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GUYS!! GUYS!!:-)

the ORB

Miraak may not be undead, but you can take away my headcanon of him being monstrous and mutated af from my cold dead hands. He looks only *slightly* better than the rest of the dragon priests. He spent thousands of years, several eras in Hermaeus Mora's realm and is still absurdly powerful. I don't think his looks or sex appeal were a priority to him. Too bad for him, because ever since I played Fallout 4, I cannot goon to conventionally attractive characters, so him being all fucked up and mutated is actually VERY sexy to me.

(That said, people that draw him as a pretty boy are also extremely based. It is always morally correct to sexualize and objectify old men)

DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD (2024) dev. Bioware

Everyone’s either moving on from Veilguard or trying to purge it from their memory…meanwhile I’m still trapped in that damn music room.

There’s been a few hot takes on whether or not “Memories of a duet” was about Mythal and I genuinely believe it was as you can find its entry under her image in the veilguard’s codex, and what a precious memory it is…to feel wholly seen and to see in turn.

And yet…that is but one note at the piano. Everything else in this little hidden room of treasures is Inquisition memorabilia. You will find nothing else.

He repainted his frescos from the rotunda solely from memory on these walls even though they filled him with regret. “I live with countless regrets, some of which I have grown to cherish more than my victories.”

He keeps his orb (held, then shattered by the Inquisitor) on display under the window. One of his greatest failures, yet still a treasure.

One of the old astrariums we spent hours cracking together on our expeditions through the south (ft tower of cheese wheels, fereldan no doubt)

The Orlesian statue he leaned against all night at the Winter Palace.

Random inquisition chair, probably stolen from one of the great tables at Skyhold or perhaps one of the camps they’d made in the wilds.

On the bench AT the piano is the actual book of the Inquisition, close enough to brush his thigh as he played.

And a lute, reminiscent of the one the inquisitor kept behind their desk in their chambers. (I always head canoned that Inky knew how to play even though we never actually see it.)

I think we can all agree that this room is Solas’ happy place, filled from the floor to the ceiling with relics of times that brought him peace and joy in his terribly long life…and aside from one memory at the piano, all it is is junk he collected from retracing the Inquisition’s footsteps again and again.

Let’s also not forget the one memory he could not bear to keep locked from sight in that room of forbidden happiness;

Hung just above the wardrobe in his mediation room; another place he likely went in search of solace and found it unobtainable until he had this to look at.

“Why didn’t a romanced Lavellan get a mural??”

My God, because she’s EVERYWHERE. Even when he tried to lock her in a room behind a million hoops, he couldn’t escape her…not even in his dreams.

This room alone eradicated any doubt that Solas’ time with the Inquisition, romanced or not, were the happiest years of his life in the physical world. These were all the memories he could not bring himself to destroy/erase like the murals of him and Mythal and I just…😭😭😭😭😭😭 And the fact that no matter how many wolf statuettes you collect, you CANNOT make the murals reappear until the Inquisitor gives you their’s ???!!! (ik it’s probably just a game mechanic, but still, the IMPLICATIONS)

“Great plans will change, no doubt. But they should welcome it. Change, after all, sets us free.” – Notes from the crossroads islands

Rook, please knock first. The Inquisitor is "busy"....

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I got a cameo, with male solasmancers in mind. Apparently this falls under an acting commission rather than a cameo (smth about going through their agent instead of a regular cameo..?) but GDL was very kind in reading my script anyway ;w;

Transcript:

Vhenan, will you dance with me? You may lead if you'd like. I would not refuse to be in the arms of a beautiful man such as yourself. You’ve remarkable strength, having forged your identity for yourself. You stand deservedly proud of the man that you are. Let no one tell you otherwise. Ar lath ma, vhenan.

Talking about Valentines

I just adore how Lavellan not only encourages Solas to share his wisdom but actually, vocally, gets pissy whenever she finds him trying to suppress it, like…

“Stop trying to be mysterious and just spit it out fool, we don’t have time for this.”

And he immediately straightens up😭😭

Solas had to kill Felassan because Felassan would have heard that a man named Solas joined the Inquisition and signed up immediately just to follow the Inquisitor around and be like “you know this reminds me of a Dalish legend about Fen’Harel stop me if you’ve heard this one before have I told you about the time Andruil almost tricked him into being her lover for a year” while Solas sweats bullets in the background knowing he can’t interrupt or stop him without looking suspicious as hell