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My girl

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I'm not ok 😭

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we all know emmrich was a mess when rook was missing for weeks and he had to figure out how to get them out of the fade prison.

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A Showstopper

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Rook templates and some screenshots of my boy

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ITS A NECROMANCER AND THE FLAMING SKULL AGAIN

Inspired by @snarkspawn's piece with Lucanis and the coffee

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Rough edit (?) for Ardal Cousland, Circe Hawke, and Florian de Chalons

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard

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I gotta figure out when the whole team figures out Knives’ name isn’t actually Rook. Because he’s so easy-going and chill, he’d just introduce himself as ‘people call me Rook’. Because it’s true. People do~~~ A lot~~~ It’s not like his name tho.

I’m imagining like sometime in late Act 2, Harding (the only one in the know) exasperatedly calls Knives Knives. And then, chaos just ensues.

Especially when Knives corrects himself like, ‘Actually. Mhm. No. That’s inaccurate. It’s ’And Ninety-Nine Knives Gleamed In the Firelight’. No one ever says the whole thing though. Except my ex.’

Beat.

‘It’s just to drag out the conversation. u__u;’

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OC Codex Prompts

I’ll be honest, I’m mostly writing this because I’m trying to come up with codex entries for my ocs and this gives me a good way to think about what kinds there are.  but hey, reblog, ask for a number and an OC?  or add your own.  whatever floats your boat.  written with Dragon Age OCs in mind.

an overheard conversation about your OC

a letter written by your OC’s family member

a report written by your OC’s teacher or mentor

a letter from your OC to their love interest

letters between two of your OC’s companions about them

someone describing a time your OC helped them

someone describing a time your OC hurt them

your OC’s doctor/healer talking about their injuries

a future historian’s account of your OC’s actions

a description of your OC by someone who hates them

your OC’s description of their game’s events

your OC overheard while drunk

transcript of an interview with your OC

your OC talking about your favorite quest

a letter to your OC from a companion they haven’t seen in a while

a conversation between your OC and their best friend

a description of your OC’s family by a future historian

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I'm so pleased with how pretty Neve turned out!!

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I come bearing more night gown Emmrich, now with some of my Rook, Dirk, as a treat for me :) It's a little bit suggestive, I couldn't help myself.

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Another lil' painting of my Watcher Jannick~!

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I have to do a full replay to gather the odd notes and actual quotes instead relaying on my loose memories about this, but the day after I finished Veilguard, I was thinking while walking home.

“Why was Davrin or Harding?”

Part of my slight annoyance towards the section is simply that it’s unavoidable. And that isn’t bad in and of itself. There are hints and clues scattered throughout the game about the sacrifices taking on Gods requires. It is shocking during the course of the mission, and I don't think it’s not poorly written. But that fact that I can’t sacrifice anyone else during this portion of the game, that it’s only them, just sticks out as an odd choice.

It begs my silly mind to ask: why?

And I understand the limits of branching and assets. Sometimes, there's only so much you can do and that's a fine enough answer. It’s a part of the issue with the second choice too, but it's one I understand more. Bellara and Neve both have been disabling enchantments through the whole game. Emmrich could be choice too (honestly should’ve been), but I get why it was a choice between the two of them. We do need bodies to miss in the Regret Prison, and we need someone to control the blight at the end.

So. Make a choice.

But then, why Davrin and Harding? It's for a leadership role, which makes enough sense on its own. But it's to lead a distraction against the Antaam force on the island. Lucanis is needed to stab a god, sure, but what about Taash?? They can’t lead or scout or cause a distraction??? Bellara and Neve are needed for Part Two, so it bleeds backwards into this choice too.

Is it then only because Davrin and Harding are the easiest pawns? Companions, beloved, but not important enough to the core of the story? They’re there to grieve, and only grieve? And Emmrich is possibly a lich by this point in the story, so it's not like he can't really die like them if that choice was made.

It feels like Kaiden and Ashley again, a harder choice (for me) but one I feel more disconnected from at the same time. What’s the parallel? What’s the connection? Why them two together? Why not anyone else outside the limits of time and assets and writing yourself into a corner?

And my mind was just, “it’s the Blight."

They’re the two most connected to it. Davrin is a warden, hence blighted. Harding is connected to the Titans, the origin of the Blight. And they both fall, into the Blight itself, and just vanish.

And that thread? It's just fascinating to me.

You go to remember Harding, your companion, among the plants she loved. Rook laments there was no body to be found and promises if there’s a way to find her, they’ll do it.* There is a finality to the conversation, so it doesn't feel like a red herring or a wink and a nudge. It feels different from the ones about Bellara and Neve too. It is a goodbye.

But I can still see a slightly cracked open door, and that excites me.

There's no DLCs planned, at least there wasn't the last I checked, but my mind keeps writing the idea of one. In the Deep Roads, buried in the everchanging and calling Blight, finding our lost friends changed and tormented, and trying to bring them back. Because Wardens have changed with the archdemons now all gone, and Davrin is more than just a sacrifice waiting for death. Because Harding can do anything, and she’s more than just the Titan’s pain.

And I just like that idea?? While I do know it won’t happen, I do think it could be fun. It could be garbage too, but this is my fantasy DLC living in my head. So, I’ll just collect more tadbits and inspiration and make it as rad as it could be~~~ c:

(Also. Just a note. This isn't a theory. I doubt it's even all that original of a thought, and I won't be debating anyone over it either way. I just thought and continue to think that it's a neat connection, and one I’m definitely biased towards. I love going into the Deep Roads and I just miss exploring them in general, lol. We should go back to it, and we should find some trace of Davrin or Harding while there.

After all, the idea of 'we need someone to control the blight at the end' would be such a fun parallel to play with if the team ventured into the Deep Roads and found the same again, albeit maybe in a more malicious context.)

*: I played through both endings, but Davrin in my first and Harding in the second. Harding scene sticks out in my head more now because of that and the fact I had this idea in my head while playing through hers. Sorry, Davrin. :(

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Emmrich Volkarin + doing the shoulder and neck thing

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Viera de Riva V/??? >> The way this Birdie looks at you...