#loane shatterspine ( headcanon )

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@womanlives​ how did loane react to orzammar and seeing the culture of non-surface dwarfs? how did THEY react to HER? does this affect her perception of herself as a dwarf in any way?

Well, Loane never visited Orzammar! To clarify, Loane is not a hearo of ferelden or the orlesian warden that is sent to Ferelden. She is just a dwarf that actually heard of the Blight from a traveller that had stopped in Ghislain on their way North to Tevinter. And upon knowing that, and filled with stories about dwarven wardens, she came to the conclusion that this is what she wanted to do: She wanted to be a warden and she wanted to go fight in the fifth blight. Only to be told she couldn’t go.

Loane is a granddaughter or two sets of dusters from Orzammar who just left it in their younger years and moved from Ferelden well into Orlais. Both of her parents are surfacer dwarves, born in the surface that never visited Orzammar (or had a large contact with what you would consider typical non-surface culture). She has heard some stories of Orzammar, the few stories that her grandparents spoke about and not much. It is a topic that is actually known within the Shatterspine household to not touch with a tenfoot poll, especially as the years went on.

She knows they are massive dicks and that she would still be nothing but a duster (and worst, a surfacer duster) despite the massive success of her family business (they are smiths) and despite her being a Head Warden Scout. She has and will always have a lot of curiosity over dwarven culture, the stone (especially as she was raised Andrastian) and all stories that she only heard from other dwarven wardens that she met along the years and the brief stories she was able to piece together. However, a lot of thiings make her blood boil.

She would visit Orzammar if work took her there, and she would do it with no issues because she effectively loves what she does. However, much like Varric, she prefers the open space of swamps and forests. She absolutely hates having to go into the Deep Roads and does not want to hear her calling and follow through with the common tradition. If she was to visit, though, I’m sure that she would absolutely detest most of it. She would find it beautiful, but would want to dip the fuck out in three seconds.

Loane is the type of dwarf that, against her family’s wishes, tattooed two casteless brands on the back of her hands. I’m pretty sure that the dwarves of Orzammar would sway between: being unimpressed and letting her go about her warden business and just scowl in disgust.

Her visit would not influence her vision of a dwarf because she fucking knows who she is. She is unbelivably proud of her family and what they have managed to achieve and she will punch anyone in the face that says even a bad thing about her grandparents. She is a dwarf, she is Orlesian, she is a Warden and there is liteally no one in this world that could stop her from feeling proud from where she comes from.

#womanlives #loane shatterspine ( headcanon ) #raven received ( meme replies ) #( she doesn't travel or stay in places where 'noble dwarves' spend time. like in high society in tevinter ) #( so it's rare that she actually interacts with people that would try to get under her skin and give her a hard time over her origins ) #( but it would also roll off really easily off her shoulders )

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wardens: being neutral to politics

loane, any time she enters any city: high born or low born, I will fight you anywhere, at any time, with reckless abandon 

#loane shatterspine ( headcanon ) #( loane: I SAID WHAT I SAID ) #( loane: likes the cities. likes the liveliness. also loane: you all complicate so much and it makes me want to scream )

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@ourdawncomes​​ . "Did you ever hear stories about Orzammar? From your grandfolks, I mean." Every dwarf had a different relationship with their past, different knots which tied them to the same ship. Thora's was frayed, and on the end of a piece of string taller than she was. There was barely a Cadash alive who didn't know Orzammar as anything other than an unwelcome tourist. "Or did they spend their lives on the Surface just trying to forget?" . thank you so much for sending this ♥️

   “Yeah, no... My grandparents weren’t big on talking about Orzammar.”

Loane snorts. That would be putting it mildly. Her grandmother from her mother’s side sometimes relented and started to tell a story, only to be interrupted by Loane’s own mother telling her that she didn’t want those stories to be told to her girls. If Loane could have rolled her eyes over the back of her skull she would have, instead she simply stared at her mother. And if looks could kill, well... Loane would be a very regretful dwarf.

Their houses were next to each other. Glued, and yet her grandparents often slept under the same roof. After learning more of Orzammar and dust town however she could understand. If barely. Loane thought it more likely that after leaving such a state of striking poverty that they would rejoice in having their own place with so much more space and privacy. And yet... well. Loane still remembered how her mother often had to inspect the floor boards, looking for small hidey-holes where she would clean up regularly. Mostly spoiled and rotten food. Sometimes some coin. 

As a child Loane had made it a game of finding such small treasures. As she grew up and understood why they had been made to begin with? She wanted to run all the way back to Ghislain and hug the four of them by the neck until they turned purple.

   “Mostly overheard them talking about places and people from back then while working the forge, when they thought I wasn’t there.” she leans to the Inquisitor, her bare hands turning from showing the tattooed black casteless brand on the back of her hand to the palm. Bare, untouched by ink. Likely one of the few parts of her body that remained so “I come from a family of blacksmiths, family business that they set up after leaving that shithole. My mother was born in the surface, my father was born a surfacer too.“

And both of them never really wanted to return. Who could blame them? They had plenty of work already in their hands with the forge and aiding the farmers in the area around. They had family events and a large family to take care of. Other surfacer dwarves that lived in the area joined often in celebrations, from the baptizing of the babies in the local Chantry or just late dinners cooked by her grandparents. Hunted by yours truly. Just the thought made her mouth water.

   “We have quite a few dwarves in the Wardens, though...” the tip of her fingers touch the base of her chin rubbing it absently before coming to grab the many messy braids that were in sore need of being redone. They would be redone, but for now they were simply flung over her stocky shoulders as she leans in forward “I’d say most of them from Orzammar, sent to the surface as punishment and handed to us...” which, by the tone that Loane employed, one could tell very clearly what she felt about that: Wardens were always looking for new people and Orzammar was looking for reasons and ways to get rid of undesirables so she guessed it was a match made in the black city “Given how scared they are when they get to us I almost think that they would prefer to be thrown into the deep roads than to be dragged to the surface. It’s from those wardens that I’ve heard most stories from.” 

It paints a clearer picture of what Orzammar must be for people like her grandeparents. Like her really. She would be nothing but a piece of duster trash if she was to return, and she sure would be that as well if she was to go up north to Tevinter where all dwarves were either part of some human organization or deep in the pockets of those of Orzammar. Anyway, they could all rot and be thrown into the darkspawn for all Loane cared. Not that she would actually allow that to happen, because while they might not have principles and a heart, Loane unfortunately did.

   “I have never been there, but...“ her indicator raises as she leans in closer to Thora with a grin, dark eyes narrowing on the other’s. The white casteless mark looked beautiful against her full cheeks “I will say that sometimes I dream about going down there and making a mess of the place.“ a secret. Well, not quite a secret given that she had spoken about this with other wardens. She wouldn’t say the complete version, however: when her Calling arrives, I will go down there and fuck the place up. Because explaining what the Calling is to anyone outside of the wardens wasn’t the most fun and she knew she shouldn’t given organizational secrets and all that.

Loane leans back slightly, eyes narrowing with her grin. Her right hand turning softly “Not as a... I don’t know, a last hurrah for my grandfolks or something of the sort. They wouldn’t want me to do that, they are far too nice for that... But because I am an absolute vengeful shithead.“

#ourdawncomes #loane shatterspine ( muses ) #loane shatterspine ( headcanon ) #raven received ( meme replies ) #( loane: not a day goes by where I don't want to put my duster little hands on their glittering shit and fling it into the lava )

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Loane: sticks her nose in matters that don’t concern her between nobles and servants

a nobleman (I see it being in Kirkwall): It would only make sense that rabble like you would defend your own kind

loane, rolling up her sleeves: first of all, I’m actually from the petite bourgeoisie. Second of all, to defend those beneath you technically is to remain neutral since the rest of this shit place is already stacked against them anyway. THIRD OF ALL, —

#loane shatterspine ( headcanon ) #( her 2nd generation orlesian origin showing ) #( have another shitpost from my dwarf child ) #( also lmao I mean she is saying this and the petite bourgeoisie only has a tiny bit less uppity noses so no much better #( but her grandparents did NOT CRAWL OUT OF A LIFE OF BEING DUSTERS FOR THIS ) #( I mean she is from the lower class as soon as she joined the wardens but you know it's ABOUT PRINCIPLES )

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Loane’s tattoos

Loane’s first tattoos are two casteless brands over the back of her hands. They are often covered by fingerless globes with the exception when she’s inside, in which case she usually keeps them visible. 

As time goes on, however and until her death, Loane adds a plethora of different tattoos that eventually cover her whole body. Mostly all of them are a beautiful composed mix of extremely geometrical and rough shapes (one could say inspired by dwarven things) but also more wavy, natural shapes. 

The bigger more prominent one is a tattoo that covers the most part of her chest and neck. They are straight, thick lines drawn like stairs. Beautiful in artistry where even in the curve of her neck they don’t seem to warp. (I don’t have the inspiration picture but when I find it I’ll add it). The pattern shifts from black to her skin tone but the thick lines definitely cover most of her skin.

Both arms has a snake that wraps itself all over her biceps and slide almost around the rough pattern where it meets from the chest. There are smaller details of bees spread out all across her body with no rhyme or reason in particular. There aren’t so many flowers but there are many leaves also peppered throughout her body, almost as a filling of space where it’s needed.

In her left hand, from her elbow down to her wrist there’s another drawing of a snake, smaller with a single dot of red in the middle of it’s red. The head of the snake rests at the base of the back of her hand. 

#loane shatterspine ( headcanon ) #( basically by the time that she's off to die she's fucking covered from head to toe in tattoos and literally no one can stop her lmao )

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Place in society

✖ FINANCIAL – wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty ✖ MEDICAL – fit / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged / deceased ✖ CLASS OR CASTE – upper / lower / middle / working / slave / unsure ✖ EDUCATION – qualified / unqualified / studying

Family (this is 100% time line dependent)

✖ MARITAL STATUS – married, happily / married, unhappily / engaged / partnered / single / divorced / widow or widower / separated / it’s complicated ✖ CHILDREN – has child(ren) / no children / wants children / adopted children ✖ FAMILY – close with sibling / not close with siblings / has no siblings / siblings are deceased / it’s complicated ✖ AFFILIATION – orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by both parents / other / it’s complicated

Traits and tendencies

✖ disorganized / organized / in between ✖ close-minded / open-minded / in between ✖ cautious / reckless / in between ✖ patient / impatient / in between ✖ outspoken / reserved / in between ✖ leader / follower / in between ✖ sympathetic / unsympathetic / in between ✖ optimistic / pessimistic / in between ✖ hardworking / lazy / in between ✖ cultured / uncultured / in between ✖ loyal / disloyal / in between ✖ faithful / unfaithful / in between

Sexuality & romantic inclination

✖ SEXUALITY – heterosexual  / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / pansexual / demisexual / not sure. ✖ SEX – sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable ✖ ROMANCE – romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable ✖ SEXUALLY – sexually adventurous / sex experienced / naive / inexperienced / curious / uninterested

Abilities

✖ COMBAT SKILLS – excellent  / good / moderate / poor / none ✖ LITERACY SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✖ ARTISTIC SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✖ TECHNICAL SKILLS – excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

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#skells speaking ( ooc ) #loane shatterspine ( headcanon ) #( my dworf lady )

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shoutout to loane shatterspine who eventually gets most of her body blacked out or in geometric-blackout-patterns in a time where tattooing would likely be far more painful than what I imagine is today

#loane shatterspine ( headcanon ) #( sb: dwarven tattoos or tattooes as a whole are indicative of your low station ) #( loane CLIMBING FROM THE NEAREST TREE: AND I TOOK THAT PERSONALLY )

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mythological norse god

Thor, God of Thunder

There are two things you love more than anything in the world: drinking and fighting. Of course, it's not always a physical fight: mostly you're just super competitive when it comes to sports or games.

tagged by: @fadetogrey ( thank you :’) ) tagging: @mindsmade ( for Perry maybe? ) @youriinquisitorialness @winterfollows @theeldestsun @kvatchsaved @beefcakequnari

#raven received ( meme replies ) #( that's pretty accurate! ) #loane shatterspine ( headcanon )

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♔  :  MUSE PREFERENCES.

open curtains / closed blinds   ; stray dog / house cat ;   people / pets ;   outside / inside   ; half-empty / half-full ;   tv / radio  ;   sing / dance   ;   shoes / sandals   ;   cash / credit ;  hike /drive / fly  ;  casual / elegant ;  center / corner ;   sword / shield ; airplane / boat   ;  fizzy / flat ;  garnished / plain  ; extra salt / extra pepper ; spicy / mild ;   record player / digital media   ;  opaque / transparent ;   white lies / complete truth  ;  blunt / subtle   ;  loud / silent  ;  books/music  ; familiar / new  ; youth / experience ; spoon / fork & knife ;  knife / baseball bat ; space  / ocean  ;  bow & arrow / blow dart   ;   love at first sight / slow burn ;  freckles / dimples;   long lashes / long fingers  ; soft lips / sensitive neck ;  stubble / thick hair ; slow dance / intimate conversation.

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#raven received ( meme replies ) #( loane @ this: porque no los dos? ) #loane shatterspine ( headcanon )

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[Ok, ok, an easy, more fun, random one: animals you associate with your muses!]

send me topics for some sweet sweet meta ( accepting ) | @thedressmaker​

The other was pretty fun too! What are you talking about :

The Priestess: desert owl, bulldog ant, nile crocodile

Maxima: cat, songbird

Himsulem: tiger

Manala: gazelle

Anora: eagle

Émilie: bluebird

Abel: shire horse

Loane: koi fish, she just loves them ok

Moe: she will say she’s a Porg, don’t fight her on this she would have 30 if she could

#thedressmaker #the priestess ( headcanon ) #maxima aurum ( headcanon ) #himsulem ( headcanon ) #anora theirin ( headcanon ) #émilie de clair ( headcanon ) #abel de clair ( headcanon ) #loane shatterspine ( headcanon ) #moe ( headcanon )

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TAG GAME - Loane Shatterspine

ic stats !   (  BOLD ALL THAT APPLY.   italicize leaning or former  ) Tagged by  : @inkapacitated​ ( thank you!! )  Tagging :  steal it!!

WEALTH  —

$  financial :  wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty / n/a ✚  medical : fit (expect... for the taint thing) / moderate / sickly / disabled / disadvantaged / non applicable ✪  class or caste :  upper / middle / working / disenfranchised / slave / unsure / exile ✔  education :  qualified (10th grade)/ unqualified / studying / other ✖  criminal record :  yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no / has committed crimes, but has not been caught yet

FAMILY  —

◒  children :  has a child or children / has no children / wants children / verse dependent ◑  relationship with family :  close with sibling(s) / not close with sibling(s) / has no siblings /sibling(s) is deceased  ◔  affiliation :  orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parents / raised by the state / not applicable / runaway ♡  romantic relationship :  single  / dating  / engaged  /  married / it’s complicated  / verse dependent

TRAITS  +  TENDENCIES  —

♦ extroverted / introverted / in between ♦ disorganized / organized / in between ♦  close-minded / open-minded / in between ♦  calm / anxious / in between ♦ disagreeable / agreeable / in between ♦ cautious / reckless / in between ♦ patient / impatient / in between ♦ outspoken / reserved / in between ♦ leader / follower / in between ♦  empathetic / unempathetic / in between ♦  optimistic / pessimistic / in between ♦  traditional / modern / in between ♦  hard-working / lazy / in between ♦  cultured / uncultured / in between ♦  loyal / disloyal / unknown ♦  faithful / unfaithful / it’s complicated

BELIEFS  —

★  faith : monotheist / polytheist / atheist / agnostic / it’s complicated ☆  belief in ghosts or spirits :  yes / no / don’t know / don’t care ✮  belief in an afterlife : yes / no / don’t know / don’t care / it’s complicated ✯  belief in reincarnation :  yes / no / don’t know / don’t care / it’s complicated ❃  belief in aliens : yes / no / don’t know / don’t care / it’s complicated ✧  religious : orthodox / liberal / in between / not religious ❀  philosophical : yes / no / somewhat

SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION  —

❤  sexuality :  heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / pansexual / demisexual ❥  sex : sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favourable / naive and clueless ♥  romance :  romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable / naive and clueless ❣  sexually :  adventurous / experienced / naive / inexperienced / curious / inhibited ⚧  potential sexual partners :  male / female / agender / other / none / all ⚧  potential romantic partners : male / female / agender / other / none / all

ABILITIES  —

☠  combat skills : excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ≡  literacy skills :  excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✍  artistic skills :  excellent / good / moderate / poor / none ✂  technical skills :  excellent / good / moderate / poor / none HABITS  —

☕  drinking alcohol :  never / sometimes / frequently / to excess ☁  smoking :  never / sometimes / frequently / to excess ✿  other narcotics : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess ✌  medicinal drugs : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess ☻  indulgent food :  never / sometimes / frequently / to excess $  splurge spending : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess ♣  gambling : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess

#loane shatterspine ( headcanon ) #raven received ( meme replies ) #( my beautiful dworf )

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(for either all or some or one of your muses, whoever you feel answering this for!) What do your muses understand as "happiness" and what is, in their opinion, the way to achieve it? what do they think will make them most happy and do you, as a mun, agree with it?

gimme that delicious meta ( accepting ) | @goldenvelleity​

The priestess sees as happiness when the Faithful are rebuilt and Falon’din finally freed. She is currently rebuilding, gathering the poorer folk from each nations and drawing them into what is effectively a cult and brainwashing them. I don’t think that anything will make the priestess really happy, not in that sense. Falon’din being released will never be the thing that she imagines it is, it will not be as it once was and she was never truly happy there either. I, of course, don’t agree with it. She is brainwashed and I think it in the end what would make her happy is having heavy therapy to hopefully bring her mind back to track and to at least access her undiagnosed PTSD.

Maxima feels that she will be happy when the people less fortunate than her have more rights than they have right now. She also feels she is currently happy, that she has been the luckiest person in this planet. She also drinks a whole lot, has deep ingrained self hatred due to her race, smokes too much and, for a Magister that is nearing her 40ties, doesn’t care about her lineage (because of said ingrained racism ). I would say that she needs to join the AA, find a therapist that would help her juggle her job (considering how accessible alcohol is there) and her addiction and deal with her self hatred issues.

Himsulem, if he was alive, would be pretty happy I imagine. Probably remarried, had kids. He would have stopped being pulled into the cycle of abuse, would probably have a few descendants during Inquisiton’s timeline. That would have made him happy. I also agree that that would have made him happy.

Manala understands as happiness the life within the Faithful, growing their own food, being surrounded by family, peacefully. She is a good kid and this is different than what she knew in the Qun even if she barely remembers. She doesn’t see the ugly parts, not yet and so I agree with it. Maybe wish that The priestess would be more present in her life, not to be so distant.

Anora, she is the happiest when doing her job without a fucking blight on her shoulder. Just leave my girl’s throne alone.

Émilie and Abel as of right now they just want to be reunited with their family, which can be hard considering their mother is the only living relative and I doubt she’d like to see them like they are now. They should just release, they’d be happier then.

Loane hm, as a warden I imagine that she knows very clearly what is on her future. She is happy where she is now, lead warden scout, she is good at her job and is doing good by the world. After the Inquisition’s timeline she is trying to hold the Warden’s in Orlais together alongside whoever is left. Trying to make the Order better and shiv anyone that says they are not needed. My opinion? The Wardens need a ‘I told you so’ next game.

Moe wants credits, republic credits, imperial credits. Credits are credits. Leave her with her junk to build her droids and she is good to go. From someone that would very easily lullaby my money to sleep? I can definitely relate. 

#goldenvelleity #( In general. My characters need therapy ) #raven received ( meme replies ) #the priestess ( headcanon ) #himsulem ( headcanon ) #maxima aurum ( headcanon ) #manala ( headcanon ) #anora theirin ( headcanon ) #émilie de clair ( headcanon ) #abel de clair ( headcanon ) #loane shatterspine ( headcanon ) #moe ( headcanon )

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meta for: Loane and the Joining

gimme that delicious meta ( accepting ) | @valorcorrupt

Loane was nearly crawling up the walls by the time that she was allowed to take up the joining. For a few days/weeks as an aid to the real wardens that were preparing for what might come from Ferelden or if they need to mobilize to Ferelden. She was nearly going insane, she moved from her family’s house in the North of Orlais basically all the way south just so she could become a warden and they are making her wait and she was very, very impatient “But Loane you can actually die from this ritual.” “I didn’t travel all this way to be deterred give me the fucking cup.”

She was the most enthusiastic one in the group to actually get to the ritual and she took a damn big gulp of the contents of the cup. It tasted terrible as one could expect and she complained, after the fact, that they built all of that up only to present them with a drink that might as well be distilled feces. She was not impressed, but recuperated much faster than any of the others that had tried. She was told that it was probably because she was a dwarf. The ones that survived that is. In her group there were five people, only she was there because she wanted, two died and three survived. She was proud to be finally a real warden.

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