Hi yall, this blog has been dead for almost a year, mostly because I needed a break from this wasteland for my mental wellbeing. I moved my account to @viamutationis - still working on the pinned and setting it up. Mostly gonna be posting art and OC shit. Fair warning, I probably won’t follow you back if you frequently post positive content regarding Veilguard. Nothing personal, I just gotta keep my peace lmao.
ID in alt text, notes and oc infodump under the cut! PLEASE ask me about them they're my new babygirl of the week
Yeah. Ben-Hassrath Cousland is wild, I know. This was one of those 3 am thoughts that became a beloved oc and now they're my canon protag. Basically: She was being trained to be House Cousland's left hand to spy within the noble courts and intercept threats to her family's rule, and a large part of that meant being covertly sent to Orlais to train as a bard. Buuuut the bardmaster she studied under was an undercover Hissrad, and she wound up being converted to the Qun by her. Teenage Laurentia was in a spot where, like every kid, she was questioning the Andrastian beliefs she was raised with and all the unfair things she noticed in her society, so she was very open to the Qun.
Her role once she was sent back home was basically just to send reports detailing the inner workings of the Ferelden nobility and to be aware of any Tal-Vashoth activity in the area. Pretty benign shit, and the former task is what she was doing for her family anyway. Still recruited by the Wardens the normal way, via Duncan doing his "come with me if you want to live" shtick after the fam dies. None of the Blight Crew find her out save for Leliana, because Leli knows everything. She only reveals it to Sten just as he's about to hop on a ship back home LMAOOO.
They're genuinely very compassionate and sweet. A lil whimsical. Highly loyal and protective. Very lawful good (emphasis on lawful). It's a weird sort of internal reconciling - they are genuinely kind to most people and love listening to others' issues and helping them out. It just so happens that this makes them an excellent spy, because they're exactly the sort of person people feel comfortable opening up to, and they see no issue with passing relevant information on to the powers they spy for. The kindness is genuine, but it's also a tool, if that makes sense. Their duty comes before any attachments. On that Master Coercion grindset.
No romance because they're aro, but they do have a little homoerotic espionage cat and mouse goin on with Leliana (singing campfire songs and trading stories and braiding each others' hair included). They get along with all their companions besides Morrigan and Oghren, and even Morrigan is more just.. cordial passive aggression.
They exist in the same worldstate as my Orlesian Warden-Commander Gavriel! He's a veteran warden who joins them on the road after Lothering because his ass snuck into Ferelden to help the Wardens solo, and then he'll later become the WC while they become Arlessa because they have more political experience and he has more military experience.
They generally make the nicey nice choices, albeit not where magic is concerned, and even then it's purely out of an abundance of caution. They do NOT annul the Circle, they do that secret third option where you tell Greagoir there could still be blood mages so he puts the mages into quarantine and Wynne still joins you but the game counts it as siding with the Templars. They let Isolde kill Connor, rip lil dude. (Not like they have a choice, they would rather that than the blood magic anyway, but they kill Jowan soooooo.) Besides that, all nicey choices. Bhelen on the throne, Anvil destroyed, Zathrian reconciles and everybody lives, Ashes are not tainted, Loghain recruited, Alistair and Anora rule jointly, Gavriel and Morrigan know they'd never agree to the Dark Ritual so they do it behind Laurentia's back and nobody dies lmao.
Small notes on their disabilities: Wynne was the healer that did their cleft lip surgeries as a kid!! Their last surgery was when they were 6, so they do remember her :D & their hearing aids are lyrium-infused lazurite, the runes are all enchantments that combine to make it collect and amplify sound like an actual HA does. I love bullshitting magic technology.
Their mabari is named Princess, because they got her when they were 10, okay.
[ID: A digital portrait of a Qunari man. He has freckled and scarred dark grey skin, green eyes with black sclera, and an array of facial piercings. He has two sets of black horns, one spiraling and one straight up, both decorated with golden jewelry. His hair is long, white, and braided, with charms, ribbons, and chains woven in. He wears a golden Saarebas collar with chains attached to it, a green shirt that reveals his chest, and a black half-cape. He is giving a judgmental side-glare.]
Made a new Warden Cousland for Veilguard !! They were sent off to train as a bard and wound up getting converted to the Qun as a Ben-Hassrath spy before being sent back home as a deep cover agent. They’re a polite lil sweetie who just wants to play music and get that hot goss for Qun HQ but instead they gotta save the world, I fuckin guess. Ft homoerotic espionage cat and mouse with Leliana, obviously.
[ID: A digital bust of a chubby white human transfem with messy brown hair in two low buns. They have bushy eyebrows, amber eyes, beauty marks, cleft lip scarring, a blue hearing aid, and pearl earrings. They wear blue Grey Warden rogue armor and a fur cloak. They are smiling and looking off to the left.]
My darling Raphael’s tarot card ❤️ Attempted to mimic the style and color palette of the Red Templar cards ingame !
[ID: A DAI-style tarot card of a Red Templar. He has brown skin, black hair tied up in a bun, and a moustache and stubble. He is wearing Templar armor with gold accents and is aiming a white bow in front of him. One of his arms is covered in red lyrium crystals, and more crystals grow from his armor and bow. There are five golden chalices in the corners of the card.]
My rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good time boy Gavriel who sneaks off to kiss the Architect and join the Disciples instead of going on his Calling like a normal person
[ID: Two digital busts depicting a sickly pale elven man. His skin is rotting in spots, there are blackened veins on his face, and his eyes are a cloudy grey. He has ginger hair streaked with white, freckles, and pale eyelashes. He wears vertebrae as earrings, a dark blue labcoat, and a dark brown fur coat. In the first bust, he is depicted with a bare face, while in the second he is shown wearing red facepaint across his eyes reminiscent of the Disciples from Dragon Age Awakening. There are snowflakes in the background behind him.]
Fyodor my darling magister + shadow dragon serving otome cg cunt <3 They can't be my actual Rook because they're a blood mage but .. a guy can dream..
[ID: A digital portrait of a pale nonbinary half-elf with their back turned to the viewer. Fyodor is looking back over their shoulder. They have long blonde hair and teal eyes. They are wearing a red dress that drapes off their shoulders. They have scars in the shape of arcane sigils and runes on their back and shoulders as well as a burn scar on their neck.]
My contribution to the Gallery Noir discord server’s tarot project!! (up over on @vampemoqueen’s pinned, go take a look at the other cards!)
[ID: A digitally illustrated tarot card. In the foreground is a man with light brown skin and curly black hair. He wears gold jewelry and blue Byzantine-period robes patterned like the ocean. He is controlling a stream of water that flows behind him, and in the background is the ocean on a cloudy night. The card is painted with a blue/gold color palette.]
Christening this new sideblog with my awful awful prettyboy Raphael ❤️ He’s my OC interpretation of the fucker in command of Suledin Keep and is, genuinely, the worst man alive. Very good rp villain though.
[ID: A digital bust of a man with medium brown skin, mid-length black hair, and a moustache / stubble. His right arm is fully encased in glowing red crystals, and small shards poke through elsewhere on his skin. He is sickly-looking and covered in red veins, and wears a white unbuttoned shirt that reveals stylized red top surgery scars. He wears two gold chain necklaces. Behind him is a red halo on black background.]
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