#mageborne

[theharellan]

“Better Orlais fear you than dislike you,” he says, his tone soft despite the relative seclusion of the balcony. “Respect will grant you distance to act, to command. Were you disregarded as an annoyance our plan would become far more difficult.”

✧ @mageborne

[boundstaff-blog]

@mageborne​ liked for a STARTER!

       “I’m surprised you tolerated that at all. Personally I would have burnt them asunder if they were talking to me like that, but luckily for them, they weren’t.” They referring to Lord Seeker Corin and his gaggle of Templars. Cassandra’s insistence that it wasn’t like the Lord Seeker to behave in such a way made little difference to Clancy; the man was arrogant and idiotic to put it nicely, and truly Clancy was surprised the Inquisitor managed to stay so calm.

      “If you had any interest in recruiting the Templars before, I wouldn’t be surprised if that just went right out the window.”

[sapphireoath-blog]

mageborne replied to your post.

nerd

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

[theharellan]

“Cassandra tells me you were at the Conclave to negotiate. If I may ask, did you truly believe that there could be peace between the mages and Templars?”

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[bornpariah-a]

talk about dorian and his fighting style!!

oh boy, i think about this a lot. a lot.

to be short about it : dorian has a very FLASHY fighting style. this is evidenced in his dialogue with solas, if you drag the both of them around. he’s very prone to showing off, to the surprise of absolutely no one.

beyond that, however, it should be noted that ( my, and many others, because it’s effectively canon ) dorian is a specialized PYROMANCER / NECROMANCER hybrid. i’ll write out a post of his ridiculous moveset another time, but around him the air burns hot in battle. ridiculously so. you may also hear a spirit or two screaming every now and then —— uh, don’t pay too much attention to that. regardless, it’s also noted in game that he uses a nullification enchantment to remove ambient magic to make things BURN HOTTER.

all this is to say : dorian multitasks, quite a bit. he has a mastery of his mana and isn’t afraid to show that off, and isn’t afraid to utilize that to its fullest potential in battle. this also means that he MOVES. a lot. almost constantly. dorian is a dynamic person in general, often moving / pacing / never standing still, but in battle you will never find him standing still. his movements are almost dancer like, in some ways, in that they are graceful and fluid. however, they are also generally HARSH and AGGRESSIVE at the tail end, punctuated with vibrant flares of gestures and magic and sheer movement.

it’s worth it to note that dorian isn’t particularly nimble for all that he’s constantly moving. he’s not very FAST. he covers quite a bit of ground, generally speaking, and he has great reflexes, but in a race he’ll almost always lose. he’s more about endurance than speed ( in modern verse he was probably a long distance runner in high school but that’s not really related —— ) and if he’s cornered too quickly by a rogue, he’s definitely in trouble. his movements are fairly broad, not refined, because he’s not trained to be a dancer. he’s trained to be a MAGE, and a fearsome one at that.

so in general : dorian honestly kind of just has fun with his fighting style, and he’s incredibly fun to watch. maybe not the best technical caster in the world, because he didn’t learn magic in a technical manner —— HE WAS A PRODIGY and developed his own style as he grew up. because he’s stubborn like that.

@mageborne // ♥

[knightherself]

mouth !

DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF MY MUSE’S … ( accepting ) 

—MOUTH.

her mouth is average, lips not exactly thin but bloodless enough to give them an appearance of being undefined. other than that her mouth is unremarkable, teeth neither perfect nor terrible, lips neither plump nor sallow. overall, though, aveline’s mouth is uniform enough in its shape and colour to contribute to her  ‘masculine ’ looks, and so though she isn’t one to care what people say about her, she does by force of habit wear a dark brown rouge. just to lessen the sneering.

[ingenueheartmoved]

@mageborne // CONT.

    HER MOUTH TREMBLES. What a silly question. And yet ... the waver of her lips is not amusement, but rather the telltale signs of emotion on the brink of slipping forth. She tells him what she thinks he wants to hear -- that she won’t tell him not to go, that she won’t try to stand in the way ( how could she? She was nothing to him). And yet ...

    She suddenly feels as young as she looks, as young as she is. You are wise beyond your years, many people tell her. Right now, she feels foolish and naive. Something deep in her chest aches and she chooses not to dwell on it. Tucks a wayward strand of hair behind her ear and crosses her arms over her chest, casts her gaze sidelong -- anywhere but his face. ❝ No. I want you to be happy. ❞

[theharellan]

xander finds solace in the scaffolding of the rotunda, legs dangling precariously from the edge in silence as he watches solas work. is he hiding from cassandra and leliana? probably.

Solas sees no need to break said silence. It is a companionable silence, rather than the awkward lull in a conversation neither party wanted. He sits and sketches, or reads, or begins to prepare the next fresco, only speaking if he feels the need to share something.

Everyone needs to escape somewhere, after all.