#in ferelden right?

[kirkwallguy]

my issue with food in veilguard is like... i'm not expecting every single fantasy video game to deal with the role luxuries like coffee and chocolate have/had in colonialism and slavery because obviously not everyone is equipped to deal with that. but if you're writing for a franchise that previously dabbled in these themes it feels extremely odd to give a companion a relatable millennial obsession with coffee. could lucanis not be addicted to smoking elfroot or something

[queenofbaws]

have we considered that bartrand's betrayal maybe had nothing to do with greed or the red lyrium idol at all and instead was simply the result of an eldest sibling having to spend days - perhaps weeks - in the dark, listening to literally nothing but his little brother and his little brother's weird new bff workshopping their witty banter three steps behind him????????????????????????????

[crows-of-buckets]

Two people who are extremely competent on their own become dumbasses when put in the wardens together, apparently.

I'm such a sucker for anders and Amell/Surana friendship these guys have been on my brain all fucking week I love them sm... Pounce is just happy to be included

(speed paint and alternative version under the cut)

[saltlordofold]

early origins core (mismatched looted armor and Joining pains)

[0alix0]

1) Aeducan deserves much more love & attention 2) Oghren is a buddy fu 3) LET ANORA KISS A LADY DWARF GODDAMNIT!!

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[suntamer]

OH, GREY WARDEN | Can you be forgiven when the cold grave has come?

[bunabi]

I think about Vivienne (and her quest) a lot. And part of me thinks it has problems that all of the companion quests have. But I really wish we knew more about her. Like her quest feels more about what’s-his-name than her? And I know she has her banter but I just think she’s so interesting so I want more info. Does she have non mage related hobbies?! Also she should have been a romance. Maybe it’s locked behind your influence or power and it’s more casual idk. But if her old boyfriend has a wife why can’t she date too?

Also also hope you and Sabine are doing okay :)

Yeah and coming of the heels of DA2 it also felt like a cheeky reference to Anders' final quest lol. Collect this item for me Hawke Inquisitor I promise nothing bad will happen. A clever lil 'haha got your nose' misdirect that stops being as clever the second, third, and fourth playthroughhhh.

It would have been a neat side story. As a dive into her as a character it seriously left me wanting more. But like you said: the same can be said of all the companions. They're all such extremely important and fascinating public figures...there's never been a party with more clout...Lyrium Ghost Leliana could literally introduce the Inquisitor to the Maker himself if she wanted....they're so cool.

Me & Beans are doing great btw thank you! Hope you & your loved ones are holding up excellently! :)

[rookamell]

That one post @corvus-frugilegus made lives in my brain.

[laurelsofhighever]

Sometimes I just think about how dicey the relationship must be between the Chantry and Ferelden.

On the one hand, Ferelden was the birthplace of Andrastianism - the saviour of southern Thedas was an Alamarri barbarian too stubborn to fall under the yoke of her Tevinter masters, the only one worthy of getting the Maker to turn his gaze back to His children - but on the other hand, the Chantry has done so much to distance itself from those roots, from centring the faith in Val Royeaux’s Grand Cathedral to dismissing folk songs like “Andraste’s Mabari” as borderline heresy.

More than that, it had an active role in the subjugation of the Fereldan people. During the events of The Stolen Throne, the mages in Kinlock Hold are shown to be afraid of getting involved in the politics of the rebellion by harbouring Maric even for a single night because Circles are meant to remain neutral. AND YET mages from Orlais are brought specifically to Gwaren to help the Orlesians squash the rebels. Mother Bronach is there throughout Meghren’s reign legitimising his oppression as “the will of the Maker” and extracting tithes from the Fereldan people for the Chantry, while it’s strongly implied that Fereldans themselves are barred from serving any meaningful role in its hierarchy, if you pay attention to what Sister Ailis says.

So we have a source of national pride in Andrastianism itself, and we have a source of suspicion with how closely tied the Chantry as an institution is tied to Orlais, and possible resentment for the Chantry’s encouragement of indifference to the Orlesian Occupation. You can’t tell me the Rebel Queen Moira didn’t play into the imagery of Andraste the Liberator, fighting back against the tyranny of an unjust empire. You can’t tell me she didn’t use the people’s faith as a weapon to refute the idea of the Occupation being the Maker’s will. At the very least, you can’t tell me that after the war was done, nobody made that connection, given that she, too, met her end through betrayal.

And then we get to the Inquisition. There’s going to be a bit of a difference depending on who ends up on the throne after the Blight, because Alistair is far more outspoken than Anora both on his opinion of mage rights and his disdain for the Chantry in general (but he’s also an ex-templar so I’m sure there are headaches about how to square that away), but no matter who rules Ferelden, the actions of the Inquisition are the same. For the second time in living memory, a foreign power is giving itself free rein to tramp over Fereldan soil, seize its castles, and make decisions for its people. A foreign power with pretty strong ties to the Chantry (declared heretical or not), justifying their occupation through religion.

Just saying, Fereldans must have a complicated relationship with their majority religion.

And don’t get me started on my theory that the Chantry sanctioned the original invasion of Ferelden as a way to have an exalted march without spending money or effort or making other Andrastian nations nervous

[trainflyhigh]

got into dragon age.. currently on da2 but im obsessed with my own warden shes a butch lesbian and a tabris (she/her)! also obsessed with whatever morrigan and leliana have going on

[lafaiette]

Solas, var lath vir suledin.

[roguelioness]

still outraged by the blatant slander of "south thedas is overrun by darkspawn" as if the darkspawn weren't immediately met by the most stubborn, incorrigible group of people to continually defy the odds

and then sera yeets some bees at them.

[cansofbees]

I can't go back. There's a cave-in behind me, and the second nearest entrance is too close to the main road. I can't risk leading these fucking monstrosities back to the surface. Wardens, watch out. In two decades, I've never seen Darkspawn like this. Something is very, very wrong.

(Scrawled beneath in a different script:

We found this note on our first expedition after the Warden-Commander left for their Calling. I don't like this.)

[crows-of-buckets]

Local mage leaves the circle for the first time, realizes she's bisexual while trying to stop the apocalypse. I feel like my bias towards Morrigan shone through while I was drawing this help I'm sorry the lesbianism just doesn't sleep <//3

[mostwantedpotato404]

Hawke

[sochika]

my hero of ferelden.... a half-baked blood mage but a full time arcane mage

(see the og design from the game itself down below)