#caridin

[wng0re]

Experimental Illustration Commission for @orzamargaritaville. Steel Age butch dwarves Micah Cadash and Kesper Caridin lamenting their fractured love 💔 Inversion of The Meeting on The Turret Stairs Patreon | Kofi | Prints ⭐Commissions Waitlist Sign Up⭐ See where you are in the waitlist -> here past commissions -> #wng0re comms

[biancadavri]

Caridin was put in front of us during our highly formative teenage years as an ancient metal golem twice the size of the average man talking about how "it took feeling the hammer's blow myself to realise the height of my crimes" and it's still CRICKETS from the old man robot/monster fucker tragedy enjoyer website....... I see how it is.

[dragon-age-tournament]

Dragon Age Fight Club — Group #11 / Match 1 of 6

Evka Ivo

No propaganda submitted.

vs. Caridin

No propaganda submitted.

Who would win in a fight?

Evka

Caridin

Voting ended onJul 1

[dragonage-polls]

In the deep roads, what did your Warden do with the anvil of the void?

Destroyed the anvil and sided with Caridin

Kept the anvil intact and sided with Branka

Convinced Branka to destroy the anvil

See results

Voting ended onOct 4, 2024

[dragonageannual]

Meet the Legends: Caridin

Introducing the myths and legends of Dragon Age Annual 2025: Legacies! Caridin features in both fic and art for our calendar.

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Physical Copies & Merch: October 31st

Digital Calendar & Zine: January 31st, 2025

Codex Entry: Caridin's Journal

I have put off saying this, even in these pages. But I must say it now. My golems will be powered by their deaths. These brave warriors come to me, naked as the day they were born. I dress them in a skin of armor, so large it makes the burliest look no more than a babe, the anvil their first and final cradle. We are surrounded by a mile of earth on all sides. No one hears the screams as I pour molten lyrium through the eyeholes, the mouth, every joint and chink in the armor. They silence quickly, but the smell lingers, just a trace of blood in the greater stench of hot metal. I must work fast. The armor is malleable now, as I shape it with hammer and tongs. It is not long before it moves beneath my hands, writhing and twisting with every blow. It speaks again now, a low moan, but I have learned to tune it out. I can afford no error in this craft. There can be no melted slag blinding the eyes, nor an unhewn bit of granite shackling the leg. They groan at my work, but would they rather be broken, crippled? Those I have spoken to tell me of the pain, but could they see themselves, they would see perfection.

—From the journal of Caridin.

[dalishkadan]

i'm so excited and proud to be a part of the @dragonageannual this time around! our theme this year revolves around legends, so here's a sneak peak of a little something i've been writing for caridin.

[loghainmactirs-archive]

MAC-TIR'S FAVOURITE GAMES (1/∞) ↪ DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS (2009)

The Chantry teaches us that it is the hubris of men which brought the darkspawn into our world. The mages had sought to usurp Heaven. But instead, they destroyed it. They were cast out, twisted and cursed by their own corruption. They returned as monsters, the first of the darkspawn. They became a blight upon the lands, unstoppable and relentless. The dwarven kingdoms were the first to fall. And from the deep roads, the darkspawn drove at us again and again, until finally we neared annihilation... until the Grey Wardens came. Men and women from every race, warriors and mages, barbarians and kings, the Grey Wardens sacrificed everything to stem the tide of darkness, and prevailed. It has been four centuries since that victory, and we have kept our vigil. We have watched and waited for the darkspawn to return. But those, who once called us heroes, have forgotten. We are few now, and our warnings have been ignored for too long. It may even be too late, for I have seen with my own eyes what lies upon the horizon. Maker help us all.

[violetren]

Branka really wasn't shit huh?

Bitch betrayed everyone she ever knew in some of the most horrific ways possible chasing the glory of the anvil, and was willing to do even worse. Her brand of unhealthy obsession definitely started before she locked herself away in the deep roads but it only got more twisted and cruel since.

Meanwhile, Ruck went into self isolation after being exposed to the taint but retained enough of himself over 2 years to still be a trader so long as you respected his autonomy and wishes in return, Hespith went mad and sad but still in some fucked up way taught us something important about how Darkspawn breed and kinda warned us of what Branka had become, and Caridin spent hundreds of years locked alone in a tomb surrounded by death, Darkspawn, and memories of his failures and the dude retained enough of himself to give clear info about Shale and the anvil and his own history and request it be destroyed so that the cycle of slavery and abuse could not begin again.

Branka was ultimately unworthy of her title of paragon.