#timeline: DA2

[azurwraith]

the  night  is  late,  and  the  fugitive  elf  has  switched  to  water,  murky  and  dark  in  the  bottom  of  his  mug.  the  others  have  filtered  out  of  the  hanged  man  either  alone  or  together,  leaving  bethany  and  fenris  to  lapse  into  thick  silence.   

             “how  do  they  treat  you  in  there, @mageforged?”   fenris'  voice  is  low,  almost  ashamed  to  ask  —–  in  the  back  of  his  mind  he  knows  the  painful  answer. 

[hergreywarden]

A vow of forever and always.

[inquisimer]

is it even a dragon age fic if you haven't spent hours hunting down every scrap of canon from which a timeline can be extrapolated

[kirkwallguy]

sorry thinking about this because of a reddit post (never a good sign lol) but the fact that da2 and dav actually have really similar approaches to romance but one works well and the other falls completely flat needs to be studied. i think the issue is that even though you could argue they have similar levels of content (no repeatable kisses, only a handful of cutscenes), da2 hides bits and pieces of extra development in its quests that make the chosen romance feel like it has a presence in hawke's life, while dav romances feel almost like they disappear whenever a scene isn't specifically about the companion / romance. tiny moments like aveline judging hawke on their choice of partner or the romanced companion comforting hawke after leandra's death all add up to make it feel more significant and constant throughout the game. if you're lucky with dav's romances you'll get a banter and an extra cutscene but the time between locking in and the cutscenes in act three gets EXTREMELY dry.

[seeker-ophelia]

Timeline of events in the Dragon Age

Reddit Source, u/Ebram078

**NO VEILGUARD SPOILERS

But Spoilers for ALL other DA media (games/comics/novels etc).

Photo below the Cut

Hey Yall I didn't make this but its a fantastic resource, if you want a refresher of all the junk that's happened in the games/comics/novels starting at 900 Dragon, at the beginning of the Dragon Age in Thedas.

(If the image is blurry for you click on the link), Earliest to most recent - read from the bottom up

[azol-otl]

Jason wakes up with a sense of vertigo that is unfortunately familiar. His stomach is down in his ass, and his legs are both weightless and shackled to the sky like a dwarven nightmare come true. Everything is both too much on his skin, ears, brain but his head is full of cotton.

He knows that if he opens his eyes the land will be the ugliest shade of sickly green he's seen in his life. The air will be filled with nasty smoke that does nothing to hide how oily everything looks.

Jason hates the fucking fade.

Couldn't the Maker or the Creators or even the fucking Stone have it so that he could sleep soundly without all this nonsense? Sometimes it was easy to just play asleep, to keep his eyes shut and ignore the screams, or even worse the laughter that liked to haunt his dreams.

"Hey! Wake up jackass, I have shit to tell you!"

But most times it wasn't possible.

Jason cracks open an eye and there he is, just as expected.

Short and thin with coltish limbs, curly black hair cut short once he realized that no amount of growth would hide those ears. Baggy robes swamping his form, there never was anything made for an elf in the Gallows despite the alienage in Kirkwall. Why bother with accommodating that chunk of the populace when there wasn't a facet of the city steeped in corruption both self righteous and not.

The kid was vlbarefaced with gleaming eyes glowing with mirth. Barefaced except for that fucking sunburst on his forehead.

Jason Todd, age fifteen, right after the templars cut his connection with himself. Before he was able to somehow fix it, somehow. Left behind as the Joker beat him to death in the fade and the templars burned the life out of his eyes. Permanently in that state, left behind for all time.

At least, that's one possibility. Could always just be a spirit in the wrong place at the wrong time. Could even be a demon playing the long con, which if Jason gets got by that cliche then he deserves to die.

Jason closes his eyes, because he's an asshole like that, but of course the Kid doesn't take that standing.

"Hey! I saw that! Don't pretend to be asleep you fucker!" he yells, his stomping over to Jason and poking his shoulder. Just to be petty, Jason lets out an obnoxious and incredibly realistic snore.

"Maker I fucking swear," comes the squeaky indignation. It's been like eight years can't he just go through puberty already, Jason did and he wasn't even in the driver's seat the entire time.

The Kid tries to poke Jason's face, forgetting rule one, and Jason's hand snaps out to grab it.

Of course the kid looks smug instead of scared, reckless dumbass that he is. Jason should teach the Kid a lesson...but he's fucking tired. Lavellan brought him to the fuckin Fallow Mire, and all he wants to do is sleep like the dead should. None of this resurrection crap he and his now burnt to ashes brothers have to deal with.

"What do you want Kid?" he asks tired.

The Kid just parrots his question back at him with an aggravating tone. Once again Jason is taken by the thought that if this isn't his past self burned into the Fade, that whoever's using his face is doing a really good job at capturing how irritating he is as a person.

"You know, you're shacking up with a lot of freaks these days," the Kid says instead of admitting he's gotten bored haunting Bruce's dreams and was lonely.

Jason shrugs. He's always shacking up with freaks and weirdoes (Talia, Rose, Roy, Artemis among others), but the Inquisition isn't the kind of freaks he's usually with.

"There's a hole in the sky," Jason says casually, like he's talking to a child about the obvious.

The Kid throws a middle finger at him but accepts it at face value. Can't take apart Jason's baffling choice of joining the church brigade if there's a chance the sky is gonna fall apart.

"Plus, it's not like they're much weirder than Ra's and Talia."

The look the Kid gives him isn't comforting in the slightest.

"Fuck," Jason says softly but with feeling.

"Fuck" he repeats.

Who the fuck is as weird as Ra's here— Solas.

"Please tell me the freak you saw is Cole," Jason asks just short of begging. Because Cole is fucking weird, weird like the Kid is except more awkward about it. That, and everyone already knows Cole is a freak and exactly what kind.

"You mean that weirdo blonde? I mean he's absolutely in the top three but—"

"What do you mean top three? Who the hell is beating out 'amnesiac ex-serial killer spirit who thought he was some mage kid's ghost'?" Jason asks in despair.

The Kid looks at him, and he goes from uncomfortable at Jason's description of Cole (which is accurate! He dug up the records on his own, not that he had to considering Cole just told him. Right before the guy traumatized himself by looking at Jason's memories of the Joker and his failed Harrowing, to mad at the parallels between Cole and himself (probably) before ripping the bandaid of.

"Well there's the egghead who feels like Ra's...well more like Ra's is trying to make himself feel like that guy," the Kid starts off like that sentence isn't all kinds of worrying.

"What does that even mean?" Jason asks, but the Kid plows on, like he has to tell Jason what's on his mind before it's gone, similar to Cole when he's being creepy.

"But that one lady, the super templar—"

"The Seeker?"

"—why does she feel like us?"

[pit--rat]

ik some people like to imagine like, what if their warden became the inky, what if hawke's child was rook, stiff like that

but there's one piece of art out there of hawke and human mage amell looking super similar and i keep thinking,

what if the warden was hawke?

what if hawke died during the expedition, and then they happened to find amell wandering around the deep roads post-awakening, thoroughly done with their grey warden role

what if the party passes them off as hawke, cause leandra has already lost so much. what if they think hawke came back wrong, but they didn't come back at all?

and what if the warden tries to assimilate, tries to have a normal life they would never have had in the circle or the wardens, but things just keep getting worse because tragedy follows them?

does anybody think about this? can anybody hear me??

[heinrixvancunt]

the way i still don't know how to tag my dragon age fics 🥲

[perditus]

@mahawllan - ❛ if you don’t want a man dead, don’t bludgeon him over the head repeatedly. ❜ for Fenris from Mahariel

uprooted prompts // always accepting

     In hindsight, the man might have been able to offer more information to assist in their endeavors. Yet Fenris couldn’t find it in him to care. Sparing the life of a slaver was certainly a tall ask of the elf. He sits on the ground, cleaning the blood off his blade quickly so that he might depart the area sooner rather than later. 

          “ His early departure from this world does not bother me ” It’s curt but honest - Fenris truly held little concern for the consequences of his actions in this case. He finds it difficult these days, with tensions in Kirkwall having hit an all-time high. “ I will find a different way to get what I need ”

     A location was his true goal, where several elves were currently being held. From what he gathered they were near, but the death of this guard prevented him from a more precise location. He would simply have to scour the entire area quickly, brows furrowed slightly as he continues his next course. 

[needsmorewlw]

I've decided the one good thing about The Veilguard not carrying over 99% of choices from the previous games, is that I can hc that varric got gay romanced by my hawke

[cosmic-cris-draws]

Drew this back in the early days before DATV was even officially announced but now I’m back to thinking about these milfs

[sandalssandal]

Heavy is the crown forged by blood 🩸

Sketch:

[thebestbobaflavour]

only comfort universe without a self insert.... ✨ no more ✨

(me on the right)

[cherriesandcharms]

im already planning my next dai playthrough feat. this hawke. unfortunately for varric this is going to be the worst universe for him

[tarasylsulahn]

For anyone who has to suffer through me adding lore essays in their comments section or directly to their posts, I'm sorry. As you can see, Dragon Age is a recurring hyperfixation severe enough for me to make charts (Though I haven't replayed 2 in a few years so I need to go check my work there...)

[hungee-boy]

wait a minute what do you mean eight years ago was when the breach happened

not trespasser the breach what. so veilguard is only 4 years after trespasser???????????