#Tevinter

[dragonagegallery]

Neve Gallus's Armor

By Charles Lim

[aldruiel-scribbles]

In this link there is definitely not a folder with every Dragon Age eBook, numbered in order of reading plus the two Encyclopedias about the world. Please do not use the link, there are not free books in there.

[maia-beans]

Veiltober - day 8, Neve

Here is the neve Veiltober!! I'm not too happy with this one tbh, as I feel like I didn't do everything I wanted with it. It's been pretty grueling to make one of these for every day as they can take over 10h each. I had made some in advance but now that head start is catching up to me 😅

I'm thinking that from day 10/11 onwards, I'll only do one prompt every other day, or every three days. My creative juices need to recharge!

Hope you enjoy anyways!

Ty once again @lynnerdo :3

See you for Harding day :DD

[dalishious]

Thedas in textures

[shandrapann]

The Archon 👑 I absolutely adored doing this piece for @howdyfromantiva !!! Thank you for trusting me with your babies and letting me draw Archon Dorian 🥹🥹❤️

[alinamghart]

Dorian, Fenris and Zevran (well, mostly Dorian and Zev) discussing over the aesthetic of Antivan rugs while their paramours are planning to save the world (again!)

[aldanil]

My Orlesian Agent of Solas, Tamril

With Reva, Solas right arm from the Art Book

I never had the opportunity to meet her and yet I miss her

My bad for becoming obsessed by a character from a concept art book that will never see the day of light (but one can still dream, right ?) 0/20 experience, do not recommend

This is my first art from 2025 after two months of art block and my tablet who almost died

[silent-words]

Tevinter fashion

I like these stylized "corsets" that appear in some Tevinter outfits. I included different characters – not only Neve and Shadow Dragon Rook, but also Dorian and Tarquin. Sometimes they wear cummerbund, but I like these more.

Stylish Tevinters (what else did I expect? Nothing, they are awesome).

Also if anyone knows a proper name for this clothing item, I apologise. Unfortunately, I don't know a lot about fashion history, so I don't even know where to start.

[postcardsfromheapside]

This game has been out since Halloween.

In that time, there have been numerous Veilguard positive posts in which patient, loving, wonderful, insightful and intelligent individuals attempt to impart lore onto a fanbase which doesn't deserve their time and attention.

I can't believe I'm running across posts made within the past five days which express disgust and frustration towards the devs over things which have been explained in great detail multiple times on this site, BUT IN THE DAMN GAME.

AND Y'ALL KEEP COMPLAINING THE GAME TELLS BUT DOESN'T SHOW. AND YOU DON'T EVEN LISTEN OR WATCH.

"the crows are presented as wholesome" - they are not. this site has a crow fanbase which has run off and lionized Viago as Daddy, conveniently ignored all the in-game details which either hint or baldly state things Definitely Aren't Cool, and generally fetishized what it means to be a Crow because of Zevran and Lucanis. Then the same people, or others who weren't paying proper attention, whined when the headcanon crowded out the actual in-game material, and they said "Antiva is whitewashed." There have been multiple posts about this.

"slaves are meant to be everywhere in Tevinter and we don't see that" - we aren't everywhere, we're specifically in Docktown which is poor and people generally can't afford slaves there, but we do see evidence of slavery, and we run around with abolitionists and help save people from fascist slavers and free people who will either be slaves or victims of blood magic so IDK what to tell you, there have been multiple posts explaining this too, maybe leave your slave or savior fetish somewhere else.

"Racism is supposed to be rampant" - fuck off. I actually will not be explaining this because for once it was nice not to be called a slur. If you need this to feel "immersed" or to feel there are actual problems, I need you to check yourself fucking hard. If you want to masquerade what it feels like to experience bigotry, go play one of the prior games. This has also been discussed in multiple posts.

"Handling pure lyrium is fine now" no handling the dagger is fine Solas cleansed it, the dagger woke something up in Harding specifically she talks about how some dwarves are connected to the stone, she previously had not been one of them and maybe the dagger woke something up in her, or did you need a pop up explaining this? Were you paying attention during cut scenes and dialogue?

"Adult Dalish without vallaslin" - in the 10 years since Inquisition/Trespasser, doubtless some dalish have come to adulthood and found out what assholes their gods were and made the decision not to go through that specific cultural rites. Or maybe city elves joined the Dalish. Who knows who made up the elf population at that ritual site. Elves are not a monolith. We've made multiple, multiple posts about elves not being monoliths.

"Solas' opinion on blood magic went from neutral to negative" SOLAS FUCKING LIES. We've made multiple posts about Solas lying, if you need this explained further I suggest you play the game all over again, he lies to you throughout the entire game.

"Re-write of the after credits scene in Inquisition to recontextualise the Flemeth and Solas interaction" it's recontextualized because now we know who and what they were to each other. Learning new information does that. This is literally what happens all the time in science and history. You recontextualize what you thought you knew with new information. You're supposed to change your position, not whine about how the new information makes everything different.

These are just some of the things I pulled from a list on a post in which someone was really just upset about everything. Everything. Varric, Morrigan, Solas, everything. But I can't take their criticisms seriously, because they're upset that "too much was told" and "not enough shown" and yet didn't even pay attention to DA lore or in-game dialogue or context clues around the world of Northern Thedas to answer their own questions.

Everything in this game makes complete sense if you use lore from prior games and a single iota of imagination to see how it fits. We've had many delightful posts discussing this, seeing how things could be explained, when approaching the game from a place of curiosity rather than being upset because personal headcanons weren't satisfied or long-held expectations weren't met.

[loustica-lucia]

DATV — A Little Breather🫂

(Ashur "The Viper" Vesperian & Tarquin) It's not easy to go from leading the Shadow Dragons, being the Divine and acting as an atlus mage :')

I missed drawing them!

Timelapse⤵

[dragonagegallery]

The Shadow Dragons

[warden-commander-of-ferelden]

Lace Harding Scout Hero of the Inquisition

[merrinla]

Exploring Ventus

The city of Ventus. We pictured it as the vacation destination for Tevinter, when the oppression of the big city becomes overwhelming. It's under Qunari occupation.

by Matt Rhodes

360 Ventus

Ventus sketch

Using maps to sketch the layout

Early on we explored the idea that seasons would effect traversal. If you came to Ventus in the winter, the sea would be frozen over, or in the fall the water receded, granting access to new areas.

Ventus' magic bridge. Qunari don't trust it, so they're building a physical bridge below.

In addition, the game files mention a cut mission in Ventus.

Description: Find where in Ventus the Necrovisi Golem Control Rod is being stored. Details: We have a standing order to raid the Centriale Museum in Occupied Ventus. When the Antaam took the city, Tevinter had to get out fast. Now the Antaam are sitting on storerooms of ancient relics, and they don't even know what they have. But we know. Half those crates are full because the LoF (Lords of Fortune) was hired to fill them. And now we've been hired to empty one. So get ready to take your skills above ground. It's like getting paid twice, and Tevinter doesn't care how loud we get.

[mrs-gauche]

You know what I would love to see in Veilguard when we're visiting Minrathous?

Remember those magical hologram theaters??

Massive old libraries filled with juicy Tevinter lore??

And gorgeous public baths???

*heart eyes*

[blanska]

I've seen that some people were thinking along the lines of "why does Veilguard make the Antivan Crows seem like the good guys, when this is a fucked up organization who've done and are probably still doing fucked up things?"

I think it's fair to think that BioWare should have shown more of the different sides of the Crows. But I personally don't mind this because to me it makes sense contextually.

Example: in DA:O all we knew about Tevinter that they are the evil blood mages from the evil blood mage country. In DA2 we met Fenris and this point of view was strengthened and it wasn't just a random stereotype anymore, because we've heard from Fenris what they were like. We've seen the effects of their action on Fenris. And we got to meet some of the evil tevinter mages personally. So now Tevinter was the evil tevinter blood mage country that we know more horrible details about.

Then in Inquisition we meet Krem, who is an average tevinter person. And of course it's logical that a country cannot be populated solely by evil blood mages, but we've never seen an average tevinter person before who's just like anybody else. And more importantly we met Dorian. Who is nobility. Yet he is not an evil narcissistic blood mage. He is against that. He criticizes his country and his countrymen harshly. But he also loves his country and tells us about its values and beauties. Suddenly Tevinter is not the evil blood mage country. It's more than that. Now we can see a more positive side of it.

In Veilguard we get to see the struggles of average tevinter people and not a lot of narcissistic nobles surrounded by their slaves. But it does makes sense, because all we do is run around Dock Town and these types of nobles will not be waltzing around in those streets. But now we experience what it must be like to live in the country where the narcissistic nobles, the evill blood mages and good hearted revolutionaries fight for power.

So back to the Antivan Crows. In Veilguard their city is occupied by the Antaam. Of course they're gonna fight the invaders. The people of Treviso have different opinions about them in this situation. Some see the Crows as the heroes who fight on their side against their current oppressors, and some actually think that ruled by the qunari might turn out to be a good life. And some of the Crows might care about the people of Treviso, but even if none of them did, they would still fight the Antaam, just like the Thread fights the Venatori in Dock Town. The Antaam took their territory and power. For Rook and the Crows the Antaam is a common enemy, so we automatically see them in a better light. They are allies.

And if we ignore the things that have to do with taking back Treviso, we still don't see the ugly side of the Crows. But who are we meeting? Who are we talking to? We're talking to three Talons, the leaders who want your help in their revolution. They have no reason to tell you fun facts about how they abuse the children they recruit or the adults for that matter. For once they are busy fighting a common enemy instead of each other; that's what they're focused on.

And who joins our team? Antivan Crow royalty. Not just any royalty: the First Talon's personal favorite. I think everyone growing up in the Crows had a fucked up childhood and Lucanis is no exception. But his childhood was way less fucked up - compared to Zevran "son of Nobody" Arainai - because he was privileged af. The possible death of the First Talon's grandsons was propably not a part of their training. Lucanis never had to kill anyone who he didn't think deserved it. Once again probably because he's Caterina's favorite and she knows he likes to take down evil people so she gives him those targets.

So instead of evil tevinter blood mages, the Crows might come across as ruthless heroes of the people. Because we meet them when they are united against Treviso's opressors. We meet the ones who are in charge.and comfortable, the ones who are privileged. And it's fine because we've met Zevran too, who showed us the ugly side of the Crows. And hopefully we'll get to see more sides in the future.

[larkoneironaut]

Sethra Mercar, mage warrior who likes to eat bark from time to time 🤭