#playing da:tv

[halamshirals]

they make me sick

[halamshiral]

forever in love with the disconnect between how davrin presents himself when rook first meets him (tough, uncaring, wary of rook, just a bodyguard) and what he slowly reveals himself to be during the game (the softest, kindest and most passionate man you've ever met who will follow rook and the gang to hell and back).

[nematode7]

I apologize in advance about the person I’ll become when this game comes out

[sky-scribbles]

Rook's notes for the team in the event of my (probably impending) death:

Lucanis:

My swords are yours. Like yours always were mine, when I needed them.

My spicy soup recipe is inside my Rivaini dictionary.

Spite:

You can have my poetry books.

Bellara:

I entrust you with all the elven artefacts that I’ve collected in my room. Keep anything that speaks to you, and make sure our people get the rest.

Please make sure my translation of that elvhen narrative epic is published. It was eight years of work.

Thank you for being my family.

Lace:

My bow is yours. I’m sorry it’s too big for you to use, but… it took care of me. I want it to go to someone who will take care of it.

Show Emmrich more of the world, since I cannot.

Taash:

My chocolate stash is in the bronze puzzle box. Good luck.

It has been such a privilege to watch you embrace who you are.

Davrin:

I know you’ve been coveting my halla horn charm. It’s yours, and if you find the craftsmaster of my clan, she’ll teach you how to carve them.

Pet every griffon for me. Pet them twice.

Neve:

Please take care of my cat.

Emmrich:

If you’re not too busy overthinking every little thing

We’ve been happy. I don’t understand why now

Do you think I don’t

Sorry. I understand being afraid to say what you feel. You know that I do.

I was afraid to love you too, in the beginning. I’m terrified of what it would do to me to lose you now.

I don’t regret a single thing.

As I have before, I entrust my body into your hands. Bury me in the Memorial Gardens. I love it there; it is a kind place. Raise no stone for me, but plant a tree over my body, and promise that my bones will stay below the earth. I will return to the soil. That is the Dalish way.

Anything I have not bequeathed to another is yours. As is my heart.

I hope that when your time comes, you will no longer be afraid to say that you loved me. I hope you will not be afraid at all. But if you are, know this: if any last spark of me remains beyond that final veil, it will be waiting for the last spark of you.

Manfred:

Yes, you can have that scarf you thought I didn’t see you trying on.

Take care of Emmrich for me.

[harellan]

i'm sorry the face lucanis makes while walking away from the almost kiss 🥺

[ageofthespicylizzard]

I finally started playing Veilguard, y'all.

[beaulesbian]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

[sirotras]

there are some really cool details just looking around at the environments in veilguard

for example the music room in the lighthouse has:

an inquisition book on the piano bench!

the broken orb from the end of inquisition!

and... cheese?

why is there. so much cheese in the music room? solas?? hello???

[confetticutey]

funniest shit seeing a very small portion of Dragon Age fans complaining about Emmrich being an older human companion that you can romance when Solas is quite literally thousands of years old

[lunian]

companions, with Lucanis' romance, chill: you are a thing now, huh? sweet :)

companions, with Emmrich's romance, not minding their business at all: were you having a date in a damn graveyard, is it okay with your age difference, hey Emmrich you lose concentration with your work because Rook is so damn hot young and distracting for you isnt it, are you fcking with skeletons involved, hey Emmrich are you even able to do it in general because I can give some advices—

[hot-wolf-summer]

loving the crow specific banter 💜

Emmrich/Lucanis/Rook

[halamshirals]

[softdefault]

baddie rook hours

[oraculis]

also pour one out for the loss of the iconic bioware animations in veilguard. i'm going to miss "lean against door/pillar" and "pointing behind with thumb while body turns slightly" 😔

[sky-scribbles]

Oh so I'm just supposed to be normal about this being romanced Emmrich's final relationship status???

So I don't know if this is different if he chooses lichdom... but think about what this means in a world here he doesn't. Where he chooses Manfred, he chooses being alive. Emmrich's greatest gift was never his magic or his intelligence, it's his heart. His boundless respect for the dead, his kindness to the living, his love for spirits.

Lichdom would have meant separating himself from that. Lichdom doesn't just mean Emmrich giving up Manfred, it means giving up his ability to truly love and grieve. The liches have to surrender their mortal attachments. They remain aloof and apart, because they cannot afford to let their grief, or their love, cloud their judgements.

When Emmrich chooses to save Manfred, he chooses a finite life of being close to his loved ones, baring himself to all the fear and loss and joy that comes with that. He chooses to embrace his love for them and theirs for him. He looks his fear of death in the face and chooses to brave it, and by doing so he gets to stay himself: a kind man with huge emotions and a huge heart.

He will die. But his love will still have changed the world, and Manfred, and Rook, in ways that will linger long, long after him. He's alive, and he loves, and that matters. It will always matter.

Love undying.

[harellan]

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