#dragon age spoilers /

[daydreamdeuce]

Ar lath ma, vhenan 🐺

Something something archdemon blood smeared across our lips like lipstick stains idk

Solas and Layla Lavellan

[veilkeeper]

i do have to say that i like elgar'nan and ghilan'nain as our primary villains. because they look like cartoon bad guys on the surface but if you look a little deeper and find all those hidden little notes and codex entries, it's obvious they actually do have complexity that they don't want us to see.

ghilan'nain is actively in mourning. not just for andruil, but also for her fucked up little experiment of an archdemon, her most perfect creation, razikale. at the end of fire and ice, she is ready to throw herself into a fight that she might not win because she's blinded by her own grief, and she only doesn't because elgar'nan holds her hand and pulls her away. protects her. we can find notes that talk about how elgar'nan is concerned that she's not taking time to mourn properly. we know she's checked in on her first creations, the halla, despite the fact that she writes about them in this sort of detached, almost patronizing way. she calls them something she made when she was "untraveled and naive" and that she could never make them again, but she visited them just to see what they might have become in her absence. like she cares more than she wants to let herself.

and elgar'nan calls her sister, despite the fact that ghilan'nain is the youngest of them. he lets her experiment on lusacan for the express purpose of cheering her up. and when she dies he seems legitimately torn apart by it. what should be an opportunity for the first of the firstborn to finally become the sole tyrant he was practically made to be is instead him becoming completely and utterly alone, the only remaining of his kind. i don't think it's coincidence that both he and solas drift to each other as they do, even if it is as enemies. they're too alike, and they're also the only remnants of the old world, their world, that either of them have.

i can't say that i'm particularly sympathetic to either of them—they're both unrepentant monsters who have committed atrocities across millenia, but the fact that they have this hidden depth reminds me that at of the day they are not really anything that no one else is. they are very powerful mages that other people called gods. and people can be very sentimental, indeed.

[zarohk]

Just imagine Anders conversing with Solas via Hawke; Solas can hear everything that Anders says, but Hawke has to speak to Anders for Solas, independent on whether you’re playing blue, purple, or red, you can be more or less accurate with how judgmental Solas is being.

To be clear, I think Solas would judge Anders’ methods as being a good start but too small, and Anders would judge Solas’ goals, but not his method..

The DA2 crew deserved these team meetings. They would have had even worse arguments. Made fantastic use of all being in the same room to argue each other's ears off at the same time.

[hmslusitania]

Ranking the Companion’s Rooms by Sleeping Situation

1. Davrin

That is a real, actual bed. It is in an alcove. It is made. There’s a goddamn throw pillow. 10/10, responsible dad

2. Taash

That is ALSO a real bed! It doesn’t have pillows but there’s a horn situation going on that I can’t speak to so probably the lack of pillow is intentional. 8/10.

3. Rook

This couch and the fade!fish have seen More Things than either probably needs to, but the couch gets bonus points for style and looking comfy if not cosy. 6/10.

4. Bellara

I’ll be honest I totally missed that she had an actually mattressed cot in here until I went to take this picture. One bonus point for it being stylish and her room being pretty overall. 5/10

5. Lucanis

That is… a camp bed you put in the pantry. It is, however, an actual designated bed with a cushion and a bed roll. 4/10.

6. Harding

I took this picture early in the game so her room is not yet the beauty it becomes, BUT she ranks higher than some others because a) I’m 100% sure of where she sleeps and b) she’s a stone-magic dwarf so theoretically sleeping on quarried rock isn’t as painful to her as it might be to, say, me. 2/10

7. Neve

I can’t say for sure that you actually sleep on this bench in your office but it’s also the only candidate. The good detective could use a lesson not only in scurvy but in lumbar support. 1/10

8. Emmrich

My dude literally where the FUCK do you sleep?!

…please tell me its not on your autopsy table

0/10

[mint-kaktuss]

What a good boy :3

[lanaluuart]

Some post Veilguard shenanigans. Dorian is going to learn quickly that retirement life isn't for Arlen.

[shem-fatale]

I love reading the posts from the Solavellan crew at the moment. This is a beautiful thing to witness. 🥹

Lavellan meets Solas

Spoilers!

The Lost Elf reprise killed me.

I remember one comment on YouTube under the original track. There was a theory that 'The Lost Elf' summarizes the love of Lavellan and Solas, how they “speak” through the melody: she is the violin, and he is the cello.

Yet now it’s slightly different; if you listen closely, you’ll hear that the violin sounds strong, happy and melodic, while in the original, it was broken, miserable, and thin.

The cello solo sets up the narrative, but at the climax, you can finally hear the violin. They 'sing' together in perfect harmony, almost indistinguishable from one another.

I love how music deepens our understanding of the storyline, guiding us further and revealing delicate nuances that add richness and depth to their story.

It’s canon now, it’s their theme.

Also I love how in the beggining Lavellan knew only a few words in Ancient Elven, at the end of the Tresspasser she can form full sentences, and now she speaks Elven fluently. It's a unique thing only for them. She speaks his language, because she knows how important it's to him. Elgar'nan speaks in Common language, yes, because of the Blight, but still. Even Mythal and Solas, in their final conversation, do not speak in Elven.

Lavellan is the only one who accepts him unconditionally. She forgives him when he cannot forgive himself, holds him when he needs it most, and ultimately, she is the one who saves him.

This is the extraordinary journey we’ve been fortunate enough to witness.

Ten years is a long time, but their love will last forever.

[vaguely-concerned]

I understand that 'I made you a cake (please somehow infer from this that I would live die and kill god for you)🥺' lacks a certain edge of drama as romance lock-ins go, but the things it says about rook and lucanis individually and their connection in particular that both of them somehow walked away from that conversation with the (correct & mutual) understanding that 'so this is it then. the long haul. I found them. The One. ...💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖'. unspeakable. and very funny. they did, somehow, infer.

[askfordoodles]

Johanna when she's had enough of watching her lame ex-friend play tonsil-tennis with his hot paramour right in front of her

[high-dragon-bait]

Davrin's gingerwort truffle tea date is objectively the most hilarious romance moment in the entirety of Dragon Age. This man sets up a wholeass romantic picnic for his incredibly stressed out partner/boss. He sees they need this, so he handles absolutely everything. In his mind they're going to sit together, eat, drink, and then make sweet love in the beautiful Arlathan forest. He even went to Emmrich for a special tea recipe. It's all going well. And then Rook takes one sip of the tea, stares blankly at Assan (the animal) and then looks back at Davrin and earnestly, says to him

"Assan just talked to me"

And the entire afternoon just disappears

[higheverweave]

Thats adorable 😭😭🥹🥹🥹🫂🫂🫂

Gold tier post Op

Hear me out, if Dorian Pavus apprenticed under Emmrich in Nevarra in his teens, he probably not only picked up fom hin not just spells, but also the love for facial hair.

Imagine, of you will, baby gay Dorian with a massive crush on his necromancy professor, who not only knows all there is to know about the death, he's also soft spoken, erudite and openly bisexual, coming back to Tevinter with the first wisps of his signature mustache, and a new need to be himself openly. No wonder he'd rebelled and gone off the rails.

Also, imagine Felix seeing him for the first time and making fun of his mustache, and Dorian defending it because it looked so good on Emmrich.

[1queasycrow]

I LOVE Manfred and Assan but...

we are sleeping on Neve and Rooks 86 wisp children

[ab121500]

Listen i'm a big fan of Veilguard. Feel like I gotta start with that.

But can I just say not all origins are created equal?

My first playthrough I did Veil Jumpers. It was cool but there was really no mention or connection to the other Veil Jumpers. You haven't been gone long and yet Bellara doesn't know you? And besides a few little lines theres no real mention of you interacting with the other Jumpers.

Compare that to Crow Rook. Teia missed you, Viago missed you. You hear from gossip with the other crows how Viago is worse when you aren't there. You have fun little conversations with Lucanis. You have a letter from Viago where he calls you Idiot. You matter and were important, only sent away because you had to be but people missed you.

Now i'm not too far in yet but Warden Rook gets fun bits with Davrin. The First Warden hates you even more. Antoine and Evka talk about how you fucked up but they still love you and know you did good.

I haven't done the other factions yet, so I don't know if its the same for them. But the fact that the Veil Jumpers are so lacking makes me sad. Its like you had no impact on that faction. Oh you lost an important map? Well shit. We aren’t going to mention it. Its dumb and I wish there was something for them.

[minrathous]

[askfordoodles]

I'm losing my shit over these tags; I swear, whatever tf is going on in Nevarran high society politics is messier than both Game of Thrones and a sorority polycule full of bitter exes...

still losing it over this exchange, emmrich pls

[harellan]

An inviting start with hidden depths