i am a story i tell myself

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Into the Crossroads

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the wonderful @sexyapostate, Cham, wrote a fic based off this piece! It was so fun to collaborate 💕

wounds with no blood by titasylaise (atechamcham) on ao3

“Did you hear about Clan Lavellan?”

The man behind the fruit stall bore Falon'din's vallaslin. It was faded, scars and wrinkles dancing across its lines as it sank back into his tan skin. He lifted his head in recognition at the name, and Merrill tucked her face deeper into her cloak. She turns an apple in her hand, notes the dents in its skin.

"They were here just recently, no? Not three months ago," He said, his voice slow and weighed down by the years, "Just outside the city. Their Keeper was kind enough to trade me some herbs from the Silent Plains."

Merrill had heard the name before; part of her training as First meant she'd have to know every Clan that attended the last Arlathven, so she might be better prepared for the next one. As another Clan in the Marches, Lavellan came up frequently.

The name of their Keeper and their First eluded Merrill at the time. It'd been too long.

"You knew them then?" The woman's tone was conspiratorial, like whatever she meant to say was bleaker than a loose bit of gossip.

"Aye," He says, and for a moment Merrill could see the grief etched into every line on his skin, as if Falon'din himself had come to cast his shadow over them. He knows, in the hollow of his heart, but still he asks: "What happened?"

That was the first time Merrill had heard of the name Inquisitor Lindiranae Lavellan.

I highly recommend anyone else who is missing the series try to organize a game to play with your other DA fans. Sheryl Chee said the series is ours now, and it really is.

Dragon Age has it's own ttrpg, but if your more familiar with 5e and want something similar, there are people who have worked on conversions. Tantervale 9:21 is a wiki for someone's personal 5e Dragon Age campaign, and they've been kind enough to give everyone access to their class and race conversions for 5e.

i will say playing in our campaign is why the series' death didn't hit me as hard. because i know how great Dragon Age can be when we build stories together. the worldbuilding is vast and our sandbox. we could do whatever we wanted with it, and we did. i fully encourage everyone else grieving the series to do the same. the conversion is specific to our campaign so it could definitely be more broad, we tweaked and messed around as we played. i don't know if gem will pick up the conversion again as they're a very busy fancy scientist person now, but we put it up so everyone could see it and use it themselves. its a real labor of they love and ill be so glad if more people find joy in it

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