#dragon age : the veilguard spoilers

[lostiel]

@tuna-f-b here is the rest of the banter:

[okthisway]

Viago De Riva (!!!!!) by the way.

[lavendarr00]

Love how Lucanis checks in on Rook here 😢 Ghil is still dying and Elgar'nan is right there but his attention is on Rook first.

It's also the last time he touches Rook before they zap out of existence for weeks 😭

[nostalgiaclown]

I love how insistent Emmrich is about joining Rook's team, almost like he's not pleading that's not the right word, but his "None are more qualified than I" and his "I'd be delighted to assist" (i can't remember his exact words?)

I like to imagine he's just so excited about it all and feels a spark of something while they're on that mission to free the bell, like, the fear of the danger of the unknown dangers outside Nevarra (he's rarely left Nevarra) are overshadowed by the excitement of new discoveries and meeting new people 😭

[minidoodles97]

So I actually did start writing a couple of ideas for this, and this is basically the vibe I have for the beginning of this non-existent DLC.

Nate just goes around picking up the companions, debates if he should bring Anders/Justice, and eventually gives in.

It's a little silly but don't worry, because everything I have after this gets 100% sadder

!! DATV SPOILERS !!

Dragon Age Awakening crew if they were in Veilguard. My own personal headcanon is that the team gets together one last time to defend Denerim during the sixth blight. I'd like to think that they end up being the few Wardens that stay behind in Ferelden due to their loyalty to the HoF.

(I could go on and on about what I think would happen in this situation, and at this point I should just write the DLC lol)

[pausegame]

Food & drink with companions

[flushwithdarlings]

it kind of gets to me that the two members of the team who trusted lucanis the least at the start - davrin and harding - are the two who can sacrifice themselves to distract ghilan'nain so he can take the shot and finally kill her

[awardenandacrow]

FANFIC SNIPPET 31

[ahead of Blood Bath, Lucanis suffers a nightmare]

CW/TW: depiction of violence

NOTE: almost forgot! I have to shout out @arookacrow as she and I have discussed the probability of Zara having a smaller, secret stash of Lucanis’s blood, which inspired this snippet 👀

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“She’s through here,” Rook said quietly, indicating the door to her right. “Are there any more of her minions we should be on the lookout for?”

Lucanis shook his head. “We’ve killed them all. It should be just her — and whatever she summons to distract us.”

“Okay,” Rook nodded. “Ready when you are.”

“Let’s end this,” he agreed.

Rook pushed the door open, then they burst into the room together.

Zara sat atop the altar, in a blood red gown. Her legs were crossed off to one side, so they were both completely out of the slit that went to her hip. She leaned forward, so her breasts, too, nearly fell out of the low-cut bodice. Her fingers were tipped with long, crimson, pointed nails. She smirked at them with sanguine lips, twirling the large ring around her middle finger playfully.

Lucanis immediately realized what it was.

“Rook! You need to —“

“Ah, ah, ah,” Zara tutted, and Lucanis’s throat closed around his warning. Before Rook could react, Lucanis’s hand closed around her neck, and he slammed her into the wall of the small room.

*No. No, no,* NO.

Rook let out a startled, strangled cry and dropped her staff as Zara made him squeeze, just enough to make her squirm beneath his fingers. She pulled at them with her own, scowling over his shoulder at the Venatori witch.

“*Let. Him. Go!*” She wheezed out. Of course she knew it was blood magic. Knew it wasn’t him.

“Now, why would I want to do that?” Zara stalked over to where they stood, her heels *clack*ing on the stone floor. She stroked the side of Lucanis’s face, making sure the phylactery inlaid where a precious gem should be grazed his skin. “He’s my favorite plaything, after all.”

“He isn’t… a *toy*,” Rook snapped, her feet beginning to kick as Zara commanded him, wordlessly, to lift her, just a little.

“Hm, perhaps not,” Zara pouted disingenuously, “but he can certainly make *you* one.”

Lucanis felt his other hand closing around the hilt of his dagger. He fought her control, the headache mounting behind his eyes, screaming silently that this was between them. To leave Rook out of it. She had *nothing* to do with this.

“She has *everything* to do with this,” Zara cooed at him. “*You* brought her right *to* me.”

He unsheathed his dagger — it was the wyvern tooth one, the one she had bought him. Why would he have brought that one? It was… special to him. He never brought it anywhere. This was all he could think as he drove it into Rook’s side, right where it wouldn’t kill her, but where it would cause debilitating agony. Her scream rang in his ears, even as he *twisted*…

WAKE UP!

Lucanis sat bolt upright on the pantry cot, sweating and panting and checking his hands for blood. Clean. The pantry cot. The Lighthouse. It had been —

“A nightmare,” he wheezed.

WE WOULD NEVER. HURT. ROOK! Spite scolded, sitting cross legged on top of his feet, where he’d moved back to rest after slapping Lucanis awake.

“What if we couldn’t help it?” Lucanis whispered, standing shakily and running his hands through his hair. “It’s a good bet there’s more.”

THERE ISN’T. I. WOULD. KNOW.

Lucanis wanted desperately to believe him.

“I should ask Rook not to come,” he said, more to himself than the demon. He began to pace. It wouldn’t do him any good, he knew. She’d insist. She was upset with Zara too. She *hated* Zara, too.

WE DON’T. HURT. ROOK! Spite snarled.

Lucanis considered Spite’s words. The demon was right — she wouldn’t understand. She *would* be hurt if he asked her to stay behind. He groaned and rubbed his face. He had to focus. He couldn’t do this if all he could think about was making sure Rook was safe.

[theladyeclectic79]

SolRook/DreadRook FOREVEH!!!!!

(original exchange borrowed from @riverlarking post)

in-game screenshots are mine, so if you're planning on reposting, credit me.

[maggie-manor]

Thank you, Rook.

Why does it feel to me like for my Rook it's close to having her parents reunited after they've been divorced/separated for years lol

P.S. OMG I actually named my Rook Lath (!), and she brought them together T_T I can't

🤍 Var lath vir suledin 💜

[city-of-heavenly-heartbreaks]

The line read that started it all.

[okthisway]

Elek Tavor greetings

[cute-ellyna]

Not just me keep thinking about Davrin saying "Better question is... what else can I do?" WITH THAT VOICE OF HIS and ASOIDFJASòDFJAòSJDFSAòJFIASDòJFASDJòFASòJDF

[lavendarr00]

DATV Free Cam Bloopers Pt. 2 (Pt.1)

So I use free cam to take photos in-game and a side benefit is that you can see what happens "behind the scenes" in cinematics. Sometimes you catch an expression or animation that's interesting. But most of the time it's just chaos. So here is a little "blooper reel" of sorts:

Spot the difference (impossible)

When the Fade be drawing close

Lucanis yankin' on one of Ghil's tentacles

Chill Solas there's enough daggers for the both of us

Lavellan tell your man to get his hands off and out of my ass

Spite flew away

Lemme just get out of your shot here, Lucanis

We've all had those days

Was it something I said? (probably)

Dav please...

Hate to see him leave, love to watch him go

He stuck

The face of a woman who knows she's about to get some (finally)

Do you ever wonder if Lucanis uses Spite to out vote Rook? Who we kidding Spite would side with Rook every time.

LOOK AT HIMMM 😭😭😭 MY SHAYLA

You know what hell yeah

Play us out, solas

[nostalgiaclown]

Don't ask for Lucanis' face here, where do you think that photo I got of him is from...

[proffbon]

I love this nonchalant fucker.

'Rook, it's so good that you survived this terrible catastrophe' 'Yeah, can you IMAGINE how hard it would be to get my body back?'