hi i'm pavus (or I guess whatever other variation of my username you prefer)!
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This is a Dragon Age blog! Focused mostly on my OCs, a lot of reblogs, and pavellan / dorian pavus.
I made this blog 10 years ago for Dragon Age Inquisition's release and I'm back thanks to Veilguard.
This space is not spoiler free.
But I will tag major spoilers under: dragon age veilguard spoilers
Other tags include:
#pavus talks - my ramblings and personal shit
#pavus writes - my writing / fanfic
#not dragon age - anything not dragon age related
I put essays and ramble in tags, I'm not sorry.
I am a primarily Veilguard positive blog, and will speak from a positive standpoint most often. Yes, I still have criticisms of the game as a whole.
For the most part, I only follow-back Dragon Age specific blogs/sideblogs in order to keep the hyperfixation alive, I promise it's nothing personal. Let me know if you have a dragon age sideblog I am interested!!
I am also a fan of: danmei, ffxiv, mass effect, honkai star rail, and BG3.
I am always open to discussing OCs, roleplay opportunities, and anything involving the dragon age universe/friendly chats. please talk to me about your ocs.
My Dragon Age OCs can be found here
I'm also on AO3 under the same username
(I write exclusively Dragon Age (so far) and mostly M/M, but occasionally branch into F/F and M/F, depending on pairing)
I also have a Bluesky (same username!)
I rarely use it and it's mostly in case this place goes down
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I love the idea that Dorian and Solas crossed paths in Minrathous while Rook was stuck in the Fade prison.
Dorian: Did Rook deliver my message?
Solas: Indeed. Your talent for evocative imagery remains as vivid as ever.
Dorian: Did you take it to heart then?
Solas: Are you asking if I penetrated myself anally with a powerful arcane weapon?
Dorian: Would do you a world of good, I think. Of course, youād have to remove the stick you normally keep up there, but surely the poor thing deserves a break.
Solas: I have missed you, Dorian. And for what itās worth, you have my apologies.
Dorian: Yes, well, you can shove those up your arse as well.
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my knight you have to live you have to get up you have to put your hand over your wound and hold it there. you have to keep walking and walking and walking because you cannot lay down yet, itās not time. wipe the blood off your breastplate and look up into the sun. lean on your sword if you need to. lift one foot after another. get up. get up. this would be a pitiful grave.
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Thinking about how good the Varric being dead the whole time reveal really was. Like.
We get the trailer and weāre excited and weāre ignoring the dumbasses who think itās Fortnite (itās not). We get the gameplay trailer and itās fifteen minutes of beauty. We go into it and we see Bianca die!! In front of us! And then solas stabs Varric! Weāre worried! But no, they wouldnāt kill Varric off before we have the goddamn game right? But weāre scared. Weāre oh so scared. Because what if they did??
But we get the game informer article and thank god. They didnāt. It confirms, right there, that we see Varric again. Heās not dead. They didnāt kill him.
And then we get the game and itās a little weird. Like. Sometimes Varric talks and no one responds. Nobody else visits him. But heās still there. He still talks to you. You go talk to him before every big quest. He talks about Lucanis.
And itās the point of no return. You pick if you lose neve or Bellara. You watch Harding or davrin die. Lucanis is just passed out right? What is solas doing? That motherfucker what is he doing? Why is the statue youāre holdingā¦ Varric?
You talk to neve or Bellara and itās about loss. Itās about responsibility. You talk to davrin or Harding and itās about doing what it takes. Itās about choices. Is it Lucanis yet? No. But you know, now, who it is now.
He was always gone. Heās been gone the whole time (go away Sam Reich, weāre mourning our DAD). He died in our arms at the start of the game and we never got to mourn him. Solas used blood magic to fuck with our brains and denied us that ability to mourn the most beloved character of this franchise. The love of our hawke (platonic or romantic). The best friend of our inquisitor. The storyteller who has been there for us since the beginning. And then solas killed him and never let us mourn.
And how brilliant was that?
They killed him in front of us months before the game released and then did the EXACT SAME THING that solas did to rook. They told us he wasnāt actually dead look heās perfectly fine see? Heās alive! Look he says things to you! Heās still there!
Almost all of this is repurposed from something else I was trying to work out for myself, before finding one single line of a codex entry that answered my question but I had somehow skipped every time prior to now. I figured it might still be a useful reference post for someone, so I reformatted, cut some stuff, and added some stuff.
Blue text is proven fact, red text is inference/supposition by me.
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As of the quest, Coffee with the Crows, Antiva as a whole is still occupied by the Antaam.
Evidence: Codex: A Letter from House de Riva
"Now we have Qunari in control of all Antiva. Treviso is like their favorite toy. They flaunt the occupation here, showing off how they took charge of our poor, lawless people for their own good.
I know you [Lucanis] just got out and too much has happened already, but we still have work to do."
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2. The King of Antiva is still free, not under house arrest or a hostage, etc. However, he is not currently assisting with the resistance towards Qunari occupation.
Evidence: Multiple pieces of in game dialogue (sourced from the script file, but I have heard most in game) + Codex: King's Draft: Action on the Behalf of Antiva
Teia (Codex): We aren't required to give His Majesty a point-by-point, but he's your blood, Viago. It is a courtesy to let him know we are going to war."
Rook de Riva: "We Crows are all the army Antiva has, but it's not like we can field a garrison. Outside support?"
Teia: "The king would say to call on us. The price for being patriots."
Ivenci: "Without you, the king would be forced to deal with this mess. To give proper power to real officials."
Teia: People are desperate. We need to arrange shipments of water from further inland.
Viago : (snorts) Maybe the king can be convinced to build an aqueductāif we involve his favorite sculptors.
Teia : It is not a bad time to ask him for aid.
Viago : (sighs) I'll go.
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3. The Antaam started by invading Antiva and northern Rivain, then used that as a launch point to conquer half of the rest of northern Thedas.
Evidence: Codex Entry: The Antaam Invasion
When the Antaam invaded the South, the people there were completely unprepared. Antiva and northern Rivain were overrun quickly, with the invaders pushing down through the Green Dales to the Minanter River, leaving only the southernmost of the Free Marches spared. From there, the Antaam pushed west, overpowering Tevinter magic with gaatlok cannons and brute strength until the defenders finally held at Vyrantium. Nevarra was spared, likely due to the Antaam fears of necromancy and unwillingness to attack until Tevinter was conquered, but almost half of northern Thedas fell to Antaam rule in just a few years...
My messy PowerPoint annotated/color coded map:
(I had to guess where exactly counted as "southern Free Marches", but I feel like the Minanter River makes the most likely boundary given its explicit mention in the codex.)
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4. Initial occupation of some parts of Antiva was implied to be particularly brutal, though no specifics are given.
Evidence: In game dialogue, confirmed by the script file.
Ivenci: "You know what the Antaam did elsewhere in Antiva. And in every other city they occupied."
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4. Although the Antaam still hold all of Antiva, they have struggled with supply chains as none of their support teams defected with them. They have been reliant on seizing the resources of occupied territories, presenting a possible weakness.
Evidence: Codex Entry: The Antaam Invasion; in game dialogue
It is also important to note that the Antaam fought alone. With little in the way of supply lines or experts in food productionāthe craftspeople and strategic experts who would normally support them had not broken from the Qun when the Antaam didāthe invaders needed to attack to keep eating. When they encountered resistance that would have forced a siege, the Antaam invasion stalled. The kithshoks who wished only to conquer now had to learn to rule the lands they would claim.
Lucanis: The Crows may have something. The Antaam are moving large quantities of supplies out of the city. Weapons, armor, gaatlokā¦And food. About half our remaining provisions. Enough to feed the Antaam navy.
Civilian 1: You went to the physician?
Civilian 2 : She stitched it well enough. Gave me what she could to ward infection.
Civilian 2 : What she could?
Civilian 1 : The Antaam confiscated half her supplies. Said they need it for their army.
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5. Josephine Montilyet's family and their estate in Antiva City appear to be safe, and potentially operating somewhat normally . Antiva City is also the capital where the King reigns.
Source: Codex: Notes from the Inquisition (if Josephine was romanced); DA:I dialogue placing the family home in Antivan City, Eight Little Talons
"The family writes the weather back home is beautiful. I do miss our quiet times together."
"When we return to Antiva, I will ask you, on the steps of the estate, if you will do me a great honor. And I dream you will say yes."
"Yvette and Lord Otranto send their best wishes, and hope to see us back home in time to welcome their third child."
Josephine: Well. My parents are alive, and in good health. They live in our estate in Antiva City.
Teia snatched his walking stick and twirled it in the air.
āAre you going straight home to Salle?ā
[Viago] sighed and shook his head. āAntiva City.ā
āTo brief His Royal Fatherliness?ā She balanced the stick on the tip of her boot.
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6. Teia and Viago have left behind their home territories of Rialto and Salle to join with Caterina in Treviso.
It's unknown if the presence of the Cantori Diamond predates the occupation, but this might mean they are choosing to show a united front in the city most threatened or most symbolic and move outward from there to then retake their own territories.
Possibly this is a deliberate alliance due to Teia, Viago, and Caterina being three of the four Talons to survive the initial attempt to sell Antiva out to the Antaam by a rival House.
Evidence: Eight Little Talons, Codex: A Letter from House de Riva
"Teia had a garden full of the bell shaped flowers in Rialto."
"Andoral [Teia's horse] rarely gets a chance to let loose in Rialto.
"Teia snatched [Viago's] walking stick and twirled it in the air. āAre you going straight home to Salle?ā
Now we have Qunari in control of all Antiva. Treviso is like their favorite toy.
This might also be supported by the unimplemented Codex Entry: Many Houses, One Roost. However, many things in the game files were struck on purpose, or contradict the final canon.
7. The Antaam control the port in Treviso, limiting the availability of supplies. However, they don't entirely restrict entering ships, instead taking a "cut" of the foodstuffs they do permit.
Rivain at least is working to send supplies through anyway.
Evidence: Codex Entry: On the Invasion, in game dialogue, Note: Flour Covered Grocery List
Treviso has always been a free port. Even the Merchant Princes respect this. Their fortunes exist because we trade and work where we will.
So of course, the first act of the Antaam invasion was to blockade our trading ships with their dreadnoughts
Crow Prisoner: The Antaam kept me alive so they could use me to trick Rivain into sending more supplies....Thank you for your timely arrival. I'll get the supplies to Trevisoā¦ and pay back the Antaam there.
A list in Lucanis's handwriting:
-Spring onions
-Green cabbage
-Short-grain rice
-Vinegar (white, for pickling)
-Vinegar (dark, for dipping with bread)
-Coffee beans (for Neve, when she is back)
Cinnamon, please!
āBellara
If it can be found. The Antaam's navy takes its share from whatever trading ships pass through Treviso.
āLucanis
8. The Antaam across nations aren't working together, but have broken into smaller bands. Any coordination seems to be from the Evanuris.
The Butcher seems primarily occupied with Treviso, so we have no information about who is occupying the rest of Antiva or any alliances they might have.
Evidence: Warlords of the Antaam
It is easy to think that the Antaam broke from the Qunari as one, but the reality is that of a vase shattering into countless shards, each broken in its own way, reflecting the warlord who now leads each kith. Some, like the Butcher in Treviso, use their new freedom to indulge in cultures long forbidden to them. Others, like Ataashok (Dragon King) or Isskatari (Master Killer) in Rivain, reject foreign cultures and either lean on the trappings of the Antaam or invent a heritage to inspire the loyalty of their soldiers.
What seems consistent among the Antaam warlords is cruelty, from Baqounasaar (Flaming Wind), whose ships terrorize the northern coast, to Kashtaar (Jewel-Taker), whose kith have become a bandit army in the mountains outside Marothius.
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Further cut information about the Antaam Invasion that can be found in the game files, but aren't technically canon due to remaining unimplemented: Codex Entry: Observations on the Antaam, Codex Entry: Many Houses, One Roost, Codex Entry: No Need for Armies
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Iām getting this made into a bandana/altar cloth because I still love this silly game. See if you can spot all the mourn watch/emmrich images!! Itāll be in my shop eventually, Iāll keep you all updated š
