#wigmake

[dent-de-leon]

soft hearted Crow Mr. Lucanis my beloved...

[eonianshadow]

Lucanis' ordinary workday

[esthesiaart]

Lucanis Dellamorte. I am so happy to see him among the companions after reading his story in Tevinter Nights! I loved him and Illario.

[demi-pixellated]

Master Dellamorte 🗡

[antiparticular]

I guess the venatori learned his face

[acgamesda]

Some of my favorite Lucanis things from Wigmaker Job:

He is such a disaster, but at the same time can be sarcastic then he wants to. I love this man.

[rin-hanarin]

They were sparring and things got a little heated. Antivans are passionate, and what gets things heated more than mock combat?

Also Neve doesn't care, she just prefers when private matters are kept private. What matters? Training with knives, I guess.

[merciawintersageposting]

🐦‍⬛🗡️🩸

[knife-eared-jan]

Nothing on this earth can convince me that that red headed evil lady Lucanis is fighting isn't Zara Renata from The Wigmaker Job.

Baby boi has a nemesis <3

Also hey look - probably Teia in the background <3

[melonyfelonyfellonme]

[dalishious]

I will be reading and commentating on The Wigmaker Job this Saturday, 7-Spet-2024 at 5:00pm ADT! [See Edit] Anyone who is interested in Lucanis Dellamorte, this one's for you!

(Read more about this twitch stream here, and please donate to Ghadeer and her family if you can!)

I will also have the commentary on Down Among the Dead Men up on YouTube sometime this week. Until then, you can still catch it on demand on my Twitch channel. 😊

EDIT:

I regret sharing that I have COVID, and am currently very symptomatic. (I'm thankful I'm vaccinated, because I can't begin to imagine how much worse it could be if I wasn't.) I do not anticipate being well enough to give a quality reading/commentary this coming Saturday, and therefore I must postpone until 14-Sep-2024. I appreciate your understanding!

[vaguely-concerned]

the info that lucanis is a short king (god bless!!!) is a delight to me and also poses some further questions that also delight me. in 'the wake' it's established that illario is bigger/taller than viago (who almost buckles completely under the weight when illario can't keep to his feet anymore). is this a situation where there's a significant height difference between lucanis and illario, and illario is actually decently tall/average height? (very funny to consider. the mario and luigi of premeditated murder 4 pay.) or is this a case of viago being a properly teeny-tiny noodle armed poison specialist. (also very funny to consider. teia come get your purse dog of a man.) many things to ponder

[captainofthetidesbreath]

between Spite and the eye-like motif in Lucanis's mantle, there's something to be said about eye for an eye

[biowhore]

I keep getting stuck on Lucanis's description of "no social skills" and "socially awkward" because that doesn't come to mind for me when reading the wigmaker job???

Like I'm afraid bioware doesn't know what that means... do I know what it means? I really don't know anymore

But seriously the only hint of that that I got from the short story was that he's jealous of illario's silver tongue. That doesn't make him socially awkward it just means illario is exceptionally charming... right?

I'm autistic so maybe my threshold for what qualifies is vastly different compared to allistic people?

[nostalgiaclown]

Hey do you think there's a deeper meaning or reason Spite looks just like Lucanis...

There's the scene by the fireplace and I picked up on how Lucanis closes his eyes as he turns his head to avoid looking at Spite...

It's like looking in a mirror, right, and your reflection is staring back as you deliberately hurt yourself with your words.

Lucanis, I think, is stuck in a cycle of 'It’s all I know.' 'It's what I'm good at.' But there's cracks there that hint this isn't who he wants to be...

"Death is my calling."

I don't think he actually believes that, but he has to tell himself that, right?

I don't think he's ever been given the chance to explore who he wants to be, he's just been told this is who he is...

Demons are bound when you 'tell' them what they are so loudly that it's all they can hear. They have to be what you want." But a spirit who evolves to become more of a "real person" is less malleable than a spirit and if they have the certainty of who they are and who they desire to be, they can resist binding entirely.

Did someone else bind the spirit to him by force? Corrupt its nature so fit the needs of the user?

If Spite was originally Love (as I've seen some people comment Love being the opposite of Spite) and they were forcibly bound to Lucanis for whatever reason, did that cause Love to twist into Spite?

I think we're going to have to heal both Lucanis and Spite from whatever grief or trauma they've been through, make him come to terms and accept whatever fucked up thing happened, so it sticks, and he stops just "wiping the slate clean".

He comes across to me as a guy who's just like going through the motions, and needs more of a push to change, for himself.

Nevertheless, it is not unheard of for spirits to evolve and become more "human" by coming to terms with grief, heal from being emotionally hurt, and thus be able to learn from what they endured. By coming to terms with grief, a spirit is able to grow as a person and not "wash clean" like a spirit."

Then I was reading up on spirit healers, and again, there's that same theme of trust here, the spirit trusting the 'mage' and also the loss of trust when being tricked by a benevolent spirit...

To gain the services of such benevolent and righteous beings requires that the mage earn their trust. Often this requires a series of trials to prove that the mage's goals are as noble as the spirit demands, though some mages have claimed to command the compliance of such spirits through sheer force of charisma.

So if Spite was Love, imagine if the trust was broken from the get-go, by whoever brought them over from the fade, that surely would cause Love to twist into Spite?

More than one tale exists of a spirit healer being fooled by a demon masquerading as a benevolent spirit, and inadvertently bringing them across the Veil... or being tricked into letting down their guard, and possessed.

On the flip side, Lucanis is not a mage(?) but if he needed help or something idk- and he was tricked and possessed that way - tricked by 'Love'? Owch, the loss of trust there...

Oh and if Spite just a spirit of Love that was corrupted by Lucanis' own feelings? Like how Justice twisted into Vengeance(?)

We know Lucanis is relearning how to trust, and he's a romantic.

How can you trust others If you don't trust yourself? Spite feels like intrusive thoughts made manifest... And how can you Love others if you have no Love left for yourself? Spite seems to be chipping away at Lucanis slowly... he looks so tired.

What exactly happened to him, I wonder, I can't wait to find out cause it's gonna hurt...

[rin-hanarin]

I got very excited about the recent Dragon Age news and made my future Antivan Crow Rook (name TBA.) and some memes.

He's a city(?) elf rogue and a bit of a dumbass, but hey, if we don't get Zevran in this game, at least I'll have a cringefail assassin at home, and it's not gonna be the "no bullshit 9-5 office man assassin" Lucanis.