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an ill omen

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[[Xbox Games Showcase Extended 2023, interview with Keanu Reeves]]

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This had such an insane ugly phase I had to stop working on it for a month

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"Come with me" AU - from Matt Rhodes' concept art of a possibility for Trespasser. Tried mimicking his style with my Inquisitor Djin'zidei!

vallaslin version below cut

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Pleione origins part 1

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Varric got up and started to light a pipe.

"You know, I have a talent for finding broken women across my path. Hawke had lost half of her family the first time I met her, and the Inquisitor was trapped in a prison, accused of killing the Divine, no less."

"So, are we now in one of your stories?"

Varric started walking towards the gunwale. Leaving their stuff aside, Rook followed him. he leaned on the railing, looking out to the ocean.

"They usually begin as ours did. A chance meeting in the filthiest bar in town, a strong young woman with a lifetime of problems, and an incredibly handsome writer in search of allies. My favorite tropes. The beginning may not be the most glamorous, but sometimes, along the way, you can find small wonders."

Rook looked where he was pointing his pipe and glimpsed wings and the bluish glow of a dragon emerging from the water in the distance. It was the first one she had seen in her whole life. The giant beast was dark blue and yellow, magnificent flying over the water edge. Varric watched as her eyes lit up and she smiled broadly, marveling at what she was seeing, and smiled at her in return. The wind was ruffling her hair, and he could feel the light was finally coming back to her. He knew that, once again, he had not made a mistake in choosing his traveling companion.

Rook leaned her elbows on the railing and leaned her head back, enjoying the afternoon sun. They had a whole journey ahead of them, full of dangers for sure, but just this once, she would enjoy the ride. The Shadow had faded for good, and this time was as good as any to learn how to walk in the light again.

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I've just got my comm from @mooreaux and I'm literally in tears. This art shows the final scene of my origin Rook story and they have perfectly captured the mood of it

If you are curious, here is the full link

Murder (49947 words) by Alystra Chapters: 10/10

Fandom: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Viago de Riva/Rook Characters: Viago de Riva, Andarateia Cantori, Lucanis Dellamorte, Varric Tethras Additional Tags: Drama & Romance, Murder Mystery, Female Rook (Dragon Age), Antivan Crows, Antivan Crow Rook (Dragon Age), Angst and Feels, Angst and Tragedy, Friends to Lovers, Partners to Lovers, Friendship/Love, Romantic Friendship, Original Fiction, Original Character(s), Mage Rook (Dragon Age), Pre-Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Pre-Canon, Dragon Age - Freeform, Origin Story Series: Part 1 of Birdcage - A tale of the Antivan Crows Summary:

She wanted to believe that there was a point to it all, but she struggled to find out what it was. She had been taken off the street, which was no small thing, and the Crows had given her a home, but that didn't mean things would be easy from now on. He alone had believed in her. Only Viago had been her friend and her support during the long years of training. And there wouldn't be a single thing in this world that she wasn't willing to sacrifice to fulfill his dreams. This is the story of Alecto de Riva, from the moment she was found by pure chance until she became one of the Antivan Crows, and of what happened until, one night, she decided that she would not allow the Antaam to enslave her people anymore.

[Pre-Veilguard Origin Rook story]

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Let all time slow / let all light go I'd block the sun / if you want it done

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and when they both died, they met at the Hanged Man, and she was teaching the Fade spirits to cheat at the Wicked Grace

heavily inspired by @tethrawke's Hope and Dream which i LOVED!!! the fic ever. always thinking about it. nobody does it like her.

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the next two of my evanuris designs: june and sylaise! their outfits are so much more colourful than the twins' it's actually hilarious to me. again additional design notes are below the cut :)

previous designs: [dirthamen & falon'din]

so, as with the twins, i realised june and sylaise are like two sides of the same coin, and to show that i wanted their overall themes to be similar but to take each of their designs in two different ways. june, having being credited with making eluvians, seems more of the artificer/tinkerer type, and therefore more chaotic and experimental; while sylaise, the architect credited with building elvhenan's cities, is orderly and more of a perfectionist.

first off, june. when i say he's chaotic i mean it like... he seems chaotic to everyone else but to himself he's just doing things in a particular way that works for him. picture someone who wears odd socks everyday just because they pick the first two from the top of the drawer and didn't even notice they're not matching - that's him. are you staring in horror at one of his feet having the toes out while the other is fully armoured? well, he doesn't care and probably hasn't even noticed, sorry. honestly the only reason that his outfit even has some semblance of style is because sylaise wouldn't let him in public otherwise.

anyway, soo for each evanuris i try to think of a trait that'll make them look unique, because even though they're "just" elves, i want them to look special because they are proclaiming themselves to be gods after all. i didn't think june would alter his appearance to simply look cooler, BUT he would make enhancements to help with his work, hence the arcane prosthetic (it was originally supposed to be mechanical when i first drew the busts 2 weeks ago but this idea made more sense tbh). his face was also looking a little bare though, so i gave him the lyrium affected eye (ik his body is made of it, so i figured he wouldn't get poisoning, but it would still affect him physically). the lens he is holding is a lyrium lens that he can put on his other eye to even his vision, and he has another orange-tinted lens for his affected eye.

okay, onto sylaise, who was a little easier to figure out! i always had this image of sylaise in my head of someone who just is so stunning and stylish that she completely steals the show everytime she's in the room (see the "song for sylaise" and her mask codex). she's also an architect - an artist, a designer, who built elvhenan's cities which were gorgeous as hell, so she definitely has high standards - and being a conceptualiser, she doesn't do much practical work so a long gown fit her perfectly. i chose a palette of red/orange/yellow (because fire) which worked nicely with the browns and golds. it's a smoother colour palette that contrasts june's. her gown also uses more rounder shapes and floral motifs, while june's robe has sharper edges and the motifs are instead embroidered on.

also yes i believe in short king june <3. well... actually i wrote him down as 6'3'' which is tall to most of us lmao but to the evanuris he's the shortest. sylaise here is 6'8'', the third tallest of the whole bunch (only elgar'nan and andruil are taller than her) :)

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slowly starting to work on my own evanuris designs, first up are dirthamen and falon'din! (i did the busts a month ago now and hadn't decided on the outfits yet so that's why the colours don't match lmao)

some more design notes under the cut :)

next designs -> [june & sylaise]

in my headcanon, dirthamen was their original spirit (of guidance) and split while making his body because his soul was conflicted about whether he wanted to, or remain as a spirit. when he split, "dirthamen" was content with his new form, while the other half - falon'din - was not, and was twisted into despair. specifically, i imagine it as the sort of despair where you try to cling onto anything to try to make yourself happy, but to no avail.

i thought it'd be neat for them to have a mark symbolising their spirit shattering, like a birthmark. then making it look like their (eventual) vallaslin design made a lot of sense.

i had an idea for dirthamen to have one eye a long time ago, because he has a LOT of similarities to our odinn - god of knowledge and wisdom, often depicted as a hooded figure, and has two ravens (interestingly, while fear and deceit sound like demon names, huginn ("thought") and muninn (anything from: memory, will, remembrance, intention) sound like spirit names). and while elgar'nan holds odinn's title of all-father, he's more like tyr imo.

dirthy's outfit was loosely based off the robed evanuris in the black codex concept art where they're doing the ritual at the blight box lol. i saw that person and was like yeah that's my special god with his dark robes and his little dagger. ofc i had to give him more style though, and dropped in some colour (as falon'din has canonically claimed the colour black) i decided on green because of his eye colour, and turquoise because sometimes when light hits ravens' feathers they kinda look blue. his mosaic has him covering his mouth, so i covered his mouth here too. also, i know his symbol has a little mohawk thing going on in the ingame statues, i couldn't draw it at that angle guys i'm sorry, shapes are hard.

since falon'din mirrors dirthamen in appearance, he got the single eye too. his colours are also more muted because of the whole despair thing. i also found it really interesting that his symbol is the sun, i 100% thought that was sylaise, but it makes sense as sometimes the setting sun is seen as a symbol of death. also the crook he has on his mosaic was really interesting to me and i included it after i read an 18 page paper on them while researching. it's a shepherd's tool - but can also be seen as a symbol of power/status, and there's quite a few of our irl gods depicted holding one. it's honestly really fascinating. that little magic spark doesn't mean anything though it's just for flair :)

i put fally in an ancient elven armour with minimal design changes as he doesn't strike me as sentimental and is rather more like someone who wants to show off and be the cuntiest person in the room at all times. although black is his colour, again i muted it a little, same with the gold. i may edit his design a little in the future to include his owls but for now i'm just kinda trying to figure out how they'd fit in

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It's that famous Grey Warden charm.

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Love you like the rain, it falls much faster, living in a piece of ever after

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it's you!

despite everything, it's still you.

— (varric & hawke)

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My beloved space husband

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Dragon Age comics

Halla | The Artifact | Cultural Divide

Mass Effect Comics

“Fist-fight” | Diplomacy | Downtime  | The Gala

yeah the Citadel DLC was great but where were the pretty dresses???? chekmaté

set in me1.  went very much out of my comfort zone on all levels with this one

this thing has been on the back burner for three months and that’s way too long for me to look at one project and feel confident with it. ultimately decided to finish it just to feel some sort of accomplishment, hence the rushed shading and overall rendering

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- I don’t want you to die, V…