Veilguard Spoilers - Blog Posts
I know it’s been talked about before but can you imagine being Lucanis(or any love interest) hearing Rook cry out your name as they vanish into the Fade Prison?
You see Rook dragged into the Fade, disappearing into thin air, with a look of terror on their face.
For Lucanis, you see the first person to show you kindness in at least a year, the person who loves you unconditionally, disappear as they scream your name. Imagine Spite’s reaction, him a whirlwind of emotion, so angry and confused. Where’s Rook? Are they alive? How will we get them home? And burning anger at Solas for doing this. All while clinging to the things Rook left behind because even though the smell is fading over the weeks, it still smells like them.
For Davrin, you’re a protector, it’s your job, the one thing you’re good at. And you fail. Imagine Assan cawing softly, sniffing and scratching in Rook’s room and across the lighthouse, searching for Rook. You start a carving depicting them both to honor them in case they never return and to ensure you never forget their face.
For Emmrich, you’re an expert on the Fade, but you’ve never even heard of something like this. Imagine Manfred, confused and searching for Rook, asking you constantly “where Rook?” You know that if they can’t be found, you won’t have a body to bury/entomb. You won’t have a place to go and visit them. You constantly reach out to the spirits, but none of them can find Rook either.
For Neve, you’re a detective, you should have seen the signs that Solas was going to betray you. But you didn’t. Even the wisps that follow you seem upset, constantly nudging you and moving things that belonged to Rook, trying to ask you what happened to them.
For Harding, you feel powerless despite your new abilities because you couldn’t protect Rook. You pour over every detail, contacting old friends from the Inquisition, but you turn up nothing. Solas has time and time again hurt those you love, has taken those you love from you. You won’t let him get away with it.
For Bellara, you once again lost someone you loved, and once again you feel it’s your fault. You throw yourself into your work on ancient artifacts, you demand answers from the Nadas Dirthalan, but find nothing.
For Taash, you finally find someone who truly sees you for who you are. But in an instant, they’re gone. All your strength, your skill, your fire, you couldn’t stop Solas from dragging Rook away from you. Your fist slams into the punching bag again and again, as you imagine punching Solas, but it doesn’t help. It doesn’t ease the pain.
bellanaris | wisdom + determination
Bellanaris
Summary: After binding himself to the Veil, Solas must reconcile this new fate he is tasked with. Thankfully his beloved Inquisitor is at his side, helping him process the aftermath of such a decision.
(Or: my take on the immediate aftermath of the Redeem Ending in Veilguard)
Fandom: Dragon Age
Pairing: Solas x Female Lavellan
Rating: T
Word count: ~3,900
Hope you all enjoy! I just love Solavellan too much so couldn't resist making this one a little hopeful at the end there. My boy Solas needs a good hug and a kiss and a little hope. Thankfully Lavellan can provide him with all of those things <3
hell is hot. op. and of course i agree.
Do you guys think think all the companions are inviting Rook to go out and spend time with them not just because they want to get to know them better but because they’re trying to distract Rook from the loss of Varric?
Solas, you absolute trash man. You goof. You dweeb.
See this? The lute in his hideout under the Lady of Glory statue? See what’s at the top there…?
This homeless loser bought a lute with his own fucking face on it. He wanted to get caught so fucking badly he walked into a store and either picked this shit out or worse, had it custom made. This’s the medieval equivalent of Vanilla Ice getting his own face tattooed on his back. I hate him.
(He’s one of my favorite fictional characters ever)
My new Inquisitor! Mir’renan Lavellan!
Warrior, best friends with Cassandra, basically adopted Dorian after telling his dad to eat shit 💚
One of the many reasons, I will argue that this is his best armor set and should’ve been his heroic one. Totally unique to him and so Spite themed/ Spite positive. It’s just encompasses their entire relationship and looks so good with the wings out.
Lucanis' corset lives rent free in my brain
Finished my first play through with my Crow!Rook!
I’m devastated! My Lavellan’s happy ending broke my heart and the Lucanis romance is wonderful!
But am I gonna take a break? No, not for a second!
Warden Var’fen “Rook” Thorne reporting for duty!
Her parents left her clan during the Fifth Blight, after they fought with the other Dalish in Denerim and King Alistair refused to honor his promise of land to the Elves. Offering their skills to the Grey Wardens as trackers in the Anderfels where she’d discover her magic and live as an apostate. Training to be a healer with Warden Mages until they invited her to join them on a trip to the newly emerged Kal-Sharok and stumbled into a nest of Darkspawn.
Barely managing to clear them out, but not before Var’fen was blighted and subsequently took the Joining at the age of 23. Suffering a rare side effect of the ritual that turned the sclera of her eyes black. Meeting Varric shortly thereafter and at 24, using a fake last name since joining the Wardens, they would make their move against the Dread Wolf.
Doing whatever it took to stop his ritual…
Her likes include:
*Cioccolata calda ☕️ (never had chocolate until Varric bought her a cup and was addicted ever since)
*Dogs 🐶 (left mabari, Josa behind with her family when she left to hunt Solas)
*Rocks 🪨 💎 (picks up a pebble or crystal wherever she goes. Most are just cool looking lumps of granite)
*Giving gifts to friends 🎁 (gifts may or may not be pebbles that “remind her of them” and no, she will never explain what she means)
*Harts 🦌(her parents raise them for mounts to herd halla. Brought them along from Ferelden to the Anderfels when they moved)
*Smoking Elfroot 🍃(helps with period pain; bad before, but the Joining made it worse)
Her dislikes include:
*The Chantry ⛪️(only got her vallaslin to keep Templars from dragging her off to a Circle)
*Dracolisks 🦎(saw one lick its own eye like a gecko once and never recovered. Scarred for life)
*Cooked vegetables 🥦 (if it’s slimy? She will die before eating it, but likes salads, carrots and has been yelled at more than once for shuffling around the pantry/kitchen, eating a whole bell pepper/cucumber/tomato, like a rabbit)
*Taxes 💵(self-explanatory)
Who she’ll romance:
This dapper gentleman, whom she met once before while recruiting conscripts in Nevarra City. Bumping into him on her way out of the city dungeon while he was leaving the morgue after corpse-whispering to help solve a murder. Never exchanged a word, but she remembered his polite apology (the first she’d ever received from a Shem) for nearly knocking her over and he remembered her eyes.
*Veilguard Thought*
“Feather Brigade,”
Davrin, you big fucking nerd (affectionate)
Veilguard Spoiler (Cute!)
Just visited Holden and his daughter Mila in Hossberg and you know what banter I just got?
Holden asks his daughter if they’ve earned a treat that day, she of course agrees and the dad essentially says “Good, cause Rook’s Crow friend brought me some cioccolata calda.”
Lucanis went out of his way to purchase, package and hand deliver luxury coco (you know it’s not cheap, he’s Rockefeller level rich) to a child he met exactly one time in the middle of a battle to thank her for saving their lives. What a sweetheart. What an angel. Pookie bird. Love of Rook’s life.
I can’t not marry this caffeine-addicted bird man.
Veilguard Spoilers (Harding)
So, I’ve decided I’m always gonna take Lucanis on Harding’s personal quest, because she says this little line:
“We will thrive, in spite of you.”
Which reminds me of the Hebrew proverb:
“Living well is the best revenge.”
And to me? In my mind? As my Rook and Lucanis both embrace her as she’s having this revelation and in saying that? It feels like Spite was there, too. Giving her the little nudge she needed to power through the bulwark of her grief, as Lace Harding. Not just a Child of the Stone. To live her life as a wholly free Dwarf that no longer requires the presence of the Titans in order to be “enough.”
To become her own person and truly be.
Because it’s hinted/shown in the art book that the Dwarves already existed when the Titans were walking around, but solely served as the caretakers of their giant bodies. Sort of swarming out of them like ants to clean up the hive after a storm.
So, maybe the sundering of the Titans granted them freedom? Free will, even if it came without dreams or magic? Certainly something to think about.
Little more of my Crow!Rook, cause I got the Lords of Fortune fit. Viago’s reluctantly proud of her for almost slaying the dragon and saving Treviso.
Ever make a Lavellan so beautiful that when you finally see her in-game, you get goosebumps? Solas is about to be devastated when he sees her again…
Also, gonna add my Crow!Rook as a bonus cause she’s gorgeous and gonna romance Lucanis :)
Christine “Rook” De Riva 🐦 🔪
Only if you forget to cherish him 💜💀💚
Definitely don’t picture him standing there in shock for a few seconds. Don’t imagine that split second he needs to process Rook is gone. Really, don’t delve into the way Spite came to realize it, too. Given the demon originally has no sense of space/object permanence (banter with Emmerich) and has to very quickly come to terms with the sudden grief, and fear, and unbridled rage overcoming his host.
Probably the closest they’ve ever come (apart from Illario’s betrayal) to going full demon and almost everyone was on eggshells around him. Guaranteed, Harding and Belara were keeping those enchanted arrows close. Just in case he fell too far into himself to come back as the Lucanis that they know.
The Lucanis who was willing to kill any god Rook wanted in the name of safety he could no longer provide…
Reality so utterly out of their control, again…
But can you imagine. Lucanis on the high of finally landing his shot at ghilan'nain. That moment of anxious disbelief thinking "I did it, we did it, she's dead, Rook is safe" only to have Rook suddenly ripped away just gone into nothing, the Dread Wolf carving his way out in their place. Solas gives his "price of winning" speech to Rook but it's Lucanis who was left untethered in his fear and anguish.
Imagine how feral he probably went in those hours after. Spite howling at the forefront, wings thrashing, throat hoarse from yelling. This isn't something he can fight- it's not even a cloud face, it's just nothing. A void where Rook was meant to be. Taash is too lost in their own grief to bring Spite to heel and so it's left up to Davrin and Neve to keep Lucanis from mauling Emmrich as he rages with two voices at the mage to FIND THEM. FIND ROOK. BRING ROOK BACK (they were supposed to be safe)
*Veilguard Thought*
So, not really a spoiler. More of a headcannon related to a banter. Lucanis tells Taash he has a pet snake. One that, one would assume, was kept by the Crows while he was trapped in the Ossuary.
No idea what kind, but did he bring it with him to the Lighthouse?
And if so, does it live in Harding’s greenhouse???
Cause she’s the only other dedicated Rogue (Belara is a mage who happens to use a bow) and she’s used to animals, right? I just picture her working in there at the beginning, pulling out all the dead stuff/planting new sprouts and a little corn or king snake just slithers up and she has a heart attack, cause she doesn’t know it’s a real (because they’re in the Fade).
And Lucanis (freshly recruited and very tired) just spends the next several days apologizing, cause it’s the only place warm enough and he can’t rightly keep it in the pantry with him. So, they end up compromising.
He buys a tank for her to put the snake in at night and she lets it wander the garden during the day to eat bugs and mice that might wanna nibble on her plants.
*Veilguard Spoilers(sorta)*
Just saw another tweet with some concept/story boarding art from Lucanis’s romance…???
Fanfic girlies take notes (I am girlies)
His wings were supposed to pop out during/ to interrupt a kiss? Romance scene in a gondola? Possible multiple sets of wings when he’s really pissed/Spite’s crashing out? A lake scene? (Possibly at his family estate…???)
So many ideas…
*Veilguard Spoilers*
So, Emmerich Volkarin.
Alfred+Gomez+Doctor Frankenstein=✨husband✨
I get it. Totally get it.
One thing though? Saw a tweet after running around his room a little confused, wondering where this man sleeps and you know what? I think this diva sleeps on his autopsy table. It might be stone, but he probably cleans it off, rolls out a futon, crosses his hands over his chest, like a vampire in a Victorian night shirt and long cap, and just nods right off into adorably morbid dreams.
Pookie is absolutely about the ✨goth vibes✨
Plus, I mean? We already know what he gets up to in coffins…
*Veilguard Spoilers*
So, Lucanis Dellamorte is in like his early 30’s? And his parents were Crows, said they died like Crows (on the job), when he and Illario were little and around the time Zevran returned to Antiva to take on the Talons, he would’ve been maybe 10?
What I’m getting at here, is that Zevran did some stuff so heinous to the Crows that he has a standing contract on his head that nobody’s brave/stupid enough to accept (there’s a note about the contract in game for a Crow with sexual prowess and an impossible contract) and what could’ve been that bad? Perhaps, killing the First Talon’s daughters/sons-in-law?
There’s at least some chance it was him, right…?
ATTENTION WILD VEILGUARD SPOILERS!!!! But I cried and laughed when I draw it 💀
If you romance Taash (and you should) it WILL drive you insane to think of them when Rook is in the fade prison.
They literally got into a fight with Rook before that battle JUST cause they didn’t want to lose them. So they try to not think about it.
And yet, during the battle, they cannot take it. As much as they were trying to avoid it, the thought is driving them insane, all they can do is beg Rook not to die.
And then Rook disappears.
They’re just gone.
I don’t think Taash rested for a second after. But there is also nothing they could do. They have lost literally everything in the last months and now Rook is lost as well. They don’t know anything about the fade or magic or any of that. They weren’t supposed to have to deal with it at all! They were there for the dragon stuff!
And the desperation of feeling useless and unable to do anything to get Rook back, at the mercy of Emmrich and Neve or Bellara’s expertise. Nothing to do, no one to fight, no way to make this better.
But I don’t think they lost hope for a second, I don’t think they stopped pressing and insisting that they could find Rook, that they were not gone forever. Because they asked them not to die, they begged them, and they have to come back and keep their promise.
VEILGUARD SPOILERS IM SERIOUS
loss
(hawke, dragon age)
ATTENTION WILD VEILGUARD SPOILERS!!!! But I cried and laughed when I draw it 💀
Me, innocently playing Veilguard: Wow, I usually fall for non-romance-able NPCs, I'm surprised I'm starting Act 2 and not geeking out over anyone yet.
Me, upon meeting Makal Damas: Okay, well now wait a minute....
(I don't actually remember the order of operations here, I did a lot of little side quests today, but I'm fairly sure Weisshaupt was yesterday's big deal.)
bro.....he's crying during the kiss... special tear mesh and everything