#Neve Gallus the woman that you are

[rook-laidir]

Oh shit it’s “I love my wife” o’clock

[floralhellscapedatv]

Neve Gallus as the new boss of the Threads makes me insane, it's SO good. Not only for her character, but thematically for the game! What are you willing to do to save people? To stop evil? What are you willing to sacrifice? Are you okay with being demonized, misunderstood, hated, called a monster, if it means people are alive to call you anything at all?

Neve gives up the idea of being an inspiration or being seen as a hero in order to actually be one. She embraces making harsher choices if it means saving more lives. She accepts that protecting the town and the people she cares so deeply for is worth more than being recognized for it.

Becoming the leader of the Threads is also harm reduction. If she's in charge, she can direct and re-route their activities, she can use them against the Venatori and other oppressors, she can steer them away from more vulnerable citizens. I'm not saying she can fully change a criminal organization into a force for good overnight, but things will be a damn sight better with her calling the shots than someone less invested in the overall wellbeing of Dock Town and its people.

There's also something poetic about a detective who has spent her life chasing leads (following threads) and piecing together clues (using thread string to tie together the evidence on her wall) taking over a group called the Threads.

Nothing happens in Dock Town anymore without Neve Gallus hearing about it. No one knows all Dock Town's secrets, but everyone knows something and Neve Gallus has a whole collection of Threads to pull.

To every egotistic old money magister and puffed up Venatori cultist, to every power-hungry blood mage and would-be slaver and drunk-on-authority templar who sees Dock Town as an easy target: I hear the Threads protect their streets, you should think about that.

[jukkariart]

DA: Veilguard screenshots [52/?]

Neve Gallus + Lighthouse

[she-who-loves-the-night]

Note to self: NEVER piss off Neve Gallus!!!

This woman just exploded two guys using a piece of ice in the span of a few seconds!!! And of course Lucanis, the bestie that he is, calls her fantastic. I love it when I have these two in my team 🩵💜

[feykiller]

Dont have anything for you. Or did you just miss me?

[regalpotato]

Neve Gallus - Protector

[ilikedetectives]

Darling of Dock Town

[leopardmuffinxo]

It's not the quiet. I never could sleep once work gets in my head.

[grimrevolution]

[redwyvernan]

“rook! aren’t you one to watch?”

“and look who comes through!”

“that’s my kind of trouble!”

[linka-from-captain-planet]

Imagining Neve mad as fuck fashioning those wisp traps from twigs and twine is so funny

[winterfromtevinter]

All of the hate for Neve re Lucanis from his fans is sooooo weird. Sorry she's beautiful and funny and -

[redlyriumidol]

neve's voice actor... goodbye you guys

[she-who-loves-the-night]

Woohooo!!!!! I’m her favorite kind of Trouble!!!(or at least my Rook is)

[rom-e-o]

So, if she's got a sweet relationship with Manfred, I suppose I have to bring in Neve.😅

Give me her deets!

Ohhh, I'd be delighted! So Neve (and Emmrich) were actually both introduced in a book first, not a game. It's called "Tevinter Nights." Lucanis was also introduced, as were Teia, Viago, Antoine, Evka, Strife, Manfred ... lots of people in Veilguard got their start in a little book from 2020, haha.

When the first Veilguard trailer dropped, I went, "...WAIT A SEC, I KNOW THOSE NAMES" and DUG this book out from my shelf, haha. Emmrich's last name was 'Volkahrin' in the book, to give you an idea.

So, Neve. Neve Gallus is a private detective in Dock Town, which is basically a 'slum' in Minrathous (Tevinter's capital). She's like a people's detective - when the authorities won't help (or you can't pay them to) she'll take on your case. Minrathous is also a mage-centric society. If you're not a mage, or a wealthy one? People don't care. For those people in need, Neve is like Sherlock meets Batman. She's also a member of the Shadow Dragons, who hunt Venatori agents to stop their abuse and attempts to resurrect their false gods/prophets to make Tevinter the ultimate paradise and destroy/enslave everyone else. (One of those gods was Corypheus, who was once a human Tevinter Magister by the name of Sethius Amladaris. He is defeated in Inquisition, and Elgar'nan takes his place in Veilguard and begins to recruit Venatori cultists for his cause.)

We learn from "Tevinter Nights" that Neve is a detective tracking down members of the Venatori (particularly a Venatori agent named Aelia) with Rana, Jahvis, and Brom. All three are Templars she tipped off and recruited to help. A mission goes wrong, and Brom dies.

In Veilguard, she is in your party from the start. Rook, Varric and Harding get Neve's help because she knows inside info about Solas from her investigations in the city.

Later in the game, Rook can choose to 'harden' Neve by saving Treviso over Minrathous, and even encourage her to become a member of the Threads (an underground crime syndicate) OR to work with Rana as a team to continue solving cases in Dock Town. Emmrich approves of staying with Rana, and disapproves of her allying herself with the Threads.

So, why does Manfred like her so much?

Neve's office is FILLED with wisps. Wisps are curious entities, and she's a detective. She asks questions. She notes details. They're drawn to her energy. Manfred, a spirit of Curiosity, also senses it. He frequently goes to her room to look for and play with wisps. He also does tasks for her like helping mend her clothes. She also nicknames him 'Fred.' Manfed has never liked nicknames (Nadia, in a the V&V podcast, gets hissed at for the nickname, and Emmrich says he doesn't take well to them). But Auntie Neve is special, haha.

If you romance Emmrich, Manfred even brings Neve the dinner menu from the romantic dinner he takes you on, haha.

At first, she's wary of Emmrich and Manfred. She warms up to Manfred and Emmrich both, even recruiting Emm to help her solve a murder case. BUT if Emmrich becomes a lich, she openly disapproves, and routinely comments on missing Manfred.

Other fun facts: She also LOVES fried fish. It's all she eats. And she makes TERRIBLE coffee. Neve can also date Lucanis if you encourage them. Some don't like them together, but think they're a cute couple! If you ask Neve to do the wards at the end of the game, Lucanis is SO PISSED and worried for her. And Spite misses her too.

And you can get approval points with her by petting cats.

I adore her, haha.

[starsenals]

holy shit she looks good