#datv lb

[magebastard]

they took an edible approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes before arriving at the cobbled swan

thread to reblog w screenshots bc i am replaying ty ty

[bellara-lutare]

sorry for the haterism but this genuinely pisses me off, pre release the devs went on and on how oh import choices don't matter cause the south doesn't matter cause we didn't wanna invalidate anyone's personal canons only for the game to come out and be like lol jk the south as you know it is completely gone

[antibioware]

HEY AREN'T YOU FORGETTING SOMETHING ELSE YOU DID THAT WAS IMPORTANT. SOMETHING VERY RELEVANT. SOMETHING YOU HAD A CHILD ABOUT. AREN'T YOU FORGETTING THAT

[mugenloopdalove]

Burhan screenshot dump (more in rbs)

[heinrix]

[jalopeura]

woefully few hairstyles with bangs or any kind of hair obscuring the face in this game huh

[momspren]

Second conversation with Solas, if you were rude to him the first time you get this little notification of "Solas remembers you accused him of wanting to unleash demons on the world" which is just the funniest little thing to me. Local petty bitch is petty, more at 11

[wizardfvcker]

im back in the fucking building again

[niriaveil]

here are my thoughts on veilguard final mission(s):

davrin and assan dying. sanity broke.

bellara getting kidnapped by elgar'nan. santiy broke.

getting stuck in the fade while dealing with bellara being gone and davrin being Dead Dead with our griffon son and then they tell me that varric's been dead this whole time. sanity at critical broke levels.

but i love how much varric impacted rook. i thought that his lines in the infirmary constantly were a bit off and how he never seemed to heal - i figured something was going on. i didn't realize solas was actively manipulating our consciousness to make it seem like varric didn't die.

i just wish someone loved varric as much as he loved others man.

i was critical sanity levels. we were on the "im gonna kms" level of despair.

but then lucanis and inés finally kissed and had sex so we were so fucking back.

me, at this point, slamming my hands on the desk: WE LIVE FOR ANOTHER DAY AND I AVENGE MY FRIENDS.

also I sprinted to the pantry to talk to him post this and:

Lucanis: Caterina sent me a vintage bottle of port to mark my ascension as First Talon. Lucanis: I planned to share it with Davrin. With Assan at our feet... Rook: I'll miss them, too. Lucanis: We will have to settle for stopping Elgan'nan. And carving Davrin's name into his blighted heart. Rook: You sound a bit like... Lucanis: Spite? Perhaps. Lucanis: I thought I'd lost you, Rook. All I had left was the fight. Rook: I'm here. For you. Lucanis: Then that is all I need.

also I'm just thinking about his scene pre-Elgan'nan fight and, "Tell me this ends with me asleep in your arms, and I will kill any god you ask." thank you baby. thank you. we love a service man.

anyway. we killed bitch boy. i also unlocked secret ending accidentally and let me tell you i wish i had imported Velyna instead of Relihn because I feel like that would've had more impact, since Relihn and Solas were like. just normal friends. not really close or anything. they were just dudes. so Relihn being like "help me save the world again?" I was like ........ this wouldve been so much better with Velyna and their past romance LMFAOOOO

anyway. it was good. ALSO EXECUTORS COMING INTO PLAY???????? A LITTLE BIT INSANE.

[mycenaae]

rook feels very much like a hawke-type or even warden-type character in the sense of it seems like they're just some asshole who got stuck in this somehow, more than an inquisitor-type character on a holy quest or whatever, which i am always up for. the music slaps. welcome back changing between weapon sets (thank god). almost entirely convinced that this is the game where they kill varric.

[symphorine]

as i go through my second playthrough, i want to catalogue things i find interesting. this will be full of spoilers. im gonna tag it as #davg lb, so you can mute that if you're not interested. they'll prob be pretty long.

i've just finished the prologue with beryl and am now exploring the lighthouse for the first time. i did remember it was in much less impressive shape, but not quite how much. besides some areas not being accessible yet, there is a lot of debris and seemingly dead trees, and the lighting is less warm, more like a cloudy day (keeping in mind i upped the gamma for my game and i thiiiink photomode pics keep that in?).

i also took some screenshots of the room you wake up in, and where varric is for the rest of the game. i find it interesting that it does appear stocked, presumably with some pharmaceutic stuff as that's where harding stands to look for elfroot (and where we were put to recover). four beds - did we all sleep here at first? when did harding and neve find their little areas had activated, so to speak? how did that happen? also bianca on the bedside table near varric, with candles... is this another thing only we see, or did harding and neve set it up as some sort of makeshift shrine? actually, do they see the fourth bed? i have so many logistics questions about this.

the library. also in worse shape, debris, disorder, the not yet upgraded floating core, but overall still pretty solid. it makes sense, with it being where the core is housed, that it would be what holds its own shape best? but still. clearly in a state of disuse and neglect.

solas lived here, at least for some time during the ten years varric & co chased after him, and presumably, because he mentions both lightouse and eluvians in our first dialogue with him (just before this), has been here recently. we'll find the secret side room in a bit and i'll see if it also starts in a pretty sorry state.

did solas just not take care of it - it seems he's acting alone now, none of his numerous elven folloers mentioned in Trespasser in sight, so he had no reason to maintain a larger space? or did the lighthouse degrade immediately when he was trapped in the fade prison, which seems to be another closed portion of the fade, similar to what the lighthouse is in that sense? how much is it connected to solas?

a few other quick shots for fun i took of the hallway out of the infirmary and during the prologue. i think the environments are my favorite thing about the game tbh.

also, a codex you find under neve's room.

On Divine Imperatives The Helm of the Solar is destroyed. Elgar'nan's favorite torture is over; too many agents have been rescued with their minds burnt out by that memory of an enraged sun. I feel a lesson here. The Helm was not created to torment. But the Evanuris are not as we are. A god's ruminations carry their own will, and imperatives. Memory bleeds into their icons and transmutes them, as fire begets fire. For our Wolf-Lord, who puts so much of himself into his creations - what imperatives do they carry? The heart of a rebellion must remain hidden, yet the light of divinity is uncontainable. We must be swift. A thought linger: Even as he saves us, what does he impart upon us? Reflections by Shirahn, One Who Renounced Daern'thal

just found it interesting! also daern'thal was a forgotten one. not that we didn't know solas freed slaves from forgotten ones and evanuris both, but the forgotten ones feel like such an afterthought besides a couple of times in the game (basically just... bellara's companion storyline, iirc?), i just thought it was noteworthy. also interesting musings from the author esp in conjunction with what we learn of ancient elves later (they used to be spirits, and it's hinted that as such they still carried the characteristics of identifying strongly with a specific emotion and its counterpart. are they some of the imperatives the author alludes to? what about "Memory bleeds into their icons"? i think what is in this codex is more literal than metaphorical, but still).

also "Even as he saves us, what does he impart upon us?" is obviously a big theme with Solas. i played as an elf my first playthrough and it felt even more relevant, and i wish we could argue with solas more about it. although i suppose the idea of his character here is that he will stay stubborn and commited until the very end no matter what. he believes he is right, and that he needs to take the veil down, but also very much that it is For The Good Of The Elven People. he thinks he IS saving them, but what does that come with? he thinks the price is worth it. also "his creations" - what creations? is the lighthouse one? what else?

obviously he is ostensibly doing it For Elves (or at least it's what he says and how he gathers followers in Trespasser), but he did also consistently say that the current elves are not his people in DAI, and detaches himself from them in this game also (cant recall the exact dialogue tho). they seem more like a convenient excuse than truly the cause he is championning. the veil matters more because it was His Big Mistake than for the consequences it had, if that makes sense.

[magebastard]

she!!!! is depressed!!!!!!

[bellara-lutare]

bit of haterism but sometimes it's really really really obvious that this was originally supposed to be a mmorpg that was later repurposed into a single player game

[antibioware]

ok but this is literally the copy of the prothean AIs from the Mass Effect trilogy

[mugenloopdalove]

Yaaaaaaaaas

[heinrix]

testing out mage to see how it plays and mannn i like my guy sm!