#character: emmrich volkarin

[corffiser]

Emmrich Volkarin Dragon Age : The Veilguard

[bioware]

Take a peek at the concept art of your companions, which you'll find in The Art of #DragonAge: The Veilguard. We've redacted the text to avoid spoilers 🤫

Preorder the Standard or Deluxe Edition via Dark Horse Comics. Or get the BioWare Gear Store Variant.

[timethehobo]

He’s taking over my brain, help. I just wanted to try a stylistic approach…

[invinciblerodent]

can't wait to see people draw Davrin in all sorts of heroic poses fit for illustrations of Arthurian legends, Bellara in pretty pastel sundresses, Emmrich wearing nothing but copious amounts of gold jewelry, Taash in bodybuilder poses (and shirts with the sleeves cut off and the sides scooped), Harding in the coziest of furs, Neve in suits and posed like a Leyendecker illustration, and Lucanis lit like a Rembrandt looking menacingly back over his shoulder, and for everyone to be so fucking correct

[bossuary]

Kept thinking about this absolutely feral fandom declaring that they would obliterate Emmrich's pelvis.

The ornamentation on the back of his overcoat is a gilded representation of the iliac crest, sacrum, and coccyx of the male pelvis.

This decoration is joined to the front of the coat via deep scarlet cords, giving a nod to blood as that which connects/disconnects the mortal frame to life.

From the back, the entire coat looks like an opulent exploded diagram of a skeleton, with the spine represented as a series of buttons, and the rigid shoulder guards representing the wing-like scapulae, flared out to show the ribs:

The straps holding together the tails of the coat call back to stitches, neat but stark, like those of the wounded dead put together reverently for their final rest.

The front of the coat is SO interesting, because it presents this open autopsy view in rich colors, accented with gold, so that the effect of skin and muscle being peeled back for study, the ribcage broken and splayed, doesn't feel gruesome at all. Because of the person wearing it, his generosity of spirit, the effect of the coat is that the viewer is invited to study death up close, to be curious about this part of life, to understand it until it doesn't scare them.

It's worth it to mention, too, how many chains and ropes Emmrich is displaying. Apart from the red cords, there is the chain for his collar pin, three chains running into/from four different pockets on his vest, a chain connecting bracelets or cuffs on his wrist, and several more chains attaching in various places on his belt.

Yes, they are utilitarian, but they are also symbolic of a person attached to their work by a strong resolve, by guilt, or by some other unbreakable compulsion. As far as I know, there aren't watches of any kind in Thedas, much less pocket watches, so what is Emmrich keeping in those little pockets? Does the Mourn Watch use a magical tether on spirits, such as whatever coins or talismans are at the ends of those chains?

I love this design so much.

[persephoneggsy]

i'm gonna be so normal about emmrich, i promise

(gonna start by making my rook a gilf)

[mossattack]

emmrich we can so make it happen.

for context: he brings a skull of a deceased person to their wife's coffin so that they can reunite in death and stay together forever, never to be parted again <3

[emptyjunior]

You don't understand I Need varric as a constant companion cause I need him to think he's finally found a sane, logical effective guy to follow and then I am going to make my PC go absolutely sopping simpering blushing in love with that old man necromancer, just giggly and attempting to woo a senior citizen and varric will just slowly put his face in his hands as he realises it happened Again, he's following a little freak Again

[bird-of-burdock]

Rook!Sadri x Emmrich

Your honor, they are in love. I would know. I'm delusional.

[eurydia]

✅ hot old man ✅ assistant ✅ impeccable fashion sense ✅ "hand on hip cunty ass stance"

based on this tweet:

[nostalgiaclown]

[corffiser]

Emmrich Volkarin Dragon Age : The Veilguard dev. bioware

[cachien]

da4 really said "you and your love interest can have a son together if you choose! options are skeleton or bird<3" and we collectively all went "my son!!!"

[timethehobo]

Hearing news that he’s confirmed romanceable (and described as intimate and sensual) got me so giddy I might just expire.

[stinkrascal]

hi peepaw

i remade my future video game husband in ts4 🦴🔮 OCTOBER 31 CANNOT COME FAST ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!

[ceo-of-sloppy-men]

I have stayed silent for TOO LONG. I must speak my peace!

They took his fucking bronzer. (and made his mustache bushier)