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A man MADE for the old Hollywood clutch.

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WIP of the prettiest necromancer, I don’t make the rules.

(I really should finish my old drawings first, lol)

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The Garden of Death, after Hugo Simberg

little homage to Simberg with Emmrich, Manfred and my Ingellvar :3 i started out intending to make this a stylistic pastiche as well but it did NOT work out., however im very happy with how it ended up looking like in my style! :)

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The found family ever

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Nevarran Names

Whenever I write for a setting I like to have a few lore-friendly names handy for OCs or tossing out places in dialogue. I noticed that Nevarran names seem to come in a few flavors, the two major ones being Cornish (of all things) and Germanic. The pivot to more German names seems to be recent, but it's created an interesting class divide. So your more place-names and those of the aristocracy are Brittonic, especially Cornish. The first characters we hear of from Nevarra are upper class, so that tracks. Names like: -Pentaghast, with a lot of surnames in Cornwall having the 'Pen' prefix, meaning top, end, or head. Lord Penrick Karn is another example. -Van Markham looks to be a play on the Cornish surname 'Morkham' -Cumber/land is Brittonic and from the same language root as 'Cymru' and 'Cumbria. -Perendale, possibly derived from St. Peren, the patron saint of Cornwall. I think with Nevarra becoming more of a player in the DA lore, the devs needed more distinction between other British-flavored states in the setting and went for German ones. Because in the short stories/comics you start seeing names like: -Felhausen -Hezenkoss -Reinhardt -Volkarin These tend to be names of commoners and lower gentry (makes sense, gotta fill in your setting). But from a Holmesian perspective it creates an established old gentry with one linguisitic origin and a commoner population / new gentry of another. Kinda how after the Norman conquest you have 'oops all French' in English upper class surnames. The Tannhausens are an outlier, but they first pop up in Veilguard. The codex in Veilguard also mentions that 'proper Nevarran names' have three syllables, I can't quote it off the top of my head, though. TL;DR: Originally Nevarra was Cornish but then it got important or writer changes and it got more German. For flavor in fanfic, use three-syllable names derived from Cornish or Cumbrian for old money and German for normies. I have no idea where Anaxas came from and I don't wanna look it up.

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I got a glitch where characters weren't rendering all the way so now I guess I have a screenshot of naked VORGOTH?

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On playthrough #2 and forgot it takes approximately 15 hours to get Emmrich, here go the longest 15 hours of my life 😭🎮🤞🏻

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To be known is to be loved.

I LOVE THEM YOUR HONOR 🫡

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bedhead

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❤️ my immortal love

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He’s just 👌

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Intimacy.

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💌 A Brief Correspondence

A Brief Correspondence (2430 words) on AO3

Summary: … speaking of my environs, I’m off for a stroll with one of my fellows here; a former denizen of Treviso, north of the Free Marches. She has promised to give me a tour of the flora local to her birthplace, and swears to show me a “trick” to coaxing the Ansburg moaning willow into producing noises of its own, much like the osseous osier native to our own rocky clime! “Emmrich,” Rook whispers in his ear. -- Emmrich writes home to his friend and colleague, and Vorgoth reads between the lines.

Just some silly epistolary fluff and light smut and a doodle in honor of Vorgoth and Emmrook 🤷🏻‍♀️

Rating: Mature Relationships: Emmrich x female mage Rook Characters: Emmrich Volkarin, Rook (Dragon Age), Vorgoth (Dragon Age) Additional Tags: Epistolary, Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Humor, Fluff and Humor, Smut, Plot With Smut, Smut snippets, Implied Sexual Content, Letter snippets, Emmrich has a pen pal, Vorgoth is squinting between the lines hard, this one’s for me and the Vorgoth stans, okay fine I’ll desecrate the desk too why not, no beta we die like Vorgoth a thousand years ago probably Series: Part 4 of The Bell Tolls the Tempest

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Cannot stop staring at these absolutely stunning shots of Gale & Aoife by the amazing @swordsbardkat 😭💖 Now included in the newly revised longfic on AO3!

Revisions to the story are *almost* finished, so I'll be posting here very soon with an update on that, as well as some exciting news in the ATW universe 🙃 Until then I will just be staring at these and staring and -

🧵 A Tangled Weave on AO3 ✨

(PS: all of @swordsbardkat 's screenshots are incredible and Gale is NOT wearing a shirt in all of them so you should run not walk to check them out 🙏)

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Tav: "One book. You said you would buy ONE BOOK at Sorcerous Sundries, Gale."

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Here, take this.

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