#phylactery. its both an extra precaution in case that mage escapes and a reminder of the power the circle has over them. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

abyssal-ilk · 2 months ago

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daily vivienne headcanon: vivienne's gloves are designed perfectly in a way to keep her fingers exposed and to cover the center of her palms. this serves a few reasons; the most obvious being simple fashion, but it also allows her to have zero barriers on her hand to even slightly hamper her magic and it hides the matching scars on each palm. one from when her hand was cut to fill her first phylactery when she was taken into the circles, and the other from when her blood was drawn again to make a bigger phylactery when she became a knight enchanter.

#dragon age #dai #dragon age inquisition #vivienne #vivienne de fer #“daily vivienne headcanon” and it hasnt been daily at all lmao. its for the bit atp #but ive always hced that especially powerful mages in the circles have more blood drawn to add to their original #phylactery. its both an extra precaution in case that mage escapes and a reminder of the power the circle has over them.#knight enchanters are battle mages. they're exceedingly dangerous. best to make them think they're under your thumb no matter how #powerful they become.#vivienne isn't exactly self-conscious of these scars? but she generally prefers to hide them.

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