Back on my bullshit

I know Oankali technically "can't" be trans bc they aren't gendered until metamorphosis, but also "genderless-presumed-future-female decides to smack all the environmental buttons that will encourage it to metamorphose male instead" is big trans vibes

 

butler, for the first two thirds of the trilogy: certain personality predispositions are genetically-based and sex-linked
butler, well established author, throwing off any semblance of cisnormativity for Imago: FUCK YALL FIRST-PERSON NONBINARY PROTAG

Spoiler: xenogenesis

 

Spoiler: xenogenesis

 

and other out-of-context wilde life panels

 

quarantines Tevinter Nights screaming

Spoiler: three trees to midnight

I love this elf already
he is my favorite character, rip myrion you've been replaced as protag

I love strife
so much

ah, my bastard man has clearly chosen his name well

(hello myrion you're still in second place but pls tell me what vallaslin strife wears)

it's andruil, innit :3c

ufufu
something is Happening here and I like it
(steals this clan for post-tresp ghilan rp, if I can only get ghilan east enough)

Oh No

Oh No

mmm tastee magic flavor

DALISH SHAPESHIFTER DALISH SHAPESHIFTER
(I feel like at least one clan would call using a halla's shape sacreligious, given ghilan'nain)

"before the clans land" :3c Something's Happening

"the Antaam had attacked the bas of the south without the blessing of the other Qunari" EYES EMOJI
STEN MY BOY WHAT YOU DOIN THERE
(I am noticing a theme, here, of the triumvirate apparently not communicating with each other, if the Arigena's disavowal in trespasser is honest)

bas-taar is Having a Time, I see
(who is in charge of him. who do you report to, bas-taar. who has failed to notice this off-the-rails behavior.)

mmm thin veil flavor

MYRION QUEER

strife remains favorite bastard

OH NO

strife. bb. you should know not to remove the arrow until you can stop the bleeding. son. pls.

myrion honey you should know what demons feel like
(alternately, mmmmmm arlathan conscious)

VARTERRAL

myrion and strife.... should kiss

(is the huntmaster ben-hassrath. please tell me he's ben-hassrath.)

....if it's more difficult to pull any kind of power without a staff/focus, what does it say that the saarebasi we see are still capable of such dramatic spells
w o w

H A H
(I wonder what Saarbrak translates to... danger-something, but danger-what? and what is it as itself rather than a compound?
on that note, tangentially, saar-qamek would be danger-[empty mind?], which says some potentially interesting things about how exactly it works on the brain-- high-key adrenaline response, maybe?)

....pls tell me myrion gets adopted by way of macking on strife

 

P MUCH MY REACTIONS EXACTLY
i love strife. i love him so.

 

Spoiler: down among the dead men

karn
someone is a nerd, I see

OOPS

I really desperately want to see dorian in nevarra

I love audric being an architecture nerd

it makes sense that the veil would be thin around a necropolis, but also: getting big vir dirthara vibes from these descriptions

I love
all these weird undead

...oh
rip

OH
RIP
rip ghost buddy

CURIOSITY CANON >:D

CURIOSITY BB
CURIOSITY OF ARCHITECTURE

 

Spoiler: horror of hormak

"before adamant" implying either the wardens are still Up There at weisshaupt and intentionally hiding, or the adamant survivors never actually went to weisshaupt
eue

MORE
GAYS

ah, yet another fantasy author who Does Not Horse

..........burrowing dragon. that's my theory and I'm sticking to it

A+ lovecraft vibes

the architect is out here making weird anti-archdemons txtit
(or tbf one of the other sidereal magisters, we've got four or five more yet)

I like how these random human wardens can read ancient dwarven when even most dwarves can't :) thanks bioware :)

bread in the deep roads
Thedas has food preservation spells I Guess

SYNCRETISM BITCHES
(also, the lovecraft remains strong)
.....wait is this related to that weird blood magic shrine you can find in the tunnels under one of the desert zones

FORBIDDEN ONES??? SYLAISE??? OWO
GHILAN'NAIN?????

"The aravels were unlike any he had seen. The windows were barred, and they bore more resemblance to a prison-ship than anything else." O W O

...mister epler was responsible for tamlen, wasn't he

Naughty Elvhen Go In Sylaise's Genetics Wigglers To Atone For Their Sins

 

i have not read horror of hormak bc it spooped me so i'll sit that one's liveblog out lmao i'll go back to it eventually especially bc horror content just got. worse later.

 

I have work in the morning and so can't stay up all night to shove more of these into my face and that is UNFAIR

 

Spoiler: broad-strokes warnings if you want them

very very lovecraftian Unseen Horror until like 80% of the way through
canon-typical violence (animal death, darkspawn fights, etc)
body horror

Spoiler: details

mix-and-match chimera variety, fairly sparsely described except for the boss battle

autonomy? horror? that fun space of "there are two wolves consciousnesses inside you, one wants Murder and one Does Not" that origins liked to play in
A Gay Dies
bioware's other favorite trope, Kill Your Loved Ones To Avoid Their Date Worse Than Death
ancient Elvhen culture and all the upfuckery that tends to involve

 

thenk this is good to know, i think point one is what did me an actual frighten, the rest i can deal with even if i won't like it.
if u want i can give you some content warnings for the next ones, there's a couple rly fucked up ones but the Wigmaker's Job stands out. by like a lot. Luck in the Gardens is also very lovecraftian horror and body horror-y.

 

I'm good but thanks <3

 

Spoiler: animal death

repotted the poppies, buried micah and connie under them. feels right.

 

anyway ace mood of the day is making vague confused sounds while every other cashier on-shift regardless of age makes thirst noises after a football player comes through the store

 

Spoiler: callback

urge to edit.... rising.....

"it will feel us" OWO
SKYHOLD SPIRIT CANON

"Skyhold would be preserved, but defanged" aight time to throw canon out the window got it

eyy more fodder for "samahl walks directly into skyhold like a dumbass"

Oh Dear

.....I can understand wanting to preserve the art, but also: Do Not Touch Solas' Art

Oh Dear

ah, the Solas Varghest

anyway considering it canon that Solas splintered himself and left Spirit Gunk in his paintings as a phylactery soul jar and that's what grew into Regret

BEE BOMB

"the regret of a god" HI SOLAS WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT NOT WORSHIPPING PEOPLE
YOU BARMY FUCKING HYPOCRITE

....honey that's a good way to get possessed

anyway as much as I like the tastee flavour happening there I'm gonna just ignore this part of canon bc I Do Not Agree with skyhold being entirely abandoned for any inquisitor I've played

 

Spoiler: luck in the gardens

squints
you may tentatively have FIRST-PERSON narration, sir, but I am Suspicious

hehehehehe nb protag

DORIAN???

DORIAN???

DORIAN!!!!!

D O R I A N

Feketekuty gets Best Author prize simply for capturing the Disaster Queer Friends vibe so well

o h

mizzy has big gess vibes

KRAKEN FREN

O O P S

hm. don't like that. put them back.

im lov dorian

BLESS

 

Spoiler: hunger

demon?

oh babey

I vaguely recall the ivo name...... Why
PROVINGS THAT'S IT

anders distrust wardens CANON

werewolf? owo

WEREWOLVES OWO

enjoyable but not particularly juicy imo, not much worth liveblogging

 

Spoiler: murder by death mages

CASS? OWO

everyone in this so far except Cass is an asshole. I will continue reading it on the off chance that some of them become lovable assholes. but I do not have high hopes

cyrros is the only vaguely interesting character so far

okay sidony may have one (1) approval

s i g h

S I G H

yeah this one wasn't worth the time it took to read

 

me: spends literal years moving to a more painterly style, hasn't done proper lineart in ages
also me, full of hubris: what if I make the beastfolk dollmaker I want to see in the world