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Rowan Lavellan for @maagisterpavus

I feel like this is the expression you make when you learn your old pal is trying to end the world. Again. And you have to come out of retirement to save the world, because doing it once just wasn't enough. Skimming his tag, he seems like a kind and selfless man who's suffered much, but still shoulders the world's burdens in spite of it. Hopefully he and Dorian get some much-deserved rest after Veilguard!

If you'd like to learn more about Rowan, you can find a little overview of him here, and his tag here!

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Varric & Marian Hawke is the greatest love story Bioware never wrote

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Emmrich: Well, it looks like the sword missed your kidney. Rook: That's good. Emmrich: No, Rook, you have a sword in your abdomen. That's the opposite of good.

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fanfic writing culture isn’t “oh dang! I wanted to write about this prompt with this character but someone else already wrote it, so now I can’t”.

fanfic writing culture is always “two cakes is better than one. the more the merrier. there can ever be enough fics of this character with this prompt!”

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This was everyone else's experience as Rook Thorne, right?

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Come back, I have to tell you the plot of a fic I’ll never write and get you excited about it so we can all be disappointed with me later

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A Meditation on Grief- Dragon Age The Veilguard (Codexes: The Elven People)

They say grief is a knife. Sharp. Painful. Immediate.

But grief isn't a knife.

It's a stone. Choked down. and kept down.

It erodes. Time makes it smaller, lesser.

You forget about it. It passes into memory. Where you used to feel its pain, now you feel nothing.

But sometimes it turns. A note. A flower. A smell.

The smoothly worn edges retreat. Twist away.

What comes now is as sharp and jagged as ever.

It cuts anew. It's worn anew.

Then it happens again.

And unlike a stone, there is always another jagged edge.

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Semi-niche character archetype that I really like is The "Hedonist". Guy who has a decadent and ostensibly pleasure-based lifestyle but is very clearly not actually enjoying themselves. Guy who treats themselves to only the finest wines and refuses to spare any expense, but doesn't actually like wine. Guy who is doing all the stereotypical hedonist behaviors and is pretending to be a stereotypical hedonist because they don't actually know what they want but they want to feel Something and are trying to fill that void in them with the stuff that's Supposed to work, the stuff that works for other people, makes them feel something, and then privately wonders or worries about why it isn't working for them. Or else they do very much know what they want but it's scary or in some way not acceptable for them to want, so they indulge but only in the things they think they're supposed to indulge in. Hedonism as an act to cover up the fact that they're denying themselves something else. Can anyone else hear me is this thing even on.

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i'm not above admitting that i spent over 30 minutes in photo mode trying to get these two to look at each other and it was WORTH IT.

meanwhile, Morrigan: "Please get a room, gentlemen."

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you are the hero of ferelden. no matter your origin you watch those you love most be ripped from you. death becomes an endless cycle which seems to follow you wherever you go. the fate of the world rests on your shoulders as you know you can never return home. home is gone now. home is buried with your family, jailed with your closest ally, cradled by the ancestors, forgotten like your beloved, lost to time in the murky glass of the eluvian- dead in your arms, killed at your hand. you are the hero of ferelden and it is your destiny to die. when next the world falls apart, you do not come. this world does not deserve your pity.

you are the champion of kirkwall. you are a refugee, cold and hungry and sold into labour. your mother hates you, though she will never say it. it's your fault the ogre killed your sibling, your fault the taint took the other. but you are happy. you have everything, friends and family and status and riches. you defeat the people plaguing your glorious city, you are the people's hero. you will always know even as she came back, isabela left you to die. you are happy but you are alone. you have everything and then you are rocking back and forth begging please please please do not take my mother as well. you have nothing, but you for a single second, you had everything. you are the champion of kirkwall, and your ally has blown up the chantry. where is your home now that everything is your fault?

you are the herald of andraste. and you are so, so scared. these people do not trust you, do not like you, would feed you to the fade if they could. they do not care if you follow another religion, you are their herald. you can never return home because heroes do not have homes. they say home is the people you choose, but you didn't choose these people, did you? every step you take aches. thousands reach out to touch you, for safety. for comfort. you are a black hole close to destruction, and you cannot do this. you are the herald of andraste and you have not been yourself for so long now.

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on the one hand, i both understand and somewhat agree with the criticism that the lords of fortune were defanged of the more problematic elements that accompany treasure hunting and piracy, but on the other hand the idea that isabela reformed her raiders into a group that checks how important a plundered item is culturally before doing anything with it specifically because the last time isabela did NOT do this it resulted in An Actual Violent Coup That Almost Destroyed Kirkwall And Got The Viscount Literally Murdered is so fucking funny that i'm just like "yeah, fair enough"

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[pre-game]

Faction leader: Rook, I’m ordering you to not interfere. Rook: I recognize the faction leader has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it.

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excuse me, sir? get down from there.

(more adventures in flycam, brought to you by my deranged Pavellan shipper ass, and shamelessly encouraged by @the-archons-moustache )

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some of my finest work

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it is absolutely essential to have friends you can have extremely insane pervert conversations with. this is kind of what makes life worth living

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@maagisterpavus Literally us about Dorian and our babies.

i really believe that discussing the character with someone who shares ur interpretation is the closest u can get to modern day philosophy. we are like plato and aristotle but talking about a fictional guys trauma