#endras mercar

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absolutely no one: me: what if i put the companions in the shadow dragon casual wear

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this was supposed to be a new years picture but we're way past that already. so now this is just. an ode to a found family 💜

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look someone's gotta test the fall damage of this place

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missed finishing in time for vg appreciation week so this is just. more elf crew shenanigans 🍂

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davrook things that have been rotting my brain lately

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just rogue things 🏹

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she is so tired.

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kickin it with the elf crew

memes sourced from here and here

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dressing endras up like the shadow dragon card because i have completely normal feelings about them

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endras 'rook' mercar sketchdump. constantly rotating this disastrous minrathous street rat in my mind

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local shadow dragon endras mercar doing everything by the skin of their fucking teeth

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Bring the light.

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sketches where i finally blorbo'd my way out of burnout. @lesbijkas and i have lost our minds and our shadow dragons are canon besties now, feat. endras' shadow dragon hair journey ig lmao

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back with another self-indulgent endras. i am so very normal about them

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never apologise for unpolished sketches thats literally the most perfect davrin ive ever seen 😍😌 also just spam rbed ur dragon age art (sry lol) and i love ur rook design sm, care to lore drop 🎤?

sdlkfsddsfds thank you 💕💕💕 and no worries lol

also THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING, you have activated. my trap card where i go completely overboard for a simple ask and won't shut up

i like working within the boundaries of canon, so like many mercars endras was adopted by charon mercar, who in my canon has a wife and older daughter, and had just lost a young son of his own at the time. cue uhh completely happy childhood free of emotional trauma as an adopted elf in the imperium

charon pulled some strings and had him join the military when he was in his late teens, which he served in for years all the way to the first year or so of the antaam rebellion.

for reasons i'll get into someday, he left the military and his family after the antaam were halted in vyrantium, and travelled to minrathous. he fell in with the shadow dragons a year or so after that

there's so much more lore but i don't wanna ramble too much and will post plenty more about him in the future anyway 🙈 i yap about him in the shadow dragons corner plenty too lmao. but thank you for letting me get on my soap box again i really appreciate it a normal amount

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Is Endras as serious as some of the other Shadow Dragons tend to be? Many of your drawings portray him as a pretty funny guy. I can't tell if that's your art style or his personality or both. What's his life like with the Shadows? Does he struggle to fit in, or is he down for the cause 100%? How long has he been an active Shadow agent?

thank you for this gift i have been laughing about this ever since i woke up so thank you. thank you very very much im so glad i have so thoroughly damaged his cool guy reputation

replies below because i have so much to say and you've given me an excuse to do so

is endras as serious as some of the other shadow dragons tend to be?

no and yes lol. he's usually friendly with a big snarky streak because he'd spent the better part of his life either hidden away with barely anyone to talk to, or surrounded by people who were fantasy racist to him. so joining the shadows was like wow! so many people who see me as a person!! fighting for cause i care about! queers!?!! and all that pent up desire to talk and socialise and be friends just came bursting out in the form of puns, sarcasm, and occasionally being a klutz.

but when it comes down to missions and tense situations, they can be just as serious as the other shadows, and the soldier part of them reveals itself.

what's his life like with the shadows? does he struggle to fit in, or is he down for the cause 100%?

best thing that's ever happened to him. he's down for the cause 1000%. he only struggled to fit in not because of anything that's been done to him by the shadows, but because he was learning for the first time how to open up to and form genuine relationships with people who cared about him and weren't out to get him in some way.

how long has he been an active shadow agent?

two to three years? it's hard to pin down since i haven't found an exact year for when the lucerni became the shadow dragons. either way, i pictured endras as someone who wasn't there from the start, but has still been a shadow long enough to not be considered new anymore.