#oc: ward ingellvar

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Main reason to play a Mourn Watcher missing home is so Solas can scream "What have you done to my house?" in horror at you.

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BALDUR'S GATE 3 ──

Phillipa Marwood - tag | ♡ gale

Aerona Zonvasses - tag | ♡ shadowheart

Marik Thayer - tag | ♡ astarion

Varyamë of the Lythari - tag | ♡ lae'zel

Prim Skarnak - tag | ♡ halsin

CALL OF DUTY ──

Jacqueline Dubois - tag | ♡ john price

Drew Guidry - tag | ♡ helen espinoza

Holly McDowell - tag | ♡ esteban rojas

Alessandro Messina - tag | ♡ marnie daniels

Tatum Maslany - tag | ♡ /

Christian Morrisey - tag | ♡ /

Dove Hart - tag | ♡ /

CYBERPUNK 2077 ──

Vanessa 'V' Lennox - tag | ♡ panam palmer

Vianna Salvatore - tag | ♡ jamie valentino

DAYS GONE ──

Ami Mccormick - tag | ♡ kiki navarro

Terrence Walker - tag | ♡ regina angeli

Richie Scott - tag | ♡ beckett estrada

DC ──

Eloise Rigby - tag | ♡ adrian chase

Yvette Maxwell - tag | ♡ sunny santoso

DRAGON AGE ──

victoria cousland - tag | ♡ alistair

twila hawke - tag | ♡ anders

guinevere trevelyan - tag | ♡ cullen

marius d'abonville - tag | ♡ /

victoria redgate - tag | ♡ /

minerva ingellvar - tag | ♡ emmrich volkarin

otessa thorne - tag | ♡ davrin

llorva aldwir - tag | ♡ bellara lutare

cosette d’abonville - tag | ♡ hrærek

hrærek gæirmundsen - tag | ♡ cosette

FALLOUT ──

Archie Atkinson - tag | ♡ tris monroe

Emmett Turner - tag | ♡ kitty

Eddy Sayer - tag | ♡ claudia maris

FALLOUT (PRIME) ──

Hattie Milford - tag | ♡ ricki silva

FAR CRY ──

Evelyn Lawrence - tag | ♡ /

Robert Lawrence - tag | ♡ hildy larmar

Jaxx Ackerson - tag | ♡ jojo

Ivy Wilson - tag | ♡ andy rivera

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON ──

Eraesella Storm - tag | ♡ clifton stark

Myra Ryger - tag | ♡ gwayne hightower

Cassian Lannister - tag | ♡ lorenza martell

Grimm Harmlet - tag | ♡ nymora sand

MCU ──

Roxanne James - tag | ♡ /

MIDNIGHT MASS ──

Ophelia Cohen - tag | ♡ dana andrews

RED DEAD REDEMPTION II ──

Nora Higgins - tag | ♡ arthur morgan

RESIDENT EVIL ──

Jeremy Stanford - tag | ♡ fatima pavan

Brooke Todd - tag | ♡ /

Maeve Peralez - tag | ♡ jake muller

SCARLET HOLLOW ──

Rowena Albrecht - tag | ♡ reese kelly

Lenore Scarlet - tag | ♡ sam wayne

Jack Haggerty - tag | ♡ stella richmond

STAR WARS ──

Amara - tag | ♡ owen yonhatt

STRANGER THINGS ──

Patricia Upton - tag | ♡ jim hopper

Avery Slaughter - tag | ♡ eddie munson

THE LAST KINGDOM ──

Wynflæd - tag | ♡ finan

Ingrid - tag | ♡ eadith

Wulfwyn - tag | ♡ sihtric

Arne - tag | ♡ osferth

THE LAST OF US ──

Rian Mccormick - tag | ♡ mari cross

Teagan Montgomery - tag | ♡ xavier cruz

Mason Novak - tag | ♡ raquel quint

Parker Novak - tag | ♡ milly vanelli

THE LAST OF US (HBO) ──

Kyle Alpert - tag | ♡ tommy miller

Savannah Alpert - tag | ♡ calum jackson

Mark Hudson - tag | ♡ gladys page

Wesley Chase - tag | ♡ eugenie doucett

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE ──

Kit Slater - tag | ♡ alondra carrera

Dory Sinclair - tag | ♡ alonso carrera

Tammy Shaw - tag | ♡ /

Vince Shaw - tag | ♡ ginny tate

Perry James - tag | ♡ johnny slaughter

Sandra Underwood - tag | ♡ kerry reed

Iris - tag | ♡ leslie astor

Peggy Ward - tag | ♡ robin holley

Cindy Ward - tag | ♡ juniper mckinney

Derrick Ward - tag | ♡ addie bautista

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE ( 2000S) ──

Garrison Abbott - tag | ♡ gemma crawford

Sosie Sanchez - tag | ♡ deacon crawford

Eliza O'Rourke - tag | ♡ nix

Daisy Dunn - tag | ♡ /

Winnie Madison - tag | ♡ dominic cross

Emmett Turner - tag | ♡ lola

THE WAYHAVEN CHRONICLES ──

Nina Bird - tag | ♡ william bird | ♡ adam du mortain

Eleanore Greene - tag | ♡ farah hauville

Agatha Elwood - tag | ♡ mason

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A little side by side:

Listen, I thought I made Ward rather Average Woman™️ shaped. Just a lass. Not making any sort of statement one way or another.

I'm kind of obsessed with the fact she's so tall and beefy compared to him when she really isn't? She looks normal compared to all the npc's and companions?

I swear when they're running around, she looks like she could dead lift him.

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i’m going to go full ‘charlie kelly conspiracy corkboard’ over mourn watch rook, i swear. i already wondered where “ingellvar” came from – was it safety pinned to their little swaddling clothes or otherwise had some indication that this was their name before being left? or, probably more likely, was it given to them AFTER they were found? and if so, by what method? is ingellvar a standard bastard and/or orphan name in nevarra? or just a common name they thought would fit? or the name of one of the watchers that cared for them? or the name of someone interred in the crypt where they were found, like a posthumous adoption?

and then, of course, there’s the implications of that skeleton. ‘stumbling’ and ‘too late to cry’ implies a tragedy, possibly a wound – was the (now) skeleton injured by whatever left them a caretaker to baby ingellvar, or just extremely shaken by it? (tho the fact that there’s no mention of knowing more about their origins than that they were left there would fit more with this person dying before divulging any information, so my guess is wounded.) someone traveling with ingellvar’s parents(s)??

and – what exactly happened? was it a targeted attack?? was it happenstance????

there’s so many possibilities and they’re all WILD

Oh, same! It's definitely one of the things drawing me in more than anything else roleplay wise at the moment.

I've been wondering about the name as well! Personally, I'm partial to the idea it was assigned by the Mourn Watcher's when they decided to keep them. Not necessarily because there's much from the game to suggest either way, but because it works with the little narrative I've been cooking up. The idea of there being a standard bastard name à la ASOIAF style is kind of fun. With the way Nevarra handles their dead though, I could see there being default "common" names so people who don't have noble bloodlines can be easily buried together. All the Necropolis content that I've seen only discusses old rich families when it comes to specific crypts, and it's made me wonder what happens to the random Nevarran baker who doesn't come from a notable bloodline. Or is that where the supply of janitor skeletons come from?

Total headcanon territory now, but it'd be cool if there were regional common names that determine what part of the Necropolis someone unimportant ends up and Ingellvar is one. Though maybe the whole "what happens to normal folk" is discussed and I've just not seen it yet cause I still am working my way through a first playthrough.

Circling back though, I have so many questions too!! Part of me almost wishes they'd left it completely untouched because more room for headcanons? Where as with the wounded skeleton dialogue it let's you know there definitely IS a story there, you just don't know it. I agree the caretaker sounded injured, and I'm assuming they died before any information was divulged. It does beg so many questions cause what exactly caused them to flee into the depths of the Necropolis for safety?? Theyre not exactly easy to access for those who aren't in the club. I'd assume if a violent altercation of any note happened just a few blocks away and an infant was found with an injured dead person the next day- two and two would have been put together. But it doesnt seem like there's anything your character has been given to go off of.

Personally, I am enjoying playing with headcanons here. One I'm gravitating a bit to is Ward was an elf-blooded bastard that needed to be done away with. Possibly a Pentaghast because why not. The fact that their caretaker died getting them to safety puts a bit of a dent in my plan for her to have died and been posessed by a spirit before being found. I really wanted her to have a bit of "one foot in the beyond and one foot with the living" dynamic.

THOUGH. I will say this regardless of headcanons or canon story. I think there should be way more roleplay-ability due to the fact your character is either a parentless orphan or a victim of abandonment (something they genuinely dont know the answer to.) I found on more than one occasion playing through Taash quests this insane level of "my character is probably attending the first family dinner of her life and is probably insanely envious of Taash for having a mom that wants them and unfortunately would not understand Taash's grievances in this moment." Like the way the game makes it hard to believably play an older experienced character makes it feel like there's missing "let my character be a young person who desperately doesnt understand normal family drama and feels at odds with many of the companion traumas because of it." Origins let's you establish how Mahariel feels about their mom abandoning them. HOW COME ORIGINS CAN DO IT AND NOT VEILGAURD?

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Ward Ingellvar, your abandoned in a catacomb is showing.

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Tfw you're questioning all your life choices leading up to the moment you fell for the weird chick from Nevarra.

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I deeply appreciate how Veilgaurd will let you play a little freak sometimes.

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Wanted to share some screenshots of my first real Rook. She's already endeared me to the point that she will always be a canon Veilgaurd member even if the oc I want as my canon!Rook works out. The way this girl gives well-meaning but wacky college intern vibes has me in a choke hold.

My funky little necromancer who grew up parkouring her way through catacombs.

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I enjoy how Ward brings a certain "Frankenstein's bride" energy to all her interactions.

We going to talk about how this is the max boob setting or what? Because as a big boobed lady im offended.

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I keep catching him judging her. Be nice, Davrin. It's hard being a girl sometimes.

Bonus: he always manages to look pretty when she's not at her best.

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I really want to make Ward, my Ingellvar, a dead girl walking similarly to Wynne. Why did this baby show up in the crypts? Maybe because someone was trying to discard an unwanted bastard where no one would find it? But the best laid plans were ruined when as they were left behind dying in the dark a passing spirit took it upon themselves to help. Her silver eye was added to kind of give her that Anders posessed look.

I was thinking it could work similarly to how Avvar train their mages. She has this entity in her that guides her and helps her. Brings her comfort in a deeply lonely childhood filled with questions about why she was found here and whether one of the Mourn Watchers she knows is really a parent who won't take ownership of her.

Maybe she never even knows she's posessed. She just thinks it's normal.

Maybe it's why the Mourn Watcher's take her in as opposed to sending her off to a childrens home. An opportunity to study a feat of necromancy no mage has ever accomplished. True ressurection.

I've not worked all the kinks out just yet. I have no idea which kind of spirit it would be. But it haunts me.

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I have aquired. The apron. Oh the things this has seen.

Really do love the armor in this game.

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I was going to put Ward with Lucanis cause idk it felt like the move. But the more I play the more Im getting a kick out of her and Davrin. Her thinking she's finally done it. She's finally figured out how to act normal and not give off "i got abandoned in the catacombs as a babe and it shows" and scare off every man outside the Grand Necropolis she meets.

Just her entire internal monologue being "me and the hot jock i pulled through being Normal™️"

Meanwhile his internal monologue is just "creators, what a weirdo. Im still gonna tap it. But I'm gonna judge myself for it."