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It’s so funny that Cassandra Pentaghast is a Nevarran princess now that I’ve seen the grand necropolis. She really was this jock surrounded by goth girlies and she hated every second of it. She’s like the inverse of Enoby

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The fact that Cassandra reads Swords and Shields out loud to Cole is so important to me.

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thinking about fancy parties and the romance of wearing each other's colours

+ the trials of marrying a scrappy little lord of fortune

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thinking about how karl's love was enough to stop anders from fighting for his own freedom in the circle but hawke's love wasn't enough for him to stop fighting for the freedom of others in kirkwall. maybe it was justice, or maybe he just wasn't ready to make the same mistake twice

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any good dwarf longfic recommendations? idc about the pairing just wanna read a DA fic with a cool dwarf protagonist. bonus points for titan lore/stone sense stuff

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Click for full res!!☀️

Tarot card of Viera, favorite lady!! 🥰 Thank you to @vivispec (who she belongs to) for letting me draw her 💖

Symbolism breakdown below the cut!

So! Of course this takes a lot of inspiration from the strength tarot card :)

She points to Skyhold, aiding them even as she looks away towards home, the aravels in the the mountains just beyond her reach.

She is the sun in a night sky and her eyes remain there, a near halo to those who know and appreciate her.

Solas stands beside, a barrier between herself and her home, her people. He also inhibits her movement on the path forward, but she carries on no less.

The aravels in the background move parallel to her, sure to surpass her quickly.

The purple flowers actually come from this ficlet Vivi wrote, give it a read 💜

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i wont be able to get the actual game for a while, but i did mess around in the CC and make a rook - here is mykyta de riva

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^ wrote that post Nov. 1 after playing for like 5 hours.

guys do you remember when i put "fantasy racism" as the free space on my bingo card and my assumption was that DAV was going to rehash the "both sides have points" thing about slavery, DAI-Dorian style?

fascinating timeline we ended up in

the bar is truly scraping the floor, but i am beyond pleased that the first explict mention of tevinter slavery is of someone going "this is unacceptable, and my previous stance of 'it's not so different from other regions' poverty' was abhorrent."

thanks, dragon age, for finally becoming the sjw franchise so many people seem to think you are by *unequivocally condemning slavery.*

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When DA4 drops I want y’all to remember these things:

- Tevinter’s closest and only ally is Orzammar (‘ally’ is an overstatement but they have a business arrangement involving lyrium & trade that the imperium cannot function without)

- There is a class in Tevinter called the Ambassadoria that consists of dwarven dignitaries from Orzammar to oversee trade

- They have their own thaigs AND a provings ground.

- Minrathous is protected by “juggernauts”: GOLEMS. Gifted to them by Orzammar.

- Orzammar has embassies in EVERY major city in Tevinter.

If bioware reduces them to common thugs and merchants like they always do I’m gonna bite someone. If Varric “Not Like Other Dwarves” Tethras is the only dwarf companion or major dwarf character we get i am nibbling someone’s ankle. BioWare still hasn’t made up for what they did to Oghren. Prime opportunity to revisit dwarves that don’t hate or disown their culture in order to fill some hollow stereotype or predictable antithesis. Go back or else.

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is there anything the antaam occupation of treviso is doing for the plot that you couldn’t do with an antivan civil war

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I miss my Warden & Zevran so much and I thought 'lmao what if I made their child as my Rook' and when i checked on the years its possible to do so and i went a little nuts so

yep💖

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all that 38+ strength put to good use

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veilguard dialogue gifs ⟶ 6/?

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Okay being cranky again. "Wanting power" is not enough to explain a villainous faction's actions. People and groups rarely want power for power's sake - they feel they need it for some reason, to feel safe, to reach some goal of theirs. So what is their goal? What is their reasoning? What are they trying to do with that power?

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Every day I wake up and think about Zevran Arainai from the video game Dragon Age: Origins (2009)

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screaming at this