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Holy faaaack.

I'm dead.

WIP Wednesday (Friday Edition)

Tagged by @alice-dead and @liberaquantobasta-catossa 😘

Here’s a sneak peak of a collab with @postboxrose that I’m painting feat. Solas and her Inky, Luella.

Tagging: Anyone (I’m late lol)

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As a new player to Inquisition (literally I'm playing it right now!!!!) after having played DATV a bunch of times, I feel like I can confidently say the Inquisitor journey I'm going through right now is blowing my mind cause it's totally mirroring Solas.

Its what's actually awesome about playing DATV first!! I can see this clearly! I'm getting so much more insight into Solas and his Evanuris journey through the Inquisitor.

These similarities make me think of DATV and actually how different Rook is. Rook is the fucking leader of an elite specialist cell with a targeted goal. And I know others have said Rook is a foil and I think that's more accurate? to me at least and how i understand it.

So I was making a list:

Solas and Inquisitor mirror aspects:

Solas needs to restore his world = Inquisitor needs to restore the world.

Solas is called Dread Wolf, Fen'Harel = The Inquisitor is called Herald, Heretic, Inquisitor.

Solas had to deal with the Evanuris as a massive corrupt entity = Inquisitor has to deal with Inquisition and Chantry the same

Solas rebelled against Evanuris = Inquisitor (and Inquisition) rebelling against Chantry, Orlais, etc.

Solas is an ideologue = actually so is the Inquisitor if you think about it, they are making decisions around belief, systems, politics

Solas (Dread Wolf) is a symbol = Inquisitor (Herald) is one too.

Solas and Rook opposite/contrast aspects:

Rook is like change and adaptability, fly by the seat of their pants - Solas is stuck, he's focused on certainty and control.

Rook is NOT deified like Solas or the Inquisitor, I love that Rook is just this normal person who is kinda thrust into leadership (I mean so is the inquisitor but i can see how after inquisition the inquisitor has a lot to lose and they need to get away and hide but Rook, i feel like Rook can lead a normal life marrying their beloved Neve (ok my beloved Neve) and helping to rebuild after).

Rook isn't an idealogue, Rook isn't trying to impose worldviews or change political systems, they're just trying to fix what's fucking broke! Rook has an immediate threat to deal with.

Rook has a small elite team, not an institution or a large scale rebellion army to lead. They get others to help them but it's cool to me that Rook and the others are this sleek, lean team.

Rook deals in relationships, building connections with other groups so they can all help each other in the end. Solas and Inquisitor make the decisions FOR others.

Rook doesn't need control - Solas and Inquisitor do to make their decisions but Rook just is like, let's goooo!!!

I think Rook and Solas being opposites is why Solas can't ever actually get a foothold on to Rook and clearly doesn't expect Rook to escape the regret prison. I think if they were mirrors of each other, Solas would have the upper hand.

it's why i think it's neat that solas is a spirit and they reflect - and that his time in inquisition was probably his most peaceful time cause that period reflects him more in his youth, like closer to his spirit self. I think inquisition is a time for solas where he can be challenged but also understood. And to have the choice to disband the inquisition is brilliant! Solas wanted to tear down the Evanuris, and the Inquisitor tears down the inquisiton before it can be corrupted - it's a great part of the story.

I don't know those are just my thoughts cause I saw @cussundria-nerd-kneal talk about parallels and it got my brain moving pretty fast. I guess I should have reblogged it but I was worried I would go on too long. lolll

does anyone else have thoughts or think of things differently?

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Get to Know You Better Tag Game

Oh my gosh!!! My first time being tagged - thank you @rooks-dagger!!! Ok this makes me feel like i'm actually in fandom now. :)

Last song: When I Was Done Dying by Dan Deacon.

Favorite color: Yellow!

Currently watching: Rings of Power! oh my god it's so good.

Last movie:I just watched Ewoks: The Battle for Endor. I love that movie! I watch it at least once a year. And in fact I named my canon Rook after Cindel.

Sweet, savory, or spicy: Sweet.

Currently reading: I am almost done The Masked Empire! My goal this summer is to read a bunch of dragon age novels.

Current obsession: Dragon Age!! really, Veilguard cause I've played it a bunch of times and will play it again and so i'd also add my obsession with Rook and Neve. But also, somehow Solas and Lavellan got hooks in me cause i'm a happy ending and fantasy tragedy love kinda person so now I'm playing Inquisition and so I can honestly say I'm also equally obsessing over Inquisition.

Currently working on: Just being mindful. I get pretty enthusiastic about things (uh, not sure if you all can tell), not that that's bad but I can barrel over people in my enthusiasm and not always listen or wait for my turn to talk. so am trying to work on that so i can be a better listener and supporter of others. It's hard sometimes cause I just get passionate about stuff which is why my bestie thought I should come on tumblr - to get the dragon age stuff outta my system. lolll..she knows me so well.

I don't know who to tag as I am still new here but I guess some spaces I've been interacting with and who've been very nice are (i don't know if you've already played this game!): @emerysarchive, @loredrinker, @docktownsdaughter,

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Is there a Rook and Neve group? A Rook focused server? I found a solavellan group I'm excited to join but really want a Rook and companion focused group or server. Please help! I have no one to gush about Neve and Rook with (I mean, my bestie but she's in the same boat as me, looking for a Rook and Emmrich focused group lollol). Other than, I guess here on Tumblr but I don't want to annoy anyone. And not reddit, like no one talks on reddit and I also don't really like reddit.

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Stunner!

Neve Gallus, Investigative Netrunner - aka "The Ice Queen"

Here she is! Local netrunner Neve Gallus, loitering in the Golden City nightclub of Vyrantium and waiting on a call from a fixer who calls himself "The Viscount." From where we stand, a certain someone approaches... (You can read more about this crossover AU in my new fic, Chrome is a Drink Best Served Cold.)

While we know Neve for her ice magic, I just really wanted to see her in red. So I took inspiration from phoenix imagery, combined it with a similar dress in Cyberpunk 2077, and very much enjoyed the result!

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Pose Reference: @adorkastock

Jewelry Chain Brush: @hellothisisangle

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I agree but also, more than anything for me - it's about forgiveness. Forgiveness of others. Forgiveness of the self. Letting go.

Every companion goes through this and then the big boss fight which is so unique is do you actually offer forgiveness to Solas?!

The whole game highlights forgiveness as a path and the question is whether or not we walk it.

So to me, Rook isn't a mirror to Solas, Rook's the foil. I dont see Rook as Solas's younger self. Rook is a jarring lesson to Solas which is so different. To me, Rook is action!!! Solas is inaction, he's so caught in cycles...he can't actually change or move on.

So how does action relate to forgiveness?

Cause Rook with their companions and with Solas disrupts all of them constantly!! Rooks actions lead to forgiveness. Rooks actions disrupt cycles of repeating behaviors almost like 'no, i reject these patterns of repeating sins, let it go' and Rook moves and moves forward.

Its why I think the redemption ending IS the best ending for what Rook symbolizes (to me!!! Don't be mad at me for hating the bad endings!!l). Cause I think if we truly believe in forgiveness then we will help our companions, we will blaze that path forward for them!!!

But seriously, all the companions carry some kind of heaviness either about their past or future, Solas carries both and Rook just being that straight forward, bold and direct person just allows a path for others to change.

Rook barrels forward, straight lines - Rook is literally opening a path for forgiveness so everyone can move forward. Look at every single companion quest, its all about do we forgive and move on? But forgiveness takes action!!! You gotta do stuff, make decisions and make amends! Rook is action!

So to me DATV is about forgiveness and so everytime I play the redemption end or see someone play it, where all Rook's friends are alive and thriving, where Mythal can finally let go of Solas and where Lavellan can offer it to Solas and he can accept it to be with her - I nod, and go well done Rook. Well-fucking-done.

I truly believe that Veilguard and Rook especially embody hope, how even after everything being stacked against you, after suffering loss after loss, you keep going, you dust yourself off, take your loved ones by your hand, and keep going forward

Honestly I could write an essay about how much I love Rook and how genuine they are to me compared to every other protag

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Crying crying!!!!

completely self indulgent edit of my favorite dialogue in the game switched around to sound more like a monologue and with the lost elf section of the ending theme in the background all so i could better hear and appreciate alix's beautiful amazing show stopping life changing voice acting <3 figured i would post so others can enjoy and major shoutout to @nadas-dirthalen for finding these audio files for me xoxo

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REBLOG WITH:

1. Your top three Dragon Age crushes 2. The first Dragon Age game you ever played 3. You current favorite Dragon Age game

I’m curious.

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What are the ship names for Rook and Neve cause I feel like I'm missing them? And what does your own Rook call Neve as endearment?

Like, Lavellan is called vhenan by Solas so what would Rook call Neve? I'm still pondering that. I want to think of an appropriate word that means something to Neve.

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Playing Inquisition after DATV is wild. My brain is just pinging off moments in Inquisition flying back to DATV.

So Solas is talking to the Inquisitor about Arlathan and he's so passionate when he talks about it you can feel like he almost tastes it and he misses it. It made me think of the ending in DATV.

'When you see the old world restored.' like he is sooooo close there he can almost taste it. He's been speaking about the old world since Inquisition with the Inquisitor. He wants it so bad, he's so close to having his sins forgiven in his mind that his brain is messed up at that point. He could be saying that to anyone, to Neve (my girl goes everywhere with me) to Rook, but imo i think he's really saying it to himself. If you look at that scene, he's staring off into the distance, like you can feel he's seeing the old world restored in his mind! And Rook (well, at least mine) knows it, Rook is like this guy is so close to his goal how do we snap him out of it? Yeah we can fight but I think Solas expects that, so what snaps him out of it???

Rook hands him the dagger!!!! And talks to him. Who would choose that?? But its like others I've read on Tumblr have pointed out, it's like Rook had a plan! Cause its not enough cause Solas is still so close, why should he stop cause Rook asked him to? Like noooope, sorry, not when he's that close. And because for me only the redemption ending is my canon, Solas needs another disruption and another to snap him out of the mind state he's in.

The person that he talked about the old world with in Inquisition!!! The person who listened to him, who helped him change his mind about people. And if you read the vhenan letter, it's the one person he expects to see in the old world restored! Like what a fuck yeah moment that was for me just now as I write this! Like the way Solas's head just whips around when he recognizes the voice??? Man that hit me hard.

And Solas listens a bit more, he's moved, he's processing, but it's still not enough cause now its turned from 'see the old world restored' to 'not the world SHE wanted' and Solas is still not all with it cause he's mixing it all up in his head cause he's still so close to his goal but he's confused now, emotionally fucked up. Rook caught him off guard by giving him the dagger, the Inquisitor interrupts his brain even more, stirring up emotions. But that last voice is needed. The person that actually lived with him in the 'old world', who helped build the 'old world' (maybe when Solas says 'When you see the old world restored' he's thinking about Mythal?!?) the one who he is trying to restore it for (or so he thinks)? And Mythal's just like, let it go, its ok to let it go, this is also because of me and you don't have to do it anymore. And he sobs cause he just wants to stop but also cause what does he have left now, after all the horrible things he's done?

And then it's the Inquisitor again which is so cool cause what a full circle moment for both of them! The person that listened to him back in Inquisition talk about the old world, the one who was Solas's first friend or love in the world he wanted to destroy. They show him the door to the new path and Solas stands. And Rook is just so fucking relieved im sure that this plan worked.

I think what i love about this is that it really shows Rook as such a unique protagonist. Like Rook has no loyalty to Solas, Rook had one job to do and Rook delivered! Solas just screwed Rook over and over again but Rook, Rook is like nope, we aren't doing it Solas's way. We're going to forgive and show him another way. I don't know how many people could do that. Like my Rook loves their friends so much and they influence them -- Neve, Taash, Harding --all of them. They're everything to Rook. And i posted before, to offer that back to Solas?? Seeing how messed up Solas was at the end and then just getting those people important to Solas to talk to him was so neat. Talk about intervention. I fucking love Rook.

And now i feel like when my Inquisitor is talking to Solas in Inquisition about the old world, im like Solas my man, let it go, let it go and I feel in my heart for him, that he's going to go through so much more pain before that ending.

I think after Inquisition and the dlcs im gonna play DATV again. I can't wait to make more pings like this. What an emotional roller-coaster so far.

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Ommmmggg....

I'm really enjoying the Inquisitor's journey in Inquisition and I'm sitting when I play staring at my Inquisitor Lavellan wielding this crazy power and of course im thinking, wait how is this affecting her?! I haven't gotten to that quest yet (next one!) But for sure will be listening and paying attention. But yes having played DATV first i wondered why the Inquisitor was the only one who had this statuette and what it meant and I wanted to know how the Inquisitor just KNEW that Solas's ritual had failed?!?!

This was so fun to read and I appreciate the reasoning supported by the games!!!

I was literally just talking to someone in my messages just now about how now that I'm playing Inquisition after DATV I see how the inquisitor feels like they were written in tandem with Solas...cause like they said there's this black codex of the whole story and it feels like the Inquisitor and Solas were mirrors of each other and I like getting to see this in Inquisition now! Its so cool!!

I totally can see why people were sad and mad not to see more of their Inquisitors in Veilguard! I mean even i wanted to know more about the Inquisitor the first time I played DATV and I became more and more curious and now playing Inquisition I see why! The Inquisitor is so entwined in Solas's story whether they like it or not.

Oh what i would've given to have more scenes between my Inquisitor and Rook!!! Cause they saw Solas so differently and are connected to him so differently!!

Anyway this is a cool theory that is super believable and think i like this!!

The Inquisitor - The Thread and Key - and Something Else?

A thread runs from Inquisition to Veilguard that makes it hard to believe the Inquisitor walked away from the Anchor unchanged. The evidence suggests a transformation - not just symbolic or emotional, but something metaphysical. Possibly even physiologically.

One of the clearest insights into the nature of the Anchor comes during Here Lies the Abyss, from the Justinia spirit/entity: “It is the needle that passes through the Veil, as little else can. You are the thread. And it is the key that locks or unlocks a door to the Fade. It lets you walk in the Fade physically and survive. Without it, Corypheus must find another way to the Black City. It is part of you now, and cannot be removed without your death.”

There are some interesting implications here. The Inquisitor doesn’t just use the Anchor - they are the thread. And threads don’t just pass through - they bind, they weave, implying the Inquisitor is stitched into the Fade or the Veil itself.

But it’s the spirit’s warning that carries the most interest for me: “It is part of you now, and cannot be removed without your death.” This reads as though the Anchor is too woven into the Inquisitor's being to be severed without fatal consequences. According to this denizen of the Fade, the removal should be impossible.

And while it’s not framed as a prophecy in the traditional sense, the spirit’s words seem to carry truth as only a being of the Fade can speak it. It's a statement of what is - yet, what is doesn't come to pass.

Because the Inquisitor does live after its removal. 

That act of Solas removing the Anchor points to an extraordinary understanding and mastery of magic.

Which leads to a lingering question: How has this affected the Inquisitor?

The Thread in Veilguard

In Veilguard, the “thread and key” metaphor returns - but now it’s a statuette, not the Anchor.

When Harding asks where they found it, the Inquisitor responds: “I found it right around the time Solas’ ritual failed, when he was pulled into the Fade. We’ve examined the magic. And it’s tied to the Veil. To him. Somehow.”

That “somehow” feels like recognition. Something is still there. The Anchor is gone, but how do they know the tie is there? Is the Fade - the Veil - still connected to the Inquisitor?

And the statuette is significant. No matter how many of them Rook finds, the sequence can’t be completed without the Inquisitor’s, implying they are still the thread that completes the weave, the key that opens the door to Solas.

Morrigan says, “The Inquisitor brought something no one else could.” And it’s not just that they had the final piece - it’s that no one else could have had it. The magic inside it feels personal, like it’s bound to something only the Inquisitor possesses. Maybe it’s the lingering imprint of the Anchor.

Or maybe it's something else.

Solas’ Unique Magic

Morrigan says: “Solas is ancient, and his magic is part of him in a way far beyond that of mortals.” Solas doesn’t wield magic like a mortal mage. He is magic.

The Anchor was born of Solas’ magic - so when his Orb exploded and marked the Inquisitor, like the statuette infused with his essence, the Anchor forged a connection between Solas and the Inquisitor. Which means the Inquisitor potentially carries a trace of Solas’ essence.

Which brings us back to the wolf statuette - why was it meant for the Inquisitor? Perhaps it was reacting to the part of him that still resides in the Inquisitor. Drawn to it. Resonating with it.

The Inquisitor - the Key to Solas

Throughout the games and extended stories, the Inquisitor is consistently positioned as the thread and key - bridging Southern and Northern Thedas, the Fade and the waking world, Solas and those who are looking for him.

And that may not be purely symbolic. The Inquisitor carried the Anchor, manipulated the Fade, walked through it more than once, and survived an act that should have killed them. They now stand apart from ordinary mortal experience - threaded into the Fade, impacted by ancient magic. Perhaps even transformed into something new - a liminal being. That may be why a romanced Lavellan shows no fear in following Solas into the Fade at the end: they alone are equipped - physically, metaphysically - to walk that path beside him.

It’s narratively fitting, then, that their story with Solas begins in front of a tear in the Veil, where he says, “It seems you hold the key to our salvation.” Everything that follows gives the line a deeper, almost prophetic meaning because by the end of Veilguard, they stand before another rift. And while this time it's Solas who closes the rift - the Inquisitor’s presence remains essential.

Without the Inquisitor, you can’t access Solas’ regrets. You can’t uncover what haunts him. You can’t walk the path to gain Mythal’s essence - and without Mythal’s essence you can’t unlock the final choice: atonement. The game makes it clear - Solas’ path to redemption is unlocked through the Inquisitor.

He said they were the key.

And they were.

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Ok I've played DATV a bunch of times now and to me I don't know how players can not choose the atonement ending. And especially cause...hear me out...especially those of us who do ALL the companion missions and what that means. Like I love all the companions, they are my Rooks family and so I see their struggles you know? I see how they grow and that they aren't their mistakes and then i look at Solas and I see a guy with centuries of mistakes but no where do I get a sense that he's evil.

And he talks about Cole and the people he cared about in the Inquisition and his Vhenan!! and I think well if Rook is supposed to be a mirror to Solas and my Rook has their found family in their companions and falls in love (oh Neve my beloved) and can't not see in Solas that same desire to be connected to people and how he just runs from love im like, how can I play a Rook who says it's ok for me to have this connection with these amazing people but not Solas? Not the guy who actually needs connection the most? I think its so cool that despite the manipulations and blood magic that Rook just sees this sad immortal elf who is so haunted by his past he can't let go. I like that the option is there for Rook to.choose to unite Solas with Mythal and Lavellan its so important for Solas.

And so like to me, Rook is that connecting piece for Solas to the one person who still sees who he is...his Vhenan. And maybe im just too soft hearted but I did try the bad ending where my companions die and Solas gets dragged and I cried, I couldn't do it, I stopped and reloaded so fast. Why should Rook's friends pay that price? My Rook is doing everything possible to save their lives...and maybe its by getting the ancient god man to see the error of his ways.

I love DATV cause it really highlights forgiveness, like not just forgiving others but forgiveness of the self, all the companions go through that. So why wouldn't we offer it to Solas who just is so fucked up and wrapped up in guilt and fear? I think my Rook is this young mortal and can't possibly understand an immortal but what I like to think happens is that because Rook is mortal they can see what Solas can't which is the importance of relationships because mortals don't live that long in comparison so we live and love fiercely lol.

Its so satisfying to me when I see Solas go into the fade with Lavellan. It just feels right when the whole story is about forgiveness, love and friendship and connection.

Its wild playing Inquisition right now because it actually makes my read on Solas in DATV feel right!

I'm still giddy over these stories and I love DATV for introducing this world to me. And I'm totally not trying to make anyone feel bad for enjoying the bad endings oh my god not at all..its just i guess I see forgiveness as such a huge thing in the game that i can't unsee it now.

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VHENAN

Yes. All this. I didn't even know much about the romance between Solas and Lavellan but even I knew who his vhenan was. And reading his letter in Veilguard and then hearing that breathy, shocked 'vhenan' to his Lavellan at the end, it got hooks in me!

This one word tells the whole story of Solas and Lavellan and I love it.

Cause it's not just a term of love, it's specific! It's his choice of giving her his heart, SHE is his heart. And when he walks the dinan'shiral it's like he knew he was going down a dark path and so her being his heart means that life he wants will stay alive in her.

I just, the more I think on this the more it's beautiful imagery.

I'd like to take a moment to appreciate the word vhenan.

From a media and fiction perspective, it’s brilliant.

Think about "As you wish." What immediately comes to mind?

That is vhenan. Character and relationship branding packaged in one word.

It’s a recognizable shorthand for Solas and Lavellan’s story (romanced Lavellan). And while it may be known only within the DA community, it carries enough narrative weight and presence that rarely is there any ambiguity on who you are referring to. (Even many non-Solasmancers I've interacted with know immediately the reference.)

It is also a word that is layered:

A storytelling tool that heightens drama and emotional impact.

A word filled with emotions - confession, intimacy, despair, devotion, pain and love.

And a word that evokes the entire narrative of Solas and Lavellan.

Such a simple word.

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Neve my beloved. She is an onion.

Keep peeling back the protective layers and be exposed to the tears that come rushing forth as she reveals her vulnerable center.

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This was good to read. I'm a new fan to Dragon Age through Veilguard and Ioved Veilguard. Now im playing Inquisition and it is so different but you know what, I love it too. And I can't wait to play DA2 and DA Origins. I can see how different they all are but it doesn't matter to me cause I love this world already! Its the world!! The characters!!! This strange bizarro fantasy world of Thedas is so fun and emotional! I fell in love with Rook and Neve and now my new obsession, Solas and Lavellan (and their messed up dark elven fantasy type love)...it's just so satisfying to me! I am so in love with Cole now and I am writing scenarios where Bellara and Cole meet cause my god those two!

And I can't wait to meet the characters in the other games. So it's niche, I think that's why I love it so much and as a new Dragon Age fan I'm so sad about all this news.

But right now I'm in discovery mode of this world and I am so grateful for these stories.

Listen. The problem isn't DATV/Joplin/whatever happened at Bioware between DAI and now. However you feel about those things, good or bad, that's a symptom not a cause.

The problem is that somehow, Bioware, despite being a triple-A company with project budgets in the millions? Seems to simply have no idea that basic business concepts like niche and branding exist.

Bioware generally has a really core brand that not only captured most of the market share for a specific subset of gamers, but effectively created the niche it sits in.

But, whether it's on the EA side or Bioware side... none of them ever seemed to realize that.

An ignorance which trickled down to all of the games they've been developing in the last ~15ish years.

I'm genuinely not mad or like, freaking out about the article. Because all it reveals is the same thing that's been true all along: At every step, Bioware has had a (very self-inflicted) identity crisis. That doesn't mean the games it created in that window aren't good. I'd argue most naysayers are myopic trolls, frankly, or people who desperately need to go outside and talk to a real human person about something that's not media for 5 minutes. All of the games are very good games for what they set out to do. Especially considering the kinds of organizational chaos many of them were developed within.

And there's a lot of things Bioware has learned over time to do better and better. That they never get credit for from folks who prefer to look at their older properties through rose-colored 'memberberries-shaped glasses.

But it just shouldn't be a big surprise to anyone invested in Bioware or any of it's properties that things ended up like this.

Ultimately Bioware was too afraid to be left behind by other studios' developments in the gaming world. While either not allowed, or not brave enough, to take those sorts of big developmental swings with new IP. Rather than within it's bread-and-butter properties. (While still not straying too far from it's core brand. Anthem, anyone?)

And ironically, that meant over time it lost it's grip on the gaming market niche it already had a monopoly on. One that to this day no other company is poised to fill. In a way that will be almost impossible to undo.

Sadly for me. And many others! The ones for whom what Bioware DID end up doing consistently, has created our perfect gaming niche

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I love Dragon Age artists!!!! So much art. What a cool style. I'm waiting for the day when I can commission my Lavellan but I'm still not done Inquisition yet so one thing at a time hahaha. But sharing to spread the word of this artist.

Beautiful.

As if I couldn't fall in love with Solas and Lavellan all over again.

I commissioned my first ever art piece of my beloved Saethre Lavellan and Solas from @heyitscuteway and I am forever grateful.

Check out her Tumblr, she is a talented artist with such a style that my eyes love. She was so wonderful to work with as well. (And she may still have a commission spot open!).

Her art exceeded my expectations. Thank you @heyitscuteway 💜.

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Omg!!!

I wanted sooo much more Solas and Lavellan content.

Ok so I'm new to Dragon Age, Veilguard was my first game and I love it!!! And I fell head over heels for Neve and Rook. And ok I really liked the annoying dynamic between Rook and Solas so much. Like you can feel the ancient curmudgeon just ooze off Solas and I just loved the antagonist dynamic with Rook and forced to work together.

And ok so I also somewhat knew that this Solas guy has an official romance so of course I wanted to play that out and I made a kick ass Inquisitor, like my kick ass Rook and then I met her and she seemed so...ethereal to me? I kinda really became curious about her and like the Dread Wolf is in love??? And as Rook omg I wanted to just annoy Solas with questions about Lavellan!

Anyway, all this to say is that I became obsessed with Solas and Lavellan and I fucking cried at the redemption end! And so now I'm playing Inquisition and I'm digging it!

But Veilguard didn't have enough of the Solas and Lavellan stuff for my liking and honestly I totally could have used more Neve and Rook stuff too, but whatever. I love what we got!

So this mod I am downloading it right away! This is what I was looking for.

Can't wait to replay with these!

Any Neve and Rook mods out there too?

I did something I never imagined I would do. Ever!

I made my very first mod!

I found the content and references in the Solas / Lavellan romance world state a bit lacking and so, why not add it myself?

Romanced Solas and Lavellan World State

This mod changes a few codexes, letters and a missive to deepen the atmosphere and emotional tone of a Solas/Lavellan romance. Nothing drastic or intrusive (I think), I added what I thought made the most sense. I also tried to stay true to characterization, keeping it grounded but meaningful without over indulgence.

Huge thanks to the following people for helping me learn something new, helping by trying it out and helping me with content - really appreciate it - big hugs!

@topaz-carbuncle @lotsofthinkythoughts @emmasalinvhenan @vgsurvivor

Versions for other Lavellan genders will be eventually added but I was quite excited to get this one out there sooner than later.