#val ingellvar

[carabas]

Vallasdahl "Val" Ingellvar, necromancer and Lucanis-romancer.

No, you know what? I decided to delete the ask, we have enough negativity around here. Let's fight back with positivity!

Show me your beautiful mlm Lucanis smoochers! And let's include the NBs too, they are left out too often! I'll start:

[carabas]

Thinking about Mourn Watch Rook choosing to join Varric, of all things they could possibly do after getting kicked out of the Necropolis.

Because Varric's enemy is also his friend. The Inquisitor loves Solas, Varric wants to talk him down, they need to save the world from Solas but they don't want to give up Solas in the process, this is the situation Rook is choosing to get involved in.

And Rook falls in love with Lucanis, and Lucanis's enemy is also his family, like a brother to him, he needs to stop Illario but he doesn't want to lose him in the process - it's not even about whether Illario can be redeemed, Illario is just his, all he has left, and he's not willing to give that up.

Thinking about Mourn Watch Rook getting involved in all this after the reason they got kicked out of the Necropolis. The leaders of the rebellion you need to stop are also the cherished ancestors. You kill them anyway. It costs you everything.

[teyrnacousland]

I think it's fun that different characters give a different time period for how long Rook was in the Fade Prison. Both because everyone's perception of time is different (and gets weird when you add grief to the mix) and because it means we can headcanon how long it took each specific Rook to get out of there based on how well we think they'd have managed their regrets

[gwynbleiddyn]

from tarot asks! the world for both kerros and beren please!

→ from this rook tarot ask game

oooooh i love this one!

The World: What does happily-ever-after look like for Rook? Is it attainable, or just wishful thinking?

• KERROS •

I think Kerros' idea of a happily ever after changes often, very much in keeping with the ebb and flow of his nature. He is a mercurial, ephemeral creature, more in tune with the tides of the world than the foundations of it.

One day he wakes up and thinks he will climb to the lofty quarterdeck where Isabela oversees the Lords, either to give her a run for her money as she loves, or to beg/borrow/steal the show of first mate, because he's had a taste of leadership now and he could take or leave it.

Another day, he considers a rooftop apartment in Treviso with crows and Crows in the rafters. Idly, the thought of Lucanis looms. Is that what he really wants? A life of contracts and careful steps? As a Lord, he lacks the affinity for either. Lucanis doesn't mind, Kerros knows - he says he enjoys the contrast - but he wonders where the give and take will turn into a tug of war between Antiva and Rivain, and when both will dig their heels into the sand all in the name of compromise.

On rarer days, he thinks of the near future. The one where Rion is sick and sicker by the day, where Cullen grows grey with grief and not with contentedness, and where Kerros ultimately feels he will not be able to forgive the world he must continue to live in when the inevitable comes to pass.

Most days, he thinks of no future at all. It is easier. There is less uncertainty. Less grief. Less everything, and less is sometimes more.

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• BEREN •

Beren relentlessly seeks out rest for the restless dead, but they give no thought to a restful future for themselves -- something Emmrich might pull them up on, sooner or later.

I think they have an innate discord to them, very much in the way handmade things tend to carry the messy human nature of their origin -- a slipped stitch here, an accidental tangle there, a crossing of threads where perhaps they should have been kept separate. When Beren was remade, their body painstakingly pieced together, their mother made a fundamental mistake: she did not leave room to grow.

Perhaps she thought the growing was done, or a more likely answer is that she wished to keep Beren a certain way forever - however unconsciously, and it bled into her work. Just like a slipped stich. Or a tangle. Maybe a crossing of threads. The trouble with flesh and blood, unfortunately, is that it quite often cannot be undone.

At least, not without some considerable degree of pain, which is something Beren doesn't handle very well.

All this to say: Beren is old, but still has a lot of growing to do, in a form that perhaps doesn't allow it so easily. It will be painful. It will be uncomfortable. But a happy future for them consists of time spent furthering their research, enjoying the world they are twice-blessed to live in, alongside someone who actively chooses to indulge curiosity and not hide from it.

But first, they must find room to rest.

[bolyde]

Esha holds up the half finished dangling earrings to @ingllvar , judging if they would be too much or not. Jewel green carpaces glint in the sparse illumination of the room, and Esha decides they need a few glass beads for movement, then she'll be done with them.

"Did you see anyone exciting today, at least?" Only a small portion of her requested goods had been obtainable from the market, thr tradeway still taking its time due to well... allegedly, there was a giant hole in the sky.

Esha has not found the courage to surface from the Necropolis to see it for herself yet, so she's been reading about it or listening to gossip as she's able.

The dead still needed them while the world fell apart.

[stachedocs]

"It is her, all right. The Lady Montilyet's old shadow. Only, she goes by the name Ingellvar these days." - "Oh?" - "Something to do with what Trevelyan is up to lately. And I hear there's issues with her mother." - "Oh...!" - A conversation overheard in Val Royeaux

[carabas]

I just want to appreciate how hard Rook's (male British) voice actor went on the flirt lines.

Thank Lucanis for making dessert, but also make it work as the official commitment to an exclusive relationship somehow.

[ustalav]

i have been tagged by @pinkfey and @aezyrraeshh to do this picrew and i already made gideon (dai) and val (bg3/dnd) in it so i will just add some others here!!

grant hawke (da2) | cyril lodovka (pwotr) | severin ingellvar (da:v)

eta: i tag @idolsgf @lords-of-fortune and @amatres

dont talk to me or my 500 saved picrews ever again

[carabas]

Dragon Age Veilguard liveblogging -

FADE TRIP WITH SPITE! We live in the Fade and we've gone through so many of Solas's memories, I wasn't expecting to get a dedicated Fade mission on top of that, and yet here we are complete with jokes about turning into a mouse or fighting oversized spiders, awww, thank you Spite!

And there's something really striking about these rays with their bright electric blue glow here in Lucanis's mental prison where all the colors are usually muted, that Lucanis's mind included them.

Spite at the first lock, when Rook's surprised there's no one waiting there to confront them: "Of course not. Rook can't be here. You open doors. You don't close them." i'm fine this is fine give me a minute

Zara's disembodied voice: "Envy is the rarest of all demons. And the most challenging to cultivate. The conditions must be perfect." ...Envy? Was she aiming for Envy when she got Spite? There is a very obvious Dellamorte candidate for Envy and it's not the one she locked up.

Lucanis may see Rook as the one who opens his prison door, but he's casting the other companions as guards keeping their eyes on the prisoner, and he's given us these reasonable justifications about why he prefers to sleep in the tiny windowless extremely-prison-cell-like pantry really, and this whole time he has been mentally carrying his prison with him, can we please get this man a window now. A mattress maybe. ...I was about to suggest he move in with Rook like a DA2 romance but actually I'm not sure an underwater view would be much of an improvement here.

It took seventy-three hours of playing for Rook to start this romance and then only three hours to commit to it, what is this pacing.

Lucanis makes tarta de limon to pair with Rook's favorite tea, and this unlocks a codex entry recipe for... a Nevarran hazelnut torte? Which sounds pretty good actually, with the apricot. Is that what he would have made in this scene if Rook liked coffee instead of tea? But I kind of love that Lucanis is getting Nevarran recipes from Emmrich now - and I'm assuming this codex entry is the same no matter which faction your Rook is from and it's just a coincidence that Rook happens to be Nevarran, but it's a nice coincidence. Also the banter where Lucanis agrees to try a wine Emmrich recommended "just to see what the Watchers keep in their cellars." Things that were not actually intended to be romance lines for Mourn Watch Rook specifically, but they work out nice that way - Lucanis hates the necropolis Rook grew up in so very, very much, but he wants to learn the tastes Rook grew up with.

EMMRICH'S GOING TO BECOME A LICH? IS IT TOO LATE TO RETHINK ROOK'S LOVE INTEREST i'm joking, i'm mostly joking, I am very happy with Rook/Lucanis and also with the nice relaxing friendship between two necromancers venturing outside their necropolis. Romanceable lich though.

It is very funny how clearly you can hear the difference in tone between the specifically Mourn Watch Rook lines which are just sincerely, wholeheartedly happy for Emmrich and his future lichdom, good job getting tenure congrats, and then it gets to a line recorded for Rooks in general and suddenly he has concerns.

Oh, man, Harding confronting the Titans' anger. When Harding says You took everything from us, and you thought you won, and she's looking directly at an elven Rook. We will thrive in spite of you, and the embodiment of Spite is right there beside her, and just moments earlier had been assuring her he won't tell anyone about how afraid she is.

I was surprised earlier that our spirit companion for this game was Spite and not Regret, since regret seemed like the big theme of the game, but I can see it now.

"Why would you want to outlast everything you love?" Lucanis asks, talking about Emmrich's lichdom, but while standing directly in front of Solas and Mythal. "It sounds like a terrible fate."

Gratuitous picture of my Rook because this lighting is really bringing out the dark circles under their eyes

Everyone in this Lighthouse needs to get some sleep.