#mournwatcher!rook

[justrookthings]

Foreshadowing

[durgetashtruther]

My rook and her beautiful gorgeous detectives wife 💕

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Taash: [Making small talk] So, you're with Rook now?

Emmrich: We're... Exploring the matter yes.

Taash: Good. I hope you two do... Good stuff.

Rook: [pleased] Aw.💜 Thanks Taash.

Taash: Just don't do corpse stuff in bed.

Emmrich: [Taken aback] What?

Taash: No-sorry, you're right. It's not my stuff. Do corpse stuff in bed if you want to.

Emmrich: [sighing] Thank you, Taash, for the sentiment?

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"Kneel now and swear fealty to me. I will accept no other alternative."

Elgar'nan, First of the Firstborn

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"Okay, but... I can't fault Johanna Hezenkoss for wanting to be a gigantic... Whatever that thing was. That's pretty brilliant! I will never stop celebrating her genius while I still scold her for hurting the spirits along the way... I very much can do both."

- Rose Ingellvar

"How can we be together once I go into death?" - Emmrich

"Well, I think skulls are cute." - Rose

"What?" - Emmrich

"I am come to be judged by the dead."

- Emmrich Volkarin

"I see so much more clearly now. The deeper eddies of the Fade. The pulse of the Necropolis."

- Emmrich Volkarin

"So, I get to make bone puns now, yea?" - Rose

"Please don't ruin this moment for me." - Emmrich

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I can't get my stupid Lich!Rook headcanon out of my head.

Whenever Rook does anything there are groans of "Ingellvar!" followed by varying forms of dramatic agony from the other Lich Lords (Emmrich included)

Whenever there are new Mourn Watchers, Rook puts on their glamour to join on their initiation and make it even more scary (while still maintaining Lich secrecy)

Takes Emmrich out to the gardens regularly. Even when they move to another part of the Necropolis and is unreachable, they tend to it.

Probably does Watcher duties for a while, like lighting candles, until they are told to stop. "Let the watchers do their duties. You have other things to attend to..."

100% does the Spooky Scary Skeleton dance and tries to teach the other Liches how to do it. (They don't join in. Volkarin might, though)

Makes Johanna into a floating flaming skull (Why not? Keeps her under "watch" and she's showing good behavior by then I'm sure. Lowkey to annoy the older Liches.)

Keeps teaching Manfred new tricks (she raised him several years later as her main test for Lichdom as her thing is with spirits and the Fade, proving she can protect the Fade as much as she can protect the world) and much to the chagrin of the lead Lich, has given Manfred a Lich Crown so he can be like mum and dad. "Come on, who can say 'no' to that face?"

She might be accused of not taking her position as a protector of the Necropolis seriously, but then she gets to point out that the spirits like her and they wouldn't if they knew she couldn't get the job done. Besides, she has proof she can save the world and goof off at the same time already.

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[durgetashtruther]

Been hyper fixating hard on veilguard for the past 3 weeks. I haven’t even finished my first play through yet and I’m already thinking of my next rook so here ya go cause I can’t stop drawing her. I’m still undecided who I’m gonna romance w/ her, so if anyone’s got any suggestions I’m open to it.

P.S. the last pic is based on Portrait of Madame X by John Singer Sargent