#i didn't know how much mystras' armor would take up

[starmahgalaxies]

I did a quick thing. I wanted to draw Mystras and Spartos and some cute familial love because I will forever die on that hill. And Ohtaka has murdered me on it. Several times. Like any good author should.

I don't know why it was this image that I came up with. I blame Sinbad. He shouldn't be allowed to dare, bet, bribe, etc. his friends to do anything, but they all listen anyway.

Not sure if I will finish it. I did this one as a sketch because I haven't finalized my designs for them. For now just this.

[awellboiledicicle]

Okay pondering how Anders would manage to use magic in Faerun because unless he can grab onto the Weave-- possible with some work, similar spiritual manipulation of energy, but he's not attuned to Mystra--he'd probably be casting exclusively through Justice.

Because this man would essentially be a self contained warlock. Which would be wild to those in universe, but once it was explained would make sense.

His spirit magic would be doing WORK, though he would have one key advantage-- excluding the wild shit being a Warden gives him. One thing that would make people very afraid.

Man does not have spell slots. Mages naturally recover mana.

And while he'd probably be super fucking wiped out at critical levels, he could probably just swap to adrenaline fueled "beat shit with staff" mode. Not that he can really reach that without hitting Justice taking over, in which case he'd berserk for a while before passing out. But he knows how to pace himself. There would be no ever-present whispers from demons in Faerun, either, so it would be wildly easier to remain calm when lower on energy as well. No whispers from the darkspawn taint as background radiation over most things.

Though it occurs to me his coat is probably padded for armor purposes so like. Light armor proficiency from his time in the Wardens if nothing else.

His ungodly appetite might be his limiter, if nothing else-- not to mention his reluctance to draw on Justice for fear of losing control. Which would be at risk of happening when they first get there because FADE GONE, VEIL GONE, DANGER. If he's on the nautaloid with Hawke, danger signals are going off. The restraints would be the main triggering moment before the "what the fuck is that" settled in, followed by "where am i" and "where's Hawke??"

Though if Justice was driving at the time, and probably only survived falling from the Nautaloid by grabbing onto Hawke and being just. deeply hard to actually kill, then he's probably going to be driving when Hawke wakes up and meets the gang initially. Because Justice would absolutely not trust Anders to make good decisions right then.

Because to get there, Anders would have had to go physically looking for Hawke through a rift after they were left in the Fade. A, you know, wildly big sin on top of being just a wildly suicidal gambit that he probably didn't intend to actually survive.

But that also means the first long rest is Justice going "I cannot hold control much longer. He will be unwell." And then Anders collapsing into Hawke, half aware of things going on and then probably passing out.