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“Did you know that my Amatus once felt bad because he couldn’t reason with an ORLESIAN duchess? He actually felt remorse for an ORLESIAN. Could you imagine if I wasn’t around him all the time the poor man would’ve been eaten alive by now 😭”

“Rook still feels bad about what happened to the First Warden. I still wish she punched him at Weisshaupt.”

The fact that my canon Inquisitor and Rook are two of the nicest elves in Thedas dating the Archon of Tevinter and the First Talon respectively will always be funny to me.

Their partners are so extremely happy but cannot help but be sooo extremely STRESSED watching their partner barely get by in THEDAS with The Power of Friendship™️. They both achieve huge feats but Lucanis/Dorian cannot help but wish they could wrap them in bubble wrap or something.

I also imagine these two rich boys having conversations like “I cannot for my life of me figure out where should I plant a tree on my big sprawling estate. I should plant a nice tree for them right?”

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Dorian and Lucanis are the type of people that if you bring a pet home they’re like “ehh no it’s fine, I’m just not a big animal person, as long as they don’t bother me it’s fine tho” …just give them a couple of weeks and that pet WILL be their favorite living thing on the planet tyvm 🤣

The fact that my canon Inquisitor and Rook are two of the nicest elves in Thedas dating the Archon of Tevinter and the First Talon respectively will always be funny to me.

Their partners are so extremely happy but cannot help but be sooo extremely STRESSED watching their partner barely get by in THEDAS with The Power of Friendship™️. They both achieve huge feats but Lucanis/Dorian cannot help but wish they could wrap them in bubble wrap or something.

I also imagine these two rich boys having conversations like “I cannot for my life of me figure out where should I plant a tree on my big sprawling estate. I should plant a nice tree for them right?”

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The fact that my canon Inquisitor and Rook are two of the nicest elves in Thedas dating the Archon of Tevinter and the First Talon respectively will always be funny to me.

Their partners are so extremely happy but cannot help but be sooo extremely STRESSED watching their partner barely get by in THEDAS with The Power of Friendship™️. They both achieve huge feats but Lucanis/Dorian cannot help but wish they could wrap them in bubble wrap or something.

I also imagine these two rich boys having conversations like “I cannot for my life of me figure out where should I plant a tree on my big sprawling estate. I should plant a nice tree for them right?”

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"average Thedosian political leader is assassinated at least once" factoid actualy just statistical error. average Thedosian political leader is assassinated zero times. King Markus, who lives and dies and lives and dies and lives in Nevarra and has been assassinated 20 times, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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"I'll talk to him guys!!"

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"Did Varric just become stupid in Veilguard, that he'd walk up to Solas like that?"

No, I just think he knew. He's a 50-something year old rogue; he's lived in a sketchy tavern, fought all sorts of monsters, demons and abominations, witnessed all kinds of betrayal. He's seen it all, from Kirkwall to Ferelden and now Tevinter...you can't convince me he wasn't aware of what would most likely await him at the top of those stairs.

He knew, but he was tired. After losing Bartrand, Kirkwall, possibly Hawke—being away from all his friends, who ended up dispersing all over Thedas—after years of living with his regrets about the Deep Roads, about lyrium, about Bianca—about Anders, whom he couldn't save. A friend whose mind he could not change, a haunting tale now mirrored in his elven companion.

What is there left for Varric Tethras? A broken city to govern, occasional letters from friends. Maybe, but he's so tired. So tired that his well-groomed stubble has now turned into a full bush across his sunken cheeks. His flashy earrings gone, his flamboyant chain and tunic replaced by a more sober outfit, now drained of the fiery, warm colours that used to adorn his wardrobe, his hair, his eyes. Almost in greyscale now, it'd be hard to know it's Varric if it wasn't for his steady sarcastic remarks.

No, Varric was not stupid. Not in 2, not in Inquisition, definitely not in Veilguard. He was just tired, and probably figured if it was time to go, the best way to do so would be to try and redeem himself for all his perceived past failures. A domino of disastrous events started by a lyrium instrument which caused the downfall of a Tethras, ending the same exact way—except this time, it's one last sacrifice to try and break the cycle, to try and save a friend.

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Need these two to start a podcast 💀🤪

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Davrin: So should I worry about Spite hurting Rook since you two are a thing?

Lucanis: I already have my own worries, don’t start with me.

Emmrich: Oh I wouldn't have any worries Davrin. Spite is infatuated with Rook, though I understand setting boundaries since he wouldn't be familiar with human courting rituals.

Lucanis: Meirda, sometimes I forget you can hear him. Trust me, I'm working on that.

Davrin: No one at this table is normal.

Lucanis: Says the man who drank darkspawn blood, to kill said darkspawn.

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Why is Rook the protagonist?

Two things every faction background has in common are Rook going against their faction leaders in some fashion and doing something impressive in terms of their “profession.”

We immediately learn that Rook is extremely good at fighting and covert missions. Some of the backgrounds also directly state that Rook led at least smaller teams.

The other thing we learn from the backgrounds is that whatever Rook did, it went directly against either orders or a general expectations in order to save lives. We know this is why Varric recruited Rook.

And this is just before we started the game.

So Rook isn’t special because they walked into a magical explosion, but because they had already established themselves as “leadership material” and a “decent person” by the time they crossed paths with Varric.

Throughout the game, Rook essentially behaves as you’d expect based on the backgrounds. Rook takes over the leadership of the team and is able to recruit new people and keep the team together and happy. Maybe people just don’t consider this an actual skill set, but Rook has very good soft skills. The bad ending of the game is when Rook fails to live up to their potential and Varric’s expectations.

Rook also remains an uncompromisingly decent person, which is kind of important when the bad guys go around corrupting people and gaining followers.

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love it that people say that bioware didn't fully explain to the players that tearing down the veil is bad when you spend a full game sealing a giant green hole in the sky.

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Okay but seriously what do you guys headcanon your Rook’s companion questline to be? How do they achieve Hero of the Veilguard?

I’m still figuring out mine but I’d love to hear everyone else’s! 💜

The reason Rook is so well adjusted during the game is because Rook already hit Hero of the Veilguard status when Varric did their companion quest line before Rook was unceremoniously promoted to the role of the Protagonist.

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Davrin on screen: Hey. This shit is gonna make humans more bigoted towards elves. We already have it bad. Keep it down.

A really weird fan for some reason: I wanna be called knife-ear

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What if the reason there was no immediate post fade jail embrace with Rook's partner is because Rook is very deep in doubting reality in that moment, and there is no telling if Solas is causing them to hallucinate it all again. So they just storm off to the nearest path back to the Lighthouse and get straight to business with the team meeting.

I know I'd be a little fucked

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Zevran, swinging in through the window of the new First Talon's office: Hey do you - stop throwing knives, it's just me - do you wanna talk about extensive reform to the Crows?

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Inquisition Prologue: A Summary

Cassandra: 😡😡😡

Inquisitor: 🥺🥺🥺

Cassandra: 🫠🫠🫠

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Reblog if you have no intention of leaving the Bioware fandom anytime soon

With the release of the final Dragon Age Inquisition DLC and Andromeda a long way off, interest will decline of course. But if you’re in this for the long haul, stick this on your blog.

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“You had an abomination in your group?!?!”

Aeducan: yeah and she was the only one in the party who wasn’t giving me a migraine every 5 fucking seconds what’s your deal?

Its actually hilarious how many things the warden saw in person back when everything was a mystery, and understood mostly fuckall shit nothing because we were busy conscripting. We found Andrastes ashes. We talked to Brother Genitivi. The guy who sold us discount merch is probably the first dwarven mage in centuries (idk). My wife birthed an old god. There's at least 10 centuries-old questions I probably found answers to in the deep roads, but I am just a little man and ultimate cosmic knowledge is not my problem.