#the banished mage

[avalanchinedream]

*screaming in the distant* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[ambafaerie]

Mel is so adorable I wish we could have seen her facial expressions here

[teeth-draws]

He’s trying to be cool about it but he shouldn’t have opened that and you should probably get out of there…

[raayllum]

For [Aaravos’s] design, we have drawn on the biblical archetype of Lucifer—who gives humans knowledge but in doing so corrupts them and brings them into sin.

But we also drew on the mythical archetype of Prometheus—who gives humanity fire, to elevate them

but is punished by the gods for doing this. 

In a way, they are the same story

but the first is a corrupter 

and the second is a self-sacrificing giver, who defies the arrogant gods. 

Some of it is a matter of perspective

some is a matter of intention.

[vancilocs]

5-15 fooor you said dragon argon is fine so royce and dorian, and fenris and adair?

she inquisits on my origin til i 2

Who is most likely to carry the other?

Dorian spends too much time at the bookshelves and Royce will pick him up and bring him along, one arm or no. No hope Dorian could pick him up though

Don't think Fenris would agree to being carried unless he's the one climbing on Adair first, rare thing. However I fully believe Fenris is strong enough to pick Adair up if he so wanted

What is their favorite feature of their partner’s?

Dorian likes Royce's eyes and brows mainly because it's so fun to watch him think So Hard about something (like trying to solve an astrarium) and then see his expression change when he figures it out. Royce likes Dorian's hands, nose and mouth. His nose crinkles when he gets pissy.

Adair likes Fenris's nose and eyes (they're pretty eyes, everyone can see that), Fenris likes Adair's whole profile and shoulders

What’s the first thing that changes when they realize they have feelings for the other?

Dorian got nervous and likely kept thinking of a way out before he got in too deep, Royce having been raised to hopefully become a templar or a priest was slightly conflicted abt having gay thoughts about a weird Tevinter mage everyone keeps warning him about. But he was cute. And nice.

Fenris freaked the fuck out and Adair felt slightly bad because he's a mage and Fenris hates mages... but he's receptive so it should be okay...

Nicknames? & if so, how did they originate?

Dorian drops amatus multiple times in one conversation (as seen in Trespasser, though I wonder if he was just noticing Royce was pissed off abt him leaving and trying to placate him), Royce says my love/darling/dear/sweet well often. But always with "my" in front. Like when Dorian calls him a headache he will remind that I'm your headache, babe

Fenris says amatus, Adair has no clue what it means but it sounds positive so he won't pry. He says Hawke when mad. Adair says Fen when in private, love when sappy. His default mood is angry so that's when he just uses the full name

Who worries the most?

All the shenanigans Royce gets into certainly won't help Dorian's blood pressure, double that when he's playing with bombs, quintuple it when his arm tries to kill him so Dorian's overvigilant over Royce's physical health. But Royce also keeps an eye on Dorian's wellbeing (being a magister/archon can't be easy) and also an eye out for possible assassins lurking about

Hawke has the uncanny ability to get from the frying pan into the fire, and Fenris would have killed himself to follow him to places like Skyhold and Adamant. Adair did get gutted by the Arishok that one time so

Who remembers what the other one always orders at a restaurant?

Royce doesn't have a fancy palate, chicken nuggies for him please. Dorian makes him try new things (and not embarrass him)

If they went to restaurants they'd likely just eat the same thing as always. Though Adair would sometimes recommend other things he thinks Fenris might like (Fenris can recommend wines then)

Who tops?

Likely Royce but switches happen, oh you had a rough day at the Magisterium? Top me about it

Whoever wants to

Who initiates kisses?

Both as readily

Fenris more often, tugs at Adair's sleeve

Who reaches for the other’s hand first?

Royce, just has to make sure he's on the correct side, holding his prosthesis does nothing for him

Probably Fenris, strikes me as the more tactile guy. Also Adair respects that he might have hangups about being held all of a sudden/the lyrium is touch-sensitive

Who kisses the hardest?

Royce by a small margin, wants to take everything out about the fairly brief times they have together

Fenris, Adair is aware of being huge and pretty strong and doesn't wanna get too rough. But also answers equally to however hard Fenris pounces on him

Who wakes up first?

Royce probably, he's on the move plenty and likes to start early. Got workouts to do and bombs to tinker with. It's not hard to convince him to stay in bed though

I imagine Fenris is very alert after years of being on the run and gets up early. Adair isn't the most relaxed guy either but can sleep in a bit easier. Just shove yourself under his giant arm and go back to bed.

[axellis]

[vigilskeep]

doing my divine election maths

[bloodied-hunters]

So, I’m going through my second playthrough and I’m having Engvall as my main summon. He took out a catacombs boss on his own while I was dealing with the skeletons. Granted the boss wasn’t an absolute unit of a boss but still.

[cloudbattrolls]

Who all are my mages even. Let’s see.

Crista. Gliese. Doroch. Zelaya. Ginger. Jikiro. Svalla. I think that’s it actually.

I used to have more mage characters, but that was first rp group era. Amdzah isn’t one anymore since his revamp, even though he has arcane aspects due to dragon lineage. I killed Blanca off for good. Same for Nereza.

Rennay again I revamped to not be magical. Pogona pretty much faded out of existence when I revamped Amdzah since she was tied to him.

[avalanchinedream]

*screaming in the distant* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[hauntedgarden95]

me to me: okay so we’re gonna play through the whole series again to get a good feel for how my canon should be

Every single one of my OCs: actually we’re changing this story

[animemakeblog]

“Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou sareta Shiro Madoushi, S-Rank Boukensha ni Hirowareru” The Light Novel For Receives Anime Project

The Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou sareta Shiro Madoushi, S-Rank Boukensha ni Hirowareru: Kono Shiro Madoushi ga Kikakugai Sugiru (The White Mage Who Was Banished From the Hero’s Party Is Picked Up By an S-Rank Adventurer: This White Mage Is Too Out of the Ordinary!) light novel by Sora Suigetsu was the subject of an anime project for the Monster Label 10th Anniversary special website.

[jesncin]

Here's how the Sickly Boy ghost looks like in Hellblazer (luminously illustrated by Dave McKean):

I love that he's drawn with a half obscured face and one eye, kinda mirroring (no pun intended) Golden Mage's missing arm. You could say it's a metaphor for how they're the missing halves of each other if they actually went that direction, haha.

Reunion and Loss. A continuation of Twin in the Mirror and Chimera Twin Constantine, a remix of the Golden Boy arc from Hellblazer.

A story of Two Constantine brothers and the different ways they handled grief after losing each other at birth.

[adler-obsessed]

god. Vivienne really is just. that character. She is taken to the circle so young she does not remember what her parents even looked like and someone had to tell her. She wouldn’t even know if they were telling the truth. She is ruthless, the terror and nightmare of the Orlesian court. She almost weeps when you find the Tranquil skulls in Redcliffe. She hates drop waists. She is harrowed younger than any other mage in living memory. She teaches Bull the steps to the dance of the six candles. He likens her to a Qunari dreadnought that has half the enemies on the ground before he’s even reached the front line. Her accent’s not Orlesian. No Free Marcher can tell where she is from either. Is her original voice another part of herself she cut off? She enchanted a duke within one meeting and they scandalised even Orlesian society. She was good friends with his wife. They possibly fucked too. No can control her. She’s been owned since the moment she was first brought to the Circle. She belongs to no people. There are a dozen leashes around her neck claiming otherwise. She makes fun of an elven god for setting his coattails on fire.  She is on the verge of banishing Cole back to the Fade all the time. She can’t help but grow to care for him at the end despite her best efforts to pretend otherwise. She hates herself for it. She thinks caring makes you weak. During the first conversation you have with her unmasked as a Trevelyan, she begs to know if you also cared about her childhood friend, Lydia. She tries to import illegal fur into Skyhold. Did she kill everything soft within her soul herself or did the Chantry sisters do it for her? She is impossible to prank. Some might say she’s even better than Sera at pranking. She was pulled into the game by the time she was nineteen. She’d faced worse things since she could first remember her dreams. Life has never been fair. One merely needs to be hard enough to survive. The blade at her neck when she lay on the floor of the harrowing chamber was no different from the hunger in her belly as child, a necessary pain that only drove her forward. Maker, was there ever any chance that she did not see cruelty as simply another word for life? Is there any version of her that does not end up surrounded by moral filth? 

[taamlok]

Veilguard Tumblr Stats: The Results

In December I ran a Google Form looking to compare the official Bioware player statistics to those of the tumblr fandom. I received 3031 unique responses, and am now making the results available to you! This was a solo endeavor and I'm so grateful to every single one of you for your participation! All I ask in return is that we keep it positive: this was a fun project, let's keep it that way!

The results are in graphic form under the cut (alt text is available for every graphic). I have also captioned them with the official Bioware stats for comparison purposes where applicable. You can view the raw data in the form of a Google Sheet here. Please note that these results contain major endgame spoilers.

Thank you again, please reblog for reach!

Bioware did not provide hard numbers, but their ranking is: Neve, Lucanis, Taash, Harding, Bellara, Davrin, Emmrich

Bioware stats: 44% freed the archive spirit, 56% kept the archive spirit; 54% had Emmrich become a lich, 46% saved Manfred

Bioware stats: 33% sent the griffons to the Wardens, 67% sent the griffons to Arlathan

Bioware stats: 22% forgave Illario, 78% sent Illario to jail; 21% had Taash embrace Qunari culture, 79% had Taash embrace Rivaini culture

Bioware stats: 39% had Neve become an inspiration, 61% had Neve become a protector; 16% had Harding embrace anger, 84% had Harding embrace calm

Bioware stats: 22% banished the mayor to the Grey Wardens, 36% saved him, 42% left him for dead; 64% punched the First Warden, 36% reasoned with him

Bioware stats: 49% saved Minrathous, 51% saved Treviso

Bioware stats: 46% for Davrin as the distraction team leader, 54% for Harding as the distraction team leader; 58% had Bellara shut down the wards, 42% had Neve shut down the wards

Bioware only provided top 3 picks for each: Emmrich, Neve and Bellara are top 3 for unravelling the wards and Lucanis, Taash and Emmrich are top 3 for going after the Venatori. Please also note that these questions were optional on the Google Form and was not answered by all respondents.

Bioware only provided top 3 picks for each: Taash, Davrin, and Emmrich are top 3 for fighting the Juggernaut and Taash, Davrin, and Harding are top 3 for the counter-attack. Please also note that these questions were optional on the Google Form and was not answered by all respondents.

Bioware stats: 3% sacrificed Rook, 8% fought Solas, 17% outsmarted Solas, and 72% redeemed Solas; 43% of those who redeemed Solas had the inquisitor join him in the Fade

Bioware stats: 31% played rock, paper, scissors with Manfred; 50% petted Assan

Bioware stats: Human at 43%, Elf at 40%, Qunari at 11%, Dwarf at 6%

Bioware stats: Grey Wardens at 24%, Shadow Dragons at 24%, Antivan Crows at 16%, Veil Jumpers at 15%, Lords of Fortune at 11%, Mourn Watch at 10%

Bioware only provided stats for the three core classes: Mage at 40%, Rogue at 30%, and Warrior at 30%

[ouiouhie]

the banished mage