#reading the tevinter thing

[ndostairlyrium]

I wish I was the floor beneath her shoes

[felassan]

Some notes from today's new BioWare Blog post, which contained some new character insights and also gave some information on what is coming next and when:

Creative Performance Director Ashley Barlow helped to cast and direct over a thousand conversations in the game

Lucanis is bloodthirsty, calculated, and a workaholic. He was raised with high expectations and fears disappointing those he loves. To him, being an assassin is his only job and identity to be excellent at. He's constantly attuning himself to the kind of shifting terrain of every mission. There's a lot of love between him and Illario

As Zach is a comedian, he would easily find the humor in anything Lucanis was saying

Neve is a Shadow Dragons rebel who cares deeply about helping people and never leaves work half-done. Epler: " [she is] the working class hero trying to make her hometown better"

Emmrich is sincere, friendly, scholarly, sophisticated, eager to teach and learn, a well-meaning but oblivious academic, with a "hot nerdiness". He assumes everyone has an academic's curiosity so can be pedantic on select topics

The Mourn Watch are revered in Nevarra but odd at best and evil at worst outside of it

Nick: "I love the fact that the writers took Emmerich and explored the whole idea of death and the whole idea of necromancing by bringing kindness into it. I really responded to that and got into that and I know it sounds crazy, but it’s to not have this idea that death is vulgar or something to be terrified about, but something to actually engage with on so many levels. I just love the fact that the writers had the courage to do that in a game like this."

"Often Nick is just playing off of someone making a sound, and he takes it and internalizes it and gives it meaning and care, which is amazing to watch."

The world has changed a lot since DA:I

Harding has been leading teams through the wilderness while covering friends in battle

Harding loves her mom. She loves to write letters home and is always talking about her mother. She likes plants and raising plants. She has grown and is a veteran now, a trusted voice at the table

Footage of the full DA:TV @ SDCC companions panel should be available in a couple of weeks

Next month there will be a new roadmap, more looks at the game, and the reveal of the release date

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And this paragraph:

"Dragon Age: The Veilguard sees players embark on a perilous quest to face powerful Elven gods and stop the apocalyptic destruction they’re unleashing. You’ll step into the role of Rook, battling on the front lines alongside a deep and compelling cast of companions who together comprise The Veilguard, a group of heroes who have come together to stop the veil from breaking and bringing about the end of the world. Rook must become the unexpected leader who can rally and unite the group. Throughout the game, you can explore the detailed storylines of each companion, navigating love, loss, and complex choices that influence your relationships."

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[captainofthetidesbreath]

Warden Antoine is so funny for being someone who will make a stirring declaration about how the Wardens have an opportunity to reach for a future in which they are dedicated to protecting and restoring and nurturing the life and landscapes lost to the Blight, that it is their duty and it will give them purpose as they reckon with the end of Archdemons, then immediately provide you with like three hundred pounds of explosives he personally developed from scratch so you can blow something up for him

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

heck yeah warden lore

[silverhalla]

when I was little I used to play clue with my sister and when I won by being like “okay YOU don’t have the candlestick and I don’t have the candlestick and there are no more cards, so it’s gotta be the candlestick” she would get really mad and tell me I was cheating because I wasn’t supposed to be making assumptions like that and she didn’t understand where I was getting the info from, so I was ruining the game for her

anyways I don’t rly get why people on twt are THAT mad about veilguard spoilers because they do not seem that deep

[commanderkallian]

im hoping so hard that we get some crumbs about how the circles work now. clearly its cool for mages to just be running around doing their thing, but a mage rook had a "final project" so there must be some kind of schooling? neves templar contact doesnt talk about southern templars like theyre a thing of the past, so whatre they meant to be doing if the circles arent prisons that need wardens?

i know theyll probably keep it super vague so theres no issue of which divine is supposed to be making these decisions but i want to knoooow

[rubensmuse]

a shame that i've gotten so into the lords of fortune while also maintaining this quiet assumption that they'll remain underexplored

[pausegame]

Did nothing but play Inquisition yesterday and it was ✨ magical ✨ 🥲😭🙏❤️❤️

[minrathousrain]

wait. a what now

[ndostairlyrium]

SCUSI?

[wampiryzm]

Oh lol, so they gave us nothing yet again. I get making a game takes a while but at this point the teasing feels cheap as fuck. Not going to lie, my interest in the series is dwindling to a degree I might actually not get the game unless it goes on sale.

yeah i get that. im fucking crazy about this game so unfortunately im still here waiting for any kind of news lmfao, i was really hoping that wed get something more concrete either today or at tga. sure theres some things im excited to see (like weisshaupt and rivain, fucking finally!) but the fact we only get scraps every what, half a year? every year? is just kind of ridiculous and it makes me really fucking sad and frustrated.

at least now i know when i can actually look forward to it, maybe theyll reveal something in time for my birthday, lmfao.

[captainofthetidesbreath]

seeing Evka by herself in the Blighted Dragon trailer is like, where is your husband, asking because I'm not sure Antoine should be without you for too long as, given his track record, I'm not all that confident he can get out of trouble on his own

though, given his track record, Antoine tagging along is a good way for him to quickly fall into peril that he needs help getting out of, so actually maybe it was a better idea to leave your husband at home

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

also this was the grossest story for me so far (positive)

[vrisbian]

This actually perfectly mimics the propaganda real life travelers would do when creating guides or detailing other countries in the time before standard or common travel. Herodotus, the most famous ancient historian and traveler, did this often. Countries that had slightly more freedom for women ‘the women run wild and dominate the men’ in countries where people ate outside ‘they may as well piss in the streets’. He wrote as a Greek, in a Pro-Athenian era that is genuinely part of the origins of Nationalism, for his entirely Greek audience. Even when he was in awe of a Egypt he was a foreigner looking in not fully getting it.

Brother Genitivi is writing as a Fereldan, but one who is working for the Orlesian Chantry and the Orlesian University. He is entrenched in their empire and is writing of Tevinter as a direct contrast (the older empire, on the other side of the schism) that must always come out as inferior, bc Orlais has to be the future.

lmaoooo @ genitivi (rip) leaving the most bitter yelp review in the world for the imperium. it's not giving critiquing power structures here it's giving 'they're so mean to me there, customer service doesn't exist, the shopkeepers don't even SMILE'. because to be clear he's ragging on a city that looks like this:

police state though she may be, minrathous looks absolutely GORGEOUS?

how did tevinter hurt you, personally, genitivi?

[amatusrook]

God all this dragon age hype is reminding me that I STILL need to catch up on the comics and books. AND THE SHOW!! I FORGOT THERE WAS A NETFLIX SHOW!!

[mrs-gauche]

The Dread Wolf Take You (Part 1)

~~Link to the complete 31 page comic here~~

"Imagine that, overlooking the god in your mids!"

May I present, my attempt at illustrating the last four pages of Tevinter Nights. 😁 (Also, the first time I'm posting art on here!)

As the whole thing was quite literally too long to post on tumblr, I uploaded the full version on a customized site made for reading webcomics (via ComicFury). Feel free to check out the link above if you like to read the rest! Also, if you're on mobile, there's a "Scroll View" option for easier navigation. :)

And, obviously, HUGE spoilers for those who haven't read Tevinter Nights!!

On a personal note though, I can't believe I actually finished it... As it had been a *very* long time since I drew (and finished) anything, let alone a 31 page comic and reading Tevinter Nights again finally sparked my motivation (and the courage to post it lol). So I want to thank Patrick Weekes for helping me overcome this massive art block and over two decades of Case Closed mangas for inspiring me how to draw an overly dramatic "exposing the imposter" moment. 😂 I tried my best to be as faithful to the book as possible and it took me forever, so... hope you like it! :D