#rendon howe

[greenkatrpg]

“May The Maker have mercy on your soul, Rendon Howe”

“For I intend not to.”

[bestworstantagonistdragonage]

BEST DA ANTAGONIST TOURNAMENT ROUND 1 BATTLE 7

Solas is an elven apostate hedge mage and an expert on the Fade. He is a companion and a romance option for a female elven Inquisitor in Dragon Age: Inquisition.

obviously you can maintain a more cooperative relationship with him in veilguard but at the same time you can absolutely maintain an antagonistic relationship with him and the whole game is based around stopping him from completing his goals which i would say is certainly antagonist material.

vs

Arl Rendon Howe is an old friend of Teyrn Bryce Cousland and the Arl of Amaranthine. He is also the father of Nathaniel Howe, a companion in Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening.

what an absolute weasel of a guy. just a real shithead. makes it extremely enjoyable to kick his ass even when you don't have a grudge against him but he's great at building up said grudge. also lest we forget the "my dead friend's d*ke of a daughter" vo note. you can't be saying that arl howe.

Who's the best antagonist?

Solas

Rendom Howe

Voting ended onFeb 15

[chalkituptofate]

WIP Wednesday!

I'm cheating because I wrote this for Past Lives and I don't think I'm going to end up using it, but writing it dealt me so much psychic damage that I needed to share it with you. You're welcome!

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She heard a plate shattering on the stone floor behind her and flinched.

Arl Howe's face was deep red, flecks of spittle flying. "And what's worse—"

Elissa Cousland may have been only nine years old, but that was old enough to tell that even the adults were getting uncomfortable. Unsure of what to do, she glanced between Nathaniel and Thomas on either side of her — formal dinner seating was alwyas boy-girl-boy-girl even for the children's end of the table.

Thomas was staring furiously at his potatoes, his ears reddening, but Nathaniel — firmly one of the adults now that he was seventeen — let her catch his eye. He was between Elissa and the head of the table, so his father couldn't see him turn towards her and put a finger to his lips. Don't talk, don't move, don't do anything; try to become invisible, his eyes said to her, not without urgency. She nodded, moving her head as little as possible while still conveying that she had understood him. On the other side of Thomas, she heard Delilah sniffle, but trying to see Delilah would have been moving too much. Elissa was good at following directions.

A glass flew through the air and shattered against the wall, followed by a plate. Thomas closed his eyes, but Elissa watched everything. Bryce Cousland got up and put his hand on Arl Howe's shoulder, said something in his ear that Elissa couldn't hear, even straining, even with the rest of the room dead silent. The Arl pushed him away, hard, "But they should know! Everyone's forgetting already how much we—"

"Rendon." All the warmth had gone out of her father's tone. "Come outside," he said. His voice was still soft, but he had dropped any pretense that Arl Howe had a choice; it was unmistakably an order, one that even Elissa knew had to be followed. Rendon stalked out of the dining room, Teyrn Cousland close behind. The Arlessa was holding back tears; Elissa's mother moved to the seat vacated by her husband and tried to say something nice to her, but she just shook her head.

Delilah was really starting to cry now, but Elissa felt too nervous to go to her, or even look at her. Thomas had reopened his eyes, but he looked so dazed Elissa wasn't even sure he knew she was there. She stole another glance at Nathaniel, who didn't return it this time. He had looked so calm before, but now he looked angry. His hands under the table were fists.

Someone took Elissa's plate away and put another one in its place. Her mother moved back to her seat. Delilah stopped crying. Everyone else started eating, so Elissa did too, even though everything tasted like cotton. When they were almost finished, her father and Arl Howe returned and sat down. No one said anything.

Later, after Adria had spirited the children upstairs, Elissa heard her father's voice and dawdled, peeking through the bars of the railing. She knew she shouldn't listen, but wasn't she owed as much information as everyone else?

Her father was talking to Nathaniel. Elissa leaned forward as much as she thought she could without being seen; they were below her, and there was no reason for them to look straight up.

Nathaniel was talking: "…reason for him to act like a child."

"Your father…" Bryce Cousland sighed. "Your father is my closest friend, and he always—"

"Why? Why would you want someone like that as your friend?"

"When your father and I fought at the Battle of White River… your father was—"

"Hurt. I know. And then he couldn't fight anymore, and then he met my mother when he was recovering, and—"

"Listen to me," Elissa could tell her father was starting to lose patience; if Nathaniel didn't stop interrupting him he was going to get mad. "Your father is a hero to this country. We might all be speaking Orlesian right now if it weren't for him. But war changes people, and it changed Rendon. And I know he can be difficult, and I know he gets angry, but he's a good man who did an important—"

"That doesn't help us!" Nathaniel burst out. Elissa shrank back a little from the railing, even though she still wasn't in any danger of being discovered. "Are you going to come here and tell me what a great man he is the next time I get a black eye for—"

Elissa felt a firm hand clamp down on her upper arm and haul her into a standing position; it was Adria, with a knowing smile, pulling her back down the upstairs corridor. Neither of them made a sound until they got to Delilah's quarters.

Elissa thought she might be about to scrape by without a talking-to, but when Adria was helping her change out of her formal clothes and into her nightdress she bent down so she was eye-level with Elissa and said, not unkindly, "I wouldn't be poking your nose where it doesn't belong, missy. There's lots of things you'll understand better when you're older. Don't be in such a hurry."

[loustica-lucia]

DAO — Bryce Cousland’s little spitfire

Today's art are two quick studies I did last week!

(Alyssa Cousland & Rendon Howe, circa. 9:31 Dragon Age)

"If killing me would make you happy, I would ensure I was the last thing alive." , the quote that inspired me to draw these studies. ;w; It seemed very fitting for an angry Cousland facing Rendon Howe in Denerim 😭💔

I always imagined Bryce, Loghain and Rendon to be close friends, even after the war ended. Alyssa grew up with their stories, looking up to them... So Rendon betraying her family, & then Loghain — from her point of view — abandoning her, as well... :') She was forced to grow up past her mentors 🥹💔

Reference image credits:

Katherine McNamara in "Shadowhunters". Kyle Gallner in "Little Birds".

[quanyixhen]

“Bryce Cousland’s little spitfire, all grown up and still playing the man”

I hate hate HATE Rendon Howe and was so happy to finally kill his ass so take this art of my Cousland warden as a celebration for doing so

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[mellowassassin]

Replaying Dragon Age...... (even though I have an active playthrough on both PC and Playstation)..... and I am trying to Human Noble route for the first time. I always knew Rendon Howe was a grade A bitch but wow this side shows how much of a cunt he really is.

Excuse the extreme profanities but I see no other words to describe this.... thing. Id rather serve the Darkspawn a 6 course meal with dessert than be within the same country borders with that.

[lords-of-fortune]

I love how Howe is like. Just some guy who works for Loghain if you play most routes.

Like if you're a Cousland, absolutely fuck that guy he killed your family, etc etc. But if you're an Amell or a Surana in particular (who are more isolated from regular Fereldan politics in my brain, but I suppose that depends on how you imagine the Circle and how interested in politics your character is) you might have zero idea about who this tool is other than "he's the acting arl of Denerim and he works for the dude who's tried to kill us a few times". Which admittedly is a perfectly valid reason to dislike him, and that is added to once you see the torture stuff while rescuing Anora, but like. At this point you've fought so many people and dealt with so many nobles and you've got the landsmeet looming over your head quite imminently, not to mention the Archdemon. So it's very plausible that your non-Cousland Warden can just kinda forget about him in all but the vaguest sense.

And then Nathaniel breaks into your new castle (his old castle so it stings more for him) to kill you but you barely remember killing his dad in the first place so you're just like oh. Sorry bout that. Wanna join my blood club?