#wardenskeeper

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7 for Alaris??? Such a cool list of prompts but I’ll limit myself to one lol

(From this ask game!)

7. someone describing a time your OC hurt them

The Inquisitor is not our friend.

Oh, sure, the Inquisition talks a good game about Andraste's Herald and the Lord Inquisitor chosen by divinity, but I'm telling you, I know that face. They can tell all the stories they like about the "noble Dalish", but I know a Kirkwall street rat when I see one, and I still have the dead friends to remind me of the dangers of falling for those pretty, innocent eyes.

You know I was stationed in Kirkwall in the days before that maleficar blew up the poor Grand Cleric. Some days I went down into Darktown with my team, looking for that damned clinic. We'd hear whispers about the maleficar's guard dog; some vicious creature he'd somehow convinced to protect him, keep us at bay. We all figured it was an urban legend. You know, a bunch of Darktown thugs teaming up to keep the Templars from doing their duty and hiding behind rumours of some beast to cover their tracks. We didn't know how wrong we were.

We didn't think anything of the little rat at first. Another skinny elf brat wandering around Darktown? Nothing special. He looked to be maybe sixteen or so at the oldest, with an untamed mop of red hair; nothing worth a second thought, really, but Ser Hugh always did have a knack for interrogating the young, pretty ones. He went right up to the kid. None of us heard the words exchanged, but we all saw Hugh go down.

There was no sound, no warning, not even a cry of pain. One second Hugh was standing there, the next he was on his knees, clutching at his chest. Of course we went for the rat right away; we knew magic when we saw it. He was fast, though. Ser Leona took a knife to her throat, and how he found that weak point I'll never know. Ser Emmett got hit with a blast of fire magic; I still see his face every time I close my eyes. I swear, the skin was seared off. His eyes melted.

But a little mage brat couldn't fight off three Templars at once. I managed to get him in the back with my sword before he could see me approaching. He managed to turn enough to meet my eyes, and I admit, I hesitated. His eyes were just so big and green... He looked almost innocent, even knowing what he was. It was only for a moment, but I couldn't bring myself to finish him off.

Then his eyes blazed red, and I watched the blood from the wound bubble like it was boiling. I've been a Templar for a long time. I know blood magic when I see it. But when the rat's hand clamped down on my wrist, I was completely unprepared for the pain. It was like he'd set my blood on fire. One second I was fine; the next, I was dying. I'd fought blood mages before, but I'd never met any capable of something like this. And the whole time those eyes just stared at me, like I was an insect he was examining before he crushed it.

I woke up on the edge of Darktown, hours later. I told the Knight-Captain what happened, but he never found anything. Not even Hugh, Leona and Emmett's bodies. He thought I was mad, had me sent off to Ostwick; I suppose he figured it was a nice, safe place to retire a broken Templar. But I've never forgotten that mage's eyes, and I'm telling you, I recognize our beloved Inquisitor. We can't trust-

-A half-finished letter, found tossed into a fireplace in the abandoned rooms of former Kirkwall Templar Ser Alton

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If you wanna talk about OCs… top five Sorcha Amell facts??

I love gay mage wardens they are my lifeblood 😭

alright shane first of all i would die for you so jot that down

now for the facts!!

1. she’s a battlemage/force mage hybrid that specialization in primal magic and creation magic. yea, she’s a mary sue, but who cares!!

the warden has canonically had like a decade to improve their skills and imo the tier list is something like the warden > the inquisitor (pre-orb removal) > hawke. but also the warden > hawke > the inquisitor (post-orb removal).

i wouldn’t go so far as to say sorcha is on the same level as, say, wynne or anders (she’s definitely not a spirit healer), but you’re not gonna die when she’s around—though you may wish you had. her aptitude for primal magic is second to none.

2. she starts origins as a really sheltered, naïve young woman who, while not an idealist, is much more optimistic than some of her party members. throughout the course of the story, she becomes more disillusioned and bitter as a whole. post-awakening, she’s on the fast track to becoming cold, standoffish, and closed off. she also develops more of a flat affect. sorcha does have a tender heart, but her walls have been up for a very long time and it would difficult to tear them all down. she’s very loyal to her friends and steadfast allies, but she no longer goes out of her way to aid the common folk unless some sort of bigotry is involved.

3. the human mage warden is canonically one of revka amell’s five children (who all turned out to be mages and therefore were all sent to different circles across thedas). revka is leandra’s cousin, making the human mage warden the hawke siblings’ second cousin.

i liked that tidbit and decided to expand on it. anwen amell is the only child from revka’s unnamed avvar husband’s previous (short-lived) marriage. revka adopts her and she is therefore technically the eldest amell sister and the eldest sibling overall. next is seoras amell, the eldest brother and eldest biological sibling. then there’s sorcha amell, the eldest biological sister and the third eldest sibling overall. then comes saoirse amell, the fourth eldest sibling overall. last but not least are the fraternal twins, sean amell (slightly older) and seanna amell, making them the youngest siblings.

i have a lot of interesting dynamics plotted out between them (except for seoras and anwen. i haven’t really developed them at all).

4. eiriol surana is sorcha’s first love (a classic rivals to friends to lovers), and even though they don’t end up together, they still remain dear friends and a lot of people mistake them for a couple (morrigan and leliana thoroughly dissuade people from thinking that).

5. sorcha was so distraught by bein taken to kinloch hold (she was only 6) that irving magically blocked her memories—he didn’t feel as though he had much of a choice; she was lashing out with her magic every time she had a meltdown and the templars were sick of it. she doesn’t remember anything about them, save for the fact that her father would sing her gentle lullabies and her mother would braid her hair. sorcha had never gotten to meet the younger twins; they hadn’t even been born until after she was taken to kinloch hold.

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What about 36, 46, and 68 for Alessa and Felicity?? :)

ASK ME ABOUT MY BABIES! (thank you!! <3)

36. What is their sense of humor like? Give an example of a joke they would find humorous. 46. How easily can they express emotions? How easily can they hide emotions? 68. How did their environment growing up affect their personality?

Alessa:

If she's in a good mood, Alessa has a dry sense of humour and it's a bit difficult for others to tell whether or not she's being serious. A joke she'd find funny is most likely "He can't say good morning without lying twice,"

Unlike Alistair, who wears his heart on his sleeve, Alessa doesn't express her emotions as openly, considering that she has always been taught that it shows political rivals her weaknesses. So I like to think that she can definitely hide what she's feeling fairly easily.

Since she was raised in the second most powerful house in Ferelden under Teyrn Loghain, Alessa's personality is a bit standoffish and arrogant and she has a bit of prejudice against the common folk, and mages, but after spending months on the road with the companions, she finds her views changing for the better :)

Felicity:

Felicity has a relatively dark sense of humour, and a joke she'd probably laugh at is " 'I’m sorry' and 'I apologise' essentially mean the same thing. Except at a funeral."

Felicity is not afraid to hide her emotions, though unbeknownst to her, she actually tends to wear them on her face, so if she disapproves of something, it can easily be seen in spite of whether or not she denies it.

Considering Felicity's background is that of a Sage, I like to imagine that she grew up in an academic environment, which made her more inclined to learn new things, and approach the world with an analytic mindset. And like Gale, she is fascinated by the arcane and history. :D

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Dorian Pavus for the unhinged character bingo!!

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I love helping other people procrastinate! What’s your “canon” DA playthrough? Like protags for all three games, their LIs, etc? (Sorry if you already detailed this somewhere else, new follower lol.)

You know, I don't think I ever have gone through it. So just some basics:

Origins and Awakening: Tahel Surana, blood mage/arcane warrior/battlemage (in case you were wondering his constitution always ends up hysterically high, usually higher than most of the warriors in the group. I believe my record is 91 con?). Romanced Zevran because I cannot resist him. He is having the best time of all my protags, he is a baby freshly-Harrowed mage and now he gets to leave the Circle and never go back? Aside from the whole Blight thing this is the best year of his life! Although he's very confused by all this outside stuff and would like the others to stop expecting him to know things. Please, he hasn't gone outside in like five years, he's struggling enough with things like getting rained on, stop putting all these decisions on his head. In terms of major choices he saved the Circle, used lyrium to help Connor, broke the werewolf curse, put Bhelen on the throne of Orzammar, spared Loghain, did the ritual to survive killing the Archdemon, and put Alistair and Anora on the throne. He then improved slightly at leadership as Warden-Commander, where he saved the Vigil and allied with the Architect, and has not heard the end of it from either the Amaranthine nobles or the Warden higher-ups ever since.

2: Garrett Hawke, force mage. He romanced Fenris, because even though I keep meaning to romance Anders Gideon Emery's sexy, sexy voice acting gets me every time. Purple/blue Hawke, with which one ends up as his active personality changing run to run. Kirkwall is very stressful but it's his city so he deals with it, largely through snark. He is going to get his friends through all this absolute nonsense if it kills him, Maker help him (it might kill him, why are these people always getting into so much trouble). Sided with the mages at every opportunity of course, and also made Carver a Grey Warden because it's a thousand times better than the alternative. Cullen only survives this game because Hawke isn't allowed to stab him and Varric's story is basically 90% Varric scrambling to talk his way around all the incredibly illegal stuff that Hawke did in order to further the mages' cause.

Inquisition: Alaris Lavellan, rift mage (he would be a blood mage but Bioware rudely didn't allow that in DAI so that's not in gameplay), He Of The Ever-Changing Name. I'll pick one and stick with it one of these days, but basically if you see me talking about a male mage Lavellan (or... really just any male Lavellan) it's probably this guy. Romanced... well I alternate between Bull and Dorian, but in my heart they're in a polycule. The living embodiment of "Can I please go home now". If he didn't think the Inquisition would fully have him murdered if he left he probably would've gone back to his clan basically the first chance he got. Has reached the point where if someone tried to assassinate him he might just let them, but on the bright side he's learning so much about how other people live, which is nice except for how they keep shitting on his people. May or may not be slightly possessed by a Dalish god, but that's not important. As for choices, he allied with the mages, put Briala in charge of Orlais, kept the Wardens in Orlais (he wouldn't have forced them to help the Inquisition if he'd had that option, but apparently he's not allowed to just refuse to judge the organization that is in no way under the Inquisition's jurisdiction), sided with the ancient elves, drank from the Well, made Leliana Divine, disbanded the Inquisition the first chance he got and intends to save Solas from his own idiocy. Also, absolutely has a super cool prosthetic made of Fade rocks.

So, there we go! Probably the most information on my canon DA run I've put out at once. Know that they're all Doing Their Best and I love them.

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Jade for your takes on Fallout and ME: Andromeda 💯

aww, thank you! I'm glad someone here appreciates my nonsense 💖

colours of the moots ask game

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*victorian beggar voice* A few more crumbs of Edith lore, ma’am??

Jk, but I’m actually obsessed with the way you wove together the supernatural and more “hard science” aspects of Fallout’s worldbuilding into her backstory. Idk if that makes sense at all but having a radiation-adjacent deity watching over the protagonists and “marking” them for greatness is such an awesome concept to me.

Hehe thank youu!! That means a lot! Yeah, I'm always a huge fan of it when the scientific and the paranormal exist at the same time and maybe even kind of blur together <3

Sadly I am a little too zonked out right now to invent a lot more lore on the spot, however I do think it's important to point out that Edith is canonically the younger sister of my Fallout 4 OC Valerie, and it was basically only due to Edith's insistence and reassurances that Valerie ended up booking her place in Vault 111 at the last minute.

I'm unsure about how much that counts towards the whole "twisting lines of fate" since Edith hadn't really drawn the attention of anything yet, but it is a very fun coincidence I think (especially since Valerie later drinks from the irradiate wellspring during Far Harbor and gains "Atom's Gift" (aka i gave her the Rad Resistant perk at the next level-up) and therefore also ends up 'touched by destiny' in a way)

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9 + 10 for the Butch/Femme ask thingie! 😁

omg thank you ⚢

9. Tell us about your gay awakening? — i knew but was in denial that i knew: when i was around 12; i fell in love with my childhood best friend. i came out as pan when i was 15, but realized that i’m a lesbian when i was 21. this is so embarrassing but the first female celeb crush i admitted to having was sc*rlett j*hansson.

10. What character really says “gender?” — sully fire emblem. that woman is a butch lesbian