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rainydaysie · 2 months

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I try to capture every minute.

#drawing in the rain #dragon age #dragon age origins #dao #alistair theirin #alistair dao #dao alistair #dao surana #surana dao #dragon age surana #alisurana #im killing myself in the streets of denerim #I CANT DO THIS #ALISTAIR COME BACK TO ME

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salemcantupdate · 15 days

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The next group of journal pages for my DAO run!

This is the first set of pages

#dao #dragon age origins #dragon age #da #dragon age surana #dao surana #surana #warden surana #journaling #in character journal #fanart #art #artists on tumblr #artist #salemcantupdate art #Stellan Surana

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crisdoesart · 2 months

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oh, grey warden

#dragon age #dragon age origins #dao #dragon age surana #warden surana #dao surana #da #he’s so edgy #lil baby #aelym

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sashimoii · 6 months

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In honour of zevwarden week 2023! here are my unfinished Zevran and surana works from over the last few months (and recently) . They may not be directly related to any of the prompts but currently this is my favourite week ever and I just feel an urge to share

Because I just haven’t really had the time

#zevwarden week 2023 #zevwarden #zevsurana #dao #dragon age #dragonage origins #oc #grey warden #gray warden #naema surana #dao surana #zevran x surana #zevran x warden #they mean a lot to me #like so much

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spiretdoom · 2 years

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I love them your honor 🌹

#dragon age #dragon age fanart #dragon age origins #dragon age alistair #alistair theirin #alistair x warden #alistair x surana #dao surana #nyana surana #my art

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haniebnie · 6 days

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time cast a spell on you, but you won't forget me i know i could've loved you, but you would not let me i'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you

king's burden fic

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bleeding-star-heart · 6 days

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(partly my fault I didn't realize you could do that and I decided the repressed mage would be the most likely to drop the quest on a whim to seek a holy relic)

#vesemir surana #warden surana #dragon age surana #dao surana #dragon age origins #dragon age

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spainkitty · 4 months

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WIP WEDNESDAY

Chapter 2: The course is but run, and end has begun

Finally, her wisp's light began to refract against something moving. At first it looked like slithering. She and Dorian recoiled sharply before they noticed the rhythm of it. The ebb and flow. The sloshing against stone and wood.

“… that’s a dock,” Lanil said, breathless and her own dread and suspicions mounting. “Dorian, you said the amulet shouldn’t have moved us through space, only time?”

“Yes, but obviously something has—”

“No, no, you were right. Maker’s breath, you were right,” Lanil said. She all but fell on her ass to back away rapidly and incidentally dragging Dorian with her before sidling out of his grip. She spun in a circle with new eyes. The crater was massive, the pit nearly as large. The blackened rubble and the huge tree and there—a twisted mess of iron and wood that once had been a portcullis.

“Surana?”

“Redcliffe Castle has a dock, Pavus. A dock built underneath the castle,” Lanil said, fury and something deeper than fear running through every word. Dorian’s eyes widened.

“Yes, Felix brought me… You can’t mean that this is Redcliffe Castle!?” Dorian asked, sweeping his arm out.

Lanil ignored her heaving stomach, the constant song thrumming against her skull, the unsteadiness of her legs. She ran for the ledge, skirting the pit and the lyrium with shudders running down her spine. The sides of the crater were near a foot over her head, probably about level with Dorian’s height. She scrabbled up them, fingernails digging into dirt, her thin slippers sliding and slipping, pebbles and dust raining down into Dorian’s face when he followed her. She hauled herself over the edge, wheezing and cursing, vision spotting again, and saw the large, glassy, Fade-green surface of Lake Calahad and the mountains of Ferelden’s Hinterlands beyond.

“Fuck,” she hissed.

Dorian came up beside her, coughing slightly and brushing dirt from his clothes absently as he stared into the Hinterlands. What was left of it. Huge swathes of forest were replaced by blackened earth and large, glowing, red lyrium. The village on the opposite shore was in shambles and eerily silent, although it wasn't nearly the decimation at her back. The only movement among the rubble and few standing houses was the wind. And the rippling veins of light along the lyrium’s surfaces. Dorian and Lanil exchanged a loaded glance before heading towards where the broken bridge lay.

Getting from where the castle had been to the other shore across the lake was more time- and mana-consuming than difficult. The bridge between the shore and the castle had been destroyed when Alexius kicked out the arl, but there was more than enough debris in the water to fill in the gap. They had to clamber a bit, and the lowest part of their makeshift bridge was nearly under water, but they made it. Now on the other side, Lanil took in the details of the village’s ruin. Almost every building was dilapidated, whole walls missing, roofs caved in, shutters hanging from mere splinters. Huge stone blocks with traces of soot were lying like forgotten toys in the grass, and there were several gaping holes in the sides of buildings where more rubble had flown through. Lanil knelt beside one such chunk of stone, fingertips darkening when she touched it.

“This definitely came from the castle,” she said, frowning.

“Which means whatever destroyed it, it exploded outward,” Dorian surmised.

“Is this as bad as the Conclave? Did whatever happen then happen again?” Lanil asked, brushing her fingers clean on her robes.

“I didn't see it the aftermath with my own eyes, but it would explain why the sky is… like that.”

They both looked up reflexively and shuddered. Lanil could smell the Fade. It pervaded every one of her senses, almost as overpowering as the stench of the rotting fields and worse things left behind in these deserted homes.

Before they gone much farther, Lanil knew the entirety of Redcliffe was empty.

#For It Is Fleeting AU #dai fanfic #Dorian Pavus #Lanil Surana #dao surana #dai surana #since my adaar goes to the templars what would Dorian and Lanil be up to? well DOING THE QUEST ANYWAY #zevsurana made a hilarious post-chain abt 'what if they were there longer than a few hours'#while i came up with this idea before i saw the post i definitely fleshed it out and went HARD with it because of it #sadly it's a lot less funny in mine😔#gonna go reread theirs for the lols #im probably going to nipandtuckandtwist around these chapters during editing but this scene should stay the same #kitty writes a thing #kitty writes about dragons #dragon age fanfiction

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stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage · 11 months

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listen I love DAO, DA2, and DAI very much and will replay all three on repeat but DAO really spoiled me with the whole "origins" part, something DA2 and DAI severely lack.

In DAO, you get to play through one of six origins that show how you got recruited to the Grey Wardens and affects how you play. I play as a Tabris and that plays a part in every decision she makes from how she views the Grey Wardens as a whole, who she romances, what she does with Loghain at the landsmeet, etc. It's incredible because that origin you get adds so much to the immersion each playthrough.

But then there's DA2 which I do adore with all my heart, but I can't lie, the first time I played it was very much "Oh, I have to be this human named Hawke? and the only differences in backstory really come from whether I'm a mage or not ...Ugh, okay, but only because you showed me Carver and now I'm attached, I'll keep playing, I'm sure nothing bad will happen to him."

And then DAI, which I also adore, comes along and just, "Okay pick who you wanna be. Great, here's a paragraph detailing your backstory, but you get to start in the same spot no matter who you make your Inquisitor to be, have fun."

It's not like it's a deal breaker that we can't play through an origin first before jumping into the main story. The player can take that element into their hands to make up for it. We see it all the time with players sharing the upbringings and family dynamics for their Hawke, or fully fleshing out their Inquisitor and why they were at the conclave in the first place.

I think DA2 does this a little better since at least it feels like Hawke had a life before Kirkwall. Your mother and survivng sibling are reminders of that life, as are every mention of your dead sibling and father. You're always reminded that you're a Fereldan refugee. You lost everything to the blight and now you have to rebuild yourself up in a new city.

But the Inquisitor? A lot of times it feels like the Inquisitor didn't even exist until they fell out of the sky. Sure, Cassandra can ask you where you're from or Josephine will ask you questions about your life prior, but that's about it. it's so unfortunate because DAI was the perfect set up for a origin stories the same way DAO was; what lead the Inquisitor to be at the conclave? What specifically put them there?

The first time I played DAI, I didn't put much thought into my Inquisitor. It took me playing through DAO and DA2 and starting a replay of DAI to actually figure out my Inquisitor and you know what I ended up doing?

I used a DAO origin.

Yeah, we know that all the wardens exist and the player picking their character decides where Duncan will be to recruit them and the others are just shit outta luck. I decided my Lavellan's actually Surana who escaped the circle with Jowan and she eventually joined the Dalish and adopted a new name after he died. Lemme tell you, roleplaying that as my Inquisitor's backstory makes everything in DAI just 10x better.

Every staff Ash crafts is named after Jowan. She wasn't born Dalish but her cover story says she was, and she slips up a lot. Her accent doesn't sound typically Dalish. Threnn tells her "Loghain was super cool actually" and Ash flashes back to when Jowan was taken by Loghain's men and when she tracked him down to Redcliffe only to find out Loghain planted him there to poison the arl, he was caught and tortured by the arl's wife, she begged a pair of wardens to let him go if they found him.

Ash is very against blood magic after it eventually killed Jowan and she isn't shy about expressing it. So you know Varric pulled my Hawke, a blood mage, aside like, "Listen, keep the blood magic stuff to yourself, the Inquisitor has a thing about it." and Edgar just gives a thumbs up and keeps going, "man, blood magic bad, amirite?"

Every conversation Ash has with Solas and Vivienne is just her biting her tongue and forcing out, "...yeah, okay." She knows the Chantry and Circles are bullshit but can't go off about it because hmmm, you know an awful lot about this for being Dalish?

Ash and Cullen see each other again after ten years and both just, "Hmm... you look famil...liar.......... oh no."

But that's my point: If I'm going to replay DAI, I boot up DAO first. I play through the mage origin as Ash, and as soon as Jowan runs off screen, I quit out of the game to boot up DAI with a little "Ten Years Later" mumble to myself, and it's so much better.

Honestly if I could find a way to incorporate an unused origin into my Hawke's backstory, I probably would! Because DAO knew what it was doing and it's super effective. I can't gush about DAO enough, I swear.

I can only cross my fingers that DA4 y'know, goes back to it's origins.

#dragon age #dao #da2 #dai #dragon age origins #dragon age 2 #dragon age inquisition #dao surana #dai lavellan #dao jowan #dai has it's issues but this has fixed a lot of them for me #i just have a lot of feelings about dao okay #i mean i have a lot of feelings about dragon age in general but you get me

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pisscrossiant · 10 days

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When you're cute but you dabble in the dark arts

#dragon age origins #dragon age #dragon age: origins #dao #artists on tumblr #young artist #warden surana #dragon age surana #dao surana #Odessa Surana #blood magic #blood mage

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rainydaysie · 17 days

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#i REALLY like them #fox surana #surana #dragon age #dao #dragon age origins #dragon age surana #surana dao #dao surana #hero of fereldan #drawing in the rain #alistair theirin #alistair dao #dao alistair #dragon age alistair #dao warden #warden surana #origins alistair #alistair origins

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salemcantupdate · 16 days

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Little mage lad

#dragon age origins #dao #dragon age #mage origin #dao mage origin #dao surana #surana #dao jowan #Jowan #character sheet #fanart #art #artists on tumblr #artist #salemcantupdate art #Stellan Surana

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chichiricatsan · 3 months

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I had my character, Selph Surana, drawn for me in an art trade by the wonderful and talented Mahildis on Deviant Art! 😭 Gahhhhh I'm cryinnnnggg I've been so sad lately and this has brightened my day! Check out their gallery and their work! 💖

#art trade #my characters #oc: selph surana #dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age surana #warden surana #hero of ferelden #surana #dao surana

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sashimoii · 3 months

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Grey warden naema! The taint is crazy of whatever dark spawn is beneath and bloodmages and all that she’s so dear to me

This sketch is so old

#art #headcannon grey wardens grow like weeds spindly and tall as hell #grey warden oc #grey warden #gray warden #dragon age oc #dragon age warden #dragon age origins #dao surana #dao #naema surana #darkspawn

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solelleart · 9 months

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⚔DEATH⚔

Commissioned piece of a Dragon Age tarot card. Belongs to @/kyupidete on twitter!

#my art #myart #dragon age #dragon age origins #warden surana #tarot card #dao #dragon age inquisition #art commission

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haniebnie · 7 days

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synopsis: the love and life of king and queen of ferelden is inked through with grief, blame, and bitterness. how will they approach themselves, each other, and others?

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