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Manon would have doubts about being a good mother to her little witchling. It’s a feeling that never goes away and she terrified of acting like her grandmother because it’s literally the only thing she knows.
She’s aware that what her grandmother did was no way to be around a child. This, and the fact that Manon is a good person with a lot of repressed love, was why she is nothing like her grandmother. But she doesn’t see it that way. She is haunted by her past and her own nightmarish childhood. She hangs on every mistake, wonders if she could have said something better— wonders if her witchling is better off being around Dorian more than her (because she believes that she will do some irrecoverable damage to her, and the thought literally keeps her up at night)
Dorian is there to always assure her that she’s nothing like her grandmother. He hates that after so long without her, she still has her clutches around Manon, ensuring that her voice is the only thing leading Manon.
He knows that she isn’t like her at all. And he will never tire of reminding her of it every single day.
This has become easier with their witchling getting older. Now, he can easily just point at the toddler, who would be in various positions on their bed at night ‘because I get bad dreams in my bed and only get good dreams in your bed’ as she would argue.
He notices how the witchling is casual about it. She comes into their room, climbs up their bed, plops down next to her mom while holding on to something so that she doesn’t get carried to her room (toddler logic). To Dorian, this display alone is enough.
He tells Manon that if she was anything like she thinks she is, their witchling wouldn’t be feeling this safe around her. She is always around her mother, following her around and preferring to stay with her as opposed to playing with the other children. If their witchling is feeling unsafe, she wouldn’t be doing any of that.
“Look at her,” He points at the sleeping child in their bed once again. Her head is resting on Manon’s stomach, while she almost hogged her mother all to herself.
“You’re doing great with her, witchling,” He winks. Adding a little playfulness while being serious.
The Blackbeak Matron killed her own daughter and almost killed her granddaughter. Manon is nothing like her, and he will never tire of reminding her of that.
Because even the formidable Queen of the Witches needs a gentle reminder from time to time.
#booklr#books and reading#throne of glass#manon blackbeak#manon x dorian#tog#dorian havilliard#manorian#i need to be up in 3 hours but this idea just attacked me#HELLOO??? I WAS IN BED TRYING TO SLEEP????#sneak manorian and their witchling attack#not that i mind because they’re just so cute???#Manon still struggles a lot tho#imagine being abused by your only parent for over a hundred years#she tries not to let it get to her but sometimes it’s hard#but she has Dorian to help her#and an affectionate little witchling that subtly shows her that she isn’t doing too bad#because she remembers when she was a witchling she stayed away from her grandmother as to not upset her or evoke her wrath#she never felt safe enough to just waltz into her grandmother’s room and talk about random things#only if she was feeling suicidal#but seeing her witchling doing this without any fear???#she’s still processing it and often just attributes it to Dorian#but Dorian tells her that he wasn’t even in the room#that little witchling is what’s going to heal Manon#because she is so pure and loving and like most children has no filter#‘I love you’#’youre more fun than others’#‘I want to go with you’#‘I want you!’#ans so many things a child would say just so they’re always in their mother’s face
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This isn't a theory or anything, just based on vibes alone. If Bells Hells do happen to seek out other prime deities for guidance or boons, the Moonweaver would be so juicy for Dorian...
#everything he lets people see is by his own design#she is the goddess of illusion#he has gotten romantic vibes from someone since early in the campaign (so far unrequited)#(according to the FIRST 4 sided dive episode ffs)#she is the goddess of hidden love#they both share the chaotic good alignment#he feels as if the hells are drifting#as if his feelings have never really mattered#he knows he's on borrowed time regarding grieving#her commandments include seizing your own destiny and protecting yourself from despair and forging new memories#(also as a purely selfish/ship driven symbolism: we would have big moon/little moon and will telling orym to not live in his shadow)#(cue dorian being blessed by the goddess of Catha(Will)'s light)#anyway i just think it would be neat#but i don't really think they're gonna go hunting for gods to help them VM style nor does dorian NEED a god's help but i digress#dorian storm#critical role spoilers#campaign 3#dorym#ramblings
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posting that sketch yesterday made me remember just how much i love my taashath so i did another doodle <3
#dai#dragon age#dragon age inquisition#da inquisitor#the inquisitor#adaar#inquisitor#inquisitor adaar#taashath adaar#some fun facts about her that im hiding in the tags!!#taashath was born under the qun and used to be a tamassran! the left the qun when she discovered one of her#children- her last child in fact- had magic. she didnt want him to be taken as a saarebas and so she tried to leave with him#her kid was killed in the process of leaving :(. she snapped and. surprise. she has magic too. shes just done a really good job of hiding it#she manages to escape with the help of one of the soldiers assigned to protecting her (meraad who another inquisitor in a different run)#but doesnt exactly remember How. all she remembers is waking up on the shore of wycome without meraad#eventually she was found by the valo-kas and taken in by them. they helped teach her how to properly control her magic and they took care of#her as she slowly got back on her feet.#and then she became the inquisitor.#she allied with the mages. conscripted the wardens. and made celene gaspard and briala shake hands. she also sacrificed loghain in the fade.#she doesnt have a canonical romance BUT. she had a few flings with some of the others and spent years pining after vivienne.#she ends up close friends with dorian bull cole and sera! she... does not end up friends with blackwall. but she does spare him#she Was close with solas at the start of inquisiton but she struggled to connect with him. his interactions with some of the other#companions didnt help. but she does care about him!! its just. difficult. it was difficult with sera and dorian at first too. and bull#she is completely Unsure what to think of varric but they are friends. and taashi absolutely adores josephine. leliana scares her just a bit#and she struggles to intetact with cullen but she does care for him. cassandra ends up as her divine (from a game glitch i made canon) even#though she did everything she could to get vivienne on the throne.#shes also trans!!! very big bonding point between her bull and krem is that she is aqun-athlok. everytime dorian or varric mentions mae she#goes :0 as well. uhhh yeah! i love her sm. if anyone has any questions pls pls 🥺🙏 send em
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Dorian: hey thanks for earlier-
Damien:...
Damien: I KNOW YOU ARE DATING THE QUEEN USE CONDOMS
#dorian:🤯#NO BC THIS IS HOW THAT CONVERSATION BASICALLY WENT😭#dorian is like hey thanks for helping save dani and the world maybe we can fix our sibling relationship from now on ~heh#and damien's first instinct as a big brother is to tell him I KNOW ABOUT YOU AND MONICA USE PROTECTION#MEANWHILE KEEP IN MIND THAT DORIAN WAS IN A COMMA FOR 3 YEARS SO HES KINDA STILL MENTALLY 13#so hes like protection against what?#and Damien has to make sure if he knows how kids are made which ofc he does he has read every book that exists#also yeah his second instinct was to come out and tell him hes in love with the king#damn the whole family has a thing for the royals huh#expect dani she fell for the orphan boy who scams people for a living#good for her#dorian wytte#damien wytte#hooky#hooky webtoon
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if dorian didn't show up, do you think louis would have shot minnie?
I do. I know some people think either he wouldn't have or he would've missed so that's why the writers had him shoot Dorian instead, but mmmmmm no, I don't personally think so. I like to think that if he had taken the shot, his shaky hands would've caused him to shoot her fatally.
Mostly because I'm already so normal about the fact that of the Ericson crew, Marlon and Louis are the only ones with a body count. Well, that we know of, but shown to us in the game, at least. Plus, we know it's Louis' first kill.
Like yeah, Clementine and AJ become part of the crew and they have bigger body counts, and if we're counting indirect kills caused by actions, then Tenn has a count... and I guess everyone has blood on their hands for blowing up the boat... but I'm talking about killed directly with a weapon like....... I lied, I'm not normal about that at all, Louis and Marlon are the ones who have killed someone in Louis' route. I'm also not normal about the fact that Louis kills Dorian and then even as he's clearly in shock, he tries to go with Clementine to get AJ, and then later on when they talk about it, he says it feels like bile but not quite and he's glad he has it in him to do it.... listen, listen, listen... I'm obsessed with that.
Anyway, so if Louis shot Minerva, I think he would've accidentally killed her and can you imagine? He's already enough of a mess after killing the woman who pinned him down and tried to cut his finger off [or succeeded] but he knew Minerva, they were friends before the twins were taken. Even Violet couldn't kill her even though that would've been the smarter thing to do, and we know thanks to meta knowledge that killing her would've saved lives, but Violet couldn't, and I don't think Louis would intentionally either.
Speaking of Violet, if Louis killed Minerva, I hate to think about what that would've done to Vi. I think she might've actually left at that point, like what was planned before it got changed to her being burned. I don't think she would've attacked Louis over it, though, like yeah she attacked Clementine in the cell but Louis? I don't know, but I don't think so just because it's Louis and he'd be a mess about it anyway.
Though if he did kill her, it would be a neat parallel to draw... y'know, because Louis forgave AJ for killing Marlon even though he was pissed and heartbroken, and Violet was annoyed with him the entire time... but could she ever forgive Louis for killing Minerva? Y'know? We already have a similar parallel with AJ shooting Tenn, but still.
If Clementine killed Minerva in that moment, though, then I could see Violet attacking her since in her eyes, Clem proved her right.
So yeah, I get why they added the Dorian kill to his route. It adds another compelling element to Louis as a character, but we also need Minerva alive for episode 4; Louis can't kill her, he can't miss, and he's not going to stay with her because we need Violet to stay on the boat and him to be on shore for all routes.
#asks#twdg louis#twdg minerva#twdg clementine#twdg violet#twdg marlon#twdg tenn#honestly whenever i see someone say louis is the boring option i'm just like '.......that's your opinion but also how can you say that??'#then again i'm sure other people look at me saying violentine just isn't for me and they say the same thing so y'know... i can't talk haha#also time is such a weird thing because i look at the entire cell scene in louis' route and like... i'm not even mad about violet anymore#like yeah i still don't believe she was brainwashed like i'm sorry y'all only believe that because kent said something about it#not because there's all this evidence toward it in game like vi being pissed at clementine makes sense she doesn't need to be brainwashed#for it to work like her being vulnerable and easily manipulated into submission makes perfect sense especially with minerva there#it's like everyone was pissed that she attacked clementine and people needed a way to excuse it so it's not violet's fault when like...#that's literally what makes it interesting like calm down it's okay if violet is pissed and scared and behaves accordingly#also my controversial opinion of the day that i'll hide here in the tags so maybe people won't find it sksksk but#I personally find the concept of vinerva and the doomed tragedy of it more compelling than anything violentine did#like i'll defend violentine and i do believe it's an important and good ship it's just not my personal favorite#anyway but then the whole thing with lilly and minerva is so good and louis screaming FUCK YOU at minerva?? amazing love it so good#i love when the soft character who never chooses violence is so pissed off that all that anger they have boils to the surface and it's raw#like... he's SO mad he's SO furious he's SOOO UPSET like he wasn't even like this when marlon died or anything like he hit his limit#and then shooting dorian through the mouth while an accident is just well done i love it and i love his reaction of mortification#and apologizing and YET he still tries to go with clementine he's trembling and can barely string together a sentence but he wants to go#he wants to help her he wants to save aj THAT is the gut reaction he has after everything that just went down#'louis isn't loyal or good for clem because of the vote' babe tell me you don't understand any nuance of louis' character without telling m#it's fine IT'S FINE you don't have to agree and i just have to remind myself that it's fine not everyone likes louis we're okay#this drives me crazy in the best way like y'know what? i love the cells scene in louis' route all of it even the stuff i used to rant about#even the stuff that used to piss me off now i'm just like 'no wait past cj was dumb she wasn't looking at it this way aaaaaaaa' sksksks#that was my tag ted talk about the cell scene thank you
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daewen has gone from getting cassandra's low approval cutscene to a begrudging form of respect forming between the two 🥺
#daewen has slowly tamed herself a little (a LITTLE) and is more willing to consider the perspectives of others#and while this doesn't salvage her relationships with viv and sera#it does with cass + dorian + iron bull#she finally sees them as just trying to grapple with the faiths/homes/attachments they have#and - IMPORTANTLY - doing so in a way that she approves of (which is where she still can't get accept viv/sera)#this is also helped by daewen being completely shaken by blackwall's revelation and shifting cass into her main party#'at least I know who cassandra IS.' she says bitterly#anyway we're feeling emo about daewen and her growth post-haven lately#daewen lavellan#jessica plays dragon age
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@beatingheart-bride
In a flash, June and Randall were upon the vampire, pining her wrists to the ground as she writhed and screeched and kicked, refusing to go down easily. However, the mortals' adrenaline, combined with Emily's own vampiric strength and determination, overrode her efforts to get free, her soulless eyes widening as Wilhelm rushed over, stake and hammer in hand.
Holding the stake right over the heart, Wilhelm was about raise the hammer and bring it down, but he had a moment of hesitation-not because he felt any sort of guilt or pity for this monster who had so brazenly come after his family...
...but because he felt like the wrong person to do the staking.
"Here, lass," he said firmly, holding the hammer out to Emily as he held the stake for her, keeping it hovering above Constance's heart. Considering all that this woman-this creature of the night-had done to Emily, the absolute hell she'd put her through for centuries, it seemed only fair that she be the one to put Constance down for good.
"You...you do the honors."
#((i feel like elizabeth could cast some sort of spell that would make him effectively immortal))#((allowing him to live through the centuries with her and their friends-similarly; i was also kinda thinking))#((just to keep the supernatural/mortal romance going; beau is with little leota; a witch))#((and she's made him into her familiar; able to change between a black cat and a human))#((and through her magic she's able to keep him effectively immortal as well; allowing all of them))#((to face the future together as their own little found family!))#((and i love that idea too! dorian is totally a bleeding heart; he's not content to just horde his wealth; sit on it))#((he's always keen to help others if he possibly can; and so i could absolutely see him opening his doors))#((to any and all wayward supernatural beings in need of a place to stay-a place where they feel like they belong!))#((and big same! this has been a wonderful and wild ride of an rp; it's been a joy to write and explore))#((and i really think there is a LOT of potential for further exploration!))#((i think much like au's like 'phantasm of the mansion' and 'family reunion'))#((there's a lot of potential for more stories to be told in this universe; and i look forward to seeing them!))#outofhatboxes#beatingheart-bride#V:Dark Shadows
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I am thinking about an Inquisitor Aviae au... It would be so fucking funny. Like in game I think there's a lot of propaganda about her (she's a pro-mage, pro-blood magic, anti circle, anti Templar mage who used to help anders plan his escapes and regularly outspoke about the poor treatment of mages. She also 100% supports anders actions when she hears of them lmao) so like. Half the companions in dai would have an idealized, chantry propaganda view of her. So she comes in, and everyone's like "whoa... Hero of Fereldan..." And then she immediately diverts supplies to helping mages in the war. And is just so much unlike what chantry propaganda would portray her as. She would also take on the grey warden "recruit anyone, help is more valuable than the persons past" to an extreme in the inquisiton. Like if there is someone she can recruit, she does so almost every time. I think sera would hate her at first but they would become fast friends, iron bull as well. She has a decent understanding of the qun from what sten taught her; it's not for her but she does respect it. Idk I kinda wanna write something out for it
#oc: aviae#somebody asks her her opinions about kirkwall and she goes 'he shouldve blown up more templars if im being honest'#josephine spends the next three months doing damage control#while aviae has experience with politics (she used to help out alistair when he first became king/amaranthine stuff) shes never dealt with#foreign politics#that and most the politics were rebuilding#not what the inquisition does#her and dorian would talk for actual hours about magic theory#her and cole would get along decently#she would avoid cullen like the plague (much like she did as an apprentice)#her and cassandra would butt heads so fucking bad#cassandra has a similar experience to when she found out hawke wasnt the person she thought they were#except its 10x worse because this is the fucking. hero of Fereldan. ender of the blight
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guys i literally found the perfect girl we sit next to each other in english at our own table out of the way and she’s so smart and cool and she likes some of the same books as me and she’s as obsessed as me with tlos and she annotates her books in the most meticulous way possible and we don’t always agree about things so it makes conversations so much more interesting and she gets super excited and smiles a lot when she talks about things she likes and she talks forever and i just wanna kiss her adfvdhbcrhbf
#ring ring#tlos#dorian gray#ao3#english#of mice and men#crush#gay#queer#she has tumblr so i’m fucked if she sees this but that’s super unlikely so i’m probably fine#i’ve already written a poem about her help
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still not 100% set on gene being a earth spirit i mean i could revive elsie and have her be the earth spirit again and gene could. omg. pirate genevieve. PIRATE GENEVIEVE......
#aldron rambles tag#gene has been literally a little bit of everything here i fear#she was a magical girl (he/she/they)#then for a bit was an earth spirit (she/her)#and now is a pirate (it/they/she/he)#but pirate gene makes way more sense actually#because genes story has always been about finding themself#and what better way to do that then be a fucking PIRATE !!!!!!#only shit side to this is i now have to redo genes ENTIRE pinterest board AGAIN#but pirate aesthetic is sooo easy so im not mad#i just have to figure out hairstyles#also now i get to do pirate x vampire shenanigans#wearing each others clothes and not remembering who owned it first....#and pirate x witch TOXIC YURI !!!!!!!!!#circe is a kinda on and off terrible person tbh#i love her though#she cant help herself / srs#she literally doesnt know how to change her ways because her mother is like this and ykw children learn best from their parents#dorian is teaching her how to be better though and she wants to be better its just#hard#but now im deciding if i want gene to be a constant character of if she'll stay with his ship and occasionally appear...#idkkkk#aldron oc tag
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Just some points on my modern au:
Both Dorian and Manon are from old money families (it’s how they met it was during an exclusive event)
Dorian hates it lowkey he wants freedom and to do as he pleases so he skips as many of these events as he can. But he also knows that if he leaves and Hollin gets in charge… their family would be over because his brother will ruin everything. So he stays around for the sake of his family.
Manon is the opposite. She is always present and taking charge of things in hopes that it would appease her grandmother. But just like everything else she does, it’s never good enough.
She’s a perfectionist who always needs to be in control otherwise she starts falling apart.
She was raised on the notion that emotions are a weakness, and she wouldn’t dare bring shame on her grandmother by being emotional. So from a young age she learned to suppress her emotions and carry on.
She is what her teachers would call ‘academically gifted’ but the truth is, she spent many hours studying and skipping sleep in order to be the top student at her school. Even when she was burnt out (she usually spends summer break studying for the next school year before it starts) she keeps going. Result? Getting a final score of 99.7% caused her to have a breakdown because how was she so careless as to lose that .3%? Her grandmother wasn’t too happy with her score, and she made that very clear.
She’s just so emotionally repressed and very anxious but she’s so good at hiding it no one can tell anything is amiss. Because when Manon is having a breakdown, she does so privately behind closed doors.
She has attachment issues and she’s very emotionality dependent on her dog. Abraxos is her rock and she has no idea what she’d do without him.
Those attachment issues? (Thanks to grandmother’s emotional and mental abuse) Manon often ends up with awful/toxic men just because they’re giving her the right attention that makes her easily want to be with them thinking it is ‘right’ and honestly just doesn’t think much of it (Asterin notices tho and she and Sorrel are always ready to interfere).
She doesn’t have much faith in men anymore. One night stands are way better than a steady relationship and so she swore off dating. All she needs is Abraxos anyway.
#booklr#books and reading#throne of glass#manon blackbeak#tog#dorian havilliard#manon x dorian#manorian#just laying down the foundation for my modern au#there is a lot more but this is what I can recall at the top of my head#Manon’s grandmother was terrible and just… really fucked her up#whenever she didn’t like Manon’s school performance she’d tell her not to return home#better spend her free time studying to make up for those disgraceful grades#so Manon is used to spending holidays alone because she wasn't allowed to return back home#never mind leaving her in an empty school where anything can happen and no one is around to help#but grandmother doesn’t care#Manon really has a lot of baggage#unaddressed baggage#baby girl needs a lot of therapy#oh forgot to mention that she was sent to one of those elite boarding schools where it was very academically competitive#and her grandmother really drilled it into her that the slightest mistake will not be forgiven#so that anxiety started when Manon was barely 6 and continued on#everything she does must be perfect#she needs perfect grades and she needs to be at the number one spot in anything or else her grandmother will be mad#and she’d not want her back home if she embarrasses her like that
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KINGDOM OF ASH (by SJM)
Chapter 48
THE FAMILY REUINION🥹😆😭🫶& MY SOULLL
But when they reached Princess Hasar's battle tent, when they had all gathered around a map of Anielle, they had only a few minutes of discussion before they were interrupted. By the person Chaol least expected to walk through the flaps.
A moment later, Chaol was glad he was sitting down.
Nesryn breathed, "Holy gods."
Chaol was inclined to agree as Aelin Galathynius, Rowan Whitethorn, and several others entered the tent.
They were mud-splattered, the Queen of Terrasen's braided hair far longer than Chaol had last seen. And her eyes ... Not the soft, yet fiery gaze. But something older. Wearier.
Chaol shot to his feet. "I thought you were in Terrasen," he blurted. All the reports had confirmed it. Yet here she stood, no army in sight.
Three Fae males-towering warriors as broad and muscled as Rowan—had entered, along with a delicate, dark-haired human woman.
But Aelin was only staring at him. Staring and staring at him.
No one spoke as tears began sliding down her face. Not at his being here, Chaol realized as he took up his cane and limped toward Aelin.
But at him. Standing. Walking.
The young queen let out a broken laugh of joy and flung her arms around his neck. Pain lanced down his spine at the impact, but Chaol held her right back, every question fading from his tongue.
Aelin was shaking as she pulled away. "I knew you would," she breathed, gazing down his body, to his feet, then up again. "I knew you'd do it."
"Not alone," he said thickly. Chaol swallowed, releasing Aelin to extend an arm behind him. To the woman he knew stood there, a hand over the locket at her neck.
Perhaps Aelin would not remember, perhaps their encounter years ago had meant nothing to her at all, but Chaol drew Yrene forward. "Aelin, allow me to introduce"
"Yrene Towers," the queen breathed as his wife stepped to his side.
The two women stared at each other.
Yrene's mouth quivered as she opened the silver locket and pulled out a piece of paper. Hands trembling, she extended it to the queen. Aelin's own hands shook as she accepted the scrap.
"Thank you," Yrene whispered.
Chaol supposed it was all that really needed to be said.
Aelin unfolded the paper, reading the note she'd written, seeing the lines from the hundreds of foldings and rereadings these past few years.
"I went to the Torre," Yrene said, her voice cracking. "I took the money you gave me, and went to the Torre. And I became the heir apparent to the Healer on High. And now I have come back, to do what I can. I taught every healer I could the lessons you showed me that night, about self-defense. I didn't waste it-not a coin you gave me, or a moment of the time, the life you bought me." Tears were rolling and rolling down Yrene's face. "I didn't waste any of it."
Aelin closed her eyes, smiling through her own tears, and when she opened them, she took Yrene's shaking hands. "Now it is my turn to thank you." But Aelin's gaze fell upon the wedding band on Yrene's finger, and when she glanced to Chaol, he grinned.
"No longer Yrene Towers," Chaol said softly, "but Yrene Westfall."
Aelin let out one of those choked, joyous laughs, and Rowan stepped up to her side.
Yrene's head tilted back to take in the warrior's full height, her eyes widening-not only at Rowan's size, but at the pointed ears, the slightly elongated canines and tattoo. Aelin said, "Then let me introduce you, Lady Westfall, to my own husband, Prince Rowan Whitethorn Galathynius."
For that was indeed a wedding band on the queen's finger, the emerald mud-splattered but bright. On Rowan's own hand, a gold-and-ruby ring gleamed.
"My mate," Aelin added, fluttering her lashes at the Fae male. Rowan rolled his eyes, yet couldn't entirely contain his smile as he inclined his head to Yrene.
Yrene bowed, but Aelin snorted. "None of that, please. It'll go right to his immortal head." Her grin softened as Yrene blushed, and Aelin held up the scrap of paper. "May I keep this?" She eyed Yrene's locket. "Or does it go in there?"
Yrene folded the queen's fingers around the paper. "It is yours, as it always was. A piece of your bravery that helped me find my own."
Aelin shook her head, as if to dismiss the claim.
But Yrene squeezed Aelin's closed hand. "It gave me courage, the words you wrote. Every mile I traveled, every long hour I studied and worked, it gave me courage. I thank you for that, too."
Aelin swallowed hard, and Chaol took that as excuse enough to sit again, his back giving a grateful tinge. He said to the queen, "There is another person responsible for this army being here." He gestured to Nesryn, the woman already smiling at the queen. "The rukhin you see, the army gathered, is as much because of Nesryn as it is because of me."
A spark lit Aelin's eyes, and both women met halfway in a tight embrace. "I want to hear the entire story," Aelin said. "Every word of it." Nesryn's subdued smile widened. "So you shall. But later." Aelin clapped her on the shoulder and turned to the two royals still by the desk. Tall and regal, but as mud-splattered as the queen.
Chaol blurted, "Dorian?"
Rowan answered, "Not with us." He glanced to the royals.
"They know everything," Nesryn said
"He's with Manon," Aelin said simply.
Chaol wasn't entirely sure whether to be relieved. "Hunting for something important."
The keys. Holy gods.
Aelin nodded. Later. He'd think on where Dorian might now be later. Aelin nodded again. The full story would come then too.
Nesryn said, "May I present Princess Hasar and Prince Sartaq."
Aelin bowed—low. "You have my eternal gratitude," Aelin said, and the voice that came out of her was indeed that of a queen. Any shock Sartaq and Hasar had shown upon the queen bowing so low was hidden as they bowed back, the portrait of courtly grace.
"My father," Sartaq said, "remained in the khaganate to oversee our lands, along with our siblings Duva and Arghun. But my brother Kashin sails with the rest of the army. He was not two weeks behind us when we left."
Aelin glanced to Chaol, and he nodded.
Something glittered in her eyes at the confirmation, but the queen jerked her chin at Hasar. "Did you get my letter?"
The letter that Aelin had sent months ago, begging for aid and promising only a better world in return. Hasar picked at her nails. "Perhaps. I get far too many letters from fellow princesses these days to possibly remember or answer all of them."
Aelin smirked, as if the two of them spoke a language no one else could understand, a special code between two equally arrogant and proud women. But she motioned to her companions, who stepped forward. "Allow me to introduce my friends. Lord Gavriel, of Doranelle." A nod toward the tawny-eyed and golden-haired warrior who bowed.
Tattoos covered his neck, his hands, but his every motion was graceful. "My uncle, of sorts," Aelin added with a smirk at Gavriel. At Chaol's narrowed brows, she explained, "He's Aedion's father."
"Well, that explains a few things," Nesryn muttered.
The hair, the broad-planed face ... yes, it was the same. But where Aedion was fire, Gavriel seemed to be stone. Indeed, his eyes were solemn as he said, "Aedion is my pride." Emotion rippled over Aelin's face, but she gestured to the dark-haired male. Not someone Chaol ever wanted to tangle with, he decided as he surveyed the granite-hewn features, the black eyes and unsmiling mouth.
"Lorcan Salvaterre, formerly of Doranelle, and now a blood-sworn member of my court." As if that weren't a shock enough, Aelin winked at the imposing male. Lorcan scowled. "We're still in the adjustment period," she loudly whispered, and Yrene chuckled.
Lorcan Salvaterre. Chaol hadn't met the male this spring in Rifthold, but he'd heard all about him. That he'd been Maeve's most trusted commander, her most loyal and fierce warrior.
That he'd wanted to kill Aelin, hated Aelin.
How this had come about, why she was not in Terrasen with her army ... "You, too, have a tale to tell," Chaol said.
"Indeed I do." Aelin's eyes guttered, and Rowan put a hand on her lower back. Bad— something terrible had occurred. Chaol scanned Aelin for any hint of it. He stopped when he noticed the smoothness of the skin at her neck. The lack of scars. The missing scars on her hands, her palms. "Later," Aelin said softly. She straightened her shoulders, and another golden-haired male came forward. Beautiful. That was the only way to describe him. "Fenrys ... You know, I don't actually know your family name."
Fenrys threw a roguish wink at the queen.
"Moonbeam."
"It is not," Aelin hissed, choking on a laugh.
Fenrys laid a hand on his heart. "I am blood-sworn to you. Would I lie?"
Another blood-sworn Fae male in her court.
Across the tent, Sartaq cursed in his own tongue. As if he'd heard of Lorcan, and Gavriel, and Fenrys.
Aelin gave Fenrys a vulgar gesture that set Hasar chuckling, and faced the royals. "They're barely housebroken. Hardly fit for your fine company." Even Sartaq smiled at that. But it was to the small, delicate woman that Aelin now gestured. "And the only civilized member of my court, Lady Elide Lochan of Perranth." Perranth. Chaol had combed through the family trees of Terrasen just this winter, had seen the lists of so many royal households crossed out, victim to the conquest ten years ago.
Elide's name had been among them.
Another Terrasen royal who had managed to evade Adarlan's butchers.
The pretty young woman took a limping step forward, and bobbed a curtsy to the royals. Her boots concealed any sign of the source of the injury, but Yrene's attention shot right to her leg. Her ankle. "It's an honor to meet all of you," Elide said, her voice low and steady. Her dark eyes swept over them, cunning and clear. Like she could see beneath their skin and bones, to the souls beneath.
Aelin wiped her hands. "Well, that's over and done with," she announced, and strode to the desk and map. "Shall we discuss where you all plan to march once we beat the living shit out of this army?"
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what the hell are the rogue specializations in inquisition lmfao
#HELP I NEVER ROLL ROGUES#revallen's a rift mage valovera's gonna be a reaver#orathari is so far just shit outta luck#i still need to do my snippet of the dalish delegation's arrival at the conclave#also im still amused by the prospect of the anchor doing some bullshit and snapping the different potential timelines#into the same place. but ONLY by way of the Anchor bearers. it'd probably center on revallen. the rift mage. yknow#but theres a bigass magic explosion in skyhold somewhere and when the inner circle runs in to investigate theres. wait let me count#SIX Anchor bearers#THREE of whom are Dalish. they come to and see each other and basically go “HEY!! WHAT?? YOU DIED!!”#TWO of whom are Qunari. they come to and Asaaranda sees Haalide and says “blacksmith Haalide? What? How? Why?” and Haalide grunts#and flexes her giant Qunari fist making her Anchor flicker. all the other Anchors flicker in tandem. and she says 'weird magic.'#ONE of whom is this poor Trevelyan that has no idea where they are or who any of these fucking people are oh andraste's bosoms what the fuck#dorian is almost delighted because WHOAAA HELL YES WEIRD MAGIC#makes for very awkward encounters for the other inquisitors meeting their friends or lovers who do not know them at all#lmfao orathari sidles up to solas one evening and puts a hand on his ass and he jumps two feet in the air#haalide's fully unfazed she's just squinting at the Anchors watching them react to what she's doing to hers
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This episode has EVERYTHING :
Cast members confusing their characters from two different campaigns ;
Absolute fucking chaos ;
Mighty Nein members giving guidance to Bell’s Hells ;
PÂTÉ AND SPRINKLES BEING SWAPPED BETWEEN LAUDNA AND JESTER;
Jester ;
Jester and Fearne causing chaos ;
Ashton seeking romance help from Yasha and Jester (hopefully a Callomoore discussion in next episode) ;
Dorian and Orym confessing to each other and sleeping in the same room (literally, that’s so them), just taking comfort where they can because who knows what will happen;
DORIAN THINKING OF WHAT IFS SCENARIO / THINGS HE COULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY WITH HIS NEW RELATIONSHIP IN THESE TRYING TIMES 😭😭😭
Fjord and Jester talking about their wedding and Fjord reassuring her his proposal was not a mistake and he wants her to not rush their wedding so she could have the wedding she deserved 🥺
So excited to see where everything goes from here, of course I didn’t list everything because this was a doozy…
As Liam said “I feel like I’m going insane” and bud ain’t that just the way with CR khcgxjh
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Bioware writing team has a comfy, sheltered life and it shows
I'm sorry, but how come that the only people Inquisitor sent to look for Solas were Varric and Harding? How come that the only people recruited in 10 years of pursuing Solas were Neve and Rook? Do the writers understand that this is NOT how a serious effort looks like?
What about Leliana? Divine or not, she is still Sister Nightingale with an immense spywork. You'd think she won't mobilize everything she has to track Solas and his followers?
What about Josephine? What, she decided "nah, I'm done" and didn't use any of her diplomatic talents and connections to let the Inquisitor's agents have access, permissions or information they need?
What about Dorian? As a political figure, you'd think he will be the first Minrathous contact for the Inquisitor allies, the one arranging things and providing insights?
What about Cassandra and her Seekers? Isn't she interested in stopping another world-ending threat?
What about Sera and her sabotaging potential? If she organized the group of people for performing vigilante acts, people who are her eyes and ears, how come nobody from her group is helping with the effort?
I get it why Varric takes part in it - he knew Solas, the Inquisitor trusts him and his judgement, but for the game to imply that all the responsibility was lumped on Varric's shoulders is fucking disgraceful. I get it writers, Varric is popular character, and you would use him as bait to your heart's content, but the context you've created implies that Varric might have been the only one to take the threat seriously, while the Inquisitor and the rest were doing God knows what.
Varric should have been handing the Rook information on all the contacts they can recruit, all the useful agents, all the people to work with, not tell them to ask Neve because she might know someone because detective (Neve is a good character, but the fact that people who were supposed to spend 10 years chasing Solas look up to her for finding them contacts is appalling).
"Oh, but all these people were in the previous parts and we don't want to mention previous parts because muh new players" - well, you shot yourselves in the foot. Maybe, just maybe, you should have AT LEAST cared more about the choices made in DAI.
Congrats.
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