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Yes, I like the Deep Roads, and what will you do for me. Finally I can show this art in full. I drew this seven months ago, but I'm still proud of it.

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why did it take me 10+ years to see this DA:O concept art. I only found it because of a steam trading card.

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lbr if you're playing as an Aeducan Warden who's attracted to men (or to a lesser extent, Brosca), Oghren is probably the dwarven equivalent of one of those celebrities who is not aging well and is a general nightmare to be around but he's still kind of attractive in a deeply problematic way and you're very Conflicted™ about it because you had a ye olde poster of him on your wall when you were twelve that you practiced kissing on but you can never admit any of that to the party because you'd literally die of embarrassment on the fucking spot, leaving Alistair in charge, and the Blight would overrun all of Thedas.

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romanced lucanis canonically finds listening to rook's voice comforting so now I'm just imagining him sort-of sneakily arranging for my mourn watch mage rook, bellara and emmrich to be in a room together and sitting back with a cup of coffee to listen to the inevitable three hour mage nerds geeking out session that follows (he understands, optimistically, about 10% of anything they're saying at any given time but it's just nice that they're all happy). it's like meditation for him, letting all that magitech babble wash over him entirely uncomprehended. who even needs sleep after that (you still need to sleep lucanis)

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So the thing with the Harding romance is you CAN keep it very light, very sweet. You can end this scene saying you're going to get snacks and say proudly "I love you Lace Harding" and it's lovely, if you are into that side of it.

But... you can also have this, which is one of my favourite conversations in the game.

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I had the pleasure of painting Loghain and the Battle of the River Dane for @dragonageannual calendar 2025: LEGACIES!

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clan cousland

— (from left: barkspawn, oriana, fergus, oren, mannon, bryce, eleanor)

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and then they lived happily ever after right? right??

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the kirkwall crew is funny because its a collection of some of the worst people you could ever meet and merrill

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valiant of spirit, blazing like star-shine, to battle they charged

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saving Amaranthine was tough

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that line with loghain in the camp when i was playing my female tabris was like actually horrifying for me because it was my second time playing and i knew what he did in unrest in the alienage so it felt like such an empty statement from him. like he claims to believe that elves and women are equal but i knew that later he is willing to throw them to slavery for the "good of fereldan". utterly haunting line

that's the thing, right - you know that when you play, but your pc doesn't. and, neither does loghain - the stuff with the alienage happens... potentially months later. in that second, he is genuine. he's many things, but he's not a liar, and he's not a man of airs or natural charm.

kal has to square with the fact that the man extended that kindness to her, that noticed her struggling in a crowd of faces, who could have ignored her and didn't -- that man, is the same man that sells the alienage elves into slavery. the duality of it is almost unbearable.

and at the same time... doesn't she understand it, too?

didn't she side with bhelen, to help the dust town dwarves, because she feels their struggle as keenly as her own? didn't she genuinely believe that? but then... when it came down to it... didn't she agree to keep the anvil? knowing where the cost for the golems would come from? knowing bhelen would take advantage of their desperate poverty?

doesn't she know exactly what she signed them up for - when she, herself, almost swayed at the amount of gold vaughn offered? that she didn't take the offer, only by chance? that she could have been swayed?

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Velanna from Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

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morrigan giving approval for “i love her. what else do you want to know?” keeps me awake at night

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For scientific purposes, who was your FIRST romance in each DA game.

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[gesticulating like i'm jake gyllenhaal holding a ferret] and what if Cadash is absolutely convinced that Andraste has chosen them. What if they have this deeply held belief that something far more powerful than anything they could ever know looked at them and saw its champion. What if it has to be like that, what if it feels right. And. When their precious saviour turns out to be nothing more than a dead woman, the one who in life was the leader of the same Chantry that now sees Cadash as little more than an insult to everything it stands for. What then. Their own people rejected them long before they were even born, how could they ever be so stupid to believe there was a place for them here? What if the world is still ending and all they did was trading being a weapon for the Carta with being a symbol for the Inquisition! Of course it felt right! Not getting to be a person is all they have ever KNOWNNNNNNNNN

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“ – that book she reads. why’s it good? soooo long.

  – stupid book. didn’t cry.”

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listening to da2 banter...