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a varric sticker for a patron 💘

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lingering looks

solas ⚔️maelgwn

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i don’t think ive seen anyone ever talk about the fact that in circles tranquility is designed to target children. by law, even if this law isn’t always followed, only apprentices can be made tranquil and the majority of apprentices are below twenty~

This is true and scary to think about.

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So many people told me to skip Dragon Age 2 when I got into this series, and I’m? Absolutely floored by that.

The way the companions are introduced? The COMPANIONS themselves? The beautiful, unending tragedy of Hawke in this atrocious city, mixed with some brilliant banters and poignant monologues?

Like I cannot believe they got away with this game in 2011. Everyone is bisexual and it actually changes dialogue and acknowledges the queerness of it all. Aveline finds love and remarries after her husband dies (not for money or power or security but because she loves this man!!). Anders is literally a conservative’s greatest fear: a queer, demon possessed civil rights activist. The game feels entirely different depending on whether Bethany or Carver survive Lothering. Hawke becomes a nobleman in Kirkwall and their entire manor is run by two dwarves, a dog, and an elven girl.

And the companions and their relationships feel so alive and full, even when Hawke isn’t present. Varric pays off crime bosses to leave Merril alone as she wanders around Darktown. Aveline hosts holiday parties and is incredibly sad that Isabela didn’t come. They all play Wicked Grace at the Hanged Man and Fenris is awful, but Anders is worse. Aveline makes sure the guards don’t bother Fenris in High Town, and steers Templars away from Anders’s clinic. They don’t always agree, they bicker and fight with one another, but they are Friends.

Oh, you wanna know about the gameplay? I don’t play Dragon Age for gameplay, I got nothing. Something something spiders and reused maps but that just means I always know where to go.

I’m here for found family (and romance)

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Cuddle Puddle 🥰

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Silver Streaks for Lucanis

mod by @flowersforthemachines thank you!!

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Shadows stand together.

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Pursuit for peace

Tarquin & Ashur, enjoying a picnic in Minrathous.

This is a collab with @surnumanaja! <3 They did the sketch and lines and I did the colours!

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a collection

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It wasn’t going well, yes, Anders?

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i'm sure there's a canon timeline but dao is a springtime game to me

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replaying a little game from 10 years ago

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Wet in the wetlands

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they deserved to be happy

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Drawing older Fenris and Anders made me realise how much I missed them

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vibrating on a frequency that shatters glass