Unhinged And Over 30

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85382211/chapters/225518901 Hi everyone! We're back with our twenty-eighth piece for the Dragon Age Big Bang 2026!

Let's give it up for author Fiber_Punk and artist Merimeik; they did incredible work! Go check out their efforts over on Archive of Our Own, and we hope y'all enjoy!

thank god for polyamory mods am i right folks

And people think Alistair x Cousland is boring - fine, fair, AGAIN, a lot to explore there that they just. Didn’t. Because the writers were so chuffed with making the grimdark fantasy horror game that they did, that somehow they seemed to miss all these fantastic opportunities for world building (affectionately).

But have you considered? Calenhad Theirin, in his attempt to unite the teyrnirs, the Clayne tribes, had almost accomplished it when this firebrand of a teyrna, Elethea Cousland, says fuck you and your army, I am not doing shit for you, this is my house - so they duke it out on the battlefield, until she finally is defeated because Calenhad is the Thedosian version of King Arthur and is a Very Special and Mythical Hero who supposedly cannot come to harm so long as he stands on Fereldan soil, and she finally swears fealty to him, ensuring that the Couslands retain the teyrnir despite their initial resistance.

Fast forward 500 years, both of them are now legends and their respective descendants are the two people tasked with not only ending a Blight but also ending a civil war that threatens to undo the unification their fore-bearers were so instrumental to so long ago.

And then their descendants fall in love. The descendant of the woman who would have preferred to stand free than capitulate to a merchant’s son who got lucky falls in love with the descendant of the man who defeated her and forced her to swear fealty to him. There is a real, epic poetry to all of this…and we are forced to just…not acknowledge the sheer destiny of it all. It gets completely glazed over.

We glaze over the daughter of the Sea Wolf, the granddaughter of the Storm Giant, both famous rebels who fought against the Orlesian Navy, falling in love with the bastard son of the first king to return to the throne in Denerim after the occupation. We glaze over the contrast of a woman groomed to proudly inherit arguably the second most powerful seat in the kingdom and a man who with every fiber of his being resists the destiny of his own lineage, the magic of his bloodline that has shaped the Thedosian South for five hundred years, the luck of being another Very Special and Mythical Hero. Somehow, five hundred years after their ancestors clashed over the rule of what would become Ferelden, they found themselves on a converging path that was centuries in the making.

Dragon age art challenge: Grey Wardens

Day 4. Hope

Ahhhhh I finally get to post this! My contribution to the Dragon Age Big Bang 2026! Companion illustration for the fantastic fic The Princess & The Rook, by @fiberpunk027. It's a really lovely piece that reads like a comfy fairytale (especially if you want some closure on Alistair as a king and father), and reading the draft made it so easy to stay motivated throughout the entire drawing process.

Fic synopsis and close-ups under the cut!

King Cailan likes Grey Wardens a little too much, and Alim knows an opportunity when he sees one.

Anders Dragon Age in 3 acts (I'm sure he's fine)

More Text Post Memes:

‘Cause sometimes the stories of how OCs come to be are just as interesting as the OCs, themselves. Tell me how your virtual kids came into the world.

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