#kinlochs

[kinlochs]

FORGIVING WHO YOU ARE FOR WHAT YOU STAND TO GAIN. JUST KNOW THAT IF YOU HIDE, IT DOESN'T GO AWAY.

#KINLOCHS : HERO OF FERELDEN. COMMANDER OF THE GREY.

drank from the chalice with mei. she/they, 23. verses for the entire dragon age series. psd.

[dcvium]

@kinlochs asked:

it is not the strength of the body, but the strength of the spirit.

A soft rumble sounded deep within her throat. Like a considering thing. "Personally, I think it's both. Spirit's great and good until the body gives out. Maybe it can help you go for longer, push more, but eventually? Eventually, the body will give up." She... assumed? Truthfully, her body seemed unable to give up, at times.

[weishaupts]

smash or pass................. all of the inquisition's advisors

SMASH OR PASS / ACCEPTING !

"oh... oh, that's interesting. i think...." she pauses for a moment, pursing her lips. "smash. all of them."

[miidnighters]

@kinlochs said "that was a close call, wasn't it?"

"You can say that again."

Morgan is scrawny, and scrappy - nothing like the bulk of the man next to him. He wasn't any sort of fighter at all.

So it would have been much more of a close call without Cassian's help, and Morgan was very much aware of it.

"I appreciate you stepping in."

[kinglywarden]

prompts ( accepting ) @kinlochs: you're making "the face" again.

The flush over his cheeks couldn't be hidden, and Alistair has to steady himself into not sputtering in response. It was a known habit of his, getting so deep into concentration that his face gets away from him. It'd been that way even in Redcliffe, helping the farmhands muck out the stables, even they had noticed it. The revered mother and sisters also had noticed, and they did not take kindly to what they thought was him being a fool during prayer or reading. It was embarrassing, and something he hoped he had grown out of by now.

Studying Cass's face for only a moment, he ducks his head, forcing his eyes back onto his armor and the neat swipes of a rag over the smooth metal. " I hope it was at least a decent face. " He remarks dryly, truly not picking up on if the other was jesting with him or not. Even after all their time together on their travels, people could still be hard to read, and Alistair was definitely not the best at reading one's intentions.

" Wait you call it the face? Is it something you talk about often? " The question is out before he could stop himself, and the grimace that follows also isn't easily hidden. " Forget I asked, I'm not sure if I even want to know. "

[apostated]

✿

PRE ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP ⸺ CASSIAN AMELL.

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[inquisitorismone]

ok so the point i was going to make re: the circle tower and ferelden geopolitics was that the fact that all of ferelden only having one single circle, is CRAZY. orlais, a country of similar size, has FOUR; each(!!) marcher city has their own. antiva and the anderfels also have 1 circle each and they are respectively #1 a nation the quarter of the size of ferelden and #2 a barren wasteland of a place. and this is pre-blight! and i can believe that ferelden has a lower population than orlais, but i struggle to accept that ferelden has a quarter the population that orlais does. even nevarra, by all accounts an old and dying state, has 2.

there are clearly templars stationed at many chantries throughout ferelden, but the idea that they could possibly find every single mage in the country and send them to the tower is preposterous. ferelden simply does not have the infrastructure for that, neither to spread out over the whole country to hunt apostates nor to contain them all in one place. (how many people can that tower handle???)

this suggests that ferelden is generally more lax about apostates than elsewhere, which is reinforced both in da2 and inquisition when we get word that alistair (in da2) offered refuge to escaped kirkwall mages in ferelden and that alistair and/or anora (in inquisition) allowed the mage rebellion quarter in redcliffe. you could argue that alistair's decision might have been influenced by the events of dao but anora is (i say this lovingly) a bit of a hardass! rather than being moved by mage assistance in dao i would suggest instead that she is reflecting a larger ferelden attitude towards mages, which is less harsh than orlesian or marcher attitudes

we know that mages in the circle can be called upon in times of war to assist their country's army (i think that was mentioned in dao but it's stated several times in the novels). something to consider, then, is that circles are not only for containing mages and protecting people from them; but they are also for the consolidation of magic as a military power. orlais and the marcher states are creating armies. ferelden, with its sort of implicit acknowledgement that the tower doesn't hold all the mages in the country, lacks that military resource. even in the stolen throne there's only one single mage working on the ferelden side in contrast to quite a few on the orlesian side

which is why it's #1 crazy that the fereldens successfully liberated themselves from orlais #2 crazy that they defeated the blight and, most importantly, it's why you should NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A DOG LORD!!!!!

[rosieofcorona]

sometimes i like the versions w/o backgrounds just as much, tbh

[sadmages]

Rotting my brain again

[dcvium]

@kinlochs asked:

i can’t believe you drank that swill at the tavern.

There was a pause and her head cocked to the side some. A confused little gesture. Swill? The ale? "---Was that not what it normally tastes like? I thought it was just bad, so I was going to grin and bear it." All alcohol was bad, of course. It all burned and made your head fuzzy. It was bitter and vile. Red wines even caused headaches. "I don't drink much."

[john-laurens]

I swear this is just how John Laurens wrote "such." But. It sure does look like something else.

(John Laurens to Francis Kinloch, September 30, 1776)

[weishaupts]

22, 31, 56 !

character development questions / accepting !

022. What is the most beautiful thing they’ve ever seen?

the flowers in lavendel. after destroying the blight eruption, seeing the tree in that cave nearly brought athera to tears. the area she grew up in was finally starting to heal, and she was the one to bring it about.

031. Are they superstitious about anything?

not particularly, no. when she was younger, she was, but she kind of grew out of superstition after getting older and joining the wardens.

056. Has your character ever struck someone in anger?

many times. from other elves in her clan as an adolescent to other wardens, she's been in quite a few scraps. the one she's most proud of? knocking out the first warden during the siege of weisshaupt.

[kirkwallguy]

top surgery being canon in thedas is crazy tbh we need to get into this. who knows how to do it. where are they learning. the only other surgery canonised in the series is amputation so we've just doubled the number of surgeries healers know how to do. next they're going to figure out appendectomies.

[miidnighters]

@kinlochs said "can you see how many fingers i'm holding up?"

Barty sits in the dirt, blinking stupidly at the man towering over him and holding up fingers in his face.

"Yes."

Did the other think he was dumb? He'd fallen off a horse, not gone completely blind. So yes, he could see the fingers he was holding up, even if there was probably too many of them to what should be on a regular hand.

That wasn't a problem, surely?

[ixis-stuff]

i was just trying to draw laurens and for some reason these guys appeared as well, weird, can anybody else see them too

[my-deer-friend]

18th century Carolina boys don't like London, huh.