#Tevinter Nights

[cityscarce]

The more I read of The Wigmaker the more convinced I am that Lucanis and Illario are built to be a duo. If they worked together as First Talon they'd be literally unstoppable.

Caterina really created the strongest unit ever and decided to put those two bad bitches against each other instead /j

[antiparticular]

I guess the venatori learned his face

[anemonetea]

"Something's wrong." "Yeah. We're up here, away from the fun." — The Wigmaker Job, Courtney Woods

Bonus flats-only version! 🙌

(Illario also has a five o'clock shadow in WMJ, it turns out—a last-minute addition 😂 )

[an-established-butt-dent]

Dorian Pavus, present age

Over a period of 10 years I imagine Dorian to have collected quite the library.

[lusanchromchinnn]

Viago De Riva your Undiagnosed But Extremely Obvious OCD is fascinating and so so revealing of your character and motivations ohh my gosh. Like of course your obsession is poisons and being poisoned! I refuse to believe that growing up adjacent to the royal court wasn’t the driving force behind this because literally where else would someone hear so many stories of people succumbing to assassination by poison. I bet nobles were dropping like flies to the crows every day. I bet he saw his father’s food taster (we know he visited during Viago’s youth) and realised how truly possible it was to die from a bite of food. Bonus points if he actually witnessed a food taster keel over in front of him. Paranoia through the fucking roof as he researches poisons for years on end before he’s ever presented with the option of joining the crows. Maybe he only drank out of clear glasses he could hold up to the light. Maybe he insisted on preparing all of his own meals rather than let servants near his food, much to the chagrin of his mother. AND OH GOD HIS MOTHER.

We know she was an alcoholic, and that Viago hated her drinking, it scared him as a small child. But what if his mind won’t let him watch her sip a glass of wine without the image of it being her last. She could be a target as a mistress of the king, just as he is as a royal bastard. Perhaps he becomes the one who uncorks her bottles and pours her glass after glass, because he’d rather her drunk over dead. Of course, there’s the very real possibility she succumbs to alcohol poisoning, which is so ironic and so fucking sad. He pours her final glass and becomes what he fears most.

It’s a no-brainer that he joined the crows later on. Not only does it give him access to the poisons and antidotes he’s craved for years, but it gives him a sense of control. He’s making himself less of a target than his half-siblings (and it’s more socially acceptable for a crow to wear gloves constantly lmao). He’s so skinny because he refuses to eat unless he’s 100% positive his food is safe, checking and double checking even if he prepares it himself. He knows, logically, that his fears are unfounded, that he (or someone he trusts completely like Teia) made this dish, or poured this drink. But he needs to be sure, or his brain won’t stop screaming that he’s going to die! Right now! God forbid he’s proven right too, like with the adder in the wardrobe that he survived because of his doses of antivenom. I just knowww his compulsions got so much worse for a while after that, it was so cathartic and miserable for him. I understand this freak and his freak ways. What a guy, thank you Courtney Woods.

[wardensantoineandevka]

[madrosie]

I was reading The Wigmaker Job yesterday since I just bought Tevinter Nights, and Lucanis mentions every city has it's scent and Vyrantium's is Spiced Meat and wet laundry...

I don't think Spite's habit of mentioning how things smell in twos, is a Spite thing, I think it's a Lucanis thing. Spite is just talking out loud, mentioning things that Lucanis takes mental note of.

[raoneven]

Lucanis in "Tevinter nights" 🖤

[snarkspawn]

I do think he looks oddly naked without his beard (and the long hair) but that doesn't stop me from rotating him in my mind

[sky--phantom]

Huh, this is from Wigmaker job

I wonder if this is something he's been thinking of the past year, or maybe it's just been on his mind since the reveal that Illario betrayed him

[divorcedwife]

wigmaker job

[another-rogue-trevelyan]

hot

[roocharfferarts]

okay i've finally read all the books & comics and listened to the podcast, and I'm here to say that Teia and Vi are good.

[anemonetea]

Still getting to grips with posting/tagging stuff, so reposting this as a fresh post this time, with the post that inspired it 😂 (Thanks for the food, @vaguely-concerned!)

Please return this man to his cousin, just let him go home & rest, he's had a rough night 😭

[vaguely-concerned]

I still can't get over lucanis at the end of the wigmaker job -- having limped his way down the docks, nursing several broken ribs, dripping rivers of blood (some of it his own. most of it not) onto the floorboards before the innkeeper's horrified and irate eyes, having just Faced the Horrors frfr and cut a bloody swath through a party of tevinter high society as if setting out to contemptuously prove poe's red death a mere piddling amateur, in his fucking batman-ass black leather overcoat getup, presumably woozy with blood loss and fading adrenaline -- just standing there sadly like '🥺is my cousin here'

[tiiracotta]

Regret