#pro alistair

[linkles-art-blog]

Hey out there, FNAF fandom! I’ve had this sitting in my drafts for months now, but I wanted to finally introduce ya’ll to my designs for the Afton family (based heavily in many of the FNAF official arts, but with a few unique twists, and in my own style, plus my OC on the second from the right, whom I’ll talk about another time.)

I also made a version without my OC, for ya’ll canon-only Afton family lovers:

I really wanted Michael to have a sort of “I really don’t wanna be here, I don’t feel like I fit in, but I also don’t have a choice” look on his face…

I could talk a lot more about this painting, but I’ll probably get into it later, instead. lol

Anyway! Hope y’all enjoy. 💕 I have a fair number more FNAF arts to show y’all, but we’ll get to them in time!

Do not repost this artwork anywhere without my explicit permission or claim it as your own. See F.A.Q.s for details.

Songs I listened to while drawing this:

I honestly don’t remember, but probably a lot of stuff from my FNAF songs playlist and also listening to/watching this incredible FNAF lore video for the umpteenth time. 🥺💕

[crows-of-buckets]

Thinking too hard about Aviae and Zevrans friendship and it's making me Ill

[waterdeeps]

my worldstate for dao includes anora and alistair ruling jointly through a political marriage elethea arranges even though her and alistair are together <3 but their relationship does blow up given aforementioned marriage and her sparing and joining loghain. ANYWAY. thinking about alistair spending years pining / angry. thinking about anora and alistair probably never fucking and both taking lovers in an unspoken agreement. SO its 9:40 and elethea shows up in denerim and alistair hasn't seen her in. hm. 8 years now and they do in fact have the most insane reunion sex for about three days and then elethea just. disappears. all that's left behind is a small letter outlining nathaniel howe’s appointment to lead ferleden’s wardens for the foreseeable future and a familiar and exceptionally well preserved rose.

[ohnoitshappening]

The way there are ways to learn to weild magic and magic-like abilities in the universe (Templars, Berserkers, Spirit warriors or whatever that subclass was called) with Templars originally not even needing lyrium to have their skills, and how that could affect the story is ignored especially after it got retconned to lift responsibility from the chantry and fit in the "both sides equally bad" bullshit in...

[mageswithcats]

my warden wrote this clearly with somone in mind.

[sidneysussex]

look, I don't have Veilguard (I don't even have a console capable of playing Veilguard) but uh

[hahren-tabris]

I'm trying to get screenshots of Alistair's new hair for the mod page and this is the first time I've played DAI with a worldstate where the HoF (Aelon in this case) didn't romance him. And the fact that he vocally disapproves of the Warden doing the Dark Ritual, calling it a "dark path" (above), while justifying his own participation in it as a means to end the Calling and save the life of his loved one if he's romanced (below) is making me!!! chew the on the walls!!!!!!!

[aurischolar]

crying… i just remembered how iconic my da origins playthrough was.

i was ~17 i believe when i played it? couldn’t stand alistair bc all he did was complain. he opened up to me one time (despite my best efforts to make him hate me) and i chose the dialogue option telling him to quit whining. gleefully executed him when given the opportunity. kept loghain alive out of curiosity as to what i could use him for, ended up sacrificing him at the end of the game. my warden and leliana were in lesbians and lived happily ever after

like 10 years later i do wonder if i’d care more about alistair if i gave him a chance at all, but origins is too racist for me to feel any real desire to replay it so as it stands i’m quite content with how my run turned out 😂

[icharchivist]

I want to do a playthrough where i spare loghain - his narrarive in dai seems so intresting? But my warden is always a city elf and I don't want Alistair to be mad at me so I always wimp out :(

god i feel you!!!

his narrative in DAI is genuinely SO interesting it really opens my eyes to how interesting it would be to spare him.... but in all of my DAO playthrough i've never been able to make it work. Alistair gets SO MAD that the only time i tried (which was with my very pragmatic human mage, my city elf was too full of rage and revenge and my dalish elf was too honorable to not avenge the wardens, and also she romanced Alistair so lol, and my human noble was a mix of the two) i was so shaken i went back on my save.

I really need to try one day, even if i have to skip the Alistair's cutscene, but god it's a hard one to justify after all the horrors Loghain unleashed.

i feel like esp a City Elf would have a hard time forgiving Loghain anyway, hell, any elves, after what happens in the Alienage. I guess all backgrounds have a reason to spiting him so it's so hard sparing him in DAO itself.

which is a shame because his plotline in DAI is genuinely SOOO interesting (but also i do love seeing characters having to live with the guilt of sins they'll never be able to redeem themselves from, yet they'll still do everything to try) but it's so hard to make it happen in DAO....

[vigilskeep]

world of thedas also canonises post dao eamon becoming a permanent fixture in denerim never going home and being a pro-circle voice at court which is crazyyy because of how pro-mage king alistair acts in da2 and the fact that he and/or anora literally put the mages in redcliffeeeee

[fromthedaswithlove]

Worldstate Questionnaire

As Dragon Age now, as it always has been, belongs to the players, let’s talk about worldstates. Here’s some (132) questions to get started! Tag us if you end up filling this out so we can see! Thanks for playing!

General

Do you have a favorite worldstate to play in? If so, what about it makes it your favorite?

Does your worldstate have a name? If so, why did you pick it?

Is your worldstate pro-mage or pro-templar? Is it mixed?

What is one thing that you like the most about your worldstate?

What are some changes you made to your worldstate that you want to talk about the most?

Do you have a shared worldstate? What kind of adventures do your protagonists get up to?

Who did your protagonist romance and why? Do they have secondary choices?

Do they have any regrets?

Do they have a family?

What is their Specialization? Is there a reason they chose it?

Do they have a preferred weapon? Preferred armor set?

Do they have a preferred skill that they use often? (example: spells from the spirit tree in Inquisition)

Note: This includes headcanons and shared worldstates! Go wild.

Wardens

How did the first few days after Ostagar feel like?

How does the Warden feel about the Deep Roads? The Fade?

What was the hardest decision that your Warden had to make?

How did they feel about discovering how an Archdemon dies?

How did they feel about Morrigan’s Ritual? Were they hopeful? Did they feel betrayed?

If there is one thing that your Warden could have done differently, what would it be?

Who did your Warden struggle with the most out of the companions? 

Who did they get along with the most?

How does your Warden feel about Sten returning to Par Vollen?

How does your Warden feel about Alistair becoming king?

How does your Warden feel about Zevran going after the Crows?

How does your Warden feel about Leliana returning to Orlais?

If alive, what is the boon that your Warden had asked for after slaying the Archdemon?

If dead, what does the engraving on your Warden’s grave say? (Could also use this one in theory as well)

Does your Warden ever find out about Wynne? (Asundered)

Did the Warden keep in touch with any of the companions? 

Is Nathaniel Howe alive? 

Who did your Warden get closest with during the events of Awakening? 

What did your Warden think of their companions (Velanna, Sigrun, Oghren, Nathaniel, Anders, Justice)? 

What did your warden do about the Architect and the Mother? About Avernus?

How does their life look after the events of Awakening?

If the Warden has heard of the events of Kirkwall, how do they feel about it? 

Did they know that Anders and Justice merged? Were they against it?

Does Kieran exist? How does the Warden handle the knowledge of his existence?

How do they feel about the Calling?

What did the Warden find in their journey west?

How far has the taint progressed in the Warden? Has it changed them in any way?

Does your Warden ever discover a cure?

What does your Warden think about Leliana becoming the Divine?

What was your Warden up to during the events of Veilguard if they were alive?

Hawkes

How does your Hawke feel about leaving Lothering?

Does your Hawke like living in Kirkwall? Do they hate it?

How does your Hawke deal with losing Carver? Losing Bethany?

Who did your Hawke join (smugglers or mercenaries) and why?

How did your Hawke initially feel about Varric’s offer to go to the Deep Roads?

How does your Hawke deal with losing Leandra?

How does your Hawke feel about Uncle Gamlen?

Does your Hawke have an opinion of their companions?

Who is your Hawke the closest to? Who are they the most distant with?

How does your Hawke feel about Merrill’s blood magic?

How does your Hawke feel about Anders/Justice being merged?

How does your Hawke deal with Isabela’s involvement with the Qunari’s stolen tome? Does she come back?

Who did your Hawke align with (mages or templars)?

How did your Hawke feel about the Viscount?

How did your Hawke feel about the Qunari?

How did your Hawke feel about Meredith? Orsino? The Grand Cleric?

How does Hawke react to Malcolm’s Will?

Did Hawke side with Larius or Janeka?

Did the companions stay with Hawke?

What does Hawke get up to in the time between the end of DA2 and DAI?

Is your Hawke the one left in the Fade? If so, what is the reason for them staying?

How do you think Hawke’s Love Interest reacts to them being in the Fade?

If it was possible, how would your Hawke get out of the Fade? Would they be rescued? Would they find an escape for themself?

How does your Hawke feel about the mage rebellion?

What did they do about Anders?

Is there anything in Tale of the Champion that they might not agree with?

Does Hawke know that Cassandra is a fan?

How does Hawke feel about Tale of the Champion?

If your Hawke goes to Weisshaupt, what is it that they are doing there?

What is Hawke getting up to in Veilguard?

Inquisitors

What was your Inquisitor doing at the Conclave?

How does your Inquisitor deal with being called the ‘Herald of Andraste’?

How does your Inquisitor feel about the Anchor?

Does your Inquisitor declare the Inquisition for? Order? Justice? For the Inquisitor?

Who does your Inquisitor align themselves with (mage or templars)?

Who does your Inquisitor sacrifice during Here Lies the Abyss? How do they deal with it?

Does your Inquisitor allow the Grey Wardens to rebuild or are they exiled?

Would your Inquisitor play Wicked Grace?

How does your Inquisitor feel about their companions?

How does your Inquisitor feel about Cole becoming more spirit? More human?

Does your Inquisitor have Iron Bull save the Chargers or the Dreadnought?

How does your Inquisitor feel about Blackwall’s reveal?

How does your Inquisitor feel about Dorian’s reveal?

How does your Inquisitor feel about Sera? 

Did your Inquisitor allow Morrigan to drink from the Well? Did they drink themselves?

Get your Inquisitor out of the pajamas! What is their casual wear around Skyhold?

Get your Inquisitor dressed for Halamshiral! What would their attire look like during Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts?

Does Celene survive the assassination attempt?

Who rules Orlais?

How did your Inquisitor feel about the Temple of Mythal and the ancient elves?

Did your Inquisitor seek the Right of Petitioners by completing the temple’s trials?

How did your Inquisitor judge? Recruiting? Hanged? Merciful?

Who is your Divine? Why did your Inquisitor choose to support them?

How does your Inquisitor feel about Ameridan?

How does your Inquisitor react to dying to the Anchor?

Does the Inquisition remain active or are they disbanded?

Does your Inquisitor set out to redeem Solas or stop him at all costs?

How does your Inquisitor deal with the Dread Wolf reveal?

What does your Inquisitor get up to in the years between Trespasser and Veilguard?

What does their life look like after the events of Veilguard?

Rooks

What does your Rook’s life look like before Veilguard?

What did your Rook do during their backstory?

How does your Rook get exiled from their faction?

How do they feel about their exile from their faction?

How did they meet Varric?

How do they feel about joining Varric’s quest in stopping the Dread Wolf?

What would Rook’s casual outfit be?

How does your Rook feel about Minrathous? Treviso? Necropolis? Arlathan? Hossberg Wetlands? Rivain?

What is Rook’s opinions of their companions?

How does your Rook react to Solas’ connection to them?

How does your Rook deal with leading the team while Varric rests? Are they a capable leader?

Is there a particular order that your Rook recruits everyone in?

What city does your Rook save?

Who is your Rook the closest to?

What faction does your Rook max out stars with?

Who does Rook like the most out of the leaders of the factions?

If Rook could switch factions, which one would they join? What would their reason be?

How does your Rook feel about Spite? How do they deal with him?

How does your Rook feel about a Lich!Emmrich? How do they feel about Manfred?

How does your Rook deal with the Griffons? Do they go to Arlathan or remain with the Wardens?

What does your Rook think of Hezenkoss? Of Aelia? The Dragon King? Anaris? The Titan’s Anger? Isseya? Zara Renata?

How does your Rook feel about Illario’s betrayal?

How does your Rook feel about the Antaam? The Venatori?

What does your Rook think of “The Crows rule Antiva. Treviso will be free.”?

Who ends up sacrificed fighting Ghilan’nain? How does your Rook deal with it?

Who ends up getting taken by Elgar’nan? How does your Rook deal with it?

What does your Rook do while in the Regret Prison? How long would it take them to get out?

How does your Rook feel about Varric’s death?

Does your Rook choose to fight Solas, trick Solas, or redeem Solas? (Bonus if they used a romanced!Inquisitor to redeem Solas)

What does their life after Veilguard look like? Do they return to their normal life or move onto greater things?

[templartationsexchange]

Templartations Exchange 2025 is on its way!

We're back for the fourth year in a row! We hope that the recent release of Dragon Age the Veilguard fueled everyone with new creative power. Moreover, the game brought us new Templar characters who are just waiting for us to fill their AO3 tags ❤

What is Templartations Exchange?

Templartations Exchange is a Discord server exclusive fics and arts exchange (hosted on AO3) created to celebrate templar, ex-templar, almost templar, and conditional templar characters from the Dragon Age universe, such as Cullen Rutherford, Alistair Theirin, Raleigh Samson, Delrin Barris, Knight Captain Rylen, Carver Hawke, and others

Note: even though this is a templars-related event, members of the Templartations community DO NOT necessarily go with templars siding play-throughs nor share the in-game pro templars views. This is an event hosted for everyone to celebrate their favorite Dragon Age characters and appreciate the diversity in the fandom.

How do I sign up?

Please follow the link to our Templartations Discord server here, complete The Recruitment, and look for the instructions in the Exchange channel.

Event time table:

Nominations: February 15th - February 22nd 

Sign-ups: 3 weeks: February 23rd - March 15th

Assignments Issued: March 16th

Creation Period: 8 weeks: March 16th - May 10th

Collection Goes Live!: May 17th

Creators Revealed: May 24th

We look forward to seeing you there, both returning and new participants. Our ask box is open if you have any additional questions. Happy creating!

[andrastie]

So I'm about halfway (maybe a bit less) through Veilguard and am loving the game!

My biggest issue, however, is the lack of choices that carried through from Inquisition and the previous two game. I feel like Dragon Age Keep made the games more personalized based on the choices you made in the previous games.

For example, I was screaming when we got the little cameo of King Alistair in Inquisiton and the mention of my Coulsand Warden as the Queen of Fereldan.

Here are some things I wish had been included in the new game based on decisions made in my canon Inquisiton run (very very mild spoilers):

Divine Victoria mention - based on who we supported to be the new Divine in Inquisiton. I supported Leliana. When Harding is talking about the Inquisiton advisors and Leliana comes up, I would have loved a line about how she's settled in to her new position as Divine Victoria.

Codex entry about the Orlesian civil war - I read a codex entry in Veilguard about Empress Celene and I'm pretty sure one of the companions mentions her (I can't think of who). I chose to sacrifice Celene and put Gaspard on the throne with Briala pulling his strings. Maybe the codex could mention her assassination or another could talk about whether or not Briala still holds the power behind the Orlaisian throne.

Stroud - where the fuck is Stroud?? I sacrificed Hawke so that the Grey Wardens had a senior Warden with a brain that could step up and lead them. Yet their new Warden Commander still has no brain. Where is Stroud???

Hawke mention - an acknowledgement of whether or not we left Hawke in the Fade (I did). Maybe a comment or codex entry from Varric wondering if Hawke is still somewhere in the Fade, like he is now. We don't have to see Hawke, just a comment or codex would do.

Inquisiton companion updates from Harding - kind of like how in Inquisiton you could ask Varric or Hawke about the DA2 companions and they'd give you little updates. For example, "Cassandra rebuilt the Seekers," or "The Iron Bull and his chargers still take jobs across Thedas, more recently against the Antaam. That's gotta be awkward," or things like that, referencing what trajectory we set the companions on (Cassandra pro seeker-rebuild or Iron Bull Tal-Vashoth).

Grey Warden decision fall out - one of the big choices in Dragon Age: Inquisiton was choosing to banish the Grey Wardens or absorb them into the Inquisiton. I chose the later, knowing we'd probably need them in the new game. Maybe a comment from Davrin about how when he first joined the Wardens, he briefly served the Inquisiton, or one from Dorian when he confronts the Warden Commander, saying something like "My friend's mercy is the only reason you still stand to fight the blight".

Idk, I'd love to see people's own ideas and headcanons regarding their past choices so please let me know what you think they should have added based on previous game decisions!

I understand them wanting this to feel like a new game, not bogged down by the last games, but the suggestions I made were mostly one-off comments or codex entries that don't require voice recordings. Having three codex entries for the three Divine candidates and then just rotating them depending on the player choice wouldn't have been that hard... I don't think?

[ever-after-high-alistair]

EAH personality traits/headcanons pt1

Alistair Wonderland

- Confident

- Witty

- Brave

- Has some self doubt and blames himself for getting bunny trapped in wonderland

- Is secretly insecure because he believes he isn’t good enough but hides it with overconfidence. 😬 (like in his diary he showed disappointment in himself over not being able to lift the curse and thinking he put everyone in danger, but in the episodes he calls himself a riddle master and shows off the storybook of legends to Headmaster Grimm)

- Likes teaching people about things he is passionate about. I saw in another post that he would like conspiracy theories and I agree. He would definitely question everything and think outside the box. Also with chess he would love to teach someone how to play as he is a pro (and definitely thinks of himself as one).

-He and Bunny play chess daily and he always lets her win (or maybe he just tells himself that when he’s losing lol)

-Since he is new to Ever After he obviously doesn’t have many friends that are boys (or outside of his wonderland friends) but he got along quickly with Humphrey and Dexter for their love of chess (and sometimes Sparrow since he’s his dorm partner).

-He hates Daring for what he did to Lizzie and just the fact that he’s a player and spoiled prince (which is pretty much the opposite of him) I also saw this one on another post and couldn’t agree more.

Bunny Blanc

- Observant of surroundings, this got her to know the norms of Ever After and fit in better

-Made a lot of friends in just a few weeks being there. She joined the student council, party planning committee, and the schools band, so it’s safe to say she’s met a lot of people and is fitting in

- Loyal and good at keeping secrets

- Adventurous (mainly for alistair). Always goes with him when he finds a new spot or wants to explore a part of Ever After

- Messy. Leaving her food everywhere in Fairies Got Talent and driving Faybelle crazy.

- Gentle/caring nature

- Really wants to bond more with Faybelle and doesn’t get why she doesn’t like her (even though she leaves food everywhere lol)

- Talks to alistair about stuff that bothers her often (and vise versa)

- People pleaser

- Sometimes negative (“I can’t do this”, “I’m too dumb for that”)

- Even though she has Alistair as her best friend, she still wants to have closer friendships with Lizzie, Kitty, and Maddie. They were all really close but after they got separated they sort of formed separate friendships (Lizzie and Kitty, Maddie with Raven, Alistair and Bunny). Sometimes Bunny might feel like the backup friend when her and Lizzie hang out (like maybe Lizzie would rather hang out with Kitty but she’s taking a catnap so Bunny was the only one available).

[rellanas]

okay I saw @suntamer (her poll is here) drop a poll about dragon age oc discourse and honestly, i love a good poll particularly when it comes to ocs and even more so if it's something fun like this. so, which of my dragon age ocs would encourage the most / the worst discourse, if they were part of the universe?

magni aeducan (he/they, 27-28 in da:o, dwarven noble, pansexual) — quintessential and traditional dwarven noble and yes, that included the sexism, bought into the noble hunter culture, deadbeat father (gn.) a little too willingly committed fratricide to advance themself (masterful gambit, sir) and brought both gorim and mardy down with him. "has anyone told you you're insane" / "i prefer the term ruthlessly pragmatic myself". chose to desecrate the urn of sacred ashes for Cool Dragon Powers and no other reason, let bhelen stay on the throne because he would rather have an aeducan on the throne that stabbed them in the back if it meant not having their dynastic rule continue. kept the anvil of the void and sided with branka. told alistair he was like a brother to them with a complete stony face and then proceeds to betray him at the landsmeet (magni did say he was like a brother to him...). let amaranthine burn.

rosalind hawke (she/her, 23-30 in da2, human, straight...?) — haunted by her mother's face every time she looks in the mirror, leandra 2.0 and resentful about it. did anything to protect bethany from the horrors of the world, only for bethany to die in the most horrible way possible. rival romance with anders, trying to protect him but smothering him and making things worse in the process by further denying justice its purpose, and was in an emotional situationship with sebastian at the same time. took a hard turn into mage hatred after leandra's death at the hands of a blood mage and meredith got her claws hooked into her. no one knows what's going on with her and meredith. killed her lover and father of her unborn child both out of mercy and justice, sided with the templars to 'get it over and done with quickly'. becomes known as "the butcher of the gallows."

arthur trevelyan (he/him, 49-52yo in da:i, human noble, gay) — noble born and bred, thrived in the circle predominantly due to family interference (aunt paying off templars) and his family name protecting him. extremely pro-circle and anti-rebellion (vocal about reform, however), known templar fucker (had an on-and-off again relationship with one for 20+ years), chose to go to therinfal after finding out what happened to the mages in redcliffe, celene died on his watch and put gaspard on the orlesian throne because he was going for stability over progress and then actively ghosts said emperor. encouraged dorian to speak with his father again because he was somewhat projecting. caused a scandal by getting into a relationship with his qunari bodyguard 12 years younger than him.

hissera trevelyan (she/her, 21-22yo in datv, qunari shadow dragon, bisexual) —thedas' most recognisable nepo baby. in a fashion. constantly got in trouble in the orphanage for either fighting, talking back or letting off homefashioned smoke bombs in the privy. fucked up work with the shadow dragons on such a scale she had to leave minrathous bc magisters were pissed. has been arrested multiple times for theft, murder and destruction of public property but has always been released because someone keeps pulling strings (#nepobabyprivileges.) probably overthinks about all the ways she could painfully kill a venatori. is absolutely not qualified for her job but she got it anyway because nepotism ig???? got hit with the ben-hassrath allegations by her friend's mother and she was just like 🤨no? 🤨thanks for asking? 🤨even though she has absolutely had some form of training from her dad. picked a fight with that aspect of mythal Just Because, and then didn't even use it at the end because of pettiness.