#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.

[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 🖐

[eldrtchmn]

Grey Warden

[sadmages]

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

[bogprincessofthewest]

Jowan is my bestie

[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.

[vigilskeep]

14 for minerva or keir?

14. your oc talking about your favourite quest

I have trained Warden recruits, but I have not prepared to train anyone so young. It cannot be done the way it was done to me. My son cannot be ignorant the way we were kept ignorant. If he is ever taken from me, and Harrowed, I will have failed him twice if he is blind.

Try to explain this in a way he’ll understand. What do children understand?

Once upon a time there was a mage who lived in a tower. She was powerful, and the templars fear nothing more than power. To test her will, she was sent into a world of strange horrors and strange wonders, the one you see each night in your dreams. She followed the path that the Fade set before her feet, and upon that path, she found a kindly mouse.

With the mouse at her side, she faced many dangers. A spirit of valour challenged her to a duel, and she defeated it. Wolves of the Fade bit at her heels, and she gathered the mouse in her hands to protect it from their fangs. She wished for the mouse to be stronger, for it was only a weak creature, and of little help to a talented mage. In exchange for answers to its riddles three, a demon of sloth taught the mouse to take the form of a mighty bear. Now they could face her test together. They could not fail.

That was her pride.

She thought she had passed the test, and returned to the world, leaving her tower to do great things. But true tests never end. When she came back to the tower, it was broken, and there were so few of the children left to cry. Her father The First Enchanter could not be found. The bodies were everywhere. Flesh bound the walls. A demon captured her, and sent her to the Fade once more. Her friends vanished, and in her despair, there came the mouse. He had been waiting. He had always known a day would come of greater need, when the mage’s own power would fail her. A better time to bargain.

Only his aid could free her form to change as he did, to slip through the gaps and escape this prison. His aid, and her blood, to bind them forever. The mage agreed The mage failed The world needed The mage knew it would be worth it if

Enough. This is too much for him to know. Try again. There’s still time.

[Personal notes found in Warden-Commander Minerva Surana’s grimoire. Written in her customary cipher for illicit or experimental spellwork. Several lesson plans for a young mage follow, written with devotion and care. Some are annotated critically by another hand, offering a sharp Dalish perspective in green ink. Many are stained with small, inky fingerprints, as though they saw use and were briefly left unattended. This page, however, remains pristine.]

[schwarznummer1]

Star-crossed lovers of Kinloch Hold...

[saltyb0ba]

a deep blood moon, a starless night

dark enough to see the light

[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.

[contrivedcoincidences6]

I understand Loghain sympathizers I really do but I just can’t deny Alistair his justice. He’s my baby girl and if he wants to commit legalized murder in a dual I’m going to let him and if he wants me to do it I’m going to do it.

[sweetmage]

Some edits of my blood mage Warden El'la 😀

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