#WHAT A DAY TO BE A DRAGON AGE FAN
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Solas and Lavellan reunite
#WHAT A DAY TO BE A DRAGON AGE FAN#WOOOOO#HOW DO WE FEEL#my art#doodle#fantasy#sketch#illustration#fanart#oc#dragon age#elf#cartoon#solavellan#solas#Lavellan#solas x female lavellan#solas x inquisitor#dragon age veilguard#veilguard#datv#dav
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Now, we should return to our duties. Before I get too...carried away.
#gamingnetwork#vgedit#videogameedit#gamingedit#dailygaming#gameplaydaily#daiedit#dai#mydai#myda#daedit#dragon age#dragon age: inquisition#thom rainier#blackwall x lavellan#warden blackwall#dragon age inquisition#inquisitor lavellan#my inquisitor#ahvir lavellan#listen we all love the 'stay there' line but not enough appreciation abt how deranged blackwall is to the others#inky: what if they hated me haha#blackwall to a woman hes known for a few months tops: I Would Fight The World For You#'if ahvir lavellan has no fans i am dead. if the world is against ahvir lavellan i am against the world'
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Weeee, it's done! Ever since I learned that the Solas romance has a cut sex scene that according to rumours had its assets reused in this Mass Effect scene, I went a little unhinged. You can just picture this entire scene with Solas at the Crestwood waterfall instead. It feels so him.
I've not done any art in years and I wish I was at least somewhat good at shading to do it justice, but like. I had to get it out of my system lol.
(That no one who owns both games seems to have ported Solas into Mass Effect yet is a tragedy, and should anyone ever want to volunteer and record it, my life would be yours forever.)
#also if someone knows how to post smutty art on tumblr so it actually shows up properly -pls whats the secret?#solavellan fanart#solavellan#solasmance#solas#solavellan art#dragon age#dai#solas x female lavellan#solas x inquisitor#solas x oc#crestwood#lindiranae lavellan#fanart#my art#lavellan#solas smut#solavellan smut#dragon age smut#dragon age fanart#dragon age fan art#solas fan art#solavellen hell
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Bad dreams again? Who’s on watch tonight, with time to comfort you? HoF Surana, All The Companions Except One / Dragon Age Origins (c) Bioware
#sooo. what do ya wanna do?#diss the archdemon's fashion sense with alistair?#listen to leliana tell stories about the stars?#act as furniture for the dog?#have a taste from oghren's home brew?#have zevran teach you to whittle?#try out jewellery with morrigan?#listen to sten berate your nightmares for being cowardly?#play cards with wynne?#pick out the shiniest rocks for shale?#you decide tonight#happy dragon 4ge day#(now for the boring tags)#bioware#d4day#dragon age#dragon age origins#dragon age fan art#dragon age companions#surana#warden surana#hero of ferelden#bad dreams#self indulgent#I've had this idea in my sketchbook for so many years and FINALLY#this year is the year#the secret companion didn't get to join the fun - because I've... never recruited him... yet;;
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Some angst with my inquisitor and Josie
I know I'm allowed to post non-sexual nudity on tumblr but I'm scared I'll get marked as nsfw blog. Anyway, uncensored version here.
#inquisitor#josephine#josephine montilyet#dragon age#dragon age: inquisition#dai#da: i#dragon age inquisition#i hav3 no idea what tags are used by this fandom#josephine x inquisitor#inquisitor x josephine#fan art#digital art#wlw#sapphic
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I feel like every time i hear about solavellan its talking about like “oh when they reunite and solas and ooooo” or like. Something angsty like one of them dying or something.
Anyone elses lavellan wanna just kill him like straight up
And i dont mean this in a hating solas way (irl) but at least in my lavellans case they went through hell and back in inquisition, and finding out solas wants to tear down the veil, effectively destroying the world as they know it, was the final straw. As in they were barely keeping it together before, and this caused them to spiral. Like a mental break happened. And that manifested in a very uh. Violent and hunting down solas at all costs kinda way.
#dai#datv#dav#dragon age#dragon age inquisition#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age veilguard#solavellan#solas dragon age#solas#dragon age lavellan#yknow hot take not a fan of how a good portion of ppl talk about solavellan#as a fan of it i should add lmao#but then someone pointed out that its bc straight ppl are putting it through a straight lense#and then it all made sense#like dgm yall enjoy solavellan how you want!#i just usually find i have a disconnect with how ppl typically talk about them#it might also be bc i genuinely cannot agree w what solas is doing#like its just not a good idea man#are you really doing this for others or for yourself?#its clear you dont care about the dalish#and city elves have basically no connection with his people#so who benefits from this? him.#instead of trying to help usher in a better world present day#he wants to bring back the world he knew a millenia ago#and whos to say that the same shit doesnt just happen again#is solas going to stop dwarves from being hunted and persecuted bc they have no connection to the fade?#bc that happened in his world#will he help his fellow elf or will he leave the weak to die and the powerful to rise once again#the world he once knew is GONE and he cant accept that
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if it's of interest to anybody at all, here's my big picture review of veilguard after my first playthrough! it's not all negative - i think there's a lot of gameplay reasons to really love the game but it also lands overall as a weirdly disjointed, sanitized, and at times soulless followup to a game series that's known for being kind of messy, polarizing and opening doors to argue about inherent contradictions and bad decisions.
i'm a dai HATER so the things i loathed about that game i loathed here too, including a very hateful and lazy engagement with oppression, history, religion & cultural connection, & everything to do with modern elves engaging with their past.
good things: combat! maps, just pure enjoyable playability, scenery, the home base setup, companion banter and some of their relationships, at times the protagonist.
things i hated: immersion, commitment to the bit, an almost dismissive attitude about previous lore and worldbuilding, how all the lore reveals are pulled off, a fear of anything challenging or crunchy that ultimately just pissed off players who love the "argue about inane nonsense" part of da games!
under the cut for spoilers
the good stuff is GENUINELY good. i can tell a lot of focus and time went into elevating some of the clunky parts of previous da games. the character creator! the HAIR! it's so genuinely beautiful and at times breathtaking in its design (realizing that mountain is a titan??) and deeply enjoyable to look at. i LOVED the combat playing as a mage, and loved being able to respec any time to try things and experiment. flexible, entertaining, flashy and fun. inquisition's actual gameplay was such a slog for me as someone who isn't motivated by minmaxing combat strategy in any way, so i loved this.
a lot of people are comparing it to the two new god of war games - for good reason! i think it took a lot of positive notes from them, which is one of the reasons why it's so darned fun to play. it moved away from the party mangement rpg setup of previous da games and, while i do miss that and also understand why people might be frustrated by the change, i think it resulted in a game with compulsively playable combat and a navigable world that's a lot more constrained and exciting - both bigger than origins and da2, and more locked down and specific than dai. this was all a major win, with a few art design things i did struggle with (like the outfits? why? and the fact that you can't preview fits when you buy them from vendors?) i think this let the environments shine, and exploring them was so exciting.
however -- the comparisons to god of war reveal what my fundamental biggest problem with the game is. the GoW games are beautiful, thrilling to play, full of epic fights -- but for me anyway, at their core they're so good because they're a deep dive into a really complicated relationship between two people. they focus on a very specific story, and let that story unspool as you move through the world. the environment supports the story, not the other way around. characters fight and scream with each other, and have friction in their worldviews, and make decisions they regret badly. and the story is linear enough that there's nothing ambiguous or loose about any of it. sure, mainlining those valkyrie fights is fun but the games are incredible because they let the characters really have space to develop their points of view, make hard decisions, get pissed at each other!
DAV does none of this. offers no friction that isn't surface level, gives its characters no space to have contradictory or complex political opinions, and does not touch its own thorny and convoluted worldbuilding that's built on fictional oppressive systems (that are allegorical for real oppressive systems!) there is no discussion of slavery, even though the companions include a tevinter mage and two elves and your character can be an elf, a freedom fighter, or an ex-slave (which i discovered in one-off banter between laidir and taash?????? what?). there is no religious friction between people of different backgrounds. there is no depth or history or context.
the only time the game tries to think about its oppressive systems is when its telling the story of the ancient elves (powerful elf mages oppressing other elves), and has its elven characters (marginalized in the world they live in! they are forced to live in slums and work as servants or be enslaved, or else abandon society to hold onto their fractured history! hello!) APOLOGIZE for the decisions of their ancestors. the moments where bellara or davrin or the veil jumpers discuss how their people's lost deities returning (people who, again, have been slaughtered over and over and over by fantasy catholics for believing in them) and, surprise!, being power-wielding evil aristocrats who enslaved them are few and far between. it's disrespectful and dry and so, so, so boring.
as an example: lace harding (red head, white, grew up on a farm, follows fantasy catholicism) gets a whole moment where the player can lament in her feeling her religion's truths have been turned upside down. you can also say you're a fantasy catholic! bellara and davrin (both a fictional minority in the game, both represented by real-life minorities) are never given that space. and neither is rook.
there's no space for any of the characters to wrestle with those contradictions! to draw connections between themselves and solas, for good or bad! to hold him accountable! there's a reason so many people were expecting a game about a slave revolt in tevinter in the last ten years, because at some point we expected these things to come to a head and explode, changing the rules of the world. that would have been satisfying! leveling a city for no reason with no narrative impact is not.
at the end of the day, i wasn't convinced by the elven god lore reveals -- this is true about DAI too, and i hated it at the time. i wasn't convinced that anything world-shaking was actually world-shaking. i'm a serial RPG character repeater (i've played every background for dao at some point but have settled into a character i love and will play her over and over and over again) and it took me hours and hours to connect with rook because i was so disconnected from her background.
essentially i feel that: this group of writers have inherited a universe with a TON of baggage (racism, sexism even though they say there is no sexism, confusing lore, many worldstates, etc etc) and a ton of possibility. rather than embracing any of these things and trying to commit to saying something, even imperfectly, they ended up saying very little. being scrappy and caring for your friends is good! being evil is bad! there's nothing along a sliding scale of those two opinions that might present itself, and no space where somebody good might also hold opinions that harm somebody else.
the thing that makes da2 so beloved, even though it's repetitive and kind of ugly and at times a bit half-baked, is that the characters hold their own, dig into their opinions, evolve as their circumstances evolve. and so does hawke! i actually wish DAV had just given us a true background for rook and let us play their story, because trying to do everything has resulted in a game that says almost nothing, and seems almost disinterested in the fact that it's a dragon age game at all.
#lots of other worldbuilding problems i didn't touch but WHEW that was long enough#you're surprised that fans of the messy politics and dramatic romance series miss the messy politics and dramatic romance?#there's NO asine discourse about whether or not wizard bigbly mcgee was right or wrong which is a hallmark of dragon age games#but nobody is polarizing enough for anything to care.#do i miss the days of insane dragon age opinions???? am i thinking that???#to be clear: i hated inquisition for both similar and different reasons than this game so i don't even know if this is about work crunch#so much as it's just bioware... not knowing what to do with lore#dragon age#dragon age veilguard#dragon age veilguard spoilers#dav
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sure, let’s romance the Iron Bull what could go wrong
#(what went wrong is that I adore them together and cannot romance anyone else to save my life)#help the gays have taken over my mind#says a gay himself#inquisitor cadash#the iron bull#my inquisitor#dai inquisitor#iron bull x inquisitor#iron bull x cadash#dragon age#dragon age inquisition#dragon age inquistor#da:i#da: inquisition#da:i fan art#da: inquisitor#artist on tumblr#art#fanart#dragon age fanart
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a bit dissapointed on the games journalism on veikguard too ive seen in certain places because like every dragon age fan ive seen is like ”Okay it looks good and we are not suprised that the first trailer looks like it does” and then like people who played origins for 2 hours back in 2009 and whos job it is to babyrage about games online went Omg it looks cartoony and cringe (just like all the other dragon age games are), lets massdownvote the game trailer like we do with 70% of upcoming games. because of the Woke. and then a few games journalists ive seen and whos work ive liked before have just been like Wow looks like dragon age FANS arent excited guys ! ☹️
#like obviously my persional view of dragon age fans isnt all compassing but its a bit like. if yiu looked uo dragon age on twitter for the#past couple of days since the trailer all that came up was tweets about fans being excited. and again everything in the trailer and the#gameplay is what orevious games were like.#and after the trailer discussion died the accounts that raged have now moved on to being like Ew theyre making dragon age WOKE…. as if the#series hasnt always had characters of color in the main cast and gay romance. which is ofc what they mean by their missuse of the term
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Codex Entry #39: The Grey Wardens
The first Blight had already raged for 90 years. The world was in chaos. A god had risen, twisted and corrupted. The remaining gods of Tevinter were silent, withdrawn. What writing we have recovered from those times is filled with despair, for everyone believed, from the greatest archons to the lowliest slaves, that the world was coming to an end.
At Weisshaupt fortress in the desolate Anderfels, a meeting transpired. Soldiers of the Imperium, seasoned veterans who had known nothing their entire lifetimes except hopeless war, came together. When they left Weisshaupt, they had renounced their oaths to the Imperium. They were soldiers no longer: They were the Grey Wardens.
The Wardens began an aggressive campaign against the Blight, striking back against the darkspawn, reclaiming lands given up for lost. The Blight was far from over, but their victories brought notice, and soon they received aid from every nation in Thedas.
They grew in number as well as reputation. Finally, in the year 992 of the Tevinter Imperium, upon the Silent Plains, they met the archdemon Dumat in battle. A third of all the armies of northern Thedas were lost to the fighting, but Dumat fell and the darkspawn fled back underground.
Even that was not the end.
The Imperium once revered seven gods: Dumat, Zazikel, Toth, Andoral, Razikale, Lusacan, and Urthemiel. Four have risen as archdemons. The Grey Wardens have kept watch through the ages, well aware that peace is fleeting, and that their war continues until the last of the dragon-gods is gone.
—From Ferelden: Folklore and History, by Sister Petrine, Chantry scholar
#you know what I would love to play?#a first grey warden's prequel#we know so little about them#can't wait to play a warden again in veilguard#I'm not a big fan of the new armor tho#dragon age#dragon age dreadwolf#dragon age the veilguard#a codex a day keeps the dreadwolf away#grey wardens
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Finished Veilguard and...yeah no I need more of it and every companion actually wtf do you mean they won't make DLC for this game???
#txts#prob bc of the layoffs in which case#fair enough don't make smth worse in quality when you've fired the most qualified staff#but that just makes me more mad#welp..time for a bunch of fan stuff then#good game#good 3rd act too#I made it w/out ending the world or having to punch Solas#idek if thats an option in this game...but I rly gotta do it in DAI now#da:v#dragon age: the veilguard#i am already ready to do another playthrough#i need to get more banter out#which made me rly miss the 3 ppl system bc excuse you i am not leaving lucanis out#but next run...i shall..only to hear what others have to talk about at times#.......................................maybe(i love him i am sorry)
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idk if that dadw solas model is final or real whatsoever but god i hate it!! they removed his funky little features and made him look Normal, this is Not My Solas. the face shape and proportions are just not right like im shaking and crying they cishetified an already cishet (?) man... who asked for this????
#is this what alistair fans felt when they saw his dai model?#man the reddit comments do not make me feel better at all#you know what im just gonna ignore its existence#dragon age#solas#txttag#da posting
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For some reason whenever I brainstorm for my eventual solasmance Lavellan I always imagine her leaving on bad terms with him and swearing to stop him no matter what it takes. However. Just had the idea of Lavellan solas and Varric being in a weird love triangle. during inquisiton only Solas and Lavellan would happen, then They break up and Lavellan is with Varric within a year. Queen of moving on or whatever. Cole gets dropped right in the middle of whatever the fuck they've got going on. Rest of the inquisiton is immensely intrigued by them
#dragon age#she would break up with solas at the end of trespasser and end up with varric afterwards i think#god could you imagine if varric does die in dav.#she would be PISSED#ive been thinking about her for a while and she may end up being one of those chatacters i design but never play#because like. i am not a fan of replaying dai im sorry 😭#im still in the middle of my selene run. instead of working on that im replaying dao#anyways the only things ive got on her is that shed a blonde warrior who likes hitting things#at the peak of their romance she would carry solas around skyhold i think#idk maybe ill get around to her eventually#i know which worldstate she goes in at least#it would be my Mahariel worldstate with veloura and yvette hawke#i need to finish yvette's run too sighhh#crow rambles#also. the likelihood of this happening if i ACTUALLY play solasmance is so low#because i always get oddly attached to ships while im playing them#man what is it with me and toxic m/f ships. what#my ideas for sebhawke include 'hawke who quote on quote betrays seb by sparing anders'#is that even an option? id assume so#or maybe its just the guys im not too fond of. idk#in my defense i feel like narratively solavellan ending shittily would be very interesting#woman who made you realize people were. well people breaks up with you and moves onto the hot dwarven writer#id also tear down a veil or something i think#idk I'm just rambling at this point
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I think it's very funny and telling that because I fucked up like 2 things in DA:O I thought I was going to have to replay it all before I moved on to the other games, DLCs included
but Inquisition used a third party website where you have to manually input your choices so it didn't fucking matter and I could skip playing 2 myself
#I put off playing more Dragon Age for Nothing#also I looked up a story break down of 2 I just- the UI is so bad I can't#so I know more or less what's going on I just sadly missed out on the companion stuff#which sucks and maybe one day it will tempt me enough to power through 2#but at least I know I can play DAI without feeling horridly guilty#I didn't mind the story I experienced in 2 everything was just tiny and agony to look at#I think 2 really wanted me to play with a controller too which I'm not a fan of in DA in general
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im staying away from anything dragon age related that isnt tumblr, some of the mfers in this fandom are so annoying.
#the thing that i dont like most abt the trailer is just the music tbh#also dragon age fans complain about the art style no matter what#what are they suppose to do?#if they stay realistic then 'wah wah its too uncanny like dai!11'#and now that the CINEMATIC TRAILER is a littleee more cartoony people are complaining abt it#how abt we go back to origins art style and call it a day? /s#it honest to god looks like a modern da2 style like somebody said#and i fucking love da2's style aside from how certain elves looked#you can criticize it idc#but the fans of this series are never fucking happy with any game that isnt exactly like origins#kwyoz.txt
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I really admire Matt's dedication to making DND a more goth friendly environment. Dude whips out another blood magic based subclass every time someone leaves him alone for so much as twenty minutes
#dnd#hes like hey guys i made blood hunter#and blood cleric#and blood wizard#and bard of tragedy#and everytime im like yeah man#i need to pkay blood hunter one day#i still am of a mind that necromancer should have been its own class#necromancer as it is is weaksauce#you could do so many fun subclasses with it!#and idk maybe im just a tma fun who is finishing tlt#but i think there should be more meat based necromancer things#you can get creative with that#and matt gets it#critical role#also I got into dnd after being a dragon age fan for years#yes some crimes can never be forgiven#and i was like what do you mean theres no blood mage
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