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Just imagine:
Rook: I prefer tea
Lucanis: Lucanis greatly disapproves
no im not thinking constantly about the early game hilarity of when its just the ladies of da:v lounging around the dining room watching a freshly freed Lucanis bus about the stoves making food for his new strange flock of poorly fed women.
I just replayed recruiting Lucanis and it kills me how easy it would be to fix it.
So the problem is none of it feels earned. Rook just shows up, walks into a meeting with three(!) Talons no problem, Caterina drops a giant secret in front of Rook as if they’re a trusted friend, and then you show up to the Ossuary and… most everyone is already dead? Lucanis doesn’t particularly seem to need saving. In fact, he’s well dressed, kitted out, and kills everyone in the room you find him in by himself.
Instead, let Rook and co show up in Treviso. You meet Viago first. He asks if you have a ridiculous amount of money you couldn’t possibly have at this point in the game. Rook has to say no, and Viago promptly laughs, tells them they have no business with the Crows, and walks away.
The crew starts to worry about how they’re going to find that much money, and suddenly Teia melts out of the shadows. She and Neve know each other. A past job, of course. Teia admits she owes Neve a favor, but she can’t get her a contract for free. However, times are strange. The Crows have heard word of the gods, and Antaam have taken over the city. Do a few favors for the Crows under the Antaam’s nose, and Teia will at least get Rook and Neve another meeting with Viago and maybe convince him to take the contract at a discount.
Have the player do three or so fetch quests on the Treviso map. Use it as a chance to introduce them to Antiva and the Antaam. Have the last fetch quest culminate in finding out evidence of Lucanis being held in the Ossuary.
Boom. Suddenly this is not only over Teia’s head, it’s over Viago’s. Rook lands themselves in a room with the First Talon.
She admits she knew Lucanis wasn’t dead, but didn’t know where he was. She offers the deal: get Lucanis back, and you have your contract. No gold needed.
You get into the Ossuary, and it’s a fight from the start. Rook has to wade through Venatori guards. Basically half the dungeon past getting Lucanis? Have that up front.
Then Rook break the locks on Lucanis’ door, and steps in.
For a second, it seems empty.
Then, from the shadows, two purple lights, and Lucanis lunges. It seems like he’s going for Rook.
Instead, he unfurls his wings and tackles the Venatori rogue that was sneaking up on Rook with his bare hands. He snarls and drops the lifeless body to the floor.
(Give him a real simple outfit at this point. A grungy shirt and pants. He was a prisoner. Have him pick weapons up off the corpse.)
Then have the rest of the level play out the way it did. Maybe make Lucanis a little more stilted and rough around the edges — he’s remembering how to be a person again, not just an animal trapped in a cage. Spite keeps cutting in and out because Lucanis hasn’t had a reason to push him down before.
Voila. The player did something to earn the Demon of Vyrantium.
Turns out you can smile. A real one, even. And more than once.
posted this over on Instagram and though I don’t post a whole lot here (which absolutely needs to change) I do want to highlight this. I won’t always have this 🔥🔥🔥 energy (because you know, self care) but I’ll be damned if I’m not turning up the dial on being this kind of artist.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) • JIMMY STEWART as George Bailey and LIONEL BARRYMORE as Mr. Potter
you’ll hear her drumming! 🥁
her music can kill you if you stand too close
Fairy bard 🦋🎸
lots of sketchbook doodling between being sick and doing work ✨✨✨
This is a lot of Nadine (Rook) x Lucanis art 💜
i cannot emphasize how necessary it is to have a buddy to participate in fandom with. completely elevated experience. don't have a buddy? find someone you like and message them and be their friend. gush over every sketch and drabble and insane headcanon they have. live life to the fullest.
wigmaker job
Art summary 2024 ♡
I'm actually proud of myself this year! Made some progress, some friends, and had fun experimenting with stuff :)
(2023 under the cut)
Can you believe this was the same person.... crazy
Lucanis Dellamorte, The Assassin, The Mage Killer, The Demon of Vyrantium, Short King, Ace Icon 🗡☕
Posting some pages from my sketchbook: mostly just Rook/Veilguard doodles. Expect more, because I’m determined to finish the last like 7 pages of my sketchbook before the year is up. ✏️
also we fucked up as a society the moment we started telling teens and aspiring artists to conflate being an artist with building a brand as if the two things are inextricable. the name of the game if you want to share your art is to work a job and sell yourself as aesthetizied content. back in my day we could just POST SHIT. to deviantart! what the fuck!
with determination and spite. 🗡
with determination and spite. 🗡
Getting a commission from @rrredgi was such a treat, and this came out so so beautifully! Thank you again! My Rook looks so good in your style (Lucanis too!)
First Veilguard drawing yayy.... a commission with Lucanis and Rook :))
every time lucanis is flying around this is what i see
My shop is having a sale starting today through Monday December 2!
Also a heads up to EU shoppers that due to the GPSR, I might have to remove EU countries from the shipping options at the end of the day Dec 2 until we learn more about it 😭
And thank you SO MUCH to everyone who's already placed an order since my last update, those orders have covered the remainder of an unexpected medical bill and I'm really grateful for the relief it's brought 💜
a sketchpage with my sillies ❤️ I loove them both so much! 🥺
just spirits hanging out. (and assan)
Dragon age fan type 1: I'm so happy party members say encouraging things when I'm in the fight
Dragon age fan type 2: I miss when my party used to tell me to kill myself
"kill them with kindness" wrong, chain lightning.
sorry for being indecisive, I haven’t had any prophetic dreams to guide me in a while
I drew all of my Dragon Age protags (because I love them)
I’ve been really thinking about my Rook’s design as we get closer and closer to Veilguard, and I’m so excited to begin another dragon age story with her! There’s still a LOT I want to discover (though I’ve already got like pages of her backstory 👀) More on her to come fore sure!! 💜