#ancient elves

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Ancient Elves - Daedra

Art for Tales of Tamriel

Art by Jan Pospisil

#jan pospisil #the elder scrolls #art #concept art #tes #tales of tamriel #daedra #dremora #ancient elves #aldmer #fantasy

[sashimoii]

Welcome to my silly old people elf post ig idk they both make me sad and they both end up miserable I really don’t know

These are kinda old sketches found out it takes me awhile to adjust what I’m comfy with posting ig

#dragonage #dragonageinquisition #dragonage inquisition #dai #da:i oc #da: inquisitor #da:i #they’re about one rock fall away from gaining senior citizenship I’m telling you #two ancient elves have no idea they’re both old as balls and become something #old history nerds I’m telling you #girlie is a storyteller #dragon age #dragon age oc #all she wanted to do was get material for her next song and look what happens #da oc #ancient elves #solavellen hell #solavellan #if you squint hard enough it’s there #solas x inquisitor #solas #solas fan art

[cool-kink-sis]

I love the idea that city, dalish and ancient elves all look different. Like the difference between city and dalish are kinda small; different eye shapes as in the dalish have the biggest eyes, biggest ears and they're taller. They have evolved over the generations of having to be constantly aware.

City elves' eyes, ears and stature are smaller.

All this to lead to the fact that I really like the idea that any modern day elf looks at Solas and has the uncanny valley feel from him. His eyes are small, his shoulders broad, he's taller than any Dalish (5'7 is average height for the Dalish), long fingers, a very angular face.

People thinking he's half but his ears are as pointed as any of theirs.

Also love the idea that Sera calling him droopy ears is because Solas (for an ancient elf) actually has bigger than normal ears. Right size for the Dalish but not for an ancient elf. Maybe he got some comments back then too 😂

Just elves nowadays giving him a glance and freezing like "Wow, he's weird looking! No, don't point at him, he might come over." Has a little shiver. "Creepy."

Solas is a skin walker to modern day elves.

#ancient elves #dalish elves #city elves #solas #dragon age inquisition

[ghelphaene]

Got to the end (so far) of @mogwaei 's Ouroboros and started back at the beginning to read it all over again. (Pretty fitting, given the story's name and themes 😄)

I have had this incredible character, Maordrid, living in my head and just had to do a portrait of her. Thanks Mogwaei for such an engrossing story and for such unforgettable OC's!!!

#my art #fanart #ouroboros #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dragon age fanart #dragon age fanfiction #ancient elves

[mogwaei]

1/3 Character reference sheet/mock concept art for my OC Mao!

While I mostly do art of Mao in the Dragon Age universe as my DA4 character/npc, she is one of my oldest OCs and I've written her to stand apart as her own entity :D

(note on the fiáin: this is a scorned name (loosely, "wild magic") given to those who live beyond the boundaries of settled Elvhenan, usually in the Deepest Fade. The denizens (particularly non-augmented mortals) do not have long life spans...and those who defy this have likely made terrible sacrifices to eschew their fate)

>read her story here

#dragon age #original character #dragon age inquisition #da4 #dnd #oc #solasmance #solas x maordrid #maordrid #otp: ouroboros #mogwaei arts #mogwaei ocs #ancient elves #maelgwn

[echoes-sounds]

Fen’Harel and Elgar’nan (in that respective order) - Ruthlessness: Epic

This only took me like 30 minutes, but this song gave me a brain worm so I rushed to make it fr

Elgar’nan concept art

I’ve been neglecting my tumblr, my bad ya’ll

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #art #dai #dragon age dreadwolf #dreadwolf #Elgar’nan #Fen’Harel #solas #Elvhenan #Arlathan #ancient elves

[ekalita-blr]

Art with my elvhen inquisitor Thia Lavellan for the album cover of the character's music tracks

#dragon age #dragonage #Dragon Age fanart #lavellan #Inquisitor Lavellan #Thia Da'halla Lavellan #ancient elven inquisitor #DA OCs #Ancient Elves #evanuris #Elgar'nan #DAInquisition #dai trespasser #dai #thedreadwolfrises #Arlathan

[misculenica]

Elven Immortality Theory;

It's super late, and my brain did the; I know you're trying to sleep, but have you considered.... THIS?

So, the legendary immortality of the people of Elvhenan.

It always bothered me to consider the idea of what it would mean for them to be immortal, especially when we have so many stories of them maiming/killing one another.

So what were they then? Immortal unless killed? A disturbing consideration I had was that they were straight up immortal; even if you cut off their heads or burned them to ashes; they would still be alive and aware to some degree; and only people with high connections/social standing/magical ability/access to magic healers could fix things like 'well, I'm bleeding' or 'oh, my arm was cut off, let's fix that', so slaves and whatnot were pretty buggered- perhaps another reason to have slaves is to have 'spare parts' around? I don't know.

But I just considered something waaay more interesting.

If we are to believe that the ancient elves were once spirits, who took physical form to feel the physical world and all it's sensations - what if those bodies were still capable of 'dying'?

Allow me to explain;

When people die, in modern times, their spirit/soul leaves their body and seemingly... disperses? Goes to the beyond/fade? Ceases existing? What if that's because of the veil? Spirits can't easily move between Thedas and the Fade because of it.

But before the veil they could.

So what is the danger of losing a body when you're spirit/soul doesn't stray far/stays on this plane of existence, and it's established that your abtract being can just up and make a new body if it wants?

That's immortality, and that's why the elves were ageless; they were spirits who could just make their own bodies?

And then the veil happened, and they became mortal, because they couldn't get their bodies back - those who do....

Dear Andraste, have I just fell down a rabbit hole here?

Are Solas' people the ancient elves -who, by this theory, are spirits/demons???? Are all the elven dead now the inhabitants of the fade, who may/may not be aware of this fact?

What would that even imply in ancient times, though, if they had children? Like, natural conceived and born children? Would they be spirits? Or did they not have kids? They clearly knew how since the modern elves exist...

I just... I need to sleep.

#dragon age #dragon age spoilers #dragon age inquisition spoilers #arlathan #ancient elves #dragon age theory #da theory #elvhenan

[ohmypawsandwhiskers]

Banner Art done by @singuminklarity

Recently Updated!  Fic Summary:

Gather around children for a tale from the Old World. Before the fall of Arlathan. Before the sly Fen’Harel tricked the Gods into banishment. When we were kings and queens of towering, great cities, filled with magic, the likes of which we can only dream about today.

When our Gods heard our prayers and answered, for they walked among us. Wine and riches flowed, and we were free to live in opulence without fear of invasion- for we knew the Gods would protect us. A time when we were the greatest scholars, warriors, mages, and hunters. It is a tale of rebellion, of sacrifice, of trickery, and of love.

Now, you can’t let anyone know I’m telling you this story, for it goes against what we know of our Gods- most of all, Fen’Harel. You can get Teller Taralani in a lot of trouble if Keeper Deshana gets word I’m sharing this story.

Our tale begins in the palace of Dirthamen, Keeper of Secrets. Some say Dirthamen had the best libraries of all the Evanuris. With the help of the Spirit, Study, he had one of the greatest collections of tomes, containing the secrets and histories that all the scholars in Elvhenan sough entrance to the eluvian that housed such knowledge. What wasn’t housed in the tomes could be found on the mosaics and murals that decorated the great library, telling stories of long-forgetten battles that would have fallen into obscurity were it not for the Keeper of Secrets.

While many flocked to the palace of Dirthamen, however, few were granted admittance for the price of knowledge or secrets deemed worthy by the great Dirthamen himself. Now, it’s said that Fen’Harel was one of the few allowed to study, for he was one with the knowledge Dirthamen wished to possess. Our tale begins as Fen’Harel arrives on a sunny spring day with the intent to study, when he happens upon a part of the palace he’d yet to discover.

Check out Chapter 1 here! 

We’re half way through the first installment! If you’re caught up, check out Chapter 16 part one and two here!

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dragon age fanfiction #my writing #pre veil thedas #Arlathan #ancient elves #tw canon typical violence #tw: child death occurs in earlier chapters #tw: slavery #solas #solas x oc #fenharel #fenharel x oc #I'm slowly making my way through this and found inspiration once more #i am also in the process of editing older chapters too #so be patient with me

[h31n5t]

Something that’s been bugging me: The Blight / Taint is evidently something the Elves found or discovered or created in ancient times.

So why are the Darkspawns the encounter all mainly Hurlocks (human) and Genlocks (dwarf) instead of Shrieks (elf)? Especially the further deep we venture into the Deep Roads. I mean Darkspawn don’t die of aging or disease, at least none that we know of.

I suspect that the ancient Elvhen (Evanuris) used the Taint to make Grey Warden-esque soldiers for themselves.

The Evanuris had the Old Gods under their control so procuring their blood and tainting it is not difficult. The Evanuris killed Titans to obtaining lyrium to use to make the Joining potion is easy for them to do.

Add in possible compulsion geas instilled in drinking the Joining potion (like that in the Well of Sorrows) plus manipulation of Calling (like Corypheus did to the Wardens in DAI) and you have an army of enthralled powerful Warden level combatants at your disposal to fight and die for you.

Yes this theory is kinda out there but it does explain or line up with a few things:

1) Humans apparently learned the Joining ritual from the Elves.

2) Flemeth / Mythal is intimately familiar with the Blight. The Well of Sorrows’ whispers say “Mythal speaks the Calling” and she knew of the Dark Ritual.

3) Why Solas hates the Grey Warden so much. Yes he hates their plan to kill all the Old Gods but he holds a special level of disdain for the Wardens as a whole that’s difficult to explain unless some kind of shenanigans happened in ancient times.

4) Ancient Elves were very familiar with Red Lyrium and by extension the Blight. Andruil, Red Lyrium Idol are all ancient Elven in origin.

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #darkspawn #ancient elves #da solas #grey warden

[rosella-writes]

Pride's Hope

Just a wee gift for @dreadfutures. Thank you for inspiring thoughtful introspection and theme when I usually wouldn't give it much weight, and encouraging this thing when I worried it was too navelgazey or cerebral.

Rating: General Audiences Warnings: None Words: 1256 Relationship: Felassan/Solas Characters: Felassan, Solas Additional Tags: Ancient Elves (Dragon Age), Arlathan (Dragon Age), Elvhenan, Hair Braiding, Friendship/Love, Dragon Age Meta, Solas is Pride, Felassan is Hope, Foreshadowing, Pre-Book: Dragon Age - The Masked Empire, Philosophy, Identity Issues

Summary:

“I wish I could say that was comforting,” Pride murmurs. “Trust can be weighty.”

Hope hums. “So too, my friend, can the burden of being the hope of a god.”

Solas may have always been Pride, but Felassan was not always Felassan. Once he chafed under the mantle of another name.

#my writing #my fanfic #my fanfiction #dragon age #solas #felassan #solas x felassan #hope x pride #arlathan #elvhenan #ancient elves #the masked empire

[perkeleen-lavellan]

I think Dragon Age could use some more fucked up science fantasy. Like for example, just as a thought; what if ancient elves were not so much immortal as they were growing flesh bodies for themselves in magic vats to wear until it was time to switch to a newer model, and then something about the world or them changed and they lost the ability to jump out, so to say, bringing about the quickening.

#now yes #i am well aware this is most certainly not canon #but it would be super cool if it was #dragon age #dragon age inquisition #ancient elves #evanuris #dragon age headcanon

[lavalampelfchild]

Finally got around to doing some art of my ancient Elvhen twins, Uathalen (left) and Ceda (right)!  I have a different post with screencaps of them that has their background, but long story short: 

Uathalen and Ceda are twins who were separated at birth and sent to different Evanuris masters, Uathalen to Falon’Din, and Ceda to Mythal.  They both survive the fall of Arlathan and flee with other refugees to the Cad’halash Thaig, where several dwarves take them in.  When the thaig is attacked, Ceda and Uathalen are urged to go into uthenera, though unfortunately, only Ceda survives.  She eventually awakens as a result of the ritual that the Warden, Finn, and Ariane perform, though she remains hidden because she knows she is too weak to face them and doesn’t know why they’re there.  After some time, she leaves the thaig and begins to explore the new Thedas, post-Veil.

I have a more detailed backstory for them in this post: here.  (Uathalen’s vallaslin is different in that screencap because I’d made him in the CC before deciding who his Evanuris master would be; the vallaslin in this art is the correct one.)

I’m quite happy with how this turned out, especially the shading!  More practice with DA OC faces!

#dragon age #dragon age oc #dragon age inquisition #Ancient Elves #lavalampelfchild's art #uathalen #ceda #ancient elvhen

[cool-kink-sis]

All elfy headcanon stuff

I really love thinking about Ancient Elves and how the status quo used to be and how the Solas we know fits into that because Goddamn, at some point he must've been fine with slavery and then slowly had his character arc give him the realisation of that they are people and deserve the same privileges that he has.

There's so many codex's and other stuff basically showing Solas as Mythal's right hand man, little side kick, whatever. He had that privilege even when he was her slave with her vallaslin on his face and there was something that happened that made him argue with her, made him say no, I don't want to be bound to you and come up with a spell that would erase those markings and by extension that visible bond.

Mythal works within these same border and I wonder if she bought her own shit? As in she saw the vallaslin as a good thing, herself as a good person, like why would Solas not want this? He's rejecting me personally. Because if she WASN'T delusional and understood that people, slaves, were people and didn't deserve this, then it uncovers a whole other issue of why the fuck would Solas remain friends with her unless it was for protection.

I feel like it was a friendship of personal gain: Solas stuck with Mythal because I doubt at the start of his own freedom he had any standing without her. He needed her, I bet the man fawned for a millennia to get her to give a shit about him as a friend and even then "friend".

Mythal's been in this game too long to have actual friends and not have contingency plans to backstab them if need be, I guarantee she has fucked him over at some point. Which probably drove home to Solas that he truly could not trust her and that formed a big part of his character in Inquisition-- "Lean on your friends, Solas. Forgive me, Inquisitor. I have learned not to do that."

He's like a paranoid batman, imagine rich people in Orlais combined with the Magisters from Tevinter, all that pride and snobbery, all those slaves and Solas cannot trust even the slaves he has freed because freeing them mentally is not so cut and dry, we see that in DA2. Stockholm syndrome at its finest, slaves thinking their masters care and even then there can be so much fear.

And that leans straight to Solas having his followers kill themselves rather than be taken and questioned. Ruthless yes, but's he had to be to get the title, to get the standing, to get the power to free slaves and now to undo his previous mistake. He cannot afford to not be ruthless.

All this came from me seeing that mural of Fen'Harel taking the vallaslin off slaves and freeing them--

The still slaves on the left are bald, the freed ones on the right now have hair so I feel like having no hair isn't the best fashion trend (like I previously thought) it's dehumanising for one but also no personal upkeep, it can't look untidy, they can't stand out in any way if they all look the same, dress the same, same hair cut, same vallaslin.

Complete depersonalisation and I love LOVE that Solas shaved his head and uses magic to keep himself that way. To show he used to be one of them and yet now he's more. To have that pride in himself, I look like a slave but I'm not, I am more and have always been, look at me and know your worth!

Again, I just wish to know what pushed him to that realisation. Was it a big dramatic thing or was it a slow learning process over time to see that both he and the slaves around him mattered.

No point to this post, I'm rambling.

#solas #fen'harel #ancient elves #mythal

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 226

"Mother. Mother. Mom. Mum. Mother. Mom-"

Danny sighed as Dan did his best to annoy him, no doubt revenge for the child leash. Which wouldn't have been needed if not for his continued attempts to go off on his own.

As a five year old.

Which wasn't going to happen, no thanks. They had to deal with people trying to kidnap them as "elf people" or something in this dimension already. Ancients, can't people let him travel with his kids for vacation in peace?!

#Prompts #Dcxdp #Dpxdc #dp x marvel #De aged dan #Mom danny #Dad danny #He's just tryin to vibe with his suped up camper with his 6 kids and hellhound #People are concerned about this group of elves or whatever the fuck this family is #Why yes Danny has all of his clones as kids #Jordan calls him mom & Ellie calls him dad #Space core danny #No he's not ghost king #He did get adopted by clockwork tho #There could be some misunderstandings #Either the Kronus kind OR the Time stone kind #Actually it'd be hilarious if Danny gives off similar energy to the space stone thx to being new ancient of space

[corseque]

this is like the first conversation scene of Dragon Age: Origins, and if we'd paid attention to it, we would have seen it was clear foreshadowing that the elven gods were "wrong" in a way that the Dalish don't expect. I've seen people claim the elven gods plot is some annoying new direction in the story that is made up to throw the series off track from what it's really about. so let me repeat myself

this conversation happens in the first ten minutes of Dragon Age: Origins

also I figured out how to use the Origins Toolset to look at the dialogue trees so you're all in a world of hurt

#the elven gods plot was always a big underlying current #Dragon Age #playing DA:O #DA replay #elven gods are so terrifying #I genuinely think that all of these ancient big plots are the same thing and they all will coalesce to be one story #so it's not elves are important - it's just all this old shit with the titans and the blight origins was always important #'I miss when we didn't talk to ancient gods all the time - I wish they were more mysterious like in DAO and DA2' #me: thinks about flemeth appearing in the first 30 minutes of both of those games to talk to the player