#31 days of dragon age

[mothsandbees]

#7 Favorite Origins scene/dialogue

idk man the earring scene just always gets me

[hawkepockets]

oct 4. favorite origins location

the deep roads & i dont care ok I DONT CARE

[feeshies]

Oct 01 - Introduce your Hero of Ferelden

I'm definitely not going to be able to do all of these prompts, but I'm on the hype train so I wanted to do the ones I could.

This is my main Warden, Seonag Tabris. She was born in Starkhaven, but she was shuffled around different alienages before being adopted by the Tabris family when she was 13. She doesn't know when her cold edgy exterior ends and her actual social anxiety and poor self image begins. Doesn't like being a Grey Warden, but she hasn't needed to take her hrt since drinking the darkspawn blood, so she appreciates that.

Used to be a big Limp Bizkit fan, but started to drift away when Wes Borland left. "The guitar is where they got most of their edge and texture," she says to the Landsmeet, but the people did not care. She's more into black and death metal now, so it doesn't bother her anymore. "Where is the Hero of Ferelden?" She was in Derbyshire for Bloodstock 2024 so maybe check back next year idk. She's also 6'0 (if you care about that kind of thing).

prompt list

[thievinghippo]

31 Days of DA - Introduce your Hero of Ferelden

Meet Anelle Brosca

She's a dwarf commoner rogue who romanced Alistair. After the events of DA:O, they roamed Felerden together as Grey Wardens, until events forces them apart

Anelle chose to support Bhalen in Orzammar, not because she necessarily agreed with his politics, but because that would ensure her sister's safety. Anelle's nephew is one of the most important people in her life (who is 22 at the time of the next game!)

Her favorite drink in the world? Just a glass of clean, clear water. Growing up, everything in Dust Town tasted of lyrium (because lyrium dust gets into everything, hence the name). Her mabari's name is Parta, which is the dwarven word for 'peace.' She secretly loves it when Alistair rests his arm on her head, but tells him she's annoyed by it

Since the end of the 5th Blight, Anelle has been on a one-dwarven woman campaign to get Alistair to grow a proper beard. For whatever reason, he refused, until they were reunited after the events of Inquisition

Important links

#anelle brosca

#otp: the long walk

fic - five times brosca didn't look up at the sky and one time she did

tarot art by @snuffes, line art by @sketchingsparrow

(want to join in on the fun? here's the prompt list!)

[liaragaming]

DA October Prompts

I have gathered all of the 2024 DA prompts I could find. So if one doesn't strike your fancy, try another.

Credit to (and original posts):

@alexchawke - Dragon Age October

@nurabelmax - DAtober

@harkonnin - Veiltober

@pavus - Veilguard30

@pavus - Rook Development Prompts

@thievinghippo - 31 Days of Dragon Age

@elfroot-and-laurels - OC-tober Dragon Age Edition

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

31 Days of DA

Day 1 - Introduce your Hero of Ferelden

ima just go with my first one so.

Neira Surana! <3 My love! <333

Circle Mage, Spirit Healer, local guy who Tries So Fucking Hard All The Time. So scared of screwing up that it backfires and causes her to screw up a lot, actually. Chantry indoctrination did a number on her and it ain't leaving anytime soon (or, ever). Her whole Thing is going in Circles (heh) and being stuck in place. Love women who are caught in cycles and self-fulfilling prophecies <33 The tragedy of trying So So Hard and yet never quite managing to Get Better.

At least she starts embracing it (<- lie, it actually motivated by denial and desperation) and Actively Gets Worse, On Purpose <3 The fun kind of worse, the kind that makes her obsessively collaborate with ethically questionable people and projects (hi Architect and Avernus! :) )

Is she alive by Veilguard? Who knows! If yes then it's probably not the healthy kind of alive

Don't have time for New Art rn so have this older one instead :]

[ammoniteflesh]

31 Days of Dragon Age: Day 1

Oct 01 - Introduce your Hero of Ferelden [promptlist here]

Art by eldrtchmn.

THIS IS GHILA (any pronouns). I LOVE HIM.

Way back in 2020 or so, I was thinking about the journey from the Brecilian Forest to Ostagar, and the fact that Mahariel makes that journey while infected with the Blight. While sufficiently infected that Merrill notices that they look ill, in fact!

So Ghila was my answer to the question 'what if Mahariel was really fucked up by that journey?' He is extraordinarily Blighted - 'it continues killing him even after the Joining' Blighted, 'makes contact with Urthemiel in his dreams' Blighted, 'eventually becomes more Shriek than elf' Blighted.

Ghila is othered and distrusted not only for being an elf, then, but for being disfigured. He is widely seen as a monster or an object of pity. This only intensifies after he makes his most controversial decision: corrupting the Urn of Sacred Ashes, in an act of devotion to Elgar'nan and retribution for all the elves have lost in Andraste's name.

He spends a lot of time hating the world, and it hates him right back in return. But Ghila never stops fighting for a better future, no matter how much it costs him.

Further reading:

AO3 collection of all fics Ghila appears in

Info page (only really works on desktop, sorry)

Playlist and ship playlist with Morrigan

[silent-words]

Oct 22 - Favourite Inquisition romance

Dorian Pavus, of course. Dashing, witty, intelligent wizard? A stylish necromancer? A romantic who wants to make the world and his country a better place? I had no chance not to fall for him, none at all.

You are stranded in time, alone, in a hostile place where everyone wants you dead – and here comes this mage and says "Don't worry, I will protect you". And that he does. He saves you, he saves the world by transporting you both back in time.

Dorian is stubborn and proud, he is utterly unable of saying what he actually feels. But in all his personal quests we learn he does feel, very deeply. "We have no reserve, not in war and not in love," he says about all Tevinters, but actually he talks about himself. Dorian cares about the Inquisition, about Inquisitor (whether romanced or not), about his country.

There is a touching moment in the Hissing Wastes, if you take him with you. When you approach abandoned slaves the first time, Inquisitor speaks when you help them, Dorian is silent. But the second time it is Dorian who speaks to the slaves, tells them not to worry and go to the Inquisition. He learns the lessons he would never learn in Tevinter, and he changes his views on things he accepted as natural.

Dorian joins the Inquisition not for money, not with ulterior motives, not because he has nowhere else to go – Dorian is with you for the cause. To destroy Corypheus, to protect the world. While confronting his father he says that joining the Inquisition was "the right thing to do".

Dorian has agency, if he believes in something he doesn't waver. He goes back home to sort the mess that is Tevinter Imperium no matter what. And that didn't break my Inquisitor's heart. It just made him love Dorian more.

[zeph0r]

Oct 03 - Favorite Origins companion

God, I love all of them for so many different reasons, but since this is the trauma game I'm gonna go for a possibly contentious pick and choose Oghren.

He's gross, inappropriate, abrasive; sure. And that's what you get at surface-level. He wasn't always like that, but did what a lot of addicts do - taken his addiction and his flaws and his behaviours and leaned into it, giving people the obnoxious bar-guy bravado they expected to see. Part of it is him, yes; but a lot of it isn't. If you can look past that, he's just an absolute goldmine. He's still rough around the edges, still abrasive at times, but there is courage and understanding and loyalty there.

"Let us show them our hearts, and then show them theirs" made me cry. More like 'sudden sobbing', but it hit like a tonne of bricks for multiple reasons. The game presents you with a deadbeat drunk but what you actually get is a man who is struggling to fight his way out of rock bottom no matter how many times he gets shoved back down. It bothers me immensely that he's reduced to a "gross bastard" by fandom when they will bend over backwards to characterise their own problematic favs as the woobiest babygirl.

[thedaslut]

Oct 27 - 27th day of Dragon Age

Favorite Inquisition scene/dialogue

It almost feels like cheating when your fav scene is such a pivotal scene, but the confrontation with Solas as a Lavellan who romanced him in Trespasser... I can't. I just can't get over it. It's been 10 years and it still makes me emotional. And the fact that I might have closure soon? It both gets me excited and scared beyond my wits.

[zombolouge]

31 Days of Dragon Age

Doing this posting thing until the DAV release (prompt list here) because it's fun and I like attention.

Oct 03: Favorite Origins companion

I mean, I was gonna prevaricate and be like "no I love them all for different reasons" and then the little gay girl that lives inside my heart ripped through the walls and was like "MORRIGAN IT'S MORRIGAN WE LOVE MORRIGAN THE MOST".

How could you not? She's a cunt. She's got magic. She cares but only if you show her that you care first because it's safer that way. She was abused by an elven goddess. She's willing to have a baby to save your life. She loves that baby more than the power he could have been used for. She wears a bikini in the swamp. She knows how to roast Alistair with love AND with vitriol. She can turn into a dragon later. Like, vibes, girl. Go off.

I do love all the characters for what they bring to the table, but DAO without Morrigan would have been a much less engaging game, so I gotta give it to my queen witch.

[mothsandbees]

#2 Favorite Origins Romance

My main man who I am always normal about at all times.

[hawkepockets]

oct 9. favorite awakening companion

oh u know. he may be a white boy but his narrow hips and giddy blaspheming bewitched me body & soul. not to mention the justice dynamic

[feeshies]

Oct 13 - Introduce your Hawke

He's not the Hawke from my main worldstate, but he is my favorite Hawke.

I'm just going to paste the random facts from a recent ramble I made about him lol

He’s one of my Hawkes, but his name is actually Hwang Seung-gi. Thank you Bioware for giving the da2 protagonist a surname with one syllable. Made it easier for me to aim my Koreanizing beam at it.

I still like the idea that if people do call him “Hawke,” it’s because they’re mispronouncing his name. Also they don’t get that it’s his family name but it goes before his given name.

His father was big on teaching him and his sister to conceal their magic. So instead of using traditional staves, they would use enchanted everyday items which could be easily concealed.

Seung-gi uses a hand fan (non-folding). After he got into blood magic, he modified it so there’s a blade along the edge of the fan. The blood seeps through the paper to the rune he has tied to the knot tied to the handle, further enhancing it and making it about as powerful as an average staff.

Speaking of blood magic, Seung-gi started when he was living in Lothering. He uses the excuse that his family’s crops were failing, but that was only part of it. Really he was curious about the power and he was certain he could handle any drawbacks.

Unfortunately he couldn’t, but Seung-gi’s father realized what was happening before the demon could possess him. He offered himself up to the demon instead, and had Seung-gi strike him down in his place.

No one else in the family knows how his father died. Seung-gi is carrying that to his grave, and it informed a lot of his drive to protect his family (aside from general eldest child syndrome)

Anyway, he’s goth, he’s Korean, he’s in love with Gascard DuPuis, and he sounds like Nick Cave. That’s all I got for you.

prompt list

My Warden

[thievinghippo]

31 Days of DA - Introduce your Inquisitor

The one, the only, Bethroot Cadash

She has a ridiculous name and she knows it. Her mother thought she was giving her daughter a human name like Violet or Daisy. Instead, she was Bethroot

When Bethroot was 18 years old, she and her boyfriend, Lantos made a lyrium deal with some Templars and tried to keep the Dasher out of it. He found out anyway. Bethroot was beaten and tied to a chair. When Lantos was given the option of keeping the money and staying in the Dasher's good will by giving Bethroot a Glasgow smile, he did so immediately Thankfully, the Dasher only required half the smile before forgiving them both

For the next six years, Bethroot mainly worked on lyrium deals in Orzammar, becoming quite friendly with some of the nobles there. (She had a brief fling with King Bhalen before the Conclave)

Then she was sent to the Conclave and her life changed forever. Given the chance not to be a criminal for the first time in her life, she grabbed onto it with both hands. She tried to do as much good as possible, throughout Ferelden and Orlais

And then she fell in love with Blackwall. She thought they would only have a few years together because of the Calling, so she didn't truly mind the revelation of his past. After all, if she's able to reinvent herself as the Inquisitor, why shouldn't Blackwall?

After Trespasser, Bethroot and Thom Rainier traveled around all of known Thedas. While visiting Orzammar, they met a middle-aged cook named Edda in prison for stealing (she was giving food away to the the casteless). That brief encounter quite possibly changed the world

At the time of VG, Bethroot is 36 years old and she and Blackwall have a three-year-old daughter named Anise. Carrying a half-dwarf was very hard on Bethroot, so they know Anise will be an only child

After that? We'll have to wait and see!

Important Links

#bethroot cadash

#otp: I can breathe again

Bethroot on YouTube

Bethroot on Ao3

artists are mauvaise-reputation, theironbullofficial, snuffes, and baewall

[himluv]

31 Days of Dragon Age

Day 2: Favorite Origins Romance

Zevran. Zevran Zevran Zevran. Zevran Arainai, the man that you are. All your warmth and bravado hiding the deepest of hurts.