#./m/da4

[astrariums]

DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD Davrin (⁘)

[dragonagewlw]

Neve Gallus from Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Detective | Private Investigator | Shadow Dragon

[rivensbane]

SOLAS in DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD.

Hey, Chuckles.

[biowho]

eppy little crow

[darkrinalllin]

I`m pretty sure Inquisitor Lavellan read news about new DragonAge

[bluupxels]

damn i shouldve waited to do the tumblr top 10 thing bc the girls ate those da crew posts up LMAO

[akbey1913]

Whoa Mo, I’m off again.

[sweetmage]

Click for full res! ✨️

Some doodles of my fan kids! 🥰 i haven't drawn in a bit so it was nice to scribble again.

Victor (m!Handers chuld) around the time of DA4 when he's nineteen and And Edan (my HoF) and his adopted daughter Eddi 💖

[queenaeducan]

Things I Read & Loved Recently

We Act Like Nobody Dies by lafillechanceuse & theshirallen. Iron Bull x F!Cadash. Rated M. No warnings apply.

The Iron Bull has one mission and one mission only -- to get closer to the so-called Herald of Andraste and observe the situation known as the Inquisition. Cadri Cadash, a former Carta enforcer, is determined to get in his way.

A companion of sorts to Var Shiral'vhen (set at the same time and featuring many of the same OCs). The first chapter was a delightful look into the dynamic of the Chargers and Cadri Cadash's motivations as a companion to Thora.

I hear the river say your name (I watch the birds fly by) by rosella-writes. Morrigan x F!Amell. Rated M. No warnings apply.

Morrigan teaches Eilonwy Amell to shapeshift.

Beautiful writing from Ro, who as always captures the appeal of any pairing they write. The descriptions of shapeshifting are so tender and evocative of the inspiration for the fic, and the relationship between Eilonwy and Morrigan is fascinating to read.

Four Men and a Baby by kuroashi. Solas x M!Lavellan. Rated M. Graphic depictions of violence.

A chance discovery of a massacre in the Dales leads to another chance discovery: its sole survivor. Inquisitor Lavellan and his companions find themselves transporting precious cargo--and learning a few things about themselves in the process.

I loved the details in this fic, the process of discovery (terrible and delightful) and the worldbuilding was interesting to read about through Kynaren's eyes.

DA4 Spoilers. these violent delights by inquisimer. Zevran x F!Tabris, Zevran & Lucanis, Lucanis & F!Tabris. Rated T. No warnings apply.

When Lucanis decides to leave the Crows, he looks outside the guild for the help he needs to pull it off—and survive.

A fun little romp full of rogues doing what rogues do best. There was a lot to love here, but I adored seeing an established Zevwarden pairing through Lucanis's eyes. I'm a Lucanis fan now thanks to Mer.

Death is an Open Door by youworeblue. M!Mahariel & Non-binary!Mahariel. Rated T. Graphic depictions of violence.

Old Wardens told tales of long-gone companions and how they knew it was time to go. When hair thinned and nails grew sharp; when bone spurs sprouted or muscles began to hunch; when the eyes grew milky and the veins grew dark, and the light of the sun burned like the Maker’s wrath… that was when a Warden was a Warden no longer. Mahariel had never known old Wardens. Mahariel traveled at night.

A haunting fairy tale-esque journey, featuring two Mahariel who are in many ways mirrors of one another. Blue writes the body horror of being a Warden so lovingly, and if you're into feeling sad about elves I'd highly recommend this one!

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

Fan Work Friday

Rules: If you’re tagged, MAKE A NEW POST to showcase one fanartist and/or fanfic for any fandom you recommend (with links), and tag someone to give their recs next! Don’t forget to reblog the rec you were tagged in, and include these rules! :)

got tagged by @herearedragons and @greypetrel! :)

fanartist: @triflingshadows

showing off this post of Vatsala and Sera because,, i love them,,,

Got much more than just Dragon Age art, and i absolutely adore Triflingshadow's distinct and expressive style!! Big fan of the textures and shapes 👌

Fanfic: Disaster Hearts Ficlets by @wildercrow

Ficlets from the Disaster Hearts timeline that were too short to justify posting individually. Mostly prompt requests from Tumblr. Individual characters, ships, ratings, and content warnings will be included in the author notes for each ficlet. Everything is rated M or lower, because I'm physically incapable of writing smut shorter than 1k words, haha.

Ok maybe this is a bit of a cop-out because it's a ficlet collection hahah, but i can't decide and imo this is a really nice sneak peak into different dynamics and characters they write! They're sweet and short and bound to have something to enjoy for a variety of genre preferences c:

edit: oops forgot the tags :') @nanowatzophina @heniareth @curiouslavellan @iceta @goofsoup @wheat-and-wheat-by-products and anyone else who wants to, you're it (if you wanna)! >:]

[astrariums]

DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD Lucanis Dellamorte (⁘)

[dragonknightofsummerset]

I've been a little distracted with da4 news asfsgs but! My mind has gone back to twc, at least a little lol, I forgot to ask while doing my Ava romance playthrough, I chose to split up the group to try & save more targets, succeeded in catching a trapper to interrogate but failed the interrogation lol, anyway my question is, if you get something out of the trapper, does M still use their pheromones to get more info? Or does that only happen if MC fails to extract information?

I noticed M's power giving MC a headache, (something that only comes up previously in b1 if you are with M in the first patrol scene?) but MC didn't bring it up, at least not in my playthrough, my guess is MC hasn't connected the dots as to what's causing it?

[jemandthesingalongs]

i understand the technical & logical reason behind making everyone pansexual in da4 with the inclusion of nb options for rook, because frankly trying to navigate that discourse of sexuality vs gender would be nearly impossible without stepping on someones toes

but at the same time it's a shame because it does limit or outright negate unique flavors and characterization since i highly doubt there will be any kind of gender flags to be set

like dorian/sera being obvious examples but leliana's much stronger preference towards women or zevran's hesitance towards men, isabela's more touch insecurity with a f!hawke vs a m!hawke, merrill's admiration of a f!hawke, etc.

it wasn't always done the best (ie anders not mentioning being romantic with karl with a f!hawke) but it did add depth and traits to really flesh these characters out in even such a small way and it is a bummer we don't really have that anymore ):

[auraned]

I`m so happy about the news but DEAR LORD, im so overstimulated that I want to draw everything at the same time aaaa

I hope they gonna give us braids in da4. I really want braids for my boo ( ಥ ʖ̯ ಥ)

[dapolyshipping]

Tags Page Updates

Hi everyone!

It’s been a long time since we updated the tags page, but it received an overhaul today. You may notice that your fave ships have moved in the list.

UPDATES

☆ updated the layout to be more mobile friendly (finally!) ☆ aligned our tags to AO3 standards for DA (mostly) - more info after the read more ☆ to align with AO3, Iron Bull was updated to The Iron Bull ☆ added new tags for the year (including a dapolyex2022 tag) ☆ updated da4 tag to dragon age: dreadwolf

KNOWN ISSUES

A handful of our relationship tags are broken. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason, and only 1-2 posts are impacted with a total of 4-5 tags. We experimented in every way we could think of: removing “/”, removing spaces, removing “!”, removing all special characters, replacing spaces with “+”. We even added NEW, unrelated tags to these posts and they also wouldn’t work. We have no idea what the issue is.

We’ve reached out to support to see if there’s anything they can do on their end.

AO3 ALIGNMENT

After some thought, we decided to align our ship tagging practices with AO3′s to hopefully keep things more consistent across the exchange and the blog. This means that we’ll be using on tumblr the tags most likely to become canonical on AO3 with a few variations. What is the “official” order?

Official AO3 Tagging for DA (we think)

characters are alphabetized in the ship by last name (if present); otherwise, they use the first name

titles and articles are ignored (for example, The Iron Bull is alphabetized with “I”).

Mac Tir is a compound name (alphabetized with M); Orlesian “de” names are not compound (de Chalons with “C”); “of X” (i.e. “of Serault”) is alphabetized with X.

Gender counts as a first name if two characters with the same last name are present (i.e. Female Lavellan comes before Male Lavellan).

Groups are also in alphabetical order, e.g., Agent(s) of Fen'harel are alphabetized with “A” and Inquisition Scout(s) are alphabetized with “I”

“Original Character(s)” and “Tentacles” are always placed at the end of ships.

Our Variations

We (for obvious reasons) are dropping the “(Dragon Age)” designations on our tags on tumblr.

Alistair Theirin is on AO3 as “Alistair (Dragon Age)”; however, since there are a lot of “Alistair”s across fandoms, we’ve kept his last name on the tumblr tags. He is still alphabetized in our ships using “A” instead of “T”.

We kept genders abbreviated (i.e. “f!Hawke” instead of “Female Hawke”)

The official AO3 tags for OCs are “Original Female Character(s)” and “Original Male Characters(s)”, but we kept our f!oc and m!oc designations for simplicity.

In the tags list, I’ve ignored gender for the main list, meaning that ships with Adaar and Aeducan are listed before ships with Alistair. I did take gender into account for deciding how to alphabetize things like f!Adaar versus m!Adaar.