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did you know they invented archmage as a specific title for circle mages that achieved great things in the public eye and thus it awards them extremely unique freedoms and yet in doing so completely isolates them from the community, hierarchy, and social structure of the circles, ensuring they are held as a role model that preserves itself by enacting the will of the chantry and is always fundamentally alone, outsider and perhaps enemy to their own people. and they did that for meeeee

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the unhinged vivienne arthur dynamic i could do with arthur/cass though

#you watch a man fall into the exact trap you’ve been in all your life and you do not flinch you do not flinch you do not flinch #you congratulate him. you tell yourself you too were worthy of congratulation

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i love talking about the vague concept of rewriting inquisition in my image, but the truth is one of my first moves would be to basically cut the evanuris nonsense because i can’t live with it and i feel like that would go too far for most people before i even get to, like, the main game story

#me voice yeah its like inquisition but i cut fen’harel and probably also corypheus. yeah the antagonists. yeah

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

#i still dream of how badly i could ruin everything with arthur/cass

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So, I'm on Daeran-commissioning spree, so here's another one by awesome 08HWO. I just can't stop staring at it! Posted with permission of course. Artist's tumblr is inactive, so here's her twitter.

#daeran arendae

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guy who makes a spreadsheet to figure out if his crush likes him back

#josephine montilyet

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Gale Dekarios sketchy sketch 💜

#gale

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Figuring out how to draw my wife before I succumb into madness.

#shadowheart

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the fact that everyone complains about the fade (my beloved) and no-one complains about the brecilian forest

#I LOVE THE WHIMSY. if i have to walk all the way back to the dalish camp one more time im killing someone for real

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I'm built different. like incorrectly i think

#siinvi

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does this resonate with ANYONE

#IM SAYING!! #lae’zel #gale

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anyone else destroying and betraying themselves for nothing 🤣

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i dont “have ptsd” that’s all just the wizard’s curse

#morrigan

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Really fucking sad. No words.

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if you're looking for vivienne fics, i have recs if that helps at all

Empire blue, furious anger in spring sunshine by adlerobsessed (and also every other vivienne fic by adlerobsessed there are several and they are all good), vivienne backstory fic, wonderfully done, great worldbuilding

Still Alive by hibernate, hawke/vivienne fic

The Left Hand of the Divine (and Dressing the Left Hand) both by nebulad, divine vivienne & vivienne&cole fics

A Most Edible Thistle by chocochipbiscuit, vivienne/josie fic, josie pov

also as a tip, when trying to find vivienne fics, it's sometimes easier, if irritating, to go through relationship tags with her in them. the status of the vivienne tag is not very good

thank u for ur wisdom

#<3

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guy who is about to be locked in scrolling purgatory: surely if i go into the vivienne de fer tag on ao3 and even make sure to exclude all the major inquisition ships from the search, there will eventually be a fic that mentions vivienne in the summary

#shut up about your modern girl in thedas. i hope she dies.

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whenever an npc criticises, or acts against, or lies to your character, you can say, “damn so true. i’d better make sure my character fits this narrative, by designing them to have real flaws that led to this moment. in fact, how can i make it even more their fault than what’s being implied.” and now your character instantly has agency and impact on the plot, rather than the plot and relationships simply being acted upon them while they languish innocently. this is my favourite magic spell

whenever u are playing a video game and u think “this sucks. why wouldn’t this npc trust my character completely? why would they criticise their decisions when my character made the best choice available to them? why would they withhold information from my character and act according to their own agenda instead of trusting them?” that’s because it’s YOUR job to make a character who kind of sucks. and it’s not the game’s fault you didn’t do that