#isolde guerrin

[willowswail]

What if Lavellan jumped in during Solas and Mythal's conversation and gave Mythal a piece of her mind (which she totally should)...

What if, after this intervention, Mythal asked Solas in Isolde's signature voice and accent:

"Who Is This Woman Solas?"

[hallaslin]

I love you character portrayals of the complexity of the concept of motherhood in dragon age. I love you Brosca family, I love you Eleanor Cousland, I love you Adaia, I love you Leandra, I love you Grand Cleric Elthina, I love you Keeper Marethari, I love you Divine Justinia V, I love you Morrigan, I love you Flemeth, I love you Mythal.

[bisexualalistairtheirin]

Wait. Fuck. Isolde had Eamon send Alistair away bc she was afraid of the rumours about him being his bastard... but she was also cheating on Eamon with his brother... I need to lie down.

[anneapocalypse]

Isolde Guerrin owns actually. She fed information to the Fereldan resistance during the Orlesian occupation. She tried to save her son from being taken by the Circle, and so far as we know the only reason her plan failed is Loghain planted an assassin in her home. She volunteers to give her life for her kid without a moment's hesitation, she doesn't give a fuck that it's blood magic, she just wants to save him. If you insist Connor has to die, she pleads for his life in a voice performance that deserves awards, and if she's convinced that there's no hope for Connor, she insists on doing the deed herself.

[ameridan-ghilain]

Quick I can't be bothered to make the post myself so just imagine one of those web weaves. Something something Catelyn Stark something something Isolde Guerrin. Protecting the boy protecting the crown protecting your political interests at the cost of your wife. Foreign woman in her husband's court, wielding what power she has. Something something just wanting nothing more than for her son, her baby boy to be okay. "I want you to leave." "Tell me you wouldn't move mountains to save him." Not knowing what to do but hate the boy your husband brought home, hate everything he represents, joy at seeing him lost to some order that will surely spell his death or at least just keep him away from you. All these political games and for what, your family is ripped apart! And you die! Anyway. Thinking thoughts I love women who hate their fake bastard sons and the absolute earth shattering will to do WHATEVER it takes to keep your family whole. Don't even get me started on bran and Connor. What did your mother die for, and how? What will you see one day, little mage?

[baelonthebrave]

reading the stolen throne and trying to like maric is tough when you know in like 10 years he’s going to father a bastard and promptly ignore existence of said bastard, allowing him to be bullied and forced into servitude and used as a political pawn bc eamon and isolde are fucking awful. like maybe there’s more context I’m missing and will learn from reading the books but I’m finding it difficult to get past that so far! you dishonoured your wife already bro that ship has sailed! can we maybe make sure the child isn’t so traumatised it will later have a circle mage and a literal child slave saying uhhhh you good buddy?? anything you wanna talk about?

[jzargo]

tbh the teagan and isolde thing is kinda weird for a few reasons but mostly because it seemed like teagan was one of the few people who sympathized with alistair, so having him engage in an affair with the woman who abused him as a child....hmm! not great!!!

[sapphim]

Isolde and Teagan Guerrin, on Connor (and Alistair) at the Duke's estate in Mark of the Assassin. All variations. This dialogue only plays if MotA is played in Act 1, so 9:31, less than a year after the end of the Blight.

[Connor died, Isolde lived]

Perrin: How is your husband, Arlessa? I imagine the news of your son must have been terrible.

Isolde: We are at a party, Bann Perrin! This is no place for such dourness.

[Connor lived, Isolde lived (the ritual to enter the fade was performed by First-Enchanter Irving)]

Perrin: How is your son, Arlessa? Does Circle life suit him?

Isolde: He is well, thank you. He is glad to have proper tutors, and they say he is a very good student.

[Connor lived, Isolde died (the blood magic ritual to enter the fade was performed by Jowan)]

Perrin: How is your nephew, Bann Teagan? [if: Alistair dead]

Tegan: Connor is… a teenager now, Maker save us all. My poor brother is tearing his hair out dealing with the boy.

Teagan: He'll grow out of it. Or Eamon will kill him. Either one. [if: Alistair alive]

Teagan: Which one? Connor is well enough. He's almost through the most trying years.

Teagan: [Alistair king] Alistair, on the other hand, seems to be just entering them. Again.

Teagan: [Alistair exiled] While Alistair… that boy is going to make me old before my time.

Teagan: [Alistair warden] I haven't heard from Alistair in some time. But he's a Grey Warden. He should be able to look after himself.

[vigilskeep]

these bad boys are the kind of dress i imagine arlessa isolde wearing, personally

[inquisitorgaywarden]

I wish I could play DA:O for the first time again, just to experience what I felt when this happened

[ansburg]

DRAGON AGE ORIGINS REPLAY: 6/?

✨ bann teagan's new groove ✨

[hallaslin]

Connor has been Teagan's son this whole time and Isolde getting Eamon to send Alistair away for fear of him being Eamons bastard is made so much more interesting by this being confirmed. She sends this boy raised in the kennels with dogs away from home because she believes he has more of a claim to Redcliff than her son, and if he were Eamons bastard and the truth got out, no doubt Isolde, and Teagan would be punished - likely executed - and Connor taken from her. She protects her son so that she won't lose him, and then he develops magic, and she loses him anyway.

Alistair being back, Connor an abomination, Eamon poisoned, Teagan in the village defending from monsters. Maybe it made making the sacrifice easier, knowing that at least she was dying to save her son and not because his true parentage was discovered.

[elfcollector]

All mages are beacons that attract the attention of Fade spirits. Because of this, they are trained and tested by the Circle to ensure that they can withstand attacks from malevolent Fade creatures that seek entry into the waking world. Untrained Connor drew the attention of a powerful demon that tore the Veil asunder. He was freed from the demon's power at a terrible price: the cost of his mother's life.

[anneapocalypse]

Something I did not pick up on before is that World of Thedas implies Alistair was sent to the monastery during Isolde's pregnancy--before Connor was born. Which means we actually can pretty closely pin down Connor's age, as he was born soon after Alistair was sent away--so in either 9:20 Dragon or early 9:21.

[vigilskept]

actually i think the most compelling version of the guerrin failmarriage is where connor is legitimate but isolde has been carrying on an emotional affair with her husband’s brother anyway

[perenians]

sometimes i think about how @wrdn-tabris and i have constructed this elaborate world where eamon and isolde's kids are mages because isolde has a lyrium snorting habit and may or may not be cheating on eamon with teagan and/or multiple templars (?). and then i wonder how the fuck we got here