#dav codex

[sky--phantom]

Lucanis' love of wyverns

[mohntilyet]

"for the chance to be by your side i would storm the black city itself. never doubt it" "let me make a promise to you here. i dream you will say yes" "tell me this ends with me asleep in your arms, and i will kill any god you ask" can we hear it for the antivans!!!!!!!! can we PLEASE hear it for the antivans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ellie-writes-games]

Spite Wants To Set A Flame

Lucanis (and by extension, Spite) have been helping Bellara with her romance novel. Flowery language and smut metaphors lead Spite to some surprising conclusions.

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As someone on the autism spectrum, I remember struggling with interpreting metaphor as a young person A LOT. As soon as it was introduced in Veilguard that Bellara was writing some smutty fanfiction, the first thoughts I had were "Oh, the neurospicy gang is gonna struggle." (Mainly Taash and Spite.)

This is fanfiction written by me, @ellie-writes-games. These are NOT actual screenshots from the game. Peace, love, and mad props to the DA writers.

[shivunin]

Rook Codex Writing Prompts

A list of 30 writing prompts inspired by other DA codex prompt lists. Contains no plot spoilers for Veilguard.

A letter to Rook about their exile

An entry from Rook’s journal

A letter from Rook to someone in their faction

A note from a companion to Rook about the Lighthouse

A conversation overheard between Rook and a companion

Healer’s summary of treatment for Rook’s wounds

Something written by a character from a previous game about Rook

A future historian’s analysis of Rook’s actions (Bonus: featuring a relevant primary source)

Rook’s shopping list 

Note found in Rook’s pocket

Report summarizing what is known about Rook by an allied or enemy faction

Rook’s daily schedule

A message between two companions about Rook

A letter from a faction leader to a companion about Rook’s actions

Rook’s packing list for travel to a quest location

Letter from Rook to their love interest

Rook’s notes on the Lighthouse/Caretaker

Notes between a companion and Rook regarding a personal quest

Inventory of personal belongings Rook left behind when they left their faction

Something written about Rook on a historical plaque

A letter from an enemy regarding Rook

An entry from an encyclopedia/travel guide about an aspect of Rook’s background (Bonus: followed by a note from Rook supporting or refuting its accuracy)

Excerpt from a play dramatizing Rook’s actions (Bonus: include a review of this play)

A letter from Rook to a faction leader

Notes taken by Rook when they were young/in training

A letter to Rook from a family member or close friend

Analysis of a piece of art created for/about Rook

Propaganda for or against Rook

Something written to Rook post-game

A note/letter that Rook never sent

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

Lucanis would abuse the eluvian network to get the freshest ripest fruits and vegetables from wherever they grow best every single week and he's so right for that

[0alix0]

looking at nexus mods you really understand just how lazy BW was with veilguard

one of the first mods that has been made (aside from sliders) was about making varric actually look like himself. i'm no modder but i doubt it took a lot of time, and it probably would've taken even less for a professional game dev

there's a mod for nudity for companions in a romance sex scene

the ability to choose clothes for you inquisitor instead of that ugly ass SD pajamas

adding letters between inquisitor and their SO (who isn't Solas, cuz seriously they didn't even get that much)

better eye/skin/hair colors

smaller more proportional heads

and lets not forget, that this is the first goddamn game that people need to mod CODEX for

Like, something so basic, so easy to fix that fans did it a week after release.

the level of laziness, my god....

[veilkeeper]

i truly don't understand the complaint that "oh, x information is only in codex entries, why didn't they put it in the game!" well anyone who's been around in this series for longer than five minutes knows that the codex is not just there for funsies or as a meaningless lore dump. there is often extremely pertinent character details and background information in there, as well as heart-wrenching and thematically appropriate stories that are worth reading. it is the dev's intention that you as the player are taking the time to read at least some of it. it is in the game. it's right there. in the codex.

[basket-of-cats-and-witches]

Codex entry: Rook Finally Joins Book Club

(yes this is a reference to Skyrim. Thanks to my friend Mika for helping me figure out the name XD)

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Notes for our fifth book club meeting.

We finally managed to get Rook to join! Lucanis made something called pandoro as a bribe.

Attending: Lucanis, Bellara, Harding, Neve, Rook, Emmrich. (Davrin has a cold, promised he'd be here next time)

Book: The Frisky Wyvernian Waitress by [Name scratched out] (Chosen by…someone? Neve suspects the wisps.)

Notes taken by: Bellara

Notes:

-Lucanis threw this book out a window. Appalled at inaccurate depiction of wyverns.

-Emmrich impressed by amount of euphemisms. Said he'd never be able to think about “bread rising” the same again.

-Neve impressed someone had the good sense to obscure the author’s name. Is trying to decipher what's left of it to find who wrote this.

-Harding couldn't stop blushing. Complained about lack of plot and repeating phrase “Plenty of time”.

-Rook annotated their copy. Said it gave them “a lot to think about.” Emmrich was appalled they would mark up a book.

-Bellara (me) also annotated the book. Use as reference for writing later. For euphemisms, not for plot.

Wisps are banned from choosing books. Rolled a dice, Davrin is next. Neve says he'll be glad he missed this one.

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[thenevarranaccord]

Minrathous Recovery Plans

(Note attached to intelligence reports gathered by the surviving Shadow Dragons)

Ashur-

Let's pretend Elgar'nan gets kicked out of the city. We still have Venatori, demons, and blight to push back before it's safe for people to come out See the growing stack of reports.

-Tarquin

(Added by Tarquin later.)

Myrna says she and Vorgoth will work with Dorian, Mae, and some of our other mages to target demons. The Veil Jumpers and Crows will help you move supplies and check on other safe houses. Their only request is they get to take out as many Venatori as possible on the way. I might join you on that one. The Wardens--shockingly--already have ideas for the blight. Isabela said she'd help them when Antoine mentioned fire.

[proffbon]

That's cool and all but I'm not even technically Qunari.

[dragonagecinema]

An update on Sten in Dragon Age The Veilguard 💔 Every subsequent game, I hoped to see him again, but it never happened 😔 What do you think of his fate?

[sky--phantom]

Evanuris' theater masks

[elvhenmage]

da2 mentions in dav make me want to bite through steel

[ellie-writes-games]

Lucanis Lunchboxes: Inedible Minestrone

What if Lucanis packed Rook lunchboxes with little notes in them throughout the main story?

On the map, a "!" icon appears in the hallway just outside Rook's room in the Lighthouse. A temporary chest here holds a one-of-a-kind Valuable and a letter from Lucanis that is added to the Codex. Triggers after the Act 1 pantry scene, Lucanis romance only.

[SPOILERS] Read the letter from Lucanis below the line:

Spite's first attempt at cooking. He hasn't gotten the hang of it quite yet, but he's trying! What would you want Spite to try to cook for you? (He's open to suggestions.) I'm planning on writing more of these with the longer-term goal of modding these notes into DA:TV.

Maybe one day he'll even make something edible. We're all rooting for him.

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This is fanfiction written by me, @ellie-writes-games. These are NOT actual screenshots from the game. Peace, love, and mad props to the DA writers.

[5arcasmw]

no bc atp hawke being in the fade HAS to be the canon bioware is going with in veilguard because there is no way in hell they would let kirkwall fall if they weren't in the fade

[doriansbutt]

do yall ever think about how dai and da4 are just a cycle of mythal and solas over and over again? where solas tears the sky open and creates a herald of andraste and is patient with them (they’re important despite everything, they’re his fault) and then we learn more about religion and solas and mythal (there’s 3 sides to every story—your side, my side, and the truth) and andraste and mythal being the same person and how even the dread wolf bleeds into andrastian lore and how they’re inseparable despite everything because solas really is andraste’s mabari mythal’s lapdog