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Watcher Emmrich Volkarin and Curiosity, circa 9:30 Dragon

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a belated day 7 doodle for @datvcompanionweeks's davrin week!

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the shape of familiar monsters

Davrinweek2025 Day Five: Woodworking

“I didn’t realize you’d finished it.” 

Davrin watches from the corner of his eye as Rook picks something up from the table. He doesn’t need to see it clearly to know which of his woodworking has caught her attention. The battle is still fresh. The twisted Weisshaupt and its dark wardens isn’t something either of them will forget soon.

“Not quite,” he replies, eyes back down on the model in hand. Never a good idea to take your attention away while whittling. He has plenty of scars already to prove that.

“You were…kind to her,” Rook says as she leans on the wood pile nearby. 

Davrin snorts. “I ran her through with a blade.”

“Before that. You tried to talk her down first.”

A moment passes with just the sound of his knife cutting into wood. “I told you why I do this. Necessity. Knowing where spikes grow on a darkspawn helps you avoid them. It’s more than that, though.” He runs a thumb over the edge of a beak. “Eldrin once told me you can’t change the nature of something at its very heart.” 

“Assan is changing.”

Davrin shakes his head. “I didn’t know what Assan was. Still don't. I kept trying to make him a fighter but there’s another side of him too. He’s a griffon. Nobody alive really knows what to expect.”

“A lot of gingerwort truffles and worms,” Rook says and he shares her smile. 

“When I’m doing this it makes me consider what’s driving my quarry. Food? Territory? It matters when setting traps, hunting them down. Most monsters don’t have anything but base needs in mind.”

“And Isseya?” 

Davrin makes one final cut and blows debris out of feathers. “What she did was wrong, but everything she did was because beneath all that blight she was a warden. Nothing changed that.”

Beside the Gloom Howler, Isseya, Davrin places a griffon. The bases slot next to each other like half moons as the large mount seems to wrap itself around its smaller rider. Took real planning this time, but he thinks it’s some of his best work.

“Don’t really know what it looked like, but found out from Valya that Isseya’s griffon was named Revas.”

“Freedom. I hope they've finally found it together.”

He glances at the living griffon curled up by the fire, a sculpture unfinished, and feels the weight of the tools in his hands, in his heart. He can’t change the past, but there will be a future to mold. A monster gave him that. “Me too.” 

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they're GORGEOUS..

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Lae'zel

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welcome home, hero.

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welcome home, hero.

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god help me i love my little pink creampuff (he's got a gun)

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Treviso Markets.

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You’re a cruel bastard, Haurchefant.

You were there for me when all the world was against me. You showed me light where I could see only darkness. You gave me purpose when I had none, and reforged the realm’s blade anew.

Where are you now, when my despair can run no deeper?

You aren’t the first, you know. To die for my sake. I never understood it before. Even less so now.

Who gives their life for a broken sword?

If it were up to me, my parting smile for you would be my last. But I know that’s not what you would want. If you were here now, you’d hand me a steaming cup of cocoa and tell me to keep my chin up. To find joy in the simplest of things, in the mere act of living. Even at the edge of hope, you still found reasons to smile.

Against all my efforts, it’s what made me fall for you.

So I’ll walk on. I’ll get stronger. I’ll save the nation you cherished. And however it tears me apart, I’ll smile whenever I can.

But a part of myself shall forever remain here. For I am a tapestry of everyone I’ve ever cared about, and my weave will always be lesser without your brilliant color.

Until we meet again, my love.

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This is Thancred! I wanted to try a "hero shot" for my favourite Gunbreaker.

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Neve Gallus💙

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restarting this character from scratch on star forge was absolutely worth it, if only because these eyebrows don't make him look like a serial killer

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my mandalorian wife <3

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I'm sure this won't have any consequences later on

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Seraya Laidir.