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What does Vallyn's name mean? Also what are Vallyn and Solas up to in the Fade? other than getting Solas pregnant, that is

My friend broke it down to me once what they thought it meant 😭

Val - memory (???) vallas means writting

Lyn (lin) - blood

So Vallyn roughly translates to "blood memory" it's very similar to vallaslin which means blood writing.

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As for fade prison!!

When they're awake they go through a "journal" Vallyn wrote that tells she felt almost every day for the last 8 years. It's vague notes, terrible poetry, scribbles with messy timestamps, and crude drawings of flowers and people. Including trying to remember what solas looked like. She's not a very good artist but that only makes it more endearing.

When they are asleep they explore each other's memories from before they had met. Things they want to share with each other.

And an old sketch of them bc I really liked these questions!!!

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the sexiest back in Thedas

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solavellan sketches

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i can ask a question that is fun! how different is valyn’s backstory in the evanuris AU compared to what it is canonically?

OH I LOVE THIS QUESTION

both of them struggle with their identity being striped by someone they love for the sake of the people (or a person)

Inquisitor Vallyn: her identity was stripped simce birth as she was born to a line of keepers and firsts that go back to the Exalted March. She was expected to be the next keeper and leader of Clan Lavellan everything she did was for the people. However she never developed magic, the very first in her entire bloodline to not be a mage. So she gets shoved into being a “babymaker” to hopefully birth a mage since she’s not one. To be a leader and birth/raise the next one to protect tradition and the people was her “purpose” for being born. fun facts - her mom is Keeper Deshanna - after she didn’t turn out to be a mage she became the community weaver/tailor so that she could still be a central figure in the community. She lives to serve

Mercy/Ancient au Vallyn: Vallyn was once a spirit of compassion and was the oldest friend of Sylaise. She could not join Sylaise when she got a body and Vallyn felt awful she could no longer follow her friend. However when the war started Vallyn felt powerless and went to Sylaise to ask for a body to help end the war. Slyaise went to June and begged her lover to give Vallyn a body that would never break. So June and Slyaise turned Vallyn into a weapon very similarly to what was done to Fenris. On the battlefield as people cried for mercy it is what she became. After the war Slyaise “gave” Vallyn to June as both gratitude for protecting her longest friend but as a gift to protect June and champion his ideas. June sees Vallyn not as her own person but as a reflection of Slyaise’s love. Slyaise sees Vallyn as a way to protect her lover and champion June’s ideals! here’s a little snippet of a little comic Im making for the ancient Au!

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Going feral over your art of spirit-form Solas and Lavellan. Look at those funky li'l worms dancing. Lovelovelove!

Do you have ideas on what spirit you reckon Vallyn could embody?

I really like the idea of purpose/desire! Inspired by this snippet of dialogue from solas!

It goes well with her personal story and as a parallel to solas because she is so focused on what she believes is her “purpose” that she isn’t even fully able to acknowledge any of her desires. Ironically solas helps her realize some of them lol

Solas was taken away from what he was meanwhile she was only allowed to be one thing… extreme ends of the spectrum. Or that’s the idea

Also just a little snippet of her doting on solas bc i thought it fit the theme of desire heheh

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Solas/Elvhen murals 🥰🥰🥰

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I was so excited to see a message in my ask box and alas it was that... Not fun...

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I don't know how to ask this question without sounding like asshole (the tism makes me think I'm being polite when apparently it doesn't look like that - I'm just genuinely trying to understand you) but why did you draw Ghilan'nain black in your last piece?

What little we saw of her untainted version she looks quite white, and it's odd you choose to change her race. If she were a black character turned white people would (rightfully so) be angry. It's not about race itself that matters to me precisely, but rather about keeping a character as they are

it’s for an au none of the characters are gonna be “as they are.” More importantly please educate yourself on the harm of whitewashing and why that is a completely ignorant comparison.

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im also yearning for your au i hope you do a lot with it

AW THANK YOU!! I like drawing it a lot so I’m happy people like it too 😭😭😭😭 here are messy earlier sketches of it

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hi blake i love your Arlathan AU art so much 🥹 are you considering doing other Evanuris like Elgar'nan anytime in the future 👀👀👀

YES !! I’ve drawn a few of them! As soon as I design the twins I’ll post them here !!

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Ancient Arlathan Solavellan Au

Vallyn is June’s champion and Solas is still Solas lmao. They meet while he is trying to copy June’s notes/transcripts on eluvians to make his own.

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scribbles for some dragon age ocs

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I was gonna put dialogue but like the hands that cradled my face and tilted it upwards to kiss my forehead are soaked in unfathomable quantities of blood. And

“Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. Theseus: Stain them, I don't care.” 

do it better lol

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duty worn as a noose // purpose worn as a crown

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Grab em while they last!! This will be my last drop of them!!

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45yr old woman discovers mpreg