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huge brain

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a well-adjusted person: i am avoiding veilguard spoilers until the game comes out :)

me: i need to consume every morsel of content like the very hungry caterpillar. i need to torture myself emotionally spiritually and mentally for the next 43 days. i need to speculate wildly. i need to feed my insatiable lust for knowledge and discover things that only god bioware could tell me

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on second thought, I'm not really happy with the backgrounds we'll get... maybe I'm just ranting but all of them seem to describe the same picture - a noble, lawful good character, ready to risk it all for the sake of whatever. which is alright, I guess - I usually can't bring myself to be mean to NPC or make really cruel game choices, but it's so limiting!

yes, we know rook is here to save the day, that's why varric chooses them, but it bothers me how the only thing we get from any of the backgrounds is this burning desire to save the wronged ones at any costs which makes even the crow rook look like a saint. it makes them all feel the same

I don't know what my point is, i just hope we'll be able to have someone other than a superman

not my delusional ass sitting here with my rook's planned backstory realising nothing of it will happen now 😫

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not my delusional ass sitting here with my rook's planned backstory realising nothing of it will happen now 😫

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There is the accent we all waited for. I'm dead. Literally slayed now.

Source.

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Purple Hawkes we’re so back

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thinking about the ending of dragon age 2 as a mage hawke who sided with the mages at the end of the fifth blight, the warden defeats the archdemon and saves ferelden. they are paraded through denerim to the sounds of cheering crowds. if they don't survive, their memory lives on in a tale of great heroism and sacrifice for years to come. the inquisitor celebrates at skyhold with the rest of their companions after they beat corypheus, the threat finally ended, the inquisition a success.

but not hawke. you can fight with everything you have to support the mages, but there is no grand fanfare when it is over. the villain succumbs to corruption and dies unceremoniously - you don’t even get the satisfaction of striking the killing blow. you can’t get a round at the hanged man to celebrate. it’s time to go. you and your friends can never sit around your table at the hanged man again. you can’t be seen here when the templars come to clean up the mess. nothing will be the same. you have given seven years of your life trying to hold kirkwall together, accepted your accolades and played the part of champion, and you watch it fall apart anyway. and how much of that is your fault? this city has been stained in your blood since before you could remember, since before the blood was your own.

you lost your sister when you lost your first home. even so, you tried to live by the advice you gave fenris - when you stop running, you build a life. the estate that you clawed your family back into stands looming and empty. it is the last place you saw your mother alive, and you still can't bear to touch her things, and you will never even see her room again. bodahn and sandal are making preparations to leave for orlais, orana will find other work with the skills she's learned, and the house will remain, a hollow testament to your family's legacy. gamlen will hear only the stories. your brother fought by your side when it mattered, despite everything. even so, he will stay behind, and you might never see him again.

no, there is no time for a celebration. instead you get a cautious acknowledgement from the templars, a tense goodbye, and then you can never go home again. for the second time. you thought you could build a life, and you tried. you held on as long as you could, you made friends, you fell in love, you clung to the last vestiges of your family, but most of them will be forced to leave your side anyway. you won, but even that wasn't enough.

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I was thinking about Blackwall and Sera’s friendship and then I realized that I had no memory of how she reacted to The Big Revelation, so I went to look at their dialogues.  And this is the first banter between them listed as being after we learn about Rainier:

Sera: Always knew you were up to something.

Blackwall: Sorry.

Sera: For what? Trying? Better than most ever do.

That’s it.  That simple, for her.  Incredible.

And then the next one:

Sera: I don’t get it. If you want to change, just change. Why this “fake Warden” rubbish?

Blackwall: For one, people wanted me dead. Being someone else kept me breathing.

Blackwall: And then, knowing that people thought I was good made it easier.

Sera: (Laughs.) You needed them to think you could, so you could think you could!

Sera: You’re smart, but you’re sort of stupid.

She’s so good.  They’re so good.  And then I cried a little.

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kids these days don’t know what it’s like to get fine dwarven crafts direct from orzammar

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Another recent commission of a custom Rook and Neve for @dancing--lights! I had a fun time trying to draw something that resembled a minrathous bar <3. Thank you so much again!

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so about that cheese in lucanis man cave

og template: miku peach comic by mysillycomics

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emmrich in dragon age: the veilguard: combat part 1: prepare for battle

bonus:

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mage killer

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🪦 Possible spoilers ahead, maybe…? 🪦

So, I’m not saying our new giant skelly pal is essentially a necromantic mech… But I am going to heavily imply it.

(I was kind of hoping someone else would pick up on this and post about it, because none of my posts are showing up in the tags, but here we go anyway [I think I have fixed that problem, now… I hope].)

I thought it was kind of strange that Emmrich was heavily featured wearing a completely different outfit than what we’ve seen him in so far, meanwhile everyone else is wearing their usual garb. I think that particular getup is directly linked with our new, enormous friend. Literally and figuratively. But we’ll get back to that in a moment…

Something that I didn’t notice until my third watch through the trailer, where I slowed things down to look at the details, was the way the movement of Big Skelly’s hand seemed to sync up with Emmerich’s. I then noticed the glowing thing in the skeleton’s chest that at a first glance, looks like a battery of sorts.

The next time you see our huge buddy, there’s a group of what definitely appear to be Mortalitasi (judging by the visible jewelry and armor silhouettes that seem similar to Emmrich’s original outfit), or maybe specifically Mourn Watchers if this is a ‘high-clearance’ event, standing before the rising skeleton. Between their body language and the green beams of light, it appears they are giving their power, spirit energy, etc. to Big Skelly. You can see it literally being sucked out of them and into the battery-looking component in the chest cavity.

”Hiiiiiiiii~ probably Johanna!”

(Goals, tbh.)

This brings me back to Emmrich’s armor, and is where my heart-eyes for the Big Boney Friendo start to fade into concern for my future necromancer boyfriend.

Not only did the jarringly different armor confuse me, but the not-so-subtle prongs made alarm bells start ringing in my head after what I had noticed seemed to be going on with Manfred’s Enormous Cousin.

To me, the prongs look very much like implements for channeling/outputting magic or energy... I think you’re picking up what I’m putting down. I think Emmrich is going to basically be the pilot for the big dude. Which is where I get worried because there’s different ways that could work, and different repercussions that could come as a result.

This could be something he can do from a safe distance, where the prongs basically ‘broadcast’ his movements to the skeleton, or he may have to physically be inside it somewhere, somehow for it to work. In either circumstance, this could either be just a big, badass Emmrich moment, or it could be a potential point of no return.

We don’t know if this skeleton is one of the huge, dangerous anomalies from the depths of the necropolis with a level of sentience or will of its own that they’ve managed to study and can dredge up, and essentially leash, in be-all, end-all situations - or if it’s purely a construct that lies dormant as a last resort for when shit really hits the fan with an unknown-to-us cost to power up. It may sap so much power and energy that it greatly threatens, or requires, the ultimate sacrifice of whoever is controlling it. Maybe also those Mortalitasi who seemed to power it up, who knows how great the cost was to them.

This brings me to the last time we see our giant friend in the trailer. They look much worse for wear; their neckpiece/face covering is gone and the capsule in its chest that held the battery-esque piece appears damaged, and the battery itself looks to either be missing, or like there’s a dark shape/figure in front of it or in its place. It’s too hard for me to tell or even try to guess if there’s a person in the capsule here. It certainly is the right size for it, though.

Taash (judging by the horns and the braid) is below as the big guy attacks, but I can’t tell if it’s attacking Taash, or if they’re both fighting an offscreen enemy. This kinda feeds back to “we don’t know if big skelly is a sentient creature or just a construct” and we don’t know what it would do if something happened to the ‘pilot’ and control was lost, or if the battery/container of energy (possibly also a source of control in some way?) was damaged or lost.

This post is a mess, I’m sorry, but it’s been driving me insane all day. I kept going back and re-evaluating the clips and screenshots over and over.

BioWare, you’re going to dangle my dream old man necromancer in front of me, then heart-wrenchingly rip him away, aren’t you? AREN’T YOU?!?!!

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Beloveds

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Kisses for the Companions💕 Now with rainbow colour-coding!

They all deserve some little smooches (ft. my lovely Rook, Emmaline)

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it's giving solavellan