#celene

[kpopdemonhuntersgifs]

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025) dir. by Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans

[el-las-in]

Going through my ipad’s camera roll and found this bullshit I don’t think I’ve posted?

TME but Felassan is a tiny weird creature and Michel is the only one who can see it.

[saltybitterss]

Play a fun OC tag game with me! Here are my Arcana OCs as different cupcake flavors just because! 😋💙🧁

Ruth: Classic Red Velvet Celene: Earl Grey Lavendar Kassius: Turtle Pecan Talis: Pistachio w/ Strawberry Buttercream

I'm tagging @into-the-daniverse @misery-lake @demon-simper @abesetacringe and @rebassketchbook to play along to start! But everyone is welcome to reblog and add your own apprentice or other OCs to the mix! I want to see those cupcakes!! ✨🧁🧁🧁✨

[exhausted-archivist]

Okay 👁👁 I realized this, but magic is never seen being utilized for shipping food in Thedas. tbh this applies to a lot of fantasy worlds with magic. But specifically rn for DA. Could they possibly be using winter magic to make pseudo refrigeration?

ELLIE. I AM SO GLAD YOU ASKED. (I have thought about this and its like a big thing in my dnd setting but that's not what you're here for.)

So, I really dug into this for Dragon Age (and later my dnd setting) when I fell down this rabbit hole in the early days of working on Thedas Cookery - and its also in my milk meta as well as the whole meta/headcanons I have about Orzammar's importing of food but those are entirely different posts.

Food preservation in shipping food and the possibility of some form of refrigeration in Thedas: there is a simple and a complex answer to this.

Simple answer is yes, there is magic that could be used in food preservation and shipping of food. However, it isn't strictly winter magic. The other option is the preservation glyph in the creation school of magic (this comes up in the ttrpg). If you stick with just winter magic, the creation of ice that will slowly melt naturally and sticking it in a root cellar, basement, shipping box, etc. is a possible use of magic for preservation.

Now the complex answer. Sort of, in a very yes it is possible in theory but logistically for most of Thedas it cannot be utilized because it is so expensive and people are both rationally and irrationally afraid of magic.

But for the most part the main barrier would be cost. Hiring a mage from a circle is expensive, and really the only people who would be able to do so regularly are those in Tevinter, Rivain, the Crows, Dalish, Chasind, Avvar, or those with the means to do so. And if they don't get a mage and instead spring for dwarven enchantment (or circle enchantment), that is also prohibitively expensive and limited in availability.

In The Masked Empire, Celene has a tea pot that keeps her tea at the right temp constantly. It is a dwarven enchantment that while common in Orzammar's nobility and higher socioeconomic castes, it is so expensive Celene notes that if she were not empress she likely would not be able to enjoy such a thing.

Enchantments in general are expensive and are a display of wealth and power. Which is why Tevinter and Orlais use it for a lot of public spaces to show off the wealth and power of their countries. But it isn't just the specialized labor that makes these expensive, but also the rare/dangerous materials.

So what about the glyph I mentioned? Well, the creation school of magic is one of the hardest schools of magic to learn and master. So already it becomes another specialized skill that has a limit on who can perform it. In the ttrpg, the glyph has this description:

You draw a faint glyph on the surface of the subject, which can be any piece of dead organic material. The spell arrests the process of decay for the material, keeping it as fresh as it was when the glyph was inscribed for a month. A glyph of preservation can be renewed during its duration, which extends its affects for another month. When the glyph expires the process of decay begins again from where it left off. The spell is used to preserve foodstuffs, to preserve corpses (for lying in state or dissection), or to protect valuable items made of wood, paper, or leather.

So, the ttrpg does specify that foodstuffs counts as "dead" but on a technical level unless it is meat or other animal byproducts we know this isn't true. (See the potato you put in the dark and forget about and you come back to it having arms and legs.) But lets just say for the sake of this that plant based foods are also "dead". This means that you can preserve a crate of tomatoes or a cluster of mushrooms, etc. Unless of course it only applies to dried/preserved food stuff and animal byproducts (meat, dairy, eggs, ect.). But this is my quibbling.

All that said, the fact only a mage skilled in creation magic can do so decreases the availability of its use. It means that while yes, Tevinter or Rivain could easily use this to ship to other nations. Dalish, Avvar, and Chasind could also use this glyph - or even have a modified version of it since they do not practice circle magic and all magic we are exposed to is either circle magic or enchantment/lyrium based. (Except for the Dragon Age Multiplayer (DAMP) where we get to see a skill tree of non-circle magic aka "hedge magic".)

So non-circle mages may have access to a different methodology or be barred from that vein of magic due to the inherent differences of circle magic and non-circle magic. (This brings up a whole other conversation on the magic lore of Thedas that the game doesn't quite go into outside of codex and I think it is some of the best lore. But I'm weird.)

So TLDR:

Absolutely there is preservation magic for foodstuff. It just is an actual handy glyph. BUT you could use winter magic as a way to make ice out of season to increase the viability of food and create a sort of refrigeration.

[dalorewhore]

Reading too much into the dialogue at the Winter Palace... How crazy would it have been if a female Lavellan could seduce Celene? Not sure where it would go and I'm sure there are dozens of fics already... But if Celene has a type I wonder if it could be utilized?

Celene: "How do you find Halamshiral?"

Inq: "I have no words to suffice. Halamshiral has many beauties, and I couldn't do them justice."

Celene: "Your modesty does you credit, and speaks well for the Inquisition. Feel free to enjoy the pleasures of the ballroom, Inquisitor. We look forward to watching you dance."

👀 like that feels pretty flirtatious. Oh boy am I going to abuse this. Time to find out if my Inq might be bi-curious.

[aldanil]

The Masked Empire Briala “tarot” card

[kotily]

Experimenting with art styles for Art Fight ft. my ROTTMNT OC Celene.

[cannon-thebellwitch]

Celene’s ref sheet is finally complete!

And only a few hours before the art fight thee reveal😭