#elven focus

[the-northern-continent]

My favorite bit of the Dawn Will Come scene is when Solas is laser-focusing (heh) on the orb, meanwhile the Anchor has already decided what its focus is, and it is so transparently NOT the orb.

Solas is all “elven focus” this, “stolen power” that, meanwhile the Anchor is totally ignoring the shiny titan ball and sprinkling focus bars on the Inquisitor and all their companions. Something something the power of a god comes from their people.

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Veilguard vaguing:

It's not automatically a good thing, actually, that the game de-emphasizes or even outright removes racism against elves, and bigotry against other groups, from the story

[y-rhywbeth2]

'Those rare few who transcend the normal boundaries of any skills or trades and excel due to passions within them for their art become very attractive to elves.'

'Irresistible' is a word used later in the paragraph and I could say something about how this is how most half-elves are born because elves apparently go nuts for non-elves who are obsessed with a chosen discipline.

Instead I'm just cackling in my brainrot over my version of durgetash where a certain N'Quess's engineering skills and mad scientist drive really did win the heart of a murdergod elf and cause them to lose their damn mind. Bhaal was a little too accurate in his imitation of an elf.

[rosykims]

i dont like the idea of everything being linked to the fade or the elves and mages etc etc and i think ive said that several times atp. but yknow what i DO want linked to everything? the deep roads actually. and im being serious abt that

[orcelito]

Ok playing veilguard as a shadow dragon elf. Aka an elf from tevinter. Which I do wish that was like... addressed more. In general. But Also makes all the elf dialog kind of weird??? Bc I dont think my elf would've been raised with any of the elven god stuff. So anytime Bellara talks about how we're fighting "our" gods, I'm just like. Not Really, for me... I wouldn't say that to her even if I could but like. Still feels weird.

But ALSO this framing of the elves as somehow culpable for all of this??? I know it's just Bellara's hyper-empathy so she's feeling guilty, plus she's Dalish so she hasn't dealt with the shit that city elves do... but it REALLYYYY feels like this game is sweeping all of that under the rug. Like what happened to all the bigotry we saw against the elves for several games??? Does the city elf origin in origins mean nothing to you???? This idea that A: the elven Gods are actually evil, so the modern elves are stupid for worshipping them and trying to keep their culture alive despite adversity, and B: that elves as a whole are somehow even POSSIBLY responsible for anything their gods do (thus feeling like the game is going Well, Actually, the bigotry was justified the whole time)

It SUCKS!!!!!! I hate it!!!!!!!!!! And I know this game takes place outside of Ferelden so things are different this time, which especially makes sense for how mages are treated, but we've SEEN how badly elves are treated regardless. Does Fenris mean nothing to you!?!??!?!?!

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 like I'm having a lot of fun with this game but there r a lot of plot points that are just like. Must we?????

[revenantttt]

was a bit funny seeing someone say that the mourn watch background should only have been available to mages bcs "why would the mourn watch need warriors or rogues", when one of the most common complaints about the combat in this game is that it's hard to play a mage without a tank in the team lol

[asterdeer]

really been struggling with finding good mindless queer audiobooks to distract myself with lately. today i started not one but two different poorly written fantasy romances where the main characters bone within 24 hours of meeting each other (one of them was literally 5 minutes after meeting). allos are wild

[the-northern-continent]

How many random magical knicknacks does this guy own though. The knife is supposedly his, the orb (deceased) is his, and let’s not forget that mask from Redemption. Is the jawbone necklace the only thing that didn’t get raided from his junk drawer while he was sleeping.

[lliquidllyrium]

People acting as though the mod that allows for the hardened romance doesn’t mean the voice acting for it was already there…hello? Is anyone home?

[melviships]

Okay, Veilguard posting is gonna be "melviships rips the veil" because it is pissing me off so bad

[lexisglitching]

Fantasy au elven!izuna ranger!tobirama please and thank you.

[social-cocoon]

I've been feeling like I should do a dwarven or qunari Rook since I have 2 human PCs and 1 elven PC, but I'm leaning sooo hard towards playing another elf given who and what the main villains are. Also I rly want to be an angry Dalish to make up for what my Inky couldn't be

[biowarescreenshotsdump]

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Hey seeing a lot of veilguard negative comments on my dash (its actually like my....whole dash atm) so I'm looking for new people to follow who are just as in love with the game as I am! Or at least who don't post a ton about disliking it. I don't mind some criticism, I have my own, but I feel like 75% of my dash is very critical and I'd very much like to bask in the game I'm enjoying so much, or at least even out that percentage. So please interact if you:

Actually like/don't mind Veilguard (bonus points if you love it)

Like/don't mind Solavellan

Like/don't mind elven lore

Love DA games in general and aren't posting Veilguard negativity

I do a decent amount of writing myself, and would love to support other fanfic writers as well. Like or reblog and I'll check you out ☺️

[dhwty-writes]

for oc asks - ghost for you most haunted oc and secret for your least haunted oc!

Thanks for the ask!

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

Most haunted is Eridis. At twelve years old, she witnessed the slaughter of many, many nobles including her best friend and her surrogate father. She then was raised by the church and became a knight who is just... the most dutiful. During that time both her parents died, only weeks before she was knighted and could have helped them. So now she is grieving for two families she's lost and on a quest to reclaim her ancestral blade and destroy all the other magic blades that caused that much death and destruction with it.

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

My least haunted OC is maybe Morys? He's an alchemist journeyman who desperately wants to advance to master but can't because his father and older sister are already masters and the guild won't allow for that. Besides that, he is just happy to be there and included! His (not so secret) secret is probably that he is very much in love with Amalinde, who's his parents' tenant and also a princess in exile. While that would already be an obstacle, she's also, unfortunately for him, a lesbian.

Send me some OC asks!

[mithrun-house-of-kerensil]

Lately, I've been thinking about Mithrun and the ways he is dehumanized in canon.

Before I get started, we know that elven society is incredibly afraid of death and illness. This is obvious in how they look down on the short lived races and see them as weak and childlike. We also know that Mithrun himself had ableist views toward his brother and these values did not leave him once he, himself, became disabled. He is a product of the society that raised him, but I also think how Mithrun is currently being treated contributes to his view of himself.

Mithrun has had three different caretaking groups over the years. The first are the ones his brother hired for him. From what we can see, they did the job, but we can understand that they did not know what to do with him. No one had ever recovered from having their desires eaten so the focus was less on rehabilitation and more on keeping him alive.

Later we see Milsiril take an interest in him because of his desire to return to the dungeon. Since she did not bother to visit him for decades after finding him, we can assume that there is an ulterior motive here. Timeline-wise, this was when the majority of the canaries had just been wiped out. They needed more men, and Mithrun is set up to be the perfect single-focused soldier.

Honestly, we can assume that Milsiril doesn't really care about him or see him as a person. Mithrun is just a new project for her to play with. We can see this in how she's focused on superficial level concerns like the fact that he doesn't look nice and wanting him to be overly grateful toward her. She also talks about him like he's not in the room and can't hear her. This is a dehumanizing trait shared by many characters when talking about Mithrun.

When he finally does recover enough to return to the canaries, the military does not make any effort to accommodate his needs. We know the canaries are understaffed and the ethics are already bad, but they really did not even try to care about Mithrun's safety at all.

Entrusting a criminal with his care was questionable at best, especially when Cithis immediately took the opportunity to abuse her power over him and no one stopped her.

While acknowledging the light-hearted nature of the manga, it's uncomfortable that Mithrun was treated like a child and an animal by Cithis for her amusement. Regardless of her 'learning to respect him' later, the point is that Mithrun was taken advantage of and degraded because she believed he couldn't say no. No one bothered to do anything about this until Pattadol yelled at her.

Truly his treatment is summarized well by Milsiril here. Mithrun is extremely vulnerable to being abused by those taking care of him because he won't advocate for himself. He has one desire so he won't fight for himself in any other way.

It is obvious that Mithrun was not treated well by his caretakers and this has resulted in him identifying his needs through a disconnected and frankly, infantilizing lens.

I understand that it may have been a translator's decision, but I always thought it was interesting that Mithrun says that he's "not sleepy" which is a childish term. Otherwise, he speaks like everyone else, if not rather posh.

This, followed by the fact that he is responsive to Kabru treating him like a literal infant to get him to eat, paints a clear picture of the fact that Mithrun is not unfamiliar with being treated like this. He responds to it because he's used to it and has no desire to argue with being treated this way. When we consider the fact that the chapter started with Milsiril treating an older child Kabru in the same way, it is likely that she also did the same thing to Mithrun when he was under her care.

In these panels, we see that Mithrun does not believe that he can sleep without magical assistance, even though it is immediately refuted when Kabru takes the time to bundle him up and help him relax. Not only does he fully believe he can't sleep without external assistance, but he states directly that there is no point in him getting comfortable.

As Kabru observes, Mithrun's inability to recognize his needs applies to needs such as hunger and exhaustion, but it obviously also applies to emotional needs. Kabru just wanting to feed him something delicious and not wanting him to give up on life is the most consideration someone has given Mithrun in years.

The relationship they form over the course of a single week is enough to shape Mithrun's behaviour completely. Mithrun ignores Cithis's demand in favour of asking Kabru's opinion. It is Kabru's hand Mithrun takes to pull him out of his defeated state. It is Kabru Mithrun confessed his true desire to.

Do you realize how depressing that is? All it took was the new perspectives from Kabru and Senshi to make him consider the fact that he should keep living despite no longer needing to fulfill his duty. Being treated well could have helped Mithrun much sooner and this shift in the way he sees himself contributes to his recovery going forward.

TLDR: Mithrun has no desire to be respected, but why does that make people feel comfortable acting like he doesn't deserve it? Someone not caring about being treated well doesn't give you permission to treat them poorly. This feels like a playschool-level consent lesson: just because he's not saying no to a humiliating or degrading act doesn't mean it's a yes and therefore okay to do. Acknowledging this is the bare minimum of treating him as a person.

[ajdrawshq]

i finished 7th dragon a lil while ago n some of the worldbuilding is so funny i cant stop thinking abt it. why is the lost city of atlantis populated by catgirls