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Friends, Inquisitor. Better than his lot any day.

All of the post-Trespasser portraits! Hope we get to meet these guys in DA4 again :)

p.s. these are available as prints too over at my redbubble

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little wolf

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The Club

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Death and deception are my trade. It is what I am. It is what I always will be.

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Horizon: Forbidden West — Scenery

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the way cole makes varric conflicted is so delicious i think. most of the characters are uncomfortable around him because they're genuinely terrified of demons and the fade and magic in general but varric is a completely different case. the thing is, he doesn't see cole as a demon at all because he doesn't want to.

he acts like he doesn't care about this stuff. that's a little weird kiddo around here and he wants to befriend him. teach him something even. why not. that's a little guy who's a little too good with knives and can't pick up a single social clue at the same time.

but there it is. the "he could have been a person" line if cole is made more spirit. varric is so upset about it because it's not like he saw cole as, well, a spirit who got a little too human. for varric, he was a human first, a weird kid second. the spirit part didn't even come into consideration because. well. it would make him question things. you know where it goes.

every time he starts bitching about anders he brings up justice. justice drove him mad. justice took over him. justice this, justice that. justice is a scapegoat because the thought that someone varric was friends with was actually willing to blow up the chantry and it wasn't just some evil demon's wish is a very unsettling one. varric's friends may be crazy but they're cool and make no irreversible life decisions of that extent, don't they? blondie turned out this way because he let a demon possess him and make him do terrible things. completely out of the blue.

it's either varric's ex-friend has never been driven crazy by some inherently evil entity and there was a whole other person around him all along and that anger he used to mock was coming from the same place as compassion's urge to become a killer or that little weird but kind kid he started to care about has never been and will never be a real kid. he can't have both. a bitter pill to swallow for someone who has never picked a side in his life

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Hawke and Anders walking…

Anywhere else in Kirkwall: “Wow that’s the champion of Kirkwall! So cool! You think they’ll give me an autograph?”

In Darktown: “Look, Anders is back! He’s alright! Thank god the Templars didn’t get him, I don’t know what we’d do without him. Oh and his lackey’s here too, I guess.”

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“Not so easy, huh?” “Shut up!”

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hawke is overflowing with transmasc swagger and i for one admire and applaud him for it (you’ve heard potions as hrt you’ve heard blood magic as hrt get ready for ENCHANTMENTS as hrt)

inspo/pose from this pic

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Warden Mahariel. Champion of Kirkwall. Inquisitor Lavellan.

The hands of our heroes.

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RAINIER.

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Fenris or Dorian ↳ requested by anon.

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THE LAST OF US (2022) ➙ TOMMY’S DAM

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Inquisition is just so badly written and thought out on every single level. Corypheus disappearing entirely from the game after you reach Skyhold. Entire giant maps that exist solely to house one quest NPC who redirects you to a different giant map. No regard given to travel times or internal logic (thanks Solas for taking me all the way to Crestwood to dump me). They tried to force a heartstring-tugging choice of Hawke or Alistair but totally forgot that 80+% of players would actually end up with Stroud, a nothing character who most DA2 players barely remembered, or Loghain. How does Hawke even know Loghain? He doesn't cameo in DA2. Even if you get the Hawke vs Alistair choice it still doesn't make sense in character because your Inquisitor has known these people for about five minutes. Masked Empire plot erasure. Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts locks Varric behind a halla door so you can't talk to him and have all the quest endings available. You never find out what Cory's plan for the Vessel is unless you play Champions of the Just because it's just straight up removed from the In Hushed Whispers game route. I'm not saying anything new, it just blows me away that anyone thinks this story is even remotely cohesive. Some people think it's a better game than DA2 and I have genuinely no idea how

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STRAY