#nellia lavellan

[drathe]

Sar’een and Nellia used to practice kisses.

:3

@saarebitch THE CUTE IS STRONG WITHIN THEM

[teknon]

Since I’m in That Mood tonight, here’s some little known Exalted facts!

 It was only supposed to be 30 chapters long! I just kept finding more and more ways to develop the story, and got bigger and grander ideas for how it would all play out. Eventually, I just decided I was going to write the end of Dragon Age. LoL 

There was originally going to be a stupid love triangle thing spanning a lifetime with Elain. It was bad.

I rushed through writing Hallowed so I could start Exalted because I was so excited about it (and I hated what I was doing to Elain in Hallowed).

Ser Barris was supposed to be Sar’een’s love interest. Scrapped that because me and drathe felt like it wasn’t going to be developed enough (or consistent enough) to justify it. I don’t like to half-ass romances!

Bida was always marked to die in the fic. Llyn was not. The decision to off him was nearly last minute!

Elain was originally slated to end up as the Duchess of Wycome. That was scratched. I decided that it was so much more important that Wycome stayed in the hands of the city elves and Sal instead of inserting Elain and Clan Lavellan in the leadership positions. 

The High Council was originally supposed to conclude in Wycome too. My plans changed when I decided to revamp what I planned to do to end Exalted and started plotting how the elves rising up with Solas would play out in the world I built up.

Heliwr’s name was originally “Solas”. (HUGE CRINGE LOL)

“Heliwr” is the Welsh word for “hunter” or “huntsman”

When Heliwr was born, Revas was meant to do two things: first, he was supposed to talk to his mom about what it meant to be a “good man” and confess he didn’t think he was. Sohta was going to tell him basically, “Then be one”. That would’ve led to the second thing: he was supposed to talk to Donovan and Donovan was going to ask him to spare his family. Revas was going to oblige. I nixed this whole exchange because I felt overall, it was wildly out of character for the direction for Revas I really, really wanted to write. It would’ve worked out, but it wouldn’t have been the Revas I’ve gotten to now, and I love how he’s turned out.

The tension with Paeris and an ultimate showdown was originally planned with Elain in mind. Over time, I realized that would’ve been pretty shallow and unsatisfying, given their cold relationship. It’s okay though...that tension works so much better with Paeris and Sar’een! ;)

Nellia started out as a joke of the overly romantic, overly attached character with no aspirations of her own. She turned into a strong, interesting character in her own right :)

Elain and Revas’ vow-exchanging scene had been planned since I originally plotted out Exalted. Her symbolically dropping the Mantle for him was the first line I wrote on my outline. <3

I played with the idea of having Sohta and Den have a whoopsie baby and give Revas a little sister. It was silly so I trashed it lol.

And the last tidbit is......Elain was supposed to give birth during the Blitz in Wycome, but I thought it would’ve been tacky and cliche. 

I’ve had some good ideas and really, really bad ideas with my writing and what I’ve published, but I feel overall, where I am at now and what I plan now are the best things that could happen. There’s no more expectations, no stupid obligations to include everyone in my story, and no trying to please anyone but myself. I’m confident in my plans, and can’t wait to continue sharing this story with all my friends <3