#and my canon rook is also gonna be shadow dragons

[atimefordragons]

losing my mind, can't tell if it's skill issue, a bug, or just unfairness! I chose to save minrathous over treviso (cause I'm a shadow dragon, so duh-doi), and I knew that Lucanis was gonna be hardened, but all the official review shit said "that just makes the relationship harder, not impossible", and people have been able to romance Neve after saving treviso, but I keep seeing posts from people all over saying they're locked out of Lucanis' romance completely, I'm hoping it's a bug, but that's fucked up. especially cause if you don't romance one of them, they'll romance each other, and like, he cut off Rook for making the same choice as Neve, that's unfair, especially to a Shadow Dragon Rook who is also Tevene. help! i miss my stabby short king! TTwTT

[nerdee-blondee]

Do you know what race you're gonna play in DAV ? I'm hesitating between an elf, cause I think an elf going against Solas and learning more abt the Dreadwolf is cool (and in my Solavelyan hc she'd be more jealous of his connection w/ a female elf cough) but playing an human would be cool for Solas' "character development" considering he would see himself in them and he would be forced to once against reevaluate his prejudices, though I guess it works for dwarf and qunari as well

ISN'T THIS THE REAL QUESTION LOLOL

so MY actual headscratcher is which inquisitor i'm going to do HAHA

cause i would LOVE to do my canon inquisitor, Aelyn Trevelyan; but I KNOW the juicy bits of this story will be with a solas-romaced lavellan (so RIP Aelyn, i'll use you on my second playthrough LOL)

i'm actually pretty confident with my idea for my rook. she's going to a human mage factioned with the Lords of Fortune!

personally, i always like playing a human because (obviously) i am a human and ALSO solas has his own little gripes with humanity so i ALWAYS like to be a human character that solas inevitably gets along and likes LOL (i also made a post on how i think solas sees all the other races and humans are the one he seems to respect the least LOL)

so me thinks, my first playthrough will probably be my solas-romanced lavellan, Maella Lavellan (with some traits and characteristics of my canon inquisitor, Aelyn) and a human Rook (Ms. Valeria whatever-her-last-name-is-going-to-be!)

I actually gotta start thinking about my second playthrough about which Rook I want paired up with my Trevelyan (it's probably gonna be an elf shadow dragon bUT WE'LL SEE)

[icescrabblerjerky]

Miri's Rooks! A post.

Given my last post why the fuck not, gonna give a run down of my Rooks.

Sema Ingellvar: She's my canon Rook. MW Mage. I've had to make a timeline adjustment that makes absolutely no sense but I don't care because Bioware. Any way she's the daughter of my Saoirse Hawke and Blackwall (aka Thom Ranier) and was born in the fade and it's very complicated and you'll hear about her in fic. She romances Emmrich and has NOT escaped the sarcasm gene from her mum.

Alim Surana: Warden Ice Mage. I remade my original warden because I'm always sad that I didn't get a good CC for him in Origins. That said, every game since where I've had the opportunity to make him I've failed. He didn't turn out right in Inquisition and he didn't turn out right here, but I still like him. He romanced Lucanis, the less said about that the better.

Yelena Mercar: Elf Rogue. I made her to romance Davrin and oh gosh, she was a ray of sunshine. Pretty much the only Rook I've played where I just went where the wind blew me as far as responses were concerned, she was a very even mix of sarcastic, militant and lovely and it worked so well for the Davrin romance. I will certainly be writing fic about her. She's a Shadow Dragon freed slave, rogue, adventurer and just fun all around.

Blodwen Laidr: Sword and Board, Non-binary dwarf Lord of Fortune, adores Bellara. They're on the older side of my Rooks and have seen a lot, very patient and very competent, probably the one I would, personally, choose to be the Rook who had the fate of the world in their hands. They're blunt, to the point. A surfacer dwarf since birth.

Carver Hawke: He's literally just Carver Hawke but Varric recruits him as Rook. You can imagine how that goes. God I love him. (gonna romance Harding because also why the fuck not, I may even make that canon for fic)

Malavai de Riva: Crow rogue. He hates them, hates everything he went through to be a Crow and has no love for any of the folk who made him go through hell to get where he is. Romances Neve. He is actually my NICEST character, aside from the Crow hate, literally chooses kindness over all other things all the time and sometimes it bites him in the butt.

[hisfavoritewolf]

A few Veilguard things. Mostly speculating on Fenris, with a lot of my personal sphere of Canon with Fenris in DA:I

Spoilers ahead!

Did Harding message any of the old Kirkwall Crew? Do they know Varric is dead?? I guess Isabela could've reached them easier maybe

Good god what is Anders doing through all this if he's alive??

IS ANYONE GONNA TELL FENRIS HE'S FULL OF ANGRY TITAN BLOOD? IS THAT WHY IT HURTS SO MUCH? HOW TF DID HE LIVE THROUGH THAT RITUAL HOLY SHIT

This blog's canon for Fenris was that he worked with the Inquisition until Coryphyshits was killed and then went off to do Blue Wraith shit. I can only imagine the Inquisitor messaging him like "You'll never fucking believe who's blowing up the world again"

Fenris in the south beating the fuck out of Venatori like "Ugh. With THIS shit again"

Meanwhile the Inquisitor is desperately trying to keep shit together and calling anyone who worked with him before so yeah Fenris would be on his list of people to contact.

"Hey uh Fenris. Varric is dead"

"Who am I killing this time?"

Also could be very very funny for Rook to be at the Hall of Valor and hear in the distance "Our next fighter volunteered to kill some Venatori! Welcome the Blue Wraith!" And Fenris is tearing bitches apart with his hands.

I think Fenris could definitely have done work with the Shadow Dragons between DA:I and Veilguard, I think there's opportunity there.

Dorian as Archon if Fenris had been in the Inquisition.

"Huh, neat, now I've met exactly One good mage from Tevinter" to "That sassy mf who's in love with the Inquisitor is going to be the Archon??? Didn't see that coming but what else is fucking new!"

Mostly dying at the implications of Fenris just continuing to dismantle the slave trade, only to hear that fucking DORIAN IS GONNA BE THE ARCHON like "WOW my job is about to get WAY easier!"

Anyway Veilguard is good and I'm making Fenris a Shadow Dragon for funzies

[lvthiens]

2, 6, and 9 for the veilguard q&a!

Hiiiii

2. Which Dragon Age game is your favorite so far?

I’m an Origins girly! I like the game mechanics the most along with the whole origin story aspect and how they get tied into the quests. I really like the different areas we go to and how they each have a respective story. Plus, I feel like you have the most freedom to create and play as a character. And of course I really love the companions! DA 2 I like more conceptually and story-wise plus the companions have the coolest dynamic but since it’s so rushed a lot of the writing and game mechanics prevent it from being my favorite :(

6. Do you have your Rook(s) planned out to any degree? If so, would you share some details or ideas you have?

I’d like to play as an elf either in the Crows or Veil Jumpers! If a Crow, a duel wielding rogue and if a Veil Jumper, a mage :) I know what look I’d like her to have as a Crow and she would probably be more morally grey but I’m wary because I’m not sure how they’d write the Crows 😓. I’d also like to play as an elf that supports Solas more but not sure if that’s gonna be possible. I really wanna play as a Mourn Watcher and Shadow Dragon too, and I’d probably play as a human mage for Mourn Watcher :)

9. Which romance, if any, do you plan to pursue first?

Davrin is my first choice right now because I think it’d be fun to do a reverse of my Mahariel and Zevran if I played a Crow, especially since it’s my canon world state. I like Lucanis and Emmrich too so if I find that I like them more then I’ll go for them :)

[stormlit]

just noodlin' abt what i'm gonna make my rook w latest faction/class spoilers so it's behind the cut

i'm usually a rogue main, it's always my first choice in any fantasy game, but i watched a video and i am so 👀 about mages with the added ability to melee. specifically spellblade is really interesting me rn that's what i'm leaning towards at this stage

i'm honestly not super pumped about most of the given faction bgs with the exception of mourn watch, which sounds extremely cool but is also very much not my thing. shadow dragons have been the one interesting me since the first like one sentence we got, but i think it's a real shame for the one faction to do with tevinter slavery that rook doesn't seem to have a like, direct connection to that in some way? and especially for non-human races like are they going to give us any reasoning for why a presumably human military family would adopt an elf or qunari? i can work round it but i have things i want to KNOW

like it's bw i never feel beholden to stick to the letter of what they give you if i bring a character to rp (like lmao the one warden i write isn't even a canon origin, my cousland isn't a warden at all), but most of the faction bgs feel similar which doesn't make me super hopeful that there'll be a lot of delving into rook's bg. and race plays a big element in da, it's weird that the bgs are exactly the same, to the point of i believe surnames being faction and not race based, when an elf or a circle mage would have a v different experience to a human warrior.

so probably gonna do either human or elf mage shadow dragon to start. i will probably do a gréta run at some point (human warrior grey warden), but i know i'll want to do a rogue, maybe a veil jumper?

[queen-scribbles]

Dragon Age questions: 3, 6, 11, 19

3. Do you usually play as a warrior, mage, or rogue? Which class are you planning to try first this time around? Which subclass?

I think I answered the first part of this before and forgot the second part, so you get that. xD If I play my intended canon first, it'll be a Champion warrior bc I love a good paladin archetype. If I don't do that, probably mage, and I haven't heard the subclasses for that yet.

6. Do you have your Rook(s) planned out to any degree? If so, would you share some details or ideas you have?

Somewhat. I'm always flexible with my plans this long before getting to actually see the character creator, lol.

The intended canon is a male dwarf Champion, probably Lord of Fortune background. Thinking either Kirrav or Valtor for the name. (Kirrav bc I think it sounds cool, Valtor bc that's the name of a Cadash I have who's flirting with Harding so I think it'd be funny to just sort of... bump him a game so he can actually get the girl xD)

Also toying with pulling over Charlize Caron, one of my Orlesian Wardens from Awakening, solely because I shipped her with Seneschal Varel and I feel like she'd be 👀 at Emmerich lol. She's also a warrior, not sure what her subclass would be.

OR one of my kid!OCs, Marra, would be old enough now(she was 5-ish in Awakening) to be a protag. I'd probably make her a mage, Veil Jumper or Shadow Dragon faction. Likely romance would be Davrin, rooted in her being obsessed with Wardens since my Tabris saved Amaranthine. :D (starts as asking him about Wardens, turns into "hey, you're cool, I like you as a person)

I really wanna play a qunari rouge. No thoughts beyond that. I just really wanna do it.

11. What's one thing you'd really like to see in this next game?

Non-life threatening cameos for previous game companions/NPCs. Like I'd love to see Sigrun/Nathaniel/Charade/etc but only if it's not gonna get them killed. xD

19. Are you planning to replay any of the previous games, watch Dragon Age: Absolution, or read any of the books/comics/short stories, or are there other games you want to play in the meantime?

Not really planning a replay directly because of this releasing, no. I have a DA:O replay I'm working through with Trinne that's my "research for OWaP" game, but for the most part my gaming for now is LOTRO, SWtOR, and WotR. Depending on how the release dates line up, I will almost definitely play Greedfall The Dying World and Avowed before DA4, tho.

DA4 asks

[mythalsknickers]

I am just gonna slide in here with my three four five rooks so far, if you want to know more feel free to hit up the post, the ask box, or the dms I am happy to yapp about them. @vorchagirl I hope this helps and feel free to poke them if you are curious <3

Starting off with the canon Teigue de Riva, he has a whole tag you can browse. He is approx 30 ish. He is was sold to the Kirkwall Circle of Magi, and used a mage hunter until he escaped with the aide of a spirit of perseverance that he called Persi. He made it back to Antiva and his house after a year. He also bit Lucanis Dellamorte in the arm, in his defense he did not know that was who disarmed him. Regardless he does romance Lucanis, in my Long fic for these two they had a pre-established relationship before the Calivan Job. Teigue enjoys smutty books, drinking wine, occasionally cooking, and tattooing.

Up next we have Athras Mecar, the gender is a construct of society and my goal in life is to menace society child of my hero of ferelden; Halvune Tabris and Zevran Arainai. She essentially functioned as the Left Hand of the Black Divine prior to the founding of the Shadow Dragons, she also was sleeping with him. It was messy alot of biases were not properly examined with either of them. She has a very fancy claw of Dumat, worships Dumat and Toth. Her mother gave her to a Legatus she was friends with because safer option then the crows or your biological family. She romances Lucanis. She can cook but doesn't often because she got "teased" for making peasent food, she loves Mabari (and stole Ashur's Mabari), She regularly sketches to the point she is always running out of notebooks, She does like shiny things and she met her birth parents post Veilguard.

Next on the list is the certified Emmerich Smoocher. Dietlinde Ingellvar, he was raised primarily by Keepsake. All his gold was gifted to him by the Spirits over his years of living in the Necropolis. In terms of hobbies he likes puzzles, dreaming in the fade, and researching the finer points of Necromancy and how it relates to the veil. He also needs SPF +500, Vitamin D and Iron Supplements

Yet another Lucanis Romance (hi I don't have a problem I just love this demisexual man) This is Abinan Thorne, he picked out his name after his joining it means Sorrowful Death, he has very long hair that he very rarely puts up. He does worship Sylaise, and in terms of hobbies he is very much into plants both as a means of managing his blight symptoms and making poisons, but he also enjoys sewing and is very good at embroidery

My last one i forgot about Aralla Aldwir, my Davrin mancer, she likes to collect ancient elvhen artifacts, she has a small collection Strife, Irelin and Bellara do not know about. She is from the Silent Plains. She enjoys coffee, and reading magical theory, and poking around ruins.

Every now and again I get kinda ... overwhelmed by things. At the moment I'm struggling to write my fics, to reply to reviews and even to edit. I'm frozen.

It's like I'm in the ocean and i can see a wave coming and instead of doing something about it I'm treading water and waiting for it to smash down on me - even though i know waiting will only make it bigger.

If anyone wants to share pictures of their Rooks or tell me about them, please do! I could use the distraction until this feeling passes.

[aredhels]

I was tagged by @shiremaiden​, thank you!! : )

I’m tagging @queen-of-arda, @snufflesblacks, @padmapatil, @kctiebell, @undomiel, @feanarofinwion, @petyrbaelish, @ladybaelish, @northerntrash : )

RULES: Answer all the questions, add one of your own and tag as many people as there are questions holy shit I’m not gonna tag that many people wtf

1. Coke or pepsi? Coke but Pepsi is okay too

2. Disney or dreamworks? Disney

3. Coffee or tea? I’d say coffee but I had to quit drinking it a couple of years ago so tea

4. Books or movies? Both

5. Windows or mac? Windows

6. DC or marvel? I really can’t decide, I like both but I’m not that passionate about either

7. Xbox or playstation? Playstation

8. Dragon age or mass effect? Dragon Age

9. Night owl or early riser? Night owl unfortunately (it really sucks since I have to get up at six five times a week)

10. Cards or chess? Cards

11. Chocolate or vanilla? C H O C O L A T E

12. Vans or converse? Vans! I still have a few pairs of Converse shoes as well but Vans are just so much better for my feet

13. Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash or Adaar? Lavellan

14. Fluff or angst? Hmmm angst

15. Beach or forest? Forest!!

16. Dogs or cats? Cats, I’m a bit afraid of dogs and allergic so it’s really not hard to choose lol

17. Clear skies or rain? Clear skies

18. Cooking or eating out? I love cooking but I’ll still always pick eating out if I have the choice

19. Spicy food or mild food? Spicy-ish

20. Halloween/samhain or solstice/yule/christmas? Christmas

21. Would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot? I hate feeling hot and sweaty, and I already feel cold like 90% of the time so that one

22. If you could have a superpower, what would it be? Invisibility

23. Animation or live action? Aagh a tough one... live action I guess

24. Paragon or renegade? ??

25. Baths or showers? Showers

26. Team cap or team ironman? Iron Man all the way

27. Fantasy or sci-fi? Fantasy

28. Do you have three or four favourite quotes, if so, what are they? For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

The head is too wise. The heart is all fire. - Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

Beren’s Song from The Silmarillion

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. - Arthur Miller

29. Youtube or netflix? Netflix

30. Harry potter or percy jackson? Harry Potter

31. When do you feel accomplished? Umm never? What does that mean

32. Star wars or star trek? Star Wars

33. Paperback or hardback books? Paperback

34. Horror or rom-com? Rom-com if it’s a good one but if it’s not, the neither

35. TV shows or movies? Ajhdfhioerj can’t choose, tv maybe?

36. Favourite animal? Deer and pallas cat

37. Favourite genre of music? Alternative maybe, that covers most of my music taste : D

38. Least favourite book? I don’t think I’ve ever read any actually bad books so Idk

39. Favourite season? I really don’t know

40. Song that’s currently stuck in your head? Paul McCartney’s End of the End bc I’m listening to it now

41. What kind of pyjama’s do you wear? Weird old t-shirts + long pj bottoms or shorts depending on the weather

42. How many existential crises do you have on an average day? Probably like ten

43. If you can only choose one song to be played at your funeral, what would it be? Anything from The Beatles would be cool

44. Favourite theme song to a TV show? Game of Thrones!! Reign’s theme song aka Scotland by The Lumineers is also good

45. Harry potter movies or books? BOOKS

46. You can make your OTP become canon but you’ll forget that tumblr exists. will you do it? Nahh it’s canon enough already

47. Do you play an instrument and if so, what is it? Nope

48. What is the worst way to die? I’d rather not think about this. Something slow and painful.

49. If you could be entirely invisible for a day, what would you do? Satisfy my endless curiosity and spy on people

50. If you could have personally witnessed anything in history what would it be? My mind is completely blank right now

51. If you could understand animals but you could never understand humans again, would you? Nah

52. What is your most favourite album currently? Bastille’s Wild World changed my life

53. What is your favourite TV show character? Mary Crawley

54. What is something you were obsessed with as a child? Dinosaurs and space

55. Do you have any tattoos/piercings and if not would you like any? I used to have a rook piercing but I took it off over a year ago bc it got infected all the time, now I only have a few on my earlobes and I don’t want any more. I don’t have tattoos yet but I’m planning on getting a couple of them in the future.

56. Biggest pet peeves? Annoying sounds like munching, slurping, snoring and sniffling, it’s really starting to be a big problem for me.....

57. A place you’ve always wanted to visit? (Idk if I’m supposed to answer my own question but Scotland, India and New York are the only ones on my list that I haven’t been to yet)