#Dragon Age: Asunder

[beowulfgang]

After reading "Down Among the Dead Men" in "Tevinter Nights", I really feel like the lore about demons/spirits possessing someone who died and then having their memories, thoughts, and feelings– to the point where they often think they are the person they possessed– recontextualizes Wynne for me.

Myrna does also say in "Down Among the Dead Men", that some of the Mortalitasi believe that some of the "higher dead" may in fact still have their mortal souls, but that seems to be instead of being possessed by a spirit or demon. Although Myrna did seem to believe that Audric was a spirit of Curiosity, on the brink of becoming a rage demon.

Justice was aware he wasn't Kristoff but he did have Kristoff's memories in Awakening. And then Anders merged with Justice so he's a bit different, since he didn't die first.

Cole also seems to be a bit of an outlier as well. Compassion didn't possess the original Cole, just kind of became his doppelgänger after his death, but if I recall correctly, he didn't realize he wasn't the real Cole in Asunder until the end. And in Inquisition, he's kind of somewhere between human and spirit, which seems to be very unusual, but again, he didn't possess Cole's spirit, so not quite the same.

So were Wynne and Evangeline really revived by Faith? Or did Faith just take on their traits and think that it was Wynne and then Evangeline?

Veilguard spoilery speculation under the cut

And I've been seeing the theories that Lucanis is a Spirit of Hope, and I was thinking maybe he would be like Wynne, or Anders. But now I'm wondering what Wynne was and if Lucanis is Lucanis or just a spirit that possessed him after "The Wake." I really need to see his interactions with Emmrich.

[telumendils]

perhaps i think if they wanted to give us a redeemed (ex-)templar in the games it should've been evangeline de brassard.

[misterkusaka]

“There was a Cole,” he whispered.

[milton-chamberlain]

✨When you are a giga-strong mountain of stone muscles crushing the heads of weak people, and your wife a diplomatic, intelligent mage who needs to be protected✨

[monkiinart]

his cards ingame were too pretty i had to do something with it

[t333th]

Playing through the entirety of Veilguard screaming "WHERE IS COLE"

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

How Things In Ferelden Actually Went Down During The Events Of Dragon Age: Veilguard

[The Inquisitor, Leliana, Cassandra, and Vivienne at one of their regular catch-up meetings, all lounging on cushions together and drinking tea]

Inquisitor: Aaaaand done, with this next missive to send to the Veilguard! Leliana, please have it delivered via your sloppiest of spies. Maybe take 2 or 3 copies that can get conveniently lost along the way, for the Venatori and Antaam.

Leliana, reading the letter: Really? You're making it sound as if Ferelden is doomed. Yes there've been skirmishes, but nothing near what we saw a decade ago. We don't have nearly as many darkspawn as they're seeing in the north, and Orzammar is silent because they have started another one of their councils that last for months, not because they've fallen.

Cassandra, snatching it to read next: What? Yes, the armies of Orlais and all our chantry support is kept busy at the moment, but hardly the level of devastation you're implying.

Vivienne: What are you up to, Darling?

Inquisitor: Well the last time the world went to shit none of them came down to help us. Just let them think we're too busy to offer more assistance, it's fine. They can manage.

Cassandra: Shouldn't we at least give them our intel on Solas?

Inquisitor: I'll handle it, Morrigan said I can pop over through the eluvian and be back for dinner.

Inquisitor: Besides, they got Varric killed. I'm not risking anyone else.

[rookamell]

You know what actually maybe it's a good thing Cole wasn't in Veilguard because honestly one conversation with the kid would have killed Lucanis stone dead

[plisuu]

Things Tranquility does:

Cuts you off from the Fade

Prevents you from doing magic

Sunders you from your emotions

Things Tranquility does not do:

Affect your intelligence

Render you incapable of reasoning

Turn you into a subservient, mindless drone

Cause lapses in judgement

Get rid of your morals and beliefs

Cleanse you of opinions, prejudice, or preconceptions

Make you immune to posession

Make you less of a person

[saltska]

Wynne from Asunder. Artwork from 2012

[pupkinpumpkin]

Oh fuck I completely forgot

K, so, in Asunder, there's a scene where Lord Seeker Lambert comes to Evangeline's room and gives her 4 vials of lyrium for her trip

Later on in Asunder, when the team is coming back from the Western Approach,

1) Evangeline (Or Rhys, I don't remember who) notes that it's been two weeks since they left

2) When Rhys tries to convince Evangeline to run away with him, she shows him 3 empty vials and 1 full vial of lyrium (I think, the 4th vial might also be a bit empty). She says she's addicted and will be useless in a week. She also repeats this later on to Wynne

So we can conclude:

- Once a Templar is addicted, it takes about a week for the withdrawal symptoms to come in. Evangeline doesn't abuse the stuff though, and she shows a lot of restraint, so this might be the wait time for an average Templar, but it's probably much shorter for a Templar who's actively abusing lyrium

- We have no idea if Evangeline's taking lyrium one vial at a time or taking micro doses, but three full vials of lyrium are gone in the span of two weeks, meaning she's taking this shit pretty regularly. To my knowledge, we've never had an idea of how often Templars are taking lyrium, so this is great information to have

I can't remember fully where it's said, so correct me if I'm wrong, but Cullen, when talking about becoming a Templar, says that after their Vigil, they get a philter (a box of stuff that prepares the lyrium), and their first draught of lyrium, so Evangeline probably has this on her during her trip and philters are needed in order to properly take lyrium

Now for the iffy part

- In Origins, Alistair says he's never taken lyrium. This is a lie, but probably one he didn't know about

- The Joining requires lyrium as an ingredient, so Alistair definitely ingested at least a little bit

- Alistair is able to use his powers as a Templar for an entire year

As much as I'd like this to mean Templars definitely don't need to be taking lyrium as often as they do, there could be multiple reasons for this

- The amount of time lyrium works for a Templar simply got retconned and they do actually need to take lyrium often. Boo

- Bc The Joining changes a Grey Warden forever, it's possible that the lyrium is now permanently in a Grey Warden's veins just like the taint is, meaning Alistair could use his Templar powers forever if he wanted

- Alistair is just the Maker's specialist little boy and gets to be exempt from things like withdrawals because of his family's bloodline.

Also, in the Silent Grove, like 8 years after Origins I think, when Alistair, Varric, Isabela, and Maevaris are surrounded by mage occultists or whatever, Alistair uses his Templar powers. Someone asks him how he did this, and he just says something like "I knew we were coming to Tevinter so I decided my Templar powers would be useful, so I got back into practice"

We never find out what this means

Whether he decided to take a little bit of lyrium, or is just cool enough to not need it, is up to anyone

We also have no idea how long Cullen is able to use his Templar powers in Inquisition since I'm pretty sure we never see him in action besides in his personal quest when trying to find Samson, but he'd literally have no reason to use Templar powers on other Templars, so who knows?

So in all, we've basically no clue how often Templars NEED to take lyrium and no official date for how long their powers last after they stop taking it, but we do know ~generally~ how often they're taking it, which I don't believe we knew before

I personally like to think that Templars could just take lyrium like once a year but the Chantry likes to have them on a leash so they make them take it way more often so they get addicted because the Chantry is terrible

But ya, that one line made me spiral

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[andrewknightley]

thinking about pharamond again and how when he is getting crushed by guilt and mega crying they are like "oh man he was better as a tranquil :/ maybe we should kill him" but when he is experience happiness and joy x40 and laughing loudly at shitty jokes is like ah whatever this doesnt matter

[redmedic]

Some more of my old DA art, again from 2021. I had just finished reading Asunder and Cole's entire story broke my heart completely. Desperately need to see these three unite again... It would be so bittersweet.

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[tadpole-apocalypse]

Someone in my life decided to declutter their dragon age media so…got a pretty big reading pile ahead of me 😳

Not pictured: a hand bound printout of all of Inquisition’s codex entries.

[misterkusaka]

sorry for the long absence! I'm still not sure how best to post drawings of other fandoms here (mostly one piece and naruto). While I'm processing it all in my head, I'll spoil the future drawing

surprisingly, besides Solas, I have a lot of favorite characters from the DA. I was impressed by reading the "Asunder", so now Cole is my even more favorite baby boy baby