#tnil stuff

[thisfragilesky]

i am Looking at the possibility of a surprise mahanon/blackwall dalliance

[esquitor]

Wrote like 9k word in 13 hours I feel some kind of weird. why didn't the writing binge wait until November. Really didn't need this middle of the year

[thisfragilesky]

i swear i’m still writing i promise.

honestly this is kind of funny to me. i do not play with friendly fire on but if i really wanted to simulate mahanon trying to fight enemies with impaired sight i would turn it on because i fucking suck at playing with friendly fire on i kill all my allies. i have no aim and i mash buttons.

but also how are they going to get out of this conversation with blackwall wallflowering over in the corner trying not to seem Nervous about all this warden talk

also also: blackwall sure is lucky fiona was cured of the taint and (probably) can’t sense it anymore bc if anyone named dropped him as warden while in redcliffe oohh boy he’d be outed so fast.

also also also: i wonder if the devs purposefully placed him right across the lake from valammar. where there’s darkspawn activity. that he never brings up because he wasn’t a warden and thus can’t sense nearby darkspawn. i played origins and still somehow missed that.

[thisfragilesky]

[thinks about the chevalier ‘graduation’ tradition of going into the alienage to kill elves]

[thinks about tnil!mahanon who might’ve known about thom rainier being a chevalier but not about the chevalier graduation thing]

[thinks about vivienne’s companion quest where she mentions that she had chavaliers working with her and likely would’ve sent for them to come to skyhold to deliver a snowy wyvern heart if they hadn’t died in the civil war]

[thinks about sera finding out too if she doesnt know already]

[thisfragilesky]

FINALLY finished scripting the next arc (which ended up just being the first intro half to champions of the hushed whispers i.e. events leading up to both quests) and i think i finished finalizing the outline for the quests themselves. no idea what’s happening beyond them though. i’m riding by the seat of my cushions, folks.

just gotta.... prose it....fill in the narrative.... oooofff. i wanna get to skyhold so i can post art that i drew 74938153 years ago

[thisfragilesky]

i wish In Hushed Whispers wasn’t so biased and skewed towards having More Content by sheer virtue of being time travel Bad Future fuckery where you can do fuck all for as long as you want as long as dorian eventually gets his hands on the amulet and turns time back right to where it was before and everything is hunky dory. just picks up right where it left off. they could be in the bad future for 10 years and everyone would be none the wiser. until they return and mahnon is even More Old and dorian is like I HAVE GREY HAIR. so does mahanon, sweetie, he has a lot of grey hair. it’s sexy.

meanwhile with champions of the just it’s.. all go go go because you’ve got a demon and red templars wailing on other templars and not a lot of ‘okay we can take a day’s break’ because uh. you can’t. it has to finish now.

and theoretically yes i can write both happening at the same time but then In Hushed Whispers is just Massively Longer than anything Champinos of the Just could be and it sucks because i feel like i’m putting more work into mahanon’s side than evelyn’s even though i want to write both relatively equally...

although granted i. initially was going ot make evelyn a companion. and then i thought about making mahanon a companion (which is how round 5 came about). and then i decided... they are each other’s companion. so really i did this to myself it’s my fault. could have just left evelyn as a companion and my problem would be solved but i like her a little too much to do that now.

anyway the templar/mage quest arc outline is like 3k words and covers at least 6 parts if i don’t decide to split them up more and i’m not even done i feel like crying. so many words to write.

i’d love to update as i go but the two quests are structured interweaving for Maximum Suspense (or so i’d hope). and so i can get the details right. i changed so fucking much. it ain’t canon divergence until you turn In Hushed Whispers into a 5 chapter arc with a possible chance of [redacted for fic spoilers] and also [redacted for fic spoilers]