!!

the thing is that she has died so many times, fhdsfgdgfd. i don't think she can be killed in a way that matters. like there was original mythal who got killed by ALL the evanuris and somehow still survived, multiple rounds of her body-hopping between hosts afterwards, the warden can "kill" flemeth and she's literally fine, and she even sounds like she's used to that happening?

and then prior to "dying" she had her whole monologue like this:

which... does not sound like what someone would say, if they can literally turn into a dragon, and have unmatched magic powers. and they are about to get "killed" by a guy who is effectively a normal mage in stolen pyjamas, ahaha. like she was very much agreeing to being killed there. so it follows that whatever happened was part of her plan? and she even says "i am sorry" to HIM while he's "killing" her, which makes it sound even shadier. what is she preemptively apologizing for?

plus look at it this way: flemythal has been putting pieces together for hundreds of years AT LEAST. whereas solas woke up a a couple years before this and is nearly powerless. like flemeth was involved in setting up the entire royal lineage of ferelden, ending the 5th blight and getting the old god soul (maybe), then getting hawke to kirkwall so that they can set corypheus loose, and even getting clan sabrae near the blighted eluvian so merrill starts messing with it... like she very clearly seemed to be setting up a whole 5d chess game, where solas is just a part of it, and her end goal is this reckoning stuff.

personally my theory was that she wanted to release the evanuris on purpose, so that she could kill them and absorb their power by force to rebuild herself back into her full form again, or something. i'm also a "the evanuris killed her and drank her blood to try and get blight resistance" theory person, so maybe they all have a little bit of her power and she wants to stick them with a silly straw and get it back? idk.

[starlit-rook-moved]

Moving Blogs

Letting ya'll know that I'll be moving to @shadowed-rook for my dragon age needs

This blog ain't going anywhere, but I want to keep my main business focused on only one of them

[starlit-rook-shadowbanhell]

My New Blog is fumckiing Gone!

So, I had to remake this blog because of the shadowban, and now the new one is just gone

Like gone gone, it's not there at all in any of my lists, I had an instance of it open and refreshing it just takes me to the 'Nothing Here' page and

alshdflaskhfdasldf

This is getting distressing

I did send in a ticket

[starlit-rook-shadowbanhell]

If anyone's tried to @ me, reply to stuff or in anyway tried to chat on this blog (especially within the past two weeks or so), I've been getting NOTHING in terms of notifs from this blog

So, I'm not snubbing anyone or the like, I'm just not seeing it!

[starlit-rook-shadowbanhell]

Remade my blog so I can actually interact with fandom again. Same name, different place

@starlit-rook

This one is currently in shadowban hell, I can't reply to anyone, see my messages, my stuff doesn't appear in tags, the whole nine yards. It's been weeks now and no response from staff, so new blog it is.

[vhen-harel]

Seeing Solas Through the Eyes of Cole

Currently working on a project, trying to paint a picture of Solas through the dialogue said about and to him in both games - the good and the bad. I love analyzing dialogue, so this has been a fun project, even if a bit daunting at times. The last few days I've been focusing on Cole’s lines specifically, and it’s interesting to see how much sympathy and emotional depth we get through Cole.  

When we view Solas through the lens of spirits - beings of emotion - it's understandable why many players find Solas sympathetic. Cole especially is a powerful lens for this because of the nature of this character, he doesn’t recall facts - he feels what others feel. 

Cole's dialogue after All New, Faded for Her, paints, I think, the most vivid emotional picture of Solas.  

Cole: Bright and brilliant, he wanders the ways, walking unwaking, searching for wisdom...   Solas: I do not need you to do that, Cole.   Cole: Your friend wanted you to be happy, even though she knew you wouldn't be.   Solas: (Sighs.) Could you... if you would remember her, could you do it as I would?   Cole: He comes to me as though the Fade were just another wooded path to walk without a care in search of wisdom. We share the ancient mysteries, the feelings lost, forgotten dreams, unseen for ages, now beheld in wonder. In his own way, he knew wisdom, as no man or spirit had before.   Solas: Thank you. 

As a man now and as time has gone by, Solas’ memories have become clouded by shame and regret. He can’t trust himself to remember his friend as it deserves to be remembered - without distortion. 

So he turns to Cole, a being closer to that spiritual purity, and asks him to remember his friend as he would have. 

But I love what happens instead. 

Cole responds by sharing how the spirit remembers Solas. This is rare - a spirit’s insight on how they view Solas - a memory of him, untainted by the self-loathing Solas carries. Cole knows what Solas needs even if Solas doesn’t and I believe Cole knows that part of Solas’ hurt is that he’s grieving not just his friend, but the man/spirit he was.   

“In his own way, he knew wisdom, as no man or spirit had before.”  

This was likely a spirit who had known Solas throughout his entire existence - as both spirit and man. The way it describes him is in the present tense: “He comes to me...” tells me that Solas, even as a man, continued to visit this spirit in the Fade. So the spirit sees him not as something entirely changed. Solas may have taken a different form, but his nature - curious, seeking, attuned to the Fade - remains the same.

We don't know for sure, but this spirit likely witnessed his transformation from spirit to man, his part in the destruction of the Titans, his rebellion against the Evanuris, the death of Mythal, and the long path that led to the events of Inquisition. I wonder, how many times did he turn to this spirit when he’d lost his clarity, seeking the wisdom he once embodied? Would things have gone differently if this spirit was still alive in the events leading to, and of Veilguard? Outside of Mythal, it may be the only being we meet in the games who has seen the entirety of Solas.

This spirit understood that Solas was wounded. Of course it did - it was a spirit of Wisdom. And when we consider its final words to Solas alongside Cole’s later dialogue, we gain deeper insight into the pain he carries.

“I’m happy. I’m me again. You helped me. Now you must endure”. 

Solas helped it return to it's purpose before it passed, and in return, it asks him to do the same: to endure. Not just physically, but spiritually - to live without losing himself and hold on to who he truly is beneath all the darkness and regret. 

I think part of the pain Cole feels in Solas stems from Solas losing himself. The theme of longing to be seen runs throughout Inquisition and Veilguard - in the Memories of a Duet Codex, in Solas telling the Inquisitor, “Few in this world can see me…,” and in his confession to a hurt Inquisitor, “You saw more than most.” He even states it outright: “I was Solas first.” And Solas is being buried beneath centuries of war, shame, grief, and every name hurled at him as an insult and in hatred.

To me, this dialogue offers a rare window into who Solas is beneath the darkness, strangled by years of violence and making choices against his nature. His capacity for love, his longing for connection - it isn’t a lie. It’s the part of him that can endure, despite everything. If the atonement ending is chosen, we see the full expression of that endurance.

To feel compassion for someone isn’t to excuse their actions - but there is power in understanding the emotional root of those actions. And if we choose to see Solas through Cole’s eyes (and through the eyes of the Spirit of Wisdom) – well, maybe we’ll find that he’s not that kind of wolf.  

[excited-hiss]

Being in this fandom will really have me thinking shit like "I can do the wildest thing no one has considered before because I am brave and big brained - I'm going to write Emmrich being awful at sex"

[excited-hiss]

What if he just sucks at it? What if he's a mediocre lay? He might still be hung like a horse but he does nooooot know what to do with it.

What if he really is just the nerdy professor who's charming and gets all flustered when someone flirts with him and Rook gets him into bed and this man is rusty. He was a pointdexter in school, all of his friends were books, and he had some paramours here and there but they loved him for his beautiful heart and not. So much his bedroom skills. How mortifying that Hezenkoss is right about the fact that he's a total fucking dork. Hopeless.

And he's so put together and he still can pull out some game when he needs to, so Rook's so excited to get him into bed and sweet kissing is nice, that's definitely nice but - oh, he doesn't know how to fit his nose against theirs and their teeth click together and he doesn't. Shut. Up. And it's so clear he's nervous and yowch maybe take the rings off first and no no it's fine he doesn't need to apologize oh god please stop apologizing and maybe there's just no two ways about it. Maybe that stroke is mid. It's all enthusiasm and eagerness that translates into a few limp thrusts and a dribble. Maybe Rook needs to gently encourage him to lie back so they can take the wheel and it's not a mind blowing ride, but maybe with some....practice, they could get up to a nice cruise around the neighborhood?

And Rook will laugh about it and not care because? They're still so stupidly sick in love with Emmrich and he's the best thing that's happened to them and there's still holding each other at night and going on adventures and crying at flowers and maybe they just need to set aside some longer "bath time" to take care of themselves. And maybe Emmrich would still be onboard as an enthusiastic audience member, not so much a participant. He can hold the toy? They'll make it work.

[northernolddragon]

[nipuni]

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves”

some monochrome ideas

[monderette]

" Old friend"

In our canon, the Inquisitor is a descendant of Felassan. And Tisa, in turn, as it is easy to guess, is one of the ancient elven. She looked after Allaros when he was very young and replaced his lost mother.

A moment of realising how much the adopted son is like an old friend

Oc: Allaros Lavellan Rutherford - @vampiremommyinquisition

[ryrycouch]

*Soft gasp*

I was GIDDY drawing this. I am so un-normal about this... pls be un-normal with me?

I love the messy hair strands, but it got my also thinking who is maintaining this hair? What is the routine? mess it up more.

[gayspacepiratesss]

Uhhh I am not on Twitter (or whatever you want to call it) but I finally figured out where all these shirtless muscled Neves are coming from AND I AM ON BOARD omg ☠️🫠😭💕

Original post here

My favorite versions by other artists (probably will update as I find more and/or remember blog names):

tinyhorror

[nev-jpgg]

It is so them

[secret-smut-sideblog]

love when fictional men are so devoted to their partner it makes them dangerous and insane. very slutty behavior keep it up king

[lathbora-virann]

Despite using a frequent banter mod, in all my years of playing Inquisition I have never had this banter trigger before! Now I'm just thinking about everyone gossiping behind Cassandra and Varric's backs about if and when they were going to get together. Maybe they started a betting pool