#crow age

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

craving pathetic wet old women characters. where is the feminism

[acorviart]

tiny crow

[ruushes]

a quick Him bc my math was off trying to figure out the timeline between games and it made me irl a little emotional to think about him turning 50

[olessan]

uh oh. oh boy. oh boys, even

[anam-mana]

The thing I’m actually worried about writing wise with Dragon Age: The Veilgurad, is how unaddressed or back tracks they’re going to be about the Crows.

This is an organization that bought children, stored them in the attic of an abandoned factory stuffed with children, made those children fight eachother for scraps to earn their way into the organization that bought them, and then literally tortured them as young adults to teach them how not to reveal crow secrets if they were captured and tortured on the missions later.

Origins draws very strong comparisons to how the MO of both the templars and the crows is most often buying and indoctrinating small children as young as they can find them to become on demand killers for their own purposes. Zevran is hunted and almost killed were it not for a befriended warden when he shows the slightest signs of being something other than obedient crow property.

But here a teaser with an antivan crow saying that the crows “fight for everyone and we always will” and Lucanis is over here being like “Oh I’m a crow and I kill Venatori slavers as my fav target, hate them,” kinda thing, while being the closest thing the crows have to a prince being the favourite grandson of one of the talons.

I just have a feeling like they’re going to heavily sanitize the crows and try to make us go “they’re cool heroic freedom fighters” rather than. Not, they bought Zevran as a child, tortured him, kept him in cramped, crowded, dirty conditions, made him fight for scraps to stay alive, and taught him to murder targets given to him on pain of death and use his sexuality as a tool to do so to the degree that he has a trauma response in origins where he snaps about feeling like a sex object.

Like, no doubt I’m gonna love Lucanis. Loved him in the stories too. A mage whose magic manifests as “the fade makes my eyes itchy and I prefer to stab” and also targets imperialists and slavers specifically? Yeah. Awesome premise! Bit if there’s no moment of “you love the crows because you were in the extremely privelege position of being born into a high power family within the leadership while other members were bought and indoctrinated as child soldiers and it’s not all freedom fighting and cool assassin fun times” I’m gonna be very disappointed

[larkoneironaut]

Lucanis "Demon" Dellamorte just made you coffee and breakfast with lots of amore 🤌🏽

[disarmonia]

My new Lucanis Dellamorte 🖤💜 for people who have taste.

[plusie]

[tahopo]

this guy brought a gun to a blight

[andarateia]

If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading BioWare's free Dragon Age short stories released ahead of The Veilguard between 2020-2022. Each story focuses on a faction that will be featured in the game (e.g., Antivan Crows, Grey Wardens, Mortalitasi, Shadow Dragons, Veil Jumpers - unfortunately, there isn't a short story about the Lords of Fortune) and the characters in these stories may even turn up as faction agents in The Veilguard 👀

[proffbon]

Viago: Rook, last time you 'did things your way' you fucked up a major Crow operation. What went wrong this time?

Rook, trying to think of a way to tell about two blighted elven gods they accidentally released:

[fah-ren-heit]

very interested in if we’ll get to see any fun little interactions involving mr. solas “i’ve taken precautions to minimize the damage” fen’harel and mr. lucanis “i deliberately stabbed the fuck out of an elven artifact in the hopes that it would weaken the veil and allow for a localized demon riot” dellamorte. like. solas tells rook about these little orbs that help strengthen the veil, rook passes that information along to their crew, and lucanis is like oh yeah i know about those. fucking obliterated one once. and solas has an aneurysm.

[pixxiecup]

black bird / crow stimboard !!!!!!!!1

[ 🐦‍⬛ 🗝️ 🪶 / 🐦‍⬛ 🗝️ 🪶 / 🐦‍⬛ 🗝️ 🪶 ]

[lelianasbong]

OH BOY, ANTIVAN CROW FACTION IN VEILGUARD CAN'T WAI--

"You mean you want to hear about the grueling training? Being locked in an oubliette for weeks at a time? The slavery? The festering injuries? Or are we seeking something more glamorous?"

"I was never given much of a choice regarding joining the Crows. They bought me on the slave market when I was a child. (...) I was but a boy of seven when I was purchased. For three sovereigns, I'm told."

"The Crows knew what we had done. The master who disliked me told me so to my face. He said the Crows knew... and they didn't care. And one day my turn would come. (...) I felt empty. I felt as if I was nothing. I felt as if she had been nothing."

"You once asked why I wanted to leave the Crows. In truth, what I wanted was to die."

[doraingrid]

Lucanis Dellamorte

Rogue, antivan crow, walking dumpster fire.

[larkoneironaut]

POV: You’re on a date with Zevran Arainai 🍷