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HOW NOT TO POTION

So I noticed something about how potions are drank in Inquisition. Like��� Layna, that’s probably not the best way to drink that…

See, look at Dorian, this is flawless. Notice how he hasn’t broken his spine to get a drink? That’s important. Take notes.

This just looks… Ow…

and then there’s Iron Fucking Bull. BULL THOSE ARE YOUR TITTIES. 

This isn’t Flashdance. You’re fighting a Reaver. FOCUS.

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Hurry now! Destiny is a heavy burden to bear... and growing heavier by the moment!

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For the prompt if you still take request, I'd love to request "Biting your lover's lip amidst a kiss." for either Neve/Bellara or Neve/Davrin, thank you so much 🥺👉👈

hiiiii❤️

the gals are having a good time - Neve and Bellara for @thedasweekend

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Okay it's a REALLY dumb joke... but it had to be made lol I can't even remember what line of conversation my friends and I were on when it came to Veilguard and Ghilan'nain, but we were high and my friend ended my "Maybe she's born with it" joke with maybe it's ghilan'nain... so this officially lives rent free in my brain.... You're welcome for the horrible meme :')

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Nick Thornborrow on BlueSky showed some more Lucanis narrative sketches

Sketch of Teia and Viago

Portrait sketch of Lucanis

Sketch of Lucanis violently dispatching prison guards along with Spite rapidly dispatching Venatori minions in the background.

Spite conversing with Rook. Spite grins with … well… spite. And Rook looks like she's having none of it.

A hedonistic bath house. Lucanis is deep in foreground in silhouette with two sword hilts apparent in the silhouette.

Ilario being seduced by I forget her name. But the villain in Lucanis's story. The villain is in a glowing red pool and drawing Ilario towards her who sits on the edge. Lucanis spies in the foreground.

Shirtless Ilario hulked out advancing on Lucanis in the foreground with a sword. The villain is in the background towering on a miasma of blood magic.

The villain reduced to a skeletal frame begging Ilario to save her.

Ilario smoke bombing out I think. Lucanis in the foreground in command of Spite.

Rook checking in on Lucanis who is curled up on the floor. Lucanis has just had an episode with his demon, Spite. Scorch marks in the shape of wings smolder on the walls.

Lucanis holding Rook in an embrace but looking warily back at Spite's wings protruding from his own back.

Lucanis ceremonially marking a book with blood.

I honestly can’t remember what was going through my head. I drew this years ago. It’s possible I was working from an explicit description of a ritual to become a Talon, or I may have been taking creative license. Either way, it was something to do with Talon coronation.

Lucanis and Spite working together for once to defeat the villain.

Action shot of Lucanis. I don't know. Kinda scruffy.

Lucanis looming over the villain who has been thoroughly defeated.

Lucanis becoming First Talon.

Lucanis with Spite wings out kissing Rook in the rain. This sketch was meant to portray an intense moment in the midst of going into a battle we don't expect to survive.

An intimate moment between Rook and Lucanis in the hot springs at the Dellamorte Estate.

Rook (who quite famously can't swim) tumbling into the canals of Treviso in a friendly game of bumper car gondola with Lucanis.

Rook and Lucanis having a wholesome (read spicy) experience in a secluded tunnel on a gondola. Lucanis's back is to us and his shirt is half off. Rook is obscured by Lucanis but the two are kissing.

Lucanis executing an ancient God with a lyrium dagger by stabbing him in the back. The God has a skull like face and and a horned helmet. Grey fog leaves his throat as he perishes with the word "URK"

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My fave Dragon Age comics in one place ❤️

you can read them fully here :)

Update February 2025: The original site with old links I posted is dead. I updated this post with new working links. If you rebloging old post from someone with links that no longer work, refresh and reblog directly from me with the good links!

Magekiller

(Marius, Tessa, Flavius, Charter, Dorian, Leliana, Harding…)

part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , part5

Deception

(Olivia, Autumn, Vaea, Dorian, Florian, Teia, Viago de Riva…)

part 1 , part 2 , part 3

Blue Wraith

(Fenris, Vaea, Francesca, Ser Aaron, Marius, Tessa, Autumn…)

part 1 , part 2 , part3

Dark Fortress

(Fenris, Vaea, Francesca, Marius, Tessa, Autumn...)

part1 , part 2 , part 3

The Missing

(Varric, Harding, Charter, Antoine, Evka, Teia, Viago de Riva, Irelin, Strife, Neve Gallus…)

part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4

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Announcing OC Week 2025's prompts!! This year we have an additional list for settings! You may choose whichever prompts you like to follow, you can mix up which list you like to use from, or you don't even need to use them at all - they are merely suggestions.

Be sure to tag your works with #ocweek2025 or tag this blog directly to be featured! If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Have fun and happy creating!

OC Week (May 25 - 31)

Prompts: Day 1 - Original vs Current Design Day 2 - Family Day 3 - Favorite Food Day 4 - Inserted Into Different Media Day 5 - Reversal AU Day 6 - Species Swap Day 7 - Free

Fashion: Day 1 - Gala Day 2 - Historical Day 3 - Circus Day 4 - Cosplay Day 5 - Traveling Outfit Day 6 - Cleaning Outfit Day 7 - Free

Setting: Day 1 - Favorite Place Day 2 - Cemetery Day 3 - Stage Day 4 - Cat Cafe Day 5 - Inside Day 6 - Place to Seek Solace Day 7 - Free

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Do you think Varric knew this when he gave Rook their nickname 😭😭

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To me, the really intimidating part of Solas’ theme song is that the game introduces it so slowly - first you only hear these thrumming, oppressive war drums (and you didn’t know why - why are there drums? Why??). When you fight the Saarebas, strings come in to lead the drums. 

Only when you start fighting the last boss of the game, do you finally hear Solas’ real, complete theme song. Something like a metaphor for hunting down the pieces to the mystery behind the character himself.

I put the three versions of the song together to make a version where one builds up into the next, the way it does in the game. 6-minute panic attack.

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Someone brought up thr fresco that depicts Solas in the fur shawl

Took that shit and decided to run with it, a little >:3

The gods demanded Solas poppin tiddy, I act only as their humble vessel

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Lucanis’s Logbook, 4

Nearing Midnight:

- Reading

If I have lost an hour this night, it is only to Rook. But lost is wrong. It is an hour found. An hour more clear than any other.

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Varric and Solas argue. The sound echoes.

Varric: Me, take down the Dread Wolf? I'm flattered. Varric: No, I just came to ask you a question. So, you rebelled against the other gods, and it was a disaster. Varric: Then you imprisoned them and created the Veil, and that was a disaster. Varric: So how is this time gonna work out any better? Can you tell me that? Solas: I understand your hesitance, but what I do now must be done, despite it being past your comprehension. Varric: I'm not saying you're evil. But if you really believed in what you were doing, you'd be able to give me a straight answer. Solas: You would rather cast aspersions than admit that this is mine to solve. Varric: No mistake is worth killing innocent people over. Solas: The question is what lives, and how. My ritual will heal the world, and restore what was driven out of balance. Varric: C'mon, Chuckles. Who are you trying to convince here? Me, or yourself? Solas: Varric… Varric: You're not the first good man I've seen talk himself into a bad decision. The question is whether you can admit it.

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They both accidentally went to the same hairdresser - and they’re both being cunty about it 💁🏼‍♀️😏

Just something silly that popped into my brain~

Who wore it better?? ;)

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I’m thinking about Solas sitting next to an elven girl he doesn’t know, making sure she regains consciousness. Taking care of her, he notices a mark on her hand, an energy far too familiar, almost as if it came from his orb. And now she’s fighting for her life, remaining unconscious for days after physically passing through the Fade, what they say. He didn’t see it happen, but he has to believe it.

He must have recognized the energy of the orb from the very beginning, he knew what the Breach was from the start. He knew the orb was with Corypheus. From the very beginning. But.

He couldn’t have known why the divine mark of his people’s power ended up in the hands of this poor girl who had been to the Fade. Did he wonder if she was part of the Fade’s power, something even he didn’t understand? Did he consider the possibility that she was a spirit taking physical form, stepping into the world like he once did?

I think about how not knowing must have been an enormous trigger for Solas. He must have been burning with questions while Lavellan slept. And I can’t help but romanticize the idea that, in his mind, he crafted a story where she was a spirit, one that bent the very nature of the Fade to her will, creating an artifact of her own, like his orb, but something else entirely. But the ritual of her manifestation, her divine force, was interrupted, and she was simply thrown out of the Fade.

And I love that having someone else, someone even slightly like him, made his time in the camp a little easier… more comfortable? And then she wakes up, she runs, and he sees her - fighting, fearless - and he wonders how so much power can exist in such a fragile body.

And then he grabs her wrist, reaches for the Breach alongside her. They are united in this movement, as if they were one whole. And the way he does it, it’s so instinctive, like he’s been waiting for this moment all along and just couldn’t hold back anymore.

And imagine if he expected this gesture to mean something to her. What if he had already built an image of her in his mind, imagining an elf who, against all odds, crossed time, the Fade, and the very essence of existence itself? But she doesn’t understand. She asks him what he’s doing. And he is completely stunned.

"I did nothing."

She looks at her hand as if it belongs to someone else and immediately turns to him for answers, despite not even knowing who he is. And this changes his entire perception of her, raising even more questions, even more interest, leading to the cherished vhenan on a half-exhale, half-whisper, half-yearning, half-pain, but full of love against all odds💚

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Find me way out there There’s no road that will lead us back When you follow the strange trails They will take you who knows where If I found a way to stay with you tonight It would only make me late, for a date I can’t escape