#edra lavellan

Instead of doing prompts for @ockissweek, I challenged myself to tackle different styles. It's been a long time since I did something that was just values like this!

This is @alienturnip's Edra Lavellan ! I admire Turnip's ability to bring in so much culture to every OCs clothes, and I am a sucker for OCs with shadows under their eyes. GIVE THEM SOME REST.

So here's companion baby!Ixchel, pre-vallaslin, post-dragonling attack, newly healed and ready to be a menace to their Inquisitor.

Talking to Jura, I realized that Companion!Ixchel, who gets her vallaslin, should be able to receive it FROM a Lavellan Inquisitor ;-: so that's what happens!!!

Thanks for letting me borrow your boy <3

For @alienturnipp who helped when I opened emergency commissions, thank you so much!

Also technically a style glowup with how I do my portraits?

Drawing Edra is always a joy and drawing Edra in this glowup style is a lot of fun. Also this gives me more chances to learn how to have more patience when drawing accessories ajhfjskdjf

Next part of my OC lineup come the twinnies! Edra Lavellan 🪄 and Ellana Lavellan 📜

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Some inspo & refs

Cw: Grief, mourning, mention of Clan Lavellan being destroyed.

“Lady Josephine,

Thank you for having so warmly received the remaining member of my Clan, and for your help in carrying out the funeral rites of our People, here in Skyhold. You and everyone who helped me organizing this, you all have my sincerest gratitude.

Regarding your question: the bronze drum I commissioned from Master Taniel was a replica of our Clan’s Relic, passed down from the days of Arlathan. It was at the center of our community - we played it in festivals, in rituals to our Gods, to honor the departed… It would have been the Keeper who performed it, but now the burden has been passed down to me. I dare not claim the title of Keeper, now that I no longer have a Clan to lead. Yet it was the least I could do to give my People a warrior’s farewell, for they have so bravely given their life to fight again our aggressors.

If I may be sincere with you, Josephine, this reality terrifies me. I am ashamed of having failed my Clan, of not being able to fight and die by their side. Our keepsakes was lost to the hands of bandits, to be discarded or bartered for shem coins, and now my brother - my only surviving family - would go back to the viper’s nest. To retrieve what was ours - our heirlooms, our knowledge, our revenge.

Would that I could join him in that quest. But I know that my fight goes on here, with the Inquisition.

So please, do not worry for me. Today I wear the white scarf of mourning and strike the drum, to pay my People the honor they deserved and to embrace my duties as a son of clan Lavellan. But tomorrow I will march with our soldiers, to storm the gates of Adamant and cut the demon army from Corypheus. The Inquisition will have the unstoppable leader that it needs. As long as I persist, Clan Lavellan will endure. Our victory will endure.

This letter alone is insufficient to express my gratitude to you, Josephine, but I am not yet in a state to discuss so openly about everything that has happened. May this storm soon pass, so that I can come to thank you in person.

Dareth shiral,

Inquisitor Lavellan.”

-- Edra Lavellan (he/him)

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For this Splash of Color prompt by @thedasincolor! And here to hoping I didn't take the prompt and run to the hills this time laksjdfsdf

Splash of Color Saturday Prompt: How do different cultures remember their dead in Thedas? The Mortalitasi bind spirits to the bones of the dead and visit their tombs. Some dwarves are recorded in the official memories of Orzammar. But what about commonfolk? What about nomadic peoples in Thedas? How do they celebrate the lives of the deceased–and recall their memories as years go by?

The mourning scarf (and this whole scene aesthetic-wise) was inspired by a classical cải lương piece, "Tiếng Trống Mê Linh" (The Drum Sound of Mê Linh) (1977), especially the scene where Trưng Trắc decided to sacrifice her husband Thi Sách - who was held captive by the Han - and prepared a funeral for him before leading the rebellion army into battle. The scarf itself is prooobably not historically accurate to the period it depicts (the 1st century), but it is relevant to the art form and the period during which this play was written!

Edra Lavellan

Lost kids

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