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White wolf

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I assume we can all agree with this right? 

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she’s got a sense of humor, you guys just aren’t funny

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“I walk the dinan'shiral. There is only death on this journey “

I forgot how to draw baldies but I’ll never forget this egg elf, I missed him so much and I’m pretty sure I’ll cry a lot playing the next game. HYPE FOR DRAGON AGE 4!!!

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has this been done yet

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fenris: friendship +100

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Whenever someone asks me what the worst part of Dragon Age is I just get war flashbacks of this:

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The easiest way to get people to trust you is to be a bad liar.

Anyone who stopped to think about it would know that Varric’s not. He’s a storyteller, rogue, and occasional spymaster. If he wasn’t quick on his feet, he wouldn’t be alive. He certainly wouldn’t be half as popular as he is.

But the Seeker demanding answers is willing to believe that she can see right through him. She’s underestimated him. The whole damn Chantry has if this is the interrogator they sent. It’s more than a little insulting. Useful, sure, because he knows Hawke is still safe within 15 minutes of being rudely dragged from the Hanged Man, but he can’t help but feel like he deserves a more practiced captor. Still, he needs her to limit her stabbing to books. (Another demeaning gesture. He burned through more than one contact at printing presses during his time with Blondie’s illegal manuscript. Getting this book reliably printed was difficult.)

So he starts with the story he wants to be true. Heaving bosoms, shining armor, effortless battles with the heroes getting nary a scratch for their troubles. Every word is an outrageous lie. The Seeker’s bullshit meter might need work, but she’s clearly seen enough fights to know what he’s saying is impossible.

When she calls him on it, Varric tells her the unvarnished truth instead. He tells her about exhausted, terrified refugees fleeing from a war they could never win, about seemingly endless enemies coming from all directions. He tells her about a near conflict with the only other people they had seen in days, religious beliefs ingrained so deeply that they nearly came to blows in between the corpses of monsters. About a dead sibling left on the side of the road, because they didn’t have time for anything more.

By the time he reaches Flemeth’s involvement, Varric knows she’ll believe anything he wants her to.

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He still tells gentle lies, of course. He has a reputation to maintain.

The dramatic meetings, the nasty fights, the gangs jumping from roofs and appearing from behind large crates - all of it is at least exaggerated. Part of it is vanity; even a Champion’s day to day life can be boring. Mostly though, he’s testing the Seeker’s limits, seeing what she knows. Not much, he realizes pretty quickly, and that’s a relief. There’s little to hide in the early days. There’s much more later.

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He delivers the serious lies with the same straight face as before. Everyone noticed Anders’s worsening demeanor and openly disapproved. Of course no one knew what Anders was planning. Even Hawke. Especially Hawke. They shared a bed for years and a heart for even longer than that, but somehow, that slipped through the cracks.

There’s a moment where the Seeker scrutinizes him, and Varric worries that he made too much of a point earlier about how bad of a liar Blondie is. If she suspects Hawke of being involved or realizes that Varric has been running a similar charade, the past few hours have been for naught. But her thoughts are on how the explosion worked exactly, and Varric is glad to truthfully say he knows nothing about that. His thoughts were elsewhere when it happened.

His feelings about the situation are complicated, to say the least, but his loyalty to his friends runs deeper. The Chantry isn’t interested in Anders right now; they’re interested in Hawke. Not that it would really matter - both of them are more than capable of defending themselves and each other - but he’d rather they stay hidden.

“I wish I could help you,” he tells the Seeker, and that’s the biggest lie of all.

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Relationship Status:

❑ Married ❑ Single ✔ I’m a mage 

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“The Dales belong to the Freemen!”

“The Dales belong to Orlais!”

“That’s the Inquisitor? A Dalish savage?”

“As if I’d let a knife-ear rule!”

“The Maker would never send an elf in our time of need!”

Lavellan:

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DA4 is gonna be all about Tevinter. Right? And I’m not saying Jeff Goldblum should voice the Black Divine but I’m not NOT saying that.

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Contraversial opinion: Morrigan was not changed by motherhood.

Morrigan always had a kind heart that felt deeply. It had been hardened and hidden behind years of emotional abuse by a mother who was supposed to love her, but used her instead.

Morrigan always had the capacity to have concern for others than herself, but she had not witnessed compassion that was not tied to some gross ulterior motive.

Morrigan was always devoted and loving when shown the respect that she is due. She is careful with her heart because it would be so easily broken.

She is still stubborn and blunt.

She is still selfish at times (as is her right).

She still struggles to understand the point of certain social norms.

Morrigan was not changed by motherhood. She was, in fact, not changed at all. She is just more free with the feelings and thoughts that she once kept to herself.

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We all gonna sleep on the fact that Puss joining up with Shrek and Donkey is the same storyline as Zevran the warden and Alistair

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Solas, quietly: The Temple of Sacred Ashes…

Varric: …what’s left of it.

The Inquisitor, busy scooping up coins clearly dropped by the now horrifically charred corpses of hundreds of people: nifty

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big ol tiddies

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https://youtu.be/1vxhaMuSVfc I LOVE THIS SCENE.

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Bull’s enthusiasm for fighting dragons is entertaining at best and an extreme concern at worst