#i want to be excited for rook

[hot-wolf-summer]

my heart aches for solas

[timethehobo]

Manfred when [fill in your own scenario].

[nostalgiaclown]

I keep looking at that screenshot of Emmrich the one where he's pouting (mewing) a little looking at Rook and I can't help but keep thinking about the 'well-meaning' description of him, like, we're going to get a moment where man's so excited right? Like, he's having a complete passion nerd out moment we have to talk him down from? Maybe he wants to do something, but it's a dangerous, terrible idea

No cause like imagine that romance button popping up...

"Ah, you're quite right as usual, Rook, forgive me. I tend to get a little carried away sometimes..."

❤️: "No, I like it. You’re passionate..."

[sunshinemage]

meet Rook 🥰💙

[vaguely-concerned]

playing through where the dead must go with an ingellvar rook and......... oh. rook LOVES loves the grand necropolis actually huh. you can hear it in every line they say. I'm. so full of feelings I didn't expect this to hit so hard but between the voice lines, banger music and astounding visuals (TELL ME this game is ugly and that the visual style sucks while you meet me in these halls of grieving I fucking dare you) I feel second hand drenched with grief and melancholy on the inside what the fuck

(feat. lucanis coming along unwittingly meeting future in-laws and realizing that rook has been clenching their teeth with the effort of only seeming about 5% of the freak they actually are the entire time he's known them fhsadkjfsa. local man learns that the one thing future spouse is deadly fucking serious about is their role as a watcher. it's a little hot)

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

was gonna say i'm not sure if i'm satisfied with how she looks but nvm she's gorgeous actually

[a-whiff-of-a-dream]

Davrin kinda gives off 'Dad who didnt really want that dog, they got one for the kids though and now he has to care for it himself' vibes

[danielnelsen]

i think the point i’m trying to get at in my tags on that recent post is basically…

the more choice you give your players, the less their choices matter, just from an entirely practical perspective. at some point you have to draw a line between letting the player have complete creative freedom with their character and making the player feel like their character has an established presence in the world

that was the whole thing with origins: you didn’t just go around with a few different options based on your race; you had a very different experience depending on your origin, specifically. a dwarf noble and dwarf commoner may both be from orzammar, but their reception upon returning is extremely different. city, dalish, and circle elves have completely different experiences throughout the whole game. human nobles and human mages get very different opportunities and reactions from all kinds of npcs. every character starts off feeling like they already exist and have friends and family and complicated circumstances

personally, i’ve never found it restrictive to be given a solid background. there will always be other options that it would be cool to have, but that line has to be drawn *somewhere*

if you compare da2 and dai, i’m very glad they didn’t try to add different backgrounds to da2 because *being hawke* is so integral to the game, so to add different backgrounds they’d have to write a whole in-depth plot for each of them; it’s not just about adding a few dialogue options

that was the problem with dai. given the scope of the game, i think they was right to give you options for your inquisitor, but they didn’t have time to write them in a way that actually made them feel like part of the world. and it doesn’t help that you spend the whole game very far from home with just a few text-based missions to interact with your past

so when they say there aren’t proper background options in veilguard beyond your race and faction and you’re gonna be able to come up with whatever backstory you want for your rook… that doesn’t make me feel excited, it just makes me feel like rook’s past won’t matter and won’t be relevant at any point. what happens when we visit the place that i’ve decided my rook is from? i’m not gonna run into any friends or family or awkward situations i left behind

sure, factions will give some background, but what did i do before my current job? i’m planning to play as a grey warden, and that’s not a life you just *happen* to be part of. i must already be a skilled and experienced fighter who decided (or was forced) to leave everything behind to follow a greater calling. i could have been anyone before that… so how will they make me feel like i already existed if they’re leaving that definition up to me?

[morrigan-sims]

Shittiest pose wip ever, but look!!! It's my babies!!! (my simself, two story characters, and a bunch of dnd ocs)

This is gonna be a pride month post eventually, assuming I can finish it in time.

[valiantvillain]

I have a mighty need for people to discuss my hype for Veilguard and my Rooks with. Most of my friends aren't really interested in it and I just really want to have some conversations where I can be genuinely excited and discuss theories and desires for the game.

[fenharel-babe]

28 more days until DATV.

[hirokiyuu]

Heddwyn "Wyn" Caldera is a freshman from Diasomnia. He's well known in alchemical circles for multiple revolutionary breakthroughs in the world of potions, the first of which he discovered at eight years old. Though invited to NRC last year at age thirteen, he waited a year before accepting a position at the school.

here he is my baby boy......!!!! been tossing this kid around in my head a lot lately and wanted to make a profile card for him to show him off to the world. imagine me as a proud parent and ive pulled this out of my wallet.

based off the black cauldron. both the movie and like. the cauldron itself. naturally he is good at potions. since the cauldron is essentially a mcguffin wanted by everyone the idea is that he's extremely good at what he does but is also pretty vulnerable to being used. he's also very stone-faced bc he's...... made of stone............ get it.............

template is from here!

[timethehobo]

Rook’s a little clingy.

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

I may be laying on the floor staring into the void, merely vibrating as my brain rots about Veilguard, Rook, the companions, and Solas.

...this is the perfect excuse to replay my canon route.

Apologies in advance: I'm about to make my brainrot replay a problem for everyone and everything in my vicinity.

[hiddenbysuccubi]

.... Veilguard spoiler?

[idleindy]

I'm playing through Inquisition again, on Nightmare this time for the achievement, and 👀

I made a Lavellan that I love and have decided to romance Solas. I've had my frustrations with Solas in the past but for this playthrough I've decided to treat this as my first playthrough and stop 'metagaming' so to speak. I feel like one of the reasons that in the past I've not really been able to connect with Solas' character was because I was judging him based on what he does later in the game and not really having an open mind about him or his romance because of that. So this time I've decided to stop doing that! Let me tell you, I've only flirted with and spoken to him a few times so far but I'm starting to understand why people love him and his romance so much!

Watch this space, potential (definitely) future Solavellan girlie in the making 😉

(I'm gonna make a post about my Inky soon!)