😭😭 how have I never fully noticed before his little head shake, his tiny smile, before the "oh no you don't" grab, and then he utterly devours her.
And we're supposed to be normal about him?
"we make this journey together, always" 💚
"vir shiral ma lasa, bellanaris"
Dude it is SO FUN and EXCITING to see a reoccurring reader. If you've commented a handful of times on an author's work, I guarantee that they recognize you. You can't imagine how many times I've excitedly informed my friends "the person with the funny cat image commented!" "- anon is back!!!!" and the friends've recognized who I was talking about because I talk about my commenters so often LOL. We love you all!!!
someone please explain to me how keeping the veil up makes sense
- last we heard it was already failing. is its strength being sustained by just solas' life force somehow better and more stable than when it was being sustained by both elgar'nan's and ghilan'nain's?
- are we all cool with the spirits still being closed off from the world? because i was under the impression that was a problem
- iirc there is still LOTS of blight (??) stuffed into the fade like a sausage, and I understand we need to NOT loose that upon the world, but if all other signs point to veil = bad, wouldn't that just make this yet another stopgap between now and Problem Solved?
- nevermind I talked myself into Solas & Lavellan cleansing the blight from within to eventually bring down the veil anyway. score
VEILPUNK 9:52 ⚡️
Narrative parallels between [and MAJOR SPOILERS for] Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Cyberpunk 2077
Wake up, Samurai, we have a Thedas to burn. Let’s play a game:
Meet [V]/[Rook]. She is living her life as a [nomad/streetkid/corpo]/[Dragon/Crow/Lord/Watcher/Warden] when circumstances (aka, some kind of fuck-up) lead her to begin a new adventure with her friend [Jackie Welles]/[Varric Tethras].
The pair embark on a mission that involves a history lesson about a mercurial and rebellious [rockerboy]/[ancient elven mage] who made a questionable choice [50]/[8000] years ago when he [detonated a nuclear bomb]/[created the Veil]. That decision had dire consequences, but was done with good intentions: to take down a corrupt and powerful group – the [Arasakas]/[Evanuris].
i love when things parallel other things, man
powerful mage ✅
hairstyle that is A Choice ✅
entire party dunks on him constantly ✅
surprising amounts of rizz ✅
orb ✅
goddess ex-gf whose name starts w "My"- ✅
the world's saddest eyes ✅
A semi-comprehensive list of every pre-established lore inaccuracy in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
But without further adieu;
Siona Lavellan, my beloved 💚
took waaaay too much time in the character creator to finally get her to look right but now i can't look away
Mythal, Solas, and Lavellan (An Analysis)
Please be aware that this post contains spoilers for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, so now is the time to click away until you have finished the game. All opinions shared here are just opinions, and are not intended to be presented as fact. 💕
Wait, weird question. But at the end of Veilguard, why doesn’t Solas just…
On solas romance in Veilguard // endgame spoilers below
I really like this interpretation, thank you ❤️❤️
💜 Things I liked but wished we’d seen more of in Veilguard (an non-exhaustive list):
Spoilers after the cut!!
I finished Veilguard!
After the cut is my very quick and completely vibes-based review. No spoilers. 💜
saw someone describe all the factions in veilguard as having had the edges sanded off them and that just like snapped it that's exactly what it is.
what's so weird is like. tevinter nights WAS dark. inquisition didnt shy away from awful fucked up things. trespasser gave me a better idea of why ghilan'nain was terrible and had to be stopped than veilguard did when they included codex entries about her making armor out of living people. where was the horror of hormak type quest in this? why was it all just big pustules we had to explode?
the crows own treviso -- *a syndicate of crime families* owns treviso. why was that not problematized or discussed at all? how do the people who live in treviso feel about the crows -- are they blithely grateful because at least it's not the antaam?? why are the wardens bland heroes and not the same faction that will do anything to end the blights? who takes criminals and blood mages? what do the shadow dragons actually DO? fight the venatori? why do we never have moments where we pass these rooms full of dead bodies sacrificed to fuel blood magic where anyone says ANYTHING about the horror and tragedy of it all? where's the slavery in tevinter? why do we never see the people an entire faction in this game is trying to protect? why are the veil jumpers -- ostensibly the "dalish" faction -- already on board with fighting the gods they supposedly worship? why are the dalish towns run by human mayors? why have the lords of fortune -- LITERAL pirates -- ~always return cultural artifacts~? like that's the right, moral thing to do -- but in a story, things do not have to be moral. it would be so much more interesting to have there be conflict within the faction about that. isabela is okay with stealing the tome of koslun but not with slavery and that was interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
like i hate to be one of those 'buh buh buh its not dark fantasy anymore!!!!!' idiots but it does feel like anything slightly complicated or not morally perfect got scrubbed away until........ i mean it honestly only barely feels like dragon age. and that's disappointing.