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shhh, they are resting

when Inquisitor learned that their new hallas were not doing that well in new environment, he went to check on them himself - after some time they got calm and comfortable enough to take a little nap; Theo, of course, joined them

#halla #{oh op this is so cute...} #photo post

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taffymatsu​:

@herald-of-dirthamen The beach is nice in off seasons too, sure, but it’s not the same! I think that is self explanatory. When you think “beach!” you don’t think about wearing sweaters and socks! You think sandals! Bathing suits! The sun sooo hot have to be careful not to burn!

Honestly, that’s exactly why I think you should go in an off season. It’s a different experience!

It’s not like you can’t go back to the beach when it’s warmer, right?

#taffymatsu #revas blogs

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#Dorian Pavus. #revas reblogs #jewelry #Listen. All I know about Tevinter fashion is snakes. #And looking dramatic. #snakes

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#Is this person the one that leaves behind the fucking bizarre mysteries in my life that I just don't have the energy to solve. #revas reblogs #video post #revas favs

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let me psychoanalyze you through which photo you chose in each question & ill tell you what you need right now

your result: stability

its okay to settle down. find a rock, something consistent to hold onto. i hate commitment too but you need something stable in your life rn

I mean, okay, but you don’t have to say it.

#Stability weird and unnerving. #revas blogs #quiz tag i forgot

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#M. #ME. #revas reblogs #photo post #revas favs

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^-^

#home #revas reblogs #photo post

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wont form a coherent thought just know i have a lot to say and several things to be enraged about. i cant do everything for you so fill in the blanks

#Me. #revas reblogs #text post

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I need to train with Solas. I can probably talk him into using a rapier with me.

Maybe in a little while I’ll work on creating another hilt for a different kind of magic blade.

#revas blogs

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stardriift​:

Stop apologizing. If you’re going to be a neutral party unable stand to a side and plant your thrusters to the ground, at least have the bearings to own up to it. An apologetic centrist is disgusting. In the center you will watch the divide grow larger, and realize whatever you could have done is long past. And when War comes, and it will come for Inquistor, you will be forced to the side by violence forged because of your neutrality. So own up to it without apology, it serves no one in this conversation or in your world.

Your organics are infused with a virus that turns them into monsters that kill and create more of themselves. Yet you are worried about the squabbles of law and deities. There is an issue of priority among your superiors if this is the case. Do they not seek out the liberation from this virus that infects your people.

Or does your Chantry seek to instill continued dominion over people for arbitrary reasoning. For beliefs and species. Petty systems that hold no sway in a grand scheme of civilization. Your energy should be spent on stopping this Taint you’ve described, instead of arguing and drawing towards the squabbles of your myths. Especially as new as these beliefs are. They aren’t old enough to be worth causing War over.

All people are meant to take a position, through raised fists or raised voices. The silent are the first to be trampled under tread by those who’d hold you down. Sometimes they need an example.

What would you do, then? Would you start another war fresh within the ashes of the previous war, leading to bringing more people in the crossfire, breeding resentment and giving people even more reason to kill us all? Would you have me breed more generations-long grudges by bringing peace through bloodshed when there could be a way to find this peacefully, if I could just find the right way to do it?

Banding everyone together to stop Corypheus from destroying the world may have been a step in the right direction, but I was the one walking through Skyhold hearing fights between the soldiers, the construction workers, the merchants, the healers, each blaming each other for why the apocalypse really started. Some blaming the elves because Corypheus was using an ancient elven artifact, others blaming the humans because Corypheus was one, others still blaming the dwarves because hey, aren’t they the front lines to keeping the darkspawn away?

Unity under one cause doesn’t always give way to an understanding that we’re all in this together, even if it would make more sense to put aside our differences. Especially not when some will go, “How could this possibly ever affect me?” The previous Blights were put down, weren’t they, I can rest safely knowing it will probably be stopped again. Even ignoring the fact that the one organization that was created to stop and prevent Blights has now been banished because they were manipulated by one man.

We don’t know how to permanently stop the Blights. Rallying everyone under this cause sounds good in theory, and a worthy cause, but say we were to succeed? What would happen then? Would it actually solve any of these problems, or would it have just acted as little more than a bandage over a wound that’s already festered for far too long, and now the flesh has turned necrotic?

#revas blogs #stardriift

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stardriift​:

It sounds like a lot has happened in such a short amount of time. In half my current sweeps you have had an organic fail an uprising, succeed it later, relocate their people, forcefully relocate their people, switch a governing body, use religious pretexts to continue forcefully relocation, and averted an Armageddon. In just a thousand sweeps. I do not understand how you organics function to a point without terminating yourselves.

So your current in command wants to create peace and equality through.. what. An Inquisition. What of these people that don’t view the same, what do you do with them and how they react. Are you at conflict with them, what becomes of these organics.

You say you are called in for disputes but act as a neutral party. You are a diplomat or enforcer then, which do you prefer. At least by your admission of handling. I do not, personally, care for the idea of a neutral party, at that point neutrality is too akin to enemy.

In my experience? A lot of determination and spite. That’s how I’m still around, anyway. But... put that way, I have to agree. To be perfectly honest, even more than that has happened, what with the five Blights, where darkspawn - people and creatures tainted by something only known as the Taint, which... to this day, we still don’t really know what it is. All we know is that it either kills people, or turns them to near-mindless monsters who kill and corrupt everything they come across.

I don’t know. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I can only assume the worst, because it would be stupid to assume it will all go over well. I’m hoping that Leliana will respect the beliefs of other people and decriminalize believing in things other than the Maker. She respected my beliefs, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not the exception instead of the rule. This probably will just lead to another war, but now a civil one. And if we have another war, then it will be worse than the one between mages and templars that we ended just this year. I imagine that when push comes to shove, I fight for my own beliefs, and that will sever whatever friendship I had with Leliana.

I suppose I’m foolish to trust her.

I would prefer diplomat. The truth is more that I’m likely viewed as an enforcer. Or a rising tyrant. I’m not deaf to the rumors I’ve heard.

...I know. I know that by staying neutral, by trying to maintain any sort of peace with the way things are now, that I make myself an enemy to the people I want to protect. I’ve already, in many ways, made myself an enemy by allying myself with a human organization.

I don’t claim to have all the answers. I can’t be arrogant enough to assume that I will find a way to fix things quickly, bloodlessly or not. Whatever I do, I will most certainly cause splintering in several factions.

I really can’t say that I know how to successfully change things, and I know it’s cowardly to do nothing. I was never meant to take a position this vast and this important in the eyes of so many people.

I’m sorry.

#stardriift #revas blogs #{im. so sorry about revas.}

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stardriift​:

Your a humanoid organic with slightly alternate features to a human. I will be very blunt, I would not notice these differences under any real circumstances, they are minute to me and frankly most organics look identical to me. But thank you for your clarity of what your species is and the word itself is. It is added to the databanks for future confusion based avoidance.

So this religious doctrine persists are a potentially oppressive ideology and you, as an Inquisitor, are the polarization of the beliefs versus the practice. The Chantry is, I will assume, your governing body in the religious faction. Openly acknowledging your heretical figurism without actually condemning it. There is some irony to our leadership positions then, but I shall not speak on that.

What does your Inquistion do then, as you imply you have actually stopped this Armageddon you seem framed for. Does this young martyr situation get sorted out now, what of their people, were they freed. It seems that could be easily dealt with.

Oh! I must admit, I’ve not spoken to many people who are inorganic. I know conceptually that they exist, but they’re a little few and far between. It’s not at all a problem! I’m used to having to explain this stuff.

Pretty much. It’s definitely been used oppressively as of late, but I’m hoping with Leliana... from what I know of her, she’s always been an idealist, and has the charisma and sheer conviction to sway people. I’m hoping that things will improve at least a little bit... equality, peace, and doing the right thing has always been something important to her that she believes in, and while there’s bound to be resistance at first to the idea, I think that she’ll do a lot of good as Divine. And I can already say with a good deal of confidence that I don’t think the power will be a corrupting influence for her. She’s already had quite a bit as a spymaster, and I trust her deeply. I can only hope that my confidence continues to be well placed.

What we do now is maintain the peace and try to keep the countries and city-states from picking fights with each other. We haven’t had to worry much about that yet, at least. Primarily, I just give my advice, and people can either take it or leave it. Sometimes I get asked to sit in on petty matters, which... I’m not particularly a fan of, but it’s still important to keep an eye on those matters just in case it blows up into a bigger problem, since between nobles, anything can cause a big enough problem.

Otherwise, I... hate to admit that I try to remain a neutral party. I do what influencing I can, but my position really doesn’t grant me the kind of power most people think it does. I have to be incredibly cautious, because any choices I make could lead towards a much bigger problem, as much as I hate that knowledge. I’m not beholden to any kings or empresses or other such leaders, which means I can’t really be controlled, but I can’t really control anybody else, either.

That said, the... situation with Andraste is something long past, for most of us. Her people were freed, and the elves who stood with her and Shartan were also freed and given a homeland, but... around three hundred years later, an Exalted March was ordered on our new homeland, and is now owned by Orlais. We were given the choice to either assimilate, or to become nomads avoiding major human settlements and still keep what culture we still have alive at our own risk. My ancestors chose to become the Dalish, the keepers of lost lore, the last of the Elvhenan.

Changing things for the better... that’s out of the scope of what I can do by myself, even as an organization. And please believe me when I say that I’ve thought long and hard about what I can and cannot do, what I can do safely without getting more people hurt, without condemning people carelessly. I know I sound like I’m making up excuses to keep things as they are.

#stardriift #revas blogs

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Cat Purring by Olivia Kissper

#This is so cute... #vehr #cats #vehrlin #video post #revas reblogs

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Every day I have so much to say and inevitably wear myself out because I have so much to say and so little energy to actually say it all but the determination to say all of it anyway gods damn it.

#Life is hell when you have whatever I have going on. #revas blogs

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stardriift​:

The direct and upfront statement is that I understand absolutely none of what you just said. The words “dalish” and “andraste” do not exist in my databanks at all, your use of proper capitalization on “Andraste” and “Maker” suggest reverence which ties into your Inquisition usage.

If you do not worship a religious iconography that you serve then why are you serving it. That contradiction makes no actual sense. As for if I am well, I am functioning at all nominal capacities. As for doing for me, answering the previous questions above would be sufficient Inquistor Lavellan.

Ah, right. Sorry about that. I forget how detailed I should or shouldn’t be. We Dalish are typically nomadic clans of elves that worship our own pantheon of gods, and we’re easy to pick out due to our vallaslin -- facial tattoos that we get upon coming of age in honor of whichever deity we favor most. Elves, for the record, look somewhat similar to humans, just with pointy ears and eyes that reflect light in the darkness.

Andraste’s a human martyr who existed around... a little over a thousand years ago? She’s typically known as the Bride of the Maker, and was a slave who rose to becoming a war lord, prophet, and religious icon. She fought to free the slaves under the Tevinter Imperium, though... well, she wasn’t entirely successful in that regard. She’s remembered for her sacrifice, though, and her teachings about the Maker.

Two of the tenets of Andrastianism are that magic is a corrupting influence and that all non-humans are all in need of being saved religiously, which means it’s really fucking funny that people think I’m her Herald because I’m an elf and a mage. I mean, I’ll let people believe what they want, it gave them a reason to rally around our cause, even if it does make me pretty uncomfortable.

Anyway, to answer your question, I was forced into the whole thing. I was initially suspected of kickstarting the apocalypse, and the only way to prove my innocence was to close the rifts and stop what “I” had started. (Turned out it was somebody else, but that would make this into a longer story.) I don’t really resent it, because... I mean, I didn’t really have that much of a choice, I was the only person that had the ability to safely seal the rifts that opened up around Thedas that were letting demons pour into the world, and I wasn’t about to just... let the world get destroyed.

But again, I should state that the Inquisition isn’t strictly a religious force. It was created by the Left and Right Hands of the Chantry under the decree of the late Divine Justinia the Number I Forgot... V, I think? It was created by them, but it was also distinctly separate from the Chantry because when we were first established, the Chantry said we were heretics and would have nothing to do with us. Now we’re heretics with Chantry support! Primarily by way of our spymaster being elected Divine -- leader of the Chantry/of Andrastianism. But hey, if it works, it works.

I hope that helps and doesn’t just... muddy the answers more, hahaha.

#stardriift #revas blogs

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@stardriift

Hello! Revas Lavellan, Dalish mage, and Inquisitor of the Inquisition.

But I should state it's not a religious Inquisition, no matter how many people call me the Herald of Andraste and her Chosen or what have you. My job's to maintain peace, even if it typically means upholding a status quo that I hate, not... torturing people to suppress heresy and make sure everyone's worshipping Andraste and the Maker and nothing else. I don't even worship her or the Maker. I'm pretty much as heretical as you can get.

Are you well? What can I do for you?

#stardriift #revas blogs #{REVAS FINALLY FIGURES OUT AN INTRODUCTION WHERE HE DOESNT STUMBLE AND ADMIT HE DOESNT KNOW WHAT HES DOING}

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Mmm... good morning. I'll talk soon, I just need a little bit to wake up.

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