They don't know Spite learned how to drink water yet (gotta keep Lucanis hydrated)

Based on this post I saw floating around a while ago:

Viago: So Rook, who's your favorite Talon?

C!Rook: ... Teia.

Viago: Not what I meant. Me, your actual Talon, or the one you're dating.

C!Rook: ... Spite.

Lucanis & Viago: Rook.

Spite: Spite best Talon.

LMAO great work everyone 💜 there were 1,812 works in 2024, and the current count has now exceeded that:

This is the fucking funniest exchange in the entire game. This is peak fight banter. I cannot believe Lucanis actually says this during the final run through Minrathous

King shit right here. Absolute king shit

Emmrich & Lucanis banter about/with Spite because it's a very fun angle of conversation between them

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By the way Rook supporting Lucanis instead of reprimanding him or so much side eyeing him after his first “mistake” at Weisshaupt hits more when it’s a de Riva. What do you mean you know exactly the weight of a failed contract and you still choose to side with me and stand by me and look at me like I matter outside of the small tunnel between perfect execution and embarrassing failure I put myself in. Like of course he’d die for them after

Rook: Did you have to stab him?

Lucanis: You weren’t there. You didn’t hear what he said to me.

Rook: What did he say?

Lucanis: “What are you going to do, stab me?”

Davrin: That’s fair-

i think the real reason Lucanis has a coffee addiction is so the animators had an excuse to show just how good they are at making characters hold cups now.

like look at that. its not floating 6 inches away from his palms. it goes up and down with his hands. he's even got one hand on the handle itself! we've come so far since the hilarious joining chalice animation in Origins and Solas's cup of misery tea that floats 4 seconds behind his arm movements

caterina: i have made the Perfect Assassin

rook: you fucked up a perfectly good househusband is what you did. look at him. he’s got anxiety

So we all agree Viago loses it when Crow Rook gets stuck in the fade right

Who's gonna tell him

#Veilguard devs literally don't even know who Zevran is so what can you expect LOL

Get you a man who sees you hanging around the kitchen and offers to make you hot chocolate unprompted.

VERY funny to me to imagine that at some point before the double dragon hossberg fight Lucanis or Teia tells Rook about Viago's punny poison names and so afterward Rook is like "so what did you call the ballista bolt poison?" And with a completely straight face Viago says something like Dragon You Down or some shit and Rook has to visibly choke back laughter. Lucanis is like "oh no. oh no why would I pick that one" and Viago is just pleasantly surprised that someone else enjoys his puns and thus always has a soft spot for rook and rook alone

Can you imagine the rush of relief Lucanis felt the first time Crow Rook said, "My name's Rook, House De Riva. I'm here to bring you home"?

Not just a non-Venatori, not just another Crow, but Viago's house. He knew a Crow betrayed him and he might not have trusted a Crow from a different house, but this was one of Viago’s Crows and he had some faith in that.

He was no longer a dead man left in the Venatori clutches. Viago knew where he was and Teia must know where he was too, and they were coming for him. It had to be overwhelming relief to know his allies up above had not abandoned him and were trying to rescue him.

(Even if Lucanis doesn’t admit it, Viago and Teia are probably the closest thing to friends he has outside of Illario)

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Thinking about how Illario expects his cousin to be the silent, brooding killer. About how Lucanis has never had a serious friendship outside House Dellamorte, and he's also just spent a year imprisoned, so of course Illario would assume Lucanis is still unsociable and awkward. He's always been that way. Thinking about what if Illario asks the other companions about Lucanis when they stop by the Cantori Diamond, and has to do a double take when someone says, "Oh yeah, Lucanis is hilarious. Always has something funny to say."

And Illario is like??? Lucanis? My cousin Lucanis? Is making people laugh? On purpose?

Bellara goes on a tangent about the book she's reading, and how Lucanis had such a good interpretation of the villain's motivations and it made the ending so much sadder! She's never been in a book club before, she's so happy Lucanis suggested it.

And Illario quietly mouths the words "book club" to himself because, aside from contracts, when has Lucanis ever joined any kind of club?

Of course Taash thinks Lucanis is just the coolest. Antivan Crows are already pretty cool, but a Crow with wings? Who's teaching her how to say good one-liners? Fuck yeah, Lucanis is awesome!

Then if an unromanced Emmerich starts dating Strife, he nearly gives Illario whiplash with the comment "Lucanis gives excellent romantic advice, especially with gifts." Because surely we can't be talking about the same Lucanis. The same Lucanis who has never been in a relationship, and the one (1) time he tried to flirt with Viago -- by *sending a gift* specifically -- Viago either ignored it or took it as a threat. Did the demon do this? Can demons make their hosts charismatic?

Davrin calls Lucanis a "fun drinking buddy." Harding appreciates how concerned Lucanis is that she's being fairly compensated for her services. Offers to lend her his contract negotiator, show her what other people are charging for the same services, he's really so sweet.

And a romanced Rook. Most people make insanely hot Rooks, so Illario watches, completely baffled, as Lucanis manages to pull that. Or if not that, Neve Gallus. Just. how?? Lucanis made one step out of the Ossuary and fell into a Pit Of Friends. All it took was like one month away from Caterina's influence (and the prison) to turn Lucanis into a guy everyone likes being around. How did this happen. When. How the hell is Illario suppose to defeat his cousin if his cousin is armed with the power of friendship? (He can't. Illario is very much defeated by Lucanis' power of friendship.)

There's a recipe in Dragon Age The Veilguard!

Don't remember how I got it, as I only just remembered it was there, but you can get Emmrich's mother's recipe for a hazelnut torte that he gives to Lucanis. I am 100% going to try it at some point and see how good it is.