#second blight

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Imagine being a Grey Warden at the beginning of the Second Blight

The Grey Warden order is seen as mostly a thing of tradition, good mostly to deal with stray darkspawn or to assist dwarves in the Deep Roads. The Blight has ended over two hundred years ago and there is no reason to believe there would be another. Darkspawn are still a threat but it's become sort of a manageable everyday thing at this point. The apocalypse has passed in your distant ancestors' time and the world has healed. Sometimes you wonder why did you even join this order that is mostly a reminder of a bygone dark era

Then the song becomes stronger. In your nightmares, something stirs.

And then Zazikel rises

[chloevazquezart]

More second blight AU doodles of my mage Victoire and her griffon Alune hehe

Alune is a super grumpy and aggressive griffon but she has a soft spot for Victoire only uwu

[blighted-elf]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard scenery - The Lighthouse 1/?

[honestlyitsjustsam]

newly-wed

[vigilskeep]

“one time i came upon a band of refugees being slaughtered by darkspawn. i could only save one of the two groups they were split into, and i watched helplessly as the others were cut down, the darkspawn mage burning them with fire and sending swarms of biting insects to feast on their flesh” is something fucked up an npc would say but it’s also an encounter i always get in dragon age origins and it doesn’t make me feel normal

[mochibiz]

Your friends don’t know you kiss me behind the bleachers

[nostalgic-bee]

Trilogy of Amity giving Luz the most affectionate and loving look ever

Bonus one bc this screenshot is so cute

These two are always looking at each other with so much love and affection

[blighted-lights]

The ravage clone 😭 I do imagine soundwave would be overjoyed at first thinking somehow she survived. "I knew lord megatron was wrong, ravage is just built different." Then he'd get pissed as hell at shockwave because that is NOT ravage! (He still takes care of her anyways).

It reminds me of this tiktoker who cloned her cat so she could have another one after the og died and she got pissed because the new cat had a different personality. Yeah they look the same and have the same DNA but they do not have the same memories/experiences!! It will never be 100% an exact clone.

Differences like that would make it bittersweet because soundwave would feed her ravage's favorite food to find out they don't share the same tastes and he'd spiral.

HI YIKES!! (referencing this post here, btw, which you all should look at and send me asks about hehe <3)

and i have to say that everyone who's left tags and comments so far on that post (plus inbox messages, thank you <3) has been FAR kinder in terms of angst levels of this idea than what i originally had planned. soundwave initially does have some vague hope that this ravage is the original ravage when he first meets her, BUT this hope is immediately dashed. he can tell from the start that she isn't the original ravage and shockwave outright admits to her being a clone 😔

shockwave's entire plan with cloning ravage was both as an emotional support to soundwave after they lost the original ravage AND, in true shockwave fashion, a bit of a manipulative move. soundwave's work and self-care have absolutely tanked with the loss of ravage. shockwave figured that bringing her back, or at least some version of her, would make soundwave feel obligated to take care of her- and it does! but to take care of this new ravage, soundwave has to take care of himself as well or he risks not being able to provide her what she needs. soundwave's self care goes back up, he starts working more effectively because he's properly fueled and rested, and shockwave considers it a win!

it's,, not a win tho, because ravage's clone is her own individual person and the pressure of trying to live up to the original ravage is suffocating. and since shockwave is her creator, she prefers being around shockwave over being around soundwave, and it ends up being a Mess™️. this cloned ravage also has very vague imprints of the original ravage's personality traits, but it's So obvious to anyone paying attention that she isn't the original at all.

soundwave also has no idea how to process the existence of this new ravage as she is a clone of one of his closest friends- his oldest friend, really. he's going through a lot of conflicting emotions while grieving- and that's not even going into what the other cassettes are feeling

[flowersforthemachines]

Lucanis's Logbook, 6

Relationships: Female Rook/Lucanis Word count: 3300 (oneshot, complete) Rating: General Audiences Main tags: Diary/Journal, Established Relationship, Mid-canon, Missing scene, Angst

Excerpt and summary:

We are back from Tearstone Island. Rook is gone. Davrin and Bellara are gone. I don't know what else to say.

Lucanis’s journal kept throughout the time between Rook’s disappearance at Tearstone Island and the day she’s rescued from the Fade.

[vigilskept]

You know, as much as I'm willing to denounce Loghain for not trusting the Orlesian Wardens to do their job and fight the Blight, I am also aware that Celene had sent a bunch of chevaliers to accompany the Wardens across the border, and there is no proof they were going to leave once they had entered Ferelden. Like sure, let's blame Loghain for making the Wardens's job harder than necessary, but I do think Fereldans kind of dodged being conquered all over again, never mind Cailan's secret dealings with Celene. 😥

exactly………………. 10 YEARS down the line after the blight we know the orlesian nobility were still itching to take ferelden back!!! that’s not paranoia!!!

sure, the wardens weren’t necessarily on board with that agenda the way loghain thought they were. but that’s really only down to chance? another warden in duncan’s place might not have been so opposed to seeing orlais move back in! caron/andras/kader is framed as a favourite of empress celene… could they have been trusted not to scheme if they were in charge? if they were given great authority at a time of crisis?

keeping orlais out and checking the warden’s power makes the blight a lot harder to cope with… but doing otherwise risks losing ferelden’s independence again. and given how no one but the wardens knows for sure that it is truly a blight (no archdemon sightings…) he does have every reason to be skeptical of anyone arguing otherwise!

[spectralbugs]

idek what to write here.. watch my video or i will put a slug on you

[ratssicas]

Grom 👍

[blighted-elf]

Okay, now that I have them all, (until they fix the Proudhorn drop and I have to do that one all over again) I can say it roughly took me…

- 350 regular Sernuk - 2000 Elder Sernuk (yes I had several breakdowns during this one lmao) - 80 Proudhorn Sernuk

And I went from level 15 in Hunting to level 47

[glamfellens]

hello. im having mixed feelings about veilguard. also. if i had a penny for every time a long awaited sequel absolutely obliterated and went scorched earth on a favourite place/faction of mine **this year**, i'd have two pennies, but its weird that it happened twice.

[felassan]

BioWare Gear Store email advertizing the DA:TV key art litho, subject line, "Is this beauty or chaos?" [source: BioWare Gear Store email]

[the-real-couchrat]

Praying that the tumblr gods don’t mark me for the blood 🙏

More Creature!

We Creatures SPOILERS below!!!!! (Also TW for blood) fic by @toothpastecanyon

Doodles :) (including a cleaned up version of my last post)

It’s not canon, but I’ve been imagining Dipper and the creature learning how to live in society together, and the creature getting a makeover in the process >:) I think part of what makes them so scary is that when Dipper first saw them they were eating a dead body and covered in sewage. So I think a good shower would help their image a lot.

And a close up of the bloody creature 🩸

Now one where they’re not covered in blood and grime

(Btw the vines are written in Tendrilis)