It's All So Tiresome

this whole idea in both the fandom and the games themselves that being a people attached to their past & a lost civilization is a failing whereas a celebration of the present is something to strive for wrt elven & dwarven culture is something that reads as fundamentally western & liberal to me.

DA:TV Solas-themed narrative sketches and captions by Nick Thornborrow, under a cut due to spoilers and length:

[caption is for images below] Nick Thornborrow: "These sketches were tools of pre-production where we were exploring possibilities and challenging assumptions about the story of Veilguard without the constraints of production, or the birds eye view afforded by new iterations."

Nick Thornborrow: "I only say that because I've picked up on discourse lamenting cut content derived from concept and narrative art that isn't reflected in final game. Emphatically, I want to state it's not cut content. Pre-production is where ideas are weighed for going into production."

Nick Thornborrow: "When cuts are made, it's typically at a more advanced stage of production that involves multiple disciplines, Whereas scruffy sketches like these are useful in pre-production to see what resonates because they're quick to draw and the emotional toll of throwing them out is minimal."

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Art by Nick Thornborrow.

time casts a spell on you,

but you won’t forget me.

The Dread Wolf

Weisshaupt mission was insane I still think about it ghghghhg

𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑗𝑎𝑏𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑠

until the world fades away

also painted young Mythal last night

bioware since 2012: honestly we shouldn’t have redesigned the elves. from now on, regular faces for elves only

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