#mages am i right

[cringeismybride]

Just imagined a dragon age "unpredictable magic is bad" mage meeting a TES "i dont know where my bound weapons come from" mage and having an absolute heart attack the moment they start explaining they enchant weapons by using captured souls of their foes on blades and that each soul gem has a pocket dimension where the being that was captured is deprived of an afterlife.

On the other hand, a dragon age mage talking about circles and how they're sistematically bad and opressive and a tes mage just going "you let people without magic control you? have you considered just killing them?"

[itseghost]

very straightforward redraw because this quest and this whole scene have been ON my mind.

[tragicblondie]

thinking about the ending of dragon age 2 as a mage hawke who sided with the mages at the end of the fifth blight, the warden defeats the archdemon and saves ferelden. they are paraded through denerim to the sounds of cheering crowds. if they don't survive, their memory lives on in a tale of great heroism and sacrifice for years to come. the inquisitor celebrates at skyhold with the rest of their companions after they beat corypheus, the threat finally ended, the inquisition a success.

but not hawke. you can fight with everything you have to support the mages, but there is no grand fanfare when it is over. the villain succumbs to corruption and dies unceremoniously - you don’t even get the satisfaction of striking the killing blow. you can’t get a round at the hanged man to celebrate. it’s time to go. you and your friends can never sit around your table at the hanged man again. you can’t be seen here when the templars come to clean up the mess. nothing will be the same. you have given seven years of your life trying to hold kirkwall together, accepted your accolades and played the part of champion, and you watch it fall apart anyway. and how much of that is your fault? this city has been stained in your blood since before you could remember, since before the blood was your own.

you lost your sister when you lost your first home. even so, you tried to live by the advice you gave fenris - when you stop running, you build a life. the estate that you clawed your family back into stands looming and empty. it is the last place you saw your mother alive, and you still can't bear to touch her things, and you will never even see her room again. bodahn and sandal are making preparations to leave for orlais, orana will find other work with the skills she's learned, and the house will remain, a hollow testament to your family's legacy. gamlen will hear only the stories. your brother fought by your side when it mattered, despite everything. even so, he will stay behind, and you might never see him again.

no, there is no time for a celebration. instead you get a cautious acknowledgement from the templars, a tense goodbye, and then you can never go home again. for the second time. you thought you could build a life, and you tried. you held on as long as you could, you made friends, you fell in love, you clung to the last vestiges of your family, but most of them will be forced to leave your side anyway. you won, but even that wasn't enough.

[tanoraqui]

you know that post, which I can’t find bc tumblr, about a princess who goes into an arranged marriage fully planning to assassinate her husband and rule alone as queen, but then her husband is like “oh thank god, you’ll manage the country while I study my beetles!” and spends all his time in the lab with his special interest? And then (again, bc tumblr) it’s like, plot twist: instead of being interesting not very good people, she was a benevolent socialist monarch who improved conditions for the poor at the expense of the rich, and he was deliberately breeding a beetle to help farmers?

Kabru/Laois Dungeonmeshi-ass dynamic. I encourage people to treat this as a fic prompt.

[blightdaddy]

"Close your eyes. Take a breath. Slow, deep." - EMMRICH VOLKARIN

[zkretchy]

It's 2am and I can't sleep, have this silly doodle

[vaguely-concerned]

the relationship between the chantry and the mortalitasi in nevarra is SO fucking funny. the carefully politic and civil syncretism of it all. the ‘I’ll refrain from scratching your back to bloody shreds if you refrain from scratching mine :)’. left hand politely averting its eyes from whatever the fuck the right hand is doing merrily up to its elbow in entrails because it usually knows what it’s doing I guess. speak softly, and have an army of the restless dead ready to go banapants horrorshow bonkers if you don’t get to tend to them. We Receive: being able to keep doing our goth thing mostly unimpeded. You receive: us not raising the great majority to protest your unwelcome meddling. render unto the chantry what is the chantry's and unto the watchers what is theirs (or, with all possible courtesy you understand, else…)

[lucien-aventine]

Tank + Healer

[lunarharp]

played dragon age 2...just simple scribbles

[ebbpettier]

just remembered i have the power to draw whatever i want forever

[robo-dino-puppies]

dragon age 2 | anders

[crows-of-buckets]

I keep toying with the idea of a rook who tricked Solas into the fade being haunted by the Dread Wolf in their dreams.

Their dreams always have a presence lingering just outside, a dark shadow, a wolf who prowls along the edges, stalking. Sometimes they're nightmares, where Rook is haunted by their regret while the wolf chases them, and other times it's peaceful dreams, but they always know he's there.

Something something parallel to that one solavellan end slide in inquisition but like. The bad version

[reagan-the-saunders]

Herald of The Dread Wolf

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[madou-dilou]

"Gods -Sarai, get up. Just -what am I going to tell them ?"

[mrsthunderkin]

He's not keeping it together, tho

[hauntingblue]

ARCANE EPISODE 7!!!!

MY GOD I WASNT READY FOR ANY OF THIS!!! WHAT WAS THAT!!!

Also ekko wallpaper I got with my fries lmao