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i do still think about cassandra/inquisitor divorce. i could make them so unbearable

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The DAO/DA2 poll can be found clicking here!

I'd be interested to hear if they're the same person as your inky romances or not if you'd like to share!

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My gift for @notomys-mordax-blog for the 2024 Handers Exchange (hosted by @handers-time - whom I thank for organising the event) 🌙

The "fancy evening but they are awkward" prompt captivated me - they are here just to shed feathers all over the place, really.

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the hightown chantry was probably sheltering orphans and refugees et cetera, and you can tell this because the moment your character arrives in kirkwall as a refugee, they get locked in the chantry prison on the orders of the chantry enforcers so that everyone poor can be forced out. this was subtle foreshadowing that the hightown chantry regularly shelters woebegone innocents. you can tell because the chantry is a place the player regularly goes to, where there are never any npcs who could be remotely described as that

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one of my favourite takes about the kirkwall hightown chantry is when people act like because it’s the only chantry they actually put in the game, it’s the only chantry in kirkwall

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My very sardonic Dragon Age: Dreadwolf BINGO board. (A few of these are lighthearted predictions, while most are concerns based on historical precedence.)

I will be playing along with this when the game is someday released.

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ok so the point i was going to make re: the circle tower and ferelden geopolitics was that the fact that all of ferelden only having one single circle, is CRAZY. orlais, a country of similar size, has FOUR; each(!!) marcher city has their own. antiva and the anderfels also have 1 circle each and they are respectively #1 a nation the quarter of the size of ferelden and #2 a barren wasteland of a place. and this is pre-blight! and i can believe that ferelden has a lower population than orlais, but i struggle to accept that ferelden has a quarter the population that orlais does. even nevarra, by all accounts an old and dying state, has 2.

there are clearly templars stationed at many chantries throughout ferelden, but the idea that they could possibly find every single mage in the country and send them to the tower is preposterous. ferelden simply does not have the infrastructure for that, neither to spread out over the whole country to hunt apostates nor to contain them all in one place. (how many people can that tower handle???)

this suggests that ferelden is generally more lax about apostates than elsewhere, which is reinforced both in da2 and inquisition when we get word that alistair (in da2) offered refuge to escaped kirkwall mages in ferelden and that alistair and/or anora (in inquisition) allowed the mage rebellion quarter in redcliffe. you could argue that alistair's decision might have been influenced by the events of dao but anora is (i say this lovingly) a bit of a hardass! rather than being moved by mage assistance in dao i would suggest instead that she is reflecting a larger ferelden attitude towards mages, which is less harsh than orlesian or marcher attitudes

we know that mages in the circle can be called upon in times of war to assist their country's army (i think that was mentioned in dao but it's stated several times in the novels). something to consider, then, is that circles are not only for containing mages and protecting people from them; but they are also for the consolidation of magic as a military power. orlais and the marcher states are creating armies. ferelden, with its sort of implicit acknowledgement that the tower doesn't hold all the mages in the country, lacks that military resource. even in the stolen throne there's only one single mage working on the ferelden side in contrast to quite a few on the orlesian side

which is why it's #1 crazy that the fereldens successfully liberated themselves from orlais #2 crazy that they defeated the blight and, most importantly, it's why you should NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A DOG LORD!!!!!

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everyone says “i can’t believe we’re doing chantry explosion discourse in 2024” well i wasnt there in 2014 or whenever you guys were talking about this i was busy being 12 so you have to let me have my shot. its my turn

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eagle eyed readers may have noticed that im a huge sucker for suffering but not today

today i want you to imagine anders being made tranquil but the whole thing immediately backfires because, you know, turns out brainworms make you immune to that shit.

so the thing that finally makes cullen rutherford piss his pants and board a pathetic cartoonish raft and row all the way back to ferelden is the sight of a man, fresh sunburst brand on the forehead, laughing his ass off in the middle of a room that smells like rotisserie templar. again.

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My gift for @acesdesire for the 2024 Handers Exchange!

She wanted some Inquistion-era boys and I was more than happy to deliver. I had such a wonderful time drawing this <3 They deserve their happy ending!

@handers-time

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i can NEVER decide on warrior!hawke handers or mage!hawke handers. like theyre both SO good in such different ways and i cant commit to anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Got too silly with it <3

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i really just wanna draw them shirtless

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It's surprising to me how common the assumption that a Dalish warden or inquisitor will have killed a person just... as a matter of course is. It's not that it can't happen - my Mahariel had killed a person before da:o starts, though only one - I just didn't expect the overwhelming and casual sense of "killing humans is a matter of course."

In some ways, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy - humans believe Dalish will attack/kill indiscriminately, so humans who encounter Dalish are always at risk of mobilizing against them, humans are often found close to human settlements which means superiority of numbers, so... what next? Humans left alive may mobilize an attack force - you have no way of knowing and no amount of kindness or friendliness will reliably convince them that you're people too - but humans killed will certainly draw vengeance, it's just a matter of how quickly. There aren't good ways to navigate a situation like that, and I'm certainly not saying that killing wouldn't happen, but there is something kind of strange to me in the assumption that Dalish killing humans is 1) a given and 2) a given for any member of the clan. That any adult just will have killed a person as a matter of course and that this is not noteworthy, alarming, or painful is... idk, I think it's a weird assumption.

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Finally! I can show you a picture that I drew about six months ago for the Antagonist GameBook. And I still kinda like it..

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My Warden Cousland Tarot Card

The background is inspired by DAI's Warden Card! :]