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Ykw tho if there's something (alongside the many things lmao) I really appreciate that Dragon Age has done, it's that they haven't gone the stereotypical "Dwarves Are Gruff And Scottish" route, but instead have given us Starkhaven, with better food and climate than you could likely find here
That being said, some kind of DA version of Irn Bru or Buckfast would amuse me to no end
#she talks!#dragon age#starkhaven#prince is essentially a catholic and all nowt mair scottish than that xo#daft wee posts#(im so sorry i cant hate sebastian either its my one flaw everyone has flaws and thats mine lmao)
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okay so BASICALLY
I think every summer, regions in Starkhaven set up stands of fruits, vegetables, all sorts of produce in a huge market. People sell clothes, headscarves, even curtains. Pots and pans, pottery, olives and spices.
And Sebastian's parents probably forbade him to go (whilst letting his two older brothers frolic there as much as they wished to </3) because they believed it was 'beneath him'.
And every year his grandfather smuggled him into the market with as much coin as he could carry. Probably propped Seb up onto his shoulders so he could see everything. He'd buy him anything he wanted.
It's one of the things Sebastian misses the most after he goes to Kirkwall.
#dragon age#dragon age 2#sebastian vael#dragon age headcanon#starkhaven#I bet Sebastian regularly craves the olives he uses to buy at the market
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I’m writing a prologue for my Trevelyan before the events of DAI and her first love (with a Starkhaven Templar, no less) called Oak & Iron.
It’s mostly for me if anything because I’ve really come to adore the character Jamie Fraser and his actor Sam Heughan. Call me cringe, but I am free. 🥺
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Spoilers from a codex entry found in A Slow Poison.
So um, about Starkhaven...
There's a document that's says the Antaam invasion included the northern half of the Free Marches down to the Minanter river, that only the southernmost parts were spared.
Starkhaven is *on* the Minanter.
I wonder what my Hawke is up to. She *is* famous for killing Qunari invaders. And she has family to protect.
(Did they avoid Kirkwall because of Hawke? Joke's on them.)
I wonder if this means that Starkhaven is occupied, or if they're having to fend off the Antaam.
#I'm nervous about what info i haven't found yet...#Veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#fd plays#dragon age#Starkhaven#Sebastian Vael#sebhawke#flights of the faerie dragon
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Oh, Gods. These three morons on their own, against one another. Okay. Er. Elissa "Sparrow" Cousland is a ridiculously skilled archer and swordswoman who drank Avernus' potion and is one of the savviest strategic and political minds in Thedas. She pulled the Wardens from exile to kingship (Alistair) and put herself in Amaranthine. She's in contact with her ex-lover (Alistair), her current lover (Leiliana), and her best friend (Morrigan). She picked up ways to turn her Marabi in a wolf, bear, or spider from her best friend. She's as nervous as a park squirrel from childhood assassination attempts. She knows enough to pick her moments but when she gets started she is utterly ruthless. She's a moron because she doesn't know how to stop.
"Night" Marian Hawke (oh, that nickname hurts in retrospect) is an overpowered mage drawing on three distinct magical philosophies to form her own discipline: she's combined her father's teachings with Anders' circle and Warden magic and Merrill's Dalish knowledge into something wholly her own. It's what let her beat the Arishok and Meredith, there at the end. She has a desperate need to save everyone and her big plan when it comes to protecting people from danger is to throw herself in front of all the danger, forever. She's fanatically loyal to everyone she cares about and not really good at self care. She's a moron because she'd stab herself in the face to make anyone she loves smile. Shaytaersayco Lavellan is a shadow. Her city elf mother named her nonsense because she thought it sounded Dalish. She escaped the destruction of an alienage. She's something between a diplomat, a spy, and an assassin for the clan that adopted her. Syalise is tattooed on her face because she's desperate for a home. She hates Andraste and the Chantry and the Templars and is terrified of humans in general but becomes close to several of them. Demons and monsters don't scare her half as much. She always wanted magic for herself and loves having the anchor - it's scary. It's glorious. She's spent most of her life trying to be a non-person who is easy to overlook and she's now the figurehead of a massively powerful organization. She's a moron and she knows it, which is more than can be said for the other two.
The battle: we join our heroes in Starkhaven, where none of them has ever been and so none of them have an advantage.
Lavellan vanishes and Cousland and Hawke, who have heard of but never indulged in stealth, barely notice.
Hawke calls on rock armor and uses force magic to buff herself up; she's fought lots of archers. She plants a lightning storm on Cousland's head.
Avernus' potion made Cousland a ghost; she's hard to hit at the best of times. She's also taken Legion of the Dead training, so even when things do hit her she just kinda ignores it. She knows how to avoid armor with her arrows, rendering the rock armor useless.
Hawke's force magic keeps her standing, so she drops the armor and swaps over to entropy magic and tries to rip apart the Warden's mind. The Warden broke free of Sloth; she takes some damage, but she staggers on, plants her feet, and sends more arrows at Hawke.
Hawke takes some hits but gives back in kind -- rock prison and stone fist took down the Arishok, but Avernus' tampering lets Cousland escape Hawke's grasp. More arrows fly. Lightning answers. The Warden paces herself, keeps her distance, as Hawke unleashes torrent after torrent of energy.
Cousland thinks she can wear Hawke down. This is wrong; Hawke cycles mana through herself with little thought about her own well-being (she doesn't care if she dies so long as you lose). Hawke is tinkering, finding ways to overcome what Avernus did, using magic to bat away the arrows. The Warden closes the distance, reaching for her swords - a sign of desperation.
Lavellan appears behind Hawke, drives two cleavers into Hawke's back, kicks out her knee, slits her throat, and vanishes.
Cousland stands next to Hawke's body. She draws her swords and extends her senses -- she's used to using her Warden blood to sense darkspawn, but she can usually sense other creatures, too. Lavellan is something else.
Wade's Dragonscale Armor saves Cousland's life.
Lavellan leaps from nowhere and cleaves into the armor, clearly expecting to go through it. If the armor had been made by anyone else, it would have. Cousland feels her ribs fracture but gets a sword up in time to stop the throat slit as Lavellan, again, vanishes.
What follows is a series of hit-and-run attacks -- Lav stabbing, running, vanishing, wearing the Warden down. The Warden learns her patterns, learns how she responds, and sets a hunting trap that Lav leaps into.
An arrow punctures Lav's other foot. The Warden hammers her with sword blows, drives her to her knees.
Hawke (you didn't think the Maker was done with her, did you?) catches the Warden and Lav with stone coffin and squeezes. Lav activates an anchor explosion and the Warden and Hawke are sent flying. Sparrow and Hawke crumble, get to their knees. Cousland takes a swipe at Hawke. Hawke goes down. The Warden raises her head. Lavellan is gone.
Lavellan is behind her.
Lavellan slits her throat.
Tl;dr -- Hawke is easily the most powerful while Cousland is intelligent, tough, and has surprising options that make them equals. Lavellan, though, is more than willing to let her enemies fight one another and pick up the scraps.
Lav wins.
If one or more is dead, it's up to you whether or not you take that into account. This can also just be a theoretical "them at their steongest". Setting and conditions of the mêlée à trois are up to you, and feel free go into detail of how exactly the fight would go down!
#dragon age#dragon age origin#dragon age 2#hawke#starkhaven#lavellan#inquisitor lavellan#marian hawke#elissa cousland#sparrow cousland#dragon age inquisition
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ranking da love interests on a scale of how unhinged theyd be if their beloved was made tranquil (they would all be maximum unhinged its just a matter of deciding what flavour)
#like theres obvious ones like anders canonically would mercy kill and then burn down the world about it#and thats stellar beautiful no notes#but we gotta get into the others#for example i’d kill to see what sebastian’s little vengeance fuelled heart would get up to#not to mention that i have no idea if this is a good read or not bc i still havent played the romance but#he strikes me as a guy who would just stay devoted married to his tranquil spouse his entire life#it seems like something he would do.#and a bizarre political scenario it makes <3 fascinating vibes at starkhaven parties#i feel like other people it would hurt too much to be around them or they would feel it wasnt really them anymore#but to seb he made a vow and he has a wife those things havent changed even if so much else has#which would be crazy if anders was alive to hate it. and the implications abt hawke then. okay im going to stop talking im inventing#entire scenarios now
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still insane to me that sebastian’s happy to marry a mage
#alistair? skill issue#even funnier if it’s a warden amell#mistress…two syllables that r never coming out of seb’s mouth. starkhaven fr just has to deal#guy with one syllable. wife.
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Sebastian held up his hands as if in surrender, then tucked them behind his back. “Let us begin.” Varric paced around the billiards table, tracing the wooden rim with his finger, until the green-felt table stood between himself and Sebastian. In her mind’s eye, Cassandra could see the topography of the Free Marches lying between them. You’re shaking the chessboard, Bull had said. Cassandra’s hands tightened on the smooth wooden cue.
ongoing great cassarric fic (A Marriage of Inconvenience) by @thisauthorisscreaming
#dragon age#cassarric#cassandra pentaghast#varric tethras#a marriage of inconvenience fic#shih's art#god give me access to medieval clothing references#or at least a comprehensive database of dragon age outfits#i cannot make heads or tails what cassandra wears under the chestplate btw so. aughrhgh#anyway so the composition of this is fucked by the fact that i wouldn't give up on incorporating kirkwall and starkhaven heraldry#(kirkwall on the rise; starkhaven getting shoved slowly but surely out of the picture << my hopes and dreams)#and then i knew from the start that i was going to fixate on the hands#varric being the one to actually be in touch with the free marches#and sebastian putting his hands behind his back like a kid in the ceramic dishware aisle#aware of the importance; but too scared to handle it#truthfully i never paid the dlc for sebastian and most fic i've read for DA barely mentions him#so this is a nice remedial fic for a guy i hear varric would sell for one corn chip
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i'm sorry for any mistakes in Gaelic
*Hawke is a wonderful woman
#dragon age 2#varric tethras#sebastian vael#da2#prince sebastian#starkhaven#the exiled prince#sebastian vael x hawke#sebhawke
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Turning this into a poll would be hard since there's many nuanced options, but for people whose Hawkes friendmanced Sebastian, do you actually imagine your Hawke joining the Chantry to marry him, or did they do something else? :]
For people whose Hawkes rivalmanced him, how did their relationship play out together? Did they marry before they left Kirkwall? Did they get married at all?
And of course feel free to rb and talk about your Hawkes who ended up breaking up with him/died before they could wed !!
#sebastian vael#sorry btw I just like to read about other people's hawkes who romanced seb hehe#I imagine merle had a commitment ceremony with him where they promised to join the chantry and wed if things in kirkwall settled down#since they started to care less about having to upkeep the amell/hawke name after leandra died but still needed to be kirkwall's protector#buuut. you know how da2 and then dai go.#they did get officially married after he reclaimed starkhaven at least#merle hawke
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Varric: Tell us about Starkhaven, Choir Boy. I'm sure we're all burning with curiosity about your far-away land. Sebastian: My far-away land? It's inland Free Marches, not on the moon. Varric: And here I was hoping…
Suddenly recontextualizing Varric's one-sided feud with Sebastian in light of this early banter. It's not just that Varric has an immediate psychosexual animosity towards the man that he is not going to unpack. He is also... being belligerently coastal elite about it.
#tangent but I assume that the fastest way to get inland from Kirkwall (i.e. to Starkhaven or Ansburg) would be to#take a ship around the coast and boat up the Minater rather than overland travel across the Vimmark mountains#which is a factor in why everyone is so “oh we'll never see them again” about a Hawke sib joining the wardens#and Varric (coastal elite) thinks Sebastian may as well be from the moon#it's roundabout but it's doable. the thing is‚ you won't catch Varric dead on a riverboat
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#i know i am in a teeny tiny minorityy of da fans but#i am. so tired of v4rric#i'm tired of him being in everything#(tired FOR him too. let the man rest)#tired of him being used to market every-damn-thing#i know I KNOW since almost everybody loves him he's a pretty surefire way to get ppl's attenion#but my interest in the game literally DROPPED seeing him involved#ugh you again#i used to like him!!!!#a lot!!!!#but when i say don't leave a seb-mancing hawke in the fade if you wanna keep liking v4rric I MEAN IT#his dismissive tone and insulting word choice#about telling sebastian his WIFE is (probably) dead sent my opinion plummeting to the depths of the deep roads#(i have to tell sebastian or he'll throw a fit. he'll THROW A FIT)#i try to keep it to myself bc i know ppl like/love him and i don't want to ruin that#bc i understand why you'd like him. i do#but for all the talk of him being hawke's best friend he does NOT act like it if you romance sebastian#not to mention the ''ignoring letters from starkhaven when he's viscount bc he doesn't like the man in charge'' things from trespasser :\#i just want to meet and play with new characters rather than have the same guy shoved in my face every time around#varric critical#(if this shows in the tag and you like him i'm v sorry. i tired to censor)
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Sebastian being six feet tall and so he does--without a drop of malice, mind you--bends down to hear Varric like this:
And Varric just decides to be pissy about it forever.
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he may have been behind a dlc paywall and he may have been straight and he may have been the most hated da2 companion but the fact of the matter is sebastian vael is bioware's special little boy who gets a mention in both* sequels and because he's my special little boy too i say yayyyyy
#every other leader or ruler getting dust because they dont care about our worldstates 😪😟👎#sebastian vael being annoying in starkhaven coming up no matter what 🥰😇☺️#veilguard spoilers#sebastian vael#*ik its dependent on him being there in the keep but he is so singularly annoying in inquisition it carries weight
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Wake up, get mad that sebastian's arc in da2 isnt about the wealth and corruption of the kirkwall chantry in hypocritical juxtaposition with its purported ideals of charity and selflessness and humble piety, and then i just have to keep going with my day.
#man who took a vow of poverty standing between behemoth gilded statues and the narrative does NOTHING WITH IT.#its not that i dont care about the personal chantry vs starkhaven tension at the core of his arc#but kind of like aveline gestures toward larger systemic institutional issues within the guard#w/out ever fully exploring the consequences and implications and nuances of that#seb is sooooooo perfectly narratively poised to fill a niche within da2's larger sociopolitical themes#but that potential is eclipsed by the personal drama instead of the two working in tandem#whatever whatever whatever im normal about this game.
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