#dalish art

[pennabeast]

While digging through the DA wiki I found a cool little tidbit from a Merrill side quest- Keepers and Firsts have sylvanwood rings depicting Fen'Harel tricking the Creators. I thought that was neat so I drew what I imagined it could look like.

[chanafehs]

Sweet dreams and elven lullabies

[sinizade]

Merrill - Dragon Age 2

[anikorsmthnidk]

Ma vhenan

[saturdaysky]

Gale of Minrathous

Dragon Age AU where Gale is a Tevinter magister who accidentally infected himself with red lyrium. He's found a way to halt the lyrification. Mostly.

More tidbits:

Devout Andrastian with a bit of Leliana's "the Maker speaks to me" thing going, except it's "Andraste—so obviously a mage btw, I have 5000 words prepared and ready to go on this topic—sings to me, magic prodigy"

"therefore I am sure to be the one to unlock the secrets of this powerful, strange new lyrium that is singing to m—oh. golly. that went poorly"

joins the inquisition after he emerges from isolation and his former peers have all become Venatori. If his own folly has emptied the sand from his hourglass, why not spend the little time that remains to him serving Andraste's chosen?

0 moral qualms about blood magic except that all participants must be willing. All magic is neutral—its use determines whether it is good or bad

Tara is his possessed cat, who has lived far longer than a cat should, but Gale isn't complaining. who says abominations can't like chin scritches

talks about Minrathous, a lot

would break open the heavens to see the throne of the Maker, just for the experience

Final AU thoughts under the cut!

what the magisterium doesn't want you to see:

the staff that I know, deep in my heart, Gale uses and insists is artistic:

[guminami]

snowy dalish 🐇

edit: i’ve removed the reference because it ended up being ai :/ please stop sending me asks about this, i didn’t know at the time of drawing it and i already feel bad enough about not noticing on my own.

[mynqzo]

valarin the totally not blood mage

[pinacoladamatata]

blink and you'll miss it moments around skyhold....

[forystr]

🌲fenesvir lavellan, wolf of the dales🌲 redraw of (x)

[sevrinve]

shapeshifter lavellan and her dreadwolf husband

[ayamikasai]

Queening The Pawn

Commission for @westlywheatly 🫶✨

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[pennabeast]

The Vir Tanadhal is a Dalish philosophy espoused by a clan's hunters in the spirit of the elven goddess of the hunt, Andruil. It teaches young Dalish hunters to respect nature and be resolute in purpose.

Vir Assan, the Way of the Arrow: fly straight and do not waver or alternatively, be swift and silent, strike true, and do not waver.

Vir Bor'assan, the Way of the Bow: as the sapling bends, so must you. In yielding, find resilience; in pliancy, find strength.

Vir Adahlen, the Way of the Forest: receive the gifts of the hunt with mindfulness,

A signet ring commonly worn by Dalish clan hunt masters. Because raw crafting materials such as ore difficult to obtain and precious to wandering clans, simple jewelry is often made from wood like sylvanwood and ironbark.

Meta and sources below.

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Bottom text concerning crafting is personal headcanon. I figure that elvish crafters are incredibly adept at carving intricate details into particularly hard wood. I make this assumption based on the fact that Merrill possesses a sylvanwood ring carved with a scene from Dalish lore that theoretically has enough characters in it that it would require incredible skill to put into wood.

Dalish art has to be portable and serve a purpose so it does not add undue clutter and weight on an aravel, so I think the best examples of art they have are found as decoration on worn things like clothing (tailoring, embroidery, weaving), jewelry (jewelcrafting, woodworking, smithing), containers (weaving, pottery, tailoring, leatherworking), aravels (carpentry, woodworking, painting, leatherworking), and equipment (leatherworking, smithing, embroidery, woodworking, carpentry). Other examples would include votive figurines, musical instruments, toys, and rugs.

You can find another example of Dalish art I've experimented with in my dalish art tag.

[captaintweet]

Let's take ibuprofen together

[pickelda]

some outfits: warm casual // hunting

[feeshies]

Ariane and Finn redraw

[drathe]

Davrin - the Warden