#Emmrich I love you but why are you so difficult to draw

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Have an unfinished sketch of Emmrich, I guess

[felassan]

Dragon Age: "In #DragonAge: Vows and Vengeance, you'll get to meet all our companions before they joined the Veilguard - including a gentleman necromancer 💀 Subscribe and listen wherever you get your podcasts. Premieres August 29: [link]" [source]

This tweet mentions that the moments of the companions' lives depicted in the podcast are from times prior to them joining the Veilguard and therefore the events of the game.

Text in the notebook reads:

"Something's gone wrong. The dead stir more easily than they should."

Maybe we are looking at Emmrich's notebook here? ^^ it sounds like something isn't right in the Grand Necropolis and with the Veil/the dead in general. (I wonder if this is part of the reason why in the release date reveal trailer, there are giant undead skeletons causing a stir). In Nevarra/the Mortalitasi, they believe that when someone dies a spirit is pushed out of the Fade into the mortal world. In exchange, they invite those spirits to inhabit the empty bodies left behind. This is common orthodoxy for the Nevarran populace. when a spirit leaves the Fade, it crosses the Veil. when the Veil is thin (or weak or damaged..), demons and spirits can escape more easily into the waking world. once they do, they sometimes possess corpses. since we need to guard the Veil in this game and there's a Veil-tearing Lyrium dagger around (plus who knows what else Ghil and Elgar'nan and whatever else are doing to it..), it makes sense that if the Veil is damaged/at risk, more dead would stir and more easily than they should do. (in TN, Lord Penrick Karn's funeral procession was interrupted by his corpse's premature possession). you can see why a Mourn Watcher like Emmrich would be motivated to join a group dedicated to guarding the Veil.

The anatomical drawings here track, Nevarra has unrivalled knowledge of anatomy. <- DA:TV spoilers at link.

The notebook also reminds me of Grim Anatomy.

These numbers look to appear twice on the pages:

"7197 | 3.85715 7198 | 3.85721 7199 | 3.85727 | 6 7200 | 3.85733 | 6"

What do they mean? could it be a calculation, or a code?

And can anyone make out what the flowing script on the left hand page says? ^^ I wonder what language it's in? Whether it corresponds to a spell? it also reminds me of this exchange from the 'Meet The Companions' panel at SDCC, as it relates to Emmrich:

"Lucy: And I hear as well that Emmrich gets, I mean, you’re all gonna get some fantastic lines, but I hear that Emmrich has some quite spectacular ones. You, Nick, you and Ashley, I would love to hear about the process of, was it difficult to get like some of those tongue-twisters, and? Ashley: Yeah, Sylvia the lead writer basically was like, ‘Ash, you’re gonna need a dictionary for all of the sessions with Emmrich’, it’s like, 'Okay!’. And we get there, you just nailed them all, like 'shduhfejdkjjdhdjdhfjehfjkhehe into the Fade’. Nick: Well, I don’t know if I nailed them all, that’s very kind of you. But, there was some serious tongue-twisters there, and, but it’s great, it’s great to be in the booth, and to be given a challenge like that, and. Yeah, it’s fantastic, I mean that’s what I love to do, so it was great to be just gifted that."

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[glittering-darmallon]

Rook Common Asks Pt 4.

Original list by @akuma-misery and can be found here

Thank you @elfmaid and @booksncatsworld for the asks

Turn the Sun Down: Name your Rook's favorite time of year and why it is so.

Valo-Asaara:

Valo-Asaara: "Summertime- I love the beach, and sunshine, and summer has more sunshine, and that means more time at the beach.  Also, sun's out guns out." Davrin probably (because he is the tells it like it is but manages to make it sound like a disappointed parent [this is not a criticism. I love Davrin]): "Your guns are always out." Valo- Asaara decides to forget the top to his armor completely: "Well, now they're MORE out."

Valrys: They like winter. They think snow is a lot of fun and really pretty. And this has nothing to do with the way snowflakes clung to Lace's lashes on Isana Nagat. Okay it doesn't have EVERYTHING to do with that.

Camillus: He likes Autumn, but there isn't much of one in Tevinter. Just something about falling leaves feels cozy.

Artist: What talents does your Rook have?

Valo-Asaara: As stated before, he can sing. He can sing very well. Voice of an angel. He has put lots of practice over the years into his voice. Because for as difficult as school and other intellectual pursuits are for him, music has never been that for him. It's come naturally, and he even had lessons as a child. I imagine, had his parents lived , he might have become a professional musician, a bard, or something of that nature.

He can also draw. He's not amazing at it, but he hasn't really put the effort into bettering his skills in drawing the way he has at singing.

Canelo: Making jewelry. Specifically beads. He used to make little paper beads  and bracelets from them with his siblings when he couldn't afford  real presents. The paper beads, if sealed properly would last for at least a little while braided into their hair. Now, he uses metal, and if it is a soft enough metal that he doesn't need a forge to warm, he will etch into it. There are also sea glass beads (he loves trips to Rivain Coast to collect more) that he can sand and shape into pieces. Gift giving is his main love language, but it's all handmade things (except for when he shares one of his music boxes by giving it to a friend).

Boy can dance, but it's not trained. Just lots of practice and enjoys it a lot

Camilllus: Has spectacular penmanship. His calligraphy is to die for, which would make sense if he is making spell scrolls and doing scribe work on the side. But he knits too, as I've written about before. He especially likes to knit Empress Honey Waffles new sweaters.

Luca: Harpsichord. Hours and hours of lessons as a kid, even taking electives for it while studying at the Carastes Circle. He also does tumbling/gymnastics (Insomuch as Thedas HAS gymnastics). It serves him well in battle. I like to imagine one day the lighthouse just manifests a set of parallel bars and some still rings.

Valrys: Makeup is their big one. They do all kinds of cool looks on their eyes (and on any member of the Veilguard that asks. The day Davrin said ok was the day the whole team died from too much pretty brown eyes made prettier).

And they taught themself how to sew, because they could never find dresses that were a)meant for Dwarves or b)meant for AMAB dwarf bodies that didn't look like a potato sack. But they will also offer to do minor tailoring on Veilguard members' outfits. So far, only Neve, Emmrich, and Lucanis have taken them up on the offer. Lucanis brings them a LOT of things to tailor.