#force mage

[elfyroot]

Enjoyed making these a bit too much. My "canon" world state for Dragon Age. My AU has it's own set... well, it will once I get to Veilguard in that fic. Don't wanna spoil too many surprises.

Warden Elera Surana Origins Elf, Mage (Arcane Warrior), Alistair

Champion Amerie Hawke 2, aka Fuck Around in Kirkwall Human, Mage (Force Mage), Anders

Inquisitor Avise Lavellan Inquisition Dalish Elf, Mage (Knight Enchanter), Solas Golden Thread Does Not Bind

Mara de Riva, "Rook" Veilguard City Elf, Mage (Spellblade), Viago

[zimcard-artblog]

Gotta share these doodles here cause they're fun.

Blank Canvas is Unfinished Boss, yeah.

Drew Stim Mage cause I find the Mox/Energy card neat! Great concept as well with a mage having loads of power cells. Also drew Force Mage which I visualize having this Medusa-like ability due to having the sigil that makes the opposing card unable to attack it.

I always saw Pike as a knight ever since I checked out the Mox deck and saw Knight Mage(?) And went "hmmm, I wanna draw Pike in knight armor now". The way her armor looks is cause I used the Ruby Golems as reference, ya know, since she's using Orange Mox.

[stonesense]

Hi I saw you mention wanting to talk about schools of magic and specializations; do you want to talk about the arcane/primal earth DAO -> force mage DA2 -> rift magic DAI transformation and what that says about the different places that various protagonists learned their magic/what the fade is like in Kirkwall (I feel like I saw you mention that "fade is thin in Kirkwall" + "yeah rift magic, which has all the force mage spells, is a new school since the giant hole in the sky" was a bit of an odd take)?

Alternately, would you like to talk about the arcane warrior -> knight enchanter thing and how the chantry getting ahold of ancient elven battle magic might have occurred? And what that means for the Greater Lore?

Anyways love your blog and you have the best takes ❤️

i actually just made a joke about the obvious similarities of force magic and rift magic and it’s @miraculan-draws who had the really great take about the veil in kirkwall that made me take this seriously!

it really can’t be overstated how fucked the veil is in kirkwall. the sheer amount of demons out and about! the way you can just become an abomination with a snap of your fingers no trip into the fade to make contact with demons necessary! good lord! it’s also worth noting that it’s not even just the mass suffering and slavery that has happened here and is literally painted onto the walls; kirkwall, insanely, is intentionally built in the form of giant glyphs and iirc it’s implied it was used by magisters as a mass blood ritual for entering the fade, possibly even THE entering the fade? not to mention corypheus’ prison nearby or keeping the mages in the GALLOWS of all places or the histories of occupation or sundermount. mass death and suffering causes tears in the veil. nobody should live in kirkwall. nobody should fucking live there. it would totally make sense if force magic, a brand of magic specifically noted to be popular in kirkwall, required the same closeness to the fade as rift magic. kirkwallers don’t need a breach they literally just live like that

as for arcane warrior/knight enchanter, it’s covered really interestingly by ariane in the witch hunt dlc and velanna in the awakening dlc that a lot of the circle’s magical knowledge is essentially appropriated from ancient elven knowledge that they were able to preserve while the dalish were robbed of it. that’s what’s happening when you take ariane to kinloch to get information on eluvians and some random young human mage knows more than her and her keeper, and ariane talks about this at the time. velanna and anders also have this banter:

it comes up a lot in anders’ banters with dalish mages that he is coming from having grown up in a place intended for the sharing and discussion of magical knowledge, where bickering academic rivalries as well as political ones are commonplace, and learning from each other and living side by side is what makes them better safer mages. (which is one thing abt the circle i think he actually misses and tries, however awkwardly, to seek out. imo he’s just parroting “great civilisations are built on the sharing of ideas” here, it sounds way more like something that’s been said to him than something he would think. he wants to talk abt magic bc he’s lonely and on the run and used to be surrounded by people to talk abt magic with! vivienne talks abt this more intentionally, she makes good points abt mages thriving when they’re together among those who can understand them.) whereas merrill and velanna grow up in a background where magic is quite individual and private, shared from one keeper to one first and (according to merrill) never practised in public, and that’s a safety measure to protect them from templars and to protect elven knowledge from being taken away from them as it has been previously. so obviously they’re not engaging with the first human mage trying to blunder his way into discussion with no sensitivity at all by picking the kind of fights he’s used to, which velanna and merrill obviously wouldn’t have context for

that’s a tangent abt characters bc i love talking abt anders merrill and velanna and the way i think they think abt magic, ignore me. anyway. my POINT is i imagine the ideas behind knight-enchanter came into the hands of circle mages and the chantry in a similar way to finn’s knowledge about eluvians in witch hunt. that seems natural enough. i believe you can have a conversation with solas after taking the spec where you discuss what the ancient elven arcane warriors might think to see their abilities in the hands of the chantry?

[pjsimblrland]

we hath finished dragon age II, so i committed and made my version of hawke. her name is brea, she’s a red/purple playthrough and a force mage, she romanced fenris and sided with the templars at the end :3c

[arcanefeathers]

I received a request for a Force Mage specialization design for my Redbubble shop so here it is!

I’m always open for requests :P

[agirlwithadiary]

My face when I realised Bethany is a force mage:

!!!!!

I guess it had been long enough for me to forget how badass Bethany got. I love her even more and it's the best school of magic. You go girl!! Kill people with force. 😌

[trevuchet]

Hello handsomest mage ever! What kind of magic do you specialize in and what is your favourite kind of spell (like storm, ice, fire or spirit)?

Well hello there! Maker, you have made me blush... You are much too kind, I’m certain.

I specialise in rift magic! It seemed pertinent, and I am fascinated by the fade, so it was a simple choice for me to make.

Before that, I would have considered myself a force mage. Raw magic is incredibly powerful, and it takes a great deal of patience and control to master. It also helped with learning rift magic, as the two can go hand-in-hand.

I am also a fan of primal magic- but then I imagine there are very few mages who aren’t attracted to the idea of manipulating the elements. Fire especially. It is a popular school. I love to deliver a good shock though, so for me that wins over fire.

Thank you very much for your question and your sweet words, you have given me quite the ego boost!

[bloodycarian]

oc aesthetics/moodboard: morgana hawke

blood + force mage