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when sherlock said “taking your own life. interesting expression, taking it from who? once it's over, it's not you who'll miss it. your own death is something that happens to everyone else. your life is not your own, keep your hands off it.” i almost cried

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The Circle of Magi Origin has a different vibe to it, though.

"Alistair,

I'm returning from the Circle with a new recruit. As luck would have it, a highly skilled mage was accused of conspiring with a - admittedly quite foolish and very much in love - blood mage, which made the Templars quite happy to rid themselves of them.

Please do not ask them if they're a blood mage, too. Actually, don't bring it up. Don't peek for "blood mage" scars. Don't flex with being an ex-Templar. Don't get into a discussion if they're upfront with how they've ended up with us. Be careful, but. Don't. Be. A. Templar. About. It."

(warning i'm about to ramble over something small)

So, if cousland tells alistair that they're family was just murdered, he sayd "how stupi of me to forget" which means he was told prior, but before this conversation, the warden can never actually tell Alistair about what happened in Highever (as far as i remember, the topic never comes up. you can tell others you're from highever or that you're the teynr's child, but besides Cailan, you can't tell them you're whole family is dead)

now, considering that alistair says that you must be the recruit duncan talked about (if you tell him your name, he even says like ah right that was the name), that means between the duncan recruiting/conscripting the warden and them arriving at ostagar, he most likely sent a letter to alistair.

which leads me to this: i cannot stop thinking about duncan writing a letter to alistair ahead of time to tell him about the recruit and saying "oh yeah by the way, the arl of amaranthine kiilled their whole family so maybe don't bring it up"

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My Dragon Age Names Catalogue has been updated to include all that I've found from Veilguard so far! (This catalogue is for all names used in the franchise; games, novels, comics, and other media, broken down by place of fictional origin, and real life etymologies to the best of my ability.)

I've likely still missed some though, so I will continue to keep it up to date as I find more.

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Solas 🗡 🖤

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This is the most gorgeous, feelings inducing art of them ❤️

solas and felassan commission for @evilbunnyking, thank you!

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Rook got her dance

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my general, my slow arrow, my-

vhenan 🏹

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I love them, your honour

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Nerdhands update

Sorry

I need the strength to finish this

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Wounded Bird

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It reminds me of this quote that went around Tumblr years ago:

I feel like a defining trait of my Lavellan's willingness to forgive Solas for literally anything is that no matter what he does, no matter how much it hurts her, the one thing she thinks when she thinks about her kind, wise and sad hobo husband will always be "how scared did he have to be to do this?"

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—— the dread wolf's regret

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baby 🤲

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mods edits

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"Darkspawn were created by mankind's second sin: pride."

Just an Origins quote from a Chantry mother in Denerim bludgeoning me over the head 15 years later.

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“Your abilities declare the world real. Who, if not the Maker of this world, could grant such a gift?”

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The man, the myth, the bark connoisseur - Felassan

With his hair down for once because his bun annoys me