#Cousland/Loghain

[myceliumtrees]

dragon age origins will always be the best simply because you can get the assassin loghain sent after you bouncing on it and moaning like a girl

[pumpkincalico]

The Maker smiles sadly on his Grey Wardens, as no sacrifice is greater than theirs.

[kiivg]

.King’s Council.

[luke-the-bisexual-mess]

Companions breaking into Fort Drakon to rescue Alistair and the warden be like

[zazikels]

Alexander married Queen Anora in a lavish ceremony six months after her coronation, becoming the prince-consort of Ferelden. Many said that if the two did not end up vying for control of the throne, they would usher in a new golden age not seen since King Calenhad first united the barbarian tribes.

[queenofferelden]

We lit a signal fire. But we had no idea what was going on below.

[kirkwall-age]

exploring the toolset further, and it also has dossiers for every character in-game. and i mean. Every. Character.

definite highlights for me personally:

Jowan (BTS):

hello??? Devs, creating Jowan: Cringe. Dripless. Negative rizz. 😔

Taking Loghain to Broken Circle was initially possible:

His nightmare was 12yo Cailan, and I would pay money to see that scene. 👀

King Endrin & Trian

Okay. Informative. Factual. But did you have to put it like that?

Arl Howe's initial first name:

yeah, I can't imagine why they changed THAT...

Whatever this is (found in ambient Dalish Origin files):

asdfsdf to you as well, bestie. gesundheit

Riordan's VO directions:

"women want me, darkspawn fear me." or something

And my FAVORITE by far:

"To be the best pest he can be"!!!! 🥺

I'm sorry, Mr. Rat! I'm sorry it was my tutorial quest to kill you! 😭

[ffc1cb]

ive never had alistair in any of my playthrus before because ive never played with my personal worldstate so this was my first time ever hearing this line in the game & it FLOORED me. it’s so funny

[couslande]

et tu, loghain?

[freesidexjunkie]

Arl Howe trying to explain to Loghain why the Cousland kid just showed up at the Battle of Ostagar

[qunaricatnip]

Hiiiii it's me the person who reblogged your post about the Cousland x Loghain marriage (this is my main blog but 99% of my tumblr activity is through my side blog queenmelisende sorry for the confusion lol). Lets talk about Ferelden nobility. Their marriage would be an insanely good political alliance -- the two teyrnirs of Ferelden uniting? Cailan should be quaking in his boots. You said she would eat him alive??? I am desperate for more elaboration.

hi!! this is a sideblog too so no worries! but yeah cailan absolutely should be worried but the best part is, at least in my little au, he’s like…. 12 when all this is happening so all he really knows is that uncle loghain is leaving him (and anora) and it’s gonna be a while before they can see each other again :( it’s really maric that should be worried (and is) because he had to make a lot of concessions to the couslands for bryce and eleanor to be okay letting their baby girl go clean up maric’s mess (even if she really wanted it for spite reasons).

Tl;dr siobhan cousland was planning a coup from jump because she was raised to be queen and got told no and then maric dropped the perfect opportunity in her lap with a bow and his blessing, loghain was both collateral and a prize

siobhan in this au was born before the occupation technically ended and so her parents, still in the rebellion mindset of “ferelden first” was sort of groomed to believe that she’d one day be queen of ferelden because she’s the only noble girl within marrying age of cailan right up until anora is born and maric and/or rowan lose their minds. the couslands are Important, second to only the royal family and that shows in siobhan’s upbringing- she’s very politically minded, everything is duty/responsibility/optics with her and that’s something that (imo) would and should drive loghain crazy.

Politically on paper, her and loghain are an amazing match after celia dies right up until we remember that a) the couslands have already married their son and heir to a well known/regarded antivan trading family creating ties to a foreign, unallied country without the crowns express permission right after a war and b) loghain for all his accomplishments is not a man made for politics in any capacity that man is a Follower, he’s the type of person that need to be wholly devoted to a person/cause and c) uniting the only two surviving teyrnir’s is actually a recipe for disaster because oh my god why would you even think that maric that’s giving your subjects too much power and influence even with ferelden’s weird political structure

and siobhan knows this!! she knows that the people of gwaren don’t feel safe or supported by their teyrn and abandoned by their king and she’s also been personally slighted by the crown twice now!! so she graciously concedes to step in and throw the weight of her name around to build gwaren back up to the prominence it once had before the occupation gutted the city all while subtly reminding people that it was the couslands that actually care about the people of ferelden, its cousland gold bolstering the economy, its cousland trading partners bringing ships back into port without even saying anything because she’s a mac tir now after all that would just be gauche to rely on her maiden family name. its siobhan that runs the show and every single person in gwaren knows it, loghain is just insurance in the beginning (before whoops they’re actually in love your honor)

[lavellane]

honestly im so glad bioware nerfed the cousland origin by not making them as socially & politically powerful as they technically ought to be. bc i think if i had to confront the whole cousland/mac tir situation in canon as opposed to just my own unsalvageable deep fried thoughts i think i would contract some sort of brain eating bacterial infection and die :/

[dragonsasastronauts]

Side note, if you have read only one of the books, just select the "has read" option. It's honestly not a big deal, though. I just included reading/not reading the books because I thought it would be interesting to see if that impacts anything at all.

Also also, for those of you who have Alistair marry Anora, but also have your Warden become his mistress, please just pick the mistress Warden choice. I only get to put 12 answers here, I am so sorry 😞

[vigilskeep]

The inquisitor meeting warden loghain after romancing his daughter💀

when u have to explain to varric u left his bestie in the fade because it was them or ur gf’s war criminal dad

[queenofferelden]

Meanwhile, in Denerim, Loghain seized power. And declared himself the leader of Ferelden. His daughter Anora was apparently not too troubled by the death of her husband, King Cailan.

But some banns came out strongly against Loghain.

And also against calling the Grey Wardens traitors.

[mashamorevvna]

shadowheart & ketheric underrated dynamic bc he'd be SO familiar with sharran practices and also the failures of the doctrine. there's also an incredibly interesting parallel in the fact that ketheric dropped shar bc of his family, much in the same shadowheart can. and, per game mechanichs, she can literally walk in with a dark justiciar get up