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I was thinking it through and if Sera is a survivor of the events that took place in the Denerim Orphanage as some of us suspect, then I do think she could deeply relate to Cullen's trauma with Kinloch.

it would also explain why Sera is so viscously against magic and frightened of demons to such a high degree, because she witnessed a massacre that then lead to a demon infestation. She watched friends, possibly adopted siblings, die at the hands of the city guard and demons raise up from their ashes. What happens if she falls one day? Will what remains of her become a demon? Will she succumb to rage and pain, then sword and flame?

And if Cullen saw the same thing, would she not understand what he went through? Would she not empathize with his fear and confusion? Would Cullen not see the same misdirected anger and torment in her as he did in his younger self and wish to help her? At least they could talk? Have some one to confide in. They might come from two different worlds but they have similar roots; they are poor Fereldens who saw the worst of the Blight and came out of it, but it didn't make them braver or stronger. Raw from the suffering and the weight of being a survivor.

Not from their perspectives anyway.

So, why not? Why not form a bond? Or at least, they could sit in quiet on the roof and make each other laugh a little.

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more sketches of my fave diva + her ferelden guard dog

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Did you wonder what actual Cantori Diamond casino looks downstairs, bellow the Crow's base? Took flycam down there and it's completely pitch black, you cant see anything, but than I added spot lights and saw it's actually HUGE nice space with tables, big hallway and tones of npc's hanging out down there in the dark lmao 👀 why did they put all those npc's and space down there only for it never to be seen?!?!? they must've had plans to show it as some point! 😁

This is directly bellow that little bridge at the entrance of Crow's hideout as you're walking towards Teia and Viago.

@flowersforthemachines you might like this :)

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Hello everyone! Want to get some art from a Palestinian artist while also helping Palestine? I'm going to be running a raffle this week for Gaza Soup Kitchen, the winner will get a Tarot card from me! These tarot cards I usually charge upwards of $300 for due to complexity and time, so if you are pulled, you can receive one for as little as a $5 donation!

You can have multiple entries based on your donation. One entry starts at a $5 donation, multiple entries will be at each increment of $5 (ex: $10 = 2 entries, $15 = three entries, $20 = four entries).

A winner will be pulled on August 3!

Link to the form

Gaza Soup Kitchen's website (you can donate either through them or their GFM here. I will accept receipts from either):

Rules:

You must have proof of your donation to Gaza Soup Kitchen. I will not accept any entries that do not have proof of donation. I have two examples in the Google form of receipts I will accept + please crop out or censor any sensitive info.

I will ony be accepting entries through Google forms - this is how I will keep track of everything and then transfer to sheets for the raffle.

I will only be focusing on donations for Gaza Soup Kitchen. Please only send me your receipts from them and not any other org.

Communication will be through the desired email listed in the form. If you have any questions or concerns, please send me an ask or a message through my art email: alsudaniart@gmail.com.

I will not draw any hate imagery or sexual content (non-sexual nudity is totally okay).

Thank you everyone!

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DAI FEMALE ELF CARD YCH COMMISSION

You can get this for $55 [Paypal only]

❗please read the Term of Service first before ordering wepepe-comms.carrd.co#tos

Send me an email if you're interested to order 😄 📧wieke.wepepe@gmail.com

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If I tell you I cackled.

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Cool project from and by Reddit user Eglwyswrw, a gamebook adaptation of Dragon Age: The Last Court - 'I am adapting DRAGON AGE: THE LAST COURT into a Choose Your Own Adventure format in order to help preserve its narrative. Here's how you can help out...'

Excerpts from post:

"I felt compelled to start this project as a volunteer in order to preserve a playable form of The Last Court that, in spite of being in a very different subgenre of interactive fiction, somewhat keeps a good chunk of the original's spirit... or so I hope!"

"What am I supposed to do if I want to help out? Play it, either on your phone or your PC. Keep a watchful eye for typos, random strings of code that might have sneaked into the text, bizarre balance issues (such as having negative values of something for too long, or having over 100 of them for too long), illogical narrative transitions etc. If possible, screenshot your final stats (at the bottom of the page) and send them to me/copypaste it in the comments so I can have an idea if the balance is OK. A single playthrough of the demo should last, I don't know, 15 minutes? There should be a lot of variations based on your chosen class and choices so please feel free to play it as many times as you would like! When can we expect a full release? Pretty soon I think. This includes over 37000 words and I took about 9 days to reach this point, with almost a third of the story done."

the link has a free playable demo which contains almost a third of the full story, "the prologue + 3 full chapters", "Forever free, available on itch.io".

[source and full post with more info] credit: Reddit user Eglwyswrw !

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Emotes from a discord <3

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Asma Lavellan as text posts (1)/(2)/3

Bonus:

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Mythal, Protector, All-Mother

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Hello everyone! Want to get some art from a Palestinian artist while also helping Palestine? I'm going to be running a raffle this week for Gaza Soup Kitchen, the winner will get a Tarot card from me! These tarot cards I usually charge upwards of $300 for due to complexity and time, so if you are pulled, you can receive one for as little as a $5 donation!

You can have multiple entries based on your donation. One entry starts at a $5 donation, multiple entries will be at each increment of $5 (ex: $10 = 2 entries, $15 = three entries, $20 = four entries).

A winner will be pulled on August 3!

Link to the form

Gaza Soup Kitchen's website (you can donate either through them or their GFM here. I will accept receipts from either):

Rules:

You must have proof of your donation to Gaza Soup Kitchen. I will not accept any entries that do not have proof of donation. I have two examples in the Google form of receipts I will accept + please crop out or censor any sensitive info.

I will ony be accepting entries through Google forms - this is how I will keep track of everything and then transfer to sheets for the raffle.

I will only be focusing on donations for Gaza Soup Kitchen. Please only send me your receipts from them and not any other org.

Communication will be through the desired email listed in the form. If you have any questions or concerns, please send me an ask or a message through my art email: alsudaniart@gmail.com.

I will not draw any hate imagery or sexual content (non-sexual nudity is totally okay).

Thank you everyone!

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Dragon Age II making-of book now available for pre-order!

Hey Dragon Age tumblr, I wrote a book about the making of DA2, one of my all-time favorite games!

It's being published by Boss Fight Books as the 40th entry in their incredible series of deep-dive books into specific video games. It will release as ebook and paperback in January, and you can pre-order it right now as part of Boss Fight's Season 8 Kickstarter (already 200% funded), alongside Legend of the River King and Life is Strange!

Official blurb for the book:

Rushed through development in just a year to capitalize on the runaway success of its predecessor, Dragon Age II's writing team had only a few months to write an entire game before handing it off to voice acting and development. The result was an often ramshackle sequel featuring a smaller world, fewer companions, and repetitive quests—as well as some of the best characters, dialogue, and storytelling BioWare has ever put to screen. Based on new interviews with DA2 writers David Gaider, Jennifer Hepler, Lukas Kristjanson, as well as editor Karin Weekes, author Charlotte Reber tells the wild behind-the-scenes story of how a team at the top of their game made the best of an impossible assignment to create the series’s first fully voiced protagonist, its charmingly unreliable narrator, and a crew of unforgettable party members to bother, befriend, and romance. From DA2’s inception to its mishandled marketing campaign to its volatile reactions from players, Reber’s book raises a mug of ale to the game that was—and the game that might have been.

Pre-order now on Kickstarter!

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Trying to learn some new sketching styles (and forcing myself not to render) - what better way than to draw some friend OCs!

left to right: Esfir Lavellan - @papayafig , Anjou Baskar - @exhausted-archivist , Cornelia Amell - @schwarznummer1 , Alexandra Trevelyan - @crowwowo , Ismeria Mercar - @megaeratheefury , Essenya Trevelyan - @cherriesforheaven <3

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Translating Thedas: A List of Thedas Languages From Veilguard and Links to Decoding

This has been a long time in the works and I'm so glad to finally have this posted. Some talented people on discord and Bluesky have been doing some HARD work and decoding the languages in both Veilguard and the series in general. While I've working on cleaning up the scripts where I could, a lot of credit for this work belongs to:

Blishtar on Bluesky

Kiranox on Bluesky

Ginkys on Bluesky

@calwyne

@vabonesyart

Ghil Dirthalen on Bluesky

Pundromeda on Bluesky

Jay on Bluesky

Bomble

Languages they've managed to decode + fonts! If you want to check out the entire thread posted by Ghil Dirthalen (Caitie) here is the Bluesky link!

Here is the link to the script pdf that they have shared!

Some of these alphabets are incomplete! But they may be updated in the future. To which I will make sure to do so then! There will be additional posts sharing all of the things that have been translated.

With all that said! Here are the alphabets!

Ancient Elven/Elven

A note about this that Caitie mentions, while the alphabet works for datv and there is some cross correlation with dai elven script, it seems that dai has some extra rules. It is unclear if the dai script is still canon. Eitherway Caitie and the others have made a font! Link below.

Elven Font datv + dai | Bluesky Thread Link

Complete Elven Alphabet from datv, with notes on the difference from dai elven script, where it used a character to indicate when a letter was doubled underneath. datv elven does not share this trait.

Ancient Tevene/Tevene

The script for ancient tevene and modern tevene are the same as far as we can tell. I am uncertain if like elven and dwarven if its changed from dai.

Tevene script, left is the collection from in-game images, right I cleaned up to make it a little easier to read.

Anders

Anders script, left is the collection from in-game images, right I cleaned up.

Antivan

Antivan script, left is the collection from in-game images, right I cleaned up.

Dwarven

A note on this, is this is different than the runes we see in the Descent dlc.

Dwarven script, left is the collection from in-game images, right I cleaned up.

Tomb-script

An important fact about tomb-script is that it was introduced by Emmrich's writer Sylvia Fekekuty, and is specific to the Mourn Watch, it is not the script for Nevarra in its entirety. As of right now in the series we have not seen Nevarran script to her knowledge, nor have we found script we could deem to be Nevarran.

Tomb-script Font | Alphabet Cheat Sheet Bluesky Link

Tomb-script Font Example by Blishtar

Tomb-script alphabet cheat sheet by Blishtar

Conclusion

All text in the game is translatable, unfortunately for us, some of it is just Lorem ipsum or just fake latin. It is thanks to all these talented people that we've discovered it and fleshed it out. A big thanks to them and for them sharing their work with me so I can bang on about it. I will be providing translated works in separate posts organized by language. There is a lot and I'll easily hit the image and text limit.

As things develop, whether in updated/completed alphabets or releases of fonts, I'll keep this post updated. If I missed anything, you come across updates, or have questions, please feel free to drop an ask!

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0WIP TIME WIP TIME WIP TIME

tagged by @lyana-chan (and a bunch of people last week i'm so sorry)

I uh, I've been doing a lot and not finishing hahahhahaha sobs

tagging: @schwarznummer1 @shivunin @plisuu @chanafehs

@papayafig @pinayelf

@ndostairlyrium @greypetrel

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You can now get my tevene font [Here] !

They were all hand written so they wont be 100% 1:1 but I hope this will help the community in their tevinter adventures :-)

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Neve Week 2025 (x) - Day 4: Neve's Past

"You ever follow your own advice?" "Never the good stuff."

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