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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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@veilguard-deeznuts
participated in a challenge from my friend.
1. Duty
2. Calling
3. Griffin
4. Hope
5. Warden
The art challenge is framed by my favorite Dragon age Origins, where the Grey Wardens play a central role. So many years will pass, and the music from the game's menu is still in my heart😢
Dragon age but all of the games just take place at a different waffle house location
my vagueposting mutual solas
sorry to cullenpost on the dashboard but like idk its like he grew up in a stupid gay lil village in ferelden right. like he almost definitely grew up poor or at the very least Not Wealthy. and he joined the templars under the idea that he was protecting Both the mages and civilians from each other, then realized that it's actually the former that's the true threat and then endeavored to instead become a soldier to protect those who cannot protect themselves. THEN he gets deployed to the city with like what he believes to have one of the worst apostate crises in thedas, works his way up to knight captain in record time because he's that devoted, and then this fereldan refugee comes by. and they're solving all the problems that cullen didnt even know exist because they're all happening in the poor areas of the city, which cullen has literally never been and—hang on. WHY are there no templars in lowtown. why are they so focused on protecting the elite, the ones that live Right Next To The Guards, when the real crime and danger and problems are happening to people that can't defend themselves? and then that's where his gradual loss of faith in the order comes all the way up to meredith literally burning all his ideals to the ground in front of his face by making a warzone out of kirkwall.
its great we get actual cullen development that isnt like entirely offscreen and we get actual in-universe acknowledgment of the weird unspoken class disparity with the chantry and we also get like a logical reason why cullen still believes in An order, just not the one that's been corrupted by people who separate human beings into categories of things to be controlled rather than individuals to be helped.
i think about anders’s mother all the time and we know literally two things about her.
we know she cried when the templars took anders away and that the only thing he brought with him to the circle was a pillow she embroidered for him. that’s pretty much it.
anders can tell hawke that when mage children are taken to the circle, templars threaten their parents with imprisonment if they try to contact them. there are other circle mages who do have contact with their families, so it suggests that his own parents may have been threatened. in the same conversation, he talks about templars ripping children away from their mothers; it's (understandably) a big theme throughout da2 in his fight to seek justice for mages.
i just always wonder about what happened anders's mother after he was taken to the circle. what did she think of her husband and what he did, calling the templars on their child? did she stay with him? there’s nothing to suggest that anders had siblings. did his parents try to start over and have more children? did she ever try to contact her son, despite any templar threats? did she write letters that made it to kinloch hold, only for a templar to throw them away?
how often did she think about him? how often did she wonder if he was even still alive? she must have heard about what happened at kinloch during the blight. did she think he was killed, or that he became an abomination? or did she hold out hope that the hero of ferelden got there in time?
when she heard about the chantry explosion in kirkwall, did she think about her son who lived or died in the ferelden circle? when the circles fell, did she hold out hope that he might show up on their doorstep—a grown man now—as irrational as that hope might have felt?
we know that the first time anders ran away, he was trying to go home. did an anders who survived the chantry explosion aftermath ever dare to go back and find his mother?
this is fucking killing me?
Ferelden, 2025
If I tell you I cackled.
quick-ish pieces based on the crow's outfit concept art
Someone: What’s Emmrich sex scene like?
Me:
as a certified Mage Guy: this is a really good earlier concept mage Davrin
DA2: You are a refugee in a new city struggling to make a living. You have to be a mercenary or a smuggler for a year.
DA2: There are gangs everywhere that attack you as you walk down the street. You have to fight them as the city guard stands around uselessly.
DA2: To raise money, you take whatever jobs you can get. A lot of them are violent.
DA2: Your best friend jokes that to find you, he only has to follow the blood. He’s right.
DA2: One of your friends feels bad that he almost killed one specific person he was trying to protect. Your best friend reminds him how many people he’s killed just by following you, saying “what’s one more?”
DA2: A member of the clergy incites violence by killing important political figures and blaming foreigners.
DA2: The same clergy has the ability to intervene with the power abuses of its military arm against an imprisoned minority group, but doesn’t.
DA2: The aforementioned military arm has the right to mass murder its entire incarcerated population at the drop of a hat.
The writers and fandom: “Violence is never the answer! Anders says that line about drowning in blood because he’s unstable! The boom was going too far!”
was digging through the wiki for info on the imperial chantry
this is why they couldn’t make ashur being the black divine explicitly canon LOL “leader of an anti-slavery organization is also the leader of an organization that directly profits off of slavery as his day job” was too much of a moral quandary to confront and it would’ve sidetracked literally everything about the shadow dragons. i think it could be potentially interesting as a character premise and i wouldn’t doubt that was what they intended but it would’ve required wayyyy more time and focus than it really could’ve gotten with ashur being a minor character in a rushed game and also would’ve required the imperial chantry existing at all in veilguard
also sorry sidenote the imperial chantry was violently purged in 9:27? the divine prior to aequitas ii was a usurper? lord seeker lambert was involved??? what happened with that. can we get back to that. what’s going on in the imperial chantry guys
If you want to know the full story about the coup, here's the complete excerpt from WoTv2:
Ser Lambert rose quickly through the templar ranks, serving with distinction at the Circle of Magi in Ghislain until achieving the rank of knight—captain in 9:17 Dragon. That year, he led a group of templars north into the dangerous border region of the Tevinter Imp erium to chase a group of escaped apostates. When he was confronted by a larger group of Imperial Templars just outside the Tevinter city of Caimen Brea who had already taken his apostates captive, the result could easily have been a diplomatic nightmare that led to war. Instead, Ser Lambert respectfufly negotiated with the templars and won the admiration of a ranking mage who traveled with them: Magister Urian Nihalias. It was this feat that led to Lambert being recruited into the Seekers of Truth months later—a remarkable feat, considering the vast majority of Seekers are recruited as youths—and, in 9:21 Dragon, led to his appointment as a Seeker liaison to the Tevinter Imperium. This last came at the personal request of Magister Urian. For years, Lambert served with the Imperial Templars, aiding them by taking charge of investigations of magical corruption. It was a task he grew frustrated with, as evidenced by a letter to Lady Seeker Nicoline in 9:25 Dragon. “Magister Urian has been a wonderful friend, and without him I don’t believe I could stand it,” Lambert wrote. “These people asked for our help, and there is so much corruption I could spend day and night hunting the culprits and still not learn of half of it. Yet I do nothing but encounter obstacles, placed in my way by senators who do not wish their allies displaced, or who obscure their own tracks. Despite the knight-commander assuring me that it will all be rooted out in good time, I am uncertain. I find myself listening more and more to Urian and his talk of extreme measures being needed, but I cannot in good conscience take them while also serving the Orlesian Chantry.” Regardless of his misgivings, Ser Lambert took part in what amounted to a coup in 9:27 Dragon—when several high-ranking magisters, including Magister Urian, and a select group of Imperial Templars, arrested in a single night the reigning Black Divine and five of the highest—ranking magisters in Minrathous. The resulting trial, including word of Lambert’s involvement, caused scandal back in Orlais… no less than when Magister Urian himself assumed the role of Black Divine. Assured that this would lead to reform in the Imperium, Lambert instead found himself witness to a violent purge of the Imperial Chantry by Divine Urian. After four more years of reluctant service to a Divine who no longer seemed as eager to root out corruption as he did before he attained the position, Lambert finally returned to Orlais in disgust in 9:31 Dragon.
In the few, short seconds it had taken Teia to get up the stairs, she had prepared herself to find Viago on the floor. Perhaps dying. Perhaps already dead. But not shirtless—never shirtless. “You know,” she groaned, turning him over. “This isn’t how I imagined seeing you naked.” Despite her flippant tone, Teia’s heart pounded against her ribs. Viago’s breathing was leaden, but present—thank the Maker. A quick scan revealed two puncture wounds on his forearm. The skin surrounding the bite marks was swollen and had turned a sickly hue of plum. His throat emitted a guttural noise. “Vi!” She brought her ear to hover above his lips. With substantial effort, Viago pushed out the words, “Wearing … trousers.” Teia didn’t know whether to hit or kiss him. “You stupid, silly, stubborn man. Tell me you have antivenin.” Viago lifted his right finger and pointed toward the leather case. Teia jumped to her feet. Inside the case were rows of vials labeled with charming but exceedingly unhelpful names such as Meet the Maker and the Snuff of Legends. “Which one is it?” From the floor, she heard incoherent gurgling. “Really, Vi?” Teia snapped. “You can correct me on your state of undress, but not a word on which vial will save your life?” This time her question was met with silence. “Vi?” Dropping back down to the floor, she checked his pulse. It was faint—dangerously so. If she didn’t find the antivenin soon, his heart and lungs would shut down. Cursing, Teia grabbed the case and continued the search. To her mounting frustration, not one vial simply said what it was. “If you survive this, we are definitely coming up with a sensible naming convention.” Finally, her hand stilled over one called Up and Adder. Teia winced. “I should let you die for that.”
the worst part is you can't even tell them to get a room. they already HAVE a room. Viago is actively dying and they're still like this.
Here's a rotating Cullen.
walk walk fashion baby 🎶
