#da4 spoilers //

[fortheloveofsolas]

It's very much like a trauma response. He can not ask anything of Lavellan. Because Mythal asked too much of him. Even in this moment where Lavellan verbally consents, he still lets her have free will to choose to follow. Oh my gosh, my heart 💔😭

EXCUSE ME LOOK AT HOW HE'S LOOKING AT HER WHEN HE'S ABOUT TO LEAVE TO THE FADE. HE WANTS HER TO COME WITH HIM SO BADLY, HE WANTS HER SO BADLY BUT HE KNOWS HE DOESN'T DESERVE TO EVEN ASK THAT.

I'm not ok bye.

[salesart]

lonely soul on fire

[bankabb]

Some doodles of my Rook (Dahlia Ingellvar) and her teammates

[dragon--sage]

thinking about neve and lucanis, during the attacks on treviso and minrathous, both focused on saving their city, but wondering in the back of their mind, will rook show up for me………… and every time one of them waits for a moment that doesn’t come in time……… oh my god i’m fucking sick……..

[taashyvashedan]

And they were right.

Taash isn't a fucking idiot.

Taash out there like: I smell bullshit.

[sirotras]

there are some really cool details just looking around at the environments in veilguard

for example the music room in the lighthouse has:

an inquisition book on the piano bench!

the broken orb from the end of inquisition!

and... cheese?

why is there. so much cheese in the music room? solas?? hello???

[broodwolf221]

also! the companions! have so much depth it's absurd???

harding: we knew her from before, but we still get to see so much more in this game. her personal development from someone who always tried to keep equilibrium, who lies to comfort other people, to relate to them, etc., to someone who can hold her own ground confidently

bellara: she's sweet, of course, but she's also angry and even a bit vicious at times. and she's certainly not weak or just a punchline. she's complex and nuanced, grieving throughout the entire game but in different ways as she goes through her arc. that she's cute and excitable and can be a bit all over the place doesn't negate her brilliance, her skill, her earnest nature, or the frankly brutal edge she has

neve: brilliant, uncompromising, a mage who strikes with a beautiful surgical precision, her home is her heart, her heart is her home. has this lovely noir quality to her, but for all that she's suspicious and wary, she also has fun, she teases, she laughs, she builds bridges. she wears her heart on her sleeve and does it with pride

(i will be talking about the others but it is getting late and i'm fading so if i keep going it'll be like. taash good. which is TRUE. but they are all perfect they are all my new blorbos holds them all in my hands. beloveds.)

[wandrinstar-media]

things I love about veilguard

Rook might just be my favorite dragon age player character. I love what a good friend they are. I love being this character, in all their iterations.

emmrich and manfred volkarin, just literally everything about them both

I can be nonbinary??? in favorite game series??? plus many other trans & queer characters along a realistic spectrum of ideologies and identities??? FUCK YEAH

factions brought back the feel of selecting an origin a little for me. I wish there had been more content related to each *but* I do really like what there is. I do feel this was done better here than in Inquisition.

Speaking of: my real gripe about Inquisition was just a lack of anything feeling unsettling or spooky or urgent in any way. For me, I learned that the horror elements of previous games were essential for it to really feel urgent, necessary, heroic, and like a Dragon Age game *to me*. imo, Veilguard brought spooky back, with everything from blighted D'Meta's Crossing to Zara Renata's bath to Isseya's haunted twisted grief and the griffon tomb etc etc etc - I really feel like this game didn't hide the creepy parts in the codex this time, and while nothing will ever quite make my skin crawl like Hespith's poetry in the dark blighted deep roads, this brings back an element I was surprised to find I really missed. And the 2.5-3 Big Bads (depending on how you view Solas ymmv) of this game are far more interesting and intense than Corypheus ever was.

I like finally getting to see parts of other countries we've only previously heard about, and I *love* that those areas are realistically somewhat different than the rumor and speculation about them in previous games and that each has grown in unique ways since their first codex snippets.

I like to see that most interactive NPCs are being less openly racist / otherwise bigoted in a Dragon Age game, and I don't really get the people who complain about *not* being called knife-ear or whatever every other minute. I feel that budding cultural shift has been building in game for a long time, we're in new areas, many of which do things differently, and it's well explained by the efforts of groups like the Shadow Dragons and Lucerni and all of our Wardens and Hawkes and Inquisitors and several of the companions shaping change in the world for in-game decades. It can be realistic for things to improve. I love how openly hopeful this game is, when made in such dark irl times. It inspires me to more action in reality.

I love that Bellara and Taash are both clearly neurodivergent in wildly different ways. I love that characters who read very clearly as autistic/ADHD/AuDHD are continuing to be included in spite of all the vitriol there was about Sera.

Lucanis being demi (and imo as a demisexual person myself, quite accurately portrayed as such) is lovely and his romance scenes are delightful whether with Rook or Neve.

I love the other relationships that begin when companions aren't romance by Rook (Taash/Harding, Neve/Lucanis, and Emmrich/Strife are all really cute and have great cutscenes and banter.

The faction based specializations are cool as fuck imo

This game gives me more of the found family vibe of earlier games, I missed that.

Davrin & Emmrich arguing about different Being A Dad Strategies

I've put in 275 hours and I'm still finding new content with each playthrough???

Vorgoth.

I'll probably add more but. yeah. good game.

[wandrinstar-media]

lmao agree, but I am SO HERE FOR IT THOUGH. I love dependable designated supportive venting friend Rook. I love how gentle they can be with everyone, and how well this models these characters learning these skills and putting them into practice? 100/10 no notes perfect hero I didn't even know I needed this much tbh

and... I kinda wish we'd gotten more of this from Hawke, especially in regards to getting Anders and Fenris to see eye to eye. I know it could have been possible and that's the hill I'll die on.

But idk, lukewarm mildly unpopular take, I just love to see Thedas actually progress and heal emotionally, given how hard all the heroes we've already played have worked to better it. It feels right, to me.

Watching the healthy conflict resolution in newer Dragon Age games is crazy because it used to be the little things that would tear your found family apart. If Alistair had told Morrigan that water is wet she would have probably just straight up killed him. The Amell Estate could be spewing furniture out of shattered windows and unholy screams might be emanating from inside and some tired NPC would be like "yeah the spirit healer told the lyrium warrior that a hot dog is a sandwich again."

[homey-comb]

This is my favorite line delivery by far 😭

[storybookhawke]

Lucanis by Candlelight Dragon Age: The Veilguard ー companions (17 / ∞)

[fortheloveofsolas]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard ending spoiler - Theory below

I find it very interesting that even a romanced Lavellan couldn't quite convince Solas to drop his plans. ONLY when Mythal releases him from his duties, can Solas make that step. What are your thoughts on how much free will Solas actually had in being bound to duty?

[random-fangirl003]

Feels like we might be seeing this come to fruition in a future game. They seem to have been hinting at it for a while now. Isn't Falon'din the elvhen god of death or something? I could see him playing a part in this. A corruption of an attempt to stay death's hand or even persuade the dead to obey him through possession of some kind. I think it'd be an interesting plot for a future game- I don't think Veilguard actually ever says what happened to the other members of the Evanuris, and we've already seen on Forgotten One, so seeing this in another game would tie in well.

Hey so what the fuck is up with Zara feeding people demon’d meat to force possession

[whitepawart]

✨he didn’t want a body✨

i haven’t made anything in so long but this was a lot of fun

(i say, my heart broken and tears in my eyes)

[andrewknightley]

because veilguard doesn't mention anything about tranquility, there is no way to do the connection of "if titans are the first tranquils, then maybe the cure is something similar?" and to talk about the possibility of solas touching a titan's mind or something. like maybe it wouldnt work for X or Y but at least we will have the conversation.

[transpathfinder]

okay in my esteemed authority as a lucanismancer acknowledging we have the most annoying fanbase, it seems the second most annoying fanbase are emmrichmancers who are soo anti-lichdom. i liked a few emmrich romance posts and then tumblr was reccing so many other posts by those who hate the idea of him being a lich, calling it selfish or disgusting and being mad he'll outlive rook, potentially finding another partner, etc, when of course, lichdom is his lifelong dream and has a lot of themes of nobleness in service, archiving, respecting, and protecting culture, in nevarra

there must be emmrichmancers who chose the lichdom path romance, i know it. i wish they were more outspoken (or maybe i just haven't seen any on my dash) and i'd love to see their ideas more on this love. it's the choice i chose for him, and found it very fulfilling and whole. but almost all emmrichmancers i've seen tumblr reccing me sound childish as f about it being the ''bad'' choice, getting their undies in a twist about it and they're the ones more vocal about it when lich!emmrich is so rich with love, respect, and faith, in the concepts history, the dead, knowledge.. there's a sacred reverence to it that blind childish lichdom haters do not seem to want to engage in conversation with i'm just irritated every time i see some bs on my dash