Spies and Wolves

I love how Emmrich's tarot card makes him look so cool and sinister. Badass necromancer with the green magic and the glowing eyes. Mad scientist vibes. Then you meet him and he's like. Hello can I interest you in some love and affection. I would like to talk to you about flowers for the next six hours. If you look at me very nicely I may turn into a bowl of jello and then you can eat me does that sound nice? Marry me.

Its actually hilarious how many things the warden saw in person back when everything was a mystery, and understood mostly fuckall shit nothing because we were busy conscripting. We found Andrastes ashes. We talked to Brother Genitivi. The guy who sold us discount merch is probably the first dwarven mage in centuries (idk). My wife birthed an old god. There's at least 10 centuries-old questions I probably found answers to in the deep roads, but I am just a little man and ultimate cosmic knowledge is not my problem.

what makes me feel crazy about neve is that as a human mage of such wit and style and sheer talent—a less academically focused mage than emmrich or bellara and yet capable of some of the greatest feats of raw power in the game, yes i’m still not over her ice dome from the intro holding off shots from the archon’s palace—she absolutely could have gotten out of dock town. maybe she’d never have the life or titles of someone born altus, but she could have made it to somewhere comfortable. she’s the one person in dock town with a ticket out, with the unexpected gift that every tevinter non-mage dreams their children will have... and yet she’s still right there working late into the night in one lonely, run-down apartment after another, because these people need her. because nobody else of her ability has ever stayed for them. she tells herself every day that it’s probably a doomed fight, trying not to get her hopes up and her heart hurt, and she still stays!! i wonder if some people there resent her for having that chance and not taking it. she talks about having cut ties with at least part of her family. do they resent her for not taking the chance (and letting them share in the spoils)?

Taash and Bellara post-Veilguard, setting out with the LoF. Everyone in Taash's crew becomes super impressed with Bellara's ability to knock out magic wards in ruins and Taash just smiling and standing there like "that's my girl"