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The art book arrived! It’s so heavy that I pinched a nerve in my hand when picking it up, lol.

Has a lot of cool stuff in it. Freaky fantasy fauna, my beloved.

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Will never be normal about this theme of how war and subjugation destroys you, crushes your spirit and not only dehumanizes others in your eyes but yourself in your own eyes.

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bioware since 2012: honestly we shouldn’t have redesigned the elves. from now on, regular faces for elves only

me:

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Some spirits are dangerous. But how quickly most respond to a bit of kindness, or care, or simple attempt to understand.

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I’m not crying, you’re crying.

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*Veilguard Spoilers(sorta)*

Just saw another tweet with some concept/story boarding art from Lucanis’s romance…???

Fanfic girlies take notes (I am girlies)

His wings were supposed to pop out during/ to interrupt a kiss? Romance scene in a gondola? Possible multiple sets of wings when he’s really pissed/Spite’s crashing out? A lake scene? (Possibly at his family estate…???)

So many ideas…

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ok ok listen. mythal and solas's fucked up relationship puts everything about solavellan into context. how hyper-aware he was of the unequal power dynamic in their relationship, his guilt over his own desire for her and how he pulls away every time, the overwhelming feeling of falling in love with a god(dess), he tells mythal "i would follow you anywhere" and if lavellan begs him in trespasser to let her follow he refuses her. "i would not have you see what i become" and "there is only death on this journey". he will not drag her into his mess the way mythal dragged him into hers. he will not pollute her from her purpose the way mythal polluted him. he will not allow her the guilt and blood on her hands because he was her. he has been in her exact position, yearning for a god's affections and willing to follow them anywhere. and he loves her too much to treat her the way he was treated. of course he cannot be with her. of course he has to leave her. and he can only allow her to join him when he is freed of his burden and his path changes to one of atonement. of course she can join him in his atonement, even if it is ugly. because it will not sully her hands with blood. he can only accept her love and support when he knows it will not come at the cost of her morality and the good person she is. everything he does to her, even the betrayal, is to avoid subjecting her to the exact same thing mythal subjected him to.

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I've seen Lucanis' family villa so I knew he was rich, but this banter made me realize that he's a rich boy who has no idea what money is worth lmao.

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The irony of doing deforestation in a land that already has nearly no forests, only to place some giant bird-killing things there in the name of “green energy.” Don’t let me even get started about how much harmful manufacturing processes need to take place to make wind turbines.

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Made all my world state gals.

Fenera Surana - Leliana romance

Aradia Hawke - Anders romance

Tarensa Lavellan - Solas romance

Luvena de Riva - Lucanis romance

All mages. If Hawke could have been any race, she’d have been an elf too. Alas.

Fenera - arcane warrior/spirit healer/battle mage

Aradia - entropy/fire/force mage

Tarensa - rift/keeper/shapeshifter mage

Luvena - necrotic/lightning/spellblade mage

Technically I don’t have a canon Veilguard canon yet, but this is my current playthrough.

Fenera world state: Spared Loghain, married Alistair and Anora together, made Bhelen king, destroyed the anvil, saved Redcliffe and Connor, broke the werewolf curse, saved the circle, and had Morrigan do the dark ritual.

Hawke world state: Had Carver become a warden, got the Arishok’s respect, Isabela came back, had Varric help his brother, supported Anders, told Sebastian to piss off.

Tarensa world state: Denied being the herald the whole time, sided with the mages, had Loghain sacrifice himself in the fade, spared the wardens at Adamant, had Celene and Briala reunite, drank from the well of sorrows, made Leliana Divine (unhardened), had Bull side with the Chargers, encouraged Bull and Dorian together, kept Cole a spirit, found and exposed the truth about Ameriden, disbanded the Inquisition, vowed to save Solas.

Still playing Luvena but so far had her spare Treviso.

Some random facts:

Fenera was born in the alienage in Highever before being taken to the circle at age 5.

Aradia’s maternal grandmother was a Phentaghast and her paternal grandmother was one of Flemeth’s daughters.

Tarensa’s clan lives in the Korcari Wilds (and was the clan that saved Loghain and Maric in Stolen Throne).

Luvena was adopted by House de Riva (and made Viago’s ward) after she was found shipwrecked at sea as a small child.

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mary kirby continues to give incredible crow content on bluesky

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She has resting pouty face.

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List of things 'Bioware kinda forgot...' and then 90% of it is innacurate, gets explained in game, or purely subjective. Like I get not loving the game but this shit is ridiculous IS NO ONE READING/LISTENING EVER???

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What’s interesting about Solas’s portrayal in DA4 is that we see him mostly from Rook’s perspective. Rook only knows what Varric has told them and what they observe through encounters with a cunning and distant Fen’Harel in their dreams—dreams controlled by him through blood magic, as we later discover. The Veilguard unveils his deepest regrets and judges him at his worst. Solas doesn’t try to change Rook’s mind about why the Veil must fall, he doesn’t bother painting himself as the ‘good guy’ or explaining his motivations. He repeatedly dismisses them with, ‘it’s beyond your comprehension’ and ‘you can’t understand what was lost.’ He dismisses Rook as a God would.

Though he grows to respect Rook, it changes nothing, by this point, he’s at his absolute worst. He embodies Pride to a fault. The gentle, wise, and truly idealistic aspects of his character we saw in Inquisition have been lost to what he believes he must become to achieve his goal. The Veilguard focuses on the Mythal-shaped void in his past. It might seem as though his loyalty to her was the only thing driving him, because ultimately, her releasing him from this duty stayed his hand.

To understand Solas, we have to know that he was Wisdom spirit first. He gained a physical form, and Mythal turned him into a weapon for a war he never believed in, a trauma that still reverberates through everything he does. Her final admission, that she was wrong and she's freeing him from this burden was just the breaking point of an already weakened resolve, that had one final push in the 3rd act. This vulnerability allowed for an opening for the grief he’d kept locked away unresolved, grief for her, for his lost spirit self, for his people, the Elvhen, for the magic he separated from the world, for his rebellion, for Felaasan, and for all those he betrayed and hurt in his quest to set things right. This powerful moment stripped him of his pride.

Then he sees Lavellan, kneeling before him, just as he had done for her in Trespasser. In that moment, she's a glimmer of hope, there's a sudden realization that, though this grief will be the hardest thing to bear, she’s proof that this world went on. Its people have kept fighting, and there is still beauty and goodness worth saving. And with that, there's the possibility of redemption, not giving up but letting go and facing the world and himself. A new purpose arises, and now, he won’t be blinded by solitude that tainted his heart for so long.

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Catty bitch to catty bitch communication, lol. 🧠⚡️🧠

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I finished my first playthrough Sunday so started a new playthrough last night, this time playing a crow.

This is Luvena de Riva, a mage, and a Lucanis romancer.

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