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I found some old drafts cause I'm moving things out of docs (again) and... You would think titling it "Lashing Out" would have been a hint of the angst.
But apparently 3 years ago I was thinking some thoughts that hit extra hard now lol
Anyways, sharing here until I manage to polish everyone's. But Dorian and Varric's are the most "complete". Aka they aren't notes or descriptors.
These are supposed to be post anchor removal in Trespasser, before the Inquisitor (Isala) has recovered enough to go marching out and deciding the fate of the Inquisition.
Dorian
When Dorian walked through the door, he looked worse than she did. Face a bit gaunt, shadows under his eyes, and his mustache not quite up to its usual styling. Isala regarded him for a moment, her thoughts sluggish as they waded through her foggy mind. Wasn’t he wearing that outfit yesterday, and perhaps even the day before?
“Good, you’re awake. Glad those idiots knew how to do something right. How are you feeling?”
He tries to offer her some sort of smile but it was as if his face was too tired to pull it off. Her brows furrowed, a spark of annoyance. But her tongue was too heavy, the taste of poppy and cloves still lingered in her throat. A sound of disapproval slips past his lips as he looks over her bandaged arm.
“Butchers. You keep the company of two highly qualified mages, and they wouldn’t let us through the door. Do you know how long they kept you here? As if we were going to make the issue worse. Did you know someone accused me of blood magic? Me!”
“Dorian…”
“You should hear the lashing that Madam de Fer is giving them. Kept us away saying-”
She could feel the prickle of his magic as he reached out to inspect her wound. It burned like fire, hot and angry. Nothing like the anchor, which had been like acid in her veins. Consuming her from the inside out. Her own hand, her body, once again twisted into something unfamiliar by magic.
“Dorian, stop.”
Her tone was harsher then she meant, or maybe it wasn’t. Either way Dorian does stop, looking at her with a degree of alarm as his magic vanishes from her skin. A cold and empty feeling, yet it left every nerve sensitive and reach, shooting down her arm as if it was trying to find the rest.
“Isala, I’m-”
“No. You do not get to be sorry. No one gets to be sorry. If one more person tells me that they are…” A heavy sigh as she pulls away from his grasp, “This was not your doing, Dorian. You and Vivienne, you tried. I know you tried. This was beyond all of our control, all magic has a price after all right?”
She offers him a weary smile, one he doesn’t even try to return. Instead she could see the guilt in his eyes, the sadness. She meant what she said, Dorian and Vivienne had tried their damnedest to fix her arm. To relieve the pain as it spread. But this was magic far older and greater than them both. They were children playing trying to stop a flooding river. How could she blame them for this?
“Dorian, when you go back to Tevinter. Don’t be a hero. Leave that to some idiot of chance. Help them if you want, but don’t be a hero. I can’t lose anyone else. I can’t, Dorian.”
Varric
"How could you understand? You cannot fathom what I am feeling, and yet you ask me to describe it? Describing it would be akin to telling you how magic feels, or how I tried to describe the crossroads." Her silver gaze was sharp, cold as she stared down the dwarf, "How I tried to tell you about the sun filters through the branches of unseen leaves, scattering prisms of colours so indescribable there are no words for them. That when we walked through the eluvian and the air touched my skin; that even as the anchor burned through my veins I was at peace."
The pause between them was heavy, thick like the air before a brewing storm. The smell of herbs and tinctures masking the smell of blood and sweat. Isala's face was worn, shadows under her eyes and a greyness to her usually warm skin. Her voice, which had been sharp, shook as she let out a weary breath.
"I have no words, Varric. No words to describe any of this. Just as the crossroads and all its beauty is lost on you, so too is this. Do not speak to me as if you could ever understand. I do not need you to understand. What I need is beyond what any of you could offer me. I am as alone in this as I always am."
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Are there any long-time fandom Dragon Age fans who have PDFs of older fan-made art books? I would absolutly love to donate to an appropriate charity to get the pdf sent to me! (I'd love a physical copy too, if anyone has extra somehow lying around but that seems very unlikely!)
This is for nothing other than my own personal use! I just like looking at art in a nicely arranged format!
Also I'm assuming this is an ethical way to do this?? Artbooks I've seen always donate to a charity, but is there a reason it wouldn't be ok to still donate to the charity years later to get access to the art? Sorry if I've missed something in thinking about this.
I have many that I've been able to buy over the years from the original creators, mostly going back to 2021 or so. But some I've seen referenced are closed/gone and they seem really interesting and I'd love to read them!
I believe it comes down to if the project runners still have access and if the contributors agreed to this. Some projects don’t allow sharing for legal reasons - but some also donate their projects to be archived. It’s all very project dependent.
I know that I have a few followers here from these projects so boosting this.
on the verge of passing out but the 'templars Can retire to val royeaux' does bounce around my head a lot. you could stay in your home country and have your loves ones watch your slow deterioration or you could slowly deteriorate in fucking orlais, but if this is an established setup within the system then presumably they have specific facilities and people and resources that specialize in caring for retired templars in their last years. and it's also very much presented as an honor and a reward. you know.
Templar 1: He should have retired to Val Royeaux years ago, but he wanted to stay and serve the remainder of his days in his homeland. It's the lyrium that does this.
Player: Lyrium did this to him? Why doesn't he stop taking it?
Templar 1: He wouldn't be a templar anymore.
Templar 2: "Blessed are they who stand before the corrupt and the wicked and do not falter."
Templar 1: He doesn't forget who he is, even if he can't remember anything else.
i thiiink this is the only actual mention we get of val royeaux as a place where templars can retire to? so the fact this very binary choice is mentioned in origins, with specifically fereldan templars, adds a whole other layer of implications... we would never say andrastianism is constrained by political borders, but the chantry as an institution is very much orlesian. :)
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so tragic when you're an enjoyer of characters who are toxic destructive messes and then the majority of the fics are like "what if they communicated healthily and were nice to each other :)"
like if i wanted to read about wholesome well-adjusted relationships i would NOT be looking for stories about these freaks in particular i promise you!!!
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i think it's funny when a character is almost exclusively referred to by their last name by other people and this carries over into their internal monologue when someone writes from their pov. not even on a first name basis with herself