#pro mages

[eobard-thawne]

honestly? if i could choose to play as an apostate, i would.

[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...

[corpocyborg]

BTW, if you've never had both Loghain and pro-templar Hawke at the same time, there is some FANTASTIC unique dialogue... I wish I could remember the exact wording because I can't find it anywhere... but it starts out with Hawke talking about all the things that Loghain has done wrong in his life and then Loghain says, "I see. Atrocities are your purview alone? You killed every mage in Kirkwall."

[olillskio]

Finally finished my piece for the mage war! I know this took long but I finally found motivation to finish this and move on for more art lmao xD

also yes Anders has long hair here because ya all cant stop me

[anneapocalypse]

Honestly something that really affected my view of Varric (and again, I say this with great love for the character) was playing my Terrible Hawke, Emilia, who ends the game an absolute anti-mage fanatic who believes that magic is a curse and it was a blessing that the Maker called Bethany back to His side before she could fall to demons. She is a Hawke who is mainly diplomatic, well-spoken, respected, and absolutely unhinged in her views on magic. She is the Viscount of Kirkwall, and by the time she comes to the Inquisition she's also taken Chantry vows and become an actual templar (after having practiced the discipline off the books for years). She singlehanded kept Kirkwall under Chantry control after Meredith's death. She slaughtered every mage to a one, even the ones who surrendered.

She's Varric's best friend. And he's just as starry-eyed about her in Inquisition as he is about any other Hawke. I love what a deeply unsettling side of Varric that is to see.

She's the best. She's a hero. She saved his city.

[itzscribz]

“Hello, welcome to Café Regale !

What can I do for- Um. Would- would you excuse me for a second ?”

IT’S FINISHED !!

Oh my GOD this was a beast of a project- but I’m soo happy with how it turned out !! Animating these goobers was a lot of fun !

@magebunkshelf

[robo-dino-puppies]

dragon age 2 | fenris

[magnetic-rose]

“vivienne is so rude and mean i can never befriend her” skill issue because vivienne is literally my rock without her the inquisitor would be lost.

[kirkwallguy]

one act three handers conflict i love to make up in my head (because act three is held together by three quests and a piece of string) is that hawke is playing the political game, they're doing this fucked up dance with meredith because they KNOW that they're getting closer to her. so when she asks them to kill blood mages for her, trying to degrade them and push them to breaking point, they agree because at least it means they can get into her office. meanwhile, anders hates this and thinks it's deeply scummy. he doesn't believe it's worth it and sees even a fake alliance with meredith as a major betrayal. even if they're killing blood mages, they're still doing templar work! maybe he never forgives hawke for it deep down.

[eeriemothz]

maybe I'm just prone to liking the Fandom problematics but I genuinely don't understand the visceral hatred some of the Fandom gives Solas and Anders. Idc if someone doesn't like the characters I do but?? Dawg?? Neither of those two are evil both of them work well because they have a point because their core message "my people are being treated like shit and nothing is going to change unless I make it change" is true. (Solas in particular is just being stupid about it) idk I've seen people all but spit in the faces of Solas and Anders fans and I don't get it.

Anyway this is a Solas and Anders fan page I love the tragic mages.

[gruviaa]

[eobard-thawne]

in the here lies the abyss quest, you get to learn the fate of the mage that wrote this on their journal before escaping the circle. they died at the conclave.

[mobageheroine]

Sumisora Tsubasa - 澄空つばさ

【B-Project】

[corpocyborg]

"i didn't think templars were going to be executing me," says the mage who voted for the "templars executing mages" candidate

[crunchbuttsteak]

Anders didn’t go far enough when he blew up the chantry.

He should have blown up 17 (or 18, depending on decisions made in Origins) chantries, one for every circle annulled.

[anneapocalypse]

At the end of the day you can use "Varric is an unreliable narrator" to overwrite literally any part of DA2 that you don't like. Like you can say, "Oh of COURSE Varric isn't actually against mage freedom! He just said that he objected to Hawke freeing the mages because Cassandra was interrogating him." And sure, I can't prove to you that he isn't lying about that. I can't prove to you that Varric isn't lying about anything. I can't prove to you that the entirety of Inquisition isn't also Varric making things up because he did also write a book about that and we hear Cassandra reading it in the end credits. At the end of the day if you want to you can basically wipe out Varric's entire character as presented to us and say, "Actually he was lying! He's really this."

But at a certain point you do also have to acknowledge that the frame narrative is a storytelling device that's meant to enhance the story, not like... erase it. Or at least I prefer to acknowledge that, because going too far the other way basically guts the story of all meaning. If Varric is a character we are meant to engage with on any level--and I think it's clear from his prominence in the franchise that he is!--then at least some of what we see him say and do needs to be able to meaningfully interpreted, even if we second-guess him, even if we can pick out half-truths here and there, even if we cross-check our interpretations against how he behaves in other parts of canon.

Like at least some of what we're given about Varric has to be meaningful to his character, or why even bother, I guess is what I'm saying.