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just some crappy cell phone pics from the Art of Dragon Age Inquisition book but i really love these little cultural details. the geometric and angular aesthetics of Tevinter design clearly have a deeper meaning and aren’t just purely aesthetic choices; i’d really enjoy some further insight into what Tevinter numerology and symbology might look like more specifically.
there was a post somewhere on tumblr with this stuff on it at one point, but i can’t seem to find it anymore (if anyone has the link, send it my way!) but this whole 3D modeled courtyard by meggierock is so entirely exactly how i picture tevinter that it’s amazing. it combines the tevinter buildings we see in the game with some delightfully classical roman and greek influence, it has some gold colored stone and warm colors without being all dark and broody and Evulz™, it has the lovely angular and geometric design elements but softened with lots of thick greenery and paint -- remember, the Proving Ground in Minrathous is canonically covered in stepped gardens on the outside -- and it’s light and airy and open while still being appropriately rich and imposing. it’s all just. so good.
Certain it is and sure: love burns, ale burns, fire burns, war burns, politics burns. But cold were life without them.
from The Romulan Way by Diane Duane
TEVINTER IMPERIUM || AESTHETICS
Hard Mode: no dragons, blood magic, or slavery
Tiny reminder that Magisters cannot legally become Archon... this has been the case since the Black Age. Only those who are not members of the Magisterium or the Imperial Chantry are eligible to be appointed or elected Imperial Archon.
The front cover from Jugend Magazine from Issue Two, January 1900. It features a blindfolded woman barefoot, resting one foot on a wheel, holding a cornucopia from which roses are falling. She reaches out and moves the minute hand of a clock forward past XII. There are wings at her hand. The clock-face bears the signs of the zodiac and rays of light shoot out all around, from which we are to understand that the woman represents Time and the passage in January from one year to the next.
The image is by Gräfin Otolia (Olga) Kraszewska, the only woman artist to be featured in Jugend magazine.
Source.
Heraldry and Art of the Tevinter Imperium (image source)
