#others inquisitors

[hart-of-thedas]

I would love to see a bunch of inquisitors here so I’ll start and hope some of y’all can add yours to the mix!!

Soren Lavellan very much adores Sera, mabari, and bar fights. Small but mighty.

[an-established-butt-dent]

“Lines on a map we’ll learn to memorize again and again.”

> Solas discovering how many new scars Lavellan has since they were last together

This promps @varricscheticles send me, made me lose my mind!!!!

[gravedigg]

The Magician / Justice

[elfcollector]

Now, we should return to our duties. Before I get too...carried away.

[vir-bellanaris]

I'd like to talk about this.

I think they left this purposefully vague so the player can interpret the meaning accordingly.

I just can't reconcile this being about Mythal, though.

"Seeing completely, and being wholly seen."

Mythal, in my opinion, only saw what she wanted to see in Solas. She didn't see him for what he truly was, and she wanted to craft him in her own image instead.

This, to me, is about the Inquisitor. Friendship, romance, it doesn't matter. A high approval or romanced Inquisitor will see Solas as he truly is.

Gone are the trappings and misunderstandings of being Fen Harel. When he was a part of the Inquisition I'm sure Solas had many moments basking in "private achievement".

"A beloved memory."

"Some I cherish more than my victories."

To me, this is about the Inquisition and more specifically a romanced Lavellan.

"The impressions fade."

I don't know if this means the impressions of the message the sheet music gives fade literally. As if there's this swelling of content beautiful acceptance and being seen, then (when Solas realizes he has to let it all go) it fades away again into uncertainty and sad resignation.

Surrounded by Inquisition relics and murals, Solas made his music. Filling the lonely room with a tribute to the friends and lover he left behind.

[amuelia]

small drawing as im looking forward to watching tales of the empire tomorrow

[inqvisitor]

i think it says something about the force of the inquisitor’s mind — specifically a faithfully dalish mage inquisitor — that the events of inquisition and trespasser did not immediately turn their brain to dust.

and perhaps that’s just the world of dragon age, that long believed stories of old are bound to shatter at any moment. but in one playthrough, depending on your leanings, they learn that:

the rite of tranquility can be reversed

ameridan was a dalish elf mage who knew that the whole time before he disappeared

that the old gods were not gods at all

that they enslaved the elves of old

that the veil was created by fen’harel and that was the cause of losing their immortality and not the presence of humans

and that their closest advisor in all things spirit (and potentially their great friend and lover) was the dread wolf in the goddamn flesh

not to mention the knowledge of the well of sorrows, which potentially submits them to the will of flemeth/mythal herself.

i truly think sera is the only one who really understands the mental ramifications, in her own way. her hatred of the fade and the crossroads in trespasser makes her at times flat out terrified, and the thought of the veil at one point not existing at all almost gives her a conniption. but it’s more than understandable considering that everything the elves know about the world, about their own history, is a lie.

everything that the inquisitor potentially leaned on to lead their people, a desire to return to the old ways… vanishes in the span of a few days, potentially an evening, with the exalted council.

how do you not lose your mind?

[vasiliquemort]

"In depth of his bewitching I felt secure and warm – I was in flowing haze that is muslin's and mistful milk of skies, and it rocked gently all my cells, and I flew into him as fallen drop, and it was weaved and volant kind of mutabors."

There is no tone of gratefulness and of adore that could suffice and form the shades that I behold to beauty that's demure and delicate and dulcet so, the one that came from @tmxpvksl and glory of their talents and abodes<зз

[thrumugnyr]

I mean, it's technically true.

[scribeofmorpheus]

One of my favourite companion commentary moments about the Solavellan relationship in dav is when Harding, a certified Solas hater at this point, is like: "Solas is stupid, he had the freaking Inquisitor, the Heral of Andraste!, as his wife and he left to do his silly, elfy, sad stuff anyway! Because he's an idiot. Does he know he's an idiot? He could have been at home, with his wife, in Skyhold, chilling, reading books instead of being trapped in prison! Idiot. Who breaks the hero of Thedas' heart? An idiot, that's who! I still hate him for everything he did to the Titans, but to hurt the Inquisitor too!?"

Meanwhile, Morrigan is like: "Thirsty for Dread Dick even at the end of the world, I see?" when the Inquisitor tries to get people to try and redeem him.

[thevulturesquadron]

Anyone who claims that the secret ending in Veilguard is disrespectful or nullifies agency in the previous three games is either unable to traverse layered storytelling or is being ignorant on purpose.

I am not sure how someone assumes that it was about mind control or magic when games upon games the fantasy setting in Dragon Age has been a medium for telling stories about the nature of people, about different perspectives, about the dangers of applying singular ideals to a complex existence, about how people and the ways in which they interact shape destinies.

How can you not be excited to learn that there’s a world outside Thedas, that the web is more complicated and that when one wrestles to break the threads it vibrates all the way to the spider letting it know it’s dinner time?

[beresaad]

there's nothing like rubbing your horns together in sappy displays of affection with your wife

[hollytree33]

Finally got around to painting my Inquisitor, Shivana

[dreadfutures]

Inquisitor Ixchel Lavellan, 9:52 Dragon

The years have not been kind. Despite even her own efforts, she lives.

[fideox]

The day we met

[abyssal-ilk]

the early inquisiton party is so interesting to me because you have your inquisitor, who was just imprisoned by cassandra and accused of murdering the divine, you have solas, who cassandra threatened to execute as an apostate as she suspected he had something to do with the conclave, and then you have varric, who spent the entire second game being violently interrogated by cassandra and being accused of having something to do with the chantry exploding.

just. that's 3/3 for cassandra's party members. those early days must of been Something. you think they ever talk about it?