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In honour of Dragon Age The Veilguard teasers I’m replaying Inquisition so take a look at my Inky, Elotriel ❤️
Name my next Solasmancing Lavellan??? I suck at names! She’ll have Mythal’s vallaslin but I haven’t chosen which class I’ll play yet.
Here's a list of example names using my fanmade elven dictionary
Here's a list of names in DA lore that you might want to pick from, i.e. naming your character after a historic elf (you can filter by origin)
Some of my personal favourites from List A:
Ajalen: child of the sea
Alenriel: true strength
Beylen: one who saves; saviour
Elgaris: little spirit
Mithravel: moonlight
Tarasan: rain
Taravel: lightning
Wenalen: one who is brave
I didn't want to romance Solas at first bc of all the angst but the more I played the more I realized how fucked up the inquisitor Lavellan is even without romancing Solas. Especially in case of a mage...It feels like the game is punishing you for siding with mages and elves or being one yourself. Your companions don't like you, you lose your faith, your entire history is one big lie, you can even lose your entire clan. Both the mage rebellion and the dalish are constantly demonized. You have to listen to racist or pro templar bullshit. No one understands you except for Solas who leaves in the end. I gave his romance another try and oh god. This is like ultimate loneliness and isolation. I had no idea why would someone like Solas fall in love with a modern elf but now I know why. Because Lavellan is like the only one who can see a real person in him. In modern Thedas, he is nothing but another pair of pointy ears. An apostate. An elven hobo. During the days of ancient elves he was nothing but a title. The Dread Wolf. A symbol, not a real person. And literally the same thing can be applied to Lavellan who is being crushed by the weight of their title. Who is being devoured by the narrative until there is nothing left of them. They are so alike, damn. Inquisition companions mostly act like a group of coworkers and Solas doesn't trust even his own agents (hi Felassan). The game ridicules a player for certain opinions and Solas conditionally says he was called a liar, a fool, a madman by both his enemies and his allies alike for trying to share his knowledge. I used to think Solas romance was kinda empty and unsatisfying and holy shit how wrong I was. It hit me like a ton of bricks. Solavellan to me is about finally finding a person who understands you under the shittiest circumstances possible after accepting that you will probably die alone. And then...Being completely destroyed by your own sense of duty. With all the Solas hate in this fandom I kinda forgot he actually...Cares about Lavellan? It wasn't an easy decision to leave. And it was even harder for Solas to not let Lavellan join his cause. He had to get rid of his own humanity for the sake of other elves and he doesn't want his vhenan to do the same. And the most tragic thing about this, that there is not much humanity left of Lavellan anyway. They are tired and lost and alone. Inquisition has changed them, they can't go back and pretend that nothing happened. They are not the same person they used to be. Solas greatest fear is dying alone but in the end of the game my Lavellan felt like they are the one who is slowly dying alone.
Also Solas is bisexual to me I don`t care what bioware say.
Dragon Age: Inquisition The Wrath of Heaven
They said you... stepped out of a rift, then fell unconscious. They say a woman was in the rift behind you. No one knows who she was.
One of my favorite banters <3
Dalish footwraps my absolute BELOATHED. Most of this has just been done as a sketch from my head, no references beyond the pose that was done ages ago. Unsure as to whether I will EVER finish this, but hey ho. May the dread wolf take you
Solas in DA Tarot Style for @enterthedreams Standard version! ✨
The timelapse is on my TikTok as usual! 🫶 Please follow me there too if you haven’t already!
A print of this is available at www.artpal.com/artbyyami 🫶✨
Some more for the DE+ DAI crossover stuff. Also sorry for subjecting y’all to my English skills
Tonight's mood: dumb AU/crossover ideas, probably.
Dumb idea #1: Dragon age inquisition/spectrobes crossover. Rallen is the inquisitor. Hyjinx such as this ensues:
Cullen: they're demons!
Rallen, petting a rydrake: for the last time, my spectrobes are not demons.
Cullen: well then prove it!
Rallen, spinning around to hold a Komainu to Cullens face: would a demon do this?
*Komainu licks Cullen's nose*
Rallen to Corypheus: sheeesh, and I thought Krux looked bad.
Cassandra: No.
Rallen, holding a fossil of a dragon hatchling: what do you mean no?
Cassandra: last time I let you bring a skeleton back with you, you holed up in your room for half an hour, wordless singing could be heard from your quarters, and when you finally came out you were holding a Griffin hatchling.
Cassandra, after seeing Rallen emerge with a newly awakened spectrobe: you know what? I don't want to know. I don't want to know what kind of magic you used to summon that, and I definitely don't want to know if blood magic was involved.
Solas: but I certainly want to know.