#loghain playlist

[dragonageshitposting]

*Adds "Non-Stop" from Hamilton to our Loghain playlist*

Wrath/Desmond: "That's Loghain to Wren ..and Alexander too not gonna lie"

Ctrl: "AND Cailan. Man Loghain is just a hater-"

-Ctrl

[tenojan-in-tevinter]

At the landsmeet and I cant stop picturing my warden yelling the beginning of this song at Loghain, barely being held back by his companions Im dead I'm dying

[milesmentis]

Playlist Ask meme: 75 and 89. 😌

75) "All That You Are" from the game Lost Ember

Taking a big timeskip ahead with these ones! So, since Alistair isn't king in our worldstate, he's not the one who does the events in the comic Those Who Speak: Heulwen does. And of course, she brings Loghain. This song is his emotional denouement, after finding Maric in the Fade ... alive! ... only to lose him yet again. Heulwen finds him outside in the rain crying in a way he hadn't since his father's death 30 years earlier. This is the most gentle of the Loghain specific songs since it's his moment of closure, and I think it pairs well with the two Maric songs on the list to make a little mini arc inside the playlist itself.

89) "Predator and Prey" by Griffin Puatu and Jonah Scott

Jumping to Inquisition now for Sollavellan but make it gay! This song is based on the anime Beastars and has the exact perfect mix of pining and mutual destruction for Solas and Telahn. The great thing about making this relationship canon to the FusionVerse specifically is that Telahn's not the Inquisitor, so he'll still have both hands when he attempts to throttle his ex.

[idolsgf]

it’s the blorbos

i spent way too long making these please listen

also shoutout to @seriousames for sending me a song i sculpted most of ashari’s personality around, bless you <3

the cover photos are from @/nakdraws picrew you can find on twitter, they’re cute and i wanted consistency

[shivunin]

Character songs tag game

From @demandthedoodles' open tag :)

(sorry, i know this is the third one i've done. it's just that I really really love music)

Anyways, here are some songs for my Tabris's major fight scenes c:

Wen vs. Vaughan:

"One taste of blood is not enough to satisfy/take your last breath and get a rush/gotta die to feel alive"

Wen vs. Uldred

"Digging deeper in your pockets all that's left is a hole/you start to panic (finally! a sign of a soul)/ maybe now you'll drop a level and you'll join who you speak for"

Wen vs. Loghain

"Do you think you can beat me? Why don't you wait until you get out of bed?/And you're throwing out your punches at the rate of snow"

Wen vs. the Archdemon

"For all of us who've seen the light/ Salute the dead and lead the fight/ Who gives a damn if we lose the war?/ Let the walls come down, let the engines roar"

[thiefbird]

Mmmmmmm Would That I (Hozier) is so good and like. Bittersweet.

[brightaxe]

i haven't linked any of them yet, but i've been making so many dragon age playlists lately & i think it's time that i slide them out into the ether. some of them are finished, but most of them are still wips!!

kehda mercar. ( x varric )

varric tethras.

suri cadash. ( x blackwall)

hawthorn ingellvar. ( x davrin)

davrin.

emerence trevelyan. ( x solas )

constance hawke. ( x isabela )

meredy hawke. ( x anders )

anais hawke. ( x dumar )

ecgwynn cousland. ( x loghain )

jehanne thorne. ( x emmrich )

[maxthetruman]

its real now bc im making a loghain/warden playlist

[enlichened]

3,7,8,13,21, and 26 for the dragon age questions :-)

(sorry if this is too many for one ask you dont have to answer all of them)

YAY you dont have to be sorry! i love talking about all my guys.....

but i WILL limit myself to surana/hawke/samahl unless someone else has a compelling answer so this post isnt 6 hours long (all mages... all at least adjacently men... sad)

3. Opinion on blood magic

surana finds blood magic intriguing but distasteful for himself. he didn't mind jowan being a blood mage after he got over the initial shock (rarely is what the templar said true) but hes wary. both because of the history he's heard and also for himself specifically (he doesn't trust himself with the power to hurt himself or others). (battlemage/arcane warrior)

hawke had never met a blood mage before merrill (that he knew of, malcolm having used blood magic before) and after merrill never met a blood mage he liked. unfortunately i think merrill reads as an exception to him rather than the rules being faulty themselves. while he doesnt mind merrill taking some of his own blood/power, he finds it hard to reckon with the issues of hurt/consent otherwise. he prefers magic that's very. overt and representative. theres no underlying tricks, just raw power. plus after what happens to his mother, he REALLY ends up with a kneejerk negative reaction to anyone but merrill using it. (lightning/force mage).

Samahl is wary of anything that templars use or focus on (blood magic being some of both). He has a weak stomach AND he doesn't trust the majority of blood mages (that he's met or heard of), so he would never want to use it himself. he would be okay with mages using it ethically as long as they kept it away from him. also despite being a dorianmancer the weak stomach applies to necromancy too <3 sorry dorian. (rift mage)

otherwise, positive to negative: amell (blood mage), cousland (reaver. also bloodfreak), 2nd hawke (also reaver. also merrillmancer), mahariel (merrill stan/romancer), aeducan, tabris, brosca, and kadan adaar (despite romancing a reaver (bull)).

The rest of these are going under a readmore... bc i am verbose..

7. if they had to choose one person most important to them, who would that be?

in the interest of being interesting about these i will pick one other person Besides their romantic partner. bc they are all very in love.

surana (romanced zevran): alistair. besties for the resties.

hawke (romanced fenris): varric and carver duel for this honor in his head every day. the rankings can shift depending on the moment (reread a bit in the tale of the champion where varric besmirched him. remembered carver being a cheeky bastard. etc). fenris understands being outranked by sibling concern or varrichawke bromance (never lasts long). EDIT: ALSO MY FRIENDS INQUISITOR MYRNA. he loves her very very much forever. fenris understands this less but hes shrugging

samahl (romanced dorian, as mentioned): its solas unfortunately. its solas. like 3 of his whole songs on his playlist are about solas. its the friend/trusted advisor/mentor thing. and then solas doesnt even think of him as a real person (or at least tries not to). its crushing. he didn't even care about the arm.

8. Who do they hate the most, and do they have an arch-nemesis?

surana cant find it in himself to HATE loghain, but he puts up an effort for alistair. boring answer but he mostly hates Systems rather than individuals - the moment he gains personal knowledge of someone and their motivations he can't Wholly hate them anymore. even taliesin who he was VERY ready to hurt before he could hurt zevran, he heard him and knew that he couldn't hate him. how could he hate anyone else who loved zevran. who WAS zevran even a little. he even feels bad for killing arl howe after nathaniel shows up (not enough to regret it, but still)

hawke - meredith. danarius. cullen. the lack of wind on a hot day. as a joke he'll be nemeses with anyone but for REAL its people with power who abuse it, and cullen because of that and also personal vendetta. cullen broke his nose AGAIN.

samahl doesn't hate anybody (too tired) while also hating everybody who's convenient. blames cullen in the universe in which his clan dies (not real to me). blames corypheus blames samson blames cassandra blames solas. unfortunately what this all means is that he hates and blames himself. he cant even be mad at solas in the end. he couldnt even be mad at corypheus or the nightmare or alexius. but hes very normal about it i promise.

notable mention to mahariel who hates duncan the most (but is nice in front of alistair, who is grieving).

13. their thoughts on the Grey Warden order?

surana is. fine with them. he wouldnt have chosen to be a grey warden and he doesnt particularly like doing it, but he doesnt begrudge them for needing help during a blight - especially after duncan and all those with him died during ostagar. after the blight its.. something to do. and he might as well make it worth it that he's SO blighted - that he'll die sooner rather than later - so that nobody else has to.

Hawke thinks theyre overrated - he's killed a LOT of darkspawn thank youuuuu and they also failed to keep corypheus down (not that he did any better). hes very bitter at the wardens for keeping their secrets about the calling and ALSO bitter that carver seems to be enjoying life more in their ranks than anytime with him. or at least that he doesnt hear about it when he isn't. scared for his dumb baby brother all the time and he doesnt even call.

samahl respects what they do and what theyve done, but doesnt care to think of them as infallible. because they arent! hes a little irritated when blackwall goes on but that becomes mostly amusement once he finds out about blackwalls whole thing. he does NOT like what the weisshaupt wardens did, but that doesn't mean the whole organization is busted - just that there shouldn't be room for ALL of these types of things to happen (corypheus, weisshaupt, hawke.). he actually really loves the history though, and didn't mind hearing blackwall talk about it when it was history rather than just flattering. (would have a hero thing about surana WAY more than he did hawke. sorry hawke).

EDIT: that was not the weisshaupt wardens that was the uhhh. whoever the here lies the abyss ones were. you know.

21. what is their biggest regret?

surana doesnt WISH he'd never been a grey warden - someone had to defeat the archdemon - but he does regret that he'll have to leave zevran behind one day. i imagine theyre looking for a cure, but not hard. theyve discussed this at length. (i wrote a little thing once of surana informing zevran about the whole calling thing, but its VERY old now).

hawke. his whole family. kirkwall. is everything youve ever done a regret?. he regrets the fact that anders didnt come to him and let him say how fucking stupid the bombing was before he did it. he would have helped him with ANYTHING else. he regrets what happened to his sister, his mother, to carver even if he is still alive. to his father, at the very beginning. letting carver go to ostagar alone. not saying anything good enough to have his friends believe in him enough to trust him. merrill's clan hating her in part because of him. not being enough for anyone to stay for, after the fact. holding fenris there (false) when he was the exception. letting varric write that fucking book about him. not going when varric first told him they were looking for him, and going when it meant he would die. not being able to sit still without a sword to throw himself on.

samahl. solas again. dorian leaving too, but thats him being so strong and supporting his lover from afar. but not being enough for solas to reconsider what he was doing? LOGICALLY he knows it wasnt about him but who gives a shit what logic says.

26. Do they get a happy ending?

Surana. happy-ish? defeated TWO world disasters i think he deserves to be zevrans trophy wife dealing with His stuff for a little while. he's going to die from blight any day now probably irt da4 but hes in love and still talks to his friends if he can. he makes sigrun stay closeby so he can remind her not to die before him. she lets him <33.

HAWKE lives in purgatory right now. both because there are two different timelines (the one i played vs the one i wrote with my friend + her inquisitor). in the first hes alive and safe from the fade. deeply depressed but living with fenris and dog and letters from his People and killing slavers. what more could a guy ask for at the end of the day. in the OTHER timeline he gets left in the fade. BUTTTT i imagine his friends band together to get him out. because i love. reforming the team. and also he needs to deal with that deep depression by living through more struggles. his favorite. fenris might kill him when theyre all done saving him though.

samahl.... we'll see wont we. hes fine with no arm hes.. less fine with dorian not being there. but hes got his friends even if he's disbanded the inquisition. he gets to go back to his clan and cry into the keepers arms for a minute. he gets to help teach the kids how to control their magic, even if his has suffered from . probably no longer being a rift mage? he gets to LIVE and not be under 2390248 stresses every day. until datv. but whateverrr hes chillin rn. sneaking into dorians house every now and then and helping his clan and helping the red jennies (SERA..) and giving leliana (divine in his timeline) advice he is NOT qualified to give. helping cassandra undo tranquility. its a life and its to be had.

shoutout to mahariel for either dying or becoming a father (accident and not even his) or being in a strange relationship with merrill and/or tamlen and/or tamlens ghost. shoutout to tabris for having gay sex on the daily with the new divine. shoutout to brosca for the horrors of motherhood to a god souled son. she followed morrigan and never regretted it but went. god. hes a little weird isnt he (full of love). shoutout to cousland for their WEIRD fucking thing with both anora (queen) and nathaniel (queen). shoutout to hawke 2 for being 1 ingredient in a very isabela and merrill sandwich for the rest of forever and not even coming when the inquisition called.

[inquisitor-julia]

So! not exactly sure how I want to format this but here I am to babble about my OCs starting with the original love of my life: Elsanna Cousland

Putting this giant post under the cut so I don't clog up anyone's dash!

So to start off, just the basics:

Status: Alive and well, Queen of Ferelden

Name Meaning: “Powerful Sparrow”

Full Name: Elsanna Norette Cousland [Theirin]

Gender: Female

Pronouns: She/Her

Date of Birth: 15th of Firstfall 9:12 Dragon

Age: 18 (at the start of Origins)

Class: Rogue (Dual-Wielder)

Specializations: Duelist, Assassin, Shadow

Romance: Alistair

Shares World-State With: Serafina Hawke and Nayeli Trevelyan

Height: 5'8"

Family: Eleanor (Mother)(Dead), Bryce (Father)(Dead), Fergus (Older Brother), Oriana (Sister-In-Law)(Dead), Oren (Nephew)(Dead), Cassia (Sister-In-Law), Eleanora (Niece), Bryson (Nephew), Vilaida (Mabari)

Children: Alessandra (Daughter)

MBTI: ENFJ

Astrology: Scorpio [3rd Decan]

Pinterest Board

Playlist

Romance Playlist (for sure needs updating)

Her in game decisions:

she recruits and keeps all of the available companions

she’s friends with all of her companions

her mabari is named Vilaida

sided with the mages

protected redcliffe

helped connor with the help of the circle of magi and isolde and connor lived

did not defile the sacred ashes

made peace between the elves and werewolves

Avernus allowed to live and continue experiments humanely

did not drink Avernus’ potion and did not destroy it

destroyed the anvil and sided with cairidin

Bhelen rules Orzammar

“killed” flemeth (by which i mean she absolutely fought flemeth but obviously flemeth isn’t actually dead so…)

Loghain was executed by Alistair

Alistair rules Ferelden with Elsanna as his Queen

The dark ritual was done by Alistair

Elsanna killed the archdemon and lived

Elsanna became warden commander and arlessa of amaranthine

recruited all awakening companions

friends with all awakening companions

protected both vigil’s keep and amaranthine

killed the architect

let morrigan leave through the eluvian

Some posts I've made about her previously

Aesthetic Post

Infodump Post

Short Fic

Elsanna and Four Colors

16 Factors Test

Wedding Dress

Warden or Queen Ask

Sad Cousland Headcanon

Elsi and Alistair Gifset

Feelings About Loghain

Excuse You I Am Your Queen

Feelings About Wardens

Hogwarts Aesthetic (no i don't engage with HP anymore but i still like this post)

Eamon vs. Alessandra

In Five Gifs

Leliana and Shale

Happy Ending

Kiss, Marry, Get Drinks With

Dog and Ser Pounce

How Deeply She Feels

Elsanna's Theme

Dollmakers 1 2 3 4 5

Art of her:

by changelingsandothernonsense

by paranoidfactors

by junie-junette

by mirandemia

by me

by deeplord

I know this post is really just links but this is just to start me off talking about her! I have more info written down (somewhere) that I'm going to post and I'm open to any questions! :)

[v-arbellanaris]

5 more songs???

@demandthedoodles ( who tagged me here ) i assume this is the music meme, again?? LMAOOO slkdfjsdf okay well, five songs! this time from my kal/loghain playlist, wink wink. so, in no particular order:

black out days (cover) - joel sunny

who is the monster? - ha geun young & kim yesol

so far - ólafur arnalds ft. arnór dan

meaning - nathan wagner

make up your mind - florence & the machine

i'm only tagging @demandthedoodles >:)

[druckkugelschreiber]

Me casually adding „me and the devil“ to the Nydhena x Loghain Playlist

Nothing to see here

Wish I had the motivation so I could make an edit for them to that song

[milesmentis]

I love the playlist ask, ahhh! I'm going to ask about: #1, #65 and #53!

1) "New River" by the Oh Hellos

Starting off the playlist (and the asks) with the theme for my #1 brain rot characters: the Couslands. This song is my Bryce and Eleanor theme, for the rebellion as they were falling in love specifically. It's got nautical themes and a simple chorus that feels great to belt at the top of your lungs. It's a jaunty pick me up that sets the tone for the playlist as a whole: no matter how great the trials, take heart that we will overcome. Also the line -

But the river takes her shape from every tempest she abides. And like her, you'll be made new again

was the inspiration for my Mac Eanraig family motto: like the Sea, we Endure.

65) "If You Care" by Evan Barlow

Oooof. This pick is pure angst and comes from what I consider the "PTSD Suite" of the playlist. It's Loghain’s farewell song for when he is deep in his self-loathing era and cuts off his relationship with Heulwen. Their first attempt at romance is ... fraught to say the least and both are wracked with crippling guilt. This song is his decision point: to end things and accept his reassignment before he inevitably destroys her too. Enemies to Lovers never misses 💔

You wanna stay / I wanna let you

I'm too far gone / I can't protect you

53) "Born for This" by the Score

Another Cousland song! This is Daren’s battle anthem and sort of character centerpiece. He is a person who defines himself strongly by his role as a defender and champion and this song really gets to the crux of that. It's not an angry song, but it's driven... focused. I like to describe him as my Unmovable Object: once he's taken a stand, that's it. Also because of the lines -

We come from different places but have the same name

These words that I write are for someone like me to know you're not alone

I like to imagine it directed to all the other Couslands I know and love ... all the other Suranas and Mahariels and Broscas. It's a rallying cry: you're strong enough and you're not on your own.

[camelliagwerm]

may i ask why u struggle with starting up pillars of eternity? also for the writer ask! 4, 8, 9, 17, 30

I think with Pillars of Eternity, it is a combination of I haven’t yet found a class that I enjoy (-- and I have tried a lot) with a personality that will mesh well with the majority of the companions that I’ve come across. The most meaningful progress I have made was with a Bleak Walker Paladin, but from what I’ve played, there’s barely any companions who would be in favour of the matching dispositions aside from Durance who…. I enjoy evil aligned characters but he makes me extremely uncomfortable.  I do not like Durance. I feel like if I want to play without him, I’m pigeon-holing myself into Priest and I didn’t mesh with it as well as I would’ve liked. 

This is relating to the class thing specifically but the real time with pause aspect feels… not particularly great as someone who prefers turn-based. Certain classes I do enjoy definitely function better in turn-based vs. real time with pause in my experience - often ones that involve micromanaging things like buffs and heals (e.g. cleric/priest.) Soooo basically the combination of all of that leaves me either suffering through as a Priest so I don’t have Durance but struggling with RTWP or being a no-brain Fighter or Rogue but suffering with Durance (yes. I could have a merc but I don’t like using mercs simply because they don’t add anything in terms of reactivity – this is one of the main reasons I barely used the Graveguard in WotR apart from Delamere with the exception of Staunton when finding Minagho in act 4.)

Also – the lore feels incredibly dense and harder to get to grips with compared to Tyranny. I don’t mind some dense world-building here and there but it really feels like they’re bombarding you with it in PoE.

4. What sort of music does your OC listen to?

So if we are going based off what sort of things I have on their playlists:

Valerius – primarily classical music and classical rock – e.g. Bon Jovi,  KISS, Alice Cooper, Queen. I also think he would be a big fan of the Gregorian Chant trend (e.g. the iconic  Bring Me To Life by Gregorian)

Leonelle – I checked what the flavour of music her playlist predominantly is and it’s something called Alt-Z, however. I just like to call it Edgy / Dark Pop – Zolita, Halsey, Billie Eilish, Natalia Kills, Lana del Rey, Dove Cameron.

8. Do you have any OC family trees?

Not any formal ones mapped out, but I have them in my head for Valerius, Leonelle and Magni since they’re probably the most important ones to have in mind (especially Magni). I need to find a family tree maker or something similar.

Valerius' family is currently sitting at three generations - his mother, father, stepfather as well as Camellia's parents as one; then him, his sisters and Camellia; then Violeta and Mirela as the youngest so far. 

Leonelle's family tree right now is two generations with an Erinys ancestor of some relation on her mother's side. Her parents being one generation, then her and her siblings. 

Magni's is the largest. Obviously you've got them, Bhelen and Trian, with Endrin and their late mother above them. But then there's Bhelen's branch of the family with Rica and thus involving the Broscas. Then Mardy and Gorim Jr. And Loghain, Celia and Anora. And Flemeth, Morrigan and Kieran. 

9. Favourite OC?

Probably Leonelle or Valerius; Valerius definitely occupies the most brainspace but Leonelle has been around in some form for a long time and I think it stands as a testament to her that she’s been around for so long (nearly eight years)

17. What are some tropes and character dynamics found in your WIPs?

Generally speaking I try not to sum it up by tropes but I think one of the core ones is that there’s usually some element of the Lady and Her Knight dynamic – though primarily it is a darker inversion of sorts (for example – Valerius/Camellia and Leonelle/Jaethal are both darker inversions and in Leonelle/Jaethal’s case a queer variant of it too.) Religion also comes up a weird amount as well, which I think has come about as a result of Valerius and Jaethal both being Urgathoan. There’s something especially about Urgathoa’s tenets – hedonism; gluttony; death –  that makes for an absolute banging flavour.

30. How are you doing? <3

Oh you know…. (in the same tone as how all white people say it when they’re going through it.)

[herearedragons]

that ask game thing! for iridiel tabris, she's my dao grey warden <3

1. alistair-esque personality

2. romances leliana

3. grew up on tales of loghain and maric's adventures

Song: Imogen Heap - Not Now But Soon

Not now but soon The most beautiful light Will wake us to pillow fighting excitement

Not now but soon Right into every corner Satellites maneuvering beams of change

Standing by the best days of our lives Magnificent, the best days of our lives Bing bang boom, the best days of our lives Are coming right up if we can just get through this one

Who said it was over? It's as good as it gets But we got a few tricks up our sleeves

Reasoning: I'm getting kind of a hopeful vibe? I went through several songs and none of them 100% fit what I was going for, so I just picked the least popular one. My other candidates were Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine and Warriors by Imagine Dragons btw

Level of confidence: so low. I am embarrassed. Your Tabris sounds so nice but I was so sure that you would send in a PoE character that I was completely blindsided by this. If nothing else, know that you have outplayed me. 10% confident that I got even a little close.

send me 3 facts about your OC, watch me try to come up with an addition to their playlist

[thiefbird]

Hey fellow Loghain simps, give me recommendations for a Warden x Loghain playlist?