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mustangs-flames · 4 months ago

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I know Veilguard didn't really give an option for why my character chose to join the Grey Wardens so I am sharing here that it's because my guy is a murderer. He murdered someone. And to me that adds a layer to playing Rook as a snarky guy who tries to act care free but will always do whatever it takes to get the job done and save people in the end because he feels, intrinsically, that he has to do something to make up for it.

And no. It wasn't manslaughter, or a killing that was somehow justified. My Rook deliberately killed someone and has to live with that. And it's something he's kept secret for all 6 years he's been a Warden - not even Antoine and Evka know. The Grey Wardens take in anyone after all and their pasts are forgotten unless they choose to share. It was join or face a noose for my Rook and he took the option where he got to live (adds more weight to the Mayor being condemned to the Wardens by Rook after selling out his village to the Blight too).

So to my Rook, Veilguard is one big way of trying to make up for something he can never take back. I haven't finished the game yet so idk if it'll be something he comes to terms with in the end, but I like to think that he would at least share what he did with Lucanis even if he never told anyone else.

#anyway sorry for rambling #should i draw my rook at some point?#idk if that's somethig people want to see lmao #i am a sucker for the grey wardens so you know i had to play a warden again #practically lept at the chance bc it's the first time since origins that i can get to play one lmao #also the inherent tragedy of falling in love as a warden and knowing you'll either die in a blight/to darkspawn #or you'll hear the calling and have to leave for the deep roads #that's soooooooo delicious to me. the angst potential is yummy okay?#and i think lucanis would understand what rook is feeling #the guilt. the weight. the asking yourself what you can do to balance out havinn taken someone's life like that #i don't think he'd have a solid answer for rook. but he'd be there to listen. to offer a shoulder about it and love him regardless #because lucanis is an assassin and has killed far more people than rook without question #he even says to davrin that 'by my count. i've never killed someone who didn't deserve it'#and yet he admits that's only by his own understanding of 'innocent'. he acknowledges that davrin may well look at the people lucanis has-#killed and see many many innocents #so yeah. lucanis would understand better than anyone what rook is going through..#I WILL SHUT UP NOW SORRY LOL

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