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“Hello, little one.”

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"Have you heard the legends of the Dread Wolf?"

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Johanna and Emmrich as young mourn watchers gives me Most Chaotic Lab Partners energy

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"Sounds like something Viago came up with."

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As much as I love Grim and Fatalistic™️ Solas, I do honestly think that this is a symptom of babygirl's depression and that it's not a core part of his identity. It's just an extreme of it. We also have evidence that when he isn't being crushed under the weight of his duty he is a lot more lighthearted and silly

E.g. one of my favourite gdl line deliveries is 'Come with me, vhenan~' right before the Crestwood scene. He's so light and carefree; he knows he's about to put his duty to rest and pursue the only thing he's ever wanted for himself. He's about to tell his soulmate the truth and give himself to them entirely, heart and soul.

It just makes me really warm and fuzzy inside to think of him like this, especially because this is the Solas Lavellan is spending eternity with. You know that once they have their Fade palace all set up that this corny mf is building an entire ballroom for them to waltz around in. That he's spontaneously taking them on trips to the most beautiful parts of the Fade for picnics and sex. Beautiful Veilfire waterfall dates so he can make up for breaking their heart by ending that encounter in Crestwood the way he wanted to; by giving himself to them as completely as he can, without the Veil inhibiting him at all. Solas is canonically very sentimental. A fully realised, living his truth™️ Solas would be so romantic and ridiculous and my Lavellan would fall in love with him all over again every time he decided to woo her just for the sake of it.

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One thing that fascinates me about Solas in Inquisition is that he does a terrible and deeply hurtful thing to the Inquisitor and all of his friends in the Inquisition; but he does it before he actually meets them.

He gives the orb to Corypheus long before he knows of any of these people, then decides to join forces with the Inquisition before most of them have shown up. And once it's done, he is essentially locked in. He can't possibly tell anyone in the Inquisition that he's responsible for everything that's happened at the Conclave and since; they would most likely kill him, or at least immediately expel him from the Inquisition. He really has no choice but to continue the deception. Maybe there's a window in which he could have told the Inquisitor, in the case of an extremely understanding and forgiving Inquisitor, but even for the very kindest of Inquisitors that would be a lot to accept.

So he's in this situation. When he first came to the Inquisition, deceiving them probably didn't seem like a particularly bad thing to do. It was a group of fervent Andrastians, followers of a religion that has committed atrocities against his people again and again. Why should he feel bad about lying to them?

But then - he starts getting to know people. He starts to make friends with them, to care for them. Maybe even to develop a romantic connection with the Inquisitor. And slowly he starts to recognise that he's doing a terrible thing to them, but he can't get out of it. There's nothing he could possibly do at this point other than simply run away, and he can't do that either because he has to stick it out to defeat Corypheus.

Every day he gets closer to them, what he's doing becomes worse. And yet the closer he gets to them, the more impossible it is to tell the truth, because the closer the friendships the more painful the betrayal. It's so fascinating and poignant to think of him stuck in this terrible cycle of steadily increasing guilt and shame and the knowledge that there's nothing he can do to make it right. You can see it in him, after the Temple of Mythal: he's increasingly spiralling and panicking and he just doesn't know how to extract himself gracefully from the situation he's created. This is a terrible thing he's done to his friends, but he did it before they were his friends and really there was no point at which he could have stopped it after that.

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I’ll show you why mages are feared

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I've been playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It's pretty fun. [x]

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More Solavellan. Will I ever stop drawing them? Nope. Also do I know what i was trying to do with that background? Nope.

Commission info

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Davrin Week, Day 4: Fatherhood/Childhood

I will fully admit I really just wanted to use this as an excuse to draw some Davrook with my Rook, Meantán, and the family she and Davrin would start together after Veilguard <3 They bring me so much joy to draw!

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"Vhenan..."

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― J.R.R. Tolkien

Davrin Week 2025 - Shepherd/Hunter

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rook. like the chess piece?

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Card for Romi (‪feyrion.bsky.social‬) 's Rook, Thegan! Tried to make it match Davrin's <3

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When I dream of you...

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Im picturing scipio just staring dramatically out a window in Treviso. Chain smoking while viago begs him to get off his ass

(I assume emmrich is in his necropolis apartment writing tear stained letters he never sends. Or something)

I swear viago is trying to help

In his own way(hooting and hollering)

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