#meravas

[dragonagegallery]

Qunari Vitaar

[trialofthetower]

hello everyone. it is my birthday (or it will be in a few days) and i have decided that i am going to do a bit for mostly my amusement that you're all coming along on. inspired by @gyrovagi , who did this first a little while ago, i will be hosting the

🔥🔥 ULTIMATE SPACETRASHPILE/TRIALOFTHETOWER CHARACTER SHOWDOWN 🔥🔥

this showdown will last for five rounds, beginning on my birthday, june 17th, and ending on june 21st. in this tournament, sixteen of my beloved ocs will be pitted against each other in a battle to the DEATH. which is to say i will ask you all to vote on who you like most. the tournament hosted on this blog will be exclusively dragon age ocs. at the same time, i'll be hosting an alternate tournament with 16 of my assorted original characters from ttrpgs, rpgs, roleplays, blaseball, and original stories. on my main blog, @spacetrashpile. when both polls have concluded, the winners of each will be pit against each other in a final showdown (on both blogs) to determine which of my characters is most well loved by people other than me.

WHO WILL EMERGE VICTORIOUS? YOU DECIDE

[lesbiansandboromir]

Pretending I know anything about the companions or how Meravas' relationships will pan out, I think she and Davrin will be peas in a pod :)

[trialofthetower]

Ultimate OC Showdown Round One, Poll Five: "Internalized Magical Ableism Drives People To Do Terrible Things (Like Become A Warden)", Rhiannon Surana versus Meravas

Rhiannon Surana, she/her, bisexual (tag on main, tag here) (playlist) (art from @vashothmages)

Rhiannon Surana is my main worldstate's HOF. She was a city elf from Denerim who was taken to Kinloch Hold when she was very young. She was also non-speaking, instead communicating through sign language. Rhiannon jumped at a chance to leave the Circle with Jowan and then with Duncan when that plan failed. She simultaneously had the time of her life and a terrible time out of the Circle due to the whole Warden business. I would like to draw attention to the "complicated" with Alistair on her character sheet, which is to say that her and Alistair were very close at the start due to my gameplay fuck ups and also the fact that he was genuinely very nice to her in a way she was not used to it. And this accidentally spiraled into the game thinking they were dating for NEARLY THE ENTIRE GAME and her having to break up with him in the Denerim alienage after Leliana confronted her about the situation in the haunted orphanage. Love triangle of all time. Despite how happy being out of the Circle and experiencing freedom and love for the first time in her life made her, there was still something clawing at Rhiannon's insides that told her that she was fundamentally broken and wrong for being born a mage. So when Morrigan brought the idea of the dark ritual to her, she had a terrible crisis over cursing an innocent child with magic (or something close to it, via old god soul), something that had made her life so difficult and made her feel so terrible. She turned Morrigan down and told no one the option was even on the table and killed the archdemon herself rather than force such responsibility on Alistair. Everyday she makes me so upset.

Meravas, they/them, jury's still out but mostly aroace (tag) (art from @vashothmages)

Meravas (Qunlat for "so shall it be") is a member of the Double Blight Party (better name pending), my party running around the south during the Double Blight and exploring character concepts and story beats that I'm sad Bioware abandoned somewhere along the way. Meravas is the only character who ties the party into what's happening up north, as they were originally a saarebas who was taken with the Antaam when they broke from the Qun. They were specifically brought with the Butcher's troops to Treviso. Meravas hated all of this, as you might imagine, and when their Arvaarad was killed, they panicked and ran. They were briefly harbored in Treviso by civilians who turned to the Crows for help in getting them out of the city. The Crows in turn went to the Veilguard, but this is all happening circa Siege of Weisshaupt, so as you can imagine, they're a bit busy. Harding passes the message along to the Inquisition and the Double Blight Party are sent to help, but by the time they arrive, the people harboring Meravas have been discovered and killed. The party stops Meravas from being killed, but another member of the party, Linnie (also in this poll!), is grievously injured during the fight and their only standing mage does not have the mana to heal her. Instead, she turns to Meravas, who has really begun to regret this escape plan, and instructs them through their first attempts at healing magic to stop Linnie from bleeding out. This chance to use their magic to heal rather than hurt shocks them out of a very concerning spiral and they decide to follow along with the party through the rest of their adventures. On one such adventure I won't detail here, the party meets a familiar dwarven Warden on the beginning of her Calling and Meravas learns quite a bit about the Wardens and their goals for the world. This conversation sticks with them for quite a while and when the Double Blight ends, though the Wardens are different, Meravas still decides to join the Wardens as well in an attempt to channel themself and their magic towards something worthwhile and good.

who is the better character?

Rhiannon Surana

Meravas

option for me

Voting ended onJun 18

[yetanotherlesbianonthiswebsite]

Allright, tumblr killed my first draft for no reason, okay. Thanks. Anyway. I used @kispesan​‘s lovely mini portrait creator to create some characters from The Ridge of Thedas and here’s the first batch, the AMR:

1. Meravas

2. Hekka

3. Sapphia Offmills

4. Théroigne “Highever”

[yetanotherlesbianonthiswebsite]

In my Revolution!AU, I try to place heavy emphasis on how the marginalized groups of Thedas have been traumatized by the status quo and how in the wake of the destruction of the status quo, spaces slowly emerge in which a healing process might start. While the mage rebellion in canon… well, it exists. That’s as far as I can go without getting into a rant about centrism in DA’s writing. But for my AU, I wanted to give a different perspective on mage freedom. Meet the polyamorous triad that is leading an underground apostate mutual aid group, the Society of Glitter, that later forms the strategical command of the Army of the Mage Rebellion.

Sapphia Offmills is a wanted apostate in Ferelden at the time of Solace 9:31, where my AU diverges significantly from canon. Because I find the rhyme so funny, she is a greyromantic thespian lesbian. She likes expressive rhetorical devices and expressive body language and flirting. Her commitment to mage freedom stems from her own experiences in the circle tower of Kinloch Hold. However, she is aware that the status of mages in Thedas is the product of chantry and human violence; thusly, she very much supports Dalish Freedom. Within the Society of Glitter, her determination and strong spirit are known to uplift those who are doubtful and in need of hope.

I planned for her to be a simple side character, but then created her as an Inquisitor and was like “oh goddesses she is hot” and now she is a LI for the MC and more of a main character. After the circles in Jainen and Kinloch Hold rise up under the banner of the Heroine of Ferelden in the summer of 9:31 following the crisis of the interregnum, Sapphia unites the rebelling mages as the Army of the Mage Rebellion, gaining the title of General. However, she is less of a strategical thinker, that role falls to Meravas; her title as General stems more from being a community leader who helps the freed mages to find their way after decades of incarceration.

 Meravas is a Qunari sapphic trans woman and the inventor of the Thedosian equivalent to trans femme hormone replacement therapy. She left the Qun after the Arishok forbade her to share the recipe with outsiders. She also discovered the mirror of transformation beneath Kirkwall as a very powerful tool for genderqueer people (the mirror of transformation being valuable to genderqueer people has been first explored in Dalishious’ Journey’s End and I love that idea just so much). Her voice is measured, she chooses her words to be precise and informative.

Meravas has an excellent memory, especially regarding names and biographical information (sometimes, you have to write what you don’t know lol). Within the Society, she is responsible for the network of informants and keeping contact with freed apostates who didn’t want to join the Society’s HQ. In the Mage Rebellion, her talents are invaluable for keeping track of logistics and coordinating the participation of the AMR within the actions of the Revolutionary Alliance.

 Hekka is a pan non-binary dwarf and former lyrium smuggler with the Carta. They are very loud-mouthed, prone to swearing and speak what’s on their mind. While their favorite weapon is a bow, they also like grenades and everything that can start fires. They have an impeccable sense of direction and can find a path to any point necessary. If you need a supportive friend who will roast your enemies in both senses of the word, they are who you are looking for.

They support mage freedom after having witnessed too much templar violence during their Carta days. The Society of Glitter could not do field operations this effectively without them. If there’s a will, they find a way, even if it might be unorthodox. In the AMR, they train scouts and create maps and make puns in meetings. After the mages collectively decide to adopt a young Sera, Hekka quickly becomes Sera’s favored accomplice when doing pranks.

  Sapphia decided to run away from the circle in 9:28, the night before she turned eighteen and had to undergo the Harrowing. Together with Anders, a very large tapestry and liberal uses of elemental fire magic, she created an impromptu hot-air balloon to escape via air. It worked well enough that they landed softly in Lake Calenhad way outside the reach of templar boats. A few days later, Anders flirted with a woman in a tavern they were staying in which turned out to be a seeker informant who recognized him. Sapphia had to flee by jumping out of a window in the first floor of the tavern, only to be caught by Meravas, who had been shadowing the seekers in order to get to the location of their commander. It was a case of attraction at first sight.

Sapphia knew that the templars would chase her as long as the phylactery pointed to the blood pulsing through her veins and decided to fake her own death to vanish from the templar’s radar. Presenting a templar hunting party with a plausible case of death one day, she timed the situation correctly and, together with Meravas’ help, decided to stop her heart from beating for a short time to make the phylactery report her death and become unusable. It would have gone poorly had Meravas not done almost impossible magic to get Sapphia’s heart beating again.

The two met Hekka while trying to infiltrate Kinloch Hold to spread pamphlets into the library. Hekka’s lyrium smuggling group had detected the two mages and their boss had decided to report them to the templars for extra cash. Hekka incited combat between the Carta dwarves and the templars and then fled together with Sapphia and Meravas. That night, they decided to found the Society of Glitter. They grew closer and became a couple in the span of a year and a half, until in summer of 9:31, the Society was approached by the Heroine of Ferelden with an unusual request.

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i dunno a lot about dragon age but i think it's really cool & i just!!!!! really love your new character he's so cute & fun & i love how excited you are about him?? like u make me super excited about him just cus YOURE super excited about him oh gosh pls. pls. he's so great. ur so great. wowee

YELLS IM GLAD UR EXCITED BC HE’S SO DEAR2ME and !!! IM SO GLAD YOU LIKE HIM THAT MAKES ME HAPPY bc he is my child....he is my adult baby man boy.........qunari...........man....... i lov him.....

you should watch lp’s or something of DA if they exist and you have the time bc it’s really neat. or maybe just get lost in a DA wiki clicking random page whenever you want bc i sure as hell do HAHAH;;;

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