#cassandra penteghast

[stealingpotatoes]

i bring more hawke hawke!! (aka mine and @highladyofdusk's da2 playthru!)

(commission info // kofi support!)

[spacetrashpile]

i need to be able to be in my home and playing dragon age inqusition. right now. brigid trevelyan i need to make you real.

[brekkie-e]

I really think that Cassandra Penteghast summed up Dragon Age fans pretty well when she said, "They will stand in the fire and complain that it is hot."

[rookinthecrownest]

ooh, how about top 5 favorite female dragon age characters 👀

OOOH BANGER OF A QUESTION!~ thank you!!!

Morrigan - I fell in love with her the moment she came on screen during DAO, and I always looked forward to her showing up in the other games too (the way I gasped when I saw her in DA:I!!!)

Vivienne - sorry, I love me a powerful woman who knows how to play within the constraints of the system, rise to power, and fight to change things for the better in her own way

Cassandra Penteghast - *disgusted noise* need I say more. I love her.

Josephine Montilyet - again, self explained!!! Josie ray of sunshine Montilyet my romantic and highly capable/extremely competent darling

Neve Gallus - the woman, the myth, the legend. I really love that she's our hard boiled jaded noir detective, a role typically only reserved for men. what a woman.... Neve Gallus....

put “top 5” anything in my ask and i will answer ok go

[cullenssweatyballsakk]

Cassandra Penteghast is bisexual and you can't tell me shit

She woulda loved being a stud and strapons bruh

[heroofshield]

Ooo prompta! d) Sad goodbyes?

Major Spoilers for Dragon Age: Veilguard!

@anderfels

Zea Laidir stood at the base of the stone steps. She knew that nothing waited at the top, but she still couldn't move.

It was hard...going back to where it all started. Trying to take down the demons and spirits that were crossing over from the Fade, while trying to stop Solas from completing his ritual.

"Maker, I had no idea what I was getting into." Zea thought, swallowing thickly before taking a shuddering breath.

The city, and Thedas saved, Zea had finally enough time to mourn those they'd lost. She missed Harding and how the dwarf could always smile about something; talking about her time in the Inquisition, the family farm in the Hinterlands, or even pointing out something that would be mundane for anyone else.

She also missed Varric, feeling like she'd only just started to process the loss of her friend while Neve had already done so. Solas had taken so much from her, particularly the ability to properly mourn and miss the prolific dwarf.

Movement out of the corner of her eye had her turning to see Neve coming to a stop beside her. "Sorry, just working up the nerve."

"No rush, you know that. How long did you know them?"

"Only for a year, but all that traveling we did together made it feel like we'd been friends for years." Zea smiled faintly, knowing that the other mage would be patient with her- she'd asked if there was anything she could do for Zea and hadn't thought it strange that she wanted to come back to the site of the first ritual. "There was this one time where he dragged Harding and I to Redcliffe, said it was to follow up on a lead about Solas. Turns out he had to do a book signing for Swords & Shields. Something about losing a bet to Cassandra Penteghast. We just laughed and got drunk in a tavern. I also learned that Harding was one hell of a Wicked Grace player."

Neve chuckled at the story, "Sounds like you three got along pretty well."

"For the most part. Harding taught me wilderness skills while Varric prodded me with questions about raids with the Lords. Said it would make a great serial one of these days." Zea fell silent after that, her heart aching for the friends she'd lost. "We had are disagreements, sure, but since it was just the three of us we had to get over them. Making camp is a great way to work out any anger."

Taking a deep breath, Zea squared her shoulders and lifted her chin, "I think it's time."

"You sure?"

"Yeah, can't keep putting it off."

Placing her foot on the first step, Zea made the short journey to the top. It felt different, now that they weren't in a life-or-death situation but that didn't mean it still didn't hurt. The stone was bare, any trace of Varric's blood had been washed away by the rains and bleached by the sun. But she stopped towards the middle, feeling like that had been where he had stood- trying to talk his friend down from doing something that would have repercussions across the whole world.

Kneeling, Zea took the small bouquet of flowers that she'd gathered; bluebells combined with rosemary and rose's, tied with a red ribbon, and placed it in front of her. She tried to think of what to say but couldn't form the words. So she just sat there, thinking of the tales that Varric had told around the campfire; stories of carta dwarfs and heists, what the Champion of Kirkwall was really like, and how much trouble they'd gotten into in Kirkwall.

She wasn't sure how much time had passed, but when she finally stood, the shadows had lengthened and the sun had almost disappeared behind the tops of the trees. "Meet you at the pub." Zea said in a soft tone, smiling at the words- how he'd say them with a wink before they walked into anything dangerous.

"Feel better?" Neve asked, straightening from leaning against a pillar and uncrossing her arms.

"A little bit. It'll get better with time." Zea gave her friend a soft smile before looping an arm around Neve's shoulders. "But let me buy you that drink I owe you."

"About time, lets head to the Cobbled Swan- the rest of the gang's going to meet us there."

"I couldn't ask for a more perfect way to end the trip."

[themightytej]

#ok but tim why do you have binoculars on the wall amidst musical instruments???

That area has a bunch of decorative elements because I'm in the process of reclaiming my office and putting up everything, it's just that camera angles hide some of them. The instruments are only there so they're easy for me to access when I'm practicing.

The binoculars are with instruments, old cameras, trains, a gift from my kids, Cassandra Penteghast, some art, a penguin, the whiteboard where I track prayer topics and requests, and a sword. I may change that when I take stuff down to paint that wall.

Introducing the source and inspiration for my wip, Glory Days.

My Glory Days taglist will probably be confused because of how long it’s been since I've talked about it, but hey.

Taglist (please ask to be added, edited, or removed): @soul-write @thenightisbrightastheday @moonflower-writing @planets-and-prose @lightningmastertrilogy @atinydino @ofinkblotsandscript @isanyonetoknow @thelaughingstag @writeblrsupport

[wildspaceyokel]

Dragon Age Inquisition Cursed Casting

[another-da-sideblog]

DAI Companions as Emojis

Dorian

🌈🐍🔥

Sera

🐝💥🍪

Varric

😏✍🏼🏹

Cassandra

😠⚔️⚖️

Cole

👻🥺✨

Vivienne

❄️🔪💁🏾‍♀️

Bull

🐉🍻😘

Blackwall

🧸🗡🤥

Solas

🥚

Bonus:

Solas after DA4

🍳

[da-mage]

*Insert evil laughter*

[senvellavellan]

Senvel, stepping out of the Eluvian, arm disintegrating, legs shaking from exhaustion.

Cassandra and Blackwall grabbing him and helping him stand. Cassandra: What happened?!

Senvel: Found Solas.

Cassandra: and -?

Senvel: He's a fucking bastard

Senvel: *proceeds to collapse on the spot*

[rhunae]

Cassandra Pentaghast

[brekkie-e]

I just realized I forgot my Githyanki Tav. Placing her under the cut as well XD:

Vegre (Veh-gruh)

She’s going to have a bit of a Cassandra Penteghast situation going on. Dedicated to her Githyanki training, partially cause if you aren’t you’ll not survive long, but encountered some riveting adventure books with a touch of romance in them at some point in her youth and sneakily read them. She’s practical and hardened similarly to Lae’zel, but there’s a childlike excitement she’s trying to hide at getting to see the material plane as it’s written about in her favorite stories. She’s positively enamored by Wyll, but desperately trying to keep it hidden because she’s terrified of Lae’zel finding out and reporting her “weakness” to her superiors. But she’s definitely mopey when he flirts with Lae’zel because she desperately wants to experience the silly things she read about. Will unironically at one point say something along the lines of, “I wish to know how it is to be a…. What is the word? Oh yes. A pretty princess.” Her desire to try everything the Sword Coast has to offer does not negate her training though. She is still a practical level headed warrior who teams up with Lae’zel to bully the group. She just gets excited to try on fancy dresses and put ribbons in her hair when the opportunity arises.

yo! i dunno if you've made a post on this before, but i'd be interested to hear details about epione (+ any other tavs)! what's her story? what's she like?

Hey, yes, hi, hello! This is one of those questions that I crave to be asked constantly but also fear all who do will come to regret. I can not be normal about my kids. Especially Epi. She’s my little creature and I cry about her a lot. Thank you so much for asking, and I apologize for the wait!

I do plan on making a more in depth introduction post at some point, so if you like her that’s on the way.

Epione! Far more commonly known as Epi though.

She is a grown up urchin, still trying to find her place in the world. Life has been testing her from the day she was born. Started out in a orphanage that didn’t treat her kindly. Ran away when she was seven to the Lower City, where she promptly met what would become her Mol. Her and her bosom companion, Vestia, grew up alongside eachother in a pick pocket crew and when they hit their teens started a chaotic ride or die relationship. It ended in tragedy when Vestia’s ambition and selfishness found her doing jobs for the Zhentarim as Epi began trying to “go straight” and work her way to a normal life. Vestia agreed to make the attempt, but continued doing jobs behind Epi’s back. When she found out and tried to confront her, shit hit the fan at the wrong time. Flaming Fist made an appearance, and Epi took the fall for the job Vestia was running for the Zhent- spending the next 80 years in prison for it while Vestia climbed the ranks of the Zhentarim and ended up one of their top dogs by the time of the game.

Epi got out of prison about 6 months to a year before the game starts. She found a job as a carriage driver, and essentially plays the role of a chatty cab driver. I do not know for a fact if that is lore compliant due to the animal ban in BG, but we see carts around all parts of the city in the game and it’s an important headcanon for me that I’m too attached to so it stays. It’s one of the reasons she has 3 levels in bard. She has no training but she is a chronic story teller. She has a shitty apartment, few long term friends, and a burning desire to make something of herself that is more than what people see. Above all else, she is a survivor and a hard worker.

Oh and like. As a minor, only slightly important bit- she’s also a cambion. A long lost daughter of Mephistopholees to be exact. One of seven cambion children he had with divine soul sorcerers to aquire enough divine energy to usurp Azmodeus to be exact. Her older brother was sent to fetch her when she was born, and was pissed at his dad so conveniently misplaced her at the orphanage. They cropped her wings in a bit of anti-tiefling sentiment (tieflings can technically be born with wings too so nobody suspected she was a cambion from the start.) So Epi does not find out about her heritage until early Act 3 of BG3 because of Raphael. Yes, he found her alliance with Astarion incredibly humorous because neither knew they were the run away missing ingredient in a plot Mephistopholees was trying to pull. I want to note, this was a plot I came up with in 2020/2021 so finding out Astarion’s infernal pact info was INSANE playing it real time.

She will be getting her wings back courtesy of Raphael in Act 3, and it will be a bit of an ugly transition with a dash of identity crisis.

ALSO she’s supposed to be a lighter pink than shown in some screenshots. Her original colors were removed in the full release so sometimes she’s got a hot pink look to her when it’s really supposed to be a bit more pastel. She’s actually pretty insecure about being so pink, she feels like people don’t take her seriously because of it. It makes life difficult for Astarion when he wants to put her in nice clothes. She hates stuff that draw attention to her.

General info:

Age: 226

Class: 9 levels of wild magic sorcery (headcanoned to be infernal but unstable cause she’s got no training) and 3 of lore bard so CUTTING WORDS

Romance: slow burn rivals to lovers with Astarion

She has a mouse/rat companion named Todd that has had it’s lifespan unnaturally extended by her magic

Epione is technically a part of a custom party that has many more Tav’s in it which I will put much more briefly under the cut 💖

It says Brendan, but it’s a cover name. This is the human form of Jehvka, which is Epi’s older brother. He’s always kept an eye out for her where he could from a distance, and tries to infiltrate the Mindflayer ship to save her. Unfortunately he gets stuck in the same situation and has to play along. It’s nice for him though cause he actually gets to know her and befriend her, but it sucks cause he gets deeper and deeper into the lie about who he is. He’s a very witty devil may care type. Comes off like the big scary brooding guy, but does it intentionally to throw people off gaurd when he gives a big smile and hits them with a pun. Romances Gale. Winds him up by playing dumb during his info dumps and pretending he’s never heard of basic things like “the weave.”

Mizzyrm. She’s going to be the other half of Lae’zel’s evil cultish culture duo. Wizard from Menzoberazzan who channel’s her “evilness” in to extensive research. Which is so important she finds herself hardly leaving her lair, and thus is spared from having to attent soirée’s where no less than 3 murders will occur and everyone is mean to eachother. She is shaped by her culture, and definitely has a dark side because of it. Her research is primarily about how to magically hurt people faster. But she’s got a softness in her that makes her just kind of retreat from her peers when she can get away with it. Basically an evil introvert. When she get’s to the surface, it isn’t going to take her long to warm up to the idea that maybe there’s a different way to live. But she gravitates to Lae’zel because it’s familiar and a dynamic she understands. Also she thinks her mom would approve.

TYPHON. My head empty no thoughts but “do you think lifting this boulder over my head will impress the babes?” Dark Urge boy. He’s going to be the fun stabilizer of the group who encourages everyone to work together. Probably unironically makes people do group huddles and say “go team” before getting into battles. Invented the “bhaal-tap” locker room maneuver. Is sufficiently horrified by his dark urges, his mantra about it is “be cool, man just be cool.” He will likely get a little more serious on a narrative level, but he will not stray far from his Ken roots.

Anathema 2.0

Repressed Rich Virgin Syndrome has taken a devestating toll on her. She is the daughter of patriars who simply don’t have time to raise kids, so she was raised by a very religious nanny and then sent to a convent for a while. She’s only recently been brought home due to a politically advantageous betrothal. She doesn’t have much of an opinion about it because she doesn’t have a lot of opinions about anything. Other people tell her what to do and think. She’s insufferably naive and ignorant and rich. She’s going to turn red with embarrassment and mortification every time Karlach says fuck in her general viscinity, because she has literally never heard a swear word prior to meeting her. Yes, Karlach is going to teach her how to be her own person and be rebellious and think for herself. Yes they are going to elope. No it won’t be until after Gortash causes mayhem and drama.

BONUS PICTURE: VESTIA. My toxic queen. Stay awful, my love. She’s the kind of character that is there narratively to cause problems but you feel bad about it because you know she deserves growth and good things too, but her entire point is to be an example of what happens when you DON’T grow and just get worse. Astarion wants to see his reflection so bad, this is it. A warning sign not to ascend cause it will leave you lonely in the end.

[its-synth-detective-jackass]

I've just realised that Senvel has the sharpest fucking cheek bones holy crap. If Cassandra gives him a kiss on the cheek she risks cutting herself

[nudityandnerdery]

Cassandra Pentaghast and General Amaya would be great friends.