#spite da

[dellamortal]

(If Rook is romancing Lucanis, and Zevran is recruited)

Zevran: So, we were discussing your romantic liaison with Rook, yes?

Lucanis: (heavy sigh)

Zevran: When the pitter-patter of tiny Crow’s feet arrives--

Lucanis: (splutters) We are a little busy saving the world, Zevran!

Zevran: Oh, I agree, but one must think ahead.

Lucanis (Spite): Tiny blades. Tiny cloaks. Teach them. Hunt.

Zevran: See? The spirit understands.

Lucanis: This isn't-- we don't--

Zevran: Hush hush. Just let Uncle Zevran babysit once in a while.

[cimucina]

And... my Spite

No hands, no feet... a lot of claws

And my version of them in my version of The Ossuary

[antivangoth]

SPOILERS DATV !!!

Nick Thornborrow - LUCANIS' Narrative sketches for Dragon Age: The Veilguard (discarded romance + character story scenes)

Nick Thornborrow posted on his blog some narrative sketches he made during the development of DATV. He speaks about the process and shares his art. In this specific post I'm gonna post Lucanis' ones (this contains spoilers of the game).

More general ones:

More romance-story centric for Lucanis in particular:

"Narrative sketches produced for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. One of the challenges of making such a massive narrative game is communicating that story to the rest of the team in a succinct way. It’s surprising how many of our colleagues don’t become fully familiar with the campaign until late into production, but understandable considering how many areas of responsibility and plates spinning there are on a production like this. We wanted to bridge those communication gaps on Veilguard. To do this, I took Trick Weekes’ detailed outline for the game and turned it into an illustrated VN style game built in Twine with branches and everything. It was distributed to the team as an internal tool to broadcast the story of the game we were making and to solicit feedback. Then the illustrations were used to populate an in engine version built by the narrative designers, of the same thing, but with more bells and whistles to emulate the narrative flow and economy of the actual game."

What do you think? Do you like them? I'm personally losing my mind at some of them... especially the Illario/Zara? and... the romance scenes...

(will edit this as i post from the other characters)

[byc0n3j0]

"Do you really bleed if it washes away?"

I did a little animation of Lucanis because I loved Bite Marks and I kept thinking about how he definitely fit perfectly in Katarina's place.

Our circus assassin deserved to do more acrobatics in the game!

Favorite frames for no apparent reason:

bite marks (refrence).

[jalopeura]

i...respect...people who see spite as a dog/cat/child. but please consider this! :

spite is like an alien

a fully intelligent creature, but from a different world, with completely different laws of physics, and completely different societal structures (how does spirit society work anyway??), and a completely different sense of morality

lucanis says hell throw a tantrum because in the real world, things dont do what he wants them to do they way they do in the fade and like? i probably would too if i got transported into some weirdass other dimension where the laws of physics are completely different????

and obviously hes like. learning. there probably wasnt a lot of opportunities for that in the ossuary, but hes clearly getting along with being in the real world now, especially with people like rook and emmrich and yes, lucanis too, knowing to show him "a bit of kindness, or care, or an attempt to understand" as emmrich says

so, anyway. hes not a dog or a child to me, he is just a little alien guy from a different dimension who got yanked into a whole different reality without his consent and is understandably 1) still trying to get his bearings and 2) a bit mad about it. thats how i view him :3

[feaches]

In plain sight, wavin' my arms, Heaven's alright Bones and soil fertilize Face your fear and face the truth Me and you, we were one That was once, but now we're two (Why'd you ever say you wanna—)

[flowersbane]

ya know, i feel like i really relate to spite because i, too, look at inanimate objects and immediately wonder how they would taste

[sleepystarsapphire]

Spite Week 2025 Day 7!!

Behold, True demon Spite in my Rook's canon universe!! His many eyes manifests as peacock feathers and his wings have been restored from their skeleton form.

Shout out for the wonderful @dread-red-queen for hosting Spite week!!