#thedas^adventures

[ozziyo]

Nell grew up in the lords of fortune, which means for a solid few years there was a dwarven child just living her most insane life as the littlest lordling of them all

bonus closeup on the top illustration

[sunlight-shunlight]

i feel like the most underrated Solas Lore, is that he straight up admits to not being sure if he was going to come back to skyhold after the wisdom spirit dies

it's completely valid for a normal apostate to say this, but when it's solas pride dreadwolf, who believes that he's The Only One who can complete his mission to end and/or save the world, then...? that means he just got so sideswiped by grief that he was genuinely like: "this sucks. what if i just hang out in the forest as a wolf for a few months/years. the orb and the veil and the next 2 blights can wait." before coming to his senses and remembering the fully apocalyptic stakes of his problem? even considering that for a "short time" is WILD.

[ndostairlyrium]

Torre | Donna

[anneapocalypse]

Something I did not pick up on before is that World of Thedas implies Alistair was sent to the monastery during Isolde's pregnancy--before Connor was born. Which means we actually can pretty closely pin down Connor's age, as he was born soon after Alistair was sent away--so in either 9:20 Dragon or early 9:21.

[sebille]

I feel like religion and race/identity has always been a huge part of dragon age - and other than Taash gender identity being brought up, and Lace mentioning believing in the maker, there's very little of it? I kinda miss it, I miss feeling frustrated about it and feeling like my characters were treated like a monster bc I played as a mage, or like i'm worth less than others bc i'm an elf ETC ETC.

[mariana-oconnor]

Current Dragon Age mood: where are all these angry bears coming from?

[invinciblerodent]

Before release, I always kind of thought of Ver's usual haunts in Minrathous being part of an industrial-ish area (factories, docks, the surrounding blue collar residentials, etc.), but I've been thinking, and with Dock Town being what it is in-game (and with what it is to Neve), I think I prefer her being more tied to one of the (no doubt many) entertainment- and nightlife districts of the city.

I'm thinking of one of those moderately seedy parts of town that have pubs/taverns/hookah lounges/drag bars/"specialty shops"/etc. and little mom-and-pop eateries that are definitely not fronts for something all lining the streets on the bottom floors of workers' apartment complexes, and at least three larger nightlife establishments (like a casino [gambling den], a circus [it's a cointoss whether you'll see the best burlesque act or a cagefight], and something they only affectionately call a "dancehall") are all sharing view of the same street.

As of right now, I'm tentatively calling it Redbrick Ridge in my mind, because Minrathous seems to use primarily light-colored stones and red and teal magelights (and I think poorer, mainly Soporati-owned places using red accent-bricks to imitate the red of magic would be a cool touch), but I also like the idea that colloquially, it'd more be known as the Catsbane Quarter, or just Catsbane (after the codex entry for the Sun-Blonde Vint in DAI)- in part because of the way a certain Tevene alcohol is typically served, and in part because, like Dock Town, it's also home to a large colony of feral/stray cats.

(Maybe one of the ways you could easily spot an outsider is that they'd be the ones who say that something is "on the Ridge" or "in Redbrick", but the people who actually live there would say that they're from Catsbane, or refer to the people there as "cats". Like, "where in the city are you from?" "oh, I'm a cat.")

(Lots of fun cat-wordplay for a more "low-class" area, too... "A cat may look at a king" being a bit of a slogan for non-mage and slave rights, or an expression of commiserating over injustice? "All cats are grey in the dark", both as a "we're all equal here", and as a way to say "no officer, I didn't see anything"? Someone suspected to be an informant is someone who "wears a bell"? So many opportunities, and they all work really nicely for a place with pronounced Shadow Dragon presence!)

Since Ver was a (military-trained) Soporati guard/rent-a-cop before joining up with Varric, I originally figured that having her mainly guard (and spy on-) slave-keeping construction sites was a fitting thing, but I think now, knowing both her character and the game as I do, I prefer her as a security guard during the week, and a bouncer during the weekends.

Like I like her not as a go-to problem-solver like Neve, but more like... some sort of a neighborhood Red Jenny, someone who somehow (at least tangentially) knows everyone in her bubble.

And like... she lives in one of the dingy little apartments above a moderately run-down lunch-place (at first I thought it would be run by her uncle, now I'm more picturing an older person who emphatically calls her things like "columba mea" and acts like a doting grandmother, but isn't actually related to her). Her friends are all line cooks, busboys, dancers, dishwashers and all kinds of entertainers, as well as bar owners, bartenders and barflies, not a small percentage of them Liberati- which, with her reputation as a useful person to know and the open secret of her being a Shadow, would be something that probably would have drawn someone like Varric to her very easily. (I mean, he primarily seems to network by just... going to bars and asking the drunkest people still capable of speech about who's worth knowing, lol.)

Plus, I also really like the idea that if the owners/workers at a place know that someone is about to cause trouble, they'd see if she's around, ask her to step in for the night, and maybe crack some heads together.

Like imagine being a big, hotshot wannabe-Venatori swinging their metaphorical dick around over a game of Archon, and in comes this quite pretty, but overall unremarkable woman who is kissing 5'7" from the bottom and is not particularly intimidating, but she still lays you the absolute fuck out to dry without breaking a sweat. Probably one of the top ten most embarrassing ways for that night to end, lol.

[lordwoolselytaxservices]

Chauncey the Tiny Bear my beloved...

[aquaticgriffin]

Perfect👌

Imagine this beauty just casually strolling into the middle of your ritual. Perfection.

Also, yes, her name is Giraldine de Riva. Couldn’t resist.

[yappacadaver]

HAPPY ESCAPE FROM THE COOCHIE CRYPT

THE WHAT

[mastcrmarksman]

@transistorized gets a little dragon age with the most vague of setting

❝ Why is it, every time we have to work together, we end up in the most blight ridden, undead crawling of places? ❞ Oh, he was going to make Tony regret being born today with the level of complaints he had. He was a criminal then a treasure hunter. Yet for some reason, because he shoots better than anyone in all of the Southern and Northern lands, he ended up contracted by whackos trying to save all of Thedas. ❝ You couldn't have taken me somewhere sunny and nice, like a beach? It always has to be the wettest and smellest of marshlands? Is for robbing your coffers? I paid you back... ❞ Three years later... that's besides the point, though he had never apologized but it feels too late for that. You apologize for borrowing your neighbor's cow without permission, not for robbery.

[alessiasky]

✨ ¡Nuevo capítulo disponible! ✨ Lavellan y Rook enfrentan nuevos desafíos en "Los Guardianes del Velo", donde el romance, la intriga y la magia se entrelazan en cada palabra. ¿Qué secretos les depara esta nueva etapa? 🌌 📖 Léelo ahora en:

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No te pierdas la continuación de esta emocionante aventura ambientada en el universo de Dragon Age. ¡Déjame tus comentarios, teorías y momentos favoritos! 💬

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Don’t miss the continuation of this thrilling adventure set in the Dragon Age universe. Share your thoughts, theories, and favorite moments with me! 💬

[vivanightcity]

My ickle Jay-bird.

aka. The OC I fucked up enough in cyberpunk's character creator that I ended up with Ivan instead xD

[fake-ascension]

oh we are so back

[chasindtrevelyan]

Fox's adventures in Thedas today included having four bears attacking him at once. Three of them were the big grey ones. I'm pretty sure Varric was just running off and collecting more bears the longer it went on. Cassandra proved her superiority as a tank to the world and gave zero fucks. I'm pretty sure Solas was whining by the end.

[mariana-oconnor]

Bears are no longer my nemesis. New nemesis unlocked: canyon walls.