#Lokita Lavellan

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A gorgeous gift sketch of Kita Lavellan from @hlghever! Thank you hun, she’s stunning!! and what I didn’t tell you was that this doubly made my day, because it was just in time for me to post it on my Birthday! <3 Thank you again!

[mrstethras]

Inquisitor Lokita Lavellan ( for @kita-lavellan )

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Beyond The Veil Artober; Day Two - Dreamer

Prompt: Dreamer. Word Limit: 500max. Beyond The Veil Discord Artober Prompt, Day Two.

Kita has always been comfortable in the fade, but walking there now, after the breach has torn the sky in two, is perilous. Not just for her, but for the uncorrupted spirits she encounters too.

Ao3 Link: HERE

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Dreamer

Kita had always felt safe in the fade.

Her control over the environment solid and unwavering, but dreaming in the fade after the conclave explosion, after the breach appeared, was different.

More unstable. More dangerous.

The spirits that usually clamoured to speak with her, or even just watch as she formed the world around her by sheer will, were missing. Fleeing the breach as far into the fade as they could run, or twisted into demons by their proximity to the waking world.

There was a spirit now, she could see it's illuminated form flickering, wavering, as it struggled to hold onto what it knew it's purpose to be and Kita shut down her thoughts and expectations.

The moment she took control of her thoughts, locking up any preconceived impressions that might influence the delicate spirit it turned to her and fled from the glowing rim of the breach to her side.

A small wisp of energy, the spirit swirled around her ankles, and danced through her hair, drawing a smile to Kita's lips.

"Who are you?" she breathed, and a single word impressed itself upon her mind in answer.

"Joy."

Joy, a simple emotion, and yet deep. So close to the breach, Kita didn't allow herself to consider what Joy would corrupt itself into, and gently cupped her hand, allowing the wisp to settle there.

"You should fly, Joy, as far away from here as you can, find the small joys in other parts of the world," she warned, but the wisp just danced in her hand.

"There are Joys to be found here, you bring hope and hope sparks Joy."

The spirits words almost had Kita's control slipping, almost had her emotions spilling free as 'Herald of Andraste' rang through her mind, both an accusation and a cry of rejoice that made her skin crawl.

"There are still greater Joys to be found elsewhere, with less danger to yourself, my small friend" came Solas' now-familiar lilting voice.

The spirit wavered again, but slowly disentangled itself from Kita's hair, lifting itself free of her hand, and drifting deeper into the fade, it's meandering speed indicative of its reluctance.

"Most mages would not choose to aid a fade spirit," the strange apostate mused quietly, and Kita swallowed hard, making sure that her will was still standing strong in their malleable surroundings.

"One less spirit corrupted, is one less I must fight and kill while awake," she offered, but Solas' eyes were fixed on hers.

"This is true, but not the entire truth."

Kita held her silence, merely raising an eyebrow at the mage beside her.

"You are far more comfortable than I would have expected so close to the breach..." Solas continued to prod, but Kita finally allowed herself to laugh softly.

"As are you, Somniari," she challenged, enjoying the flash of surprise in his eyes that she had recognised his abilities, just as Kita felt herself slowly waking, the fade fading around her.

"Until next time, dreamer."

[kita-lavellan]

Beyond The Veil Artober; Day One - Breach

Prompt: Breach.  Word Limit: 500max. Beyond The Veil Discord Artober Prompt, Day One.

Kita has bigger things on her mind than her new companions when she wakes with a mark upon her hand and a tear in the sky. A short look at how she learns to feel out the magic of the anchor.

Ao3 Link: HERE

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Kita paid little attention to her guards as she moved towards the Breach for the first time.

The shem seeker, a blasé dwarf, and the ever-watchful eyes of the elf who bore no Vallaslin yet moved like a Dalish warrior, were paltry concerns compared to the rip in the sky that seemed intent on bleeding spirits and demons into the waking world.

The fact that her hand and arm lit up with agonising pain every time the Breach stretched and arched across the sky was also high on her list of concerns, and so she paid her companions only the most basic attention. If they claimed she could seal the tear and save her own life in the process, who was she to argue.

She could sense the magic in her hand. Powerful. Overwhelming. It wasn't evil or malevolent, it was just power, but the sheer quantity ricocheting through her nerves was terrifying in its complexity.

The only time it stopped throbbing was when Solas had linked her hand to the open rift, the power bleeding from her fingertips, lacing its way across the tear and sealing it closed. She'd not gazed at her hand in shock at what it could do, but in stunned relief, as the pain had ceased and subsided... but it had come back. Bouncing through her system and building again and again until it roared to life.

Then had come the rift in the mountain pass. Sealed again with the touch of her hand, the ocean of power leaping from her fingers to knit together the wound in the fade. Once again the pain had dissipated, and it gave her hope that Solas' solution at the Breach itself might, actually, be successful.

They arrived, and the echoes of her memories brought new pain. Suspicion from the shemlen seeker and a blinding headache as she strained to remember... anything. There was nothing where her memories should be, but Kita set aside her concerns and faced the Breach. She lifted her hand.

It had snapped closed, but sealed wrong, like a broken bone that needed resetting. She focussed on prying the fade apart with the well of power in her hand, and a cry of effort was torn from her throat as Pride itself proved she was no match for the veil.

But the demon died, as all demons do, and Kita lifted her hand again to seal the rift. Before the magic even leapt from her palm, she knew that it wouldn't be enough. It hadn't built up enough. Reverberated through her core enough.

It was like a compress on a knife wound; Temporary at best.

It tried though, pressing against the wound in the veil valiantly, and then pulling on her magic in a desperate attempt at success.

Panic. Fear. Her magic would not be strong enough either.

As the world vanished to the blackness of oblivion, Kita wondered if she would have strength enough to ever force her eyes open again.

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Beyond The Veil Artober; Day Three - Imperium

Prompt: Imperium. Word Limit: 500max. Beyond The Veil Discord Artober Prompt, Day Three.

As a Dalish, Kita knows to be wary of anyone from the Imperium, unless she wants to spend the rest of her days as a slave. When she finds out that the note in Redcliffe, warning her of danger, is from a Magister, there's a certain irony about the whole situation that she can't help but find suspicious.

Ao3 Link: HERE

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Imperium

It wasn't the fact that Dorian was a magister, a powerful mage, that made Kita suspicious of him. Frankly, she couldn't care less.

No, what made her suspicious was that he was from Tevinter. Magister, Altus, or otherwise.

Every Dalish clan knew that you didn't travel close to the Imperium unless you wanted to be captured and sold as a slave, and that was in a best-case scenario, so when she was slipped a note warning her that she was in danger, she couldn't help but laugh.

None of her companions found the warning amusing, but Kita had to grin. She'd been in danger her whole life. From Shems, from Templars, from Demons.

In Redcliffe, she was in danger from members of the Imperium who would sooner see her cleaning their floors than casting spells, but she realised it was a kindness on the part of the note sender to warn her, and so she went to the Chantry.

Only to be faced with another bloody Magister. Altus. Whatever he wanted to be called, a mage from the Imperium.

Dorian was flashy, flirty, and it was all a mask for how bloody powerful he was. She could feel his magic crackling through the air as he cast, and prayed to the creators this was not a magister she would have to face in a fight. She suspected that he'd have been less than willing to broadcast his abilities if only the rift hadn't dumped half a dozen demons on his head.

Even more suspicious was that the man already had a plan for confronting Alexius. Kita wanted nothing more than to tell him where he could shove his plan. That she had no intention of trusting him, when he could turn on them all and leave her and her companions to the mercy of the Imperium, but she had nothing better to offer.

Kita was tense as a Dalish bow when they walked into Redcliffe Castle, and a chill went up her spine when the guards tried to separate her from her companions.

"They go where I go," she had said, and when she'd glanced at Dorian she was surprised to see him give a slight nod of approval. Surprised, but relieved, and something in her gut softened towards the man.

She still didn't quite trust him though.

At least, not until Alexius attempted to erase her from time, and Dorian flung himself into the path of the spell to protect her.

Until he was her only source of aid in a world destroyed.

Not until he told her, he would protect her as though she were some incapable child.

It might have taken her a year into the future, and simultaneously less than a moment to see it but Dorian wasn't a Magister or an Altus, and it didn't matter that his home was the Imperium.

He was family.

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Beyond The Veil Artober; Day Four - Tranquil

Prompt: Tranquil. Word Limit: 500max. Beyond The Veil Discord Artober Prompt, Day Four.

After Haven, Kita has one fear. It's not Corypheus, it's not dying, it's not failing the Inquisition, or drawing down the wrath of the Chantry onto her own people. It's a much more selfish fear, and she prays to the Dread Wolf for aid.

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Kita had been leading what remained of the Inquisition across the Frostback Mountains for days. Trudging through the snow, their meagre supplies on the backs of Druffalo being offset only by what their hunters could scavenge.

She was following the path Solas had seen within the fade, but the more time that passed without sight of safety, and shelter, the more nervous she became and the less she slept, not daring the brave the world of the fade with her mind in such turmoil.

He came to sit by her campfire the third night, and Solas took a seat beside her in silence while she stared with weary eyes out into the star-speckled darkness.

"You must sleep, Lethallan," he said eventually, "Sleep will aid you in healing, but also, if you are to guide them as you must, you cannot be seen to falter."

"I can't," Kita found herself whispering simply, and Solas tilted his head. It was the only thing he needed to do, to indicate his curiosity, and Kita found her reasons spilling from her lips into the quiet of the night.

"I can't lead them, Solas, I'm an elf, a Dalish elf... and they sing their hymns and praise me as a Herald for their blessed Andraste?" she choked out, hands shaking until she was forced to clasp them together, "Worse than that, I'm a mage... I won't simply have my Vallaslin and my ears written out of their history books, I won't just be made into a shameful secret... if they hand me this power and then decide that I have done something with it that they do not agree with, do you know what they will do? Their blessed Chantry?"

"Do you fear another Exalted March against your people?" Solas asked, but he fell silent quickly at the suddenly harsh laugh that was pulled from Kita's throat.

"I should," she muttered, bitterness staining her voice, "It would make me a better person if that was what haunted my nightmares... but no."

"Then...?"

"Have you seen them?" Kita asked instead, eyes staring blankly into the dying embers of her campfire, "The shopkeepers, and cleaners, all with the branded sun of the chantry upon their brow as though the process brought them some kind of enlightenment?"

"Tranquility?" Solas questioned, watching her flinch at the very word.

Kita was silent for a long moment before suddenly her shoulders stiffened, and she lifted her colourless eyes from the fire to meet his gaze.

"I need you to promise me something, Solas," she said, voice a demand more than any request Solas had ever heard, and he nodded, already anticipating the words about to pass her lips.

"If they decide to make me Tranquil, I need you to promise me a swift death first."

Solas studied her features, sharp but determined with shadows haunting the depths of her eyes, before eventually he nodded and Kita's eyes closed with a sigh of relief.

"Then may the Dread Wolf aid your aim."

[kita-lavellan]

Art Is Hard *cries*

When you spend three hours turning this:

Into this:

@dirthenera​ ... How’s my first attempt? Rofl! <3

[kita-lavellan]

BTV OC Question Time June-July Answers

A Catalogue of my Answers for the May-June Beyond The Veil OC Ask’s.

Original Post can be found HERE

ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTIONS

As a child, who did you character want to be when they grew up?

Describe your character through the eyes of someone who dislikes them.

Does your character believe in 'Love at First Sight'?

Does your character have a particular skill that they excel at?

Does your character have any recurring dreams or nightmares?

Does your character prefer shoes, boots, cloth wraps or being barefoot?

How does your character feel about spiders?

How easy is it to earn your character's trust? How easy is it to lose their trust?

How well can your character swim? Do they enjoy it?

If your character could change one thing about themselves, what would they change and why?

If your character was a deity, what would they be a god/dess of?

Is your character left or right handed? What does your their handwriting look like?

Tell me about the first time your character had to kill someone, or saw someone die, and how that affected them?

Tell me something that is guaranteed to make your character smile?

Tell me three small and insignificant things about your characters personality.

Under what circumstances would you character appear naked in public?

What does your character do and/or think about when they can't fall asleep at night?

What gets your character flustered?

What is the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do?

What is the most important lesson that your character has learned?

What is your character's favourite location?

What is your character's pain tolerance like? Are they able to close their eyes and block it out, or do they fall to pieces? Does this reaction vary depending on whether it's physical or emotional pain?

What is your characters and their Love Interest's favourite activity to do together? (Other than sex)

What is your characters idea of a perfect date?

What was the first *big* fight between your character and their Love Interest?

What was your character told to stop or start doing most often as a child?

What would your character consider to be a 'perfect' kiss?

Who is the "Big Spoon" in the relationship?

Who was the last person your character held hands with?

Would your character successfully be able to take care of a pet?

Dealer's Choice; Pick your favourite question that no one has asked you yet, and answer it for me!

[kita-lavellan]

GHNFDIKHGSDGB OM-FREAKING-GODS!!! She’s SO PRETTY!! And I ADORE the Frangipani flowers too!! *sobs incoherently*

Again, Thank you SO FREAKING MUCH!

@kita-lavellan ‘s beautiful OC!!!!! So happy I could draw her 💖💓💘💕

[kita-lavellan]

BTV OC Question Time May-June Answers

A Catalogue of my Answers for the May-June Beyond The Veil OC Ask’s.

Original Post can be found HERE

ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTIONS

After your characters first kiss with their Love Interest, did they tell anyone? If yes, who? If not, why not?   -- Answered a Second Time Here

Are there any significant people in your character’s history?

Describe your character through the eyes of someone head-over-heels in love with them.

Does you character like children? How do they behave around children? Would they ever want any of their own?

Does your character have a hobby? What is it? Where did they learn it/start it?

Does your character have any physical weaknesses/weak spots?

Does your character prefer games of chance or logic?

Has your character ever lost someone they loved? Either to death or them leaving? What happened?

Has your character ever made a wish on a shooting star? What would they wish for?

How does your character feel about sex?

How easy is it to earn your character’s loyalty/friendship? How easy is it to lose their loyalty/friendship?

How often/easily does your character genuinely smile?

If your character and their companions had a drinking contest, who would your character beat and who would be able to drink them under the table?

If your character and their Love Interest were ever to consider a threesome, who would they ask to join them and why?

If your character wanted to be alone, where would they go?

In four words or less, what is your characters greatest hope?

In your characters opinion, what would be the worst way to die?

Is your character considered a role model by anyone they know?

Tell me about one bad memory that your character has.

The best places on your characters body to kiss them, that will make them go weak at the knees.

What does your character consider their most prized possession?

What drew your character to their Love Interest, and vice versa?

What is the most iconic/memorable line of dialogue your character has ever said?

What is your character’s favourite flower? What does it mean in the ‘Language of Flowers’?

What is your character’s weapon of choice? If it’s magic, what kind of magic? Why?

What is your characters greatest desire?

What was the moment when your character knew they were in love with their Love Interest?

What would your character consider an 'unforgivable’ act, regardless of time or punishment?

Who is your characters harshest critic?

Your character has to fight a dragon. Does your character enjoy this experience or not? What are their thoughts on the fight before and after?

Dealer’s Choice; Pick your favourite question that no one has asked you yet, and answer it for me!

[kita-lavellan]

Watching you, Lethallan?

I’m not watching you! *laughs nervously*

See? Totally, innocent....

Nothing but a simple apostate... 0:-)

Who happens to be an absolute expert on the fade...

But nothing to see here... heh heh heh...

... Can we move along now?

[kita-lavellan]

BTV OC Question Time September-October Answers

A Catalogue of my Answers for the September-October Beyond The Veil OC Ask’s.

Original Post can be found HERE

ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTIONS

Between your character, and their Love Interest, which of them can’t seem to keep their hands to themselves?

Describe their ideal bedroom.

Describe your characters perfect home, if they were to build and design it themselves.

Do your character and their Love Interest have pet names/nicknames for each other?

Does your character care what strangers think of them or do they not place any value on strangers opinions? Does this change when it comes to the opinions of their friends?

Does your character enjoy hugs?

Does your character have an tattoo’s? (Other than Vallaslin)

Does your character have any distinguishing physical features?

Does your character have any scars? How did they get them?

Does your character know how to dance? Are they a good dancer?

Does your character prefer sunrises or sunsets?

Has your character ever had their heart broken?

How does your character deal with emotional pain?

How does your character feel about marriage? Is it something they want for themselves?

How does your character react to thunderstorms?

How well does your character accept help and assistance from others?

How would your character describe their Love Interest?

How would your character react to their Love Interest resting their hand on your characters thigh/gently stroking their inner thigh, under the table at a formal dinner? Would they be able to keep their cool, or would they be blushing and stumbling over their words?

If your character could be remembered for something, what do they want the history books to remember them for?

Is there something in their past that they would change no matter what? Even if the consequences on the timeline were unknowable/unpredictable?

Is your character more likely to hide an injury, or let people know they need healing? Why? If they are hiding an injury, do they have any tells that their friends might be able to pick up on?

It’s early morning. The sun is just beginning to slide rays of light through the windows of your characters bedroom. What are they doing/what is their reaction?

Tell me about your characters favourite childhood memory.

Tell me something that is guaranteed to make your character angry?

What about your character makes them most memorable to other people?

What are some of your characters favourite things? Tell me as many as you can think of, and why!

What are your characters emotional or moral weak points?

What does your character do as a sign of affection amongst their friends? Their family? Their Love Interest?

What is your character’s drink of choice?

What is your character’s least favourite weather?

Dealer’s Choice; Pick your favourite question that no one has asked you yet, and answer it for me!

[kita-lavellan]

LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL ART!! *sobs*

It was 100% worth changing my icon for a week. I’d have changed it for a month for this, it’s stunning, and EVERY TIME I open it up, I start grinning like a maniac, you’ve got her head tilt and small smile perfect, her stance is amazing, so much emotion. <3

I’d recommend commissioning @mik-arts​ any and every time their commissions open <3 <3

The ever so beautiful Kita for @kita-lavellan !

(Um, no I definitely didn't bribe her with art to change her discord profile picture to a mashup of Solas and Nicolas Cage for a week...)

[kita-lavellan]

BTV OC Question Time August-September Answers

A Catalogue of my Answers for the August-September Beyond The Veil OC Ask’s.

Original Post can be found HERE

ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTIONS

At what age, and under what circumstances, did your character first have sex?

Describe your character’s laugh.

Does your character get jealous?

Does your character hide anything from their Love Interest? If yes, what? Does their Love Interest hide anything from your character? If yes, what?

Does your character prefer being indoors or outdoors? Why?

Does your character swear? Frequently or rarely? Under what circumstances? Do they remember their first swear word?

How does your character behave differently from normal around their Love Interest?

How does your character feel about water/deep water/ships/the ocean etc?

How does your character react to receiving physical affection from others?

How is your character’s sense of direction? Do they get lost easily? Do they need to rely on a map? Can they even read a map?

How often does your character lie? Do they find it easy to lie? Do their lies haunt them?

How would your character behave when drunk?

How would your character react to someone telling them that they are ‘pretty’?

If you asked your characters love interest what your characters most defining quality was, what would be their answer?

If your character had to choose between saving a group of innocents, or their Love Interest, which would they choose?

If your character was handed a voodoo doll of themselves, what would they do with it? Do they test to see if it actually works?

If your character was to wake up one day with animal ears, and a tail, what animals would they be?

Is there somewhere in the world your character has always wanted to visit, but hasn’t yet been able to? Where? What about it intrigues them?

Name five things that your character hates, and wishes they never had to encounter again.

What activity would your character consider a waste of time?

What are your characters Specialised Skills? Why did they choose those specialisation/s?

What does your character do for fun?

What is the strangest place your character has ever fallen asleep?

What is your character’s biggest regret?

What is your characters favourite food? How often do they get to eat it?

What is your characters favourite season?

What was your characters relationship like with their parents?

Who does your character consider their best friend?

Who would your character be least likely to take advice from?

Would your character prefer a beautiful lie or a painful truth?

Dealer’s Choice; Pick your favourite question that no one has asked you yet, and answer it for me!

[kita-lavellan]

BTV OC Question Time July-August Answers

A Catalogue of my Answers for the July-August Beyond The Veil OC Ask’s.

Original Post can be found HERE

ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTIONS

Between your character and their Love Interest, which of them *says* “I love you” more frequently?

Did your character or their Love Interest change at all to be with each other?

Does your character get cold easily? Does the heat bother them? Would they rather be too hot or too cold?

Does your character have a favourite book? What is it about?

Does your character have any bad habits?

Does your character hold a grudge? Are they holding any right now?

Has your character ever indulged in a one-night-stand?

How does your character deal with physical pain?

How does your character feel about heights/being up high/flying etc?

How does your character handle being sick or unwell?

How good, or bad, is your character at cooking?

How many languages can your character speak? What are they? Where did they learn them?

How would your character decorate a notebook/journal?

If you asked your characters best friend what your characters most defining quality was, what would be their answer? Link for Malia | Link For Kita/Ghilana

If your character and your Love Interest were trapped on a desert island, which two items would they each take? (Four items total)

If your character was able to find out the exact date and time of their death, would they want to know?

If your character was presented with a vision of their greatest fear, what would they see?

Is your character addicted to any substances?

Is your character ticklish? Where?

Name five things that your character loves, and couldn’t imagine living without.

Tell me one good memory your character has.

What are your character’s ‘tics’ or 'tells’ that give away their emotions?

What does your character do when they are angry? How do they react to a situation that makes them angry? Why?

What does your character look for in a friend?

What is the biggest mistake your character has ever made? What were the consequences?

What is your character’s favourite scent?

What is your character’s favourite way to relax?

What is your characters favourite place to sleep? (Bed, tent, beneath the stars, family home, etc)

What kind of Spirit/Demon would your character embody?

What would be the kind of thing your character would write in a journal? Can you give an example of an entry they may have written?

Dealer’s Choice; Pick your favourite question that no one has asked you yet, and answer it for me!

[kita-lavellan]

I commissioned a piece of art for my Inquisitor, Kita Lavellan, and her sister Nel (who belongs to @mrstethras) from the exceedingly talented artist @mik-arts and this *stunning* piece is what was delivered to me today :sobbing emoji:

It’s SO gorgeous, I can’t even pick out a part I love the most. The movement of the robes, the gradient background, the curl of their arms, the way she’s captured the hair reacting to their movements. How Nel's is a birds nest, and Kita's is swaying like Nel has just lunged at her (which she probably has!). The FRECKLES ARE SO ADORABLE, Kita’s Ancient-Elf-Inherited height, so obvious beside her sister, and their expressions just make my heart hurt (in a good way).

Thank you, thank you, thank you, SO much for this gorgeous piece hun! I don’t care how many times you use the :spray-bottle-emoji: I’m going to keep gushing about this forever <3

If anyone else wants a commission from her, please send her a DM! Commissions aren’t officially open (right now, as far as I’m aware), but you never know, you might just get lucky! Also Tagging: @inquisitor-veowyn, @uhh-wait-what