Note: All of these OCs exist within a single in-game universe, known as Worldstate Dirvhenan, which is a Dragon Age canon jointly created with @sunshinemage. As such, many OCs occupy unique roles as companions or supporting characters, rather than protagonists in their own right.
OCs are listed below according to the game in which they feature as a companion, or the game in which the majority of their personal story takes place, if they're involved in the events of more than one game. No, I don't have any companion OCs for DA2, not sure why. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Summary: Sitting in a dark room, Tarquin does paperwork obscuring the creation of new Liberati as the formerly enslaved are integrated into new lives in Tevinter and abroad.
Read below (955 words.)
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By the Will of the Maker and the Hand of the Archon, the Voice of the Divine, on this day the First Day of Verimensis in the year two thousand and forty two heralds the dawn of the new year.
In Celebration, and in accordance with custom, the names contained herein are now considered Liberati, free of all incurred debt of their person in all forms, from all sources, and in totality. This decree is effective at the time of transcription into this, the Counting of Names, and cannot be altered or changed without explicit writ of the Archon, the Divine, or their named representatives.
Any who deny or delay the discharge of their emancipation, or who testify falsely of its records, shall be considered as debtor to the Imperium, and subject to all punishments as put forth in the law.
Tarquin sighed to himself as he began to write, the only other sound in the room the scratch of his pen across enchanted paper. His hand was already cramped partway through, but the work could not wait for him to rest. Each name flowed forth in his hand, the letters containing lifetimes of change. A few caught his eye, but most were simply letters, copied onto the page. As each one was completed, it would flash briefly, showing that it had been prepared properly for whatever magic would do with it later on.
Ready to be sent tomorrow to every Chantry in the Imperium. Posted to the boards for the faithful and faithless alike to read. Unchangeable, immutable. And, at least for the list of names Tarquin had to commit to the rolls, an absolute fabrication. Each name someone the Shadow Dragons had freed, rescued, or or assisted in escape. No debts had been cleared, because they owed no one for the dignity of a free life. They were owed everything by those who had stolen their freedom, or denied it at birth. This was the only way he knew to pay even some of that debt.
"Have you finished?"
Tarquin looked up, letting the rich voice pass over him as a tall man emerged from the shadows at the edge of the room. Next to the large shelves full of scrolls, he still stood taller and prouder than most. He considered that a feat in a city full of the high and mighty, all fighting to claw further up than the rest.
"I hear you go by 'The Viper?" Tarquin snorted, dispelling his brief unease at being observed before he noticed the man was there. There was no way he was going to let someone looking like that know how startled he had been to hear his voice.
"Yes."
"Mae said you could make sure this was official," he flicked his eyes to the paper, and back to the man who had moved far enough into the candle light that he could see more of their form. Large, in a dramatic leather coat bedecked with Shadow Dragon imagery, complete with the face mask mimicking the fangs of a snake and a tricorn hat pulled snugly down on is head.
"Yes," the man repeated simply, infuriatingly, and held out a gauntleted hand to take the sheets as Tarquin passed them over. "They will be read out by the Divine tomorrow as a part of the Chant of the First Day, with the names already submitted. A charm ensures that the Archon's decree will be replicated with the others in every large chantry in the Imperium. All will know."
"And he'll read them then? No problem getting them in the right hands?" Tarquin snorted as he began to methodically burn each of the flimsy paper sheets he had brought with him, destroying the only evidence of what he had done aside from the paper in the the other man's hands.
"He will, Templar Tarquin," The Viper gave a short nod as he stashed the paper somewhere inside his coat, blue eyes catching Tarquin's from under the brim of the his hat. Naked sincerity, entirely disarming. Not something in large supply in Minrathous on the best days, much less doing business in the dark, even for the Shadows.
"Just Tarquin," he looked away, busying his hands with cleaning up the ash, ink and blotting paper. It wasn't unusual for him to work late, but he didn't need too many people wondering why he had been using this kind of ink and paper, as opposed to the low quality paperwork he was usually stuck filling out.
As The Viper turned to go, he paused at the edge of the light, half concealed in shadow already. "The Chant begins at sunrise with the calling of the Liberati by the Divine, if you are inclined to attend."
He disappeared before Tarquin could respond, melting into the dark recesses of the archives as if he had never been there. Officially, of course, no one had been here tonight, not even him. His superiors were more than happy to let him work after hours as long as he didn't expect to get paid for it. At least this time someone would benefit from what he'd done.
"Sunrise, eh?" Tarquin muttered to himself as he stood and stretched, supplies carefully returned to their place, candles extinguished. He looked around the cramped archives room where he spent most of his time, day and and day out in the dark, now illuminated only by the low magical lights along the walls. "Might be nice to watch somebody else bring the light for a change, even if it is one of the Maker's only jobs he still does."
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While I was checking our messages today I noticed a private message from a former ZOS employee, reaching out to us to thank us for everything we do, and to say they used our site everyday.
On the same day they were laid off they took the time to reach out to us, because they truly cared about The Elder Scrolls. I personally know the same is true for many other names on that list. These weren't empty suits forwarding emails from one layers of managers to the other.
Just look at their job titles, a lot of them were clearly involved very heavily with game projects.
1,600 Xbox employees were hit directly by the recent Microsoft layoffs, with an additional 1,600 from Xbox still planned for a total of 3,200 employees. This has included/will include those under the ZeniMax umbrella, including Bethesda, ZOS, id, and Arkane.
Jeff Gardiner claims that 35 were let go from Bethesda, and 95 from id.
According to ZOS Senior Content Designer Katherine Souze, this included "half" of the team in the Elder Scrolls Online content team, although she has since deleted the original post. We know this has included some very public facing people, including Lead Dungeon Director Mike Finnigan and Community Manager Gina Bruno.
Over this entire era of layoffs in the games industry, there has been a regularity to it that has become predictable. Across the industry, teams have been devastated if their project failed with the studio often shutting down. But successes can see the same thing happen.
Perhaps the only positive thing that can be said is that no studios seemed to have been closed for once. Studios were released and returned to independence or sold instead of just being shut down.
As gamers, we haven't really felt like this practice and atmosphere in the games industry has been producing more and better games from the AAA space.
If the new CEO of Xbox is right and the involved restructuring of their management leads to more good games that come out quicker, that will be fantastic. But the past waves of layoffs haven't managed to do that at all, there's no reason to think they'll suddenly work this time. The safe bet is that these layoffs are just not going to stop.
A list of people we know who have been laid off at ZOS and Bethesda:
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“what is better: to be born good or to overcome your evil nature throug great effort?” is a line that would go hard if it had anything to do with the themes of the game it’s from
No, cause this is funnier and always needs to be reblogged with the full context.
On that note, I don’t think we should ever shame the youth for not knowing things. However, there is a serious problem with how self-congratulatory the lack of research before making an observation is these days.
Amongst the Ahwari or Marsh Arab people of southern Iraq, mustarjil is a traditional trans masculine identity, described here by the Ahwar man Amara bin Thuqub in the 1950s. The most famous mustaril is the singer Masoud El Amaratly (c.1897-1944), who recorded and toured across Iraq, Syria and Lebanon in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Quote source: ‘The Marsh Arabs’ by Wilfred Thesiger
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the absolute devastating intimacy of a forehead rest. when you are both just so tired from existing in a world that demands you to be a rigid, functional individual, and you finally collapse into each other and just lean your forehead against theirs, or against their shoulder. it’s the physical equivalent of dropping your shields. it’s saying i am entirely heavy right now, and i am trusting you to bear a piece of that weight. and the most beautiful part is that the other person doesn’t even flinch. they just adjust their stance, tuck you a little closer, and absorb the impact. we were designed to divide the burden of being alive.
Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?
I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.
I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods.
The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"
The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.
HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.
So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.
"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.
Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.
Commissioning artists really makes you feel like a renaissance noble. Like you’ll get an email that just says “Hey sorry some things came up but I’m working on your piece and here’s a WIP” and suddenly you’re wearing sumptuous velvets and eating grapes on a reclining couch like “Ohoho! Take as long as you need, my Orpheus! My riches and time are a paltry price to pay to bring your beauty to the world! I am a ~Patron of the Arts!~”
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