#when the lords are out there with a fully comprehensive edi plan while everything else about them is a mess

[rhysintherain]

Everybody's hard on the Lords of Fortune for being such an out-of-left-field concept in the Dragon Age universe, but honestly? I kind of love them.

You've got Isabella, the self-identifying bimbo who justifies treasure hunting in a bikini with "it's not underwear, it's Plunderwear", the captain who can't keep a ship on top of the water to save her life, so she founds a treasure hunters' guild.

But hunting the wrong treasure has got her in trouble in the past, so she hires a Very Serious professor of pre-contact archaeology to tell her if anything is culturally important enough to, say, send an entire military detachment to hunt down the person who stole found it. Said professor takes the job, because she just immigrated here with a baby who lights household items on fire with worrying regularity and nobody in Rivain will give her a better job in her field with a doctorate from Par Vollen University.

Said spoon-melting baby grows up to be an adult who swears like Isabella even in Qunlat and has an all-consuming special interest in dragons. Isabella goes "okay, dragons have treasure they're not using. Let's put Taash's autism to good use and start robbing dragons!" (risky as hell, but probably not as morally dicey as robbing people).

Somewhere in between they meet a guy named Shiv who points out that elves would also like their stuff back, at which point the Lords of Fortune apparently become the most prolific Cultural Resource Management firm in Rivain.

They have a system to ensure everyone gets paid fairly. They have a system to resolve conflicts between their members. What started off as Isabella trying not to steal anything the Qun would come after seems to have evolved into a genuine respect for cultural property from her crew.

And they're loud, dressed in bright, absurd outfits with gaudy accessories, frequently drunk, and steadfastly committed to the bit.

They're absolutely fantastic.