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the fact that everyone joining the hivemind in Pluribus is also called the Joining made me think. what if they Grey Wardens were also genuinely a hivemind. that would be crazy huh

I feel like a fun AU could actually be done with this but instead I’m just going “would that be wild or what” lol

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it's so hard to keep joy and whimsy in your heart when you stop liking something you used to love. but by god i will do it anyway

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thinking about writing a fix-it fic that basically changes everything Veilguard did with Isseya. “thinking” is the key word because I finish maybe 5% of the fic ideas I have, and this would probably have to be a longer fic so that chance is even lower — the longest fic I’ve managed to finish is only 2 chapters!

but GOD am I still upset about what they did to Isseya. Last Flight is my favorite Dragon Age book and they absolutely tainted (pun intended) the amazing bittersweet ending it had. also, in what world would the Wardens let Valya LEAVE after everything she learned? Have we forgotten Ser Jory??? Valya needs to become a Warden or die trying

I don’t even hate the idea of her becoming disillusioned with the Wardens like she did in the game. Honestly she could be a decent replacement for Isseya as a sympathetic antagonist — yes, she was deemed worthy of finding the griffons by virtue of being a city elf mage, but that doesn’t mean all the Wardens are worthy of having them again. maybe she spends some years with the Wardens and decides they would make the same mistakes again, and she can’t let that happen. ooh this idea has potential

(she wouldn’t try to blight the griffons like Veilguard Isseya did though, that choice makes no damn sense. I’ll have to come up with something else!)

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Okay again on the topic of things in Veilguard that I think had the potential to be so good but they just weren’t delved into at all: my Rook’s relationship with Neve kind of accidentally sucked. I got max approval of course, as I did with every companion, but this could’ve been such a good place for deep companion conflict.

First Neve got hurt during the opening quest, something that wasn’t entirely Rook’s fault but I/she felt bad about anyway. Then I chose to save Treviso over Minrathous, thinking Minrathous was better prepared to defend itself. Neve, obviously, did not like this and was very cold to Rook for a while. (I also accidentally missed one of Neve’s quests before Minrathous got all fucked up, a short one where I think I would’ve just met her Shadow Dragon friends? I RPed that as another point against Rook for Neve, a sign that she just must not care.) Finally, I had Rook send Neve to deal with whatever it was that caused her to get kidnapped and blighted (genuinely can’t remember what it was. what an impression this game made), trying to show she trusts Neve and instead getting her hurt once again.

All this culminated into me RPing Rook as someone who genuinely likes Neve, wants to work with her and be her friend, but her choices just kept inadvertently fucking Neve over. Add in the fact that Neve clearly seems closer to the other companions than she is to Rook. Rook isn’t invited to the book club. Rook barely gets to meet Neve’s Tevinter friends. Rook couldn’t romance Neve even if she wanted to, but Lucanis could. Rook tries to protect everyone (she’s a Grey Warden, dammit!) but sometimes she fails, and throughout the game she kept failing Neve in particular over and over again.

This could have been such a juicy dynamic! But it’s all just my own headcanon. It’s not explored in game. Neve was basically a coworker with maxed out approval who Rook was actually barely close to at all. I don’t particularly imagine they stay in touch after the game ends.

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feel like I need a dragon age Reset™ or something so I get back into my love of the series. veilguard has made me quite cynical but I really do have a lot of love for this world. maybe I should replay the first three games. maybe I should finally start working on my Big Fanfic Project Idea, which is basically a long fic that takes place across the First Blight

I’ve proven myself incapable of writing anything longer than like two chapters in the past, but!!! this would be such a cool project!! I imagine it being in three parts, across almost 200 years: 1) the beginning of the blight, 2) the founding of the Grey Wardens, and 3) the end of the blight

something to think about. I have a few original fiction things in the works rn so idk if/when I’d have time for that, but it would be a fun project

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bit of a long shot, but is there anyone who was in the r/dragonage discord server 5 or so years ago and has the “no compromise” gif (or knows where I could find it)? the absurdly long gif of the chantry explosion? I mentioned it to a friend, how hilariously long it was, and I rejoined the discord to get it only to find it isn’t there anymore!!

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Hey it turns out you don’t need to be a member of my trivia league to see the questions! I wrote a set of Dragon Age questions that went live this weekend, and the results came in about two hours ago. It seems I made the questions especially hard, the easiest one still only had 49% get it right 😬

I’m sure the tumblr fans will have an easier time with it lol

The Greatest Trivia League in All the Land.

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I’m not a long fanfic writer, I tend to have a hard time finishing anything that’s more than like 2,000 words… HOWEVER

given it seems somewhat likely we won’t get any more Dragon Age books at this point

I’ve lowkey wanted to write something taking place during the First Blight for a while! I imagined it as having a sort of three act structure, with completely different characters in each act — Act 1 would be the start of the blight, Act 2 the founding of the Grey Wardens, and Act 3 the defeat of the Archdemon. Close to 100 years passed between each of those points so there would have to be different characters anyway.

Maybe I’ll make this a sort of long-term project of mine 👀 (even though I really should focus on writing my own original novella I’m working on lol)