#Dragon Age Inquisiiton

[dragon--sage]

writing patterns

ty @cleric4vampire for tagging me in this!!! and i'm tagging @sillyliterature and @darethshirl (i'm so sorry i'd tag more of you but my brain is fried af. if you see this consider yourself tagged and i would love to see them if you decide to share!!)

rules: list the first line(s) of your last 10 posted fics and see if there's a pattern!

in order from newest to oldest! click the title for the link to each.

LINES

Radiant Hopeful (bg3, astarion x tav)

“Astarion, can I show you something?”

Nightswim (bg3, astarion x tav)

It was a quiet evening in camp, and Nyana was sitting a ways off from the fire, on a hollowed-out log, working on a few rather pathetic sketches of the local plant life.

Spark That Set the Pyre (bg3, astarion x tav, explicit)

Most nights, when Astarion fed off Nyana, she tried to keep her interest and involvement as prim and polite as possible.

The Chivalrous Charlatan (bg3, astarion x tav)

Astarion was going to kill the sorcerer.

Someone I Like Better (bg3, astarion x tav, explicit)

It was night and day, how completely things had changed between Astarion and Nyana, after Cazador had been finished—after the graveyard.

Sunstruck (bg3, astarion x tav)

“Pouting? Or plotting?”

Places of Oblivion (dragon age inquisition, unfinished solavellan modern au, explicit)

Ellana, usually, did not fuck with dating apps.

No Better Waste of Time (dragon age inquisition, unfinished solavellan fix-itish longfic, explicit)

In a darkened attic with a vaulted ceiling, many cobwebs, and one industrious family of rats (who liked to keep to themselves), Ellana Lavellan sat cross-legged in front of an inactive but intact eluvian, her reflection a glaring smudge in the warped surface of the silvery glass.

Her Eyes the Stars (dragon age inquisition, solavellan)

Her eyes — Void take him — he could easily spend a century trying to capture the way their startling amber color appeared in different lighting.

Etha, Ama (dragon age inquisiiton, solavellan, explicit)

It was Satinalia — Feastday.

and bonus even though it's not within the last 10 i have such a soft spot for this fic:

Cry Havoc! (dragon age inquisition, gen fic, background solavellan)

Marquise Briala and Empress Celene were clearly arguing, but Ellana Lavellan was going to interrupt them anyway.

PATTERNS

Um these are all products of my respective hyperfixations on solavellan and tavstarion, so there's that. I see a few long ass run ons, as I expected ahahhaa, but also short, clipped ones. Only a few are in between. Some of them drop you right into the action and others are more scene-setting. The em dash (l m a o). Other than that I think I've been looking at this too long to see anything except my own questionable grammatical choices 😂

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my penchant for info dumping scene-setting run ons makes this extremely difficult but in case anyone else wants to try:

Vixstarria's additional rule: see if you can arrange the lines into a semi-coherent crackfic.

[wepepe-draws]

Another doodle of DAI companions, this time the chaos team!

Found this chibi base pose on pinterest, I can’t trace the original author tho 😭 if you know who please let me know

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[herald-divine-hell]

🍁 - How was their first kiss? Cal and Alex?

Thank you for the ask!

🍁 - How was their first kiss?

I believe Alexandra and Cal's first kiss was soft, with a touch of hesitation on both parties. Though, at the same time, Alexandra would had been the one to instigate the kiss in the beginning, whispering soft words against Cal's that she is safe and she would never abandon her.

[emmavakarian-theirin]

i've waited 8 whole months to make this happen

[mitzoco]

Midnight soiree.

[thatkoiboi-blog]

Another picture of my Dragon Age Inquisition OC Rosella

Bonus super messy sketch of her and Varric because I love them

[befooled]

some fluffy warm-up sketches to finish up some commissions yaay

[aethernoise]

"To you, My second-born, I grant this gift: In your heart shall burn An unquenchable flame All-consuming, and never satisfied [...]” 

- Threnodies 5:7

[under-the-willow]

The Commander 

[sqgworld]

Parallels..?

Okay, so I’m back with another (potentially) long text post about lore dynamics in a videogame world: this time it’s Dragon Age! More specifically I’m gonna be talking about the elven gods and their similarities to a certain real life pantheon, so, be warned, rambles – and potential spoilers – under the cut.

Right, so... Norse mythology is what I’m here to talk to you about today, ladies and gentlemen, because this is literally a thing that has been rattling around in my head since a figured out that the word elvhen word “fen” just straight up means wolf. So that was my first clue. Let’s get another relatively small and perhaps entirely coincidental thing out of the way: the fact that I have – and I can’t remember exactly where, but likely somewhere in DAI – seen Elgar’nan be referred to as “the Allfather”. Sound familiar? Also, the fact that Mythal behaves very much like Frigg in the original Norse myths – she’s the only one that can calm down Odin and is the only other person allowed to sit on his throne – is also a really neat thing.

But, none of this is why I’m writing this thing and not even the greatest reason I have for believing that Bioware pulled quite a bit on Norse mythos when constructing at least certain aspects of the elven pantheon. No, my strongest evidence for this perceived parallel lies with, you might have guessed it if you read the tags, Fen’Harel. Also note that I am not talking about Baldy McEgghead here (though he will help my case), but about the parallels between Fen’Harel the trickster god and Loki, of the same titel.

Okay, so I already prefaced this entire thing by saying that this all started when I realised that the word “fen” means “wolf”, and I honestly don’t know why it took me that long, considering that tricksters being associated with the lupine is not necessarily a common thing in religion (please correct me if I’m wrong), and while Loki himself might not be wolfy he is certainly the father of a pretty big one: the Fenris wolf, or Fenrir, depending on how you like your apple pie. Already, there’s the association of the word – or syllable – “fen” with lupine that these two religions have in common, as well as the association with the trickster more or less directly. So far so good. Other thematic things in common between Fen’Harel and Loki is that... they don’t quite belong with their respective pantheons. We know Fen’Harel doesn’t belong because he directly tells us that he was fighting against the Evanuris and their reign, while Loki’s lack of belonging is not quite so... visceral. In Norse mythos, Loki is traditionally portrayed as half Æsir – the same race as most of the other Norse gods – and half Jotunn – the mortal enemies of the gods, that are in English very often referred to as “frost giants”, though that name is wholly unfitting – and everybody is very aware of this distinction between themselves and the trickster. And while both tricksters have good friends among their respective pantheons – Mythal and Thor, respectively – they’re not very well liked, necessarily, by anybody else.

But the big clincher; the real ace in the hole; hook, line and sinker, is this one passage in a codex entry from – I believe – DAO: Fen’Harel was said to have been able to walk among both the Creators – the elven gods – and the Forgotten Ones – some speculate these to be the Archdemons – safely, as both sides considered him one of them. That was really when the “!” went off in my head and I just went: “Holy shit! Loki can do the exact same thing!” Owed to his mixed heritage, Loki walks, often, freely amongst both the jotunns and the æsir and both sides think he belongs with them, if, perhaps, a bit begrudgingly. Also, we have Fen’Harel, according to Dalish lore, locking both the Creators and Forgotten Ones away, causing the fall of the elves – in the most literal sense, the destruction of the elven world, as it later turns out – and who is it that starts Ragnarok, the Norse apocalypse? Traditionally, that’s Loki’s doing.

Phew! So good to finally have that off my chest. I hope this all makes sense to you, because I’ve literally just been writing down any and everything that came to mind. I know the analogy isn’t perfect and that not all aspects of the elven religion are based off Norse mythology; for instance, I’m quite sure Andruil is supposed to be based off Artemis from Greek mythology, just off the top of my head. But at the very least, I am strongly convinced that Fen’Harel draws very strongly from that most infamous of Norse tricksters, Loki.

Have I overlooked something? Do you know another god that would fit this even better? Please feel free to tell me, I’d love to hear what you have to say and I’m always willing to learn more!

[violasarecool]

scenes that i have literally never seen unglitched: this man and his glowing eyeshadow

[ripplesofaqua]

Leliana

Dragon Age: Inquisiiton

[wepepe-draws]

Yey! made another Dragon Age fan tarot art! Your favorite dwarf from Kirkwall, Varric Tethras.

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[herald-divine-hell]

Poly!Anon here Divi with a new request: Leliana and Alex watching their Fem S/O with Kieran along with Morrigan and her Fem!Warden lover

Alexandra often joins Kieran and her S/O in play. Leliana smiles at the display, while Morrigan and Fem!Warden are finally happy to be at peace with one another, and to have the Warden be able to see her child grow. Alexandra, Leliana, and the Reader become known as the Aunties, and they spoil him rotten with new toys, clothes, and books! Of course, Fem!Warden and Morrigan worry when Alexandra tries to gift Kieran a baby dragonling, but they accept the other ones all the same. Alexandra does try to sneak a few kisses with her S/O while they play, much to Kieran’s amusement and disgust.

[emmavakarian-theirin]

if anyone that uses my alistair mod would like to add their own pictures, please feel free to!!

[violasarecool]

:’)