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ruushes · 2 months ago

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where would they like to be buried for ailill?

this is a rly interesting question for him! he would *like* to receive dalish rites but believes himself too blighted to safely bury. at the same time he very much does not want to follow the warden tradition of going to the deep roads to die fighting darkspawn bc 1) he hates the deep roads so so much and 2) he's very afraid that he wouldn't be killed before deteriorating to the point of essentially becoming darkspawn himself

i think if he died without/before any cure for the calling he'd want his body to be burned, since there aren't rly any readily available better options; it's also what he had to do with tamlen's body which would feel right to him in a sort of deranged way

#ailill mahariel #my ocs #asks #talkin #dragon age #i feel like i read somewhere that cremation was the andrastian standard which would make sense considering the immolation thing #plus just in a practical sense bc oh my god there are so many reanimated skeletons in thedas we don’t need more #actually that makes me wonder if there’s a magic aspect to the traditional dalish funeral esp for the clans living in the brecilian #or places like it where the veil is practically nonexistent and spirits will gladly possess plants let alone bodies #keepers do seem to have access to extremely powerful sort of ‘off book’ magic ie w aravels and for that matter keeping mahariel alive #that would be cool to see explored more. theoretically.#tho i hesitate to ask for more dalish lore bc of the monkey’s paw and its seemingly endless number of fingers curling inward

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