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ngl even if you take the mage-templar issues out of the equation i think living in a sewer full of refugees who are sick and starving knowing that there's a church in the rich part of town that's full of gold statues would be enough to make me start killing

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hnnng problematic mage males brain go brrrrrr

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there's this... idea/concept that keeps swirling around in my head of rook going down lethally injured in combat. and spite and lucanis as one voice going 'no. nope. nah. quite simply nuh-uh' but like on a level that reverberates through the real world and the fade because of their soul Situation, so when they wrap rook up in wings and arms and cradle them against them to just -- hold rook's soul in place in their body until emmrich can arrive with the emergency spirit healing of all time to anchor them safely back in the world of the living without the need for spite life support... it actually somehow works, and they're safe and awake and still breathing against lucanis' chest by the end of it all.

it's definitely a one-time trick lucanis has no fucking clue how he even pulled off afterwards, once the 'I can see the weave of the world' flow state has faded, and no one has any good explanation for how it could even be possible, outside of the fact that no spirit and person have ever been so completely and cleanly unified to one purpose before lol. but with rook still walking about safe and sound and already cracking bad jokes, i don't think anyone would particularly care

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I watched all of Neve's party banters and these are my personal favourite things/things I found of note:

Emmrich

curses in tevene

Mannfred is "a good egg"

"never skip stretching"

she totally gives really thoughtful gifts since she notices the little things and remembers them (giving a girl an oil lantern since she saw how quickly she went through candles)

not just Lucanis that's judging her shitty coffee - Lucanis, Emmrich,

isn't used to people thanking her for a good job (side note: I bet you could get her flustered with praise in bed, might take a second to break past her embarassment)

Davrin

spoils Assan

rarely speechless

not fond of mime artists

monster and murderer hunting agency!!

Assan hangs about Neve's room, curious about the wisps - whilst she likes Assan, she knows him lingering will just attract more wisps

"waiting for the other shoe to drop?" "always"

Bellara

her and Bellara see each other as sisters

oh god Lucanis gave Bellara coffee, Neve is as concerned about that as I am

really wants Bellara to sleep and stop working, knows she's a massive hypocrite for saying it

beta reads Bellara's writing

Antoine + Bellara are chaos incarnate together, Evka + Neve probably have catch ups lamenting the stupid shit their people got up to (please stop supplying her with arrow prototypes)

wisps like Neve so much that even an artifact that repels wisps does not put them off (much to Neve's frustration)

found a missing kid that everyone else had given up on <3

again is VERY aware that she gives advise that she does not do herself but should

Harding

SO good at seeing through people's fumbling to get to the point of the matter

Antoine invented fucking automatic doors and the lil BING BONG noise?!??!

she's SUCH a wind up

giant ginger cat called Ferdinand that hands around Halos' stall

there's a place in Minrathous where mage's throw out used spell components (DO NOT EAT THE BERRIES)

Harding bought a book on what dreams mean and now is mad at Neve because of something in her dream :'D

there's a restaurant in Minrathous that only serves mages - not explicitly said, but the food is served in orbs that dissolve at magicla touch

Harding totally accidentally went to an adult lounge

Neve cannot answer a hypothetical question (I love you Neve, neither can I, I also over analyse)

"it's so bright, how do you sleep" "with my eyes shut"

Taash

her best coat was a gift. she saved a warehouse from an arsonist and the tailor was grateful

a nice outfit signals you're looked after, even if you're not, something that's necessary for many people in Minrathous

Varric calls her Slick

prefers Neve

doesn't ask about their mother, understands that with some things "there's only so much you can talk about them"

Lucanis

still a hypocrite when it comes to taking her own advice

is terrible at letting things go

"rumour has it I'm a pain in the arse"

Lucanis sir 4am is not coffee time

"if you need a leg to stand on, I've got a spare"

cautious of the Fade

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a collection of zevistair (last one is pretty old) 

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Galahad biting his tongue in public but taking Evka and Antoine to the other side of the eluvian for a private head rattling about what were they thinking putting Flynn through the Joining and then acting like they can just opt out of being a Grey Warden

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I’m still thinking about this tweet and more specifically what it means if Viago is giving away a Crow Rook. Viago de Riva, the only son of the king who chose to be a Crow over being banished and who holds a bit of resentment knowing that he could be ruling the country better than his father and that he has more power than he does

It was summed up beautifully here but I want to know how much of that lecture would entail what it means for a de Riva to marry into the Dellamorte's. As much as Lucanis and Rook love each other, that's not what the foundation of their wedding would be in the eyes of every other Crow. Lucanis is on a downward spiral to being the sole member of a failing house, he's not going to make it as the First Talon, nearly every other House will have a blade at his throat the second Catarina dies. It's not even a position he wants and it's not one Illario is qualified for

But Viago ticks off both those boxes and I'm thinking about the amount of responsibility/sway he and Teia have to the point Teia is the one planning Caterina's funeral and how they seem to be the Talons leading the resistance against the Antaam

I'm thinking about how Lucanis could essentially use the de Riva's as a shield willingly or otherwise. Because no one's going to target him if he has a well known alliance with de Riva because they have a well known alliance with Cantori. It would be a domino effect leading to another civil war within the Crows and the wedding - the act of Viago giving Rook, his protege, to Lucanis would be the clearest signal of that I can think of

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I think the thing that Gets Me about Veilguard is just how much of an impossible task it had heaped on it from EA from the start of its inception.

It’s arguably supposed to be a soft reboot for the series while ALSO being a follow up to Inquisition. These are two fundamentally incompatible goals in my opinion. This game had to walk the most insane line of any video game in recent memory. I guess EA wanted to have their cake and eat it too.

And the more I think about it the sadder I become for the original team who worked on Joplin. From what I’ve seen of the art book, Joplin was going to be about as firm a sequel to DAI as you could get - with references to rescuing whoever was left in the Fade, having Calpernia and Imshael as companions, having to fight Solas’ agents, etc.

Then EA makes them scrap it for live service. Fine. But wait - now we’re scrapping it again. Back to single person RPG but you also kind of need to distance yourself from the previous games as much as possible while still somehow being a follow up to the previous game.

New setting, few returning companions, and new Big Bads in the form of Elgarnan and Ghilanain to get a clean slate. Any mention of what’s happening in the South (where we spent 3 whole games!) needs to be relegated to letters and codex. ** I dont have the art book yet, so I dont know if these two were supposed to appear in Joplin beside Solas - or if Solas was supposed to be the sole antagonist in that iteration of the game.

But.. I hope you see what I mean when I say this game had a monumentally, borderline impossible task ahead of it. And when I think of it that way, I think it did as good a job as it possibly could. Especially since the actual development time was closer to 3ish yrs to get what we know of as datv today even though it’s been 10 whole years since DAI.

I hope it’s successful enough to get DA5, but who know’s what’ll happen.

I wish everyone except the EA execs who meddled with this game’s development and are seemingly trying to kill dragon age a pleasant day. I have a cynical detective I need to romance 😔

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Rook x Lucanis wedding. Rook throws the bouquet and Teia shoves some random catcher out of the way to get it herself. Stares directly at Viago. Viago is not paying attention because he's too busy mentally calculating all the poisons possible on the catering table.

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“He sang a lot.

He’d sing to the halla.”

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I don't think we discuss often enough that if you're playing a dwarf warden when you meet Justice he's like "hey I don't mean to be rude but like, what are you? I've literally never seen anything like you before and it's kind of weirding me out"

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My man really said 'the only good noble is a dead noble' 🤣

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I mean, it's technically true.