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I am not immune to old necromancers

...I'll excuse myself-

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Ketheric Thorm, the sad wet dog you are-

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Ketheric's stubbornness is strong

But Nera's fatherless behavior and mischievous granddaughter aura were stronger

Stealing evil old men is a normal behaviour for a rogue gnome I swear

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"Do you, by chance, have goblins in your bloodline? No? Then why are you behaving like one?"

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Just losing my mind at the implications that the companions have all been trying to help Rook grieve Varric, and Rook doesn’t know

Emmrich, wise and long-familiar with grief, being told by Neve and Harding what happened; understanding why sometimes he overhears Rook’s muffled voice in the Infirmary, talking to no one. He takes Rook to the Memorial Gardens and mentions he talks to his parents, thinking Rook might be comfortable with the same. Rook lights candles and rings bells but Emmrich watches, sorrowed, to see Rook still seems in deep denial.

Neve takes Rook to the Wall of Light; a Shadow Dragon Rook knows just what this means but any Rook can understand the solemnity, the power of remembrance. Neve reenergizes Brom’s light and looks to Rook, hoping Rook will mention wanting to make one for Varric. Rook is kind and comforting to Neve, but Neve is lost in wondering why Rook doesn’t take the chance to open up. She can’t figure it. Maybe Rook just can’t face it, not yet. Maybe Rook does something privately. She isn’t sure but it nags at her.

Davrin’s not big on talking about feelings. He’d rather just move on. But he sees the way Rook seems a little hollow sometimes, a little distant; he sees how Rook takes so quickly to Assan. “Hey Rook,” he says, and invites them to come with him and Assan to safe places in Arlathan, where the woods are clean and green and growing, where real sunlight dapples through the trees. Rook always seems to love these outings, seems lighter afterwards. But Davrin feels a little confused in that Rook never seems to realize the outings are mostly for them.

Taash is another person not big on feelings. But they know how much feelings can twist you up and mess with your head. When Lace tells them about Varric they feel badly for Rook, and think to how they feel when they’re struggling. Epic fights, dragon fights, drinks with the Lords. Taash is perfectly capable of doing all that on their own. But maybe bringing Rook along will help get them out of their head a little bit. Does it help? Taash isn’t sure.

Bellara’s double-versed in grief after what happens to Cyrian. Rook helped her through trying to reach him, and Bellara wonders, in her own pain, if she can help Rook a little bit too. Especially if Rook is elven, teaching Rook about the braziers and the challenges is another tool she can share about her or their people, another way that might help Rook with their grief. Neve’s told her that the Wall of Light didn’t seem to help Rook much, but maybe a different funeral tradition could help them instead. Rook helps her light the braziers and Bellara feels her heart lightening, though she wonders at Rook, who seems more moved by Bellara’s reactions than anything else.

Lucanis is nearly as allergic to dealing with feelings as Davrin is, but he immediately clocks how Neve and Harding are acting, and asks what happened before he joined them. They tell him about Varric and that they’re worried about Rook, that Rook seems to just be shoving those feelings down without dealing with them. Lucanis is no stranger to that, but while it’s fine for him, he doesn’t want to see someone who risked their life to save him share that struggle. He brings Rook to Caterina’s funeral planning to show Rook it’s okay to admit the loss and honor it. When that doesn’t seem to make a dent, he falls back to his standard - lavish meals, small gifts, coffee. He knows it would help him. He just wishes it helped Rook too.

Lace hurts the worst after losing Varric and Lace is where Solas’ magic comes the closest to faltering. Rook can see Lace is down, she’s quiet, she’s afraid after what happens with the gods escaping; but Solas’ magic holds and Rook can still never see quite why. Lace would love to sit over drinks one night and share stories about Varric, but she sees that Rook doesn’t seem ready, and she doesn’t want to push. Instead she writes letters to Ma, to the Inquisitor, to Cassandra, to Aveline, maybe even to Hawke. She writes out her stories with Varric’s old quill and she carries a bolt of Bianca with her. A dozen times she goes to talk to Rook about him, and when she tries Rook turns away or changes the subject. It hurts, but Lace knows she can’t make Rook talk about him, and she hopes in time it will get better.

This just absolutely crushes me the more I think about it 😭

Edit: Varric’s death is Rook’s personal companion quest every other single companion tries to help them with, and can’t 😭😭😭

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My poor boy... What have I done to you?

What have I let you become?

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Despicable fool!

You're just a fucking tool!

You'll never get to rule, you'll die on your knees!

Serj Tankian - Your Mom

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The most ingenious idea for an AU for my Rook came to me in a dream and I could not not draw it!

A bit of background - my Rook is based off my other character - an antelope faun named Benjamin. But, of course, he is a simple grey warden human as Rook, right? Well, not anymore!

In this AU, during the rescue mission of elves from Elgar'nan's ritual, Benjamin gets captured, while ensuring that others escape. Elgar'nan wanted Rook by his side, so now that there are no more mages to help him break away from mind controlling spell - he gets what he wanted. Ghilan'nain is still very distraugh after Razikale's death, so Elgar'nan offers Rook to her, to do with him as she pleases, just without killing him. With the power of blight, she changes Rook's body to resemble half-human half-halla hybrid, making him her new creation (in another mission she talks about changing Lucanis' body to look more like Spite if she catches him, so this feels in character for her to do)

She can additionaly transform him to look more like a raging darkspawn to use in battle

Rook's companions will have to fight and defeat him to break him free from Ghilan'nain's control. Solas would also be forced to help, since Rook is his only means to escape the prison

Rescue mission goes succesfully, Rook is back with the team, however his appearence is forever changed, alongside with the new blight singing in his veins. Well, nothing a grey warden like him can't handle, right? Wrong! It made him prone to berserk-like anger, and it takes a lot to keep himself in check. Perhaps breathing exercises that Emmrick taught would help? Or Lucanis' insight on how to deal with inner demons? Or maybe Taash's expirience with uncontrollable rage could be of use? In other words, now it's the team's turn to help Rook deal with what happened to him and how it changed him in more ways, than he can admit... After all, he done so much for them before

But Rooks new form makes things with his romantic partner - Davrin - especially hard, since Rook is not sure if they even can remain the same. How could they, after he was essentially turned into some sort of darkspawn?

But Davrin and Assan reassure him, that Rook is still himself - a kind, honest, straightforward and optimistic to a fault person - the same he fell in love with. Besides, griffons were born to hunt darkspawn - would Assan still be so willing to come to him, if Rook still was one?

Thanks to the team, Benjamin is able to heal and mostly go back to his old self. Rest of the story unfolds the same way, it does in the game

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And yes, this whole wall of text was to justify me drawing him as a faun again, while adding a bit of angst on top xD

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And nothing bad ever happened to him, actually-

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"Kadan. My heart"

The Iron Bull x my human mage inquisitor

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My edgy mage inquisitor - Maxwell Trevelyan

(Accidentally left him with a default name, but it has really grown on me xd)

Pragmatic and snarky little shit, that slowly learns how to function as a social human being

And his unexpected romance with the Iron Bull xdd

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Bugs in jars!

THEY ARE NOW REAL

Finally got around to making them into acrilyc keychains, really happy with the result!

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Mlp brainrot is real

Shikai, Haedus and Nera as ponies

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Slowly working on a 3d model of Shikai

Hopefully i'll animate him this time xd

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The Archives

Spider's nests

Shikai's spider clan

Location concepts & sketches

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New location unlocked!

Welcome to the ashy shore, traveler

Enchanters, chapter 2, part 1

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Failure, part 1

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