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got on moonguard and there's a demonhunter killing rats in stormwind and announcing the killcount in trade occasionally

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compilation of the fake wot3 page images

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getting the morrowind itch again.....

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Forest dweller turned darkspawn hunter, Davrin will stand between you and a pack of demons. Artwork by @gewska, sponsored by EA.

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Matt Rhodes: "Veilguard. The Silent Plains. A vast desert, location of the Necropolis. This was also where Dumat, the first Blight was killed. I liked the idea that the desert was still scarred from it." [source]

Art by Matt Rhodes.

Caption on image 3: "The wasteland is finally beginning to grow again" [source]

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Rook's Advisors

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Early Companions Concepts

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The Blessed Almalexia

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okay i AM going to make posts about thedas holidays this year, and on that note: tomorrow is first day!!

this is a pretty simple one. thedas has the same months as us with different names, so they celebrate the new year on the first day of their january: wintermarch! (which is also called verimensis if you’re fancy.) we don’t know very much about first day, but we do know that it’s traditional to visit neighbours and family. this apparently comes from annually checking in remote areas that everyone was alive, lmao. there’s also large town gatherings of drinking and merriment to commemmorate the year past! so it’s all about community. this seems to be the closest of thedas’ festivals to the middle of winter, so it’s probably the one associated with snowy weather. also based on one mention in a browser game, it’s possible some people eat chicken about it?

your warden and their party might have taken shelter from the cold and been caught up in a town’s cheerful first day party, no blight or weather or war stopping the celebration. your hawke probably remembers the twins’ little hands in theirs as they trudged through the snow, visiting the most isolated farmholds on the edge of some remote fereldan village. kirkwall’s hightown must have very different first day social events to those drinking and dancing around the alienage vhenadahl, or to shivering darktown neighbours finding each other in the gloom down below. a josephine bundled tightly against the cold also dresses skyhold up for the occasion, insisting on a shared feast that accounts for everyone from new recruits to the inner circle, appalled when some don’t share her enthusiasm for new year’s resolutions and a fresh productive start. maybe the veilguard visiting all their “neighbours” means being ferried by a baffled caretaker through the crossroads, with increasingly drunk stumbling over the course of the day. some factions put on a better festive mood than others, but for each member of the team, someone needs that annual reminder they’re alive and will come back safe

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aaah she looks perfectly creepy!!!! thank you so much!!

your secret saint waidwen's gift is here @zandalarii !!!!!!!

mot is such an interesting looking watcher, i had so much fun painting her <3

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my piece for @secret-st-waidwen-exchange for @herearedragons. i drew their watcher mae and the devil of caroc :] the keep is a bit dark, so its best to do repairs by sunlight

progress shots below the cut

initial sketch -> initial paint over -> lighting/effects -> final paint over

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propaganda for my alternative world where Velanna and Nathaniel are the Veilguard Warden contacts:

with 20+ years of experience, they have the seniority to pull off challenging the First Warden

hands on experience with Blight fuckery (hello whatever the Architect was doing)

history with the Architect and his awakened darkspawn 🤝 Isseya in the present with her corrupted Wardens

connection to what's going on in Ferelden

I personally think seeing them twenty years older would be really hot

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i will never be over the hero of ferelden or the warden commander of ferelden or the commander of the grey or the grey warden or the champion of redcliffe or the arl/essa of amaranthine or brosca or aeducan or tabris or mahariel or surana or cousland or amell or leske or trian or shianni or tamlen or jowan or fergus btw

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here's my take on clavicus vile! kept his design mostly inspired by the ESO appearance

-> the coins attached to his robe are the same coins that mortals toss into wishing wells - he just extracts them afterwards and keeps em on his person -> when he traverses the night sky his sash falls behind him, and all the coins twinkle, which creates the illusion of a shooting star (that people wish upon! :D azura doesn't like it)

his daggerfall design sort of inspired me to make a timeline of his appearance changing, i think it would be cool for clavicus to be a daedra that visually "grows up"

barbas our friend barbas ^_^

and of course closeups under read more!

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clan cousland

— (from left: barkspawn, oriana, fergus, oren, mannon, bryce, eleanor)

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and then they lived happily ever after right? right??

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I hope everyone had a happy Christmas this year.

This piece is one I did for the TES Secret Santa event hosted by @scorchedcandy here on Tumblr. This year, I got @arimabari, also known as @kyneforged, and this piece features his Dragonborn character Tatia Stormcrown.

Unfortunately, I had to shrink the image to fit the file size constraints here on Tumblr, so the full resolution piece with be available on my DeviantArt (HERE) and my Cara (HERE).