#DA CURE

[wolfstrong]

i have no time or energy or creative vision but i want to see a Boys don't cry Xander AMV please

[laurelsofhighever]

A list of potential cures for the Calling, that we know about, that BioWare has apparently forgotten

Andraste's grace: it's not specified whether the flower the kennelmaster has you pick in the Korcari Wilds is Andraste's grace or if the game just needed a one-off asset and decided to reuse one they already had. However, in the dark future in DAI, Leliana is found to have unusual tolerance for the taint, and in DAO she talks about her mother pressing her laundry with dried Andraste's grace flowers, so it makes you wonder. Anyway, the flower stops Barkspawn becoming a ghoul and seems to make them immune to the taint from that point on.

Maric's longsword: he finds it in the Deep Roads and is suprised it isn't covered in the same Blight-rot as everything else - until, that is, he touches the sword to a patch of it and sees it wither away. Whether it's the dragonbone the sword is made of or the runes on the blade is difficult to say, though if it was just the dragonbone then it would make sense for that to be a more well-known property of the material (and would have been an interesting reason for why dragons were hunted to extinction). If Alistair carries it with him, doesit slow the progession of the taint through his body? Does he know its effects, and give it to the HoF to help keep them safer on their journey to find a permanent cure?

That obsidian dagger Duncan finds in The Calling: the dagger belonged to First Enchanter Remille - who also gave the expedition members brooches that accelerated the spread of the taint. iirc the both the dagger and the brooches are made by the Architect with Blight magic, which means the darkspawn magisters have more knowledge of how the Blight works than the Chantry attributes to them.

Whatever the fuck is going on with Avernus: he hasn't managed to cure himself yet, but he's managed to make it to 200 and the Warden can let him continue his experiments if they don't kill him - and he'd be a really useful resource if the Warden later wanted to send him other potential cures for testing.

Dragons: they have an ability to isolate the Blight in their bodies by forming crystaline cysts around the initial infection to stop it spreading. Useful if it can be more widely applied. Also, it's implied that Maric's reaver blood, which Calenhad gained by mixing his blood with a dragon's, is what somehow cured Fiona of the taint, kinda like a reverse STI, BUT in the Deep Roads they went through an area where the walls were coated in a pale, chalky substance suspiciously devoid of Blight-rot and she touched it, so I'm a bit suspicious of that.

Blood magic: makes sense since the taint is a problem that starts with infected blood. There are two major instances in DA canon where blood magic has been used to purge the taint from an object or being (both by elves btw). The first is Isseya using it to draw the taint out of a clutch of unhatched griffon eggs, which she says is only possible because the taint hasn't yet taken over the hatchlings' bodies to the same extent that it had with the adult griffons. The second instance is Merrill purging the Blighted eluvian in DA2. It's insane that Anders - who is a reluctant Warden and who possibly knows the HoF seeks a cure - isn't more excited about this. She literally removed the Blight from a fully tainted object. Since Isseya proved the same can be done with living tissue, it's probably the closest we've come to an actual cure, but since it also took years there's no telling if it could be a practicaly solution for all Wardens

[cowinf]

MIKU MIKU MIKU GO!!!!

[fenharel]

going to bed thinking about how sandals prophecy still hasnt come to pass smh. 'night

[witch-craft-works]

I'm just gonna leave this here.

I read the manga so I knew what was gonna happen but boy did I cry like a little baby

[majycka]

𝕘𝕠𝕝𝕕𝕖𝕟 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕟𝕖𝕨𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕤

[hoshizoralone]

color wheel challenge with many characters

[beetnik-jay]

“Feeling thorny?”

This made me way too emotional for some reason 😭

Alistair and Lyassandra all grown up.

[takealookintheback]

Wiktor Król in "Schweine" (2024)

[purplecritter]

What's better than one Fenris to soothe the weary soul? That's right, two of 'em

[doll4viets]

Mia Goth, 2024.

[creaturefan216]

made some smile precure stamps :3

[unicornmanfish]

Tropical Rouge, except Laura never gets legs and Manatsu just chucks her at monsters.

Later on Laura gets a Precure Wheelchair of some kind. The ancient Cures used it. Or something.

[girlbob-boypants]

They gotta kill the warden off in dav tbh. Not even because it's time in game but cause fans aren't letting that walking corpse REST

[telndas]

Suhani after Origins— Holding no loyalty to the group, Suhani does not remain with the Grey Wardens for long after the Fifth Blight. It was a bitter feeling that planted itself in her mind the moment her sister was taken into their ranks, forcing Suhani's hand to join right along with her, that only grew and grew until the slaying of the Archdemon. Thus, once everything had been relatively calmed, she begins to separate herself from the Grey Wardens, but not before a visit to Weisshaupt Fortress with her mabari, Barkimides. There, she made no promises even if she was welcomed, for she had only gone for somewhat selfish reasons: any information that could point her in the direction of a cure for the taint. Within the recesses of their library were books penned by the Grey Warden Scholars, she begins to read absolutely everything she could get her hands on.

She did not acquire much, but she did acquire a heading and something so much more. There is a belief among the scholars that the Blight is a spiritual corruption, and Suhani was more than willing to take that bet.

With her direction known, Suhani left the fortress, leaving behind anything she had upon her that was of the Grey Wardens. She traveled northward and then east, towards Kirkwall. She followed rumors, she looked for someone known in the Grey Wardens, but she found her clan instead, and most importantly, Merrill. There, she will find another heading. Merrill was able to cleanse a piece of a tainted eluvian using blood magic, and Suhani began to piece things together. With the information given, she continues her search across Thedas, but more so, she begins to dabble in more arcane magicks. Along with it, she begins to attune herself more and more to the Fade. With the base of knowing spirit magic rather well, she is able to attain even more considerable knowledge, which all comes to a head when she learns to summon spirits for their help and speak with them.

They help her cure the taint and her journey seems to have ended there, but she finds out more. There is a study into tranquility that catches her eye. With one uncurable thing cured, she decides to work on another: to reverse the rite of tranquility. An annoying sort of thing that seems to cut a mage entirely from the Fade, but that seems to not be totally the case, as the whispers between the Circle mages have rumored within their passing and what Suhani is able to catch. Thus, Suhani follows those whispers, the spirits know nothing of it, but they yearn to help her as curious as they are. As her bonds with them grow, a wisp starts to come forth from the Fade and follow her around. She does not tell it to leave, simply enjoying its presence and even more, its help that allows her to realize how to reverse it: reestablish the connection between mage and the Fade through spirits.

Under a new task, even as Thedas explodes around her and the Inquisition is formed, Suhani starts to help any Tranquil mage she is able to come across. It leads her to Skyhold, to look into what the Inquisition knows, under the guise of helping the Inquisitor.

[majycka]

ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ & ᴅʏʟᴀɴ ᴍᴀᴛᴄʜɪɴɢ ʟᴀʏᴏᴜᴛꜱ !!