#circle mage origin

[absyntheartref]

── Dymitr Amell, Battle of Denerim, 9:31 Dragon ──

"When I was sixteen, I won a great victory. I felt in that moment I would live to be a hundred. Now I know I shall not see thirty." - King Baldwin IV, Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

[bumblewarden]

Btw if "Thedas" is just "The DA s(etting)", i fully believe that "Surana" comes almost as directly from "Surname" and they just altered the end to make it sound more like a name

[therookandthecrow]

If he wasn't the "Hero" of Ferelden, I think that Mathalin Surana would be considered a villain easily. I think that his campaign as the Warden can be easily called Dragon Age: Villain Origins, as he bids for the chancellorship of Ferelden, a country which he has no love for, as an Orlesian.

Take an elf with a Napoleon complex [technically, he is 5' 9" which was the same height that Napoleon had, and a certain painter from Austria], and have him write about his 'my struggle' while in the prison that is a Mage circle in most of Thedas, and give him the chance to grab power for himself.

The next step is to give him a position in an organization where morality is thrown out the window in the name of having to stop a blight, and you've got a villain origin story. He's an ends justify the means sort of person, just as Anders is.

Mathalin sides with Branka in the Deep Roads, he puts Bhaelen on the throne in Orzammar, he lets Avernus continue his experiments without ethical boundaries just as he was before. Not only that, but he recruits Loghain Mac Tir into the Grey Wardens. Furthermore, he sides with the Architect in Awakening, but at least he is beautiful.

The cherry on top, is that he finds blood magic to be not only a-okay to use, but he believes that it is only feared due to the sensibilities of Chantry folk. His views on necromancy are more or less the same.

[eliphasgraham]

Jowan walked so that Morrigan/Anders/Solas and all the sneaky mages assholes of Thedas ( i love them all so much ) could RUN

[sweetmage]

Click for full res!💐

Some doodles of Leticia, one of my wardens. She's Sebastian older sister (by about 7 or 8 years) who was was sent to the circle when he was still a baby. He grew up thinking that she died and was never told differently.

Leticia, on the other hand, was not privy to this cover up and believed that she may one day be reunited with her family and that that they still loved and missed her. It would only be many years after their murder that she finally learned the truth.

Also, in my canon she was actually an enchanter. To a degree she enjoyed her life in the Circle, if only for the opportunity to learn and her privilege to guide other mages to accept and appreciate their magic, despite the world around them insisting it was a curse. She was not entirely sad to leave though.

[eldrtchmn]

Grey Warden

[abyssal-ilk]

no more romance. romance is canceled. tell me about your warden/hawke/inquisitor's best friend and any info you want to add about their dynamic 🖐

[sadmages]

Canon worldstate line-up <3 Varis Tabris, Fin Hawke, and Florian Travelyan.

[wesslesprout]

Wynne being named after Langwynne in Bannorn and Anders from the Anderfells has me emotional in a certain sort of way because these mages are taken away so young, given a name of a place they can never remember, a home they never had and its almost cruel mocking that their identity is taken from them and then given back as their most identifiable feature.

[bogprincessofthewest]

Jowan is my bestie

[schwarznummer1]

Star-crossed lovers of Kinloch Hold...

[saltyb0ba]

a deep blood moon, a starless night

dark enough to see the light

[far-butter]

Aww, my precious loser boy who needs a hug 🥺🥺

I love his design, it's both like an improved version of the game, but it also brings some new vibe. I appreciate the fact we collectively agree this man can't shave properly and also wavy hair rocks!

warm-up painting of Jowan

[therookandthecrow]

Out of all four of what I consider my canon playthroughs of Dragon Age, there is only one heterosexual romance, and that one is between a repressed bisexual witch of the wilds and a confidently bisexual blood mage who definitely could and should be trusted to end Fifth Blight.

With that being said, I headcanon that Morrigan gave him permission to sleep with Loghain as well, so long as he sleeps with no other women than her. With that said, he told Morrigan just as well that he wouldn't hold her back from other women so long as he was her only man.

While Morrigan and Mathalin spent some years together raising their son after the Blight, when Morrigan got her position in the court of Empress Celene and when Mathalin went on a search for a cure for the Calling. He admired Avernus and thus spared him, and let him continue his research without ethical boundaries.

Loghain turned into an awkward godfather figure of sorts who'd visit their family occasionally, and actually they were far more functional than one would have thought them to be. I personally like to think that they had one more child together after Inquisition.

However, he left that choice entirely Morrigan's because like her, he was happy with them just having Kieran. His relationship with Alistair never got any better, and the resentment that the King of Ferelden held for his shadow chancellor and one time fellow Warden never mellowed.

[aceghosts]

Meet My Rook: Warden Zalan Thorne

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[sweetmage]

Some edits of my blood mage Warden El'la 😀

[El'la uses any/all pronouns btw!]