Just Rook Things

"One of the strongest pieces on the board, but they tend to think in straight lines."

- Varric, 9:52 Dragon

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Emmrich side blog: @senior-mourn-watcher

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My Mourn Watcher Rook

#GreyWarden!Rook / #WardenThorne

My Grey Warden Rook (old)

#Rookposting

General posting of Veilguard stuff

#KrystalMoon / #Ao3 Fanfic

Fanfic or updates to fanfic in progress.

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About my MW Rook // More about my MW Rook

Just a rough thought but... What if Harding died when she fell off the cliff? What if what came back wasn't exactly Harding but a lyrium-rebirth of a sort.

Like the moment she reconnected with lyrium a titan became her more so than she became a titan.

A demon (yokai, specifically)/dragon/deity style AU

Evanuris actually being demons with exception of Mythal and Elgar'nan being dragons (and therefore deities) that are corrupted.

I mean not to yuck my husband's yum but Taash just feels like they would still pick up the male Qunari too...

But I choose to believe Rooks are like cats. That every NPC in Veilguard (and beyond?) and even some other Rooks too go by the "Rook Distribution System."

Are you a lonely Necromancer? You get a Rook.

Are you a deadly assassin with insecurities? You get a Rook.

Are you the BBEG of the game trying to relive your glory days as a despot? You get a Rook.

Are you a severely blighted woman who might be part octopus at this point? You get a Rook.

This mod is great. That is all.

I also headcanon that Soulmates exist, and is a very specific magic that extends to spirits and souls (essence of a mortal) alike. That for mortals there may be more than one they may consider a soulmate as their lives are too brief to understand the true nature of a soulmate at the core. But for Spirits there is only ever one since Spirits are mostly eternal (they live forever unless something changes that externally which causes their energy to be recycled in the ether). And that soulmate brings out the best in them—which for "demons" that means bringing out their base nature.

For Solas, specifically, I ship him with Inquisitor Lavellan. That she was was his soulmate, and why she appealed so quickly and readily to his nature as a spirit of wisdom—not of pride. That it's only for her he can set aside his warped persona and be himself again.

Specific to my headcanon: Elgar'nan's soulmate was Rook. [Not Mythal, very importantly.] That he gave pause for Rook and Rook alone which confounded even him. That he's been his warped persona for so long that not even he remembers or knows what he was before. [for in my HC he was originally a spirit of Protection, the very first of all spirits and without the language to call himself anything until much later when a mortal gave him a name which meant Spirit of Vengeance, which started warping his purpose well before he ever got a lyrium body.]

"Kneel now and swear fealty to me. I will accept no other alternative."