#baby griffon

[elby-ma]

Rook meeting Assan.

[camelidae]

Happy Friday the 13th everyone! Remember sometimes bad luck is just the start of an Unplanned Adventure!

[dragonagitator]

Baby griffin: *in a corner, chewing the fleshy bits off the skull of a decapitated Hurlock*

Davrin: What's that in your mouth?

Baby griffin: *chewing faster*

Davrin: I said, WHAT THE FUCK IS IN YOUR MOUTH?

[picayune-artist]

The goodest boy. I'm gonna call this finished for now.

[deathclawstudios]

lil' baby that I drew during my infusion! definitely gonna make it a sticker someday.

[dragonagitator]

This precious baby's name has been revealed as Assan!

➤ Does the story have griffons in it?

Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Reveal Trailer

[griffinfeathers]

Baby griffons 😭

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

mycenaean miku

she was there singing on the beaches of llion. homer copied the catalogue of ships from her.

[bunbunsama]

the difference in post-vg rook de riva pregnancies are delicious to me in that:

with emmrich, its a dream come true - the dream finally realized, late and yet, exactly when it was meant to. he's already spent years planning this moment, planning with past faces that he scants remembers as they become so easily replaced by her, & now its no longer a dream. its reality. its in his hands. & how he dotes on her! she doesn't want for nothing, no craving left unsatiated, no desire unfulfilled, all that she wants is met with "of course, dearest". his hand is always on her; in her hair as he pulls it back when nauseas takes hold & on her neck when she lulls her head back as the scent of something hits her wrong; the small of her back when they take their walks to ease the discomfort of a restless baby; holding her hand when she loops her arm around his as they talk to nevarran nobles & senior mourn watchers & the occasional crow. he knows the fade can make dreams reality, turn ideas into truth, & that is what rook has done; she's made real a dream he has long ago put to rest.

with lucanis, its a delicious nightmare - more an anticipated & a dreadfully torrent affair that even an antivan crown birth could not overshadow. lucanis is rightfully terrified outright; his mother was murdered by another house, his father most likely as well, & he watched catarina bury eight other grandchildren due to crow politics. he has barely seen himself as a man, let alone a father. whether he absconds for some time to grapple with the news or not doesn't overshadow how absolutely wild viago goes; if he does leave, viago will never forget it & its only through teia & rook that he even relents when lucanis returns, & if lucanis doesn't leave, viago becomes an unnecessary appendage of the pregnancy. "this isn't just a pregnancy, rook, it's a message; a clear message" house dellamorte lives; house dellamorte will survive. this pregnancy also is a shield for rook; a woman who once ruined a talon operation, who the fifth talon has to negotiate & plead for safe exile, is now the only one who carries the next dellamorte heir - catarina is furious because she cannot make a move. having rook in her favour was necessary after she slayed a god, & with thedas practically in her pocket (her mother is the hof & her father the inquisitor, all of thedas is at her disposal) it would be stupid to rebuke her - but she didn't have to like her. she didn't have to approve of lucanis' love & illario's strange infatuation ("you picked the wrong dellamorte" is something she doesn't forget) but it was just a waiting game; now, with her pregnant (& of course rook knows this pregnancy protects her, that it gives her more sway across the crows) catarina can't do anything unless she truly wants her house to disappear - & there are houses that are waiting, wanting, just such an end. theres also a struggle of where to have the baby, where the baby will stay mostly - which house will they take. a lot of lucanis & viago going back & forth till catarina steps up to the plate & then rook has to play the mother/god-killer card.

bonus: viago will absolutely be the most awful protective & overbearing brother. rook better not be pregnant BEFORE she's married or else she will never hear the end of it because he refuses to have her first child - his first nephew/niece - be a bastard. teia finds the whole exchange fun & her & rook probably are the most normal during the whole exchange, talking about baby names & picking out drapery & fabric for the nursery.

[shouldaspunastory]

I have only just learned this baby's name, but if anything happens to him...

the baby griffon's name was revealed! ASSAN! <3

i love them sm already.

[lavenderprose]

Manfred doing the Baymax "Haaaairy baby" thing with Assan as soon as he learns how to speak. Assan gets big and strong and his paws are bigger than Manfred's skull and still every time Manfred sees him, Assan lays flat on the floor so Manfred can crawl onto his back and cuddle into his neck feathers and hiss, "Feathery baby. Hairy baby. Soft baby!" And Assan is like. YES I am still hairy baby. Despite being the size of some smaller Minrathous apartments. I love my cuddly skeleton cousin. He's my best friend.

[camelidae]

[dragonagitator]

I actually teared up a bit when I saw this precious little baby in the trailer.

For those of you who haven't read the books, griffons were believed to be extinct in Thedas for hundreds of years until the Wardens found a clutch of unhatched griffon eggs in Last Flight.

That there's a baby one running around as a Warden's animal companion several years later suggests that not only were they successful in hatching those eggs, but also that they've been breeding more griffons. The griffons are making a comeback as a species!!!

(We know this one is still a baby because Wardens used to ride griffons into battle, and this one obviously isn't big enough for that yet.)

[blackwallmancer]

If we can't pet Assan in DA:TV, I riot.

This little crocheted dude came out to about 10" long (not counting the tail) and 7" tall (not counting the wings stretching up). The tail and wings are wired and fully posable. I used the pattern "Griffin" by Kayla Shea as a base for this project, though I heavily modified the pattern as I went to get the look I wanted.

okay, now I gotta go ice my hands for the next 6 hours bc they're about to fall off after all that work byeeee

[han-ban-bam]

will this see the light of day in its full capacity I am unsure I do not know I just love them sm

[oflorelei]

GREY WARDENS ARE BACK BABY LETS GOOO!!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️