#grey warden cosplay

[lysblack]

Grey Warden Aenor Mahariel, Hero of Ferelden, perished after slaying the Archdemon Urthemiel and ending the Fifth Blught.

I had SO MUCH fun making this cosplay! This has been a dream of mine for a decade or so and to finally be able to build everything and wear it... It still feels surreal!

[pixelizedprince]

My Grey Warden cosplay will always be my favorite 💙 I'm so proud of how it's evolved over time!

[cicide76536]

I did it! I got the Grey Warden mage armor cosplay done for RopeCon and kept the event safe from darkspawn! I got it finished just in time. It took over 7 hours to attach all the pyramid studs but I got them!!

The boots and the gloves took a time on their own as the sewing machine hated me and the fake leather fabric and I had never done anything like that. But overall? I felt like a hero (of Ferelden) the whole weekend! First ever cosplay and I'm so ready to make more!

[nimthirielrinon]

Casual cosplay: Grey Warden

All clothes are from City Chic Australi (Strappy Top: Lapis, Harley Gigi Jeans, Nicole jacket).

Rose necklace is from BotaniaJewellery

Earrings are from CouslandCrafts

[floppycacti]

You know when there’s just something you’re never going to finish because your brain is being pulled in a million directions? No? Just me?

I’m currently replaying all of the dragon age games right and honestly the fact that Anders took out his slutty little hoop earring is a tragedy I will never get over it.

My excitement for da4 is astronomical. I just finished Origins romancing the sweet sweet boy <3 which I hadn’t done in a while (I’m a Zevran girly to the end) and had them both live? It’s been a minute since I’ve done the weird god baby thing with Morrigan and honestlyyyyy what a world.

Anyway this drawing took me 8 hours and frankly I just don’t think it’s ever going to get finished and I’m decently happy with it right now — so therefore I must post so I can delete it from my procreate (ง •̀_•́)ง

[dent-de-leon]

fighting for my life trying to make a qunari rook that looks even remotely molly-like—

[iserith]

The Hero of Ferelden

[swerveable]

Me and my mom are working on a Grey Warden Cosplay for Halloween. It's gonna be rad!

Edit: we're almost finished!! I just need to finish the staff and add the rivets and scales

[sabileinschreibt]

My New project for Vienna Comic Con 2024! My Grey Warden from the Dragon Age Series! The Veilguard is out already, but sadly i have not much time to play it These days, because this Cosplay needs to be finished 🤣

More Content comes in a few days! Stay tuned!

[bakanekiprice]

🌹Even in Death i will not let you go...🌹

🔥💙Brautiful Warden and Photo and edit by: jcreationarts (Ig)

Alistair:Me (bakaneki_price on ig)

[ankhaistenn]

Hero of Ferelden meeting Anora

[aidenwaites]

I want,, a dress form

[finneander]

ohhhhhh i am going to need to order so many samples.....

[emmg]

Man, I fucking miss Blackwall. Nobody lied like that man. Solas was all half-truths and mysterious double meanings like a poetic fortune cookie. But Blackwall just straight-up pulled shit out of his ass with 0 fucks give.

Wings of Valor for valor type of shit

When the Inquisitor first finds him, this asshole’s out in some random field, bullshitting a bunch of wannabe Grey Wardens like it’s amateur hour at Liars’ Anonymous. Out here cosplaying with 0 shame

Varric gets suspicious, starts poking at him like, “Hey, buddy, what’s your deal?” and Blackwall just hits him with a “No.” Like, not even a good lie just “No.” Sus as hell, and somehow everyone’s like, “Seems legit, carry on”

Absolute icon. A lying sack of shit, but our lying sack of shit. Man deserves a medal for audacity alone

[cicide76536]

Plussize cosplayers: how do you make your clothing? How do you meaaure it, where do you find sewing patterns? How do you make them so you fit in them and how do you do it without bursting in tears?

[grandwitchbird]

Veilguard is generally a well designed and well written game. I’m clear on what I think about DA as a whole, but it’s easily the best actual game in the franchise.

People are picking up, however, on a real critical flaw and mostly failing to locate the flaw while getting distracted by nonsense. It’s a flaw present in every DA game if you dig enough. Let’s talk about story bosses.

This is a tricky thing in arpgs. RGG and CDPR try to ensure that story bosses are densely interwoven into the world in a way that works thematically.

Adam Smasher would have been a problem in any universe; he’s just enabled and enshrined by this one. Hansen points us right back to the military industrial complex, the ghost of which we’ve spent the entire game wrestling with. Literally. All of that directs us right back to the systems in place in our cyberpunk world. It points us at our own motivations as V and interrogates our love of the power fantasy as a player.

In an RGG game, when you run down a corridor towards a boss, it’s a gauntlet. It’s there for fun and also to highlight the legendary clash that’s about to happen with reference to the Yakuza films the series started as an homage to. The boss may wait at the end or jump you, depending on their personality and goals. There will be mini bosses along the way because you’re generally fighting hierarchical organizations.

In Veilguard, our enemies wait at the end of a corridor. They’re powerful and don’t need to come to us. Ok good start, also a nod to ME. Occasionally you’re lucky and get story ‘minibosses’ that interrogate that very idea. The first warden is here to flesh out everyone’s motives and challenge us as the player. Sometimes you’re very lucky and the boss is Johanna Hezenkoss and she’s exclusively here to have clear motives that flesh out Emmrich’s arc and to cause problems because it’s fun. Most of the time, you get Aelia or whatserface Aelia 2.0 in Lucanis’s arc. Or the others I don’t remember after playing the game 5 times. Anaris? What did he even want? No I don’t mean power. What was under that? What was his motivation? Because I can explain the power-hunger in every Yakuza shithead or nationalist asshat I’ve fought in an RGG game. But Veilguard, like all of DA is avoiding real discussions of power and psychology and ~implications~.

I’m not a forgetful person. I’m meticulous and have the true blue autistic pattern recognition. I genuinely can’t say what made Aelia and Aelia 2.0 anything other than cosplay tyrants. Not without projecting onto the text or stretching it to breaking point by leaning hard on one specific short story.* Dragon guy and other antaam guy came out of literally nowhere. Mail order villains those two.

Even with our big bads, we get mere hints and gestures. Everyone is impressed with whatsisface doing a bad imitation of Bowie’s lines in Labyrinth. He’s a spirit of tyranny though. What does that mean. What makes the tyrants work in this world. And why are we cribbing from the Goblin King while carefully editing out the sucker punch?

We know the answer in the real world and can project that onto the game. But it’s not in the game. Not in a way the text doesn’t flinch from. And this is something people are picking up on. It’s also not been in any of the other games sorry to say. So this isn’t new. Veilguard just isn’t hiding behind obfuscating design choices and allusions to better stories. It’s still making those allusions (see gif above) but it’s a more honest text re: its limitations.

As with everything. The Mourn Watch and Grey Wardens stand heads and shoulders above the rest of the faction/companion-based conflicts. Their bosses have clear psychologies, motivations, and represent coherent and grounded goals (in hilariously disparate ways) Solas, likewise, has us/Rook as a mirror and his needs/wants and the conflict between those needs/wants are forefront and incredibly well developed. It’s not all bad. It’s actually quite good.

But when people flounder at surface details looking for the ‘problems’ with the writing. This is what’s getting missed. The problem is never ‘plot hole’ or ‘bad lore’. It’s something in the structure and conflict and motivation. And I’m afraid to say it’s old news with DA (Loghain is fine but the entire end of origins is an asspull. Don’t @ me). This game is much stronger than the others on that front. That would still be true if we had only Solas. We also got Johanna fingerguns Hezenkoss and the entire Grey Warden plot. I, for one, am counting that a win.

*the extended media is a critical weakness of the franchise. Referencing your own EU is not the same as entering a dialogue with an existing subgenre populated by works from diverse sources.