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Reblogging the portrait qr code I made based off of Solas’ party icon from my Animal Crossing blog.

I’ve been meaning to do this one for a long while… but here it finally is! I’d like to do a few more. Especially Cassandra and the Inquisitor party icons.

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Reblogging from my Animal Crossing blog for the irony.

I have Wolf Link in my village and he’s wearing my Apostate Hobo shirt! (Pretty fitting… Dread Wolf, ne?)

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This made my day!!!!!

Cheers to the brave anon who requested Sera pranks! I hope these do the trick.

(anon actually requested them at the post-Cory victory party but then I came up with “Eggsly McElfboner” and I REFUSE TO COMPROMISE MY ART)

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My "bored at work" doodle has evolved over the past couple days... Will I whip out the white chalk pencil and scribble a vallaslin? Only time will tell.

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Very bored at work at the end of the day... It shows in her expression. Scribbled with a felt-tipped pen.

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A quick scribbly sketch of Nel with short hair. Poor girl loses an arm, so it's only natural she'd lop off her locks.

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I had the great fortune of being able to request a tarot card commission on the wonderful @steftastan 's backlog list earlier this year. It was well worth EVERYTHING! I am absolutely in love with how she's drawn Solas and Menelluin together. -swoon- Thank you a million times over for your beautiful work, Steftasten!!!!

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Sketched Menelluin recently, trying out a slightly different style and shape. Unsure if I'll stick with it. Also, I think I'm watching a few too many Moana YouTube videos.

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I was fortunate enough to snag a commission from @destinyapostasy and I am absolutely in LOVE with how Menelluin turned out!

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-internal screaming of excitement-

More Signs from the Inside

Mark Darrah has dished out some more tidbits about Dragon Age 4.  And they are very interesting!  

The first image was what looks like a reference sheet for character or culture designs.  

Looking at the pictures up close and personal is even more revealing.

Is it just us Wyrds or is the woman in these images a dead ringer for Cassandra?  The designs almost seem Romanesque save for the skull headdress on the second figure.  All of this together makes us think these designs might be Navarran.  

We don’t have a lot of reference art for Navarrans, but the third armor is vaguely reminiscent of Tessa’s outfit from Magekiller.

Next we have what appear to be some darker Grey Wardens…Tevinter style?  

The helmet looks the same.  

(I, Morta, would love it if they turned out to be from the Anderfels.  I really want to know what in the Void is going on at Weisshaupt.  But they are probably Tevinter.  Probably.)

On the top right we have some very exciting figures.

Sure looks like there will be a murder of Crows in the next game. 

(Zevran!!!  We need more of you!)

The middle line felt more familiar, but with some twists.

The figures on the middle left appear to be geared for desert travel, invoking a definite Arabian vibe.

The Anderfels is largely desert might we hope for some Ander action?  They could also represent clothing styles from the Tevinter border near the Anderfels.

The next set is very Tevinter, even Venatori -ish.  

Then there are these curious figures.  Very Tevinter lines, with the figures in purple perhaps being aides of the Archon?  

I don’t know…  Radonis dresses in green, but something about the hat looks akin to Radonis’ bodacious bonnet.

And we have Qunari!  Or are they Tal-Vashoth?  Naw, I think Qunari.  The bottoms are very interesting.  They look almost like clothes from Fuedal Japan or a hakama.  

Perhaps they are members of the priests of the Ariqun?

The bottom line starts with some familiar faces…and designs.  

Several of these are designs we have seen before.

Here we have Dalish on the left, ancient elvhen on the right.  Makes sense given Solas’ plans.  And God pants!  

More Qunari designs come next.  I hope we go to Saheron!  Or Par Vallen!  I’m sure I’m not the only one who wants to see Arishok-Sten again.  

The last figures on the page Darrah tweeted appear to be dwarven women, but with a different, perhaps more rugged look than we saw in Orzammar.  I would love these figures to be from Kal-Sharok, but they could also be Tevinter surface dwarves.  Time will tell…

The Dalish in all of us probably squeed a bit at the next image Mark Darrah tweeted.  The images are, of course, the tarot cards for a Dalish female or male Inquisitor.  Elvhen rising??

And the final image was the most enigmatic.  What is it?

Is it a figure?  It is a tower?  A signal beacon?  The background looks like hills…  What do you think, folks?  I’m going to keep pondering and see if anything shakes loose in a day or two (used to image search all the reference books I have).

Obviously Mass Effect is the center of everyone’s attention right now, but dare we hope that a DA4 announcement might be waiting in the wings??  E3 anyone?

Tell us what you see and think, DA fandom!  What do you see in these signs from the inside?

-MM

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Had an hour long meeting today in a dark auditorium. Since I have a hard time paying attention without keeping my hands busy, it was either this or risk falling asleep/daydreaming and not hearing a thing. Lookit all those damn freckles! LOOK AT THEM!!

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Wandering the Emerald Graves

Me: *shoots nug by accident*

Inquisitor: Die!

Dorian: Take that you filth!

Solas: Enough!

Cassandra: Maker Take You!

Me: a little extreme but okay

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Hee hee hee

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I’m also not normally one for bending a character’s sexuality (and thank you for saying that. Because now I feel less alone...), but Cullen and Dorian actually sound... ADORABLE. And they would actually have chemistry unlike most fanmade ‘ships.’

Cullen/Dorian + thoughts on bi Cullen in general? (Esp bc you can tell from the recorded lines that they had planned to make him bi)

I’m perfectly fine with bi Cullen. He’s not explicitly bi in my personal canon, though that is in part because I only have vague headcanons about his previous relationships. As I’ve said, I don’t generally headcanon characters outside of the sexualities that are presented in the canon. 

There are exceptions, though. And those exceptions usually lie in me coming across fanmade content where the relationship at the center of it all draws me in. I’ve had it happen with Alistair before (hello Questions Answered by @delazeur, that made me go from being completely incapable of seeing how that poly ship would ever work to falling in love with that trio). Cullen is no different. I’ve seen some Cullen/Dorian (mostly fan art) that seemed rather sweet, building a romance off of their in-game friendship. I’d say I have a small soft spot for it, despite the very limited amount of content I’ve seen for it.

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Okay I lied. THIS will be my playable Menelluin. Sorry, but nexusmods is like a candy store and I’m an altoholic on MMO’s so I’m not afraid of making and remaking and remaking again until the character looks right. LOOKIT THE FRECKLES! I LOVE THEM!!!

Finally settled on “nose-freckles-half-moles” from All About the Face from Nexusmods. It looks GREAT with darker skin tones, too! I’ll have to update Nel’s bio and place a proper screenshot with the list of mods I used.

Anywhosies. Night, folks!

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And the end of this photo dump! (I’m really starting the character this time. I promise. Even though I feel like her skin is still too light. Okay, I don’t promise anything. Perhaps I should finally mess with altering skin and hair color. I know there are ways to do it... I just want a deeper skin tone and a dark brown hair that will mesh well together... and freckles. Yes... freckles...

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The Photodump continues!!!! (Everyone is aware of how friggin BEAUTIFUL Cassandra is, right? Right. Of course you know. Silly me.)