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#dragon age 4#dragon age the veilguard#solas#ghilan'nain#rook#varric#tearstone island#emotional gut punch#emotional damage#i almost forgot to post this#bellara was captured and davrin/assan are dead#if you were wondering
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why do people insist that the companions don't care about rook? i see that a lot and genuinely seems like such a weird and unfounded take to me.
#i'm replaying rn and i genuinely adore how they all care for rook in their own way#i am loving my second playthrough a lot#if you are going to hate this game at least hate it correctly#anyhow putting off going to tearstone island rn bc i'm not ready#rose plays datv#text: personal#fandom critical
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wait no im actually going to need to know in EXCRUUUUCIATING detail how the veilguard were able to rescue rook from the fade. quickly now bioware, quickly quickly!!!!
#mage talks#da4 spoilers#they couldnt have done it from the lighthouse bc the prison and lighthouse are both in the fade#and unless they found a fade wormhole thats not fucking possible#they couldnt have done it from the waking world bc they lost solas's dagger and their replica didnt work#unless they did it from tearstone island... but they said it was turned to glass in elgarnans rage soooo... it wouldnt be safe yet#it actually shouldnt have been possible#and im not saying that everything that happened actually was just more of the fade (womp womp the lucanis romance scene thatd be rough)#im simply saying bioware actually didnt fucking account for that which is wild to me
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i am literally sitting at the window gazing forlornly about veilguard rn
#i just. i mean. the thing is if tearstone island was the VERY end it wouldnt be so bad. but now i have to kill one of my companions? and#then keep playing??? like nothing happened?????#i was thinking last night like. ok well i can just finish the game once to see it and then just start over on other playthrus#but it seems there's a decent amount of romance content AFTER that! and whats the point if i cant kiss bellara next time. like what is it#if the rest of the game was good i'd be fine honestly but this is just too much#soundtrack? boring. storyline? disappointing#also i guess i was right about varric. havent gotten to it for sure but he's a ghost isnt he. AND DOES SOLAS FUCKING KNOW THAT?#motherfucker. at least i still have varric to talk to indeed#god. remember this time a month ago when i was still disappointed in the writing in inquisition#wytxt#veilguard spoilers
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i finished Bianca's playthrough and the end still gets me.
#musings#just to let you know i'm not okay#i'm hoping that we'll get some dlc despite bioware's lack of plans to do so#i want more lucanis in my life#btw when i say the end i mean tearstone island onwards
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lmao the game glitched and put a random vallaslin on rava??
#mythal vallaslin no less?? EXCUSE ME??#taking the break up in a really weird direction ig#solas: *removes her vallaslin*#rava: *ten years without it* *hears she'll get the chance to confront him again*#rava: i need to go find a random dalish clan for the chance to do the funniest thing#thats why she wasnt there to help rook at tearstone island smh
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Rook being a very physically touchy person and Lucanis avoiding touch at all costs from built up trauma from childhood, his work as a Crow, and the Ossuary. Them always asking for Lucanis' permission to touch him, and before Tearstone Island, they hug him and he still flinches but he holds them tight
As Rook is taken into the Regret prison and they see a vision of Lucanis' body on the ground, they scream his name out of concern and fear but all Lucanis hears is them screaming for him to help, and then they're gone. They're gone. He thinks they were screaming his name, begging him to save them and now they're gone.
Weeks into Rook being taken into the Regret prison and now a man who couldn't be touched without reflexively drawing a blade is craving the warmth of his partner who he thinks he'll never see again
Lucanis pulling Rook out of the prison, knowing it's them right away because of their hands. He missed their hands, he missed their touch, he missed their warmth, he missed them.
When Rook gets back, Lucanis' touch is slow and soft, almost unbelieving. Weeks of stress and torture and pain and guilt and regret, and now they're here. Once they're finally together, he feels as though the world is in their arms and if killing a god is the only way to stay there, he will do what a Crow does best and fulfill this contract
#dragon age#the veilguard spoilers#veilguard spoilers#dragon age veilguard#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age lucanis#lucanis dellamorte#lucanis x rook#lucanis romance#rookanis#and he gets them screaming his name in a *different* way you know what I- (is shot)#just thinking about how my Rook cant go to sleep with touching her partner in some form#doesnt matter if its a toe a shoulder an elbow#as long as she has some sort of contact with her partner's body she can sleep well#not sure how i feel about that last line :/#I'll find something better later#probably#maybe
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Sal and Solas when i (presumably) finish veilguard tomorrow
VEILGUARD SPOILERS
im almost done with veilguard it's kind of crazy. i need to solas to die after what he just did
#playing this in character is hard i think i fucked neve up bad#she is. well#not doing well!#i got her injured. then i opted to save treviso. then i had her undo the wards on tearstone island#i also sided with the mob instead of the templar#she was not the same neve :( i felt horrible#VEILGUARD SPOILERS#dragon age spoilers
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This YouTube channel looks to have posted lots of videos which are Dragon Age: The Veilguard music pieces that are in the game but not on the OST. rest of post under a cut as some vid titles contain spoilers.
Elgar'nan boss fight theme
Last stand
Darkspawn combat theme
High Dragon / Rivain Coast combat theme
The Dread Wolf Rises theme
Arlathan Forest combat theme
Morrigan's entrance
Lyrium Ghoul boss fight theme
Docktown combat theme
Eldest of the Sun (in-game version)
Necropolis combat theme
You Have Everything That You Need (in-game version)
Solas' betrayal
Ultimate sacrifice on Tearstone Island
Ghilan'nain boss fight theme
Assault on Minrathous
Elgar'nan boss fight theme (extended)
Trick Solas ending theme
Atonement ending theme
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#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age the veilguard spoilers#<- this is my spoiler tag#dragon age: dreadwolf#dragon age 4#the dread wolf rises#da4#dragon age#bioware#video games#solas#morrigan#queen of my heart
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davrin's entire storyline is about realizing he isn't only there in order to be sacrificed. he doesn't die killing ghilan'nain's archdemon, so where does that leave him? that was supposed to be his sacrifice to make, supposed to be where his story ended. but it wasn't - and it isn't - because that doesn't have to be his path. his story runs parallel with assan's because it was meant to run in parallel to assan's. either you shackle him to a warden's sacrifice or you show him that there is another way, one that isn't lined with blighted blood and an early death.
saying that davrin is the only option for tearstone island is insane to me. neither davrin or harding is the only option, but claiming that bioware's decision was purposeful in order to sacrifice the black male character when his entire storyline is about sacrifice and whether or not that sacrifice is necessary for a warden blows my mind.
the choice isn't obvious. the choice isn't supposed to leave anyone feeling vindicated or like they made the right decision. it is a difficult choice, no matter how you slice it, because they have both been (purposefully) repeating whatever it takes since act 1 of the game, right alongside rook.
but davrin is not the obvious choice, the only choice. with his companions, with rook, he is given the opportunity to grow outside of the wardens, shown that there is more than mindless sacrifice and his calling ahead of him. when romanced, he's making plans. he's talking about his future. bioware never set about to make him the obvious choice in regards to tearstone.
in fact, they did everything they could to show you that choosing him is doing nothing but continuing a cycle.
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SPOILERS FOR VEILGUARD —>
For those of you who have played and/or watched the scene that takes place after the dragon attack if you are a crow!rook who chose to save minrathous, you know this little line Viago throws at you?
“Because you always think of something. You always do. Except this time.”
Once again, I’m asking you guys to think about Lucanis having to tell Viago that rook is missing post-tearstone island. Because they don’t know where Rook is. They don’t even know if Rook is alive. All they know is they killed one of the gods, they did it, but the smoke cleared and solas is free but Rook is gone. and it’s WEEKS according to that Bellara romance scene.
Viago refuses to believe Rook is gone. Not Rook. Not the stubborn little idiot who had more lives than the feral street cats of treviso they so loved to pet. Not the little crow who spent years following Viago around with one hand always fisted in his cape until it was beat out of them to not show that kind of weakness. Not the little scrap of a being that succeeded for always being quick, but fell for their mouth that ran that much quicker. Not Rook, who he sent away to learn patience, to get them out of the hot seat and away from the other houses who wanted their head. Rook, who fought and won against gods and dragons and the blight. Not a crow who always completes their contract. Not Rook who was supposed to come home.
Not Rook. So Viago refuses to believe it. The first few days he clings so hard to the mantra. “Rook always thinks of something.” And they will come back and laugh and laugh and laugh at how worried Viago was and Viago will sigh and ring their neck and slip poison into their food to make sure they’ve been keeping up with their daily antivenoms— and Rook will be there.
But those days turn into a week, and then into two, and Viago hasn’t received any update from this so called ‘veilguard’ and all of the sudden “Rook always thinks of something.” is crumbling because what if this is the exception? this is the “except this time.” Because it is always until it’s not. and there is no time to truly mourn is there? there is still one god left to slay and very little time left to do it.
And Viago will fight. The loss of his… the loss to House de Riva is felt, but Viago is a professional. His wings are not clipped. ( his feathers are broken, hard shafts digging in and pulling blood from oozing cuts. they need clipped, groomed, removed. but his wings still work. they just hurt. ) He will finish this contract, in their name if nothing else.
But Viago let himself forget. “Rook always thinks of something.” And he let himself doubt and underestimate when he swore he would never be caught by those things again. but maybe this once, it’s okay. it’s okay because Rook stands in front of him, alive. Broken, but alive.
because a Crow always completes their contract, and a Rook will always come home to bother Viago.
Until they don’t
#datv#dragon age#dragon age veilguard#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age veilgaurd spoilers#datv spoilers#veilguard spoilers#viago my beloved#viago de riva#rook de riva#crow rook#I didn’t mean for this to be so long I just started typing so it’s all over the place#but it’s haunting my thoughts#It’s a ramble#maybe I’ll turn it into a real cleaned up fic later#viago and rook#my favorite annoyed siblings#Anyways made myself sad and now I will leave
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THINK I FIGURED IT OUT
i’m losing my mind trying to find this. my white whale.
#spark plays datv#veilguard spoilers#i hope my autosaves go back that far if not oops#guess i’m doing tearstone island again
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emmrich & regret
emmrich: rook? darling? i wanted to say... rook: yeah, about that argument... emmrich: (sighs) it's no time to apologise, is it? rook: we'll talk back home, emmrich. i promise.
currently thinking about the fact that this is the last thing that emmrich and rook truly talk about before everything falls apart on tearstone island and they can't even do it in private, because the one chance they had, their moment to do so turned into an argument.
and not only did one friend die.
and not only is another friend missing, presumably also dead.
no, on top of all that tragedy -- that affects them all because the companions do care about each other. no matter who you picked, it's tragic: emmrich's picknick with harding and the long talks about their pasts, his discussions and warmth with bellara, his respect for neve and the little ways she cares so much, his friendship with davrin and the way both learn from each other in how to care for those in their care -- rook is gone, too. vanished.
and the last private moment they had ended in a heated argument.
i am willing to bet that "we'll talk back home, emmrich. i promise." is something that haunts emmrich during those long, long weeks that rook is trapped.
"we'll talk back home, emmrich. i promise." - not only is the use of 'home' very poignant and loaded and heatbreaking, but... they never do get to talk. then they never do get home. it's only he who does.
it's a promise broken.
it's a huge regret.
it's one of those little things that seem overwhelming in the face of loss and grief. the little things that you never got to do. the little things that you never get to make right. the little things that you never get so say. the way should have, could have, would have makes you spiral.
and emmrich would know, does have experience with it after losing his parents so abruptly, as well as within his professional duty's as a watcher, yet i think that would weigh heavily on him.
he's not prepared to lose rook. we see that time and time again in his human path and in his lich path as well:
emmrich: i will lose you to time, rook. what if i can’t bear that for eternity? - emmrich: i’m afraid i’ll mourn you forever.
i think it also explains very well why he insists on the visit to the necropolis, despite what's looming over the group. at first i thought it's a bit frivolous at this point in the game, until i realised why. he does it to be truly absolutely sure that all traces of whatever solas did to rook are gone:
emmrich: rook, dearest, please trust me. i must take you to the necropolis before we confront elgar'nan. - rook: did we have to risk visiting the necropolis? emmrich: i needed its subtler enchanments to detect what we must know. emmrich: there's no mark of the curse solas left on you. emmrich: darling, i thought i'd lost you forever in the fade. rook: if you and the others hadn't pulled me out...
emmrich doesn't want to repeat his (perceived) mistake. he doesn't want to lose them again, to leave things unfinished and to regret again.
and while i did wish we had an additional scene where we actually do have a chance to both address the argument rook and emmrich had in a meaningful way, addressing what happened after as well as emmrich's fears, it makes this final line in the romance scene all the sweeter:
emmrich: whatever is in store for us - together, my darling. that's how we'll face it. rook: i know.
#emmrich volkarin#emmrich x rook#rook x emmrich#dragon age 4#dragon age: the veilguard#da4#datv#da4 spoilers#datv spoilers#otp: love undying#ch: emmrich volkarin#ch: leander aurelian thorne#vg: dragon age 4#series: dragon age#meta: myda4
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one bit of attention to detail i did really like was the couple of times when characters speaking about spite and lucanis gave spite top billing - if you take him in the lords of fortune arena isabela introduces him as something like ‘the legendary spirit of determination, spite, and his crow friend lucanis dellamorte’, and if he’s in your party for tearstone island elgar’nan refers to him as ‘spite and its host’, which i thought were clever little ways of showing priorities - the importance of and respect for spirits in rivain, and elgar’nan not considering a mortal worth acknowledging
#sometimes there are moments of good writing in this game. many such cases in fact.#unfortunately. unfortunately. unfortunately. the rest of it.#lucanis dellamorte#dav#talkin#dragon age#dav spoilers#datv spoilers#veilguard spoilers#also: spite as an aspect of determination#chewing on the concept#imagine if that had been like. explored at all 🙃
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Lil outfit line up for my girl, talking about her under the cut (includes endgame spoilers)
Canon saysss that mercars are adopted into a “military family” but since they don’t elaborate on that at all and I can’t figure out how to make that make sense for an elven mage im throwing that out the window and creating my own lore.
Shanna is liberati caste, but she was borne to an enslaved mother. She grew up keeping her magic a secret to avoid attracting attention. Her facial scars were a mark of from her master, who was a venatori mage killed during dai. The Shadow Dragons (who I hc to have been established as a group around the end of dai) protected her and her mother and helped them become liberati. Shanna became liberati around the age of 13.
Shanna and her mother worked as many odd jobs they could as maids and manual laborers. Her mother passed away when Shanna turned nineteen, and Shanna joined up with the Shadow Dragons shortly afterwards. She earned her tattoos working with the shadow dragons (I have so many hcs about tevinter elven culture and how it should be a culture in its own right if bioware weren’t cowardsss). On the mission before datv where Shanna had to go into hiding, she ran into Fenris who was also working to take down that group of slavers. Fenris points Varric her way, and that’s how she joins up with the solas hunt.
Skipping way ahead to the end of the game, Shanna cuts her hair after Tearstone Island when she believes Bellara to have died and discovered Varric has been dead (my personal canon now is that davrin or Harding didnt die bc fuck it). HC Cutting one’s hair is a grief protocol both liberati elves and dalish share, so when they find Bellara it’s a stark symbol of Shanna’s grief over Bellara. I’m rotating their reunion scene in my head constantly of the first thing Bellara noticing is that Shanna has cut her hair.
#my art#oc shanna#dragon age#datv#veilguard#rook mercar#da oc#jealous of her linen clothes fr I want more linen clothesssds
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