#flowers of the veilguard

[larkoneironaut]

•Flowers of the Veilguard•

💜Wolfsbane💜

A sort-of-wallpaper/lockscreen series with each companion and the flower that fits them best, imo

[ibahibut]

Let's make an oath to live together

[daflowerzine]

✨ PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN ✨

ARDENT BLOSSOM: A BOTANICAL COMPENDIUM is now available for preorders from September 21 to October 21! 

This book features 30 illustrations and 18 original codex entries exploring the language of flowers, in the format of a traditional floriography book. Each illustration is paired with notes written by our writers, intrepid members of the Botanical Society of Thedas!

ARDENT BLOSSOM is available in the following bundles:

Elfroot Bundle: High-quality PDF of the zine

Embrium Bundle: Physical copy of the zine

Black Lotus Bundle: Zine & all DAO-themed merch

Blood Lotus Bundle: Zine & all DA2-themed merch

Dawn Lotus Bundle: Zine & all DAI-themed merch

Crystal Grace Bundle: Zine & all merch from all 3 games!

Dragonthorn Bundle: Merch-only bundle

Prophet's Laurel add-on: Make your zine hardcover!

We are also announcing six stretch goals!

All stretch goals are automatically added to all merch bundles. The travel postcards will have 1 postcard added to their respective game bundles, and all 3 added to full bundles!

50 orders: Travel Postcards

100 orders: Veilguard Sticker Sheet

150 orders: Gold Foil Cover

200 orders: Enamel Pin

250 orders: Tote Bag

300 orders: Pocket Field Journal

Reblog this post for the chance to win a free full bundle or a refund on the bundle you purchased!

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Artists

Abby (tumblr / bsky) | Alice (linktree) | Annalise (insta / twitter) | Annie (website / twitter) | Asphodel (twitter / insta) | Bloo (twitter / insta) | Chloe (tumblr) | CR Scannell (tumblr / insta) | Elliot (insta / tumblr) | Erika Hollice (twitter / website) | Eunha (twitter / tumblr) | Ev Cole (website / tumblr) | Fervanis (tumblr / insta) | Frei (carrd) | Hanna Schroy (website / linktree) | Harley (twitter / insta) | Jee (tumblr / twitter) | Jura (tumblr / insta) | Kali Samutratakul (twitter / tumblr) | Kiera (insta / tumblr) | Lily (twitter) | Liv (twitter / insta) | Luposlipaphobya (insta / tumblr) | Mer (twitter) | Noah (website / tumblr) | Punto (twitter / insta) | Tarte (twitter / tumblr) | Tifany (linktree) | Zaz (tumblr)

Writers

AKnightOfAGoodKing (twitter / tumblr) | Arcadia (twitter / ao3) | Ardie (tumblr) | Casey (tumblr) | Casper (twitter / tumblr) | Chissprincess (ao3 / tumblr) | Collette (twitter) | ContreParry (tumblr) | Harding (tumblr) | Katie (ao3 / twitter) | lysmune (twitter / ao3) | Owlpockets (tumblr) | Polymerre (twitter / ao3) | Sandal (tumblr / ao3) | Tas (tumblr / ao3)

Mods

Lucy (ao3 / tumblr) | Jenny (twitter / tumblr)

[elvyn]

Melancholy

[mogwaei]

Yours

[vaguely-concerned]

having seen at least the rough outlines of all the romances now I have to say that I think emmrich's is probably objectively the best in terms of coherence and completeness of story arc (with the understanding that ultimately the 'best' romance is whichever one makes YOUR heart sing anyway so objectivity is a silly thing to claim that way, it just felt like it's the arc with the most well-paced focused content and the least dangling threads)... but lucanis' is my favourite haha. just. the whole kneeling before your beloved full of reverence but without any of the distance that usually implies??? his complete undramatic certainty and calm in every scene with rook after this, having spent the whole game caught between fear and longing???? mr. lives in a pantry but it says nothing about my psyche don't worry about it it's purely for tactical reasons that I keep myself contained in a small dark room not entirely unlike a cell, love among the parsnips -- finally coming to rook in their room and it's so comfortable and comforting???? after all the times rook supports and comforts him through the game he's finally able to return the same to them when they need it while being so calm and steady and it's so fucking sweet and feels so effortless and with no price attached?????? he basically assigns himself the role of your bodyguard and he WILL stab a god over it??????????????? the turn to protector (which was in his heart all along longing to get out and find a place) of it all????? he sounds like he's found himself unexpectedly stumbling into such a soul-lightening state of revelatory existential relief, full on 'you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves' mary oliver style, and he goes and he shares that with rook and protectively envelops them in it when they're hurting??????????????????????????? hello for the maker's sake hello can anyone hear me?????

[doctor-aceus-art]

'Be quiet, please. He is in need of some rest, my friends.'

[maaagpie]

shroud's kiss

[bearlytolerant]

The Auction

inspired by those floral paintings I’ve seen floating around based off that one tweet.

[aesfocus]

[niby-skaje]

VERY IMPORTANT KNOWLEDGE.

[larkoneironaut]

•Flowers of the Veilguard•

❄️Scilla❄️

A sort-of-wallpaper/lockscreen series with each companion and the flower that fits them best, imo

[rookinthecrownest]

My rook getting ready for her first date with Lucanis

[daflowerzine]

We here at ARDENT BLOSSOM: A BOTANICAL COMPENDIUM are so excited for the Veilguard release, we've decided to extend preorders through October 31st!

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported the zine so far! We are so excited to share updates with you once we move into production.

Please join us as we count down the final 10 days in a 10 year wait for DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD!

🌻STORE: daflowerzine.bigcartel.com

Questions? Leave us an ask or email us at daflowerzine @ gmail(dot)com.

[lizzybeeee]

I live for your DAV opinions. It's so nice to know I'm not alone in being bitterly disappointed with the destruction of the lore, our previous choices and what could have been.

Thanks for being here! :)

I feel that the worst part about the whole destruction of southern thedas/previous choices/story is that it really adds nothing to DATV? Rook/new players have no connection to southern thedas, we don't even see southern thedas...the only people who will care about the southern half of the continent are the players who have played the past games.

If you're a newcomer to the series, you're not going to care about some far off nations that you've never seen. If you're a returning player? Of course, it's going to be devastating! Especially since they specifically mention all the places we went in the previous games - really hammering it in, thanks BioWare!

It's the equivalent of a DM clearing the board, tearing up character sheets, and telling you to 'shut up, move on. we're over this character/place! stop asking about them - they're dead now!'

Like, I'm sorry you made me care for the world/characters/story you crafted? It just feels oddly spiteful, especially since they made a point to deliberately single out places like Kirkwall and Denerim. By all means, have the south face their own troubles - but going scorched earth? Telling us this in some missives and a few lines of dialogue? For a series that differentiated itself from other games by selling us a continuous/interconnected story narrative...nuking it all was a wild choice.

[forever-in-the-fandom]