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think about what an exciting new age of magical warfare we can have in a post-circle world. don’t worry mage kids, the age of you belonging to the chantry is over. now you belong to the nation!
“how are young mages going to get a standardised quality education so they don’t accidentally cause destruction in a post-circle world” thankfully the immediate arms race to build national schools will solve this problem and create other, different problems
commander of the grey 🛡️⚔️
Willing & Able: Lucanis and Illario
For @datvcompanionweeks Lucanis Week, Day 6: Past & Future
Leave it all on the table And I'll say, "I love you" and mean it this time Say, "I'm sorry" for everything else If we found a way to the other side I'd be willing & able
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Nothing like working through your issues through sparring. As you do.
Anyway, this one is a teeny bit late, but I hope y’all enjoy some brotherly angst for Lucanis week day 6!
With the decision to spare Illario, I think these two would have a lot of working through their shared past to shape their future together.
Thanks to @datvcompanionweeks for hosting this event! It was such a blast!
my most favourite rogues
ive decided illario's nickname is larry
Illario: (says something out of line)
Rook: Whatever, Larry
Illario: I will kill you.
Rook: You couldn't kill your cousin or Caterina. What makes you think you can kill me?
by Igor Svibilsky
Nightingale's Eyes
Southeast Asian Leliana inspired by a post I saw that I sadly lost >.> If anyone knows the post I'm talking about pls share!!
Also please reblog if you like it, I spent all day painting and now my hands hurt so I'd really appreciate some likes and reblogs <3
Edit: post has been found thanks to @v-arbellanaris!
trying to make a creative project without men and uproot any masculine words will drive one insane. There's the obvious stuff, right, swordsman becomes swordsmaid, count becomes countess, gladiator to gladiatrix and so on.
But did you know that "-er" is a masculine suffix, for which "-ster" as in "sister" is the feminine equivalent? Baker means a man that bakes, the historical feminine equivalent is a bakster, a webster is a female weaver. Some words already have the feminine as default, youngster, teamster, mobster, but most? Trying to be a principled feminist has you saying shit like goonster
Wait for real? Fascinating.
for real! Lots of other examples too, anything "patr" comes from father, "patriarch" is the obvious one, but patriot, patron, patronym all would need "matr" for mother is instead. Pope and Papacy derive from "Papa" and would be Mome/Mamacy if you want yuri catholicism (hellworld!!) it's EVERYWHERE
My favorite example, beyond the obvious ones like lord/lady, waiter/waitress, steward/stewardess, is housekeeper, which is now the more acceptable term for a maid, when maid, of course, just means "woman" and keeper is masculine, would be keepster or keepess but (to my knowledge) neither were used historically because, well, keeping wasn't something women got to do!
Likewise, waitress has fallen out of favor for host or server, which are also both gendered terms. (hostess or serving girl, respectively. Servant is also gendered, maidservant and servantess were used)
There's been a concerted push with a lot of these to phase out the feminine variants of these words and just treat the masculine variants as neutral, or find neutral alternatives like fireman -> firefighter (even though fighter is also gendered) because the feminine variants are seen as inherently lesser, which, yeah that's how women are seen.
There is a line you have to draw somewhere of "okay let's just treat this and below as gender neutral because, frankly, most words that just mean "person" mean "man" historically because women weren't (and still largely aren't) considered people, and otherwise we're going to shred the whole English language" and I get that.
BUT. I think a lot of folks draw that line at the start and insist that man/guy/dude/bro can be gender-neutral which is obvious stupid. And I think it's always worth having this investigation and questioning how we speak, it shapes how we think about worlds and people real and fictional.
Okay one last silly aside about barista, which is supposed to be gender-neutral from Italian but men got weird about it and then invented baristo so now -ista is kinda feminine? Typically it's just borrowed into English to sound Foreign (Sandinistas leading to the exonym Corbynistas)
Bucket, Captain Lieutenant are gendered masculine btw, it'd be buckette captaine and lieutenante. It's not just an issue of suffixes being "ignored"(masculinized) when borrowed from french because we write Debutante with the e. Multiple times a month I stumble into new examples, the battle never ends
hey i'd just like you to know ever since i saw this post it's been the only thing i think about when at work. Because of it i've tried imagining a version of english that is more feminine or even 100% fem. 1. it's been such a wild ride just going "my god how we speak is weird." 2. I has been a pure joy coming up with an idea for a world for a bee species and a lesbian lizard species to speak in this language.
we are now sisters in arms in an eternal war 🤝
Are you using mods for Dragon Age: Origins?
Yes, A LOT of them!
Yes, not that many but a couple
No, I'm playing vanilla
I wish... idk hiw you would implement this in game but I wish there was a bit of a deeper look at Neve and the Venatori outside of just Aelia. I feel like Veilguard does this thing where they narrow down the Venatori and the Antaam to *just* the leaders of whatever you are dealing with. But if Minrathous gets blighted surely there would be people in Dock Town joining the Venatori just because they have no other way to survive? Surely Neve would have some mixed feelings about Rook and Co just smashing through them with no second thoughts? Idk like I said I have no idea how you would implement that in the game but it could have led, in my opinion, to some fun character moments
Duncan, arriving at Ostagar in my multi-warden worldstate after collecting the others and seeing the dynamic that has already formed between Mae Surana & Alistair: "Ah. Hm."
It would've been really cool if we'd seen signs of all the other origins who were not chosen as the PC origin in DAO. Just imagine! Two abominations, fighting alongside Uldred, turned maybe willingly, maybe not. You loot them and find on one a necklace with the crest of the Amell family. On the other, you find a drawing of a house with a family drawn in a child's hand; the drawing has been ripped and it appears a child is missing from the picture. You have a random encounter with two shrieks who defend each other with a care unseen in darkspawn; one chokes out "Tamlen!" as it falls. In Denerim, you see an elf hanging from the gallows; the plaque below makes their crimes public, their body, left and forgotten, serves as a warning and as a reason for the human population to lash out against the Denerim Alienage. In Orzammar, you find Brosca, starved to death in the cell next to Leske, yes. But in the Deep Roads, you find another dwarven body: dead by their own hands, it seems, curled up under the crest of house Aeducan. And in Howe's dungeon, on the rack, there is a corpse. Nothing identifies the noble for who they are, save for the word of the other noble you rescue there.
I love baby Wardens and Inquisitors a lot (like 18-20 year olds not actual children). Like dude you should be taking your gap year right now why are you leading a major historically significant organization? You should still be living with your mom why are all of these old people making you save their asses?
honestly, having flexibility in your headcanons is such an important skill to develop as a fandom participant. like, it's great to have strong opinions of your own, but don't you want to hear what strong opinions others hold? I love being compelled by a passionate argument! go off! tell me something I don't assume! give me the tea that's not inherent to my watching!
King of Spades, Swords, and Crows
Available as a print!
Bluesky version
Inverted version after the cut :)
tbh I think the real reason I prefer thinking of the lighthouse Varric as something Solas made up and can partially control/see through the eyes of is that it opens the potential for scenarios where Rook regularly comes to vent to Varric which puts Solas in the position of having to give relationship advice
this idea actually gets a lot better when you remember that solas's relationship history includes:
mythal (society-shattering divorce; he killed her)
felassan (dubious; he killed him)
inquisitor (conditional; incredibly, they yet live though the relationship itself does not)
any advice he'd give would likely be "you should get rid of them"-shaped, but he is stuck larping as Varric who's supposed to be actually good with people. his own special torture chamber and he put himself there on his own, no one asked him to do any of that. typical case of coming up with a grand cool plan with absolutely 0 foresight on where it's going to lead
