#worldstate : three

[kirkwallguy]

when i was doing my bad / all mage romances worldstate with anders rivalmance i had this older gay married orlesian warden who just completely shakes up the protag vibes by being overwhelmingly normal and nice. because it was funny

[zoya-nazyalenskys]

finished veilguard and my final thoughts on it are that it's a pretty fun rpg but a bad dragon age game

[veatomis]

It’s so refreshing to see someone also sharing the same sentiment that Veilguard really just felt like smth for solavellan’s or even ppl who are huge fans of solas and not for other ppl (especially ppl who romanced Dorian)

Yeah... they gassed up the solas arc so much for this game and then it was. so nothing if again you didn't make the choices the devs obviously wanted you to make. And the game isn't even for huge fans of solas really, i'm personally a big solas fan, I think he was an incredible character and i loved his friendship with my inquisitor but because i wanted to explore choices that it seems trick weekes was just not interested in writing i got fucked over. Like i'm still reeling from the fact that if ROOK. NOT EVEN THE INQUISITOR. decides to not redeem solas the inquistor/solas relationship (whether antagonistic or friendly) just never gets resolved. I wanted a 20 min argument where my inquisitor after 7 long years of turning around that last interaction he had with solas in his mind got to ask him VERY important questions like "did our friendship ever really matter?", "did you ever really stop seeing me as subhuman?" and what i DESPERATELY needed "if the qunari hadn't forced you out of hiding, would you have come to save me from the anchor?" but they stuck varric into the role that should've been the inquisitor's so i got nothing 😐

+ What they did to us dorianmancers was so insulting my blood boils every time i think about it again. The inquisitor is in minrathous. Dorian is in minrathous. We never get a proper reunion with those two and they also have the audacity to dangle that shit in front of our faces with the "yes i know u will be in minrathous" line in dorian's letter. The inquisitor doesn't even MENTION dorian to rook when he's in the city, the city can be overrun with venatori, half of it can be destroyed and we don't even get a voiced concern over the man he loves???????? sick and fucking twisted the way this game actually had me missing dav*d gaid*r's writing but it did.

[zhmyhnyto]

Well, now I'm surprised that they even allow us to pick other non-S*lavellan romances. They should have just made it "Did you romance Solas?" and stopped at that. Why give us a chance to select Cassandra as romance if we can't even choose who was the Divine. Or how does it matter that someone romanced Bull if game doesn't allow us to select if he's alive.

[crossdressingdeath]

If people could stop making massive, largely baseless assumptions about DAV based on a playtest build that only contains six hours of the game and that we haven't even seen all of that'd be great.

[crows-of-buckets]

Im trying to get back into writing fic (outside of me being possessed by the spirit of an idea at 1am and pratting something out on my phone while half asleep that is) and I've had these lines rattling around my head for WEEKS now. Ena my fucking up baby boy

[shadovvheart]

I think I've finally decided whom to romance with my rooks. neve and lucanis are so my type it'd be a crime not to kiss them. and I won't forgive myself if I don't romance harding after ten years of asking for her to be romanceable

[hahren-tabris]

okay i KNOW i said I was retiring my lavellan. and i KNOW i said that i prefer other romances to s*lav*llan. but hear me out.

what if i started a new playthrough with a new lavellan.

[merrybandofmisfits]

five distinct dragon age verses.

[tortoise-teapot]

hit in the face by the realization that i've been writing avery as basically fiona's felassan and im having brainworms rn

[paniartistmauser]

Some more Rooks for Veilguard

[queen-scribbles]

Every so often the urge strikes to reread my Jowan/Leliana fic and I pretty much never say no. (aka, guess what I'm doing rn)

[persephoneggsy]

Two more Rooks that I’ve played through to the end:

Top is Gentle “Gen” de Riva, a crow mage who hates being a crow with every fiber of her being. She was found on the doorstep of a chantry where she was raised by the holy sisters until her magic developed. Then she was purchased from the Circle by a crow recruiter and hated every minute of her training. After she defeats the Evanuris she fucks off to Rivain with Taash and joins the Lords of Fortune and she WILL NOT answer any of Viago’s messages.

Bottom is Armitage “Tage” Mercar, a shadow dragon rogue. Beset with a combination of mommy/daddy/sister issues, anger issues, and bouts of insecurity, Tage took comfort in the new relationships he’d managed to find in the Veilguard — particularly his romance with fellow shadow dragon Neve Gallus. I imagine post game he either helps Neve with her cases or goes to the Necropolis to hang out with Emmrich, who is more a father to him than his real dad ever was.

[avvidstarion]

Does BioWare not understand that the reason I am so drawn to dragon age over, say, the elder scrolls is BECAUSE of the worldstates?? I love that each game is a single part of an ongoing story, I love that decisions made in previous matter. What sets dragon age apart from the rest of the fantasy rpg genre if not that?

[spellandblade]

[danceswithdarkspawn]

thwip thursday

yesterday was a lazy day after a busy week, this is from something verrrry different from my usual flavor of things

She dragged the lockbox that sat on the far end of the chaos closer, opening its lid a little more forcefully than she intended, and began to put the night’s lost work away. Her hands shook as she snatched a scrap of parchment. She dipped a quill pen a little too carelessly; ink splattered on the edges of the paper. The hurried instructions she wrote for Charter seemed barely legible to her eye, but it would have to do.

Leliana glanced up as she placed the note inside the box. Morrigan waited at the opposite side of the desk, arms crossed, waiting for her to finish. There was no winning this. “There has been so much chaos in the world,” Leliana softly said as she placed the last of the things in the box. It quietly clicked shut. “My burdens seem small in comparison.”

“You nearly died.”

Leliana froze in place, hands still primed at the box’s lid. She looked up slowly at Morrigan, and unsurprisingly found an edge of ire in her features. But it was the type of anger that came with worry, Leliana knew, more frustration than true vitriol. Perhaps she earned it.

“Do you not remember how ill, how feeble you were?” Morrigan accused. “‘Tis astonishing that you survived after what you tried to do. You were driven to put yourself, both of you, on a pyre.”

Leliana ran a hand over her eyes and sighed. “Morrigan, it is just busywork.”

“Were you so abused under Justinia's thumb that you forgot what it was like to be shown a modicum of decency?”

“No, I-”

“You nearly died.”