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hyperbali · 2 years

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I figured Alana's fall from grace needed to include losing all her fancy accoutrements, and she still needed to have the same kind of heavy tattooing as Anna Rose does. Becoming a non-entity in Dwarven culture probably requires the loss of your finery - and the fancier your hair, the greater the insult to lose it. Plus, y'know, darkspawn gut spillage.

I also realised I was thinking too hard about her romance. Alana wouldn't want an equal so much as someone she could consider an 'unproblematic asset'. Nice to look at, won't challenge her much, and ready to support her rather than be overly argumentative. Helps if they make her laugh... and could help her regain her status, if not rise even higher.

Instantly, I had my answer.

#my art #dragon age #alana #aeducan #alistair theirin #alistair x aeducan #alistair x warden #anna rose #hero of ferelden #grey warden

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avokadda · 3 months

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It's cursed, I know

Gray Warden, lady Aeducan, her boyfriend, king Alistair, and his wife, queen Anora

#my art #digital art #art #oc art #dragon age oc #dragon age origins #aeducan #alistair theirin #anora mac tir #alistair x warden

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vigilskeep · 11 months

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did not end up playing any ivar yesterday but DID end up being insane in discord chat abt what i have planned

#hi vee thanks vee #anyway kinslayer aeducan x alistair. sound of the summer #ivar aeducan

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wildlymish · 10 months

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Part 1 of 4 of a test I'm doing

Please repost and and put in the tags why, but be respectful of others as well!

Leliana

Zevran

Morrigan

#dragon age #dragon age origins #warden aeducan #warden amell #warden brosca #warden cousland #warden mahariel #warden surana #warden tabris #alistair theirin #alistair x warden

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kinloch-warden · 11 months

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Alistair: Here, look at this. Do you know what this is?

My Amell, who is trying very hard to relearn things like "plants" and "animals" after being locked inside for 14 years: Oh I know that one! Its a rose :D

#i always thought the way he phrased it was a little silly #but considering some warden might actually not know what a rose is #especially aeducans or broscas #its not that bad of an opening line really #dragon age #dao #alistair #alistair theirin #amell #alistair x amell

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imdoingaokay · 2 years

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Okay hear me out

Hero of Ferelden dies defeating the archdemon, everyone grieves, and then 10 years later, they walk out of the fade with a mark on their hand. How they came back to life, I leave it up to you. Are they just a lyrium ghost? Did Andraste actually choose them? Is it just lazy writing? And of course, how do people respond? More specifically, the people the HoF was closest to.

Alistair

Platonic: If he’s a warden, he’s a wee bit skeptical. He’d ask Leliana, but he’s technically in hiding, so he just lets his questions fester in his mind. But once Hawke brings them over, he nearly drops his sword. The two catch up once they travel to Skyhold, and when they return to the fade, Alistair is more adamant that he wants to stay behind. Claiming that the HoF “had their turn.” Of course, if this doesn’t work, and Hawke stays behind instead, he’s upset but relents when his friend explains that they didn’t want to lose them again. Alistair writes letters regularly from Weisshaupt. One explained that the HoF’s urn was unearthed and discovered to be empty.

Now, if he’s king, his first reaction is to get Leliana to get confirmation. Honestly, he could use the good news. So many things have gone wrong over the years, the mage rebellion and Divine Conclave blowing up, he thinks the messengers are fucking with him when they claim that the warden-inquisitor has returned from the dead. If the HoF chooses to side with the Templars, he doesn’t get to meet the inquisitor face to face until a while later, and until then, he doesn’t truly believe that his friend is really alive. If the HoF chooses the mages, his curiosity is peaked when he marches into Redcliffe Castle and locks eyes with his late friend. He freezes, and his little speech dies on his tongue. After regaining his senses, he tells the mages to hit the road. He knows he has to leave. But he doesn’t, instead he stays with his friend for a while, the two agreeing to meet up later. He will almost immediately wrap his friend in a warm hug and claim how much he missed them. As an added bonus: Teagan will be less of a jackass in Trespasser!

Romanced: It’s hard for him, honestly. If he’s a warden, he honestly contemplated running to Skyhold, just to see his lover again, but he knows he can’t. He doesn’t hold a sword to them when they enter his hideout, instead, he slowly walks out from the shadows and looks forward to his lover. He feels a decade younger like he’s meeting her all over again. He nearly trips over himself as they talk about Corypheus, and once they get back to Skyhold, he’s always nearby. If the HoF wants, they can start a relationship again. And honestly, Alistair really wants to. He missed them terribly, and he wants to be by their side again. When they reach the Fade with Hawke, he secretly wants Hawke to stay behind. He knows it’s selfish and against what it means to be a Grey Warden, and he will stay behind if asked, but there is a part of him that just wants to stay with his love. After he goes to Weisshaupt, he writes far more letters to his love, a few ask when they think they’ll come to visit him.

If he’s king, it changes a bit. After 10 years, he still hasn’t gotten married (if he’s the sole ruler.) And he has yet to take another lover. Most people think the same way, that the poor king is still in love with the HoF. When he hears that said hero has returned from the dead, he’s confused about why the Maker must torment him. Like with the platonic version, if the warden-inquisitor sides with the Templars, he doesn’t see them until much later, and their reunion is pretty much the same as it would be if the HoF chooses the mages, just less tension.

Alistair walks into Redcliffe Castle and locks eyes with the woman he loved more than anything else. He does his little speech, and he all but begs his Warden to stay a bit longer. If he broke up with her after the Landsmeet, I refuse to believe he doesn’t beg for forgiveness. If the two were supposed to get married, he nearly weeps, seeing his fiancée after years apart. The two need some time together, honestly. If they want, they can start a relationship again, as Alistair never really moved on. Even if they aren’t a human noble, Alistair might actually ask them to marry him. If the Warden-Inquisitor says yes, once Corypheus is dealt with, an actual wedding will occur. There are rumors of how it’s some grand scheme to give the Inquisition more power, but most people agree that this marriage is one of love rather than power. But it does have some nice benefits.

Leliana:

Platonic: When she hears about a sole survivor that just walked out of the fade, she’s curious, when she recognizes one of her closest friends she ever had… she thinks that the Maker is playing a trick on her. Leliana intends to treat the “newcomer” as a stranger at first. But when she can’t find any sort of information regarding their whereabouts, how they just appeared at the conclave (or what was left of it,) she slowly begins to panic. When the HoF wakes up and recognizes her, she panics way more. Of course, she keeps her outwardly appearance looking unfazed.

After the first attempt to close the breach, she takes the HoF aside and asks a few questions. When their friend reaffirms who they are, Leliana decides to test them. Before the attack on Haven, there is one long evening of quizzing the future Inquisitor. The questions range, starting fairly easy, but then they get harder. Questions start like: “Where am I from? Where did we meet?” and then move to questions like “What exactly happened when we met? How did I get my first nug? What was the last thing you said to me before the battle at Denerim?” Of course, as much as the HoF knows Leliana, they won’t get every question right, which actually comforts Leliana more. She still doesn’t truly accept her friend until she almost loses them again. In fact, she doesn’t leave their side until they wake up. Leliana still can’t travel with the new Inquisitor, but when the two are at Skyhold together, they are nearly inseparable. Leliana slips into a version of her older self that she had hardened many years ago.

Romanced: Honestly, a lot of it is the same. The only real difference is the intensity of her feelings. She knows that her warden had to do what they had to do, but that doesn’t ease the pain. She is more guarded towards the Warden, and hopefully, the Warden doesn’t go asking too much about it.

Once Leliana starts to quiz the HoF, the questions get far more personal. And eventually, Leliana asks, “Why didn’t you tell me?” While holding back tears. It takes some time, but Leliana is willing to start a relationship again. And if they do, Leliana finds herself smiling more often, after all, she has her Warden back. That’s all that matters.

Morrigan:

Platonic: When Morrigan offered the Dark Ritual as a way for her friend to survive, she didn’t expect them to say no. Who wants to die some horrific and painful way when they can just have sex/get someone else to have sex and have a baby? Morrigan has considered the HoF their friend, one of the only ones she had. She didn’t want to lose them. Regardless of why they did it, she leaves. And regrets it terribly. Years later, once the Divine Conclave has gone horrifically bad, she is extremely surprised when she hears about the Hero of Ferelden returning from the dead. She’s even more surprised when she gets a letter from Leliana claiming that it is all true.

At the Winter Palace, she finds herself staring at her former friend, and for a while, she’s afraid to face them. Depending on what type of person the HoF was, she responds differently to how they greet her when they inevitably see each other. She doesn’t admit it, but she prefers the angrier version of her friend, mainly because it hurts way more when her friend says nothing and merely wraps their arms around her and claims that they forgave her a long time ago. She finds herself holding back tears she didn’t know she had. Once at Skyhold, the two spend plenty of time together.

When they get to the Well of Sorrows, Morrigan has far more respect for the Warden Inquisitor than if they claim that they’ll drink from the Well, she complains very little. Of course, when she figures out that Flemeth and Mythal are the same, she’s even more thankful for her friend (especially if they killed Flemeth in Origins.) She says something about how the Warden has saved her again, and she won’t forget this. In fact, she finds herself more pressed to stay after the defeat of Corypheus. Of course, she does eventually, this time, properly saying goodbye.

Romanced: It hurts when she hears of the undead warden-inquisitor, she finds it hard to believe until she sees him at The Winter Palace. She can tell that it is her lover, however, so she doesn’t need to have someone else confirm it for her. She knows.

Of course, she has Kieran to worry about. But she’s rather shocked when Kieran takes a shine to the Warden. And it takes all the self-control she has to not start sobbing when she tells the Warden that he, in fact, does have a son. The two may start a relationship once more, but after the defeat of Corypheus, she finds herself wondering whether she will stay or not. But, seeing how happy Kieran is with his father is enough for her to extend her tenure in Skyhold indefinitely.

Zevran:

Platonic: Something in him just knew. He knew that it was really them. Zevran takes time to visit Skyhold (he is busy, after all,) but when he does, all hell breaks loose. I mean, depending on your choices in Origins, you might have the original gang back together (for the most part.)

Zevran is excited to see his friend again, but nothing truly prepares him for seeing them after years apart. He freezes, honestly surprised that his friend is actually alive. So when the Warden-Inquisitor welcomes them back with open arms, he sort of just… melts? He’s so happy it hurts.

Romanced: Unlike the platonic version of Zevran, romanced Zevran doesn’t wait. The second he hears of the undead HoF, he’s on a boat to Ferelden, to Skyhold. Once he gets there, he quietly watches from afar, observing his lover for a while. And only Leliana notices. When she does, she asks him why he isn’t going up to them, and for Zevran, it’s fear. He missed them terribly, he hasn’t loved another the way he loved them. It feels strange because he had intended on keeping it that way. Also, is it technically cheating if your lover comes back to life after death and while they were dead you fucked a lot? (My answer is no, I think it’s a grace period, but hey, to each his own.)

Eventually, he does muster up the courage to speak to them, but it isn’t at Skyhold. It’s when they travel to somewhere like the Hitherlands, that Zevran finds himself fighting a large bear alongside his lover. He’s all cloak and daggers (no pun intended) for a while, keeping a hood on to prevent the Warden from noticing his tattoo. Once the battle is over, the Warden asks their savior to reveal themselves. Zevran hesitates, but once the two see each other for the first time in a decade, it’s hard to keep them separated. Zevran keeps his suave personality, spouting some smooth lines about how he couldn’t let his Warden have all the fun, but he’s secretly sobbing inside. His Warden looks just as perfect as they did when they met. And all he wants to do is just stare at them for hours and hours, indulging himself in their presence. And they get the opportunity to do that. Just… don’t mind the loud noises coming from the Inquisitor’s room… Zevran and them, they’re… catching up.

Bonus:

Cullen finally being able to apologize to Amell/Surana

Iron Bull figuring out that the current Arishok literally loved the Hero of Ferelden.

Harding lowkey fangirling over the HoF

Sera recognizes Tabris and depending on what type of city elf they were, they go out to kill some nobles.

Fergus personally travels to visit Cousland and literally weeps at the sight of them.

Brosca/Aeducan visiting their family in Orzammar, receiving a warm welcome from Bhelen if he’s king. Rica’s ecstatic. Brosca/Aeducan meets their nephew too.

(Sorry for this post, I know it’s bad, I just can’t stop thinking about it lol)

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sorokah · 1 year

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Ion Aeducan(he/him) & Alistair bc I’m replaying

#dragon age origins #warden aeducan #alistair theirin #alistair x warden

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aureitygonoph · 2 years

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i've been replaying dao lately

yes i know that armor isn't from dao

#dragon age #dragon age origins #dao #warden aeducan #alaina aeducan #warden/alistair #warden x alistair

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finelyageddragons · 7 months

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Might fuck around and create a new DAO playthrough. I'm thinking of an Aeducan. The middle child, always in her brother's shadow, always expected to marry some noble and have children for her house, always close enough to reach for glory but never to have it for herself. As such, she's devoted herself to her training, growing into a proud traditionalist, determined to live up to the ancestors who's legacy she feels weighing on her with every step she takes. And she goes far, carrying this great pressure and fighting it with each day as she hopes to one day fight in the Deep Roads and become a paragon herself. Save ruling for her brother if he is so keen on it, she will become far greater than him. So imagine how betrayed she feels when she's thrown out onto the surface and all her life has been snatched away from her. Will she turn cold and bitter, a force of vengeance and hatred upon the world? Or will this be her greatest trial, her chance to prove not just her steel but her honour too and become worthy of the legacy she was born into? I very much want to lean into the gifted child burnout and the stress and anxiety that comes with expectations, look at how an obsession with legacy effects people and inherited trauma and what we choose to do with that pain. I'll likely end up making a very noble character cause honestly I kinda need that rn but I am very excited to explore the dwarven lore that I love so much and look at the burdens of heroics and the stress that comes with trying to make the world a better place when it seems so doomed. Dramatic and painful but with the happy ending I think we all need sometimes, a true heroes journey. Perhaps I'll even play into elements of tragedies a little and try giving her a more bittersweet ending like romancing Alistar but becoming his mistress because she still can't place love before duty. Or returning to Orzammar and realising change is what it needs so she never gets the revenge she wanted and has to put Bhelen on the throne for the good of her people. I'm not sure yet but I do wanna push myself to not go for a completely happy ending and put more effort into the depths of my characters emotions so I'm excited for it. Now that I've planned all that out I have to stop procrastinating and actually pick a name. The hardest part, yay!

#dragon age #dragon age origins #warden x alistair #warden aeducan

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galaxywhale · 1 year

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3. for alistair and malinda, cause idk her very well yet, and 30 for shayla/ zevran pretty please <3

Thank you Nelke ♥️♥️

Questions from [here]

3. What was their first impression of each other?

Honestly I don’t Malinda very well yet either (she’s an Aeducan for context though) and I’m still working her out 😂 and she’s still pretty new so anything I say about her may completely change still BUT

Malinda first thinks Alistair seems quite capable at dealing with people because he stands up for himself during the original introduction, followed immediately by uncertainty because he then starts joking about things and she’s just not sure what to think.

Alistair thinks she’s very small and he’s impressed with her braided hair (and he continues to be). He’s also curious where Duncan met her and he thinks she’s very well spoken and clear and can tell she a little reluctant to talk about where she came from and can’t quite work out how she feels about leaving (mostly because she’s very intentionally trying to hide it).

So basically they’re both impressed and confused by each other and can te there’s more there that they need to (want to?) find out :)

30. What are their respective love languages? Do their love languages work well together?

I’m always bad at remembering what these even are 🙈 but I think both of them work pretty well together and enjoy just spending time together with casual physical touches. They’ve both been through a lot and they’ve both helped each other so a lot of healing and enjoy just being able to feel safe and comfortable together

#Malinda Aeducan #shayla tabris #Malinda x Alistair #Shayla x zevran

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amexhaustedthanksforasking · 10 months

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AHFUISKAJDL

Anyway was just reviewing my Dragon Age Keep which had my first ever playthrough of DA:O saved into it, which was cool but I started comparing my most recent playthrough to that one and it's just weird.

My original was an Aeducan named Jeta who fucking adored her family to bits, even when Trian was being an ass and Bhelen was being a sneaky little shit. They were her brothers, god, she'd helped raise Bhelen and even encouraged some of his sneaky tendencies because they were just kids stealing from the kitchens, you know? Jeta was looking forward to being a Commander because she wanted to help, make her family proud-

Then Bhelen murders Trian right in front of her and frames HER for the murder.

I imagine she wondered the Deep Roads for a few hours before she found Duncan and hoo, boy, her mental state was right shit then. Left to nothing but her thoughts as she carved through darkspawn? Yeah not goooddd. She begins thinking of the rumors surrounding her father (betrayal too, essentially), the harsh political game in Orzammar and wonders if this was all her family amounted to: the Aeducans shitting on everyone in order to reach the top, including their own family. And if that were true. .

Was she the same?

Alistair helped her through this a little, I think, in his sweet, bumbling ways. If a sweetheart like him could see the good in her, surely she wasn't going to hurt anyone, betray anyone?

So she tried so hard to be good. She helped everyone, remained polite and cordial, upfront and honorable. Jeta made friends with the assassin who tried to kill her, exchanged cookies with the large qunari she'd freed from a cage, became close with the witch who had questionable morals. Everyone deserved a chance, be good be good be good.

Then she goes to Orzammar and she's suddenly in that not-so-great state again. What do you mean father's dead? Did Bhelen?? By the ancestors this is horrible oh my god-

She met with both parties, both Harrowmont and Bhelen, and she quickly came to the conclusion an Aeducan shouldn't be on the throne. Her, especially, she decided, as she sobbed over the corpse of the brother she had actually killed.

There, all done, she can eventually move on hopefully

Oh, shit, wait, Alistair would make a damn good king, wouldn't he? Jeta didn't trust Anora and Alistair was. . She thought he could really good at it. She looks at the human who had wormed his way into her heart and she thinks that she's definitely an Aeducan. The hurt in Alistair's eyes, the betrayal as it's decided he'll marry the queen. .

Jeta was definitely an Aeducan.

The least she could do was die killing the Archdemon.

That was more or less the story I had for her anyway, then there's my Surana named Ashihari who just-

She's the best student, she's clever, she is liked by the First Enchanter. She's going places, isn't she, just not out of the tower and that's fine, isn't it? Who needs out of the tower, certainly not her. But Jowan does, and her heart trembles a little because him and the Chantry Sister's story is just like one out of the romance novels she's read. So she helps.

Turns out not everything is like the books she's read. Ashihari couldn't fathom the male romantic interest in a novel doing blood magic, betraying the trust of the woman he loved and his best friend all at once.

She's kind of reeling by the time they get to Ostagar and oh, wait, a Templar? Sure, it's an ex-Templar but it's still a Templar and. .

Maybe he reminded her of Cullen, a little. Maybe that's why she was a bit infatuated at first.

Then Ostagar gets fucked over and Ashihari comes to the conclusion her books were wrong and life is horrible. Off to the circle to write a paper on the damned subject — oh, right, recruit the mages. Then the tower, the only home she'd ever known is being destroyed and shut up Greagoir, she's thinking. Of course she's helping the mages, hey Wynne, kills the Sloth Demon and she runs into Cullen and he's. .

Yeah.

She doesn't mean to avoid Alistair for the few weeks after the Circle, but he was a Templar at some point. Who's to say he didn't feel the same way about mages?

Then an assassin tries to fucking stab her and oh wow, is that what an Antivan accent sounds like? That's very pretty! He's flirting and Ashihari frowns at him quite severely because fraternizing is just a stupid idea-

Wait, she's out of the Circle.

Huh.

Adds Zevran to the team reluctantly, but does threaten to boil him alive if he tries to do a murder. He's constantly flirting and Ashihari is a bit confused because she's super pale and her nose is too big and the man must be desperate, do you need help finding someone to shag? Only realizes later he's flirting as a defense mechanism and that he's trying to stay alive and wow, yeah, the world sucks, poor guy.

He tells good stories, though, and Ashihari wonders about what other countries might look like as they travel across Ferelden.

Then she finds Jowan and she punches the asshole in the face. You're saving this fucking child then if I ever see your fucking mug again, I'm electrocuting you.

Anyway

She doesn't take Zevran up on his offer for ages, and during that she's grown quite fond of him. Ashihari was 99% sure he wouldn't try to kill her after she gives him the Dalish boots and gloves because he looks so wondering, so stunned. The walls he seems to put up crumble just slightly, and Ashihari gives it a shot because she's curious.

The books lied to her again, it was fucking painful. Was interesting enough, she supposed, if messy.

It's only when Ashihari finds herself joking and laughing with him on the daily she realizes she's a bit in over her head. Sure, falling for a suave assassin seems like something straight out of the books, but she's learned that the world is a lot rougher than that. Zevran's been through a lot, and she's still learning about the outside world. So she ignores it because tragedies do exist, and she doesn't fancy the idea of living one out.

Ashihari stares at Zevran after they finish killing Taliesen and he's offering to stay and she's just. . "Are you sure, Zevran? I don't want you to feel forced to stay, it's up to you."

He's never had the choice before, after all. She wanted to give him that.

And he wanted to stay.

Zevran gives her the earring and then they have the bickering phase where Ashihari is confused and kind of hurt. She isn't sure what to think, and when she brings it up and they talk. .

Huh.

Ashihari had never been in love before, so she's just as lost as him. She offers to try and figure it out with him, if he wants, and he smiles. He accepts. There's something a bit different about their relationship now, the thing that's going unsaid. No, that's wrong. She's just aware of it now.

Morrigan offers the dark ritual and sorry, Alistair, but she'd rather not die. The king shags the daughter of the witch of the wilds and suddenly they're all at the gates of Denerim.

She looks at Zevran and the three words are trapped in her throat. She knows this is where the hero of the story would say those three words, right before the final battle when the hero rushes off to sacrifice themself.

"In truth, for the chance to be by your side I would storm the Dark City itself. Never doubt it."

Ashihari forgets her damned books in that moment because those three words don't seem like enough anymore. And if she is going to say them, it's going to be when they're all safe and a future with Zevran seems possible.

Both Jeta and Ashihari are red-heads with green eyes, by the way. I've got a type of character I like playing, I guess, but I look at these two and realize something. As I grow older, I despise tragedies more and more. They're harder to read, harder to stomach. Jeta is the one trying so hard to be better, to do right even when she tears herself down. Ashihari is learning about the world and herself and definitely has ADHD, but she's trying and. .

I dunno, I guess I just evolved with them. Feels like, maybe, I can let myself be happy too.

Anyway thanks Dragon Age, let me go finish the DLC now.