#da:tvg

[dilapidatedanchor]

[ocular-intercourse]

sure thing, will do 🫡

[higheverweave]

Honestly as long as veilguard doesn’t negate anything im cool I’m just worried that accidentally things will be negated and or none of the decisions we will make as Rook will matter either

they xed everything from the first three games do you really think they’ll be like yeah but DA4 is the one with choices we will bother to keep?

Like even life or death stakes were erased stakes are essential for it to feel like it matters (Stakes are what gives any piece of media interest.)

I think I would have liked it alot better if they did the first three games as Dragon age and set this in Thedas but as some other thing…

Like as long as nothing is directly negated I’m still interested story-wise…

[ageofthedragon]

Also! If this ends up being Harding's room, I hope we get to spend some time in the jacuzzi with her 👀

[higheverweave]

Rook to Solas:

So the inquisitor is your ex?….

… how did you drop the ball that badly?

I mean … c’mon Most people in Thedas would never dream of letting her go…

But just so we are clear she is single right?….

RooK @ Lavellan In front of Solas:

i need veilguard squad & solas to be the funniest involuntary roommates ever

[dreadfutures]

handy dandy DA4 spoiler tag filter list

are you trying to keep your eyes shut about anything and everything da4?

this list of filtered tags and filtered post content has kept every even tangentially related DA4 post hidden on my dash.

so i'm sharing it to help others out

veilguard

veilguard spoilers

veilguard summer

dav

davg

da4

da:vg

datv

da:tv

dragon age 4

dragon age veilguard

da4 spoilers

datvg

da:tvg

da:tv spoilers

datv spoilers

dav spoilers

da4 critical

Like I said, this is my list, and the only time anything has made it through my filters it's because the OP didn't tag their post with anything at all 👎even though I personally have been consuming spoilers and revealing the filtered posts on my dash, i have kept the filters on since early summer in preparation of release.

hopefully this helps someone!

Please note, when you reblog this:

Telling your followers what your specific tag is, especially if it's ON this list already, isn't particularly helpful. People who want to avoid spoilers should add all of these tags to the list, and if yours is already on here, it will already be filtered!

If you have a bespoke tag, let your followers know. If you have a tag that's not on this list, let them know. If your tag is already on this list, they should have blocked it - and you should encourage them to block the rest.

Another note:

Nothing can be done about spelling errors when people are tagging things. If someone tags something as vileguard, instead of veilguard, it will not be filtered. But by having multiple content words filtered, especially: the names of companions and villains, you will ideally be able to block out 99% of posts that are even tangentially referring to the game, even if it isn't tagged properly.

[veiljumping]

needless to say, but: reblog!!

[glamfellens]

everyone is talking about da:tvg discourse and i feel like Troy coming back into the room with the pizza

[higheverweave]

Resharing considering

Ghilhanains flying fleshsacks from the Wiessaupht clips

Just sayin

wtf is that… looks like those fleshy sacks from Origins/Awakening

[gwah--ren]

bro we should get a group together and all watch the gameplay trailer for da:tvg..

omg...... your mind..

[ocular-intercourse]

babe i love you but we gotta have a talk about your nug statue

[thenerasanethara]

So, in all the previous games, you can go talk to people w/o cutscenes and have interesting little conversations. They talk to YOU and about you sometimes, too. There's interest that is reciprocal.

In DA:TVG, you get this sense that Rook keeps stumbling on the others in the midst of their interpersonal relationships. They don't talk to Rook about Rook, they talk to Rook about how they feel, their doubts, fears - and there's not a lot of variation. Otherwise, you're interrupting something, constantly.

Rook is the 3rd wheel. Rook isn't part of the conversation - and I don't mean they aren't centered in all the conversations, I mean they're secondary almost always. It makes the romances feel really weird - almost as though Rook is pushing for it and the other person is reluctant.

In previous games, you got back and forth - a more balanced conversational interaction that let you feel like you were engaged with the companions or other characters. And that those characters care about you and your opinions. That's what I feel is lacking in DA:TVG. Everything is very focused on the companions themselves (and they're extremely repetitive - I know Davrin is worried about Assan, but there are other concerns, surely?) Anyway, that's my take on it. It feels like Rook is just the manager, the boss, the therapist, getting everything 2nd hand.

HR department romance plots

I just… beyond the surface level of enjoying a new game with new relationship dynamics to explore, I really can’t feel much about the DAV companions or their romances.

They all just seem so disconnected from the story, from Rook (who in turn is entirely disconnected from all kinds of feelings because Rook is just Employee Of the Year), from the world, from themselves. I feel like Cole here, looking at them and saying in my gentle, fleeting voice: even the dwarves don’t really remember dwarves. It really feels like the interpersonal relationships are written by the HR person who sits with you as union rep to tell you that you should use a positive language, that "we are all simply employees here, it doesn't matter what title you have", give a little pep talk about teamwork and how to get the job done. That's what we're here for. Everyone's equal. We all want the same thing here, your boss is your friend. Have you tried talking to this person, see their side of things, mmmm? It's just... yeah, they're cute, all of them. But why do they like each other? Why do they want to be with Rook? Who are they even in relation to the world of Thedas, what do they believe in, what have they overcome, what do they hate, what sort of prejudices do they carry around? I have no idea.

And since I’m also replaying DAI again, I wanted to compare these romances to my canon romances in DAI.  With Blackwall, you immediately get a sense of attraction and a sort of flirting on his part that suggests this is something he falls into quite easily - “you know a lot about girls” to quote Cole - BUT it’s also something he really, really thinks he shouldn’t be doing now. Why? He is tied to the Warden plot, if you bring him along you get a sense of a man hiding shit but you don’t really understand what, and he still comes to see you (flying/climbing up your balcony wall idk) because he can’t step away. You get to tell him he’s a good man even though you know shit about that at this point, like with Anders in DA2 you can give your PC over to this passion/love despite knowing that there’s something off, something potentially harmful or dangerous. There is conflict, there are things that jar, that can even make you uncomfortable. 

Blackwall as a character is open and compassionate. He approves of mercy, shows mercy, he isn't judgmental of others. In sharp and delicious contrast Blackwall’s crime is vile. He isn’t bound by any sort of oath, he can back down, there is no greater good whatsoever in his actions. It’s inexcusable. And yet. YET. You can CONTINUE THE ROMANCE. He killed a wagon full of kids, THEN RAN AWAY AND LET HIS MEN TAKE THE BLAME and hates himself so much that he tries to become someone else by erasing his previous self from the face of the earth. You can still kiss him and tell him you want him to live and redeem himself. It’s fucking incredible to think about this in the light of Veilguard actually. Your LI, the child murdering coward. 

With Iron Bull you have the doubts all spread out on the table. He’s a spy, how could you ever trust him? He also doesn’t respond to your flirting, why the hell not when you hear through ambient dialogue that he’s fucking half the chantry, isn’t he supposed to be a fuckboy? But he’s fun, he’s a mystery, he’s got fascinating banter with everyone, he’s brought his found family along, he’s a Qunari who at least somewhat believes in the Qun - he’s got AMAZING conversations with Solas that characterizes Bull as deeply intelligent (and Solas as much more caring than he’d let on) and knowledgeable about surprising things like architecture. Cole, as always, gives us more insight into Bull’s mind along the way and even before the offer to ride the Bull, the idea of him has been through some adjustments. You change his idea about a lot of things and in return, Bull challenges your idea of him, your idea of the Qun, your idea of the world and possibly, depending on how you react to his romance, your idea of intimate relationships. The game’s writing allowed me to imagine a rather frumpy circle mage in her mid 30s reluctantly forming a friendship with this strange fellow, only to find herself very much attracted to him, only to find herself being cared for in a way she would never have let anyone do before simply because Bull told her that was the only way he’d be with her. This is how we’ll do it, are you in? Your LI, the service top Qunari spy who is terrified he’ll run mad without his belief system to dictate his actions. 

And Solas. I mean mythical love stories culminating in mythical endings aside, what I really fell for in this relationship was the refreshing dynamic not of enemies to lovers but of two souls just sort of connecting instantly during strange events, taking a few hard looks at each other and going oh shit it’s you, you get me HOW is it possible you get me when nobody else does? There’s so much external drama surrounding them, which is why I personally LOVE and ADORE how calm their internal connection actually is. They know, so early in the game, that this is it. You’re my home, you understand the bones of me, you ask questions no one else thinks of asking, you care about the world in a way I haven’t seen anyone else do. He is LITERALLY the only one who understands your Lavellan when they make her the herald, when she protests and they keep pushing and pulling and sing their song after Haven, and Solas is there to be sarcastic about it. If nothing else, I'd fall in love with that. And there’s this sense of impossibility from the very beginning, a sense of it being almost unreal because the first kiss is in the Fade, the second is in a frenzy where Solas goes from 0 to I LOVE YOU, MY HEART and then leaves and you know, you know how this is coded and YET - he seemed so wise and kind and sad, it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth. And even with this connection of souls, things chafe - he’s an absolute bastard about certain things, he mocks your heritage and you don’t know yet that it’s because a huge guilt blanket rests on top of him since thousands of years back, you can just argue back and receive his disapproval. He says it’s selfish of him to start anything with you yet he does - WHY DO YOU DO THAT, SAD EGG? Your LI, the ancient god of rebellion, treachery and lies, depending on the story. 

Even beyond my favourites, there are conflicts. Sera is A LOT (affectionate) if you're an elf, with Cullen you get a substance abuse story-line tied to his general dismay about his past as a really fucked up templar, Dorian has personal trauma and cultural prejudice he struggles with for the entire game, Vivienne is so complex half the fandom hates her and has very awkward and uncomfortable banters with almost everyone (save for Bull because he treats her like he would a tamassran), Cassandra is constantly challenged in her personal beliefs, very clearly reflected in her conversations with Solas and Cole has a whole personal plotline about deeply existentialist matters. What does it mean to be alive? Who is a person and who gets to decide that? He could have been a person, Varric says. Isn't he already? Does this unit have a soul? Not to mention that Cole functions chiefly as a speaker of truths, bringing a lot of complexity to the others. 

DAI is not perfect by any means but I feel like I know these bastards. I feel like my PC or even I could actively dislike some of them, because they are written to create dynamic conflicts inside and outside of their own arcs. I can write fic about them, I can imagine what they're doing during the events of DAV because I know them.

Because they are written like actual people in a world where some people have power over others and some people have been raised with a certain belief system and some people just have shitty takes on society, may they learn. 

[calperna]

a TLDR on calpernia as a member of rook's party / a shadow dragon contact ! - EARLY GAME DA:TVG SPOILERS ! nothing endgame, nothing beyond the first act. ( this will be serving as a momentary about page )

BASE WORLDSTATE WILL ASSUME TWO THINGS ; that no matter how the inquisitor sided in the mage - templar war, calpernia was encountered as leader of the venatori - - - and that the inquisitor discovered corypheus' plans for calpernia to serve as a vessel and managed to convince her to confront him.

that confrontation went as expected and left calpernia nearly dead. she survived and was saved by some of her loyal venatori. calpernia was ferried away & took with her the majority of corypheus' venatori forces, who were more loyal to the woman who freed them from slavery than the creature who would have seen her rendered a mindless vessel of power.

this confrontation cost her her right leg & left her recovering for a long while. she and her loyal venatori returned to tevinter to lay low after the defeat of corypheus by the inquisition. currently has an impressive looking magical prosthetic leg & uses a cane that doubles as an arcane focus in combat.

with the continuing goal of reshaping tevinter by any means necessary, a name change was in order - venatori was rather ruined, especially as many calling themselves that had veered wildly away from calpernia's goal of destroying & reshaping tevinter. THE SHADOW DRAGONS was selected as calpernia struck up an odd and mostly uncomfortable truce with maevaris tilani & dorian pavus, among others. she thought the two and their idea of the lucerni to be foolish and soft-hearted, but their clout was useful while it lasted.

spent the ten years between world ending cataclysms building the shadow dragons. their focus remains anti-slavery, aiding and freeing those caught in the terror of it, but calpernia often has to be stopped from delving into more drastic action against the imperium on multiple occasions by so-called cooler heads. suffice to say multiple assassination plans for the archon have been quashed by her fellow shadow dragon leaders. cowards.

joins the veilguard when the city choice is made. her questline largely consists of either encouraging her to spend her time and effort on protecting the people of dock town or taking down the leadership of tevinter. the others being slow to trust is expected, considering her ... checkered past.

[sourcrown]

hey, hey veilguard? Hey, could you please put in all the environmental story-telling like in the previous games? Why the fuck are there SO MANY MESSAGE BOARDS WE CAN’T READ

[storybookhawke]

in general, I'm worried about missing posts because of the different tagging conventions for this game. The title isn't as simple and straightforward as DAO, DA2, DAI. I've seen...

DAVG

DATV

DATVG

DAV

DA:VG

DA:TV

DA:TVG

DA:V

Dragon Age: Veilguard

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Dragon Age Veilguard

Dragon Age The Veilguard

-trudges through mispelled tag pages because people keep tagging "emmerich" and "lucianis"-

[ocular-intercourse]

/our/ half-bird, half-cat kid, this man is killing me